Posted on 05/06/2016 3:54:49 AM PDT by SJackson
Last year, South Carolinas Republican Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the state capitol in Columbia. The June 17 massacre of nine African Americans in a Charleston church launched efforts to take down the banner, which evoked racism, segregation and the 1861-1864 war between the states. Last July, when South Carolina lowered the Confederate banner for the last time, the crowd responded with chants of USA! USA! During the 2016 presidential campaign, a different flag issue is coming to the fore.
Violent anti-Trump protesters have been waving the flag of Mexico. The Mexican flag was on display in southern California last week, where one protest featured a child holding a sign reading Make America Mexico Again. Such fervor prompted a column from Marcos Breton of the Sacramento Bee. He argues that, aside from one public ceremony in Sacramento, the Mexican flag has no place in American politics, and its disturbing to see it popping up with increasing regularity. This is hardly a new development.
When Californians vote on issues such as English as the states official language (Proposition 63, 1986); benefits for undocumented immigrants (Proposition 187, 1994); racial preferences in college admissions (Proposition 209, 1996) and bilingual education (Proposition 227, 1998) Mexican flags suddenly appeared by the thousands. This reflects the tenaciously held belief that California somehow remains part of Mexico, and that Mexicans are only coming to what amounts to their own country. They are therefore entitled to education, medical care, drivers licenses, welfare, and in-state college tuition. Politicians give tacit assent to this package.
Vice President Joe Biden explains that illegal immigrants are already Americans. In her recent book Hard Choices, Democratic presidential frontrunner and former First Lady Hillary Clinton helpfully explains, after all, much of the southwestern part of the United States was part of Mexico. So little wonder that Mexicans stream across the border, with additional encouragement from sanctuary cities such as San Francisco. There Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi welcomed even violent felons such as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a Mexican national and five-time deportee accused of gunning down Kathryn Steinle. In similar style, in 2014 two Sacramento County police officers fell victim to Mexican national and repeat deportee Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamontes, who said in court, I killed them cops.
Instead of restricting sanctuary cities, California politicians are more concerned with driving old Dixie down. A bill by Orinda Democrat Steve Glazer removes the names of Confederates such as Robert E. Lee from schools, public buildings and such. If politicians are in the mood for purges, they can find more fertile ground in Spanish colonialism.
Spanish colonialism was built on the enslavement of the native peoples they conquered. Under the encomienda system, native peoples were part of the land grants the conquistadores gave to Spanish settlers. The native peoples were required to work for the encomenderos, who considered them property. The white Spanish imperialists were also unabashed racists who exploited slaves from western Africa for mining and agriculture.
Californias chain of religious missions is the direct legacy of Spanish colonialism, as are city names such as San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara and many others. By the standards of the historical purge crew, these are due for some fundamental change. Los Angeles could become Mickey Mouse City and San Diego the Navy Base City. San Francisco could opt for The City, as residents call it now, or Sanctuary City. In all this fervor, the politically correct have lost sight of some historical realities.
The Confederate States of America lost the war of 1861-1865 to the United States of America, so it seems entirely fitting to take down the Confederate battle flag. On the other hand, 168 years ago, a full 15 years before the Civil War, when the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Empire, and Prussia were major players, the United States of America fought a war with Mexico. Whatever the causes of that 1846-1848 conflict, the USA won and Mexico lost. Mexico duly signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Mexican flag no longer flew over California and much of the southwestern United States. The rest should be history, but it isnt.
Donald Trump isnt running for president of Mexico, cautions Marcos Breton, but thats how a violent faction of the Left sees it. The Mexican flag is their battle flag, and we will be seeing it more and more as November approaches.
Meanwhile, nobody is waving Prussian flags and yelling for Prussian Power. Nobody is posing children with banners reading Make Italy the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Again. But the Left wants America to be Mexico Again.
Mexicos cycle of crime and corruption
And no, Democrats don't seem concerned about importing corruption. A worthwhile contrast.
And Americans should be ashamed of our government, both parties. Look at this sign again
Bottom right, National System of Public Lands, BLM. Criminal activity on public lands, and the government's solution is to keep American's out rather than defending them.
The Mexican patriots need to go back home to Mexico.
Spanish colonialism was rooted in what Carroll Quigley called the Peruvian-Pakistani Axis.
“But the Left wants America to be Mexico Again.”
Almost alone amongst pols, Trump is both opposed to this with every fiber of his thoroughly American being, and able to rally people to the pro-American side, to wake up the common man lulled to sleep for decades by the Leftist designed/controlled educational system and media the have among their primary goals the erasing of American history.
If Mexican immigrants love Mexico so much, then they shouldn’t let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.
Anti-Trump protest in the San Fernando Valley March 13, 2016
They don’t want their LAND back, they want to TAKE what “whitey” was able to do with the land.
Had Mexico kept it, it would be worthless compared to what it is today.
Quigley made a terrible sort of sense out what we’re seeing today. History isn’t just “one damn thing after another,” is it? People need to wake up.
And there you have it.
Yeah. We all know what great things the hispanics have done with their own countries.
Strauss & Howe have made a fairly good case for history not being just one damn thing after another for the last half-millenium.
They’re not just coming here with their hands out-it’s much more insidious than that.
Years ago, when these signs first hit the scene, I actually emailed BLM to confirm they were for real. To my surprise, they actually answered about a week later and confirmed it. I was disgusted and infuriated. For all intents and purposes, it is a sign posted reading, “ We have surrendered this land.” Absolutely outrageous.
The contrast between the two nations is so stark at the San Diego border crossing. Don’t get me wrong, I like Mexico and Mexicans for the most part, but on one side you see nice homes, swimming pools, fairly clean paved streets and on the other side shacks made from old garage doors, streets filled with trash and even open sewers. What counts as “poor” on one side is seen as “doing all right” on the other. I don’t blame them for wanting t come to the nicer side, but I do blame people on our side wanting to let them all in.
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Nice - thanks! No excuses now for anyone not to read this.
On the bright side, it’s only half as long as Tragedy and Hope.
Heh. Yes, there is that.
On the application for student financing that has to be filled out in the socialist no questions asked world of college, Mexico is listed as a state
No stupid naive I’ll do anything for my kid to go to college say word one about it
It’s in there. What state is your child from. Mexico? Is your child from the state of Mexico?
No one objects
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