Thread: Reconquista is Real (Malkin)

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14527

Reconquista is Real
by Michelle Malkin
Posted May 03, 2006

There are none so blind as those who will not see. While the mainstream media heaped praise on the "peaceful" May Day protesters and newspapers plastered sympathetic photos of the pro-illegal alien "sea of humanity" all over their front pages, freelance photographers, bloggers and radio interviewers captured a sea of open-borders militancy nationwide.

Uninformed political observers delude themselves into thinking that these sentiments are relegated to the fringe. But the core concepts of reconquista (the "re-conquest" of the Southwest by Mexico) have spread wide and deep -- from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Milwaukee to Arkansas and beyond. In Denver, a large banner read: "AMERICA IS A CONTINENT NOT A COUNTRY." In Albuquerque, Latino activists held up a provocative sign asking aloud: "Manifest Destiny?"

On the Sean Hannity radio show Monday, I debated (or rather listened to five minutes of screeching by) a young member of the radical group MeCha. A student at the University of San Francisco, she denied that her group still subscribed to 1960s identity politics, then promptly delivered a full-throated rant about Mexico's right to reclaim American territory: "We believe that we have the right to be in this land . . . Aztlan is California! Aztlan is this country! This country was ours . . . We didn't cross the borders. The borders crossed us . . . This country is based on exploitation!"

On NPR's "All Things Considered," Gloria Ramirez Vargas, a politician in Baja, Calif., rallied her constituents with a similar cry: "Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot of work, we are re-conquering again for our Mexico."

On leading conservative talk show station KFI in Los Angeles, hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou interviewed Tony Valdez, who also invoked "manifest destiny" as a rationale for supporting the sabotage of our immigration laws. He pontificated about 1846, recycled the "We didn't cross the borders" nonsense, inveighed against the war in Iraq and exclaimed: "You took this country. You killed people in order to take this country for yourselves."

Valdez is a FOX News 11 reporter at KTTV in L.A.

In Seattle, photojournalist Byron Dazey of CreativeFlashes.com snapped hundreds of pictures of extremist left-wing claptrap. "Open the Borders," screamed a giant banner. "No more blood! No more borders!" echoed another placard. "Stop the War! Stop the Borders!" preaches a sign carried by a "Freedom Socialist Worker." Other protesters displayed a rambling, illiterate message scrawled on a giant blue tarp:

"To the diplomats in Arizona talking of illegal deals, why R U so hipocratics [sic] when we know that almost 1/2 of what it was Mexico, was bought illegally by the US. Santa Ana was a conquestee from France, he was not the president of Mexico or Mexican. 1845-1847 we were fighting our own independence with their own people and also fighting the French. The US took advantage N offered Santa Ana money for the Mexican's land. Do U call this legal?"

Dazey wrote me: "The best line from a speaker . . . was the one where she screamed: 'They can't deport you from the land that they stole from you!' The crowd cheered wildly, of course."

Our borders are sieves. We are at war with Islamofascism. And these seething demonstrators are still griping about the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo while our government prepares to grant a massive amnesty at Mexican President Vicente Fox's behest. Hello?

While left-wing socialists and anti-war Bush-bashers are indeed helping coordinate the open borders movement, it is a foolish, patronizing mistake to characterize the reconquistadores as hapless pawns of the American Left. The homegrown multiculti-mau-mau-ers know exactly what they believe, and they know exactly what they are doing. They aim to mainstream the "Stolen Land" mantra and pervert history. They aim to obliterate America's borders by sheer demographic and political force.

And they are succeeding.

Mrs. Malkin is author of Unhinged (Regnery).

OVER MY DEAD BODY! Scary part is...kind of sounds like thats their idea for me!

Originally Posted by Zach1776

OVER MY DEAD BODY! Scary part is...kind of sounds like thats their idea for me!

