A Dangerous Man (Cruz Bustamante: Traitor?)

adamyoshida.com ^ | September 4, 2003 | Adam Yoshida

[adamyoshida]

A Dangerous Man

Cruz Bustamante is a dangerous man. I say this not simply because he is a liberal Democrat, through that is worrying enough, rather I say it because he has well-documented links with a racist group which wants to reverse the results of the Mexican War and tear the Southwest out of the United States. Despite being given ample opportunity to do so, he has yet to renounce these links. He has, in fact, refused to do so. The election of Cruz Bustamante would be yet another step on the road to the creation of a post-American California, a chunk of Mexico entirely subsidized by American dollars. The point of this recall is to throw out Governor Gray Davis. However, I daresay, I would much rather see ol’ Grayout stay on as Governor than have a man in that office whose loyalty to the United States would appear to be questionable at best.

You may think that I am exaggerating. If this is so, it is only because you have yet to learn of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan or MEChA). MEChA attempts to pass itself off as a peaceful student group, ostensibly dedicated to improving educational activities for Latino students. Nothing could be further than the truth: in fact MEChA is a violent and treasonous group whose stated aim is to bring about the destruction of the United States. MEChA’s slogan is, “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada" (Or, in English, “For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing”). Its constitution calls for a, “struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan.” In other words, MEChA’s goal is to rip the Southwest from the United States, by violence if necessary, and to subsequently create an Apartheid state. Members or the organization has openly admitted that, ultimately, they envision the expulsion of all ‘Anglos’ from the Southwest.

During his time as a student as Fresno State University, Bustamante was a member of this group. He claims to have only been a ‘moderate’, which is something akin to claiming to be a ‘moderate Nazi’ or a ‘middle of the road’ white supremacist. That an unrepentant individual with such a history could be the Lieutenant Governor of California, let alone a serious candidate for the office of Governor, is a disgrace. The liberal media seems to think that Arnold Schwarzenegger should be made to answer for the sins of his father. I only wish that they would make Bustamante answer for his own sins.

Too much attention, I think, has been paid to the racial aspects of this. Yes, it is certain despicable that a candidate for Governor would refused to renounce his association with out-and-out racists (a survey of the websites produced by the advocates of ‘Aztlan’ show them to be filled with anti-Semitic, and anti-‘Anglo’ diatribes). But what is in many ways much more concerning is the fact that Bustamante has never renounced the separatist ideology of MEChA nor, to my knowledge, has he been seriously questioned as to his loyalty to the United States. If Bustamante will not renounce MEChA, which advocates secession, the question must be asked: does he advocate secession as well? Does Bustamante think of himself as Mexican or American?

Without any doubt, the media would accuse anyone who asked such questions of racism and anti-immigrant prejudice. Nothing could be further from the truth. No one is questioning the loyalty of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is an actual immigrant. Where his loyalties lie is a well-established fact. He is a patriot. Were he a member (or former member) of a group which advocated Austria’s annexation of California, it would be another matter.

When, more than a decade ago, I first read of those who envision a ‘reconquista’ of the Southwest I laughed. That is no longer the case. The matter of the Aztlanites is deadly serious, and it is one which we will have to deal with at length in the years ahead. The two most prominent Hispanic politicians in the State of California, Bustamante and former Assembly Speaker (and near-Los Angeles Mayor) Antonio Villaraigosa were both, at one point, active supporters of the Aztlan concept. Villaraigosa was the President of MEChA’s UCLA Chapter. All across the State millions of young Latino children are having the anti-American ideology of racial separatism drummed into their heads at taxpayer expense. The millions of illegal immigrants who cross the border from Mexico into the United States every year are people who, for the most part, seem have no interest in shedding their Mexican identity and becoming Americanized. Even in the United States, these people continue to believe themselves Mexican, vote in Mexican elections, and raise their children as Mexicans. These illegals, those come without a love of America in their hearts, constitute nothing less than a vast civilian army, seeking to win back by the means of subversion what Mexico lost through war.

That is what makes Cruz Bustamante so dangerous. Already, the stupidity, laziness, and tendency towards pandering of so many California politicians has created a situation whereby illegal immigration is allowed to continue without obstruction and where no effort is made to, having resolved to let the illegals stay, integrate that great mass of people into the American public. A Governor Bustamante would almost certainly work to actively aid the continued infiltration and, indeed, to legitimize that infiltration. Already a bill has been passed allowing illegals in California to acquire California Driver’s Licenses. How long will it be before efforts are made to give them the right to vote (not that many don’t already vote illegally anyways)?

