Posted on 07/22/2008 2:48:54 AM PDT by Man50D
Mexico will soon bestow its highest honor upon liberal Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) for his work in “defending the rights of immigrants.”
The Mexican government announced last Friday that it intends to present Kennedy with the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., told Cybercast News Service that the award, the highest that Mexico gives to foreigners, will be presented “at a time that is convenient to the senator.”
The presentation will laud Kennedy for his work on immigration, and “for (promoting) full political participation and increased access to health and education services for the Mexican-American community."
Groups on both sides of the immigration issue are – not surprisingly – split over the award.
Hector M. Flores, immediate past national president of LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, told Cybercast News Service that Kennedy – indeed, the entire Kennedy family – deserves the honor, if not “canonization.”
“I think it is long in coming,” Flores said. “I think if there’s been, not just one individual, but a part of a family that has always gone out of their way to make sure that the downtrodden, the powerless, the defenseless are defended, it’s been Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy family.”
“In our mindset as Mexican Americans and Latinos, they are pretty high – next to sainthood – as far as we’re concerned, at least in many segments of our community,” Flores said.
“They just about walk on water. Not to sound trivial, but this is kind of like being on the way to canonization for the great work he’s done over many, many years, not only for Latinos, but for people in general in our country,” he added.
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I hope Monteczuma’s curse come with Order of the Aztec Eagle
Fat Teddy is an Aztec divinity which hungers for sacraficed hearts of unborn babies.
This single official act demonstrates greater ignorance of U.S. real politics than any single thing I can remember over the past decade.
Wow. The Mexican government just stepped into BS up to their eyeballs.
If only we could expel this bozo and let him live out his days among his beloved bestowers of the “Order of the Aztec Eagle”
btw, does anyone actually care what Aztec ‘civilization’ stood for? Talk about a most depraved historical example to use in ‘honoring’ Teddy Kennedy (OTOH, considering his record at Chappaquiddick, maybe he does have a lot in common with the Aztecs and their penchant for human sacrifice! Mary Jo Kopechne must have felt a terror and desperation not all that different from what the victims of Aztec human sacrifice may have felt:
“Because the objective of Aztec warfare was to capture victims alive for human sacrifice, battle tactics were designed primarily to injure the enemy rather than kill him..... Slaves also could be used for human sacrifice, but only if the slave was considered lazy and had been resold three times.”
Canada Honors Mark Steyn
For Defending America Against
Illegal Immigration
Oh, wait. That didn't happen.
A preview of MSM mass hysteria when Fat Teddy finally dies. Wasn’t yesterday the anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s murder? Ah well, water under the bridge. Who cares.
Amen.
“... the Order of the Aztec Eagle”, with a special order added, the ‘Aztlan Oldsmobile’ ...
Just build the fence. The frickin Pentagon was designed and built in 18 months.
How hard is this.....really?
the fence is a start but it is not the answer, ask the french how the maginot line worked for them to keep out the germans
the first thing we should do is cut off all federal funding to santuary cities, then would should reach an agreement with some poor country in africa to build prisons to hold captured illegals (which would cost a fraction of keeping them in US prisons) then make sure every illegal knows that when they are caught here they will not be released back into the US or mexico or given amnesty and welfare they will be flown to some godforsaken hell hole in the middle of the desert
Followed by the special "Order of the Mescal".
Any chance we’d get Mexico to take him off our hands and keep him? Hmmm... think about it, we could trade maybe a few hundred hard-working immigrants for that drunken murderer.
Some American Indian Group named Kennedy “Walking Eagle” after his talks to their people.
When asked why they named him that, a Chief replied, it is a bird so full of S__t, it can’t get off the ground.
For trying to sacrifice The United States of America on various altars and in general trying to rip out its still-beating heart.
They just about walk on water
What a shame Mary Jo couldn't...
A country that has never been a friend to the U.S. honors the killer whale; one of the biggest traitors to the constitution. No suprise here.
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