i want to know what you guys think of this article, i heard it from
chicanos activists, and now from a rightwinger...you think this
might happen!?!?
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Will We Fight Civil War II Over The Southwest U.S.?
By
Allan C. Stover
Toogood Reports [Tuesday, November 19, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]
URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/
America is in danger of being torn apart in a second civil war. Every
schoolchild knows (or at least they once knew, before education became more
indoctrination than learning) that our bloody Civil War was fought because
the Confederate States wanted to secede from the Union. Our Pledge of
Allegiance reminds us that we are one indivisible nation.
All of that could change. There is a serious movement among Mexicans and
Americans of Mexican descent to take over the Southwest and turn it into a
state of Mexico or an independent nation. The region, merged with northern
Mexican provinces in one version and with all of Mexico in another, is
called Aztlan, after the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, or La Republica
del Norte – Republic of the North. Activist Charles Truxillo, Professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico, says the new nation would
include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and southern Colorado. In
an Associated Press report, Truxillo says the new nation should be
established “by any means necessary.”
Another activist, Professor Armando Navarro, Department Chair of Ethnic
Studies, University of California, Riverside, in a speech to Chicano
activists, said that those young people “are really going to be in a
position to really make the promise of what the Chicano movement was all
about in terms of self-determination, in terms of empowerment, and even in
the terms of the idea of an Aztlan!”
The website In Search of Aztlan says, “economic control of our lives and
our communities can only come about by driving the exploiter out of our
communities, our pueblos, and our lands.” The exploiter, of course, is
non-Hispanic America. “Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and
defended.”
They also want money, “Restitution for past economic slavery, political
exploitation, ethnic, cultural and psychological destruction and denial of
civil and human rights.” So we now have an Hispanic version of reparations.
“For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency,
but revolutionary acts.” Mug an elderly white lady and become a
revolutionary?
Chicanos already have their own nation within our nation. Maria Hsia Chang,
Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, notes in her
paper, Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan: “Today, there are reasons
to believe that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in that
they are more likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by
choice or circumstance—resulting in the formation of a separate
quasi-nation within the United States.”
The website La Voz de Aztlan notes the similarities between their people,
whom they call La Raza, and Palestinians. “The primary one of course is the
fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders
that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories.
The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years
apart.” The American lands at the time were populated 80-90% American
settlers and until then ignored by the Mexican government.
Aztlan is more than an idle threat from a few crackpots. Former California
Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, who narrowly lost his bid for mayor
of Los Angeles, and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante are quoted prominently on
separatist websites. Young Hispanics are becoming increasingly radicalized,
and the idea of creating their own Hispanic nation inspires them to join
the movement.
A California school textbook, “The Mexican American Heritage,” has a
redrawn map of Mexico and the United States, with Aztlan encompassing
Mexico and “repatriated” U. S. states, including Colorado, California,
Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington.
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn told Mexico's President Vincente Fox, “Our
city is a Mexican city.” Those were sweet words to Aztlan activists, who
consider Los Angeles the capital city of Aztlan. Mario Obledo, co-founder
of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, stated publicly, “California is
going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone who doesn't like it should leave.”
Obledo also predicted that Hispanics would be a majority in California by
2003, a possibility considering the rate of legal and illegal immigration.
The flow of 1.3 million immigrants each year into the U. S. provides more
and more advocates. Most legal and illegal immigrants come from Mexico. A
recent Zogby poll commissioned by Americans for Immigration Control found
that almost sixty percent of Mexicans believe the Southwest United States
belongs to Mexico. Fifty-seven percent said that Mexicans have the right to
cross the border into the U. S. without permission. The Federation for
American Immigration Reform quotes Census Bureau statistics that we will
have 400 million people living in America by 2050, the increase completely
due to immigration. By then, we will have an Hispanic Southwest. That´s why
activists fight initiatives for English in the schools, why they promote
Spanish classrooms (camouflaged under the name “bilingual education”), and
why they fight for unrestricted immigration. They need more foot soldiers.
Americans have tried to fight back. Californians voted overwhelmingly for
Proposition 187 denying government services to illegal aliens. Art Torres,
chairman of the California Democrat Party, responded: “Proposition 187 was
the last gasp of white America in California.”
What will the United States do if a restive Hispanic majority in the
Southwest United States takes action to secede? The secessionists have
compared themselves to Palestinians, so we could find ourselves under siege
as the Israelis are now. Although Professor Truxillo doubts that civil war
would be necessary, he didn´t dismiss the idea. Another civil war is what
we would have if we refused to surrender those states to Aztlan or La
Republica del Norte or whatever they call it. It´s either that or give a
part of America away as readily as Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal.
To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the author,
you are invited to e-mail Allan at [email protected] .
chicanos activists, and now from a rightwinger...you think this
might happen!?!?
