Michelle Malkin: WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA!

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WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA

By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 27, 2006 09:42 AM

***scroll for updates...Bush warns against stoking anti-immigrant feelings. Wants a "civil debate." Video here...Ok. Tell that to the divisive militants below...***

As Mickey Kaus points out, the reporters at the Los Angeles Times (and all other major media, for that matter) have downplayed the radical ethnic separatism that characterized the pro-illegal immigration rallies over the weekend. While the Times misleadingly asserted that the Los Angeles rally "featured more American flags than those from any other country," its reporters conveniently ignored marchers with extremist signs and banners advocating America-undermining concepts of reconquista and Aztlan:

And does anyone remember this billboard from last year?

These sentiments, as I've noted before, are not limited to ethnic fringe groups--but also mainstream Democrat politicians and campus chapters of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA.

Most of the members of the open-borders media won't dare breathe a word about this militant phenomenon, lest they be accused of...racism. Oh, the irony.

Welcome to reconquista.

Where are all the assimilationists now?

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Another one:

Can you image the uproar over someone holding up a sign that read "White is Beautiful?"

More on display in Wisconsin:

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Tammy Bruce noted on FOX News this morning that American flags were burned at the LA rally and marchers also held signs of the North American continent with America x'ed out.

Who's organizing the illegal alien rallies? Lonewacko investigates the role of a former Mexican consul in Georgia.

Flashback: Heather Mac Donald's November 2005 exposé of the expanding political role of Mexico's consular offices in the U.S. is must-read and must-re-read.

Flashback: Lawrence Auster outlines The Second Mexican War.

Mark Krikorian sees something I've been noting myself lately--an analogy between the reconquista movement in the U.S. and Europe's dhimmification.

Another similarity between the reconquistas and the jihadists: hatred of Jews--and people married to Jews.

Tom Tancredo is not afraid of the demonizers.

Yahoo! coverage of the immigration debate.

Bryan Preston has a proposal.

Have you heard about the "rent-a-family" scheme?

Patterico defuses hysteria over the House-passed proposal to make illegal immigration and illegal presence felony crimes.

Mary Katherine Ham has Bush speech highlights and Senate developments.

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Previous:

Minutemen attacked
Bush's open-borders platitudes
More on that "Los Angeles, Mexico" billboard
Bustamante, MEChA and the media

[Arrowhead1952]

We'd get calls from the principal and the kids would probably get in school or other suspension.

I just took some garbage to the curb before the trash trucks come and what do I hear? Mexican music from a crew about 1/2 mile away.

I reported one contractor some time ago, but he still has illegals working for him.

[VOA]

"The Spanish became the strongest country of the World from 1492 to 1588 due to
the competitiveness learned during the reconquest."

A slight amplification:
I recently read the book linked below. The writer (Rodney Stark) mentioned that
one historian probably most accurately summed up the rise and fall of Spain in this
way: Spain didn't fall...because it never rose. It was only the Spanish Empire
that ascended for awhile.
Contemporary travelogs noted that the countryside of Spain was backwards
and still moderatley impoverished even at the apex of the Spanish Empire.
And that Spain never got a real manufacturing base...simply spending their
gold and other loot to get foreign goods.

The Victory of Reason : How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and
Western Success
by Rodney Stark
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400062284/sr=8-1/qid=1143494237/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-2648512-0001636?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Luis Gonzalez]

The Jews sought refuge within the Muslims, and lived there without fear.

Today's Muslim extremists like to call themselves "fundamentalists", but they are not.

[Shuttle Shucker]

Michelle and company might be interested to know of this potentially astonishing related thread which details how FLAGRANTLY anti-gringo Mexico's immigration laws are compared to our own:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1602610/posts

Can you believe it? Why doesn't the media cover this information (yet)? That would set the race-baiters still in their tracks! Couldn't we stop the amnesty juggernaut if we figured out how to expose how racist MEXICO's own immigration laws are, maybe through a massive letters to the editor campaign and calls to talk show hosts and our politicians?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Unfortunately, I predict a racial CIVIL WAR in this country within 10 years."

I've been hearing that crap since the sixties.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

So why did Spain have all those colonies in the Americas and England did not? Spain had to get there. It took strength to get to Peru.

[Luis Gonzalez]

P.S. Then the Spanish crown enlisted the help of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Templars) to throw the Moors out, and as soon as they were done, they joined Philip IV in throwing them in jail and taking their possessions.

[little jeremiah]

That would be true if all illegals were working. Well, I guess you can call drug running, theft and whatever else gang members do "working".

[junta]

We have a whole deck of cards with those picures. My vote for Ace of Spades goes to the chump in the first picture.

[little jeremiah]

You know what's real hyperbole? This statement of yours:

Ms. Malkin thinks that everyone with the surname Hernandez(etc.) is a rabid leftist and/or che gueverra supporter...

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

So why did Spain have all those colonies in the Americas and England did not? Spain had to get there. It took strength to get to Peru. Jamestown came over one hundred years after 1492 for a reason.

Queen Isabella had to sell her jewels to get funding for the Columbus expedition. Spain wasn’t really swimming in money at the time. It became powerful in the 16th century, not the 15th. Pizarro went to Peru to look for gold, not to establish colonies. One needs cash for colonies. From the wikipedia entry on Spain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain

Quote: “The treasure fleet across the Atlantic and the Manila galleons across the Pacific made it the wealthiest and most powerful nation in Europe”

Unfortuntaly, all that gold had some bad effects on the economy afterward.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

That would be true if all illegals were working.

It's fair to say most of them ARE working. If most of them couldn't find employment, they'd be telling their friends back in Mexico to stay home.

[Liberty Valance]

To me this is all pretty hilarious.

"Land stolen from Mexico"?
LOL -
They should thank God for the US
every day they're here.

Not one of these folks waving a Mexican flag
would want the corrupt, nepotistic government
of Mexico anywhere near their own lives.

[rightinthemiddle]

You know, let's do it. Let Mexico have Los Angeles and San Francisco...maybe Phoenix. (We'll keep San Diego...it vote Republican).

The Mexicans can have all the whiner Liberals...see how they like it.

The Liberals can have all the benefits of Mexican rule.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Yes, the Jews were treated much better by the Muslims during that time. It is almost sad that such a great civilization has fallen so low and into such ignorant depths.

[Supernatural]

"WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA" Michelle Malkin

"WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE" Alice Cooper

[little jeremiah]

How many work under the table? Therefore not paying taxes, and then their kids going to schools, using emergency room and other medical services, food stamps, getting arrested, doing time, all on taxpayer dime. And how much money is sent back to Mexico, enriching that country?

Have you read the figures of how many criminals incarcerated are illegal aliens? I can't remember but it's a heckuva lot. Costs taxpayers.

[little jeremiah]

Great civilization? Was it great how Muslims slaughtered their way across Asia?

[WideGlide]

Okay Reconquistas! You can hab LA back jeffes. But next week jou got to convince Senor Vicente Fox to mail a whole chitpile of welfare checks. And oh by the way, you in charge of all these crack addicts, punks, gang bangers, felons, thugs, and low-riders now. And that's just the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood. Wait til you see South Central.

[deltabravo]

It's getting worse here in Texas and our governor is as blind as Bush.

Parts of Houston look like Mexico, immigrants refuse to speak English.

It's becoming the same almost everywhere.