Thread: Mexico Celebrates Sept. 11th in OC

http://www.ocregister.com/news/day-2416 ... -city.html

Mexico has decided to hold their 200th birthday on Sept. 11th in Santa Ana, CA.

Outrageous! and all Americans should be hollering about this right now!!!

SANTA ANA – A downtown celebration honoring Mexico's bicentennial is sparking a firestorm of protests and angry e-mails after city officials decided to kick off the festivities on the day that marks nine years since the Sept. 11 attacks.

A group of anti-illegal immigration activists picketed last weekend in front of the Mexican consulate and plans another protest Wednesday morning. The group also expects to hold a protest at next week's City Council meeting.

Lupe Moreno, president of Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, is spearheading the movement. She said she has no qualms with the event itself, comparing it to St. Patrick's Day and other ethnic festivities.

"I don't care. Let them have their event. Just don't do it on the same day as Sept. 11," said Moreno, a Santa Ana resident. "That is not the day we should be partying and celebrating."

Santa Ana City Manager Dave Ream said they've made the decision to celebrate on that day and don't see a problem with it.

City officials plan to hold a special memorial to honor the fallen before kicking off celebrations for Mexico's 200 years of independence.

"We want to do something really nice," Ream said about the Sept. 11 component of the events. "We don't have the contract quite finished yet but we'll definitely recognize that day."

The promoter of the event pays for all the costs, including security during the celebration, which includes a festival and parade, Ream added.

Moreno contends the Mexican celebration should not be held on that weekend at all. She and Barbara Coe, who heads the California Coalition for Immigration Reform in Huntington Beach, have sent e-mails to several hundred members involved in the movement, calling for the protests.

Mexican diplomat Alejandra Garcia Williams, who recently took the helm as Consul General in Santa Ana, said she doesn't understand why Moreno and her group would picket her. The city's decision had already been made when she first took charge late last year, she said.

In Mexico and at other consulates throughout the world, she said, the cry for independence celebration officially kicks off late night Sept. 15 and into Sept. 16.

When told about the date of the Santa Ana event, Garcia Williams said she immediately recognized the sensitive nature of Sept. 11 and asked officials to at least have a minute of silence during the event.

"That day is sensitive also for the Mexican community... for the whole world. Mexicans also died in the towers that day," she said.

Ultimately, she said she didn't object because she was new in town and wanted to be accommodating.

"But people need to understand that we did not make this decision ... what I attempted to do was to be accommodating to the traditions of Santa Ana to celebrate on the weekend when everyone can attend." Garcia Williams said.

Moreno said Garcia Williams should have taken a tougher stance.

"She is the representative of Mexico. She could still go to the ... City Council and say, 'You know what? Out of respect to your country, we should have it on the weekend after,' " Moreno said. "She should have spoken up."

Moreno said she believes there is still time for city officials to change their minds.

"It's not set in stone," she said. "They still have time to still make things right."

Contact the writer: 714-796-7924 or ccarcamo@ocregister.com

this irritates me to no end

If they are so proud of their country, they shouldn't have left it. They are celebrating in the wrong country. Do they celebrate America's birthday?

Santa Ana City Manager Dave Ream said they've made the decision to celebrate on that day and don't see a problem with it.

Of course he doesn't...he's the city manager of a defacto mexico city right here in Orange County! This guy is a turncoat

All the Azatlan wannabes celebrate Cinco de Mayo - a day commemorating a temporary defeat of the French by the Mexican army in 1862 - for their Mexican heritage and pride, maybe its time Americans started celebrating some of their own heritage and pride.

How about if we celebrate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War on February 2, 1848 when Mexico surrendered?

Nah, already past and besides, it is too cold in most of the USA for a BBQ.

Texans remember the Battle of the Alamo. (February 23 – March 6, 1836) but its still not good patriotic partying weather across much of the USA.

How about celebrating the battle and subsequent capture of Mexico City, September 8-15, 1847? While being outnumbered by over 2:1, the victorius US forces had a 4:1 edge in casuality/wounded after the seven day battle.

The Marine Corp anthem commemerates "the halls of Montezuema" which actually was the Battle of Chapultepec Castle, September 12-14, 1847.

Thus September 14 would make a grand day for patriots to have parties and celebrations recounting the routing of the Mexican Army, the purchase of the American southwest, and the hanging of traitorous members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion who, like many illegal alien supporters of today, chose to side with Mexico over the United States.

What should we call the celebration?

Since there is a VE and VJ Day: September 14th – Victory in Mexico Day

Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

If they are so proud of their country, they shouldn't have left it. They are celebrating in the wrong country. Do they celebrate America's birthday?

AMEN! Only a coward abandons their country when it is in need. All these traitors to Mexico are doing is trying to hide their guilt for being a coward.

i thought i read somewhere that this was changed till the following weekend of the 18th

Since they're celebrating the country of Mexico, they need to go back there to do it and not do it here on any date. This is not Mexico!

Originally Posted by jamesw62

i thought i read somewhere that this was changed till the following weekend of the 18th

Me too! I guess we missed something!