MICHELLE MALKIN: During an Olympics qualification soccer match between the US and Mexico (Guadalajara 2004), the stadium erupted in boos during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fans yelled “Osama! Osama!” as Mexico’s team eliminated the US squad.
At a World Cup qualifier the following year, Mexican soccer fans again cheered the al Qaeda mastermind’s name. ESPN noted that the audience again booed and whistled during the US national anthem. Plastic bags filled with urine were reportedly tossed on American players.
One Mexican fan told the Christian Science Monitor: “ ‘Every schoolboy knows about 1848 . . . when they robbed our territory,’ referring to when the US annexed Texas, California and New Mexico as part of a peace treaty ending the war between the two countries, ‘that was the beginning.’ “ This bitterness is long-standing and deep-seated - and stoked by top Mexican government officials and elites.
1848 was when the U.S. defeated Mexico for that sliver of land
that we PURCHASED legally. What they are really pissed off about is the discovery of gold the following year in California, the richest discovery known. Too bad. They got their money for the desert land, yet they continue to occupy it now illegally.
Then, all those Mexicans will have something to really bitch about. And, yes, I'm an AMERICAN with Mexican heritage. My grandparents emigrated legally decades ago.