Posted on 08/30/2003 7:43:52 PM PDT by philetus
Fox News and the O'Reilly factor have touched off a tempest in the proverbial teapot by denouncing California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante for not renouncing his affiliation with a Chicano student organization of which he was a member in the 1970s. These so-called journalists equate MECHA with the Klu Klux Klan and violence, which at a time of general hysteria over terrorism is irresponsible.
Moreover, the accusations happen to be unfounded and lack any probative value; one would expect more of professional journalists who are supposedly dedicated to search for the truth using an object methodology. Indeed, the instances that Fox News and its gaggle of talk show hosts cite where not MECHA events but events sponsored by other organizations. The one event that Fox News cites as violent was a July 4 demonstration in 1996 where they said Mechistas attacked black and white Americans protesting illegal immigration. The truth is that many groups were present at this demonstration, and it was racist nativist groups that attacked them.
Moreover, they accuse MEChA of association with anti-Semitic groups like Nation of Aztlan. Here again Fox News is guilty of distorting the facts and guilty of sloppy reporting. There no such group as the Nation of Aztlan and most MECHAS have severed ties with any group with sexist, anti-Semitic or homophobic agendas.
Fox News and OReilly also mistakenly say that MEChA's motto is "for the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." Again, they have gotten wrong; actually the motto of MECHA is La union hace la fuerza (Unity creates power). Further the gaggle charges that MECHA has 300 chapters in universities across the U.S. making the false assumption that they have a national organization with a national office. MECHA is a student organization with no formal central body, it has no national office, it has no budget, and it has no constitution.
Each MECHA chapter has a set of bylaws that the student affairs office must approve. These bylaws state that the organization is open to all students no matter their race, sexual orientation, gender or religion. These alleged journalist also charge that the organization is dedicated to the creation of the Nation of Aztlan; this is a ridiculous charge. Most MECHAs are dedicated to creating a space on the university campuses.
The organization is anything but anti-Semitism and antiblack; some of its members are black and others are Jews. At California State University Northridge MECHA has formed coalitions with various groups.
Despite the facts, the racist nativists are calling on Bustamante to renounce his membership in MEChA, an organization that he belonged to more than 30 years ago. They say that his membership in MECHA is certainly more relevant than Arnold Schwarzenegger's father being a Nazi. I really find this to be offensive. First because it trivializes an ideology that murdered six million people, and second because no one in the Latino community is stooping to this sort of demagoguery.
In my youth, I naively believed that the only hope for democracy was higher education and the so-called Fifth Estate. In part I became a historian because of this naivety. Through the years, I had tremendous respect for journalist such as Edward R. Murrow.
This respect has dwindled as journalist today have abandoned objectivity and the search for the truth, instead searching for ratings by playing on the fears of Americans. I would hope that other journalist would show more professionalism and base their reports on fact. The truth be told, if I were to grade the Fox coverage it would be a fail. In the first three paragraphs it makes five errors of fact. So much for fair and balanced coverage; so much for professionalism.
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlán
de UC Santa Barbara
CONSTITUTION
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/mecha/mission.html
"University Northridge MECHA has formed coalitions with various groups."
When advantageous, political coalitions and alliances with non-Chicano groups may be considered. A
careful analysis must precede the decision to enter into a coalition. One significant factor is the community's
attitude toward coalitions. Another factor is the formulation of a mechanism for the distribution of power that
ensures maximum participation in decision making: i.e., formulation of demands and planning of tactics. When no
longer politically advantageous, Chicano participation in the coalition ends. From:El Plan de Santa Barbara http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/mecha/EPSB.html
Ah, logic.
How is it possible, exactly, to sever ties with a group that doesn't exist? Oh, I get it! He's talking about *other* Mexican groups without mentioning any names!
It's heartening to see, however, that "most MECHAS" have severed ties to "any group with sexist, anti-Semitic or homophobic agendas," isn't it? Interestingly, the author himself admits that at least part of MECHA is not only racist, but sexist and homophobic!
This will, no doubt, cause the egalitarian fanatics on the left to yawn. They love the dirtbag proles too much to expect anything from them.
