The Trump rally in Albuquerque this week kind of reminds me of a couple of George Corley Wallace events that I attended out of curiosity in 1968. In those rallies, there were no Mexican flags although there were a few Confederate ones. How times have changed now that the Stars and Bars are banned and the Mexican flag flies proudly over the Land of Enchantment. Then there was no confrontation with the police as occurred later this week in California. How times have changed? What right has anyone, other than voters or potential voters, have to attend a political rally anyway? If you are not going to vote, then stay at home. Non-voters will likely stay at home when the polls are open anyway. Those whose only purpose is to cause trouble just do it by robbing a bank. That way they will give the police a real job of doing that which is more in line with their skills, arresting and building a case against the outlaws and, when they are illegal, sending them back from where they came. I attended the Wallace rallies in 1968 out of curiosity in order to gain information about the candidate first hand, so I could decide whether or not to vote for the man as I had voted for him earlier for Governor and as I did vote for him for President in 1968 and would have voted for him in 1972 if the radicals had not gotten to him first.. If I were in Albuquerque today, I would attend a Trump rally for the same reason, and would rightfully be very angry whenever anyone, most especially non-citizen illegals, tried to prevent me from listening to the candidate speak, whether it is a mainstream candidate like Hubert Humphrey or an outlier and upstart like George Wallace. The main problem in Albuquerque, as well as California, in 2016 is that we have tied the hands of the police to where they can not, or are afraid, to do their job of keeping the peace and maintaining an orderly society. This latter is the problem; and, until it is rectified, the real voters can not function in a free society.

If the protesters did not know what was going on inside the arena, then all they needed to do is to do, as I did, tune into the Fox News Channel or the One America News Channel to hear the candidate speak. I never heard the candidate bad mouth Mexico one time. He said that he would make Mexico pay for the wall, but that is not bad mouthing because everyone knows that Trump really means that Mexico will be made to pay only their fair share, which is only right. After all, Mexico owns at least one-half of the border. A fair share appears to me to be at least one-half the cost of building the approximately 1000-mile wall. That cost can come either from a direct appropriation from the Mexican Treasury, or it can come out of U.S.\Mexico trading profits. It does not matter where it comes from; but, when the details of the agreement is worked out by a Trump administration, I’m sure that Mexico will pay at least half the cost directly. As the wall causes the illegal drug traffic to disappear, it will pay the other half of the cost in the form of decreased profits from illegal drug trafficking. At this point, Donald Trump is only a candidate. He doesn’t have to, nor is he expected to reveal all of these details because they are not yet known, but he will reveal them in time as they become known because this is the way international relations work. Trump has never bad mouthed the country or Mexico nor the Mexican people. The thugs and the criminals, who are involved in the illegal drug trade and in assisting immigrants to cross the border illegally only perceive it that way because they see their business and their profits disappearing before their very eyes if Trump is elected.

The former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, knows this even though he has said that Trump is crazy and that Mexico will never pay for the wall. Like all politicians, he just will not reveal the whole truth that he really knows, but chooses to reveal only what his constituency wants to hear. He knows that the wall will destroy Mexico’s profits from the illegal drug trade, and he knows that the wall will destroy his own fat profit from that trade. He also knows that Mexico owns one-half of the border, and that Mexico is responsible for, at least, one-half of its maintenance, whether it involves a real, physical wall, an electronic one, or merely the traditional border patrol of old times. Donald Trump is not screwy. He is just presenting his wall in a way that most of the American people want to hear, not as a lot of diplomatic, international doubletalk.