Posted on 02/16/2007 8:13:17 AM PST by ckilmer
Minutemen Go Inside Latino Immigration Meeting - Racism Espoused, Calls for Violence Against "Whites"
by Linda Muller - Minuteman Project - ForTheCause.us
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UPDATE: Minuteman Project National Spokesman Raymond Herrera talks about the radical latino groups with Kevin Shannon, host of, The Right Source Radio Show. Listen to a mp3 of the show... Kevin Shannon Website... |
The reason for calling this meeting, according to NAHR, is that "Mexicano and Latino efforts to push for a comprehensive humane immigration reform at this time lack the requisite mobilization power to influence the now Democratic controlled Congress."
The announcement for the meeting said, "Time is ticking and so if we are to be successful in pressuring the Democrats and Bush Administration to act on immigration reform, as a community must act now.
We need to ignite the fires of activism that produced last year's historically unprecedented marches and mobilizations of millions of Mexicanos and Latinos."
The meeting was held in a library meeting room and during introductions Minuteman Project National Spokesman Raymond Herrera and National Rally Coordinator Robin Hvidston said they were with the Minuteman Project. Navarro said even though he was barred from Minutemen meetings Herrera and Hvidston would be allowed to stay.
"He then made a comment about the Minutemen being racists," Hvidston said. "I replied the Minutemen are multi-ethnic. He said if the Minutemen interrupted the meeting, he would have us removed. I said I was merely correcting his inaccurate statement."
After referring to the Minutemen as racists, Navarro gave opening remarks. He talked about the recent ICE raids. Then the floor was open for comments. "I was astounded by the nonstop hate talk about 'white' people," Hvidston said.
"There was talk of how poorly Latino children are doing in school. White people were blamed. Talk about raids at work sites by ICE. White people were blamed. Talk about not enough Hispanic school teachers. White people were blamed. Talk about imprisonment of Latinos. White people were blamed," Hvidston recounted.
"People stood up and gave testimonials about white people being the cause of poor education, prison sentences, police brutality… They used slang such as 'gavachos' to refer to white people."
One man named Victor said he had just gotten back from Washington, DC. He said the Mexican congress members, who were recently in Washington, were not treated right. He said the Hispanic Caucus needs to do more for Latinos. Most of all, he said Latinos are disturbed that the new Democratic congress is focusing on Iraq rather than immigration reform and this had better change.
Navarro is planning a march for March 17th in San Bernardino. He said they will be calling on cities such as L.A. to join them. He said if civil disobedience is needed to stop any future ICE raids, so be it. One man stated that if guns and violence are needed, they should use violence to overwhelm the white people. He encouraged the community to take what they want by overwhelming and overpowering force.
Robin Hvidston believes the group is nervous because they still do not have amnesty, even with a Democratic majority in Congress. Raymond Herrera stated at the meeting that Navarro's leadership is much needed in Mexico, to fix Mexico. Raymond believes that there is a Mexican Revolution taking place, but that it should move down to Mexico where it can do the most good.
Also in attendance at this February 13 meeting in San Bernardino were three staff members from Congressman Joe Baca's office. Baca represents California's 43rd District and he is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. According to Hvidston, most of the attendees do not believe Baca is doing enough to help the Latino community. "They stated repeatedly, that in the 'Inland Empire' there are too many Republican congress members."
The National Alliance for Human Rights describes itself as a network of leaders, activists, scholars and organizations committed to the promotion of human rights, social justice and political empowerment of the Latino community in the United States.
As co-founder of For the Cause, Linda Muller has spent the last 2 decades working for various conservative candidates and Causes, including Rep. Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan, Jim Gilchrist and the Minuteman Project.
SOURCE: ForThe Cause.us and The Minuteman Project
And there are fringe groups of those of European descent who advocate violence toward those of non-European descent. What's your point (rhetorical)?
Double standards
Aztlan my aching azz... what did the INDIANS, THEY STOLE IT FROM, call it???
If they are pushing for a Reconquista (which most definitely does NOT seem to be the mainstream view of Latinos in the country), then taking over Mexico and making it all a part of the country could remove their base (they could still try some separatist thing--ala ETA and the Basque country, but it would be more difficult). Plus, Mexico has a warm climate, enticing Americans to emigrate to the former Mexico (at least once infrastructure, such as water sanitation plants that produce safer water, is put in place).