Secession is treason and those who advocate it are our traitors. It is high time to take a long look at just what kind of man it is how now aspires to be the Governor of California.

[Taiwan Bocks]

Simply speaking the truth about Bustamante and Arnold makes McClintock look better by the day!

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975583/posts

MECHA.ORG WEBSITE PULLED SINCE SPOTLIGHT TURNED ON THEM
Self ^ | 9/3/2003 | Self

http://www.berkeleymecha.org/documents/epeda.html

MECHA Links page

Here's a nice one from Houston, Texas

http://mecha.uchicago.edu/

FReeRepublic

Check out Al Franken's letter to Michelle Malkin...

They really pulled all mecha stuff from everywhere, so we can't find out their true objectives.

http://www.azteca.net/aztec/mecha/index.shtml

(Aztlan on the Issue)

http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=17&prgDate=2-Sep-2003

http://free.freespeech.org/mecha/philosophy.html

If you would like a link to your M.E.Ch.A. organization or event here, please e-mail me a note with your web page URL. If you need free help in making a web page or you want to buy space for a M.E.Ch.A. Web page, please e-mail also. Low cost web space for M.E.Ch.A organizations is availabe at http://www.azteca.net/

MEChA News
• The Smearing of Bustamante, The Far Right and Anti-Mexican Racism
• Fair and Unbalanced Racism Against MEChA
• MEChA Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
• MEChA Draws Ire of Anti-Immigrants
• Univ Texas, El Paso MEChA Office Vandalized
• Great Injustice Towards MEChA in New Mexico
• Teachers Suffer Consequences for Challenging Traditional History
• Addresses of who to write to in New Mexico

  Other News

• MEChA protest at University of Arizona creating necessary tension
• Apology to MEChA at University of Arizona
• Yale's MEChA protest Columbus Day Celebrations
• Yale's MEChA party Sprayed with water
• What is M.E.Ch.A.?

Conferences


• MEChA Statewide Conference at San Diego State University
• East Coast Chicana/o Student Forum
  

  University MEChA Web Pages
  
  California

• MEChA Cal State Los Angeles
• MEChA San Jose State University
• MEChA College of the Canyons
• MEChA University of California at San Diego
• MEChA California State University, Sacramento
• MEChA California State University, Fullerton
• Los Angeles County MEChA Central
• MEChA Central de San Diego
• MEChA San Diego State University
• MEChA San Francisco State University
• MEChA California State University, Northridge
• MEChA Stanford University
• MEChA University of California at Berkeley
• MEChA University of California at Santa Cruz
• MEChA Mills College
• MEChA California State University, San Marcos
• MEChA California State University at Monterey Bay
• MEChA California State University at Dominguez Hills
• MEChA University of California at Los Angeles
• MEChA University of Southern California
• MEChA Cal Poly Pomona
• Cypress College M.E.Ch.A.
• Glendale Community College MEChA
• MEChA California State of San Marcos
• MEChA de Sonoma State Unversity
• MEChA Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• MEChA Chapman University
• MEChA Ohlone Community College, Fremont
• MEChA Pasadena City College
• Mt. SAC's M.E.C.H.A
• Santa Rosa Junior College
• Chabot College
• West Hills College MEChA
• MEChA de Rio Hondo College - California
• MEChA de Cerritos College
• MEChA de Santa Rosa Junior College
• MEChA de Bakersfield College
• MEChA de San Diego City College
• MEChA at Cesar Chavez High School
• Mecha de El Camino College
  

Texas

• MEChA University of Texas, El Paso
• MEChA University of Texas, Austin
• Univ. of Houston Movimiento Estandiantil Xicana/o de Aztlan
• MEChA University of Texas, Pan American
• MEXA San Antonio College
• MEChA de Tejaztlan
  
  Colorado
  
• MEChA University of Colorado at Denver
  
• MEChA University of Colorado at Boulder
  
• MEChA University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo
  
  Arizona
  
• MEChA University of Arizona
• MEChA Arizona State University
  
• MEChA PIma Community College
  
  Illinois
  
• Mexican Students de Aztlan University of Illinois at Chicago (MEChA Equivalent)
  
• MEChA alt The University of Chicago
  
  Oregon
  
• MEChA Western Oregon University
  
• MEChA University of Oregon
  
• MEChA Oregon State University
  
  Michigan
• MEChA University of Detroit
• MEChA University of Michigan
  
  Massachusetts
• LUChA (MEChA Equivalent) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  Connecticut
• MEChA Yale University
  
  New Mexico
• MEChA University of New Mexico
• MEChA New Mexico State University
  
  New York
• MEChA Cornell University
  
  Washington
• MEChA Washington State University
• MEChA Seattle University
• MEChA University of Washington
  