Yea, I know.

added to the homepage. Way to go Michelle!

http://www.alipac.us/article1191.html

my aunt has an aid coming in 3 days a week, today was her second visit. We started discussing the protests and she told me that before Christmas one of the ladies at a day care was telling her that the Mexicans wanted to kill the black people, she said she thought it was just a 'rumor.' I told her they n wanted the blacks and whites of the south. She told me which Wal-Marts to stay away from -- she said they scared her and she complained that these men would be leering at her teenaged daughter. She could not believe that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were supporting the illegals!

She is awesome and exactly right.

The gist of the bigger picture is also this:

What is being attempted against Americans and the U.S. (Congress) is to pass-off, or coyly disguise the full intention of an illegal foreign invasion and foreign imposement takeover backed by the mexican government as about some other issue-- jobs, workers, racial injustice, trade, immigrants contributing to America, etc. (pick any side issue that they splinter American minds on)

This was revealed in the sly word-twisting language of a recent Associated Press article trying to dismiss from Americans minds any idea of a "crazy idea" Reconquista. Saying something like,"The 1848 War is embedded in the mindset of much of the mexican culture of Mexico but far be it from the minds of migrant job-seekers in the U.S." Also, "some anti-immigrant activists point to or speak of occassional references to a Reconquista of the U.S. that is fictional talk or just overblown unrealness by Latino activists."

BUT, it is now quite clear -- the cat is out of the bag ---

NO, NO sorry NOT going to let this ONE go --- we now know the real face of the invaders and deep-seeded in the mind of these illegal Aliens is hostile harm for the Unted States.

ALL OF US AMERICANS AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS here must NEVER, NEVER forget or be DISUADED from forgetting what WE the PEOPLE have just witnessed in the past month......... The thousands of Mexican flags being waved, insults to our flag and the CLEAR trashing of our National Anthem.

There is just NO doubting the slight against Americans that occurred here -- it really declares that such illegal immigrants feel they shouldn't have to and WILL NOT assimilate with America or adapt to become/support U.S. of America. Meanwhile the whole world laughs at us and doesn't mind watching the spectacle or thinks -- why not -- why doesn't America go down this road and let itself get violated "a little bit multi-culturally speaking" ---- That is what they want us to believe --- this is just a little change -- it won't hurt....

The media and all pro-illegal Alien advocates (employers,etc.) are now to trying to downplay, cover-up or back pedal away from the INTRACTIBLE actions that these illegal Aliens displayed ---- DO NOT BE FOOLED or listen to them --- NOW WE must heap even more weight and pressure on the opposition no matter how feeble, poor, apologizing sorry they want to make illegal Aliens look. When the enemy is at its lowest point is when you deliver a crushing blow. Let’s keep it up.

For those who want to read the telling article of the Associated Press -- it is below ----you have to look into the intent of these twisted words. Wording like “when the U.S. TOOK Mexico’s Land” shows the opinion.

Old war haunts debate between Mexico, U.S.

JOHN RICE
Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - More than 1 million migrants flood into the United States each year across a border cutting straight through what once was Mexican territory, a touch of history that haunts the immigration debate 158 years after the land changed hands.

The territory north of today's 1,952-mile border - half of Mexico at the time - was ripped away in 1848 after a U.S. invasion that ended with the capture of "the halls of Montezuma," Mexico City itself.

Ulysses S. Grant, who took part, called the invasion "the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."

The loss changed Mexico's destiny and still tears at the country's heart. Primary school textbooks harp on it. Intellectuals often refer to it. Museums are dedicated to it.

In the United States, some anti-immigration activists see migrants as a threat to American land and culture, part of a Spanish-speaking invasion that will reclaim the American Southwest.

Their concern is fed by occasional Mexican references to the booming immigrant population as a "reconquista," or re-conquest, and by the Mexican government's efforts to reinforce the migrants' ties to their homeland.

When hundreds of thousands of mainly Latino marchers turned out for a pro-immigrant demonstration Los Angeles in March, Mexican television reporter Alberto Tinoco sounded almost giddy.



And it's always kind of floating around in the background ... at the diplomatic levels," said Ana Maria Salazar, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense who now works as a political analyst in Mexico.

