Posted on 02/12/2019 3:34:54 AM PST by Moseley
So for how long did the independent government of Mexico have even nominal jurisdiction over the American Southwest? For only 25 years, during which time Mexico City had no effective control, and the area slipped backwards by every measure until the arrival of the Americans. The Spanish inhabitants of the Southwest never transferred their loyalty from Madrid to Mexico City, because all they received from the turmoil-ridden Mexican government was misrule, neglect, and unchecked Indian raids.
Since then, how long has the area been under firm American control? For over 170 continuous years, during which time the former Spanish inhabitants of the region, all of this time American citizens, have prospered beyond the wildest dreams of the average Mexicans born in Mexico. To compare the infrastructure, roads, schools and hospitals of the two regions is to understand the truth. The Mexican government has been mired in endemic graft, corruption, nepotism and chaos from the very start until today. The ordinary Mexican peons have been trampled and abused, while only the rich elites have thrived. This is why millions of Mexicans want to escape from the country of their birth today, in order to enjoy the benefits of living in America that they can never hope to obtain in Mexico.
Yet because today Mexico is a corrupt third-world nation (despite having more millionaires and billionaires than Great Britain), we are supposed to allow any number of Mexicans from Chiapas, Michoacán or Yucatan to march into the American Southwest, and make some historical claim of a right to live there? From where does this absurd idea spring?
At what point in history did Indians and Mestizos from Zacatecas or Durango stake a claim on the American Southwest? Neither they nor their ancestors ever lived for a single day in the American Southwest. The Spanish living in the Southwest in 1846 stayed there, and became Americans following the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. There were no inhabitants of the Southwest who were marched to the border and driven into Mexico. It simply didn’t happen. The Spanish in the Southwest welcomed American citizenship, which brought stability, protection from Indian raids, and a vast increase in their standard of living with the increase in trade with America.
In summary, no current inhabitants of Mexico (or Guatemala, or Honduras etc.) have a legitimate claim on even one single inch of the American Southwest. Not one single citizen of Mexico is sneaking into the United States to reclaim the stolen property their ancestors were deprived of. Not one. They are invaders and colonizers, pure and simple.
It’s time Americans learned to appreciate the true history of our Southwest, as a counter to the currently prevalent fairy tales put out by groups like La Raza (The Race), the Brown Berets of Aztlan, MEChA (the Chicano Student Movement for Aztlan, whose symbol is a lit mecha, which means fuse, on a dynamite bomb), and other radical anti-American groups.
Back then the reconquistas claimed the entire US except for Alaska and Maine ...
I USED to be against Mexico taking California, but now....GO FOR IT, MEXICO!
Excellent. You should write that up. You basically already did. That should be published
I agree. I think it does amount to a declaration of war — except that AOC is too uneducated to understand that.
Collusion. And actual, real collusion, directly harmful.
Wow
You and any other bitter clingers will get the Roger Stone treatment (2 armored vehicles, 1 helicopter, 2 amphibious vehicles, 29 armed jack booted thugs and a CNN camera crew) So unless you have a large supply of claymores or homemade EFPs and are prepared to make them pay heavily for your life, any encounters with the deep state forces of "law and order" are going to be somewhat one sided
Her ties to Soros/Soros orgs:
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/ocasio-cortez-george-soros-ties
The mistake that was made was being there when they arrived.
If you are going to play a game with them, you don’t play on their terms and time.
That lives on my profile page. I was going to post it, with attribution, if he hadn’t already.
I cannot put down here what I think.
Pretty ballsy coming from someone named CORTEZ.
Didn’t she take some kind of oath? Did she have her fingers crossed behind her back?
That’s actually the end of something I had written up. Here is the top of it.
The True History of the Southwest
The fallacies surrounding the history of the American Southwest are staggering, chief among them the Aztlan fairy tales. So what is the truth? How did the Spanish conquer the Southwest? They did it with fire and blood. For example, in 1598 Juan de Oñate entered present-day New Mexico leading hundreds of soldiers on a mission to subdue and then colonize the territory for Spain. In late 1598, a skirmish between his soldiers and the inhabitants of the Acoma Pueblo village resulted in eleven Spanish being killed. In early 1599, Oñate ordered the pueblo destroyed in retaliation, resulting in the deaths of more than 500 Indians. Survivors of the siege were ordered enslaved for twenty years, with the adult men having a foot amputated.
That is how Spain vanquished the natives of the present-day American Southwest—not with hugs and kisses. It was certainly no love-fest between brown-skinned soul-mates, as it is often portrayed today by the delusional Aztlaners, who like to spin the “new bronze race of Mestizos” fable.
By 1821, Mexico was strong enough to declare its independence from Spanish colonial rule. However, the distant provinces of the current U.S. Southwest were far beyond the reach and control of the strife-torn and financially insolvent nascent government in Mexico City. These distant northern territories received neither military protection nor required levels of trade from the chaotic Mexican government. Under colonial rule, commerce with the expanding United States was forbidden, but at least Spain was able to provide trade and Army protection from hostile Indian attacks in return for this monopoly arrangement. Abandoned and neglected by Mexico City, the Southwest received neither trade nor protection.
As a result, in the 1830s Comanches and Apaches ran rampant in the power vacuum created by Mexican neglect, burning scores of major ranches that had been active for centuries and massacring their inhabitants. Mexico City could neither defend nor keep the allegiance of its nominal subjects in these regions. Nor did it provide needed levels of trade to sustain the prior Spanish colonial era standard of living. Mexican governmental influence atrophied, withered and died at the same time that American pathfinders were opening up new trade routes into the region.
Increasingly, a growing United States of America was making inroads into the Southwest, via sailing ships to Texas and California, and via wagon trains of trade goods sent over the Santa Fe Trail from St. Louis. The standard of living of the Spanish inhabitants of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas subsequently increased enormously, which is why they did not support the Mexico City government during the 1846-48 war. In fact, the Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the Southwest have never considered themselves Mexicans at all. According to their reckoning, they transitioned from Spanish directly to American.
So for how long did the independent government of Mexico.... (the end piece is above).
Shouldn’t this Commie bitch be giving Spain first dibs?
Or is she a brown supremacist?
Thanks, NewYork! Appreciate it!
“This is unjust. This land used to belong to us...”
Puerto Rico used to control all of that land???
The stupid runs deep with this one.
“’We are standing on native land,’ she claimed”
No, you’re standing on dinosaur land, long before the evil “natives” got here, there were other stewards of this land. The natives took it from something/someone else.
“We are standing on native land,’ she claimed, speaking just outside the U.S. Capitol. ‘And Latino people are descendants of native people.”
By aligning with such a treasonous approach to our nation, she should be the subject of recall by firing squad.
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