Chicago to sport red, white and green to honor Mexico

www.worldnetdaily.com ^ | September 3, 2006

[Esther Ruth]

Chicago to sport red, white and green to honor Mexico

Prominent buildings will be bathed in national colors to celebrate independence

Posted: September 3, 2006 8:02 p.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

At a time when national passions are heated about illegal aliens from Mexico, the city of Chicago and state of Illinois are promoting an event to honor Mexican independence.

The celebration, called the "2nd Annual Mexican Independence Skyline Tribute," will feature prominent buildings throughout the Windy City being bathed in Mexico's national colors of red, white and green for six days beginning next Tuesday, Sept. 12.

It's receiving heavy promotion from organizers including Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, D-Ill., the Mexican Consulate and Univision radio host Javier Salas.

"The tribute recognizes the important role that Mexican-Americans have played in Chicago over the last century, from the early days of the railroad and stockyard industries through the steel mill boom to the present," a website promoting the tribute states. "Today, an estimated 550,000 Mexican-Americans live in the Chicago area."

At least 20 businesses and landmarks are slated to participate. Buildings including Sears Tower and the Wrigley Building will be illuminated with red and green lights, while other buildings and locations will spell out messages such as "VIVA VIVA."

The event began last year to mark the Sept. 16 Mexican national holiday.

[Old Seadog]

Mexican independence? Since when? I thought they were still dependent on us to solve their poverty problems.

[Esther Ruth]

SIX DAYS! That's a long time, not just one day, not a weekend, but 6 days the city will celebrate Mexico's Independence. We have only ONE day set aside for our own US Independence (July 4th) - BUT - Mexico gets 6 days??

We have 1 day for our veterans, 1 day for Memorial day, 1 day combined for Our US Presidents -- and SIX days for Mexico!! Sumpins not right!

[blondee123]

Sumpins not right!

Quick, someone tell our leaders this! They seem to be asleep at the wheel!

[KC_Conspirator]

Chicago is becoming a joke.

[Mr. Mojo]

Sumpins not right!

What's not right is that our country is infested with guilt-ridden leftists intent on destroying the last vestige of what they're convinced is the bane of humanity -- Western civilization.

[Brizick]

We have 1 day for our veterans, 1 day for Memorial day, 1 day combined for Our US Presidents -- and SIX days for Mexico!! Sumpins not right!

Of course 'Sumpins not right'.

But until A LOT of people scream and yell and vote these puds out of office, it will continue.

We have little to no leadership in our State and Federal Congresses. These jerks pander for votes and take the American Citizen TAXPAYER for granted.

[Hawk1976]

No, Civil war and all it entails won't be far behind. If we had guarded or border as we should have th problems would be "down south" and of no particular concern to us.

Now, thanks to bleeding heart liberal vote mongers and corporatist who don't care about any country at all, it is unavoidable. If histiry holds up, we have about three years to prepare for it. (I'm making less of a prediction than a best guess based on populations and history.)

[Hawk1976]

What if you run into a group that refuses to assimilate in any large numbers? It has happened repeatedly in history and will happen again. The Romans are only the most widely known example.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Meanwhile, the FLIGHT 93 Memorial is STILL designed as a stealth Islamic shrine....

[SmoothTalker]

We need to work to make sure that the party runs a candidate who is for secure borders and the enforcement of immigration law in 08. We also need to work very hard to run Senatorial candidates who believe in secure borders. That failing we need to think hard about forming a third party. I firmly believe that illegal immigration is the gravest threat facing our country today and we cannot afford another 8 years of the status quo on this issue. Our country is being taken over at an astounding rate. In addition to the 12-15 million illegals in this country, you need to consider their birthrate. I live in NC. Go to any elementary school to see how big the problem is. Its stunning how many little Hispanics there are in the lower grades. The majority of students in a lot of places where a decade before you wouldn't have found any. This really lowers the quality of education for everyone else because the teacher has to spend so much time teaching English to kids who come in without any language skills whatsoever. And it drains our coffers to pay for a lot of students whose parents don't pay state taxes. Not to mention the tremendous costs to area hospitals of nonpaying illegals, the cost to area law enforcement of locking up and catching criminal illegals, and a myriad of other costs. We really are running out of time to do anything about this issue. Another four or eight years of inaction (though i'd characterize the administrations policy as more encouragment for illegals than inaction torwards them) and our country will be much further down the path to ceasing to be the America we love and becoming a third world hellhole. Eventually, and I don't know quite when but probably within my lifetime, we will reach a point of no return and will become a shadow of our formerself with a much lower standard of living and accepted values alien to most everyone on this forum.

[SmoothTalker]

"Quick, someone tell our leaders this! They seem to be asleep at the wheel!"

They aren't asleep. They are the ones who are steering the car off the damn cliff in the first place.

[blondee123]

Thanks, I believe it isn't far off, not that I want to be right on this, but I feel it is inevitible the way our country is going.

[NRA2BFree]

La Raza must be thrilled. That is where their headquarters is. I'm sure Dick Durbin will be there shaking hands.

[blondee123]

They said on the news the other day, that minorities ( they specifically said "of Mexican descent") outnumber us in every state in the U.S. except W. Virgina.
Now that is thought provoking.

[blondee123]

I'm sure Dick Durbin will be there shaking hands.

Durbin or Turban? There should be a BARF alert when his name is mentioned!

[SmoothTalker]

I don't buy that but I don't doubt thats what we have in store. With the rate illegals are streaming into this country and the rate in which they breed, we'll be a hispanic majority country by 2100. I have no doubt about that whatsover.

[VeniVidiVici]

What will they do for the St Pancho's Day parade?

[Hawk1976]

The hard part is that the WWII generation could take care of the hardship, it was away grom our shores where soldiers faced an enemy.

This time we will face a enemy just a vicious as the foes of WWII and we will have our families at our backs.

The government will be against it's own citizens if this starts. The government is little more than an entity controlled by globalists and corporatists who do not have the interst of US citizens as any concern.

[SUSSA]

On September 14, 1847,The United States Marines raised the American flag over Mexico City -- the Halls of Montezuma -- ending the war Mexico started by soundly kicking their sorry butts.

September 14 should be a national holiday. Everyone should write and call their congress critters to get the holiday recognized.

[blondee123]

Funny thing, Bush is for the fight in Iraq for the peoples freedoms & laws to govern them, while in his own country laws are being broken & not enforced! Our freedom is being jeaopardized! Does this seem ironic to anyone?