Guard the Borders: The Pernicious Myth of Reconquistas

I was about to put fingers to keyboard and flesh out some thoughts I had last night about borders, sovereignty, a government’s responsibility to its citizens, etc., but then today’s mailbox revealed a post submitted for the blogburst by LomaAlta (Linknzona), with a forward by Heidi (Euphoric Reality). For those of y’all who’ve missed my comments about Linknzona before, let me repeat: THE must-read of the blogosphere on border issues. Read his article below, then visit the site and read ALL his posts on the issues surrounding control of our borders.

Foreword by Heidi at Euphoric Reality

From Spanish-speaking illegal workers, to angry tenured professors and arrogant politicians, we are hearing more and more tenets and demands from a movement called Reconquista. The movement, once dismissed as extreme racist rhetoric, has rapidly gained traction and momentum among millions of ill-educated illegal aliens and well-established Mexicans alike. Reconquista gives voice to the angry demands of present-day Mexicans who mistakenly think they have indigenous rights to the land of the Southwestern United States – which they claim was “stolen” by an imperialist American government. The centerpiece of their agenda is the mythical Aztlan

(Read the rest of Heidi’s foreword here

Clearing Up A Misconception About Reconquista
by Loma Alta

Introduction.

Spain conquered what was to become modern Mexico and part of the southwestern United States in 1521. Spanish rule lasted 300 years until 1821 when Mexico gained independence. Mexico ruled what is now part of the southwestern United States for a very, very short time. Mexico ruled Texas from 1821 until 1836, some 16 years. Mexico ruled California from 1821 until 1846, 26 years. Mexico ruled most of New Mexico from 1821 until 1848, 28 years, and the southern most portions of Arizona and New Mexico until purchased by the United States in 1853, 33 years. The United States began ownership of these territories in 1845 (Texas), 1846 (California), and 1848-1853 (New Mexico and Arizona). Thus the United States has owned this land since 1845-1853, 153-162 years.

The ownership has thus been: Spanish 1521-1821 or 300 years; Mexican 1821-36 to 1853 or 16 to 33 years; and American 1845-1853 or 154 to 162 years. Almost all development and modernization came under United States ownership. Please see Spain, Mexico, Texas, California, and New Mexico-Arizona for more details.

Comparison of Ownership Time and Development.

Spain owned the area for 300 years and operated it as a colony. The central area, and most developed part was around Mexico City with much of the current southwestern United States being the frontier, relatively undeveloped, and subject to Indian raids and predations. The situation was much the same in the very, very short period, 16-33 years, of Mexican ownership. With the United States ownership, 154 to 162 years, beginning as territories, exploration and development proceeded rapidly and modern civilization came with, or shortly after, statehood.

The Absurdity of Reconquista.

Whether by time of ownership or degree of development and civilization, Mexico had virtually no temporal or civil weight of authority in the southwestern United States. Mexico never really established military or civil control over the area and it was never really a normal part of Mexico, but was always the frontier with vast expanses of nearly unexplored and lightly inhabited regions far from Mexican rule and authority. So tenuous, unpopular, and corrupt was Mexico’s presence and claim to the areas, and the Mexican government so hated by American and Mexican pioneers alike, that it only lasted from 16 to 33 years.

Thus, Reconquista is another myth, promulgated for racist reasons (it is the spawn of Mexican supremacist groups such as La Raza – literally “the Race”) much as the Germans’ “Lebensraum”, or living space, was for the master race. And, Reconquista is equally racist and equally the deranged product of irrational hate groups.

Therefore, we can dismiss the concept of “Reconquista” as a racist, hate group concept that has no place in America, or in any other just and tolerant society or country. There is no need to give any credence whatsoever to the false and meritless claims of any moral attachment to territory by radical, racist groups. They are as phony as last year’s bird’s nest.



This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It is syndicated by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration in our country, join the Blogburst! Send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

Write-your-own TWC Post today/Open Trackbacks

Yep. Monday’s Open Post. Consider it a “write-your-own third world county post” OK? Just link to this post and track back.

