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Taking a cue from Johnny Cash and his “different point of view,” I wish to comment on some items “in the news,” over a dog euthanized in the wake of approaching IKE.
In “Our Views,” the Advocate staff criticized the Victoria Health Department over a dog. A disgruntled citizen said, “You don’t put animals to death just because there’s a storm coming.”
Ahem, but it’s OK to do so when sitting at a banquet of barbecued mutton, T-bone, sirloin, stuffed quail, cabrito en sangre, baked duck, chicken-a-la-mode, and junior’s pet goose?
On the same page, columns over Exelon and on “bailouts” that hurt taxpayers, are apropos with just cause of concern. But it should come as no surprise. Some habits are hard to break when passed down to siblings that take the reins of robber barons’ forebears.
That is, I mean legislation that made it possible under “the law” (new ones) of seven states ceded by Mexico, with the owners having “all rights as those of any American citizen.” These laws made it possible to financially rape all the owners via surreptitious means and reams of ever-changing laws that served “the right people,” within 50 years of the “Treaty” agreements.
Following a trail from Florence Johnson Scott’s “Historical Heritage of the Lower Rio Grande” and on to the State’s “Guide to Spanish and Mexican land grants in South Texas” and on to to a genealogical trail of “former Mexicans” (as were Stephen F. Austin and his colonists, but not treated as such in the land grabs), leaves a trail of tears and anguish that live on to this day in the minds of the taken. Edna Ferber’s “Giant” just touched on the tip of a corruption iceberg.
To be sure, that is all water over-the-bridge, so to speak; but the intrinsic “domino effect” of corruption “plat du jour” habits are hard to break among the upper and super-upper class of “fellow-Americans” that have lived “high-on-the-hog” for more than a century.
Glancing at the true-blue middle and lower working class, one can conclude that therein lies the strength of America — now wounded by the greed and corruption among the “uppers.”
As stated, all the above is mimicking Cash’s “different point of view.” Let the readers judge as they will and draw their own conclusions.
It’s a sad state-of-affairs when governmental and major business leaders take advantage of their positions to financially strangle those they are leading. Not much different from the cults that use children for their rampant sexual pleasures and entertainment.
This old dog is reaching the end of the line and may not get to see our nation go under. That’s one personal plus among a mountain of minuses.
Joseph De Solis
Palacios