Bustamante, MEChA and the media (don't let this story die!)

Creators Syndicate, Inc. ^ | August 20, 2003 | Michelle Malkin

[jmstein7]

Bustamante, MEChA and the media Michelle Malkin

Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right?

Ha.

While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations.

As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante was an active member of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or MEChA, which stands for the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan. Bustamante repeatedly denies having a "radical ethnic agenda," but has refused to disassociate himself from his Mechista roots. In fact, Bustamante recently returned to Fresno State for a separate Latino commencement ceremony founded by two of his Chicano activist classmates.

MEChA has been dismissed by some as a harmless social club, but it operates an identity politics indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized college and high school campuses nationwide that would make David Duke and the KKK turn green with envy. MEChA members in the University of California system have rioted in Los Angeles, editorialized that federal immigration "pigs should be killed, every single one" in San Diego, and are suspected of breaking into a conservative student publication's offices and stealing its entire print run in Berkeley.

MEChA's symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite stick and machete-like weapon in its claws; its motto is " Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada (For the Race, everything. For those outside the Race, nothing)." The MEChA Constitution calls on members to "promote Chicanismo within the community, politicizing our Raza (race) with an emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan." "Aztlan" is the group's term for the vast southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico ( reconquista ).

MEChA's liberation agenda, outlined in El Plan de Aztlan, states defiantly:

"We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the bronze continent. Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who struggles against the foreigner 'gabacho' who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze culture."

Substitute "Aryan" for "mestizo" and "white" for "bronze." Not much difference between the nutty philosophy of Bustamante's MEChA and Papa Schwarzenegger's evil Nazi Party. To date, however, the only exposure Bustamante's MEChA history has received has been on the Internet.

In a critical article on Bustamante published by David Horowitz's FrontPage Magazine.com last week, Lowell Ponte notes that "Like Nazism, MEChA has acquired more than a tinge of racism. In their tactics to advance Latinos and 'La Raza,' many of its activists have directed racist attacks against not only white-skinned Anglos but also against blacks, Asian-Americans and Jews -- in fact, against every non-Latino group."

Popular Internet blogger Tacitus points out: "It's tempting to dismiss this as a youthful affiliation that means nothing today -- but that temptation would be wrong. There are certain associations that are socially tainting (and justly so) in the modern day, and they don't have statutes of limitations. Former Klansmen and former Nazis don't get a pass unless they spend a great deal of time and energy apologizing for and explaining themselves in a convincing manner."

Why should Bustamante, a public figure already known to have used a racial epithet in the past (he infamously used the word "nigger" while addressing a Black History Month event two years ago) get a pass? Or, for that matter, former California State Assembly Speaker and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa, State Assemblyman Gil Cadillo, State Sen. Joe Baca, and Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva -- all unapologetic Mechistas?

Ms. Couric, I know you'll get to the bottom of this. They don't call you Hardball Katie for nothing.

©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

[abigail2]

Hi, janetgreen. Thank you for your concern. Frankly I'm afraid to put them on my car, but I am putting them other places. I also made posters to put around. Alot of stupid 'religious' people and others have no clue whats going on. We've got to do something. My new poster says
"Vote for Butamante and get MEXI-FORNIA...(Think before you vote)" I'd love to get some more slogans. I'm very serious about this.

[abigail2]

Bump to the top...........

[Grampa Dave]

Last Summer during and after the Oregon forest fires a lot of data re statements from the enviral whackos and the USFS just disappeared from the whacko sites and US Forestry/Wilderness sites.

Then, in September there was a massive fish kill in the lower Klamath River. The enviral whackos tried to blame GW for low water (in other words he gave water to evil farmers and ranchers). Actually there were high water levels the Friday and weekend before the kill from the Trinity flowing into the lower Klamath. (White water rats, the river boating enviral whackos got one more high water 3 day weekend.)

That highwater broke loose the gravel bar that forms in the late spring until the heavy rains that come in very late September/and October.

The salmon swum up stream thinking that it was time when the bar broke open. Then late Sunday night, the damn people stopped the high flow and went to the normal end of summer flow.

The salmon and steelhead were caught in a low water situation. They swam to the few deep pools. Then, over crowding and disease hit the weakening and trapped fish.
There was a massive kill.

When we tried to go back and get the actual water flows, that data was gone.

We saw Doug Thompson erase stories from his server after he was outed re his "CIA" source in one of Doug's trashing of GW.

So if you want to keep this data from these scumbags, it has be stored in total document form on another server or on your computer.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks GrandpaDave. I'll keep that in mind. Al Frankin could find far more material for a book on his side of the isle than ours.

[SierraWasp]

That sign should say: "Tough Chit for Mexifornia!"

[janetgreen]

Abigail - how about "BUSTAMANTE is nothing but REFRIED DAVIS"?

[abigail2]

Thank you SierraWasp...I will use it!

[abigail2]

Perfect janetgreen...I already printed some of the others out, now to don my black tights and shirt and ski mask and put the posters up!!LOL! (Although, it's really not funny you can't say what you want in America without worrying about getting attacked)

[abigail2]

No, I don't think so. Besides I'm afraid to pass it out in my area. I'm going to the richer areas, markets and stuff where I people are more sheltered and may need a little shock and awe.

[pointsal]

BOOSTA GRANDE PING

[abigail2]

Bustaboob...Benedict Bustamante...

[abigail2]

I just caught your tag. LOVE IT!

Thank you....

[abigail2]

Great!

[abigail2]

I made a flyer now with the poster on one side and a carefully highlighted version of Michelle's article on the other. These I'm definitely going to pass around.

[SierraWasp]

Boosta Maxi Taxa Grande!!!

Ok, you can use it if you don't think it's too risque... I thought it up and didn't put it in the "naughty file."

[AuntB]

Excellent!

[AuntB]

Michelle Malkin is simply wonderful. Looks, brains, and she holds her own with any opposition.

[PhilDragoo]

(Solamente cuarenta y dos dias mas. . . .)

[AuntB]

Have you ever been to Tijuana? When I look at him I feel like I'm going to be living in Tijuana.....wouldn't you cast him as the crooked little law officer of some desert jail in some speghetti western?

Arnold looks better every day.

[fabian]

thanks for the ping...I hope there will be one republican candidate so our vote won't be divided.