[Spiff]

My letter to the Editor of the Sierra Vista Herald:

24 November 2002

Bill Hess - Editor
Sierra Vista Herald
102 Fab Avenue
Sierra Vista AZ 85635

Mr. Hess,

I read with disgust the Sunday, November 24th Sierra Vista Herald article which included the comments of Guadalupe Castillo, co-chair of the subversive reconquista group called Coalicion de Derechos Humanos. Her slanderous comments about groups opposing the ongoing invasion of the Southwest went beyond the pale. Your unquestioning coverage of her comments only served to aid the anti-American reconquistas in spreading their propaganda messages of hate and subversion.

Castillo says "The American Border Patrol and a self-proclaimed Tombstone militia group are wackos, what is more frightening is that they are domestic terrorists." Despite all the inaccuracies about them that you and others have published, the ABP is simply a group that monitors the border, collects information through high tech equipment, compiles it in a database, and disseminates it over the Internet. The small militia group from Tombstone has even yet to form. Neither group, can by any measure of truth or reason, be considered "domestic terrorists." I believe that Castillo has openly slandered these good people and for that she should be held liable. I hope they sue.

Castillo went on to say "Extreme right-wing groups want war with Mexico as a way to stop the flow of people coming into the United States whose only crime is to seek work." The literature put out by those in the reconquista movement, of which Castillo is a leader, clearly shows a plan to establish a nation called Aztlan in what is now the southwestern states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The movement proposes to take this area through mass invasion and possibly force. It is THEY who desire war with the United States, not the other way around. No one is talking of war with Mexico - Castillo is clearly lying. And when Castillo says that the only crime of the border intruders "is to seek work" she is clearly ignorant of the federal immigration laws being broken as well as state laws against trespassing. In fact, the first act of these people is to break our nation's laws - clearly demonstrating their undesirable nature.

Castillo continues her shrill slander when she says "They (right-wing groups) are domestic terrorists. They are a bunch of McVeighs. They are wackos." To compare with a murderer such as McVeigh the law-abiding Americans (if Castillo would even bother looking at Arizona Statutes) who are either protecting their own property, protecting property upon which they were invited and asked to protect, or simply monitoring the border with high tech equipment clearly demonstrates the lying, propagandistic nature of the shrill speeches and hysterical writings of the reconquista movement's leaders.

What was not reported are the words yesterday (23 November) of Mexico's foreign minister, Jorge Castaneda. He said that Mexico would begin a "bottom-up campaign" to gain U.S. support for a proposal to legalize 3.5 million illegal aliens in the United States. Castaneda went on to say, "We are already giving instructions to our consulates that they begin propagating militant activities -- if you will -- in their communities."

I ask you and your readers: Who are the wacko, militant, potential domestic terrorists in this current border crisis?

It is said that a picture says a thousand words. I'm including, and I hope that you can publish in some form, several pictures from a march held on October 12th in Nogales which was sponsored by the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos.

The pictures show that the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos believes that the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas should be part of a Mexican nation of Aztlan. It is actually part of the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos logo! The pictures also show the red banners and flags (Where have we seen those before?) of this subversive movement. Some of the red banners display an Aztlan warrior - a hooded figure sheltering a dark-haired girl and brandishing a rifle. Another picture shows several masked youth with fists in the air - very reminiscient of the Palestinian terrorists in Israel. Another picture shows a banner bearing the image of a Mexican woman breaking chains around her wrists with a DEAD white woman lying on the ground behind her. One of the images shows an Anarchist symbol (a circled A) on a protestor's sign. All the pictures are disturbing.

Clearly, the reconquista movement exists, Castillo is one of its leaders, the movement is militant in nature, and it has Arizona in its crosshairs. They have openly demonstrated their goals and the dishonest means that they will use to achieve them. Slandering those who wish to expose and fight them is their Modus Operandi as they spread their hateful, divisive propaganda - as I'm sure that this letter will have me branded as a racist. Despite how I may now be unfairly demonized by these groups, I think that it is important that you and your readers be informed about Castillo's subversive group as well other similar groups as Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA), La Voz de Aztlan, La Raza, Raza Unida Party, and others. Because of these subversive agitators and the useful idiots who have fallen under their spell there is a potential that our quiet little town could find itself on the front line of a conflict similar to the Israeli/Palestinian mess. And it won't be Glenn Spencer and his high tech sensors sending armed Aztlan warriors and suicide bombers our way.

