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The Real Flag Issue-The agenda to 'Make America Mexico Again
Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 6, 2016 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 05/06/2016 3:54:49 AM PDT by SJackson

The Real Flag Issue

The agenda to 'Make America Mexico Again.'

Last year, South Carolina’s Republican Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol in Columbia. The June 17 massacre of nine African Americans in a Charleston church launched efforts to take down the banner, which evoked racism, segregation and the 1861-1864 war between the states. Last July, when South Carolina lowered the Confederate banner for the last time, the crowd responded with chants of “USA! USA!” During the 2016 presidential campaign, a different flag issue is coming to the fore.

Violent anti-Trump protesters have been waving the flag of Mexico. The Mexican flag was on display in southern California last week, where one protest featured a child holding a sign reading “Make America Mexico Again.” Such fervor prompted a column from Marcos Breton of the Sacramento Bee. He argues that, aside from one public ceremony in Sacramento,  “the Mexican flag has no place in American politics, and it’s disturbing to see it popping up with increasing regularity.” This is hardly a new development. 

When Californians vote on issues such as English as the state’s official language (Proposition 63, 1986); benefits for undocumented immigrants (Proposition 187, 1994); racial preferences in college admissions (Proposition 209, 1996) and bilingual education (Proposition 227, 1998) Mexican flags suddenly appeared by the thousands. This reflects the tenaciously held belief that California somehow remains part of Mexico, and that Mexicans are only coming to what amounts to their own country. They are therefore entitled to education, medical care, drivers’ licenses, welfare, and in-state college tuition. Politicians give tacit assent to this package. 

Vice President Joe Biden explains that illegal immigrants are “already Americans.” In her recent book Hard Choices, Democratic presidential frontrunner and former First Lady Hillary Clinton helpfully explains, “after all, much of the southwestern part of the United States was part of Mexico.” So little wonder that Mexicans stream across the border, with additional encouragement from “sanctuary cities” such as San Francisco. There Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi welcomed even violent felons such as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican national and five-time deportee accused of gunning down Kathryn Steinle. In similar style, in 2014 two Sacramento County police officers fell victim to Mexican national and repeat deportee Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, who said in court, “I killed them cops.” 

Instead of restricting sanctuary cities, California politicians are more concerned with driving old Dixie down. A bill by Orinda Democrat Steve Glazer removes the names of Confederates such as Robert E. Lee from schools, public buildings and such. If politicians are in the mood for purges, they can find more fertile ground in Spanish colonialism. 

Spanish colonialism was built on the enslavement of the native peoples they conquered. Under the encomienda system, native peoples were part of the land grants the conquistadores gave to Spanish settlers. The native peoples were required to work for the encomenderos, who considered them property. The white Spanish imperialists were also unabashed racists who exploited slaves from western Africa for mining and agriculture. 

California’s chain of religious missions is the direct legacy of Spanish colonialism, as are city names such as San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara and many others. By the standards of the historical purge crew, these are due for some fundamental change. Los Angeles could become Mickey Mouse City and San Diego the Navy Base City. San Francisco could opt for “The City,” as residents call it now, or “Sanctuary City.” In all this fervor, the politically correct have lost sight of some historical realities. 

The Confederate States of America lost the war of 1861-1865 to the United States of America, so it seems entirely fitting to take down the Confederate battle flag.  On the other hand, 168 years ago, a full 15 years before the Civil War, when the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Empire, and Prussia were major players, the United States of America fought a war with Mexico. Whatever the causes of that 1846-1848 conflict, the USA won and Mexico lost. Mexico duly signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mexican flag no longer flew over California and much of the southwestern United States. The rest should be history, but it isn’t. 

 “Donald Trump isn’t running for president of Mexico,” cautions Marcos Breton, but that’s how a violent faction of the Left sees it. The Mexican flag is their battle flag, and we will be seeing it more and more as November approaches.

Meanwhile, nobody is waving Prussian flags and yelling for “Prussian Power.” Nobody is posing children with banners reading “Make Italy the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Again.”  But the Left wants America to be Mexico Again. 



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IMO a major impact of illegal immigration is the tolerance of a corrupt system of governance and tolerance for crime. Yes, the may be fleeing that government, but only it's economic impact. Demonstrations like that at the Trump rally in LA should get the attention of all Americans. As should signs like these.

Mexico’s cycle of crime and corruption

And no, Democrats don't seem concerned about importing corruption. A worthwhile contrast.

And Americans should be ashamed of our government, both parties. Look at this sign again

Bottom right, National System of Public Lands, BLM. Criminal activity on public lands, and the government's solution is to keep American's out rather than defending them.

