Posted on 05/02/2006 3:48:34 PM PDT by persephone35
ping for future reading
Nor do the professors on American campuses teaching them that "history" about how their land was "stolen". Talk about subversive professors....
Learn from history!
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Hypothetically... let's give it back. Then what? It becomes part of Mexico and they no longer get the bennies associated with being in the U.S.
Not real deep thinkers, are they?
Thanks for posting this, though KCET is Los Angeles' left leaning PBS station. This seemed a pretty reportorial account of aspects of the conflict. What would be more interesting would be an account of how the area in question was "governed" by those who took it first from the native Indians. The native Indians did not appreciate Mexican/Spanish rule. The Mexicans did not have the ability to administer the area nor to maintain order. Geronimo, jailed by the Mexican government, earned part of his reputation "dissing" Mexican authority. Mexico couldn't develop a decent government then and it can't do so now within Mexico's current borders.
Mexico stole it from the American Indians. We bought it from Mexico.
Decedents of (Spanish) Cortez telling decedents of (Spanish) Columbus to go home. Ya, that makes sense.
I think Kennewick Man tried to tell his invaders to go home. It got him speared.
You forgot Texas. Obviously these people are disavowing what Santa Ana did at the battle of San Jacinto when he signed over Texas to Sam Houston.
Mexico in the 1840's was a new country whose legitimacy, and hold on lands it claimed in the north was tenuous and not entirely legitimate. The United States cleverly took advantage of that situation.
They barely held on and if it weren't for traders from the then US states and CA they would have gone under.
The trip from Mexico to Santa Fe was dangerous and seldom attempted because Comanches were terrible enemies to have. Once they obtained horses(which they did not have in the initial invasion of their territory) they became a huge force to be reckoned with. The texas rangers were responsible for fighting and securing the area from Comanches and had a hell of a time with it, even with the advent of revolving pistols to help them after colt invented the Patterson(the Walker was more substantial but still showed a tendency to blow up now and them).
Mexico never really "held" much of this territory they are claiming is "still" theirs. If they want it, let them come and get it!
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Not only that, but the socialist Americans of Mexifornia would have to move, cause according to Mexican law, no foreigners are allowed to own property with in what, 25 miles of the coast? Oh and they can't engage in politics, so they're screwed there... Of course they loath anything military so no problem with them wanting to join the mexican army, not that they could according to mexican law.
LOL....that's WHAT I've always thought....."give it back." Then it'll just be the h*llhole they escaped from.
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