Ethos Crowd
MESILLERO!
Pathos Club … the killing
state
By Stephen L. Wilmeth
~ Lencho
Prieto
Mesillero
The
question to Lencho should have been his use of the word distrust. Is distrust
the correct word or is it disgust? Both describe the turn row discussions among
the band of Hispanic hermanos that have coined the word Mesillero to
describe themselves.
These
fellows, mostly small farmers or family members of current and generational farmers
that call Mesilla, New Mexico home, are the epitome of conservative thought and
action everywhere except the ballot box. They are all close to the soil, they
don’t wear gloves, they were almost universally raised in the Catholic faith,
they are largely related, they have no idea how long their families have been
in the New World, they work all the time, they have resident talent in the
crafts that keep them operating, and, if they trust you, they’d give the shirts
on their backs in your defense.
These are
people worth knowing, and they are critical representatives of the ethos of the
southern New Mexico agricultural community.
Ethos
Crowd
There is a
growing realization that the divide between the lives we live, and the outside
world is wide. Certainly, it isn’t a new development, but the realization
factor is growing and being discussed.
Currently,
three Mesillero issues prevail over all others.
Inflation
has everybody worried. The border and the prevailing administrative decision to
use it for political party gain is viewed with abject horror. The killing of
babies, especially New Mexico’s liberal mandates, is an underlying topic of
disbelief. All three are bullseye issues for the relationship between them,
their families, and the Church.
As farmers
these fellows are generally small farmers that have to supplement their
incomes. That is done variously with side businesses or custom farm work. At
every step, bills and or availability of parts are impacting them dramatically.
Labor is almost a dying point of discussion as everybody is seeking mechanical
alternatives to traditional labor. The point emanating from the Mesilleros is
that nobody wants to work, and they have a clear view of that in that every one
of them has employed farm workers in the past. They understand that part of the
history of agriculture in this area as nobody does, and they are all disgusted
with the ease of which government programs have robbed a once vital component
of the field level of farming.
The
physical border is 30 minutes to our south. The majority of these fellows have
largely curtailed their cross-border relationships even though they may have
lingering family ties in Mexico. They don’t want anything to do with the chaos
and the danger of Mexico. Their discussions regarding the border, however, will
bounce back and forth from labor and drugs. They strongly believe drug
trafficking has expanded exponentially since the current administration has taken
an oath of office. They will also suggest the trafficking has swept up unlikely
components of local citizenry into its network of distribution and supply chain
management. There is a growing belief that the inability to get labor is one of
the negative externalities of the increased drug flow as well.
The matter
of abortion has huge contradiction and the element of divide between elder
practicing Catholics and others. As one comment made suggesting that every
politician that supports abortion should have to both witness the process and
participate in the gory reality of killing viable babies, this modern-day
holocaust will only grow darker and condemnational as time passes.
It ought
to. The killing surpasses the estimated numbers of slaughtered human beings in
the Jewish holocaust, and the number of fetuses aborted since 1973 now exceeds
all estimates of Stalinistic genocide during and subsequent to World War II.
Pathos
Club … the killing state
Along with
their disgust of ensconced politicos, these Mesilleros are quietly wondering
what script the Papal state of Rome is reading.
Days ago,
that head fellow seemed to defer to science the timing of when a fetus becomes
a human being. His official stance opposes the butchery of the enterprise of abortion,
but, when the point becomes one of speculating when that fetus is sovereign and
demarks a point of disallowed termination, every Catholic should gasp in
biblical disbelief.
Science
can’t and shouldn’t channel Rome that 30 days (or any other time) is an
acceptable hurdle whereby anything up to that point is open season on an unborn
child, free of papal oversite, and void of the implications of sin. Scientists
of that ilk can’t be trusted, anyway.
Neither can church officials and their problems are rampant.
The Arch
Diocese of Santa Fe is but one administrative state that demonstrates that. It
is on the verge of paying $121,500,000 for the settlement between the church
and 370 underage sexual abuse victims. Most of these victims were boys. The
majority of them were within the age group of 11 to 14 years, and it appears
the church is hopeful that the monetary award by itself will suffice rather
than taking action against the individual wrong doers.
The archbishop’s
statement is indicative of that.
It is
our hope this settlement is the next step in the healing process to those
harmed.
Crickets …
truly, is that the best that character can do?
Doesn’t he
realize he and his contemporaries are overseeing a pervasive and expanding
separation of congregants and the church state at a time the world needs them
the most. Demonstrably, they can’t keep their peckers in their cassocks, but,
in the greater sense, they have come to accept their roll of higher authority
without any real mechanism to enforce the sanctity of the duty of their calling.
This is expanding
bewilderment as witnessed by the Mesilleros and … they are seeking alternatives.
Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New
Mexico. “Seriously and universally, Old
Testament strategy should be in play.”
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