"Re-conquest," too, may be misleading. Before the war, most people in the Mexican territory north of the current border, from California to Texas, were Indians. They spoke little Spanish and paid little allegiance to Mexico.

Spain began establishing missions in "Alta California" shortly before the American Revolution, and the land became Mexico's after its own independence from Spain in 1821. But only a few thousand Spaniards and Mexicans were living in the area

The treaty also included Mexico's first formal recognition of the loss of Texas, which won its independence in 1836 and was absorbed by the United States in 1845.

Just as Texans used the temporary loss of the Alamo to Mexico in 1836 as a rallying cry, Mexicans have made national heroes of fighters slain resisting the American invaders 11 years later: the "child heroes" who reportedly jumped to their deaths rather than surrender and the San Patricio Battalion of Irish soldiers who put up a ferocious defense at the Churubusco monastery in Mexico City.

The monastery is now Mexico City's National Museum of Interventions - and the scars on its walls from American guns fired 159 years ago years later are carefully tended.

Yet after visitors tour exhibits decrying the aggression that "mutilated" the nation, they can stop by the museum souvenir shop to find Mickey Mouse computer games and a "Movie Talk" course in learning English.

In fact, many Mexicans complain about U.S. domination. Mexico City's Independence Monument has been ringed by buildings bearing the names of Ford, Sheraton and American Express, with the U.S. Embassy a few steps away. Mexicans watch "Los Simpsons" and NFL football on television and shop at Wal-Mart, Mexico's largest private employer.

The inroads of the English language have met official resistance, at times with comical results. Officially mandated "perro caliente" never caught on as a substitute for "hot dog."

And the migrants themselves, changed by the culture of the United States, are helping to change Mexico.

"Even the way they view and understand politics is different, and the expectations they have on the way the political process would work," said Salazar, whose own life story makes her case.

Born in the United States, she spent her childhood in Mexico, earned degrees at the University of California-Berkeley and Harvard, served in the Pentagon and then returned to Mexico, where she runs possibly the only predominantly English-language radio program in the country.

Poniatowska, too, says migrants become different from the people they leave behind - no longer the "race of bronze" portrayed by Mexican nationalists, but people with "a new way of being, and a new way of experiencing their country."

Less philosophical is Rafael Palacios Franco, who runs a small tourist camp east of Mexico City and who has four children in the United States.

"A long time ago, they took half the country from us," he said. "Now we don't want them to give it back, just that they let us work there."

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Associated Press reporter Mark Stevenson contributed to this report.

However, folks there is another element to this and that is the DELIBERATE PLANNING of all this ---- by a NO BORDER, NO U.S. global government desire (Council of Foreign Relations)---- to wreck the Border, make it impossible to deal with and then merge the U.S. into a governmental structure just like the European Union --- calling it the North American Community where eventually the U.S. Constitution will become mute. This now brings us to Condi Rice who is a Council of Foreign Relations Member and this National Anthem announcement is to tread Americans to push the U.S. down that road. This is quite a revealing action by Condi of the above mentioned plan.

This can be seen in a proposal called the Security & Prosperity Partnership (www.SPP.gov) that Condi Rice and Michael Cherthoff (and likely some members of Congress have agreed to). Luis Derbez- Foreign Minister of Mexico has signed onto this agreement and also why there was a March 24, 2006 Bilateral conference or meeting between Rice and Derbez. Of course Invader thief Vicente' Fox likes it. The United Nations also has their twisted hands in on this too.

Americans owe Mexico NOTHING and it is NO Plan to say that Mexico needs to helped or developed at the expense of America.

Sure, the U.S. can trade, have relations, immigrate legally across Border to HELP improve Mexico BUT NOT BY DESTROYING THE United States.

But folks this is the upper level that we are really up against and thankfully WE do in fact still have members of our Congress who are Americans at heart and want to see the U.S. live

RonLaws,

A recent ALIPAC thread discussed the agreement you mention.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-24644-.html

"United States of North America" by Steven Yates, Ph.D., teaches philosophy at the University of South Carolina Upstate and Greenville Technical College

Ulysses S. Grant, who took part, called the invasion "the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."