These guys seem to be pro-Palistinian, anti-Jewish pro terrorists. But no mention of MEChA on their page.
In my youth we called it the Fourth Estate. Did one get inserted when I wasn't looking?
COINTELPRO: U.S. Domestic Covert Operations against La Raza
VIVA PALESTINA LIBRE! Delegacion Especial en Mexico.
Sign Petition to Stop US Military Aid to Israel
Sign Petition for International Investigation Committee on Ariel Sharon’s Crimes against Humanity
Fidel Castro Says US Should Return Aztlan Back to Mexico
"MEChA emphasizes the fact that our current disadvantaged, economic and political, situation is primarily due to us losing the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the subsequent confiscation of our vast land by the English speaking invaders. This knowledge awakens our student's minds to the true reality of our situation which than provides the necessary impetus to struggle harder and become better people. Our students than realize the great value of what was taken from us . . . not only our land but our language and our culture as well.
"No, we do not think that Bustamante will repudiate MEChA. Without MEChA, Cruz Bustamante would not be where he is.
Here's another one:
"The Simon Wiesenthal Center through its "Museum of Tolerance" and its many propaganda programs such as "Tools for Tolerance" has been able to increase its operating budget every year since it was founded. The 'Museum of Tolerance' is housed in a 'glitzy' multi-million dollar building and exhibits gruesome photographs , some of them supposedly fake, of Jewish cadavers, lamp shades made supposedly of the skin of dead Jews, and soap bars made of the fat of Jews killed by the Nazis in gas chambers. 'Tools for Tolerance' is an indoctrination program for public school teachers and police officers paid by yearly multi-million dollar 'line-item budget' grants from the State of California (from taxpayers)."
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"Why than the silence from the Wiesenthal Center concerning the Schwarzenegger family's Nazi past? The reason, we believe, is money! Arnold Schwarzenegger has contributed about $750,000 to the Wiesenthal Center and has helped raise millions more by chairing fund-raisers and other events. It now appears that this 'shoa' thing by the Rabbi Marvin Hier is in the same league as the 'Kosher Nostra' scam perpetuated on American consumers by other rabbis. ( Please read 'The Kosher Nostra Scam on the American Consumer' "
Yeah, they're just a harmless, much-maligned student group, much like the Young Republicans. They don't sound a bit like they aspire to be MexiPali terrorists. MexiCaliNaziBoy is REALLY just n honest politician trying to do what's best for California. And Casto is a great guy. And Arnold is a Nazi, NOT harmless MeChA. And Hamas is a group of freedom fighters.
Sure but the Fourth Estate often acts like the Fifth Column, at least that's what my sixth sense tells me.
There are great similarities between the political and economic condition of the Palestinians in occupied Palestine and that of La Raza in the southwest United States. Fortunately, the struggle for equality by La Raza has not reached the level of violence that is now being experienced in the Holy Land and hopefully it never will. Some ominous signs, however, are manifesting themselves in Los Angeles County that may be a harbinger of things to come. Widespread areas in southern California have recently experienced ambushes, shootings and assassinations of police officers by young disaffected Raza youths who are routinely harassed by special police units like the now disbanded CRASH units of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The similarities are many. The primary one of course is the fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories. The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years apart. For La Raza it happened in 1848 when Mexico lost the southwest at the end of the Mexican American War and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidlago. For the Palestinians it occurred in 1948 when the Zionist Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and signed the "Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel" on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired. The effects of the occupation policies over time , 153 years for La Raza de Aztlan and 53 years for the Palestinians, have been eerily similar.
This is a very long article, lotsa pics and I see the Ayatollah Khomeni's pic among them...
See below.
Translation: yup, you got the goods on us, but you can't prove it. Reminiscent of the Clintons' "there is no evidence that_________" (fill in the blanks)
Karl Marx would be proud of them. Read the words and phrases carefully to learn that it is they who are spinning the truth.
They have this little gem La Raza as Palestinians
but they don't stop there these are images taken from their website La Voz De Aztlan
ZionistNazi's and 
Victoria!
Are you angry enough yet?
NO?
Then be sure to cruise all of their links and read their past articles. They are RACISTs pure and simple and not the benign folks they are spinning themselves out to be.
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