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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:38:54 GMT -5
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:40:16 GMT -5
Michigan town could be first U.S. municipality controlled by MuslimsMichigan community could become the first U.S. municipality to be controlled by Muslims.www.onenewsnow.com/Author says Muslim group unwilling to distance itself from 'jihadist agenda'A best-selling author is attempting to expose people to the fallacy of the notion that the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is a moderate group that merely protects the civil liberties of Muslims. www.onenewsnow.com/
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:40:45 GMT -5
Oakland's Unholy Alliance
By Andrew Walden FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/7/2007
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:41:39 GMT -5
To view this item online, visit www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=58616 Saturday, November 10, 2007 GLOBAL JIHAD D.C. imam declares Muslim takeover-plan Washington-based cleric working toward 'Islamic State of North America' by 2050 Posted: November 10, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Art Moore © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Logo of D.C. imam's movement A Washington, D.C., imam states explicitly on the website for his organization that he is part of a movement working toward replacement of the U.S. government with "the Islamic State of North America" by 2050. With branches in Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Philadelphia, the group As-Sabiqun – or the Vanguard – is under the leadership of Abdul Alim Musa in the nation's capital. Musa's declaration of his intention to help lead a takeover of America was highlighted by noted Islam observer Robert Spencer on his website Jihad Watch.
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:42:37 GMT -5
On Illegal Immigration and Border Security
Ron Paul Prisonplanet.com Tuesday December 18, 2007 Illegal immigration is on the forefront of many Americans’ minds lately and with good reason. The Center for Immigration Studies has recently reported that our immigrant population is now 37 million, up from 27 million in 1997. 1 in 3 of these immigrants are here illegally. We have a problem that has exploded in the last 10 years with no appreciable change in border security since September 11 when we were supposed to take a hard look at the problem. We have security issues at home and our resources are running thin. Our education system is stretched, and immigration accounts for virtually all the national increase in public school enrollment in the last 2 decades. There is a worker present in 78% of immigrant households using at least one major welfare program, according to the same study. It’s no surprise then that often times these immigrants can afford to work for lower wages. They are subsidized by our government to do so. Right now we are subsidizing a lot of illegal immigration with our robust social programs and it is an outrage that instead of coming to the United States as a land of opportunity, many come for the security guaranteed by government forced transfer payments through our welfare system. I have opposed giving federal assistance to illegal immigrants and have introduced legislation that ends this practice. In the last major House-passed immigration bill I attempted to introduce an amendment that would make illegal immigrants ineligible for any federal assistance. Unfortunately, that amendment was ruled "not relevant" to immigration reform. I believe it is very relevant to taxpayers, however, who are being taken advantage of through the welfare system. Illegal immigrants should never be eligible for public schooling, social security checks, welfare checks, free healthcare, food stamps, or any other form government assistance. (Article continues below) The anchor baby phenomenon has also been very problematic. Simply being born on US soil to illegal immigrant parents should not trigger automatic citizenship. This encourages many dangerous behaviors and there are many unintended consequences as a result of this blanket policy. I am against amnesty and I have introduced an amendment to the Constitution (H.J. Res 46) which will end this form of amnesty. I have also supported the strengthening our border and increasing the number of border patrol agents. It is an outrage that our best trained border guards are sent to Iraq instead of guarding our borders. For national security, we need to give more attention to our own border which is being illegally breached every day, and yet the government shirks one of its few constitutionally mandated duties, namely to defend this country. Citizens lose twice with our current insecure border situation – we don’t have the protection we should have, and then taxpayers have to deal with the fallout in the form of overstretched public resources and loss of jobs. The anger is understandable when it comes to illegal immigration and the problems with our borders. I will continue to fight in Congress for more effective ways to address these issues in keeping with the Constitutional mandate to protect America . www.prisonplanet.com/articles/decem...Immigration.htm