I'm sorry, but I'd have to disagree ... one would only have to look inward to the unconstitutional invasion of the south and the war against the Native Americans

http://www.newshounds.us

Malicious Michelle Malkin Mauls Mexicans
Reported by Marie Therese - May 05, 2006
Yesterday morning, FOX & Friends scheduled an appearance by Michelle Malkin, the xenophobic author, columnist and blogger. She joined Steve Doocy, E. D. Hill and Brian Kilmeade to make unsubstantiated claims that many of the Mexicans marching in last Monday's marches favored a radical idea called "reconquista" that claims that the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, California, Oregon and Washington really belong to Mexico.

The transcript of this interview follows. (The video is available on FOXNews.com.) Taking a cue from the President's "doppelganger" routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, I have added "translations" of the comments for added clarity (and, hopefully, a chuckle or two.)

STEVE DOOCY: Some Mexicans say that they deserve an open border because they claim that the United States (slaps his knee) took their land and the Mexicans want it back. This movement is called - I'm not makin' it up - it's called reconquista.

(Translation: Hey, guys, did you see how well I translated "some people say" into Mexicano?)

BRIAN KILMEADE: And someone who knows you're not makin' it up is Michelle Malkin. She talks about this crusade and she is a FOX News contributor with a heck of a blog and a heck of a website. Michelle, now, first off, tell me about this movement and is it just a - is it just a niche group or a bunch of people who don't want to let go of something?

(Translation: The legal department says we're skating on thin ice here, since our guest is about to fool our viewers into believing that there are hundreds of thousands of these radicals, when, in point of fact, there are really only about a thousand people who believe that California, Texas and Arizona belong to Mexico. To paraphrase the bible story, we're feeding the masses five loads of bull using two fishy stories!)

CHRYON: WHAT ARE THE IMMIGRATION MARCHES REALLY SAYING?

MICHELLE MALKIN: Well, a lot of people have been under the impression that this reconquista is a fringe intellectual fantasy, but they've been around for a long time, for decades actually, and in a lot of community colleges and universities, there are professors who have been plying this idea that the Southwest was stolen from Mexico and that Mexicans ought to rightly - rightfully - reclaim it. For a long time there were a lot of chapters of a student group called MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán ) who believe this and I debated one of these young students just the other day and it's as fresh as it was in the 1960s and the indignance (sic) and the extreme nature of it has not died down and we saw that Monday at the May Day rally even though the mainstream media didn't want to show it.

(Translation: I sure hope none of the FOX viewers know anything about history! Otherwise, they'll realize what a load of BS this whole interview is!)

DOOCY: Yeah, even though the mainstream media is admitting, yeah, Monday probably fizzled a bit in many respects, go back and talk about this outfit called MEChA, which is predominantly students, but this is a racist outfit.

(Translation: All of FOX News' shows have reported that Monday's marches fizzled.)

CHRYON: MICHELLE MALKIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR

MALKIN: Oh, oh, plainly, Steve, they are ethnic separatists.

(Translation: MEChA is racist because it is affiliated with the group La Raza, which means "race" and this clearly shows that they are racist because only people who are racists use the word "race" when describing themselves.)

CHRYON: WHAT ARE THE IMMIGRATION MARCHES REALLY SAYING?

MALKIN: And in some cases some of the more radical groups have websites that advocate genocide of Europeans and anyone who's non-Mexican who's in what they consider "their" land, the stolen lands of Texas, Arizona and California, all the way up to Washington in some cases.

(Translation: Isn't it nice that on the FOX News Channel opinion IS truth? No annoying questions about my sources and documentation. Whew! That leaves me off the hook one more time!)

CHRYON: U. S. OBTAINED MEXICAN LAND IN U.S.-MEXICAN WAR [1846]

MALKIN: ... In some cases they disseminate maps that show the territory they claim was stolen ...

