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New Salinas School Gets Name of Famous Outlaw
KION ^ | : Dec 10, 2012 | Jasmine Viel

Posted on 12/10/2012 9:08:53 PM PST by artichokegrower

SALINAS, Calif.- The Alisal Union School District confirmed Monday it decided to rename a new school in the Monte Bella neighborhood after a famous bandit, who is seen as a hero by some Mexican-Americans.

Tiburcio Vasquez was convicted of murder and hung for the crime in the 1800's. He was born in Monterey to a prominent family. According to several online sources, like Wikipedia, he organized a gang, robbed travelers, had gunfights with police and killed three innocent bystanders during a robbery in San Benito County.

Vasquez is already "honored" today by two place names in southern California.

According to CaliforniaHistory.com, Vasquez was something of a celebrity, a hero to hundreds of his fellow Spanish-speaking citizens. Scores of visitors brought him flowers, wines, notions and other tokens of esteem to where he was in jail during his trial. An appeal for clemency was denied by Governor Romualdo Pacheco. On March 19,1875, in San Jose, California, Tiburcio Vasquez, bandido and folk hero, calmly met his death by hanging.

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Salinas, California is gangbanger central. What better place for an elementary school named after an early California thug.
1 posted on 12/10/2012 9:08:58 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

What’s up is down.

The worst offenders are contemporary childrens lit writers. Anyone who doesn’t realize Harry Potter is a villian (and a forgettable one) is well advised to review the ancient texts first placed in writing by the Brothers Grimm, but whose lore goes back far and wide.


2 posted on 12/10/2012 9:12:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne; tiredoflaundry; HungarianGypsy; JenB; Grendel9; dead; TwoWolves; js1138; MineralMan; ...

ping...


3 posted on 12/10/2012 9:18:29 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: artichokegrower

I know some school administrators that should be fired.


4 posted on 12/10/2012 9:19:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Hurricane Sandy..., a week later and over 60 million Americans still didn't have power.)
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To: artichokegrower
Vasquez rock.

You've seen it in any number of Sci-fi movies and truck/car commercials.

5 posted on 12/10/2012 9:22:21 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: artichokegrower

What ? Was Che Guevera taken ?


6 posted on 12/10/2012 9:23:09 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: artichokegrower

Nearly got jacked on South Main three weeks back....nice, huh?

Freakin Chalinas, mang....YUCK..!


7 posted on 12/10/2012 9:24:31 PM PST by gaijin
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To: artichokegrower

California, lol.


8 posted on 12/10/2012 9:27:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: null and void
Kirk and ? Pictures, Images and Photos
9 posted on 12/10/2012 9:32:19 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: artichokegrower

He is a hero, yet we are supposed to erase Columbus from history. Sadly it is not just the inbred in California, you see this crap all over America. If it is white European it is to be reviled while any thug of color is a saint!


10 posted on 12/10/2012 9:36:40 PM PST by Mastador1
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To: artichokegrower; All

Nothing like bringing more Mestizo-Racism into the classroom.

And politicians in this country want to give Illegal Alien Amnesty to people who celebrate crime and thuggery?


11 posted on 12/10/2012 9:59:23 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Seems that the ones who understand little about the economy are economists)
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hung for the crime in the 1800's.

hanged pendejo.

..that is a pun btw for anyone who knows what pendejo actually means (a hanging pubic hair)

12 posted on 12/10/2012 10:05:31 PM PST by wardaddy (wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
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To: null and void

Looks like the scene from Star Trek TOS where Kirk fought the Gorn.


13 posted on 12/10/2012 10:21:08 PM PST by fattigermaster
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To: artichokegrower

Shame ... I went to First thru Fourth grade at Buena Vista school on River Road in Salinas ... same teacher throughout ... Mrs Lindsey. I was born there at Park Hospital. My mom was a Salinas High Cowboy and met my Dad at Hartnell. Most of my family worked at Spreckels Sugar at one time or another. My grandma ran a small beauty salon in the back of her house in Spreckels.
My grandfather spent 40 years at the Spreckels plant in Spreckles as head carpenter. My how things have changed


14 posted on 12/10/2012 10:28:51 PM PST by clamper1797 (I mourn for the America I grew up in ..fought for ..and loved ..July 4 1776- June 28 2012)
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Yes. That and soooo much else...
15 posted on 12/10/2012 10:32:22 PM PST by null and void (Going Galt: The won't of the people)
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To: artichokegrower
Scores of visitors brought him flowers, wines, notions and other tokens of esteem to where he was in jail during his trial.

What have I done to deserve such generosity?

16 posted on 12/10/2012 10:32:54 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: artichokegrower
mmmmmmmmmmmm artichokes. You must be from Castroville. I love stopping at the giant artichoke for their deep fried hearts whenever I am in the area!
17 posted on 12/10/2012 10:38:50 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: artichokegrower

No big deal. Salinas is the worst hellhole in the entire state of California. It makes Compton look like Beverly Hills. Naming the local elementary school after a notorious killer is par for the course, and will just enhance the exisiting situation a bit more.


18 posted on 12/10/2012 10:49:35 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Salinas ... Isn’t that the town in which Cal Hamilton’s mother, Cathy, operated her cathouse in Steinbeck’s novel ‘East of Eden’? Doesn’t sound like things have changed much.


19 posted on 12/10/2012 10:57:31 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: stanne

Your statement intrigues me, please do continue with your Harry Potter as villain concept.


20 posted on 12/10/2012 11:02:14 PM PST by MetaThought
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