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:43:36 GMT -5
Immigration's Destruction of America's Middle Class Frosty Wooldridge November 9, 2007 Economist Paul Roberts wrote on January 21, 2003, “Will America become a Third World country in 20 years?” In the Christian Science Monitor, December 11, 2003, “But as the US economy shifted toward service jobs, factory jobs have steadily lost—in fact in just the past 39 months, some 2.8 million jobs vanished.” Where are they going? China. India. Mexico. Deep into the Third World! “You Americans have lived an artificially high standard of living for a long time,” a man working one our jobs outsourced to India wrote me. “It’s time you Americans drop to the poverty levels of the rest of the Third World.” American jobs are offshored, insourced and outsourced at such blinding speed that millions of American citizens stand in unemployment lines every morning while the rest of us go to work, that is, if we still have jobs. America’s middle class is being dismantled by jobs exported to cheap-labor Third World countries. CEOs and corporations that enjoy the luxuries of America’s hard won freedom care not a tinker’s dam whether you have a job or not—or a living wage. But the American man and woman on the street--the ones with two kids, a mortgage and bills coming out of their ears--stand powerless as their jobs vanish. Worse, our Congress upped the H-1B visas by another 20,000 again last year year. That quota rise spits in the face of thousands of American IT workers standing in unemployment lines. Our Congress gave out nearly one million H-1B visas in the past decade. Congress facilitates outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring! Why complain? You just re-elected most of them back into Congress. Cannon, Kennedy, McCain, Udall, Degette, Pelosi, Allard, Dillon, Kyle, Kolbe, Flake and the list continues. Paul Hamilton wrote his story, “You have to work in the Silicone Valley for a while to really understand what it is like to be a white male in the IT business now days. I've worked for the Chinese, Iranians and Indians. I could tell you some horror stories ...HORROR stories! My career went to China and India a long time ago though. Today, I am a plumber. I started a new career and things are that tough here in California. I was lucky enough to get on with Marina Plumbing which is a huge Corporation that does the plumbing on new construction...think BIG housing subdivisions. “I look around on the job site and I am the only white male in a sea of Mexicans. Few of these Mexicans speak English. There are usually several boom boxes blaring Maruichi music all day long. The Mexicans OWN ALL THE TRADES! The concrete workers, the framers, the heavy equipment operators, the roofers and even the truck drivers delivering building materials--all are Mexicans. “President Bush is 100 percent off the mark, or he is crazy... or?” “I was the leading channel rep in the Silicone Valley for high end CISCO switches. For a year and a half I have been in IBM's Presidents club before. I wonder what the Germans thought circa 37, 38, 39 when the SS took and did the dirty work for Hitler? Were the Germans just sitting around wondering what was going on? Were they just sitting there in disbelief? I hear our esteemed President talking about Mexican Amnesty and think about how they have already brought misery to an already dead-broke state and wonder what the hell?” But there is another ominous skullduggery afoot across this country. It’s the importation of illegal aliens by major US companies who thwart Federal Laws in order to ‘lose’ American workers and then, wholesale, break OSHA standards at will. How? Because illegal aliens will not make a whimper for fear of losing their jobs! The displacement of American workers proceeds methodically. American corporations sacrifice American workers in the name of profit. Over 300,000 illegal aliens swarm the Colorado job market. They displace Denver pavers, roofers, landscapers, beef processing plants, framers, dry wallers and virtually have taken over all fast food restaurants. This story repeats millions of times. A recent television news broadcast by one of the big three showed a man who had just made the ‘Wall of Unemployment Shame’ in his workplace, which included 1,000 fellow employees who had been laid off. Formerly making $22.00 an hour, he’s now driving a delivery truck for $11.00 an hour. His wife and children struggle with their new financial reality. Currently, 20 million illegal aliens commandeer jobs away from American citizens. If they don’t steal those jobs, they depress the wages to the point of legalized slavery. We have an estimated one million illegal alien Chinese in this country (Source: March 2005 Forbes Magazine). At the same time, we outsource jobs to China where a billion people can’t wait to make .22 cents an hour. Human smugglers bringing illegals into America make $7 billion annually according to the report. Do they work the jobs Americans won’t do? False! If American doctors were paid $5.00 an hour they wouldn’t be working those hospital jobs either. You have to ask yourself if you want illegal immigrant doctors working at minimum wage to perform a by-pass heart surgery on you. Would you like an illegal immigrant