Mister Trejo didn't have to do this. In the modern atmosphere of political correctness, he had nothing to gain career-wise by paying any respect to the United States. Far from it, siding absolutely with Latino supremacists of the Reconquista movement, while claiming that EVERY objection to Latino crime gangs was a racist lie, would have been the very thing to boost his popularity in all the fashionable hard-left circles. Therefore, I am inclined to cut Mister Trejo a lot of slack.
But it's hard to shrug off his 2010 blood-and-guts movie, "Machete." It's the kind of movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made.... if Schwarzenegger had been a Mexican chauvinist whose entire concept of goodness began and ended with "whatever is to the advantage of Mexicans." Even an immigration agent played by Jessica Alba ends up shouting to a crowd that there cannot be any such thing as justice or law UNLESS Hispanics get to have everything their own way without reservations or questions.
Mister Trejo plays a Mexican Federale officer who is threatened by white supremacists on top of being entrapped by a Mexican drug cartel which has bought off most of the Federales. The hero must accordingly lead an army of low-riders to defeat the white supremacists chiefly, and secondarily the drug cartel's leader. At least the script has the cheap honesty to admit that the buying of police is endemic in Mexico; but as far as this film lets us know, the drug trade-- operating with Gringo collaborators-- is THE ONLY organized crime flowing from Latin America to the United States. There's no such thing as the Mara Salvatrucha gang, and there's no such thing as Democrat mayors of "sanctuary cities" buying Hispanic votes by aiding and abetting illegals who commit murders, robberies and rapes-- including murders, robberies and rapes in which THE VICTIMS ARE ALSO HISPANIC, go figure.
No moral ambiguity troubles the writers of "Machete." Absolutely all illegal border crossers out of Mexico are adorable dreamers who can deserve unlimited sympathy; and you'll never learn from this movie how many hospitals in the southwestern United States have been driven to bankruptcy by illegals exhausting their patient-care capacity without ever paying a cent. Anyone and everyone who has even the slightest misgivings about illegal immigration is either a monstrously violent white supremacist, or a monstrously wicked schemer who can profit somehow by oppressing poor innocent Latinos, or both.
Something else you'll never learn from this movie is the fact that the Texas Revolution did not happen because white supremacists were being imperialistic; it happened because the dictator Santa Ana denied representative government to people under his rule. That's why there were MEXICANS fighting on the TEXAN side in this revolution. It is also a fact that the later Mexican War was begun BY SANTA ANA, who was a sore loser despite the Texans having spared his life before. Santa Ana came out zero for two, and his whole country lay prostrate before the Gringo victors. But not only did the United States not attempt to occupy and possess all of Mexico, but it paid Mexico for the portion of land it did take.
However, modern Mexican administrations, particularly that of Presidente Vicente Fox, have found it wonderfully convenient to whip up anti-Gringo resentment, as a way to divert Mexican citizens from resenting their own government's failure to promote their well-being. These politicians love it when their agitators in the United States chant the misleading slogan: "We Didn't Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us!"
The border might never have moved south if a 19th-century Mexican ruler had extended citizen rights to his subjects; and to this day there are Latino CITIZENS of the United States who DON'T WANT the United States to change into Mexico 2.0, because these loyal United States citizens understand just which society has enabled them to advance themselves by their own efforts.
All this leaves me scratching my head over why Danny Trejo would star in a movie like "Machete" --apart from the money, plus the sweet perk of being kissed onscreen by Jessica Alba and other beautiful women-- and then turn around a few years later and parade the United States flag as if he LOVED the same United States which "Machete" depicts as the embodiment of all evil. But it may be that Mister Trejo appreciates freedom of expression; appreciates this country for allowing itself to be defamed and vilified so extravagantly. His movie's own credits reveal that the state government of Texas-- a state which, if you listen to Democrats, is crowded with xenophobic racists who would regard George Wallace as being too lenient-- actually facilitated the production of "Machete."
To anyone reading my words: please tell me if you know of any motion picture produced within the borders of Mexico, BY a Mexican film studio, that portrays Mexico as overflowing with evil, sadistic bigots, while saying that GRINGOS (apart from some gangsters and crooked cops) are all adorable dreamers who can do no wrong. Or for that matter, name a major AMERICAN movie company that would have hired Mister Trejo to star in a movie which portrayed present-day Mexico-sobre-todo activists as being in the wrong....
