Bustamonte a member of MECHA

Bustamonte a member of MECHA
Townhall.com ^ | 8/20/03 | Townhall.com

Posted on 08/20/2003 7:56:04 PM PDT by Ethyl

Bustamante, MEChA and the media Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 08/20/2003 11:31 AM EDT by LiteKeeper

August 20, 2003

Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right?

Ha.

While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations.

As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante was an active member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, which stands for the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan. Bustamante repeatedly denies having a "radical ethnic agenda," but has refused to disassociate himself from his Mechista roots. In fact, Bustamante recently returned to Fresno State for a separate Latino commencement ceremony founded by two of his Chicano activist classmates.

MEChA has been dismissed by some as a harmless social club, but it operates an identity politics indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized college and high school campuses nationwide that would make David Duke and the KKK turn green with envy. MEChA members in the University of California system have rioted in Los Angeles, editorialized that federal immigration "pigs should be killed, every single one" in San Diego, and are suspected of breaking into a conservative student publication's offices and stealing its entire print run in Berkeley.

MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and machete-like weapon in its claws; its motto is " Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing)." The MEChA Constitution calls on members to "promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza (race) with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan." "Aztlan" is the group's term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico ( reconquista ).

MEChA's liberation agenda, outlined in El Plan de Aztlan, states defiantly:

"We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent. Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner 'gabacho' who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture."

Substitute "Aryan" for "mestizo" and "white" for "bronze." Not much difference between the nutty philosophy of Bustamante's MEChA and Papa Schwarzenegger's evil Nazi Party. To date, however, the only exposure Bustamante's MEChA history has received has been on the Internet.

In a critical article on Bustamante published by David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine.com last week, Lowell Ponte notes that "Like Nazism, MEChA has acquired more than a tinge of racism. In their tactics to advance Latinos and 'La Raza,' many of its activists have directed racist attacks against not only white-skinned Anglos but also against blacks, Asian-Americans and Jews -- in fact, against every non-Latino group."

Popular Internet blogger Tacitus points out: "It's tempting to dismiss this as a youthful affiliation that means nothing today -- but that temptation would be wrong. There are certain associations that are socially tainting (and justly so) in the modern day, and they don't have statutes of limitations. Former Klansmen and former Nazis don't get a pass unless they spend a great deal of time and energy apologizing for and explaining themselves in a convincing manner."

Why should Bustamante, a public figure already known to have used a racial epithet in the past (he infamously used the word "nigger" while addressing a Black History Month event two years ago) get a pass? Or, for that matter, former California State Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, State Assemblyman Gil Cadillo, State Sen. Joe Baca, and Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva -- all unapologetic Mechistas?

Ms. Couric, I know you'll get to the bottom of this. They don't call you Hardball Katie for nothing.

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1 posted on 08/20/2003 11:32 AM EDT by LiteKeeper [ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Great column! Bustamante is getting a free ride right now and it is making me crazy!!!

2 posted on 08/20/2003 11:36 AM EDT by Rabid Republican [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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5 posted on 08/20/2003 12:00 PM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (All we need from a Governor is a VETO PEN!!!) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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6 posted on 08/20/2003 12:32 PM EDT by DoctorZIn [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Nobody is going to mention this, not even the Republicans running for the office.

Don't want to turn off all those Hispanic voters, you know!

7 posted on 08/20/2003 12:32 PM EDT by Gritty [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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La Raza....."The Race"

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8 posted on 08/20/2003 12:38 PM EDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Bust-a-girdle is playing the "race card" on Hispanic television and radio. He is claiming that the GOP is not for "us" and is against "our people"...not surprising coming from a tax and spend liberal. When you can't debate the issues with your opponent, call them "racists and bigots!" "Rat Debating Playbook" Chapter 1. VOTE4MCCLINTOCK or pay the consequences! http://www.tommcclintock.com

9 posted on 08/20/2003 12:40 PM EDT by kellynla ("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. An Hoa, Viet Nam '69 & '70 Semper Fi) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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Popular Fresno area talk show host Jerry Pearce (860AM Sat-Sun, 1600 - 1900) had two callers claiming they knew of Cruz "I call 'em the way I see 'em" Bustamante (D, Mexico) Flag burning.

Mr. Pearce, known as the Radio Detective, is trying to verify. As of last weekend he had not been able to verify the alleged incidents. As Drudge would say, developing. . . . .

10 posted on 08/20/2003 1:16 PM EDT by WilliamofCarmichael [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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TOWNHALL.com: "BUSTAMANTE, MEChA and THE MEDIA" -Column by Michelle Malkin (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante was an active member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, which stands for the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan.") (August 20, 2003) (Read More...) GOOGLE Search Term: "MEChA"

On The Net...LA VOZ DE AZTLAN

12 posted on 08/20/2003 3:36 PM EDT by Cindy [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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I hope Bustamante remembers to thank Tom McClintock and the rabid/delusional memebrs of Freerepublic for enabling his victory during his inagauration speech.

13 posted on 08/20/2003 3:39 PM EDT by Tempest [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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"rabid/delusional memebrs of Freerepublic"

How so? Could you be more specific -- and, please, provide sources for the Freerepublic points you say are wrong. TIA

14 posted on 08/20/2003 5:31 PM EDT by WilliamofCarmichael [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

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How so?! By treating this election as if it were a primary run-off. It's not.

Tom McClintock is nothing more than Ralph Nader without the nasal voice. Yet Tom and his fans are delusional enough to think that they can take the state. Even though there are a million more registered Democrats than Republicans in California.

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