I wouldn’t
hold my breath. Despite Bush’s tough talk, he still is lax about foreigners in
the country.
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Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003
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see
Lets hope the authorities are keeping a close eye on these clowns.
I would suggest rounding them all up and going over there green
cards with a fine tooth comb.
On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 06:44 AM, Charles wrote:
Aztlan
backers see
Hussein capture hoax
Mexican-American separatists
don't believe U.S. has Saddam
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Posted: December 18,
2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A Mexican-American separatist website, La
Voz de Aztlan, is claiming the U.S. capture of Saddam Hussein is a
hoax.
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The pro-Arab and viciously anti-Israeli
organization also sees a spontaneous uprising of popular support for Hussein
throughout Iraq – a phenomenon unnoticed by news organizations throughout the
world, including those in Arab countries.
According to the site, "extreme doubts have
arisen throughout Islam that the released pictures by U.S. occupation forces of
the 'captured Saddam' are of the Iraqi leader. Thousands of Iraqis, who knew
Saddam, are claiming that it is one of Saddam's many known 'doubles.'"
Why would an American-based website produced by
Mexican-Americans be so committed to the legacy of Saddam Hussein?
The Aztlan movement, which calls for the creation
of a separate, Spanish-speaking state in North America out of much of the
Southwest, gets its inspiration from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian statehood
movement.
La Voz de Aztlan, or the Voice of Aztlan, called
the capture of Hussein the "mother of all hoaxes."
Its website identifies Mexicans in the U.S. as
"America's Palestinians." Many Mexicans see themselves as part of a
transnational ethnic group known as "La Raza" – the race. A May
editorial on the website, with a dateline of "Los Angeles, Alta
California," declares that "both La Raza and the Palestinians have been
displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy
our territories."
Hussein, the group's captive hero, meanwhile,
paid some $35 million in aid to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
According to a survey conducted in June 2002, a
healthy majority of Mexicans claim that their country rightfully owns much of
the southwestern United States, while most Americans believe Washington should
adopt stricter immigration standards and deploy U.S. troops along the border.
The Zogby International poll found a majority of Mexicans say the U.S.
Southwest "rightfully belongs to Mexico," and that Mexican citizens
should be able to come into those areas freely, without U.S. permission. The
poll found that 58 percent of Mexicans agree with the statement, "The
territory of the United States' Southwest rightfully belongs to Mexico."
Zogby said 28 percent disagreed, while another 14 percent said they weren't
sure.
Activists who quite literally see themselves as
"America's Palestinians" are gearing up a movement to carve out of
the southwestern United States – a region including all of Bush's home state of
Texas – a sovereign Hispanic state called the Republica del Norte.
"There are great similarities between the
political and economic condition of the Palestinians in occupied Palestine and
that of La Raza in the southwest United States," explains an editorial in
La Voz de Aztlan in Los Angeles, the city seen as the future capital of the new
Hispanic state – much like Jerusalem is seen by Palestinian Arabs as their
capital.
The editorial goes on to draw analogies between
the Arab uprising in Israel and gang violence in Los Angeles. It's the same
thing, the activists claim. This is not crime and punishment, according to La
Raza activists, this is the birth of an independence movement by young
Hispanics.
"The similarities are many," says the
editorial. "The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements
occurred 100 years apart. For La Raza, it happened in 1848 when Mexico lost the
southwest at the end of the Mexican-American War and the signing of the Treaty
of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. For the Palestinians, it occurred in 1948 when the
Zionist Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and signed the
'Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel' on the day in which
the British Mandate over Palestine expired."
Charles Mims
http://www.the-sandbox.org
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