[Demidog]

Yup. And since we have the Patriot act, they can be legally charged with terrorism. Isn't Bush great!!!????

[Demidog]

Once a person is in the United States, that individual has the same Constitutional rights as an American citizen, she said.

What a moron. Geography has nothing to do with inherent rights. The constitution doesn't grant anyone rights. The constitution demands that the government treat everyone as though they had the same rights. This SHOULD mean that FBI and DEA agents acting in Mexico, Columbia or the US treat everyone with the same respect. Unfortunately this does not occur.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Castillo and others spoke to nearly 100 people at an event sponsored by the Citizens for Border Solutions, a group dedicated to finding peaceful ways to end the problems along the international boundary.

There is a peaceful way STAY IN MEXICO and there wouldnt be a problem

[sneakypete]

Saying the American Border Patrol and a self-proclaimed Tombstone militia group are wackos, Guadalupe Castillo said what is more frightening is that they are domestic terrorists.

And there you have it. Bubba-2 will use the so-called "Patriots Act",and have the full weight of his Office of Reich Security come down on them with both feet. Bubba-2 wants those votes,and he won't hesitate to screw American citizens to get them. Now that the government of Mexico is getting behind this,it is as good as a done deal. If they want any one group of Americans desiginated as terrrorists, it's going to be done,and to hell with sovereignity.

[F16Fighter]

Two points:

1) The ACLU ought to be brought up on teason charges for conforting AND aiding an enemy who insist on illegally invading our sovereign nation.

2) Senor Garcia may need to learn first hand that there is indeed serious enforcement of our borders by ANY American who has every right to enforce OUR laws and Constitution as WE deem fit.

[stands2reason]

The best thing to do is to take some of the billions of dollars being used along the border and send it to Mexico to build up their economy, the student said.

One of the solutions discussed by the group was the creation of a Marshall Plan, like the one that rebuilt nation's after World War II.

[Publius6961]

Castillo, the co-chair of Coalicion de Derechos Humanos< I wonder why this Einstein isn't running that "Derechos Humanos" crap in Mexico?

That is a rhetorical question...

[Publius6961]

Castillo and others spoke to nearly 100 people at an event sponsored by

A whole 100 eh? LOL.

Guess the 30-40 million citizens pissed off about the problem are trumped by 100 illegals?
Makes sense to me.

[wcbtinman]

If the militia she so despises were all of the things she claims them to be, she would have been silenced long ago.

These are law abiding citizens doing a great service to their country, and that she has the freedom to slander them in public and get away with it is proof enough that she hasn't got a clue.

[Spiff]

Presented by the Federal Election Commission

Individual Contributions Arranged By Type, Giver, Then Recipient

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[philetus]

Once a person is in the United States, that individual has the same Constitutional rights as an American citizen


No, they damn sure don't.

[CWRWinger]

Excuse me, where's the "BARF" alert? This rates as one of the most nauseating articles I've ever seen on FR.

[Spiff]

Here's a glowing article from La voz De Aztlan (the premiere reconquista rag) about Jorge Castaneda, the Mexican foreign minister who says he's going to urge the Mexican consulates within the United States to begin "propagating militant activities" here.

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Jorge Castañeda
Appointed
Foreign Secretary
of Mexico

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by
Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan

Castañeda will take office on December 1

Los Angeles, California (November 22, 2000) - (ACN) Mexico's President Elect Vicente Fox has appointed the country's foremost political scientist and author of the acclaimed "Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara,'' as its next Foreign Secretary.

Castaneda is one of the most prolific socialist writers in Latin America and has written numerous books and articles for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and Newsweek Magazine. As visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and other Ivy League schools he has earned the reputation as one of the most articulate leftist in the whole of the Americas. He completed his undergraduate work at Stanford University and received his Ph.D. from the Sarbonne in Paris, France.

In his most popular book "Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara,'' Jorge G. Castaneda reconstructs the complicated life of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, explaining how Che ultimately transcended ideology and politics to become a counter-cultural hero and idol of La Raza and many American college students.