  Nevada
• MEChA University of Nevada Las Vegas
  
  District of Columbia
  MEChA Georgetown University
  
  Pennsylvania
  
• MEChA University of Pennsylvania
• MEChA Pennsylvania State University
  
  Rhode Island
  
• MEChA Brown University

  MEChA Email Only
  

• MEChA University of Nevada at Las Vegas
  4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154
  E-Mail: chicano@cs.unlv.edu
  
  High School MEChA Web Pages
  
• Biggs High School MEChA
• MEChA at Pomona High School in California
• Ventura High School in California
• Dos Palos High School in California
• Pasco High School in Oregon
• Golden Valley High School in California
• Shafter High School in California
• MEChA at King City High School in California
• MEChA at Robertson High School in Las Vegas
• MEChA at Lincoln High School
• MECHA at Birmingham High School
• MEChA Sequoia High School in California
• MEChA Red Bluff High School in California
• MEChA Forest Grove High School
  
  Mecha Friends from Mexico
  
• Asociacion de Estudiantes Mexicanos, University of Texas, El Paso
• MEChA La Hermandad de O eMe Te at Washington State University

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[Sabertooth]

Amnesty for Illegals is the longed-for stepping stone of the Aztlan seperatists.

Cruz "La Raza" Bustamante is a traitor, yes. We've come to accept that from Democrats.

How are Republicans who also support Amnesty any better?

How can any good Republican justify a vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who told Sean Hannity last week that he believed that "undocumented immigrants" should be legalized?

Said Proposition 187, the 1994 measure that denied many services to illegal immigrants, was "history" because it has been largely voided by the courts. He supported the proposition at the time voters approved it. "Now we have to move forward with the whole thing and to look at it, what we're going to do with all the people that are undocumented immigrants here in this state. What should we do? Should we have them to stay here, which I think is the right way to do, but how do you then include them in our society, how do you make it official, how do you make it legal?" he said. He added he would try to team up with other states with large immigrant populations and lobby the federal government to address the issue.
LINK

There it is, straight from the RNC's cowardly talking-points:

A vote for Arnold is a vote for Amnesty for Illegals.

[Bon mots]

Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland'

By The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several northern states of Mexico.

Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,” the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.”

He envisions it encompassing all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, plus the northern tier of Mexican states: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border “there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections,” Truxillo said. “Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again.”

Truxillo, 47, has said the new country should be brought into being “by any means necessary,” but recently said it was unlikely to be formed by civil war. Instead, its creation will be accomplished by the electoral pressure of the future majority Hispanic population in the region, he said.

Other UNM professors were skeptical

Felipe Gonzáles, director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, said there's a “certain homeland undercurrent” among New Mexico Hispanics who believe land was stolen and promises broken. But, he said, a new nation would need much more widespread support.

“Educated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed,” Gonzáles said.

Truxillo contends states have the right to secede under the Articles of Confederation of 1777, in which states retained “sovereignty, freedom and independence.” He contends the Articles were not superseded in that regard by the U.S. Constitution and that although the Civil War settled the question militarily, it was never resolved by courts.

History Professor Daniel Feller disagreed

“The Constitution does supersede the Articles of Confederation,” Feller said. “It takes no notice of the articles and is not presented as bearing any relation to them. The Constitution does not declare, recognize or in any way acknowledge the right to secede.”

And, he noted, the full title was “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.”

The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1869 the union was indestructible, political science Professor Joseph Stewart said.

He also said he was “somewhat skeptical in the sense of minority politics” about a possible Republic of the North. He said Americans of Mexican descent have moved all over the United States and that “I don't see that Hispanic population becoming more distinct but in fact becoming less distinct.”

Juan José Peña, Hispanic activist and vice chairman of the Hispanic Roundtable, said there's not enough political consciousness among Mexican Americans to form a separate nation.

“Right now, there's no movement capable of undertaking it,” he said.

Truxillo, who teaches at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, believes it's his job to help develop a “cadre of intellectuals” to think about how it can become a reality.

Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land, he said

“We remain subordinated,” he said. “We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end.”

Truxillo said Hispanics who have achieved positions of power or otherwise are “enjoying the benefits of assimilation” are most likely to oppose a new nation.

“There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, 'Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart.' But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: 'Who am I in this system?”'