Mister Trejo didn't have to do this. In the modern atmosphere of political correctness, he had nothing to gain career-wise by paying any respect to the United States. Far from it, siding absolutely with Latino supremacists of the Reconquista movement, while claiming that EVERY objection to Latino crime gangs was a racist lie, would have been the very thing to boost his popularity in all the fashionable hard-left circles. Therefore, I am inclined to cut Mister Trejo a lot of slack.
But it's hard to shrug off his 2010 blood-and-guts movie, "Machete." It's the kind of movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made.... if Schwarzenegger had been a Mexican chauvinist whose entire concept of goodness began and ended with "whatever is to the advantage of Mexicans." Even an immigration agent played by Jessica Alba ends up shouting to a crowd that there cannot be any such thing as justice or law UNLESS Hispanics get to have everything their own way without reservations or questions.
Mister Trejo plays a Mexican Federale officer who is threatened by white supremacists on top of being entrapped by a Mexican drug cartel which has bought off most of the Federales. The hero must accordingly lead an army of low-riders to defeat the white supremacists chiefly, and secondarily the drug cartel's leader. At least the script has the cheap honesty to admit that the buying of police is endemic in Mexico; but as far as this film lets us know, the drug trade-- operating with Gringo collaborators-- is THE ONLY organized crime flowing from Latin America to the United States. There's no such thing as the Mara Salvatrucha gang, and there's no such thing as Democrat mayors of "sanctuary cities" buying Hispanic votes by aiding and abetting illegals who commit murders, robberies and rapes-- including murders, robberies and rapes in which THE VICTIMS ARE ALSO HISPANIC, go figure.
No moral ambiguity troubles the writers of "Machete." Absolutely all illegal border crossers out of Mexico are adorable dreamers who can deserve unlimited sympathy; and you'll never learn from this movie how many hospitals in the southwestern United States have been driven to bankruptcy by illegals exhausting their patient-care capacity without ever paying a cent. Anyone and everyone who has even the slightest misgivings about illegal immigration is either a monstrously violent white supremacist, or a monstrously wicked schemer who can profit somehow by oppressing poor innocent Latinos, or both.
Something else you'll never learn from this movie is the fact that the Texas Revolution did not happen because white supremacists were being imperialistic; it happened because the dictator Santa Ana denied representative government to people under his rule. That's why there were MEXICANS fighting on the TEXAN side in this revolution. It is also a fact that the later Mexican War was begun BY SANTA ANA, who was a sore loser despite the Texans having spared his life before. Santa Ana came out zero for two, and his whole country lay prostrate before the Gringo victors. But not only did the United States not attempt to occupy and possess all of Mexico, but it paid Mexico for the portion of land it did take.
However, modern Mexican administrations, particularly that of Presidente Vicente Fox, have found it wonderfully convenient to whip up anti-Gringo resentment, as a way to divert Mexican citizens from resenting their own government's failure to promote their well-being. These politicians love it when their agitators in the United States chant the misleading slogan: "We Didn't Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us!"
The border might never have moved south if a 19th-century Mexican ruler had extended citizen rights to his subjects; and to this day there are Latino CITIZENS of the United States who DON'T WANT the United States to change into Mexico 2.0, because these loyal United States citizens understand just which society has enabled them to advance themselves by their own efforts.
All this leaves me scratching my head over why Danny Trejo would star in a movie like "Machete" --apart from the money, plus the sweet perk of being kissed onscreen by Jessica Alba and other beautiful women-- and then turn around a few years later and parade the United States flag as if he LOVED the same United States which "Machete" depicts as the embodiment of all evil. But it may be that Mister Trejo appreciates freedom of expression; appreciates this country for allowing itself to be defamed and vilified so extravagantly. His movie's own credits reveal that the state government of Texas-- a state which, if you listen to Democrats, is crowded with xenophobic racists who would regard George Wallace as being too lenient-- actually facilitated the production of "Machete."
To anyone reading my words: please tell me if you know of any motion picture produced within the borders of Mexico, BY a Mexican film studio, that portrays Mexico as overflowing with evil, sadistic bigots, while saying that GRINGOS (apart from some gangsters and crooked cops) are all adorable dreamers who can do no wrong. Or for that matter, name a major AMERICAN movie company that would have hired Mister Trejo to star in a movie which portrayed present-day Mexico-sobre-todo activists as being in the wrong....
I didn't think so.
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