lawyer defending you in court for $5.00 an hour? How about a $5.00 an hour illegal immigrant college professor teaching your kids calculus? How about an illegal alien truck driver driving down the road at 70 MPH with 80,000 pounds of steel, no ability to read English and a fifth grade education—from Mexico’s educational system? Meanwhile, profits soar for corporations while the middle class of America plummets into worsening unemployment. Will America drop into Third World conditions as economist Paul Roberts predicts? At the current rate of 3.1 million legal and illegal newcomers imported into the United States annually, it’s only a matter of time before, we too, manifest conditions of the Third World. You can’t drown the labor market with millions of people and expect to keep your wages high when immigrants will undercut you. That’s why the pay in China or India is less than $10.00 per day. They have 2.4 billion people in those two countries. That’s why they live subsistence lives. In time, that reality will manifest itself in America as the middle class vanishes. It’s already happening. You need look no further than California as an example of the first Third World State of America. Call your representative at 1-877-762-8762 and ask if he or she is on the Tom Tancredo Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of Representatives? If your rep isn’t--demand that he join because you are sick and tired of Americans jobs being given away to illegal aliens. Make that call today! Take action: www.thesocialcontract.com ; www.numbersusa.com ; www.fairus.org ; www.firecoalition.com ; www.alipac.us ; www.capsweb.org ; www.vdare.comFrosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at his website www.frostywooldridge.com
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:44:18 GMT -5
America's Ugly Ending By Frosty Wooldridge 3-22-7
A listener on my radio show last week supported my guest's contention that California cannot be saved from its sinking into the morass of another Mexico City. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villiaragosa carries his La Raza and Mecha cards closer to his heart than the U.S. Constitution. Additionally he flies the Mexican flag in his office. Under his guidance, Mexico City's ugly reality created another horrible reality in Los Angeles.
The listener, Dean, said, "Your guest tonight covered a little of the news about how serious the illegal alien problem is in California. I lived in and around Los Angeles and Orange County areas for many years: 1943 to 1993. The dreadful destruction of the beautiful citrus groves and lush farm fields during the suffocating increase in population after WWII is not easy to describe in words that are graphic enough to convey the reality.
"A spokesman for the LAPD told National Public Radio recently that the LAPD had been overwhelmed by the rapidly growing street gangs. These gangs were, in years past, predominately the Negro outfits like the BLOODS and CRIPS. But, as the Mestizo illegals started coming in larger numbers, the Mestizo gangs muscled out the Negroes. Now, a new twist to the developing "civil war two" as predicted by Thomas Chittum in his book. The other ethnic factions are beginning to contend with the Mexican Mestizo gangs for control of the "turf" in Long Beach and the South Coast Los Angeles harbor districts.
"Samoans, Guamanians, Cambodians, Loatians, and Vietnamese gangs are asserting themselves. After the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles and Long Beach, the police have been forced to retreat into a defensive mode as the gangs gained more strength and territory. The violence has invaded formerly safe neighborhoods as law enforcement waned. I have long believed that the subversive outfits like La Raza have been involved in promoting the Mestizo outfits.
"The amount of spray paint used in their graffiti "tagging" activities is staggering. A four mile long section of the noise barrier walls built along the Long Beach Freeway near Firestone Blvd is covered with an incredible smear of gang designs and slogans spray painted over every square foot of the barrier walls which are approximately 10 feet in height. Overhead freeway direction signs over much of the Los Angeles freeway system are unreadable due to the multiple coats of graffiti on them.
"Before I left the area, the vandalism was spreading to the freeway signs in formerly "safe" Orange County. Unsolved hit-and-run shootings on the streets and freeways run into many, many cases. There were several cases occurring very near my place of employment near Wilmington and Supulveda Avenues in the Carson district. On the 4th of July and New Years eve, police vacate the streets and police helicopters don't fly. Why?
"Because of bullets from small arms fire! The LAPD will not serve a warrant in certain areas of Los Angeles without backup by a SWAT team. California is another IRAQ just waiting to happen as the ethnic factions become more aggressive. Thomas Chittum's book: "Civil War II: Coming Breakup of America" forecasts of a coming "civil war two" fueled by factions that have a mutual distrust and hatred for each other is not just a figment of the imagination. I hope that you can locate Thomas Chittum and get him to come on your radio program."
