Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón used the occasion of his first state-of-the nation address to declare war on the United States (AKA Azatlan), proclaiming that, "Mexico does not end at its borders," and "[w]here there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

El gato is out of the bag. The 400,000 illegal aliens who cross our southern border with Mexico each year – now 12 million strong - are not here to "do the jobs that Americans won’t do." They are an invading force waging Mexico’s protracted campaign to achieve "La Reconquista."

Calderón’s ambitions are being aided and abetted by a Fifth Column in this county that includes the ACLU, the AFL-CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – which have all joined forces to thwart all efforts to protect communities nationwide from being overrun - and even President George W. Bush, who has been stealthily laying plans for a European Union-style North American Union, with Calderón and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

What? You say you’ve never heard of the North American Union (NAU)? That’s because the negotiations between the U.S., Canada and Mexico have thus far been conducted in secret – without oversight by our elected representatives in Congress. Writing in Human Events, Jerome R. Corsi (co-author, with John O'Neill, of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry") has been doggedly covering NAU-related developments for more than a year:

Human Events details what Bush sees as the natural evolution of NAFTA – and how U.S. sovereignty will be affected:

According to Corsi, incremental movement towards creation of the NAU by 2010 are taking place through a series of regulatory actions by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Unless Congress stops its partisan bickering long enough to start paying attention to what’s going on under their very noses, in three years our dinero is going to be called the Amero - and we won’t need to build a border fence, because we will no longer have borders. Then, Mexico will have achieved La Reconquista without firing a shot.

In the latest example of MSM groupthink, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other major papers hailed the election of Abdullah Gul - a devout Muslim whose wife wears a headscarf – as president of Turkey "a victory for democracy" (in fact, both the WaPo and The Times used this very phrase).

So what if Gul was elected? So were Adolph Hitler and Hugo Chavez. "Democratic" elections do not ensure "a victory for democracy."

In a presumptuous editorial, The Times even goes so far to advise the Turkey’s military, which has overthrown four governments (in 1960, 1971, 1980 and 1997), to "help the elected government to succeed - by staying out of politics." The Times adds:

Has anyone at The Times - or any other major U.S. paper - actually read the Turkish Constitution, which has been rewritten as many times as the military has overthrown the government (1921, 1924, 1961 and 1982)? The very Articles that define a Western-style democracy are contravened by several blatantly unconstitutional laws. Not only the Turkish judiciary has never invalidated or banned application of these laws – as obligated to under Article 9 – lower courts have applied them unhesitatingly to stifle or punish dissent.

For instance, Articles 26, 27 and 28 of the Turkish Constitution, which establish freedom of expression and guarantee freedom of the press, are negated by Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (which makes it a crime to "insult Turkishness" or to "insult Islam") and Article 305 (which makes it a crime to "promote" the Armenian Genocide as settled history).

Dozens of journalists, novelists and playwrights have been charged and, in some cases, prosecuted under Article 301 and/or Article 305. One of these was Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was repeatedly charged and prosecuted under Article 301 – and was convicted in October 2005.

And what about Article 10 (which prohibits discrimination based on "language, race, color, sex, political opinion, philosophical convictions or religious beliefs") and Article 12 (which guarantees "fundamental rights and freedoms", including right to life, security of person and right to property)? None of these protections seem to apply to Muslims who convert to Christianity. Turkish law treats converts as having renounced Turkishness – and they are routinely prosecuted and jailed for "insulting Islam."

And when Dink - who received numerous death threats from Nationalist sympathizers after his Article 301 conviction - appealed to the local magistrate for police protection, his pleas went unanswered. Turkish writers brought up on Article 301 charges received protection as soon as they asked for it. They are all alive today; Dink was gunned down in the street in front of his newspaper’s offices in January. So much for Article 10’s barring discrimination based on race, political opinion and philosophical conviction – to say nothing of Article 12’s guarantees of life and security of person.

One of the few papers to get it right is The Hartford Courant:

In practice, Turkey’s Constitution is not worth the paper it is printed on when it comes to guaranteeing a secular, pluralistic and democratic government for its non-Muslim minority population. As the judiciary has not been inclined to rein in Nationalists – even after Dink’s murder, which involved a conspiracy that included the police chief of the town of Trabzon – there is little hope that Islamism will be checked by the courts.

The Times has "yet to grasp" the vital role the military plays in stepping in when all other government institutions fail. True, Turkey will never be a Western-style democracy – but at least it won’t become another Islamic republic.

We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here?: Part III

Two Muslim engineering students attending the University of South Florida on student visas have been indicted on charges of transporting explosives across state lines without permits, and one of them is also charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent purposes.

If convicted, Kuwaiti Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, and Egyptian Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, each face a 10-year prison term for carrying pipe bombs in their car; Mohamed faces an additional prison term of up to 20 years for "distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction, which is a terrorism-related statute," reports The Associated Press.

The two men were arrested August 4th in the vicinity of a SC Navy facility in Goose Creek that is the site of a naval brig holding enemy combatants, including Yasser Hamdi, Jose Padilla and Ali Saleh al-Marri.

Editorial Note: To read previous installments in the series "We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here?" click here and here (second item).