Posted on 08/21/2003 10:08:48 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In case anyone hadn't noticed, assimilation is no longer cool in the United States. The American way is a relic of the past. Even hyphenated Americanism isn't good enough. More and more people must have their own 'reservation,' their own culture, their own language, communities and political representation. Consider the country of Aztlan, which most Americans have never heard of but certainly will in due time. Because it's right here in the U.S. Recently, Mexican President Vicente Fox formed a new cabinet level agency for the purpose of assisting in the "governing, protection and provision of services" for the 20 million Mexican natives who live in Aztlan, a territory that covers most of the Southwestern United States. The formation of the National Council for Mexican Communities Abroad is called by observers "a bold move that essentially extends an arm of Mexican government into the territory it lost in the Mexican-American War of 1848."
The new agency won the wholehearted support of the Mexican Congress. A "100 percent Mexican" in America will serve as the Aztlan representative to Mexico and will also head a new 'think tank' to address the "unique problems" facing Mexican immigrants in the U.S." The seven Southwestern states were purchased by the U.S. from Mexico under the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Today, there are tens of thousands of activists and supporters of the movement to "liberate Aztlan" and return it to the descendants of the Spanish and Mexican settlers. The Aztlan movement has organizations in universities across America and hosts dozens of websites that clearly state their sentiments and goals. "California is going to be a Hispanic state," said Latino activist Mario Obledo. "Anyone who doesn't like it should leave.'
The preface to the constitution of MEChA, a student activist organization, reads: "Chicana/Chicano students of California must take upon themselves the responsibility to promote Chicanism within our communities, as well as politicize our raza (race) and continue the struggle for self-determination of the Chicana/Chicano people and the liberation of Aztlan." Statements in 'The Plan' to liberate Aztlan include: "Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops, not to foreign Europeans.
"The Mexican people of Aztlan suffered a brutal gringo invasion of our territories. "Economic control will only come by driving the exploiters out of our communities." "Political liberation will require independent action on our part, as the two-party system is the same animal with two heads that feed from the same trough." "European/U.S. colonization made Mexicans martyrs of U.S. history."
"The citizens of Aztlan are America's Palestinians." Those are just a few of the milder statements on the dozens of websites anyone can explore by doing a search on 'Aztlan.'
The name 'Aztlan' comes from the Aztec people. Following is a brief history:
Aztlan is the mythical place of origin of the Aztec peoples. In their language (Nahuatl), the roots of Aztlan are the two words: aztatl tlan(tli) meaning "heron" and "place of," respectively. 'Tlantli' proper means tooth, and as a characteristic of a good tooth is that it is firmly rooted in place, and does not move. The prefix of this word is commonly used in Nahuatl to denote settlements, or place names, e.g. Mazatlan (place of deer), Papalotlan (place of butterflies) or Tepoztlan (place of metal). The Nahuatl language is often said to include three levels of meaning for its words or expressions: literal, syncretic and connotative. The connotative meaning of Aztlan, due to the plumage of herons, is "Place of Whiteness."
In the origin myths of the Aztecs, they emerged originally from the bowels of the earth through seven caves (Chicomostoc) and settled in Aztlan, from which they subsequently undertook a migration southward in search of a sign that would indicate that they should settle once more. This myth roughly coincides with the known history of the Aztecs as a barbarous horde that migrated from present-day northwestern Mexico into the central plateau sometime toward the end of the first millennium AD, when high civilizations of great antiquity were already well established in the region. The exact physical location of ancient Aztlan is unknown, other than it must have been located near estuaries or on the coast of northwestern Mexico, though some archaeologists have gone so far as to locate the present town of San Felipe Aztlan, Nayarit, as the exact place.
In Chicano folklore, Aztlan is appropriated as the name for that portion of Mexico that was taken over by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1846, on the belief that this greater area represents the point of parting of the Aztec migrations. In broad interpretation, there is some truth to this in the sense that all of the groups that would subsequently become the various Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico passed through this region in a prehistoric epoch, as attested by the existence of linguistically related groups of people distributed throughout the U.S. Pacific Intermountain region, the US southwest and northern Mexico, known as the Uto-Aztecan-Tanoan group, and including such peoples as the Paiute, Shoshoni, Hopi, Pima, Yaqui, Tepehuan, Rarámuri (Tarahumara), Kiowas and Mayas.
Ya know, this could really help the Californian economy if Mexico is willing to pay for all of the social services being consumed by illegal immigrants. Unless, that's not what he means.
There's an idea. CA should start billing Mexico for these services.
Come here legally, fine and dandy. Welcome. Work and hard and achieve the Dream. Come here by less than honest means and you are a criminal You would deserve NOTHING but a trip back to Mexico or a bullet if you get beligerent about it.
Note to Mexico (And Democrat Aztlanians): Raise an Army, win a war, return $15,000,000 (Compounded with interest over 150 years) plus improvements ($Trillions) to the USA, and you can have Aztlan back. No worries.
Otherwise, buzz off, and stay out of my gun sights.
SFS
Of course Mexico got its butt seriously kicked - again - and lost New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern Claifornia as a result.
Trying to take the terrirtory back is typical chicken-squat techniques as one might expect from a group that's afraid of getting their butts kicked yet again,
But due to liberals and their fear-mongering political correctness, it's apparent that we're going to let these weasels get away with it.
Let's be clear: I have no problem with Hispanic people per se, but the behavior of these La Raza radicals is cause for charges of treason. Note also that most Hispanic citizens (in every sense of the word) are opposed to this kind of demagoguery and want no part of it.
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