Posted on 01/16/2015 4:41:25 AM PST by Kaslin
I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?
The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.
So, what exactly is the News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens "illegals" in a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses without proof of lawful residence. The article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal aliens, including one who has been in the country illegally for "22 years."
Latina magazine called the News-Press headline -- "Illegals line up for driver's licenses" -- the "most offensive headline against undocumented immigrants ever." Hyperbole much? Ethnic agitators from a group called "People Organized for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara Youth (PODER)" condemned the paper as "blatantly racist," demanding that the paper adhere to the slanted guidelines of the Associated Press or face a boycott.
The blatantly biased AP rules advise journalists to abandon the concise terms "illegal," "illegal alien" or "illegal immigrant" in favor of the wordy, whitewashed "'living in' or 'entering a country illegally' or 'without legal permission.'" Illegal aliens with Obama amnesty cards are now people with "temporary resident status" -- blatantly blurring the distinction between legal foreign visitors who received legal temporary status and illegal border-crossers, illegal deportation evaders and illegal visa overstayers who successfully won the political illegal alien amnesty lottery.
Because references to the rule of law are considered oppressively racist/colonialist/imperialist, social justice mobsters are pushing the term "undocumented" on media coddlers. But it is patently absurd to force a newspaper in the name of "accuracy" and "objectivity" to call illegal aliens queuing up for government-issued documents "undocumented."
These "undocumented" aliens, now eligible for state driver's licenses, federal work authorization permits, in-state college discounts, bank accounts, taxpayer identification numbers and birth certificates issued by Mexican consular offices on government soil, are the most documented aliens in American history.
News-Press publisher Wendy McCaw told me this week that the free speech-stifling thugs "have threatened to return on January 19 to deliver a petition and stage another protest against us if we do not offer a retraction by 3 p.m. that day." McCaw vows she will not bend to the ultimatum or any other -- and she has a track record to prove her toughness.
McCaw has defied the progressive forces of political correctness for years in previous First Amendment battles over whom she should hire and how she should run her newspaper. Radical elements in her community and industry have long held a grudge against her and her paper for resisting union pressure and refusing to conform to left-wing orthodoxy.
And boy, do these people know how to hold grudges.
In addition to the paint bombs, unhinged mau-mau-ers spray-painted a radical Reconquista slogan on the News-Press building: "The border is illegal, not the people who cross it."
Yes, they're still trying to re-fight the Mexican-American War of 1848 and re-litigate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. No surprise. Santa Barbara has been a longstanding hotbed of tribal grievance politics. In the late 1960s, liberal Latinos at the University of California at Santa Barbara unveiled El Plan de Aztlan, which states:
"We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent. Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner 'gabacho' who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture."
The Aztlan plan birthed Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) -- an identity politics indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized college and high school campuses nationwide whose members have rioted in Los Angeles and editorialized that federal immigration "pigs should be killed, every single one" in San Diego.
As I've reported previously, the MEChA Constitution calls on members to "promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza (race) with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan." "Aztlan" is the group's term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico.
MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and a machete-like weapon in its claws; its motto is "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada." Translation: For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing."
Tell me who the racists are again.
“For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing.”
Sounds like another Islamic culture that needs to be eradicated from within our shores.
Only whites of European descent can be racist, it's the law - at least there's enough court precedent to establish it as such.
This is an example of why we must stop allowing the left to dictate the language. One we need to stop right now is the misnomer “progressive” which far too many of our people use.
That’s right and reminds me of an altercation I had with one of these MEChA dudes one time down South.
Of course we were going at each other pretty good, him calling me this and that. The lil crap was brave because I was standing guard on a fence line with a M4 and sidearm. Of course there was a tall gate protecting him.
This went on for about 30 minutes. I thought the lil crap was going to stroke.
I would come back with something just to keep his fire brewing. Finally, a DPS officer showed up to defuse the situation and the lil crap yelled at me, “Man you are a racist.” All I said back to him was, “About as racist as you are, dude.”
The look on this mescans face was unbelievable. It was like OK, I called him a racist but I did not. He shut up, got on his motor sickle and rode away.
We laughed our butts off for days about that one.
You just did, equating progressivism with Marxism, as appropriate. Use of it as a sarcastic pejorative is a useful tactic teach the public to equate the two. Hence, it depends upon the context and use as to whether it is appropriate.
I lived in Santa Barbara for many years.
Back in the 1980’s, an illegal alien from Mexico broke into a young woman’s home and raped and murdered the woman.
When they caught the guy, the Santa Barbara News-Press ran a headline which stated, “Mexican National Arrested in Murder.”
The liberals had a fit, because the suspect was called “A Mexican National.”
Calling people what they really are is sooooo racist.
Poder means Power - That doesn't sound like Equal Rights to mean. It means domination.
I have a sure fire way to fire up crowd of open-immigration fanatics. Most of these same folk think of Ceasar Chavez in almost sainthood terms.
I guess their memories are fuzzy. They think Chavez and they think Marxist leaning labor organizer, grape boycott, etc. What they forget is that Chavez would rat out a wetback crew of pickers in a heartbeat!
He was organizing American farm workers, didn’t want the competition thank you very much. I’ve been called a liar, a racist and worse, but true story.
This has to be an adaptation of Mussolini's statement: All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
So, our "liberal" latinos check the ethnic chauvinism box, check the imperialism box and basically out themselves as fascist as the inventor of fascism, Benito Mussolini. They cover it up with a smear of "equal rights". Equal my foot!!
They have all kinds of documents from their country of their citizenship. Then they have all kinds of false identity documents. And as if the problem is that they lack documents. You have to have no soul to go along with these lies.
“Those who control the language control minds.” Ayn Rand.
How about if we stop calling them “illegal immigrants” and instead call them “illegal immigrators”?
” You just did, equating progressivism with Marxism, as appropriate. Use of it as a sarcastic pejorative is a useful tactic teach the public to equate the two.”
I never let the lefties get away with this “progressive” crap
Just pull up the Communist Goals of 1963 on your phone, and force them to read it : )
What ever happened to ‘wetback?’
I understand Chavez carried dimes in his pocket to call in the illegals who were competing with his union laborers. He would “drop a dime” on them in a heart beat. In those days, the Feds did something about it.
I just wish Skousen had done a better job of documenting the sources of his attributions. For example, his warning on sexual depravity as specifically communist seemingly conflicts with the Rockefeller funding and promotion of Kinsey. Until one understands the role of international financial interests behind communism, that looks more like fascism (which you and I know as the same thing). Yet it is far more powerful to shred a communist by showing him or her the fascist source of "communism" in the first place.
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