This Land is Whose Land?

American Thinker.com ^ | December 10, 2019 | Willam Sullivan

[Kaslin]

Of all the naïve nonsense that emits from the mouths of young people today, perhaps the most annoying is the constant and ignorant presumption that, somehow, the land within America’s borders doesn’t truly belong to the people who reside here, because the majority are the descendants of people who have migrated from European countries in centuries past. Ostensibly, this land was “stolen” by European settlers hundreds of years ago from the people who happened to live here before.

“[W]e are standing on native land, and Latino people are the descendants of native people,” said a tearful Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez back in February of this year. Therefore, because the land truly belongs to native peoples of the past and their descendants, “Latinos” from other countries enjoy some peculiar “right to human mobility” which suggests that they can, as noncitizens, enter American sovereign territory to enjoy the benefits of American citizenship (and particularly, the benefits of the welfare state, of which she is particularly fond and wishes to expand) without actually obeying the laws that were crafted by the same legislative body which she now serves as a representative.

It would be easy to lay the bulk of the blame for her ignorance at Sandy’s feet alone, but she had ample help from a public indoctrination campaign, which has been underway for many decades in public education, to brainwash our youth into believing that America’s very existence is illegitimate, and little more than a symbolic testament to a brutal colonial past.

Young Sandy was just 14 years old when the venerable Thomas Sowell observed and critiqued these efforts in our educational institutions which taught her such falsehoods. In his 2003 column, “Twisted History,” Sowell writes:

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Throughout human history land has always belonged to those who can take and hold it. Works the same way in the animal kingdom too.

[Wildbill22]

I wonder if AOC subscribes to La Raza?

“Por la raza todo, fuera de la raza nada”

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Who writes stuff like this? "Young Sandy was just 14 years old". There is no reference in either linked article to who or what Sandy is, no character intro at all. We understand it was young when it was 14 years old, but so was a sand dune.

I agree with the whole concept but horrible writing is distracting.

[Regulator]

You have to ask?!

[Inyo-Mono]

Yeah, I was wondering who “Sandy” was too.

[Little Bill]

One of the things that I find interesting is that after the 1848 unplesidents the Latinos that we acquired became full citizens.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“Sandy” is short for Alexandria (Ocasio-Cortez), I think. Horrible writing, though, I will agree.

[semantic]

Not the full blooded Indians you see in many town/village squares. There's also a lot of them begging while people are waiting in line to cross the border. (Back into the USA, 'natch; no wait to enter MX.) In fact, a lot of them can't even speak Spanish.

Still, a two-fold question remains:

- Was there anyone else here when the so-called 'first peoples' migrated across the Bering straits?

- If there was no one else here, is it a process of first come, first served, or "finder's keepers"? And if that's the case, who made up those rules anyway?

Nah, the real rule is possession is 99% per cent of the law (of the jungle). You get it, you defend it, you hold it - for you and your posterity.

Which works both ways, of course. If current American citizens are so weak that they cannot defend what they currently enjoy, then someone is gonna come by to take it. History/time isn't static - this land wasn't some bequest that everyone else on the globe must bow down and respect.

The real reaction is: fvck that shit; if those suckers can't/won't defend it, I'm gonna take it. And props to them too - what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[foreverfree]

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