Posted on 06/15/2006 7:24:29 PM PDT by rmlew
Advocates of an open border between the U.S. and Mexico do their best to present a mellow American flag-waving image to the public. But when they gather in semiprivate, they communicate much differently to each other. Perhaps they need to be even more careful.
In the big pro-immigration marches this spring, Hispanic activists sought to present themselves as "civil rights" advocates in the gentle and inclusive tradition of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Oh sure, some of the recent marchers went "off message," carrying Mexican flags and calling for "reconquista," but for the most part, the demonstrators were well-behaved.
But offstage, as it were, a different and harsher truth comes out. It's not a "movement," they tell each other when cameras aren't watching, it's a "movimiento" - and that Spanish-language phrasing speaks volumes about the true tilt of pro-immigration activists.
How do I know this? On Tuesday, I attended a panel discussion entitled "The New Immigrants Movement," part of a "Take Back America" conference convened in Washington, D.C., by the left-wing Campaign for America's Future. The event was open to anyone, although fewer than 100 people showed up. But to give you a flavor of the meeting, here are the surnames of the people on the panel: Lovato, Salas, Contreras, Lopez, Ramirez and another Lopez. All Hispanic - and some quite angry.
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Earth to Bush...Earth to Bush...
I must be in a bad mood today, I know what I really want to post would get pulled.
And so would my second and third thoughts.
I am sick of these socialist trying to take over our country, I end up wondering if we really are going to have to resort to the "third box" to stop them.
They've been trying for over a hundred years now.
Calm down, they are no closer now than then. Other generations will have the same problems too no doubt.
That really depends on what the house and senate do this year.
I can hope you are right, but I have real doubts.
"Reframing it as a 'new civil rights movement' risks erasing its roots in the Latin American struggles and history." Is that clear enough? Then, for good measure, Lovato's article cites the "radical" efforts of one Miguel Ramirez, who left El Salvador in 1979 and now heads up Centro Hispano Cuzcatlán in Queens. The transnational experience of Ramirez and others, "shows that the U.S. movimiento is ... the northernmost expression of a resurgent Latin American left." -- Roberto Lovato
Not even Bush's idea of trilateral hemispherism, this is reconquista!
Not one in fifty Americans even know of it, much less know what's in it. We repudiate it by default.
"Calm down, they are no closer now than then."
What? Since good old Reagan gave them amnesty there have been millions more over the border so how in the heck can you suggest that nothing has changed. It's simple math.
The university culture is one place where they don't hide motives.
Their groups aggressively call for giving the entire Southwest (and more) to Mexico, complete with a revolutionary blood-letting of whomever gets in their way.
But...b-but....what about those family values not stopping at the Rio Grande? Was that just the pile of dung it sounded like the first time I heard it?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649818/posts?page=7#5
Somebody rework this, please. The Capitol or the White House needs to be in the background.
The sense of alarm from Pinkerton is fascinating. He's not exactly a red meat conservative minute man type. If Pinkerton is gagging on open borders then the Senate bill is truly doomed. Praise HUITZILOPOCHTLI.
It looks like the MEChA crowd was there.
I wonder what our options are when our U.S. government won't protect us against foreign invasion?
Thanks for posting on this important issue.
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