They got a little taste of government cheese a couple years ago.
And now they’ve come back for more.
A group of about 300 Mazahua Indians briefly seized a water treatment plant on Mexico City’s western outskirts Wednesday and temporarily cut off one of the main sources of water for the metropolis of 18 million people, the National Water Commission said.
The protest was motivated by demands for more government development aid, local media reported.
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In September 2004, the same group staged a similar protest, blocking chlorine deliveries but not stopping the water supply. They were demanding damage payments for reservoir overflows that damaged crops, as well as money for rural development projects and drinking water systems for their own communities.
In late 2004, the government gave them almost $120,000 in damage payments, promised to build water systems for them and gave them grants for thousands of Christmas tree seedlings to plant for income.
Notice that there were no claims about “damage payments” this time around.
Maybe Dave Neiwert is right, along with Traci Ardren and Julia Guernesey? Maybe it would have been better for European settlers to leave the primitive cultures alone to slowly sacrifice each other into extinction instead of bringing our societies to theirs?
You all know how I hate to subject anyone to socialism.
In case you don’t want to follow the link, Neiwert goes on a tear about how Mel Gibson’s movie Apocolypto portrays the natives as hyper-violent. Nor does he or Ardren or Guernesey like how the movie ends with the Conquistador’s arrival.
Somebody call the Whaaa-mbulance. They’ve been assaulted with historical facts and need a transfusion of fresh revisionism, STAT!!!
I’m reminded of the fact barbarian hordes brought Rome to its knees by destroying aquaducts.