___________________________________
Will We Fight Civil War II Over The Southwest U.S.?
By
Allan C. Stover
Toogood Reports [Tuesday, November 19, 2002; 12:01 a.m. EST]
URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/
America is in danger of being torn apart in a second civil war. Every
schoolchild knows (or at least they once knew, before education became more
indoctrination than learning) that our bloody Civil War was fought because
the Confederate States wanted to secede from the Union. Our Pledge of
Allegiance reminds us that we are one indivisible nation.
All of that could change. There is a serious movement among Mexicans and
Americans of Mexican descent to take over the Southwest and turn it into a
state of Mexico or an independent nation. The region, merged with northern
Mexican provinces in one version and with all of Mexico in another, is
called Aztlan, after the mythical birthplace of the Aztecs, or La Republica
del Norte – Republic of the North. Activist Charles Truxillo, Professor of
Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico, says the new nation would
include California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and southern Colorado. In
an Associated Press report, Truxillo says the new nation should be
established “by any means necessary.”
Another activist, Professor Armando Navarro, Department Chair of Ethnic
Studies, University of California, Riverside, in a speech to Chicano
activists, said that those young people “are really going to be in a
position to really make the promise of what the Chicano movement was all
about in terms of self-determination, in terms of empowerment, and even in
the terms of the idea of an Aztlan!”
The website In Search of Aztlan says, “economic control of our lives and
our communities can only come about by driving the exploiter out of our
communities, our pueblos, and our lands.” The exploiter, of course, is
non-Hispanic America. “Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and
defended.”
They also want money, “Restitution for past economic slavery, political
exploitation, ethnic, cultural and psychological destruction and denial of
civil and human rights.” So we now have an Hispanic version of reparations.
“For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency,
but revolutionary acts.” Mug an elderly white lady and become a
revolutionary?
Chicanos already have their own nation within our nation. Maria Hsia Chang,
Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, notes in her
paper, Multiculturalism, Immigration and Aztlan: “Today, there are reasons
to believe that Chicanos as a group are unlike previous immigrants in that
they are more likely to remain unassimilated and unintegrated, whether by
choice or circumstance—resulting in the formation of a separate
quasi-nation within the United States.”
The website La Voz de Aztlan notes the similarities between their people,
whom they call La Raza, and Palestinians. “The primary one of course is the
fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders
that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories.
The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years
apart.” The American lands at the time were populated 80-90% American
settlers and until then ignored by the Mexican government.
Aztlan is more than an idle threat from a few crackpots. Former California
Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, who narrowly lost his bid for mayor
of Los Angeles, and Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante are quoted prominently on
separatist websites. Young Hispanics are becoming increasingly radicalized,
and the idea of creating their own Hispanic nation inspires them to join
the movement.
A California school textbook, “The Mexican American Heritage,” has a
redrawn map of Mexico and the United States, with Aztlan encompassing
Mexico and “repatriated” U. S. states, including Colorado, California,
Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington.
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn told Mexico's President Vincente Fox, “Our
city is a Mexican city.” Those were sweet words to Aztlan activists, who
consider Los Angeles the capital city of Aztlan. Mario Obledo, co-founder
of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, stated publicly, “California is
going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone who doesn't like it should leave.”
Obledo also predicted that Hispanics would be a majority in California by
2003, a possibility considering the rate of legal and illegal immigration.
The flow of 1.3 million immigrants each year into the U. S. provides more
and more advocates. Most legal and illegal immigrants come from Mexico. A
recent Zogby poll commissioned by Americans for Immigration Control found
that almost sixty percent of Mexicans believe the Southwest United States
belongs to Mexico. Fifty-seven percent said that Mexicans have the right to
cross the border into the U. S. without permission. The Federation for
American Immigration Reform quotes Census Bureau statistics that we will
have 400 million people living in America by 2050, the increase completely
due to immigration. By then, we will have an Hispanic Southwest. That´s why
activists fight initiatives for English in the schools, why they promote
Spanish classrooms (camouflaged under the name “bilingual education”), and
why they fight for unrestricted immigration. They need more foot soldiers.
Americans have tried to fight back. Californians voted overwhelmingly for
Proposition 187 denying government services to illegal aliens. Art Torres,
chairman of the California Democrat Party, responded: “Proposition 187 was
the last gasp of white America in California.”
What will the United States do if a restive Hispanic majority in the
Southwest United States takes action to secede? The secessionists have
compared themselves to Palestinians, so we could find ourselves under siege
as the Israelis are now. Although Professor Truxillo doubts that civil war
would be necessary, he didn´t dismiss the idea. Another civil war is what
we would have if we refused to surrender those states to Aztlan or La
Republica del Norte or whatever they call it. It´s either that or give a
part of America away as readily as Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama Canal.
To comment on this article or express your opinion directly to the author,
you are invited to e-mail Allan at [email protected] .
