Posted on 10/10/2002 10:46:15 AM PDT by LiteKeeper
Radical politics have been part of the game on American campuses since at least the mid-1960s but have recently taken a new and disturbing turn. At colleges and universities across the country, the Mouvimiento Estudiantil de Chicanos de Aztlan (The Student Movement of Aztlan Chicanos) - better known by its acronym, MEChA - is calling for the surrender of wide swaths of American territory to Mexico. Worse yet, in doing so, it has the support of university administrators, elected officials, and - thanks to the mandatory student activity fees on which the organization depends - tuition-paying students.
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Already the majority in many parts of those territories.
So consider as well that they are already spreading into the north, East, West, & Cantral.
Don't Burn My Flag
"F—K YOU, this is still Mexico," says a popular LED-illuminated sign appearing in car windows on California highways.
The sign refers to the fact that much of the American Southwest belonged to Mexico until the U.S. siezed it in 1846.
Now some Mexicans want the land back. As a Comanche Indian, I have a problem with that.
...compensation for the enslavement of their ancestors by the ...Oops, Spanish.
...Compensation for the low wages paid to migrant...Oops, illegal, workers.
Compensation for being called wet backs....yeah, that's the ticket; PC Payments from....Oops, American tax payers.
MEChA charges that Aztlan was unjustly seized by the United States following the Mexican-American War.We captured and occupied their freaking capital city. We kicked their clintons so thoroughly we could have kept the whole country if we wanted.To the victor goes the spoils.
Instead, we negotiated to pay them like $15 million for the land we kept, and later on out of some misplaced guilt overpaid for a small chunk of land (the Gadsden Purchase).
Lefties never can tell the difference between history and fiction.
-Eric
And can again, if necessary. Or, it can be taken care of the way Southern Africa is now, with 2500 deaths a week now thinning the herd in Zimbabwe.
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