(Translation: Handing out maps of the layout of the United States before the year 1848 is sinister, threatening, frightening, subversive and must be reported immediately to the Homeland Security Department!)

E.D. HILL: Michelle ...

MALKIN: ... and on Monday [May 1, 2006] there were many signs and banners ...

(Translation: Actually there were about 10 signs and one banner scattered throughout the country and I must admit that I'm really upset that our staff had to do all the work to uncover them! Just like that elitist mainstream media to leave all the hard work to us! )

CHRYON: RECONQUISTA IS THE RE-CONQUEST OF SOUTHWEST U.S. BY MEXICO

VIDEO CLIPS OF SHADOWY FIGURES CROSSING THE BORDER, INCLUDING MOTHER & CHILD RUNNING AND A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE STANDING THREE AND FOUR DEEP WITH THEIR HANDS (MANY HANDCUFFED) PLACED ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE PERSON AHEAD OF THEM.

MALKIN: ... applying this kind of idea and this kind of propaganda.

CHRYON: SOME MEXICANS THINK THE U.S. WRONGLY TOOK THEIR LAND

HILL: Well, the first part of it I don't get is when you're talking about Texas, who do they want to give it back to? The Spanish? The French? The Confederacy? The State of Texas? Or, you know ...

CHRYON: M.E.C.H.A.: STUDENT MOVEMENT CHICANO OF AZTLAN

MALKIN: Yeah, right.

HILL: Or Mexico? Well, when you start with that, who really has claim to it?

(Translation: Wow! It was really hard memorizing all those history index cards this morning! Good thing it's also typed onto my laptop screen!)

MALKIN: Well.

HILL: But, second, if they want to reclaim this land, then why are they here in America, where they want our benefits and our jobs, yet they want to take the land and put it back to Mexico and then - what? Sneak into Idaho?

(Translation: Rats! I'm gonna have to get a new housecleaner. That ungrateful Maria Gonzales wants a raise!)

CHRYON: AZTLAN IS AREA OF SW U.S. OR, CA, TX, AZ & NM

VIDEO CLIP OF MAY 1, 2006 MARCHERS, SHOWING AMERICAN FLAGS JUXTAPOSED AGAINST A SIGN THAT SAYS "HEALTH CARE FOR ALL"

MALKIN (laughing): The whole thing is absurd, E.D. and you point out a lot of the historical ridiculousness of it because a lot of the people that adhere to this idea of Aztlan, which is what they consider their territory ...

(Translation: Gee I'm glad E. D. actually got through all that history. She was really having trouble with those index cards in the Green Room this morning!)

HILL: Yeah.

MALKIN: ... skip over the fact that, you know ...

HILL: It wasn't theirs.

CHYRON: WHAT ARE THE IMMIGRATION MARCHES REALLY SAYING?

MALKIN: ... that they did sign a treaty. It was called the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Mexico received millions of dollars in settlement money for this so the history if ridiculous, but also just the ramifications of it, I think, are really serious. They consider this not a country. They do not respect our sovereignty and the ultimate agenda of a lot of these pro-illegal alien advocates, who are now pushing for amnesty, is to obliterate our border and, in many cases, if you think about it, they have succeeded ....

DOOCY: Um-hmm.

MALKIN: ... by sheer demographic and political force they have erased the borders between U. S. and Mexico. They've accomplished their goal.

(Translation: Thankfully the FOX viewers don't realize that there are respected economists who believe that in order to compete with China and the European Union, we're going to have to open both borders and form a North American market with a common currency.)

KILMEADE: Michelle, but here's the thing. Some people listening to this say "Well, I've never met anybody who thinks that Texas belongs to Mexico" or that the 1846 agreement didn't happen. So, what do you say to those people? Even though you've debated one student what makes us think that it's more than just a thousand people in this country who feel that way?

MALKIN: I would say open your eyes and open your ears. I mean, when you have mainstream reporters - in one case a FOX reporter in Los Angeles ...

HILL (incredulous): Right. I saw that!

