The Rocks and Rifles

Here is a link to a perfectly formula piece by the NYT.

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/11/03/world/americas/ap-lt-migrant-caravan-their-voices.html

This all comes out to a formula easily found in any article found in the mainstream media.  Very common. The first step is easy and done by literally everyone: make fun of Trimp to grab attention.  Nothing gets the reader hot and bothered quite like taking a shot at Trimp. For the next 6 some odd year's that's the money maker.  Easy Street. I see why, he asks for it every day.  He begs to get cajoled. "It is pure ignorance for him to think like that" says Honduran Marta Cuellos. All while claiming the incoming number is way smaller than it is. "Rocks are not Rifles." This is a beautiful flip from step 1 to step 2.  Trimp says "Rocks are rifles" then the media says "no! That's pure ignorance for him to think like that." This is down playing the size and violence of the hordes.  Which is what happens all the while the marching continues.  For one the horde does carry weapons, for another, violence by the horde is violence: is a rock really any worse?

 After saying "This doesn't hurt" they go on to cry out for Mercy on their behalf. They use the most outright language in this one, there's no claim of violence beyond "police harrassment" which to my ear means they live in a "shit country" and just to be Ozymandias from Watchmen I'll ask "what does it matter? What do I care if their country is awful?" Then the article goes on to say that these people just want a better life, which is what anyone may want.  I guess the big question is how the journalist justifies their value in entering the country at all.  They must believe this makes God and his angels happy. Which come on.

And then get this: the author says a woman made an "attempt" at being in our home, which means her stay was only SIX YEARS! That is forever. That's a success for this invader. And then the second she's sent home she joins a horde to march back. That's not disrespect that's practically war. A thief in the window.  A bitchslap.

Then just so we know exactly where this person's agenda is the author repeats the same steps.  Call Trump stupid. Down play the size and scope of the invasion.  Deny the horde's violence. Defend their violent actions.  "We don't want to hurt the police, because my concern is my son." But oh boy will they ever hurt the police!  I think we can agree they are plenty capable. And then comes the really good part.  The false promises of our age.

"We just want to work for a few years, and after that he can deport us if he wants" What a lie!  This is the big one! Sound the alarm!  That Honduran creature was willing to slake back to our home immediately after a 6 year stay. So they want us to swallow this pill: that thousands of high marching invaders who violently broke in to our home won't be willing to fight a bloody battle to stay here.  Thousands of reproducing hordes cliquing and humping and producing seed won't feel a little attached to this new shit pot we call home. We have to do something. There is one little woman, dressed innocently from Honduras, came back here after a warm 72 months. Whats the worst that can go on? What do you think is going to happen?

We could think of them as equals, in the future.  "He should think of us as equals. Immigrants have built that country" The whitest damn immigrants you ever saw is what we wer If  we let this continue, 4 thousand at a time, how they want, we are going to be extinguished. That is what is on the line.  We European descendants built this country, and that's fact.  What right do they have to lay claimance on our home? None. These jungle coons are going to end anything good we had in this country.  Soon your kids will be the ones being" harrassed by police" who "can't pay the rent" and wants to leave the homeland. You will be the nigger. Because the horde is marching and wants to molt and stew our country into a shit pot. "Just like home", he'll say. Bugs.

Then the author is bold enough to cover up for a family who is opting for a rat-hole or a coyote- run instead of the legal routes.  "Donald Trump has made things very complicated at the border, and better that we stay in Tijuana than fight with him." It's pitch perfect isnt it?  Ride all the way up to the border to disappear into America the second the legality is questioned.  And they'll get away with it too, Donald Trump is a schtoop.  He'll let them right through as he has continued to do. That family is the smart one.  Perhaps the rest of the jungle-monkey horde will reach a boil and turn violent.  Then we'll see if our border means a single solitary thing.  Oh and the final magic line? "Even stones can soften" .   Sort of brings up military soldiers throwing Nerf brand rocks.  "They mean no harm, they can't hurt you!" Now be quiet, kid!