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The Minutemen are coming! The Minutemen are coming to Alta California!
by Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Los Angeles, Alta California, Cinco de Mayo, 2005 - (ACN) The felon Chris Simcox, leader of the riff-raff Minutemen border vigilantes, said last week that they are now coming to patrol the Mexico/California border in June. The Minutemen just completed a month long operation among the lizards and cacti in the Arizona desert but this time they will be operating in a region inhabited by millions of Mexicans on both sides of the border. Thanks to the deterrence provided by a number of human rights monitoring groups, there were no serious human rights violations in Arizona, but their operations in Alta California could have entirely different results.

This time a much larger number of immigrant rights groups, including the Brown Berets de Aztlan, will be waiting for the Minutemen to arrive. The potential for violence is great along a California/Mexico border that is already a powder keg. Ethnic relations in San Diego and in Southern California have not been a bed of roses recently.

There have been a number of incidents as of late that cast a very dark shadow on traditionally peaceful Mexican/White relations in the region. The first is the so called "Billboardgate Incident" that has been utilized by the area's English language hate radio stations to fan the flames of racial and ethnic bigotry. A Spanish language television station placed about 75 billboards in the Los Angeles area to advertise their news program "Noticias 62". Because the billboards were entirely in Spanish and because they intermingled the city skylines of Los Angeles and Mexico City and because the billboards showed the state's abbreviation "CA" crossed out and in it's place the word "Mexico", the area's bigots and xenophobes blew their tops. Even the state's governor, initially an illegal alien from Austria, appeared on KFI hate radio to demand that the billboards be removed. In addition, Governor Schwarzenegger praised the felon Chis Simcox and the Minutemen vigilantes. Another anti-Mexican hate radio station, Disney owned KABC 790 AM in Los Angeles, went out of their way to send a popular newscaster of Mexican descent, who was pictured on the billboards, a funeral wreath and some fake cheese. KABC had called the newscaster, Jesus Javier, a "rata" (rat) on the airwaves. This is the volatile situation that awaits the Minutemen vigilantes' arrival in June.

Another factor that adds fuel to the explosive mixture is the fact that the area's high schools, many predominantly Mexican-American, are on the brink. There have been a series of race related riots in at least three Los Angeles high schools and many others throughout Southern California, including some in San Diego, have been placed under alert. Today, Cinco de Mayo, five high schools were occupied by large contingents of police forces because of fear of violence on the campuses. Many of the high schools in question exist in "Blackboard Jungle" conditions and it will only take a small spark to set them off as it happened in many high schools in East Los Angeles in the 60's during the riots called "The East Los Angeles Blowouts". Today the instability in the high schools exists all the way to the border and it is not beyond the imagination to envision a situation where large numbers of militant youths will bust out of the high schools to confront the Minutemen border vigilantes in June.

The third volatile situation is the sudden surge in random shootings along the Los Angeles freeways and highways. Even though the California Highway Patrol says that there is no connection between the shootings, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson told the New York Times that the list of victims since January are ten Mexicans, four Blacks and one Filipino. Yesterday there was yet another shooting involving a tractor-trailer based in East Los Angeles. The ethnicity of the victim has not been released. There are two sinister possibilities that may explain the sudden surge in the random shootings. The first is the upcoming election of the mayor of Los Angeles. For the first time since the theft of Los Angeles from Mexico, ther is a candidate of Mexican descent with a high probability of winning the office from white Mayor James Hahn. Mayor Hahn blamed Mexican gangbangers for the shootings on KABC hate radio and also blamed Mexican-American Antonio Villargairosa, the other candidate, of being pro-Mexican gangbanger.

The other possibility is that the ground is being prepared for the arrival of the Minutemen to the Mexico/California border. There are many Minutemen that would like nothing better that a shooting war with Mexicans in order to justify bringing the US Marines to the border. La Voz the Aztlan has a number of e-mails from these vigilantes stating that they will be killings Mexicans. This situation would be no different than the Charles Manson "Helter-Skelter" scheme to start a race war in Los Angeles. There are many wacked out crazies out there, including Chris Simcox, that need serious monitoring. Something happened to the Minutemen vigilante and felon Chris Simcox in Los Angeles that forced him to leave the area for Tombstone, Arizona. Some clues are given in our article "The Tombstone Vigilante's Troubled Life in Los Angeles".

The US federal government and especially Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez need to seriously start clamping down on these armed vigilantes before they "open the gates of hell and unleashed the rabid dogs of racial hatred". The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) needs to better police the hate radio stations that are giving comfort and in some cases raising funds for the armed border vigilantes. What KABC radio agents did to Mexican newscaster Jesus Javier in Los Angeles is unpardonable and should be prosecuted by the FCC. They should closely monitor both KABC and KFI radio during the the coming month of June. They will, without doubt, rachet-up their anti-Mexican rhetoric over the airwaves.

Another thing that the Bush Administration and subsequent presidencies should start doing is to address the issue of "reparations to La Raza for lands stolen". How much is the southwest worth? How much is California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico worth? There is much that the USA owes Mexicans!