More later. I’m busy exploring Vimeo. There are some awefully creative folks posting short clips there. Fun time-waster. Back later. 🙂

Also note the other fine blogs featuring linkfests at Linkfest Haven.

Linkfest Haven

Sunday Thoughts: the Voice of Truth

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6, NKJV)

Jesus is the Truth incarnate; you can trust Him and know that He will never lie to you.

However, so many things in our lives lie to us, and we listen to them closely. Advertisements say we need products x, y, or z to make us “happy.” Movies and TV tell us that to be physically imperfect is somehow shameful. Newspapers tell us that the world is a terrible, horrible place. Doctors tell us that it’s OK to kill a pre-born baby because it might have some disease or deformity. Our family and friends tell us that we’re worthless or truly extraordinary, too fat or too thin, too good or too bad, too smart or too dumb… On and on and on.

So who do we believe?

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What’s a Vegan Good For?

Here’s your answer:

Vegan-Fed Hens

[CLICK on the pic to see a larger (though not necessarily better–used a cheesy lil digicam) view.]

Package reads, “Vegetarian-Fed Hens”. I just wonder where they got the vegetarians to feed to the hens…

Pondering the question at Stuck on Stupid, Adam’s Blog, the obscene–no! almost blasphemous!– post at Lil Duck Duck, “How to Give Up Caffeine” (yeh, drop the pop, but switch to coffee, dudette! :-)), Blue Star Chronicles, and 7 Deadly Sins.

Brother Chimp: a brilliant idea and a roundup

While my Wonder Woman was brushing my back hair this morning, we had a synergistic interchange. I realized that my back hair, while luxurious in growth, never seems to get longer. She matched that quickly to the fact that I view haircuts as an inconvenience. WOW! Hair plugs from back hair! Never have to have another haircut!

As Ron Weasley would say, “Wicked!”

Now, a brief roundup of interesting things found in the blogosphere:


R’Cat posts The Bill of NON-Rights

Thanks to the Beloved Husband, who e-mailed this to me: The following has been attributed to Lewis Napper, a self-described amateur philosopher from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian. “We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren… “

*heh*

Alexandra probes conservative environmental principles with an essential question in Politicizing ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Acknowledging that most of us have to make a choice which camp to believe is an important start; and I stress, the emphasis is on ‘believe’ not on choice! Most of us can’t claim certain knowledge, although judging from what is written out there, you could have fooled me.

A thought-provoking read. For more on the topic, I suggest visiting Chaos Manor Musings and typing “global warming” or “climate change” in the search boxes provided.

Speaking of Jerry Pournelle’s place, here’s a piece he reproduced in mid May that I’ve been meaning to refer to before: The Fury of the Legions.

“Make haste to reassure us, I beg you, and tell us that our fellow citizens understand us, support us, and protect us as we ourselves are protecting the glory of the Empire.

“If it should be otherwise, if we should have to leave our bleached bones on these desert sands in vain, then beware the fury of the Legions.”

There’s more at the link, of course, and Pournelle does note problems in the provenance of the quoted material, though nothing that would blunt the seriousness of the matter.

Folks over at Diane’s Stuff are playing Dead Guy in the Sidebar #11. I’ve held up my end so far by continuing to make guesses of folks who’ve already been Dead guys in the Sidebar or Teddy Kennedy (hope springs eternal, ya know). Drop on by and play, why don’tcha?

Sam (The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns) points to THE BEST Mastercard commercial (spoof) I have seen. Put down the coffee before viewing. Maybe NSFW (depending on your workplace).

Not a blogpost (and I can’t recall offhand how I found it—if it was via your blog, let me know, OK?), but Planning ahead is considered racist? is a must-read for those who want a lil ammo in the conflict with those who pervert the truth in order to advance the destruction of Western Civilization.

Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids’ education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you’re a racist.

According to the district’s official Web site, “having a future time orientation” (academese for having long-term goals) is among the “aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color.”