Just as I interviewed <http://www.minutemanhq.com/>www.minutemanhq.com leader Chris Simcox last week, I will interview Thomas Chittum in the coming weeks. His book outlines the blueprint for America's second civil war in the 21st century. I've read it. That book brought shudders up and down my spine. Why? Simple! You can see it happening all over the country.
To support the ugly mess in Los Angeles, another Mexican reader fits Chittum's profile of what we allowed into our country. This reader loves taunting me as I continue my weekly quixotic warnings concerning America's future. He signs off as Commandante Pedro.
"Surely you must realize all of your efforts, all of them, are futile? Your own government and elected representatives are aiding and abetting our Reconquista, and there is nothing you can do about it. Nothing! This is our country now. Can you honestly say California is an American state? Our people are firmly in charge there. Once the mid-term elections are over the government will move full speed ahead with a blanket amnesty and citizenship for all of the immigrants already here.
"This will cause a virtual flood of immigration as our brethren crash the gates and demand their human rights, citizenship, and social benefits. You, the white colonizer and pillager, will pay for it all! Once our brothers get the right to vote we will ensure that only those who agree with, or at least support our agenda stand for office. As the Borg would say, "resistance is futile." Death to the white man! Long live Aztlan! Long live the Bronze Age!
"Keep writing your useless warnings! I love reading your pathetic articles. Your attempts to galvanize the hoi polloi into action amuses me. Don't you realize that the average Joe six-pack white trash American doesn't give a s**t? He'll keep on swilling beer and watching Spike TV until the revolution begins in earnest and he is brought to account for the crimes of his forebears. Our allies in the media and academia have seen to it that the white man feels guilty and impotent in the face of his crimes. This is our country now; our women are lovely and pleasing to the eye, and the white man cannot get enough of them. We will defeat you by sheer force of numbers. All of your attempts are futile; your own politicians know that we are the future, that we must be taken into consideration whenever a major decision is made. The white vote means nothing. This is our time now. You had your time. The white man has been ascendant for centuries, now it is the time of the brown man. The best thing you can do for yourself is pack up and leave to northern Europe. You are no longer wanted. Does this make you angry? It is the truth nonetheless and you know it. Thanks be to God that you have been made a stranger in the land your ancestors stole! Viva Aztlan!"
Subcommandante Pedro MeCHA Brown Berets Infiltration Brigades Los Angeles, Baja California Aztlan
"P.S. I receive $721 social security monthly while working off the books, with complete medical insurance to boot. My wife receives welfare, food stamps, and childcare funds for our growing brood. Three of my children also receive generous social security checks. Only two of our six children are citizens. We are living very well and it is all thanks to the American taxpaying sucker. Muchas Gracias!"
The new amnesty bill by McCain-Kennedy legalizes 20 million illegal aliens with this kind of attitude while it allows chain migration and two million legal immigrants annually that will pack this country with 70 million immigrants from Mexico, Central and South America by 2040. If you think what you're seeing in Los Angeles disturbs you, wait until Chicago, New York City, Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta and other cities tip toward majority foreign populations. It's brought to you by President George Bush and Congress both Republican and Democrats. It will become increasingly ugly for Americans in America.
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:44:45 GMT -5
Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES A top al Qaeda lieutenant has met with leaders of a violent Salvadoran criminal gang with roots in Mexico and the United States — including a stronghold in the Washington area — in an effort by the terrorist network to seek help infiltrating the U.S.-Mexico border, law enforcement authorities said. Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader for whom the U.S. government has offered a $5 million reward, was spotted in July in Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador's notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, which immigration officials said has smuggled hundreds of Central and South Americans — mostly gang members — into the United States. Although they are actively involved in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, Mara Salvatrucha members in America also have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings, extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults www.washtimes.com/national/20040928-123346-3928r.htm
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:45:05 GMT -5
FOOT SOLDIERS OF LA RAZA America's Most Dangerous Gang - MS13 - Violent, Vicious, and Spreading Fast. PoliceMag ^ Posted on 02/20/2005 10:53:56 AM PST by Happy2BMe America's Most Dangerous Gang by Shelly Feuer Domash Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly. Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: “If you are not loyal, you are dead.” But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long Island. And that message was that gang violence had moved into the upper middle class enclaves of the Island, into the kinds of communities where the locals assume that crime is somebody else’s problem. Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) is unfortunately becoming everybody’s problem. This plague that came to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles follows the same migratory patterns as the Salvadoran immigrant community that it preys upon, fanning out across the United States from ethnic enclaves in California. www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347306/postsThe official national symbol of MEChA is an eagle holding a machete-like weapon and a stick of dynamite. www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:47:00 GMT -5
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:49:46 GMT -5
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:50:15 GMT -5
Memo From Mexico
Allan Wall V Dare Friday July 6, 2007
Is "reconquista" for real? Are there really ethnic separatist movements in the United States today?
