Posted on 10/28/2013 12:22:26 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
A Wisconsin man was arrested last Saturday after he punched two men he believed were speaking Spanish – even though it turns out the pair were conversing in Hebrew, not Spanish.
Dylan T. Grall, 23, was walking down Henry Street in Madison, WI just after 2:00 AM when he passed by two men he believed were speaking Spanish. According to the police incident report, Grall proceeded to swear at the pair and “demanded they speak English.” He then punched each of the two men in the face, leaving one with a swollen eye, while the other victim fell to the ground with the impact of the assault.
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Singing now, “I will be a rich man, deedle, deedle, deedle, da! All day long I’ll sit and count the sum, deedle, deedle, deedle, dum!”
Stating ‘Not taking the bait’ basically means ‘I don’t have an answer’.
We defeated the Japanese in World War 2. If two people walk by speaking Japanese, I *mind my own business*. I don’t stare at them, speak rudely to them or punch them in the face. If that makes me a Leftist, so be it.
Too bad the two victims weren’t carrying...
Drunk does something stupid somewhere in huge nation of 300 million.
National news story!
It’s pathetic. No pretense at all to be anything other than propaganda.
How drunk was the perp?
“Oy carumba!”
Very good!
Nonsense.
And you would hear people speaking in several local American Indian languages as well.
There has been a daily Spanish newspaper in the southwest since 1926.
There have been Spanish language radio programing in the southwest for almost as long(1932)
Only if you went to the various reservations. Unheard of in the cities.
We used to go to the Pascua Yaqui Indian Easter ceremonies when the reservation was in Tucson proper; the old one at Grant Road and the Freeway. Bout the only time I ever heard anyone speaking in their dialect. In the movies they had them speaking in Spanish, which was hilarious - they hated Mexicans, and still do!
In any event they moved out to the new reservation West of town (New Pascua) and hardly ever heard from them these days. Certainly not in the city. Maybe some Papago (Tohono O'odham) at the casino....
Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo people were around in Flagstaff and Gallup mainly; true they spoke in their languages, but virtually all knew/spoke English from the Rez schools. Still do. They would normally switch to that when in town in general.
There has been a daily Spanish newspaper in the southwest since 1926
Sure. Used to give 'em away for free in the 7-11's back in the day. Make good cat litter box liners.
There have been Spanish language radio programing in the southwest for almost as long(1932)
Um, one AM station in Tucson, and another in Phoenix. Don't know about El Paso, probably similar prior the 70's. Texans were even more hostile. The clear channel stations from Mexico all broadcast in English.
Even in Yuma and El Centro of the old days it was all English...or else.
Know why? Because the Americans were determined to make it their country. Why do you think the La Raza uprising happened? They saw an opening and started agitating in the '60s. They knew they could push around a generation of weaklings, and coattail off the black civil rights movement.
But since you're obviously not from them thar parts, you wouldn't know about that, wouldja? All ya got is Google.
Truth is, the Southwest was hardcore. It was speak English or be viewed as a foreigner. That comes from the fact that the Southwest is really an American creation: the Mexicans never got much North of Magdalena. Sure, the missions were erected, but that was to convert the Indians so the King of Spain could credibly claim them as his "subjects". That all fell apart after 1821. The big cities of the Southwest were All American: for example, Phoenix was not a Mexican town, it was started by Jack Swilling, a Confederate emigrant.
The other places like the Old Pueblo in Tucson were tiny outposts on La Frontera, erected to protect the missions, but mainly to keep Apache and Comanche from raiding South. All that was obliterated after 1848.
But now that it's a stunning success, the Campesinos are flooding to El Norte to steal what they could not make. And their Fellow Travelers in the Democratic party, eager to equate borders with racism, are all for it. So much for the interests of the white American working class, right? After all, they're just living in trailer parks, clinging to their guns and bibles.
Suspect you're down with that position.
The funny thing is that when you try to change history to make it what you believe it should have been you not only weaken your argument and drive away potential allies but you are acting exactly like a democrat.
Perhaps you should reexamine your tactics as well as your facts.
In other words, the Americans as illegitimate occupiers.
Yours is the rhetoric of Rudy Acuna in Occupied America, the real "screed" that you are taking your cues from ("We were always here. Dees Eees Ahr Lahnd, Greengo!").
I assume nothing. I lived it. You clearly did not. Not one thing is wrong. That's the way it was, and in many ways still IS, at least in Arizona - although the Left (you) has been trying to break it down with Revisionist History for the last 40 years.
You are the one who is behaving like a leftist in your attempt to re-write history.
