Posted on 12/18/2003 9:48:59 AM PST by Jacob Kell
A Mexican-American separatist website, La Voz de Aztlan, is claiming the U.S. capture of Saddam Hussein is a hoax.
The pro-Arab and viciously anti-Israeli organization also sees a spontaneous uprising of popular support for Hussein throughout Iraq – a phenomenon unnoticed by news organizations throughout the world, including those in Arab countries.
According to the site, "extreme doubts have arisen throughout Islam that the released pictures by U.S. occupation forces of the 'captured Saddam' are of the Iraqi leader. Thousands of Iraqis, who knew Saddam, are claiming that it is one of Saddam's many known 'doubles.'"
Why would an American-based website produced by Mexican-Americans be so committed to the legacy of Saddam Hussein?
The Aztlan movement, which calls for the creation of a separate, Spanish-speaking state in North America out of much of the Southwest, gets its inspiration from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian statehood movement.
La Voz de Aztlan, or the Voice of Aztlan, called the capture of Hussein the "mother of all hoaxes."
Its website identifies Mexicans in the U.S. as "America's Palestinians." Many Mexicans see themselves as part of a transnational ethnic group known as "La Raza" – the race. A May editorial on the website, with a dateline of "Los Angeles, Alta California," declares that "both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories."
Hussein, the group's captive hero, meanwhile, paid some $35 million in aid to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
According to a survey conducted in June 2002, a healthy majority of Mexicans claim that their country rightfully owns much of the southwestern United States, while most Americans believe Washington should adopt stricter immigration standards and deploy U.S. troops along the border. The Zogby International poll found a majority of Mexicans say the U.S. Southwest "rightfully belongs to Mexico," and that Mexican citizens should be able to come into those areas freely, without U.S. permission. The poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "The territory of the United States' Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico." Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren't sure.
Activists who quite literally see themselves as "America's Palestinians" are gearing up a movement to carve out of the southwestern United States – a region including all of Bush's home state of Texas – a sovereign Hispanic state called the Republica del Norte.
"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," explains an editorial in La Voz de Aztlan in Los Angeles, the city seen as the future capital of the new Hispanic state – much like Jerusalem is seen by Palestinian Arabs as their capital.
The editorial goes on to draw analogies between the Arab uprising in Israel and gang violence in Los Angeles. It's the same thing, the activists claim. This is not crime and punishment, according to La Raza activists, this is the birth of an independence movement by young Hispanics.
"The similarities are many," says the editorial. "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-Hidalgo. 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 Palestine expired."
Says it all.
There's no real, fundimental difference between fascism, communism and socialism. In fact, anarchists are nothing but socialists. They're ALL Democrat/Democrat/Democrat/Democrats of a feather
Forget the ideology. These are simply rabid racists glomming onto whatever theory gives their racism a veneer of legitimacy. The whole Atzlan thing is just a cover. It takes all of 30 seconds to debunk it completely.
These people are basically just Mexican Nazis. Nothing more.
Best MeChA moment: at the 1970 MeChA picnic on Cinco de Mayo, a number of the leaders were talking about solidarity with the black revolutionary movement. The brother of one of the leaders, home on leave from the Army, looks at his brother over his can of Tecate and says: "Bulls***! I been in 'Nam with the [n-word] and the gringos, out hump'n the boonies an' gettin' shot at. I'm tellin you, an' you listen to me lil' bro', I'll take the whites any time. You can't trust the [n-word] to have your back, a gringo you been working with says he's got your back, he's gonna cover it or die tryin'. So don't give me any of this revolution Bulls***!"
I could name names on this conversation, but won't.
Not likely. A group with the slogan "For The Race, Everything; For Those Outside the Race, Nothing" is by definition quite comfortable with a separatist agenda. It cannot be otherwise.
And perhaps the 'former Mechista' was lying. Not that Leftists would ever lie about their true agendas when they discover how nearly universally rejected their ideas really are ....
South Africa is one of the great minor tragedies of the 20th century (minor only in the sense of being of less moment than WWI, WWII and the fall of Boshevism). It was a real pity the Afrikaaners became so rigid with apartheid, as I think the die was cast right after WWII. A different system could have perpetuated white control and built a more tolerant situation that brought the blacks and coloureds into the modern world, and broken the tribal ties that have proved so deadly to civilization there and throughout Africa. I've known a number of South Africans, both English and Afrikaaner, and liked them all (except for Martin Legasick, the radical leftwing historian).
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