Some people scoff at the whole idea, confident that all immigrants will assimilate, and don’t want to turn the U.S. into the country from whence they came.
Others write off any talk about reconquista as a right-wing anti-immigrant fantasy.
More people are waking up, however, to see that there is more afoot than simply the isolated rantings of some radical professors (which is certainly part of it.)
Some rather concrete incidents are helping to wake people up. Such as the raising of the Mexican flag at the Montebello High School. Or the signs borne by marchers in pro-illegal alien demonstrations, signs that read "If you think I’m illegal because I’m a Mexican learn the true history because I’m in my homeland", "This is stolen land", "Stolen Continent" and "We are indigenous! The only owners of this continent."
The sheer arrogance and hubris of anti-American irredentists is alerting more and more Americans to the fact that, yes, there are people within our borders who don’t want to be part of the U.S., who think they have a better claim on the land than we do, and who aren’t too secretive about it.
But, what did we expect? You import millions of people from Mexico, the only country with an irredentist claim on the U.S.A . Then you encourage them not to assimilate. And, when they break your immigration law, you give them an amnesty. Our leaders invited this, and promoted it.
There really are irredentist/revanchist sentiments in among Mexicans in the U.S.A., and this is bound to grow and get worse. It will make Canada’s Quebec problem look trivial by comparison.
Nevertheless, there is not, as some people imagine, one reconquista movement. All these revanchists/irredentists are not marching lockstep on the same sheet of music. On the contrary, the various Chicano/Mexican/Hispanic/Latino/reconquista/ Aztlan activists are indeed in agreement that that their people (variously defined) are an oppressed nationality that needs liberation. But there are different currents with distinct ideologies. All would break up the U.S. or transform it, but they represent contradictory, even competing, visions of the future.
In fact, Mexico should realize that stirring up things in the U.S. could be counterproductive. Several of these irredentist currents are just as much threat to Mexican sovereignty as they are to ours!
Let’s consider some of the basic separationist movements. "Reconquista" specifically calls for formal return of Mexico’s lost territories (what we call the U.S. Southwest) to Mexico.
The classic argument for reconquista was spelled out 25 years ago. In 1982, Mexican columnist Carlos Loret de Mola visited Los Angeles, California. He was intrigued by the burgeoning Mexican community there (which was much smaller than today’s). Loret de Mola saw beyond the situation, and overcoming the traditional Mexican embarrassment over emigration, saw it as an opportunity for reconquest.
In his Excelsior column entitled The Great Invasion: Mexico Recovers Its Own, Loret de Mola exulted that
"A peaceful mass of people, hardworking, carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable invasion…You cannot give me a similar example of such a large migratory wave by an ant-like multitude, stubborn, unarmed, and carried on in the face of the most powerful and best-armed nation on earth. They have marked social and family characteristics, agility for adapting to the environment and for conquering a great region, once primitive and virgin, that belonged to our fatherland, and we lost it. But it seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot, nor requiring the least diplomatic action, by means of a steady, spontaneous, and uninterrupted occupation….The territory lost in the 19th century by a Mexico torn by internal strife and under centralist dictatorships led by paranoid chiefs, like Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, seems to be restoring itself through a humble people who go on settling various zones that once were ours on the old maps….Land, under any concept of possession, ends up in the hands of those who deserve it.