The displacement of previous peoples is not something new. The Bible mentions several such things. Germanic peoples displaced many Celts in the British Islands into Wales and Scotland, and became the ruling elites in several other countries where they were numerically too small to displace the local populace (Franks in France to the Gauls, Visigoths in Iberia, Ostrogoths in Italy--and for a non-Germanic/non-Europe one, Mexico again, with a relatively small Spanish elite ruling over a largely Amerindian or mestizo population, even today).
Indeed, there are drug dealers, smugglers, and other unsavory people coming up across the southern border, but few are actively trying to return much of the western part of the country to Mexico.
Did they get any of this on tape?
"...Victor said he had just gotten back from Washington, DC. He said the Mexican congress members, who were recently in Washington, were not treated right...Most of all, he said Latinos are disturbed that the new Democratic congress is focusing on Iraq rather than immigration reform and this had better change." Oh dear. Mexican Congress members weren't treated right. What, the Dems who met with them neglected to kiss both of their feet? On the day that Pelosi's plane was the lead story? Congress focusing on the war that we are engaged in is a bad thing? What a bunch of perdadores.
Yes, the Aztecs moved in on the poor indigenous local tribes at Lake Texcoco and did some extradorinarly nasty things to them, like recruit their leader's daughter to marry their chief, and instead lead her to their temple and cut out her still beating heart, along with general treachery and slaughter. These idiots forget what they were doing to each other before Europeans arrived. Curiously, there is only one North American indigenous language group that tracks with the language spoken by the first Aztecs, and that is the language spoken by the Utes of Western Colorado and Utah.
North of central Mexico, the land was largely uninhabited because stone age people could not survive in numbers in a hostile environment. The rampant cannibalism of the tribes was one indication of how precarious their existence was. The amount of land used and controlled by the handful of indians was miniscule. Bear in mind, th eaboriginal inhabitants of the Americas had not invented the wheel and didn't have horses.
it's all nothing but spanish conquest to me... they took it from somebody else and we took it from them. you can take anything you want in this world, the question is... are you strong enough to keep it???
If we don't stop illegals, and deport them, we are in for hell!
Unfortunately, this is typical of the left.
Maybe his point is the governmental attitudes towards 'European fringe groups' and groups like La Raza isn't exactly even handed. Multi million dollar philanthropic organizations across the country fund 'non-European' fringe groups, but I'm reasonably certain the FOrd Foundation has never provided a grant to Aryan Brotherhood.
January 15, 2007 Issue
Copyright © 2007 The American Conservative
Fragmented Future
Multiculturalism doesn’t make vibrant communities but defensive ones. In America, you don’t need to belong to a family-based mafia for protection because the state will enforce your contracts with some degree of equality before the law. In Mexico, though, as former New York Times correspondent Alan Riding wrote in his 1984 bestseller Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans, “Public life could be defined as the abuse of power to achieve wealth and the abuse of wealth to achieve power.” Anyone outside the extended family is assumed to have predatory intentions, which explains the famous warmth and solidarity of Mexican families. “Mexicans need few friends,” Riding observed, “because they have many relatives.” Mexico is a notoriously low-trust culture and a notoriously unequal one. The great traveler Alexander von Humboldt observed two centuries ago, in words that are arguably still true, “Mexico is the country of inequality. Perhaps nowhere in the world is there a more horrendous distribution of wealth, civilization, cultivation of land, and population.” Jorge G. Castañeda, Vicente Fox’s first foreign minister, noted the ethnic substratum of Mexico’s disparities in 1995: The business or intellectual elites of the nation tend to be white (there are still exceptions, but they are becoming more scarce with the years). By the 1980s, Mexico was once again a country of three nations: the criollo minority of elites and the upper-middle class, living in style and affluence; the huge, poor, mestizo majority; and the utterly destitute minority of what in colonial times was called the Republic of Indians… Castañeda pointed out, “These divisions partly explain why Mexico is as violent and unruly, as surprising and unfathomable as it has always prided itself on being. The pervasiveness of the violence was obfuscated for years by the fact that much of it was generally directed by the state and the elites against society and the masses, not the other way around. The current rash of violence by society against the state and elites is simply a retargeting.” These deep-rooted Mexican attitudes largely account for why, in Putnam’s “Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey,” Los Angeles ended up looking a lot like it did in the Oscar-winning movie “Crash.” I once asked a Hollywood agent why there are so many brother acts among filmmakers these days, such as the Coens, Wachowskis, Farrellys, and Wayans. “Who else can you trust?” he shrugged.
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