Posted on 07/11/2006 12:48:46 PM PDT by kellynla
The nation's television screens many days recently have been filled with scenes of huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City.
It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mounted the podium, but any hopes that he would quiet the crowds and defend the law were soon dashed. Villaraigosa, himself, has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration law.
For law-abiding Americans without knowledge of the dark side of our current illegal immigration crisis, all this is unfathomable. For those who know the truth about the "La Raza" movement, these demonstrations were a prophecy fulfilled.
It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of "La Raza" -- The Race.
There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall "La Raza" movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza -- the Council of "The Race".
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
yep...
when you're right, you're right...
I'm just gonna wait 'til '08 to elect a POTUS who will enforce the immigration laws and secure the ports & borders.
La Raza = Klan with a darker tan.
I suppose that was a technical violation of FR rules:
posting La Raza's racist mission statement.
Fwding on to the WH would be a waste of time.
Is Karl Rove going to spill the beans that La Raza is really an organization which he invented to make the Dems look bad? No, he's too devious to let that secret out of the bag.
"Klan with a tan." I like it!
"A Gringo Manual on How to Handle Mexicans" (Hispanic Civil Rights) by Jose Angel Gutierrez
"The Making of a Chicano Militant : Lessons from Cristal" (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by Jose Angel Gutierrez
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Sometimes the myopic silliness that infects every thread regarding immigration on FR is enough to make even an optimist want to run screaming through the streets.
A little trip back to the 1850's, the Know Nothings, and a foolish pro-immigrant man who ended up in the White House would be in order.
-The immigrants were the (now) celebrated (then despised) Germans and Irish,
-the fool was an ungainly Illinoisian named Abe Lincoln, and
-the Know Nothings are a forgotten footnote in the dustbin of history.
Everyone here is a patriot and has the good of the country at heart, however, it is egregious to cast aspersions on a man who has done as admirable a job, in many respects, as GW, and, is to play fast and loose with our loyalties and with history as well.
Everyones pretty much in agreement here. Freaky! Count me in!
I wish they have photos of speaking in front of the group.
...however, it is egregious to cast aspersions on a man who has done as admirable a job, in many respects, as GW...
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Sorry but I don't agree at all. GW's position on illegal immigration is in NO WAY JUSTIFIED by any other actions he has taken, good or bad. To encourage, coddle and protect illegals in this country while, at the same time, delibately doing NOTHING to stop them from continuing to infest our country, combined with, to mention just one atrocity, the establishment of a legal double-standard and reward for criminality, is a condemnation that nothing can erase.
Put your bucket of white-wash away, and face reality. It is real ugly.
In continuing this overheated rhetoric on immigration, we simply give the DUmmies more ammunition with which to load their cannon.
No one wants to reward lawbreakers, but, to conflate illegal immigration to an invasion and a conspiracy is to demonize a group that has come to the US for the very same reasons that all other immigrant groups in the past have. To accuse GW of treason on the scale ( or surpassing it ) of the philanderer in chief is also taking a great deal of license with the truth. GW has always wanted to comprehensively reform our immigration system, and he is sincere in his desire, not trying to subvert the country in any way.
This issue raises passions, and rightly so. To lay it all at the feet of the president is wrong, however, and overlooks all of the positive good that has been accomplished by this man. He reminds me more of Lincoln every day, and I think that history will bear me out.
"In continuing this overheated rhetoric on immigration"
Overheated? No, not heated enough.
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"To lay it all at the feet of the president is wrong, however"...
No, we are just laying at his feet, what HE is doing/done.
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"No one wants to reward lawbreakers.."
Wrong. The President and half of the Senate does.
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"and a conspiracy is to demonize a group that has come to the US.."
No need to demonize criminal lawbreakers. They have done that themselves and should be punished for it.
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"not trying to subvert the country in any way"
Rewarding criminality and setting a legal double standard for those who must obey the law, is most certainly a subversion of our Constitutional republic and its code that all are equal under the law.
"El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan" (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):
"In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ...
Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ...
We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada."
That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."
These immigrants have nothing in common with my Italian relatives who came here via Ellis Island and longed for assimilation. La Raza is a hate group..not a rotary club. I'm very disappointed our President doesn't see it that way..
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I agree W has done good in handling the GWOT and with the appointment of judges. However, when he stated he was not going to enforce the laws he has sworn to uphold it was at that point I saw a morality comparable to WJC.
Well, if history doesn't bear you out, maybe we can find a stretcher... Seriously, do you really think Dubya has a coherent plan in his brainpan concerning immigration, legal or otherwise? The man is a jackass. Sorry to upset his legion of cheerleaders, but a "commander-in-chief" who will not protect the southern border of his own country for fear of offending Vincente Fox or, even worse, the silk-stocking scumbags who benefit from illegal labor should expect charges of treason to be leveled against him. Not that the blatantly traitorous dems are any better, but this fuzzy little internationalist who rose to and retained power due to the efforts of his social conservative base has been a tremendous disappointment. Clueless Georgie. Jees. America is more than your billionaire cronies, schmuck. I wish you'd pay more than lip service to the people who put you(back)in office in 2004...
Bingo!
I am fully aware that the thread is about La Raza, I read the entire article, and before posting a reply, I sent an email to their National Council reiterating the salient points of the article in question. Also, please distinguish between La Raza and MEChA from whose website the quotes which you posted were taken. If, like the author of this article opines, La Raza takes the steps neccessary to distance themselves from MEChA then we should accord them the respect they're due ( which is very little if they can not find a better name! ).
My post was a response to the author of comments regarding the actions of President Bush and his assertion that they were treasonous.
I am glad that you are a proud American of Italian extraction, my own forebearers were from Ireland and Poland. The fact that they were able to assimilate is in direct contravention of the fact that there was nearly as much anti Italian animus at one point in our nation's history as their is anti Mexican today. I would be willing to bet that the proportion of Mexican immigrants who wish to assimilate is similar to the numbers of Italians, Irish, German, Polish etc, etc, that wished to become Americans in previous generations.
The only thing that has changed is the byzantine complexity of the bureaucratic nightmare that we now subject immigrants to.
LOL on the stretcher comment!
Some people's idea of loyalty never ceases to amaze me. I can recall with great poigniency the tributes to the courage of GW after the 9/11 tragedy, the remarks about his sagacity following the 2002 elections, and various and sundry praises for additional actions that this man has taken as president that have moved the ball forward on the conservative agenda, and have protected our nation from any further terrorist attacks.
I feel sorry for you that you are reduced to the point of namecalling to make your point, but it seems highly unlikely that the president's motivation has anything to do with whether or not Vicente Fox is offended or not, believe what you will. Most of the "silk stocking(sic) scumbags" who employ illegal aliens are small business owners simply trying to compete in an environment in which they would be out of business in a nano-second if they did not lower their labor costs to compete, regardless of the morality or lack thereof.
Lest you think this "fuzzy little internationalist" is somehow not trying to move the conservative (social or otherwise)ball down the field, just a few examples of what we would not have had we elected algore or JohneffingKerry:
1. The War on Terror
2. Two strict constitutionalists on the SCOTUS
3. Numerous other fine judicial appointments
4. A ban on the destruction of embryos for stem cell research
5. Tax cuts
6. A roaring economy
7. A leader not a poll follower
8. Faith based initiatives in the federal gov't
9. A man who calls our enemies enemies
10. A murderous tyrant sitting in a jail in Bagdad
That is an incomplete list, I am sure that I could come up with another couple of hundred without a lot of thought.
Politics is the art of the possible, and the Republican party, like any other, is a coalition, not a dictatorship. In the circumstances that we were given in 2000, I think that we elected a pretty good man, and opinion has only impoved with time. I did not support him in the primaries, and I think that there were many better men running, however, as was said of Lincoln following his nomination "I think we could have gotten someone more brilliant, but I don't think that we could have gotten a better man."
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