What Loret de Mola spells out here is a re-conquest of the U.S. Southwest by demography. Other Mexican writers have expressed similar sentiments, more recently Elena Poniatowska, who while visiting Venezuela in 2001, was quoted by a newspaper there
"The Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska affirmed today that Mexico is presently recovering the territories lost in the past to the United States, thanks to emigration. ‘The people of the poor, the lice-ridden and the cucarachas are advancing in the United States, a country that wants to speak Spanish because 33.4 million Hispanics impose their culture’ affirmed Poniatowska …"" El Imparcial" (July 3rd, 2001),
In Mexico, it’s writers and journalists who promote reconquista. Mexican politicians rarely mention it.
What the Mexican government does, however, is encourage and foster illegal immigration in various ways, and encourage Mexicans in the U.S., even dual citizens and Mexican-Americans, to identify with Mexico, not the U.S. Mexican government activity is not limited to the Southwest. Mexican consulates will meddle just as readily outside the Southwest as in it.
A formal annexation of the Southwest by Mexico is not implausible, but another option would be a form of condominium, in which the U.S. and Mexico share sovereignty. The U.S. would be responsible for maintaining the territory, Mexico would control the immigration policy, most of the people would be loyal to Mexico, and the U.S. would foot the bill.
The "Aztlan" irredentist movement was cooked up north of the border by Chicano activists in the ferment of the 1960s. Many people suppose that reconquista and Aztlan movement are synonyms, but they are not
Aztlan was the homeland of the Aztec people, but there’s no consensus over where Aztlan was. In Mexico, they do not refer to the U.S. Southwest as Aztlan. Prominent Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma believes Aztlan was in Central Mexico (far from the Southwest) and the state of Nayarit (Pacific Coast) includes Aztlan on its state coat of arms believing that Aztlan was in Nayarit. My Mexican wife never heard of the Aztlan / Southwest identification until I told her about it.
Chicano activists say that Aztlan was in the U.S. Southwest. They may be right about that part. Linguistically you could make a case for it. There are various Indian tribes in the region, including the Comanche, Shoshone and Hopi, who speak languages of the greater Uto-Aztecan language family. Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, was also a branch of that family. (For the perspective of Comanche David Yeagley on the matter, read here).
Even so, that’s a flimsy reason to lay claim to the region. In the first place, all Mexicans are not descended from the Aztecs. In the second place, just because a person’s ancestors lived or passed through a region, doesn’t give his descendents title over it.
The principal (though not only) organization teaching the Aztlan doctrine is MEChA, acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan.
This organization exists and has received tax dollars on university campuses and high schools in the Southwest—and even outside the region.
MEChA has gained notoriety in recent years, as its first generation has come of age politically. California politicos Antonio Villaraigosa and Cruz Bustamante were MEChistas during their college days, and have publicly refused to repudiate their connection.
Defenders of MEChA claim that it is not irredentist; it’s just a pro-Chicano organization. Yet, its philosophical statement presents it as an organization "founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people…" See the infamous
Plan Espiritual de Aztlán
In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlán from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.
We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land, the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlán belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent
Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlán.
This has never been repudiated. Why not? Another break-up American proposal that has surfaced in recent years is that of the Republica del Norte, which is distinct from both Reconquista and Aztlan.
This scheme is the brainchild of University of New Mexico Chicano Studies Professor Charles Truxillo, who calls it an inevitability.
Professor Truxillo doesn’t want Mexico to reconquer the Southwest. He does want the Southwest to secede from the U.S. He also predicts that the northern states of Mexico will secede from Mexico. Then the ex-U.S. southwest and the ex-northern Mexico will together form the Republica del Norte (republic of the North), with its capital at Los Angeles.
Truxillo foresees these changes happening peacefully, through demographic and political reasons. In 2000, he predicted it would come about by 2080. "I may not live to see the Hispanic homeland, but by the end of the century my students' kids will live in it, sovereign and free." To further the development of the new republic, Truxillo is developing a "cadre of intellectuals" to work out the details in the plan.[ Southwest shall secede from U.S., prof predicts, by Frank Zoretich, Albuquerque Tribune, January 31, 2000]
Truxillo also predicts that eastern Mexico will also secede to form the "Mayan Republic". So in Truxillo’s scenario, not only will Mexico not gain territory, but it will actually wind up considerably smaller than it is now.
