Dear Friend and Reader:
Call me crazy. All during the “swine flu pandemic,” the latest disaster porn that kept network news anchors employed, I kept asking myself: Why this? Why now? Why Mexico?
I started by blaming my suspicionВ entirely on my heightened sense of left-wing paranoiaВ initiatedВ when Pluto was in Sagittarius through today’s opening innings of Pluto in Capricorn, or maybe when Eric pointed out that Neptune aspect in the swine flu announcement chart.
Given our capacity and our history (from Somalia to Iraq)В to “Wag the Dog” or in this case pig as Cam Hassard wrote about, what is it that we’re really looking at? Mexico is contending with a drug war that has killed over 10,000 people over a two-year period.
During that time, Mexico escalated its ground forces from under 7,000 police in 2006 to 40,000 military to combat cartel forces in the present day.В In early 2009, the intensity of drug war violence was escalating close to theВ point whereВ itВ could have beenВ compared to civil war.
A national health crisis may have been as good a way as any to say curfew to anyone who breathes–that includes law abiding citizens and drug dealers alike.В I watched the pigs on parade here at Planet Waves,В and did some fishing of the internet just to see what happened on parallel track to the swine flu crisis. With a health quarantine gripping the country, whatВ else was happening thereВ the last few weeks?