1 posted on 05/06/2016 3:54:49 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

The Mexican patriots need to go back home to Mexico.


2 posted on 05/06/2016 4:11:54 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: SJackson; Noumenon
Spanish colonialism was built on the enslavement of the native peoples they conquered. Under the encomienda system, native peoples were part of the land grants the conquistadores gave to Spanish settlers. The native peoples were required to work for the encomenderos, who considered them property. The white Spanish imperialists were also unabashed racists who exploited slaves from western Africa for mining and agriculture.

Spanish colonialism was rooted in what Carroll Quigley called the Peruvian-Pakistani Axis.

3 posted on 05/06/2016 4:34:37 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SJackson

“But the Left wants America to be Mexico Again.”


We are fighting a 2-front war: one vs. Mexican/Spanish pride, which disallows assimilation into English culture, and the other vs. the Left, which wishes to destroy the West (and especially the US). They have found each other to be convenient and valuable allies.

Almost alone amongst pols, Trump is both opposed to this with every fiber of his thoroughly American being, and able to rally people to the pro-American side, to wake up the common man lulled to sleep for decades by the Leftist designed/controlled educational system and media the have among their primary goals the erasing of American history.

If Mexican immigrants love Mexico so much, then they shouldn’t let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.


4 posted on 05/06/2016 4:47:35 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: SJackson

Anti-Trump protest in the San Fernando Valley March 13, 2016


5 posted on 05/06/2016 4:53:44 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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They don’t want their LAND back, they want to TAKE what “whitey” was able to do with the land.
Had Mexico kept it, it would be worthless compared to what it is today.


6 posted on 05/06/2016 5:00:06 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: DuncanWaring

Quigley made a terrible sort of sense out what we’re seeing today. History isn’t just “one damn thing after another,” is it? People need to wake up.


7 posted on 05/06/2016 5:42:22 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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They don’t want their LAND back, they want to TAKE what “whitey” was able to do with the land

And there you have it.

8 posted on 05/06/2016 5:43:28 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: SJackson

Yeah. We all know what great things the hispanics have done with their own countries.


9 posted on 05/06/2016 5:50:28 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (America: conceived, designed and created.........by white men)
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To: Noumenon

Strauss & Howe have made a fairly good case for history not being just “one damn thing after another” for the last half-millenium.


10 posted on 05/06/2016 5:56:41 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Don't be silly; Whitey drew the border right at the very edge of the good land:


11 posted on 05/06/2016 5:59:10 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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They’re not just coming here with their hands out-it’s much more insidious than that.


12 posted on 05/06/2016 6:21:24 AM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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Years ago, when these signs first hit the scene, I actually emailed BLM to confirm they were for real. To my surprise, they actually answered about a week later and confirmed it. I was disgusted and infuriated. For all intents and purposes, it is a sign posted reading, “ We have surrendered this land.” Absolutely outrageous.


13 posted on 05/06/2016 6:29:51 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: DuncanWaring
A pity that so few have people read any of it. And Quigley's The Evolution of Civilizations is worth its price for the introduction alone.
14 posted on 05/06/2016 6:30:11 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: DuncanWaring

The contrast between the two nations is so stark at the San Diego border crossing. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mexico and Mexicans for the most part, but on one side you see nice homes, swimming pools, fairly clean paved streets and on the other side shacks made from old garage doors, streets filled with trash and even open sewers. What counts as “poor” on one side is seen as “doing all right” on the other. I don’t blame them for wanting t come to the nicer side, but I do blame people on our side wanting to let them all in.


15 posted on 05/06/2016 6:31:00 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Noumenon

Electronic copy available here:

http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Carroll-Quigley-TheEvolutionOfCivilizations-AnIntroductionToHistoricalAnalysis-1st&2nd-Editions.pdf


16 posted on 05/06/2016 6:34:19 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Nice - thanks! No excuses now for anyone not to read this.


17 posted on 05/06/2016 6:38:44 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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On the bright side, it’s only half as long as Tragedy and Hope.


18 posted on 05/06/2016 6:46:02 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Heh. Yes, there is that.


19 posted on 05/06/2016 6:48:08 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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To: SJackson

On the application for student financing that has to be filled out in the socialist no questions asked world of college, Mexico is listed as a state

No stupid naive I’ll do anything for my kid to go to college say word one about it

It’s in there. What state is your child from. Mexico? Is your child from the state of Mexico?

No one objects


20 posted on 05/06/2016 7:17:25 AM PDT by stanne
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