Jorge Castañeda, who is read by policy-makers around the globe, has been a senior associate of the Carnegie Institute for International Peace in Washington and also teaches Economics and International Affairs at the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico and in addition has an appointment as Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at New York University. It is not clear whether he will resign these positions to devote full time to his new assignment.

Jorge Castañeda is the son of Mexican ex-Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda Sr. who died at age 76 in 1997. His father bolstered Mexico's role as regional leader. During his three-year tenure, Castañeda Sr. turned Mexican foreign policy southward, nurturing ties with Central America and moving away from U.S.-centered initiatives. But lack of American support doomed his most ambitious project: a 1982 peace plan for war-torn Nicaragua.

The following is a sample of the new Foreign Secretary's writing on US/Mexico relations and immigration:

"....During the NAFTA debate and at the height of his credibility in the United States, Carlos Salinas argued that failure to ratify the treaty would bring about an economic collapse in Mexico, which in turn would bring about a wave of undocumented immigration to the north. The economic collapse came anyway, but the wave looks more like a steadily rising tide. Were the Clinton Administration, in its obsession with re-election politics, to try to stem that tide, it would threaten the only true deterrent to the proverbial wave:Mexican stability. Any attempt to clamp down on immigration from the south -- by sealing the border militarily, by forcing Mexico to deter its citizens from emigrating, or through some federal version of California's Proposition 187 -- will make social peace in the barrios and pueblos of Mexico untenable.

The United States has traditionally made the right choice between what it considers two connected evils: Mexican instability and Mexican immigration. It fears both but clearly prefers the latter, knowing that the former would only worsen matters. Indeed, immigration has not been a problem in binational relations but, rather, has been part of the solution to other, graver problems.

Some Americans -- undoubtedly more than before -- dislike immigration, but there is very little they can do about it, and the consequences of trying to stop immigration would also certainly be more pernicious than any conceivable advantage. The United States should count its blessings: it has dodged instability on its borders since the Mexican Revolution, now nearly a century ago. The warnings from Mexico are loud and clear;this time it might be a good idea to heed them.

La Raza de Aztlan congratulates Jorge Castañeda on this very important assignment by the new government of Mexico. May the countless suffering Mexican migrants crossing the dangerous border region be beneficiaries of Mr. Castañeda's future efforts.

[TLI]

To: The Electrician

no flame on you for posting,, just some feedback to the article

Last time that I looked, crossing the border illegally was a crime.

The Mexican government say's it's not, and it believes it now has authority over us.

To bad about what Isabel Garcia, who is the other co-chair of the group Castillo belongs to, "is the queen terrorist of the reconquista," would LIKE to believe... Mexico would LIKE to believe that all the illegals that  are encouraged to cross the border are still MEXICANS.. sorry,,.... They start thinking like AMERICANS when they get here and they have NO LOYALTY to Mexico, they start voting REPUBLICAN.    

Check the TEXAS voter data...

[SevenDaysInMay]

About a thousand years ago, cannibals came north out of modern day Mexico to feed off of the farmers of Arizona-New Mexico. Reconquista is claiming land Mexicans stole from the tribes of the North. Little changes.

First these criminal alien clowns should fall on their knees and beg forgiveness as they and their yankee accomplices are rounded up and jailed.

[logic101.net]

"No right to talk about the border issue"?

No right? How about Ammendment #1 to THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?

Mexicans who come here are not terrorists, and most who enter illegally come for work (I've worked with a few). However, they are here illegally! They broke our laws. A small portion of them are here to deal in illegal drugs, but most just want work.

I am totally against ANY effort to "legalize" them as this would just encourage others to break our laws. There is a need in this nation for workers willing to do jobs that native citizens will no longer do. I strongly support more work visas for Mexicans, alot more. I strongly support more legal residency for Mexicans, alot more.

However, to reward those who break our laws? NO! I'd support a policy that allowed a 30 day amnisty for them to go back to Mexico and apply to come here legally. But to just say, ok, you win; our laws mean nothing? Not a chance!


MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[boris]

"People from Sonora and Sinaloa do more than $950 million of shopping in Tucson each year," Castillo said. "That is why they (businesses) fly the Mexican flag. They love the peso."

The businesses here in S. Calif (see: Vallarta Markets) fly the Mexican flag above the U.S. flag at every one of their stores.

--Boris