© 2000 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[Bon mots]

[EternalVigilance]

California Dreamin’
(With apologies to the Mamas and the Papas)


All the money’s gone and we’re recalling Gray
He’ll be out of a job before the winter, hey!
Then you might have a chance if you live in LA
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


Stopped into a church I passed along the way
Well I got down on my knees and I began to pray
That California would come in from the cold
And choose the conservative way
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


All the money’s gone and we’re recalling Gray
He’ll be out of a job before the winter, hey!
If I had my way it would be today
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day
California dreamin’ ‘bout that glorious day


EV

[freeangel]

Good post. Nice to see you again.

[lwoodham]

LOL. I say give to them.

[upchuck]

Wow, I'm bummed out! If this 'Hispanic Homeland' nonsense come to pass, I'll be a CRIMINAL alien in my own country since I was born in Texas.

I'll become the very thing I fight against.

[Doc Savage]

Can anyone post a side by side of Bust-your-taxes and the character Ernie Kovacs used to play on his show, Percy Dovetonsils??? Separated at birth, or in Busta's case, the rock he crawled out from under.

[Imal]

Looks like a fire sale on the MEChA websites, since this got national attention with O'Reilly. MEChA pages are disappearing left and right.

Most will probably be gone or heavily modified within a few weeks, but since the very foundation if MEChA is creating a new "bronze" Aztlan nation distinguished by Chicano separatism and superiority, I'm guessing most of the web material will simply vanish until new dogma can be agreed upon.

While driving the extremist elements underground has issues of its own, hopefully this process will move MEChA and its fellow travelers into a more rational plane of thought, as MEChA adopts a less radical agenda and plan of action. Who knows, if it drops the racism, it may even become a more popular organization.

We will see.

[Gritty]

Treason? Nah!

We'll just give them free drivers licences, with which they can get all the benefits they want, register to vote and otherwise act like genuine American citizens. Then, maybe they'll be nice to us and not take our money or annex our lands. Oh, and they'll vote for the correct politicians, too!

It's a win/win!!

[spirit_free]

It's just amazing (and not in a good way). Being from Fresno, CA ... about 10 years ago I had a talk with the then Student Body President, Andre Montoya (I think that is how his name was spelled). My daughter was a student at Fresno State and he had carried a "GO HOME WHITIES" sign during a Columbus Day Protest. I wanted, out of curiosity, to understand why he would do that.

It scared me to death to talk to him because of the verbal venom I was hearing from him. He actually told me he hated whites and hated me. He would never stand for a color-blind society because people of color are superior and whites were evil he could see into our souls. It was absolutely chilling.

Back then I knew nothing of the group METcha or LaRaza but I suspect he was part of that if Bustamante was a member in the 70's. If Cruz continues to not back down from backing METCha, then I have to assume he is as racist as Andre Montoya was ... and we have very big problems. It is frightening. There is no place in this state for CLANS whether it be METCha or KKK or Nazis ... one is just as hateful as the other.

[DoctorZIn]

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[daviddennis]

This sounds a lot like other crazies.

If they get enough power within the system to kill the system, they won't, because they'll then be happy in their own power.

I've dreamed of living on a boat, wandering from country to country without any need to answer to any government. But that takes major bucks. Now that I have (relatively) major bucks, I'm a lot less interested in the fantasy.

If you're doing reasonably well and are happy with your own life, you're not going to do a revolution.

As a result, I'm confident in feeling that this movement will go exactly nowhere. Those who want it don't have the power to advance it; those who have the power don't want it to happen.

*

In the matter of Cruz Bustamante, in all honesty I think he likes his position of power, is too dumb to seriously challenge the establishment, and isn't going anywhere. I don't think he's a serious threat when it comes to splitting the nation.

He will lobby for traditional Hispanic lobby causes like bilingual education, which is enough to make him a terrible person to lead this state.

But if we exaggerate the dangers this man presents, we sometimes sound just as crazy as MEChA, and I'd like to avoid that trap.

(I have pinged some of my FR friends to hear their views).

D

[johnb838]

Aztlan is like reparations for slavery. It is frightening to hear how vehement the colored racists are about these issues, but bottom line they ain't gonna happen.

[johnb838]

Aztlan is like reparations for slavery. It is frightening to hear how vehement the colored racists are about these issues, but bottom line they ain't gonna happen.

[Dog Gone]

I agree with you.

The poverty pimps who make their living by demanding handouts have zero interest in actually eliminating poverty, because they'd lose their base of power and income. Bustamante has no interest in being the governor of a Mexican state. It's much more powerful to be the governor of an American state.

But to the extent that giving lip service to idea gets him votes, he'll do that. It's all about politics.

[Rabid Dog]

As usual, I have to agree with you Mr. D., but to play devil's advocate nobody could believe the Hilter was actually doing what he said he was going to do.