Well, there you are: being responsible is being racist. *Feh*

I can relate to Jay Tea’s analogy: Vicente Fox: The ultimate spammer, though some of the commenters seem to deliberately miss his points. No excerpt. Just read the whole thing.

I ought to have noted this one last week, well before Memorial Day. Brainster’s Blog links to Rick Monday’s 1976 dash to save the flag. (Again, I can’t recall who tipped me to Brainster’s post. If it was you, lemme know, ‘K?)

“Do Vampires Eat Hamburgers?” asks TRY. Steak tartare, Bubba Yak, steak tartare…

Angel’s Pakistani Torture of Women post is strong. The real face of Islam.

And at The Conservative Cat, ferdy posts Laura Ingraham – Andy Rooney on the Purpose of War

Well, that oughta add to your weekend reading list.

BTW, let me know what you think of my “back hair transplant” idea. I think it’s a winner. 🙂

OTPed at STACLU free-for-all

Lake Wobegon Writ Large

Office Space - Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition)

Office Space – Special Edition with Flair (Widescreen Edition)

Damn Interesting (which ought to be named “DamnED Interesting”—*heh*) has an, uhm, interesting post, Unskilled and Unaware of It.

“Interesting” is an extreme understatement. Quite apart from the appropriate graphic citation of Milton Waddoms (the Office Space “Swingline guy”) meme, the post serves as a reminder of the dangers of the Lake Wobegon philosophy that “all the children are above average”.

Read the post. It’s a tad longer than many, and it’s info-dense, but it’s well worth your time, IMO. It places much of what you’ll find me ranting about here at twc in context… and—surprise! surprise!—you can decide for yourself how that post relates to my posts here. *heh*

Brief précis (if I may be repetitively redundant)? OK: Most incompetent people think they are not. Not only that, incompetent people are incompetent to assess either their incompetence or the competence of others.

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Who Do You Wanna Grow Up to Be?

This is designed to be the blogosphere’s shortest (as far as I know) meme pool tag game. One simple question; one simple answer:

What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be?

OK, I’ll go first. Becker. His wit, charm and sensitive personality are my role model in life.

😉

Rules of the game:

1.) Ask and answer the question, “What television sitcom character do you want to grow up to be”? (Yeh, I know you’re asking yourself, so the rhetorical form oughta be “What… do I want to grow up to be?” but it’s my game so I’m screwing with the English language the way I want to, so there.)
2.) Tag three people.
3.) Link and track back to the post that tagged you.
4.) List and link to the three people “upline” from you: your tagger, their tagger and the person who tagged the person who tagged you.

Since this lil blogosphere meme pool tag game is so extremely simple, I’ve attempted to make the rules as convoluted as possible to make up for alla the work you DON’T have to do coming up with a post.

Why not?

First Round Tagees:

Woody of Woody’s News and Views
Diane, of Diane’s Stuff
Angel, of Woman Honor Thyself

That’s all.

Oh, if you feel left out like the last kid picked for a side in dodge ball in grade school, drop over to one of the three tagees and ask for a hit.

Well, Diane certainly waxed prolix w/this puppy, proving that “The blogosphere’s shortest meme pool tag game” can be made into one of the longest if played by a real pro. 🙂

If only… *sigh*

If only the occasional piece of satire were reality. Like this one:

China Calls In U.S. Loans, Demands California
Golden State could become Middle Kingdom’s east coast

*sigh* It’s be a series sweep for the U.S. Just think on it a second: Wipe out U.S. debt to China and essentially no change for The Red Coast* (save that CA would no longer be a haven for Mexican illegals—*heh*). The few hardy genuine American citizens remaining on The Red Coast* would need to be repatriated and recompensed in some way, but think on it: Hollyweird would actually become less anti-American and communist than it is now!

*Red Coast, of course, refers to the communist bent of most of California. I never could understand how so-called conservatives got tagged with the “red” label so strongly associated with communism in the 20th century. Go figure.