And you are acting like a leftist in your ascribing motives and statements to people when they never said any such thing.
It is sad really.
And as usual you can supply no evidence contrary to my facts.
Where do you live? Spokane? Oslo?
You clearly know nothing of the Southwest, or the settlement of it by the Americans.
While you may think that "before 1975 no one spoke Spanish in public in the southwest" I was there and yes they did.
We were learning Spanish at the time so our ear was tuned to hear it and hear it we did.
Perhaps you were not paying attention or it just swept by you without you noting it.
According to my husband in Killeen Texas in 1960 you heard both English and Spanish in the town.
So I am sorry but what you are stating is simply not true.
And no amount of your attempt to disregard reality and pathetic attempts to change the subject by insulting me will change what happened.
I’m sorry you were subjected to such an anomalous experience.
Once again, I can safely tell you that it was UNHEARD in general. Especially in Tucson, Phoenix and Flagstaff.
Border towns were an exception. And so were a few neighborhoods...but even those places did not have billboards in Spanish or schooling in Spanish. That came with the Leftist drive for bi-lingual “education” which was supposed to remedy the poor performance of the kids in those schools (”its too hard to learn in English”). It was in fact merely an attempt to displace English.
I recall seeing the first billboard in Spanish in Tucson in 1975. About snapped my head off as I went by: it was shocking.
I find it fascinating that you were learning to speak Spanish and you now angrily insist that it was there all along, coequal with English, spoken by a some significant fraction of the population.
That’s outright nonsense. The pressure to assimilate - even in Texas - was enormous.
So let me guess: you’re a liberal. You actually believe that the Southwest belongs to Mexico, that the Mexican populace has a right to immigrate into “their land”, because “after all, we have always been here”.
You sanctimoniously lecture me that “you must have missed it” and “we were learning it”. That’s the rhetoric of the Reconquista Left, the Mexican hegemonists who attempt to bully weakling Anglos (their term) into submitting to their language, their culture, their government, their rule.
Sorry. I don’t plan to submit. I’ve been hearing that threat from Mexicans since the 70’s: “Someday you gonna speak Spahn-ish!”.
It’s about subjugation. In their macho culture, if they can force you to speak their language, you are the weak and they are the strong.
And I think we’ve established where you fall in that hierarchy.
Was alcohol involved?
great post!!!!
Thanks, DW.
The historical revisionist keeps trying to convince me that I grew up in Mexico, not the United States.
You and I both remember the real West, before the Invasion.
Some people want to pretend it was always like that.
You can take the Aztlan myth, the Spanish language, South/Latin America in general, Mexico in specific,and put it where the Sun (not Sol) Don't Shine.
Long Live America and the Americans.
And I ain't gettin' a Mexican visa to visit the graves of my family. Or my children, even if you think they are living on "Stolen Land".
My very simple distillation is_____
Do I prefer and gravitate towards the AngloSphere culture or the Latino/Spanish culture. The Anglo culture is what made America great with invention and industry and what I grew up in. This is what I want. But this culture and work ethic gets diluted each year by its enemies.
Unfortunately lets face facts that this historical population here that won WW2 has allowed itself to get weakened with each new generation. We got soft due to prosperity. This is the softness that has tolerated the invasion you mention. This softness also lead to indulging in abortion so there are fewer successors. So we import our successors. Crazy but true
Exactly right. What I call the Greatest Crime in History: the intentional attempt to get the American population to willingly commit suicide.
Remember it didn't happen in a vacuum. In the late 60's, it was Paul Ehrlich and The Population Bomb telling us we were "overpopulated". Roe v. Wade was partly based on that BS. Recall that we were all lectured to have only "Replacement Children" - 2 at most. Wouldn't wanna harm Mother Earth with more evil resource using Anglos, right?
It's changing back but of course the Left is desperate to prevent that, and flooding the country with aliens will push more people to the sidelines as making a living becomes harder, and unyielding demands for welfare going to the aliens sucks yet more income out of the pockets of the Americans.
Most people get that but find it harder to change.
But all Bad Things gotta come to an end. Look at Detroit. Eventually they run out of other people's money.
The standard of living in Mexico is a direct result of the people and culture there. There is no history of them ever being able to create anything beyond a subsistence economy, and no one on Earth is pining for the Mexican "army" to come save them, unlike the American army.
Far from it.
But this is where America will end up if we do not resolutely enforce our laws and civilization: We decide who comes here and is the Citizenry, not them.
It's either that or the Light of World, the greatest experiment in human history, dies.
The Mexicans have no right to destroy what was built, and no right to simply steal what they could not build.
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