We don't need no education...we don't need no thought control

I am fascinated that the government and some of the people of Arizona want to build their own wall to keep Mexican people from entering their state. So, I just went to the website "build the border fence.com" and I was very happy to see that on-line "live" help is available to those wishing to donate (apparently many people want to know if their donations will be tax-deductible). However, when I clicked on, the notice said the operator was "off-line". Hmmmm...Maybe it should have said the operator was "out of line" or "out of his or her mind".

It astounds me that people are paying money to a build a fence that doesn't even SURROUND the state just to keep Mexican immigrants out! Oh, I know what you're going to say..."illegal immigrants, Jo Anne".

Well, I just bet the Iroquois, Algonquin, Hopi, Navajo, Apache, Creek, Blackfoot, Lakota and others like them only wish they had thought of this "wall" thing back in wagon train days. The only ones who seem to have thought of it were Sheriff Bart and the Cisco Kid in "Blazing Saddles". And they built the same kind of barrier Arizona is planning...not exactly "complete". So, the tribes I mentioned, and all the others, owned the land, right? Or, if they owned it and didn't know they owned it, the United States of America made sure they knew by signing treaty after treaty with the tribes and promptly breaking them. Because we, and I'll just call us and our ancestors "white immigrants", deserved all that land, didn't we? We all learned this in seventh or eighth grade. It was called "Manifest Destiny". The United States used the same argument to convince reluctant citizens to fight the Mexican-American war where much of Mexico including present-day Arizona became part of the United States. We were happy to have Mexicans here back then!

When white immigrants formed wagon trains and found the other people, those who actually lived in the west, in their way, they did what they had to do with the full support of the United States government. Every treaty was broken, lands were stolen, tribes were forced to leave their homes and walk hundred and hundreds of miles, they were imprisoned without sufficient food, water or shelter, families were separated, people were ordered to live on lands where they couldn't hunt or grow crops, and, at Wounded Knee, they were simply murdered in cold blood, sick old men and woman, crying babies, little toddlers. The trail of blood in the snow is etched in the mind of every Lakota person who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the poorest place in the United States. But white immigrants had to do these things. It was "Manifest Destiny" and nothing else mattered.

How did it happen that simply coming here by ship from Europe and being white gave people the right to steal from, push aside, and even murder the people who already lived here?

I find it especially ironic that it is Arizona that is so darn mad about brown Mexicans coming onto "their" land. Arizona is home to at least twenty Native American tribes and reservations. So, I guess my response to "THE WALL" would be this: when every white person in that state who lives on land once owned, awarded by treaty, or occupied by any member of any of the tribes remaining in Arizona returns what he or his ancestors stole as ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...then the wall against the other illegal immigrants can be built.