This is One Reason the Roman Empire Collapsed
Here’s a little history lesson for you: About 300 years before the actual fall of the old Roman Empire, the Romans performed three acts that, at a governmental policy level, ensured their eventual demise as a culture, an Empire, and an ideal:
- They didn’t treat the “barbarians” beyond their gates like human beings,
- They didn’t extend Roman citizenship to people who couldn’t afford it,
- They employed non-citizen, mercenary soldiers to defend their borders and their sovereignty against the “foreign hordes” and then didn’t follow through on promises made to them around land, citizenship, and their families.
And guess what we’re doing all along the Southern Border with some veteran soldiers who are good enough to fight in Falluja, Kabul, and Syria, but not good enough to avoid getting deported?
No matter what your particular political position on illegal immigration, detention, and The Bad Orange Man’s policies — which are really just a continuation of the Cool Black Dude’s policies — this is a problem.
Mexico’s Problems with Cartels Are YOUR Problems
Into this mix, steps Showtime’s documentary, Ready For War, focusing on the issue of deported U.S. military veterans, some pressed into the service of training the drug cartels in Mexico in the use of military tactics.
From director Andrew Renzi (Fishtail, They Fight) and executive producers Drake (some popular musician) and David Ayer (Fury, End Of Watch), this shows a problem, no matter how many different ways you cut it.
And, while I’m not worried about cartel members executing fellow Mexicans more efficiently, I am worried about them sneaking across the border and training people in gangs here.
The local police department in LA, San Diego, Houston, Phoenix, and Albuquerque aren’t equipped to handle that kind of problem.
Check out the trailer here:
Once again, if even half of this is the real situation — adjusting for social justice agitprop and the obvious indoctrination to Open Borders overtones in the trailer — this presents a real national security problem.
What Exactly Do You Want Me To Do?
The problem with documentaries like this is that they are designed to raise your awareness, raise your outrage, and offer no solutions.
And I expect this documentary will do the same.
From the trades:
Set amid the bloody war of two cartels in Juarez, Mexico just south of El Paso, Texas, Ready For War serves over two years of footage and unprecedented access to these personal stories, offering a look into how a cross-section of U.S. veterans find themselves in the thick of the fight, immediately targeted and recruited by the cartels into training local soldiers – or becoming highly lethal sicarios themselves.
Yeah, ok.
What do I DO about it though?
Write to my congressman?
What if I live in a “blue” state where Open Borders is the elected geniuses only “solution” to the problem?
What if I live in a “red” state where the level of schadenfreude is so high that the elected geniuses are taking a “hands-off, it’ll solve itself” position on the problem?
I don’t need a documentary to raise my awareness. I am aware that there are problems with open borders, immigration, detention, and citizenship.
I need a documentary that will tell me how we can preserve the Republic so we don’t wind up with our last Presidents’ head on a pike in the Washington Mall.
Ready for War, a documentary from Showtime, and producers Cedar Park, Prettybird, North of Now, Dreamcrew and Entertainment One (eOne), gets its green card stamped to come into your house on November 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