Here’s a map of Professor Truxillo’s prediction .You might file it away to refer to in 2080!
Truxillo foresees more breaking up throughout the continent: Quebec breaking off from Canada and the U.S. breaking up into various pieces. Truxillo envisions Mexico breaking up into three pieces: the northern part, that will join the Republica del Norte, the eastern part, which will secede and be called Mayaland, and central Mexico, which will remain part of Mexico.
Another interesting point. Remember the outcry about Samuel Huntington? Well, Truxillo agrees with Huntington, and, like others, views the conflict between Mexico and the U.S. being continuation of the conflict between Elizabethan England and Spain of the Spanish Armada days. Another active separatist movement, which demonstrates frequently and has mixed it up with the Minutemen and Save our State organizations: the Mexica [Pronounced Mesheeka] movement.
The Mexica movement doesn’t fit into any of the previous categories I have mentioned. They’re not into the Aztlan stuff, they don’t support the Republica del Norte. And they don’t want Mexico to reconquer the U.S. Southwest, because they don’t like Mexico either.
The Mexica claim to speak for all the indigenous people of North America—from Alaska to Panama—whom they refer to as the "Nican Tlaca" and the continent as Anahuac.
The movement’s leader is Olin Tezcatlipoca (born Leo Guerra, but he wanted a more indigenous-sounding name). This movement rejects the labels "Hixpanic" and Latino as being European based.
This movement does not recognize any borders on the North American continent, and they reject the legitimacy of any of the 9 governments on the continent, including the U.S. and Mexico. They consider all of them to be European transplants and thus illegitimate.
"We totally reject all illegal European colonial squatter occupation borders on our continent" say the Mexica, and "No European borders on our continent".
Another quote: "We are not illegals anywhere on our continent. Europeans are illegals everywhere on our continent." "Europeans can call themselves ‘Canadian’ or ‘American’ but they are still trespassing on our continent."
The reject the legitimacy of the Mexican government as being white-ruled, calling Mexico’s leaders "Mexico City Criollos [White people]"
The Mexica movement exhorts readers of its website to
"remember that Mexico, ‘Central America’ and ‘South America’ are still controlled by whites (European descent people). And don’t tell us to go back where we came from, this whole continent is where we came from, Europeans came from Europe, so if you want to disrespect us, you should go back where you came from and take your white supremacy there."
And, unlike some other protestors, you don’t see Mexica demonstrators brandishing posters of Che Guevara—they reject Guevara as being too European.
The Mexica solution is to work to develop indigenous consciousness. By indigenous they mean descendents of the people who were here on the continent before Europeans arrived, including mestizos. Since the movement doesn’t recognize any North American borders, it teaches that any person defined as indigenous has the right to go anywhere he wants in North America. White people, meanwhile, must go back to Europe.
One more thing about the Mexica folks—they want to leave the U.S. Constitution intact while they go about their plan. Another example of how seditionists use our own constitution against us! And here’s yet another possibility, which is maybe the most likely of all. What if, instead of the U.S. breaking up, it just became another Spanish-speaking country?
That’s what Univision’s Jorge Ramos predicts will take place in about 2100. Other activists who don’t subscribe to a specific doctrine (reconquista, Aztlan, Republica del Norte or Mexica movement) seem to be thinking along these lines also.
In other words, instead of working to secede from the U.S., why couldn’t unassimilated Hispanics just immigrate and multiply until they could just take over the whole country?
Under that scenario, the borders of the U.S.A. wouldn’t change. The U.S. would just be transformed into a Latin American country.
Yes, these movements and the sentiments they reflect are real. But of course the future may not turn out exactly how these movements envisage it.
What about the historic white, English-speaking majority of the United States of America? Does that majority have any say in the matter? I mean, if all these Mexican, Hispanic and Indigenous activists can boldly plan our nation’s future, what about the historic majority of the country? Or has it already been bypassed by history? Will it speak?
Given current political, social and demographic trends, the future of the nation, and its nature, will be up for grabs in the next few years.
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Post by Shepherd1 on Jan 9, 2008 19:50:31 GMT -5
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