(Translation: Yeah and that guy's days on FOX are numbered!)

MALKIN: ... plying this kind of stuff - when you've got professors and students and signs being held up all over this country, it's not just a fringe movement in Los Angeles, for example.

VIDEO CLIPS APPEAR. AERIAL SHOT OF THOUSANDS OF MARCHERS, A LARGE AMERICAN FLAG BEING CARRIED.

DOOCY: Right.

MALKIN: You've got people in Albuquerque and people in Milwaukee ...

DOOCY: Um-hmm.

MALKIN: ... saying this is stolen land, that America is a continent, not a country ...

DOOCY: Right.

MALKIN: ... I think you can't dismiss this ...

HILL: Yeah.

VIDEO CLIP FAST ZOOM TO A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE SIGN SAYING "SUPPORT IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!"

CHYRON STILL READS: WHAT ARE THE IMMMIGRATION MARCHES REALLY SAYING?

MALKIN: ... and I think you've got to understand the intellectual underpinnings of this push for amnesty ...

HILL: Right.

MALKIN: ... to know what it's about.

HILL: "We didn't cross the border, the borders crossed us."

(Translation: Boy am I glad Bill O'Reilly interviewed that loony toon labor activist Dolores Huerta the other night. If he hadn't I would have known about this quote of hers. What a goldmine for our side!)

DOOCY: It was just ...

MALKIN: You hear that everywhere!

HILL: Well, Michelle, you know ...

DOOCY (sarcastic tone): It was inevitable. Now those poor aliens are victims. (normal tone of voice): Alright. Michelle Malkin, FOX contributor and a syndicated columnist and an alright - all 'round smart gal ...

HILL: Michelle, what's your website again because folks don't get your syndicated column?

(Translation: You pat my back. I'll pat yours.)

MALKIN: Hey, I've got two. It's MichelleMalkin.com and HotAir.com and we've got tons of pictures that talk (sic) about it.

(Translation: Sell! Sell! Sell!)

COMMENT

Malkin completely misrepresented MEChA during this interview. Along with a number of other anti-Mexican authors and sites she references on her own website, she misled FOX's viewers with half truths and innuendo aided and abetted by the F&F trio..

Allegations similar to those made by Malkin were made on the Stanford University campus in 2003. Gabriela Rico, a member of MEChA, wrote an effective rebuttal to the Stanford Review:

MEChA leadership has re-affirmed that they do not adhere to El Plan de Aztlan, drafted during the radicalized 1960s (once again, check the context). MEChA offers campuses a national network of Chicano/Latino students working towards improving their community. As a Mechista at Stanford, I spent most of my time forming multi-cultural coalitions (in and of itself a rebuttal against any accusations of being separatist, segregationist, or racist) with student organizations such as SLAC, SEAS, and SOCC for workers' rights, affirmative action, and other campaigns encouraging diversity on the Stanford campus. As a Mechista at Stanford, I spent many hours doing community service work such as getting out the vote during elections, raising funds for scholarships benefiting the children of farm-workers, and tutoring/mentoring disadvantaged youth of different racial backgrounds. As a Mechista, I formed relationships with a diverse network of genuinely humane, compassionate, anti-racist activists, which made my Stanford experience enriching and invaluable. As a Stanford Mechista, I take offense to any accusations that this progressive student organization with social justice matters at the heart of its nature is ‘racist' or even remotely related to the KKK.
MEChA's motto is "La Union Hace La Fuerza," which means "Unity builds Strength." Stanford MEChA brought the Stanford community El Centro Chicano, Casa Zapata, the Stanford Center for Research on Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the recruitment and retention of Chicana/o faculty and students, numerous community-wide cultural events, political education on issues affecting the Chicano/Latino community, and an array of other pro-diversity campaigns. Most recently, Stanford MEChA worked to increase Community Center funding and to gain an Alternative Spring Break trip exposing Stanford students to farm-worker issues. Stanford MEChA has made invaluable contributions to the Stanford community and your editorial threatens to divert the support of its fellow student groups.