Posted on 05/14/2005 4:58:28 AM PDT by FlyLow
A controversial billboard campaign in Los Angeles continued to make headlines this week as anger rapidly turned to confusion and hysteria.
The billboard, advertising a Spanish Language television station, originally made news by enraging many Americans with its aggressive Mexican Nationalist message --declaring that Los Angeles was no longer part of the United States, but was instead a Mexican city once again.
Below the banner message in which "Los Angeles, CA" had been crossed out and changed in blaring red type to read "Los Angeles, MEXICO," the billboard pronounced in Spanish "Your City. Your Team."
Now Gringo anger is the least of the problems caused by the Billboard, as the apparently quite believable reconquista it announces sends shockwaves through the city's residents, Anglo and Latino alike. In a scene reminiscent of war-torn Europe 60 years ago, the roads leading north out of Los Angeles are choked with thousands of Mexican refugees stoically carrying their meager possessions with them.
When I asked what had precipitated this mass exodus, one migrant, whom we'll call Jose "X," simply turned, pointed to the Billboard looming over his neighborhood and said, "¡Oh Man! I stopped walking too soon!" --then bravely continued on with the others.
I asked a second man why he was fleeing Los Angeles, Mexico. "I did a lotta bad things back in Mexico, I'm afraid of police there," he said matter-of-factly, then added "In America, police must give me Latte, so I walk to America. Again. ¡Norte!"
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North, to Alaska!
The reconquista panic has taken myriad forms. Los Angeles wholesalers were said to be totally out of Chiclets brand gum, as terrified Los Angelinos, believing they were in Mexico, immediately sent their children into the streets to sell gum to tourists"
Hilarious.
Thank you for posting this, as always I needed a good laugh.
ping for a good start to the morning.
Asked for a comment on the fulminant crisis, President Bush –after a three-hour closed door meeting with top advisors- made a brief statement in both English and Spanish, saying he fully supported both the migrants and those who opposed them, as well as Los Angeles being free to “discover” which country it felt most comfortable in. He then ended with a prayer calling for understanding and tolerance for “all God’s voters.” Asked by reporters about potential Homeland Security implications, President Bush responded that he was “112% dedicated to securing the border, just as soon as it could be found.”
Ouch.
(but unfortunately, all too feasible)
bump / ping!
Now Gringo anger is the least of the problems caused by the Billboard, as the apparently quite believable reconquista it announces sends shockwaves through the city's residents, Anglo and Latino alike. In a scene reminiscent of war-torn Europe 60 years ago, the roads leading north out of Los Angeles are choked with thousands of Mexican refugees stoically carrying their meager possessions with them.
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the reality is that mexicans per se don't own much of los anhaylays or even california.
the people that own both are: americans of european and american indian descent, armenians, arabs, persians, chinese, jews, vietnamese, koreans, sub-continent indians, british investors, canadian investors, etc.
los angeles and california are truly worldly.
no one of the above groups is going to turn their businesses or properties over to a 3rd world narco-police state.
mexico is racist, incompetent, corrupt and imploding.
He then called Fox on the hotline and said: “Don’t worry about all this 'non-documented worker' problems, some are trying to stir up and whatever public statements I may make are only to appease the ‘extreme right wing' of our party."
He then added: "Listen, up, El Presidente, Rove says we need your peoples’ votes, so send em on up and remember, heh, heh, “Our land is your land!”
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
AND,
"I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
If LA ever does give the illegals problems Mayor Hickenlooper of Denver would love to have them. He luvs criminals.
BTTT
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