Re: Ghost of California Past

[Jim]

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> http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/6/27/164428.shtml
>
>
> California's Racial Iceberg
>
> Patrick Mallon
> Saturday, June 28, 2003
>
> Never a party to be outdone, California's Democrats are now pushing their
> class-warfare tactics to new heights, or depths, depending on how one
> examines the issue.
>
> Now in control of every level of state government, they manifest an abject
> reluctance to address (let alone acknowledge) their financial negligence.
> The governor deflects rumors that he will resign, and Assembly Speaker Herb
> Wesson trots around the state campaigning for increased taxes, seeking a
> vindication of reality only he can understand.
>
> The Democratic majority, the "Untouchables," move further left, continuing
> to push for driver's licenses as well as Mexico-issued ID cards for the
> millions of illegal immigrants living in the state.
>
> Late-night comedy shows consistently find material from the crazy
> legislation and knucklehead ideas that surface out of Sacramento and become
> law. We tend to examine what each of the parties does on a partisan basis,
> without any real discussion of who the individual legislators are, what they
> believe or what they say. In fact, very few people in California can even
> name their assembly person or state senator.
>
> This piece examines what several very powerful California politicians have
> revealed in their own words, perhaps divulging where ultimate loyalties
> reside, using words many would consider incendiary and racist. If one
> definition of loyalty is "faithful in allegiance to one's lawful
> government," then we may have some real problems on our hands.
>
> The outward appearance of California Democrats actually performing the job
> they raised their right hand and swore to do is both a myth and a strategy.
>
> The myth is that they are looking out for the public's best interest. The
> strategy is to thrust new taxes upon the public to pay for services for
> illegal immigrants, knowing the "brotherhood of silence" in the press has
> rubber-stamped a Hispanics-as-victims script that trumps neutral pursuit of
> facts.
>
> If this party had even a modicum of concern for both the financial and
> security interests of California, it would engage in an honest and open
> debate about the costs and sustainable assimilation of immigrants, most of
> whom are decent people, balanced against the overwhelming burdens on
> strapped taxpayers, enforcement of immigration law, and the legitimate
> threats posed by porous borders.
>
> Pictures From Below the Surface
>
> The following quotes show these Democrats' true feelings.
>
> Art Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit
> Response to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995):
>
> "Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was
> on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for
> affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're
> gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white America."
>
> Antonio Villaraigosa, former speaker of the California State Assembly and
> present Los Angeles City Council member-elect, discussing Prop 187 with a
> KABC-TV, Los Angeles reporter (July 29, 1999):
>
> Reporter: "What happens to the will of the people?"
>
> Villaraigosa: "Well, the will of the people is something all of us have to
> respect, but when the will of the people is unconstitutional, the will of
> the people is null and void."
>
> Mario Obledo, former California secretary of health and welfare and
> co-founder of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF),
> interviewed on radio station KIEV, Los Angeles (June 17, 1998):
>
> "We're going to take over all the political institutions of California.
> California is going to be a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it
> should leave. If they [Anglos] don't like Mexicans, they ought to go back to
> Europe."
>
> Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, speaking at the 1997
> Southwest Voter Registration Education Project:
>
> "We demand to be counted. And what we know as well is that the big giant
> that they keep talking about is awakening. And he's pretty angry about
> what's going on. Ya basta! [Enough!] This community is no longer going to
> stand for it. . And our vote is going to be important. But I gotta tell you
> that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going to go out there and vote because
> I want to pay them back.'"
>
> Pay who back?
>
> Fabian Nunez, California assemblyman, at the Latino Summit Response to Prop
> 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995):
>
> "Each of you, get ten people to go with us on that march in Washington,
> D.C., and I guarantee you just as we mobilized 150,000 to the streets of Los
> Angeles on October 16, we will mobilize 1 million people and bring
> Washington to a standstill, and those rednecks that are out there making
> decisions for the betterment of their communities will think twice before
> they push forward anti- immigrant legislation against our community."
>
> State Sen. Nell Soto, D-Ontario, June 25, 2003, San Bernardino Town Hall
> meeting to discuss SB60, the bill that would grant driver's licenses to
> illegal immigrants, responding to critics who say the legislation promotes
> illegal immigration:
>
> "Guess what?" Soto said. "The immigrants are already here. I welcome them. I
> hope they keep coming."
>
> Do any of these quotes strike anyone as marginally racist or irresponsible?
>
> 'Since We Stole It, Let Them Steal It Back'
>
> On June 17, I watched an incredible exchange during the legislative hearing
> over the Matricula Consular card (SB522) introduced by Manny Diaz, D-San
> Jose. The bill would require every state public officer or employee to
> accept, for identification purposes, the card as equivalent to a California
> driver's license or ID card issued by the DMV.
>
> Statements in favor included MALDEF, La Raza, the League of California
> Cities, the City of Los Angeles, and The Friends Committee on Legislation.
>
> When the speaker stated "Opposition to the Bill?" a clearly audible "Oh God,
> same jerks" could be heard by all.
>
> Statements opposed included several law enforcement and police organizations
> and the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR). Yeh
> Ling-Ling, the executive director of the Diversity Alliance for a
> Sustainable America (DASA), stated:
>
> "It frightens me to see that our government is accepting ID cards issued by
> foreign governments. For example, in the land of my ancestry, China, the
> level of fraudulent documents is very high. Let's say from the Philippines,
> Vietnam, Cambodia, where I lived, with money you can buy basically anything.
> Including documents.
>
> "After the bombings [Sept. 11], I urged Congress to protect our borders.
> Very few congressional members listened. After the bombings, where thousands
> of people died, people were saying, it was unthinkable. Please, think of the
> list of what Mexico has been trying to do. What Mexican-American leaders,
> what many of them, have said. Mario Obledo said in 1998, quote, 'eventually
> we are going to take over all the political institutions of California.'
>
> "They said publicly that they are going to use immigration to control the
> Southwest, retake the Southwest, and eventually, take over the entire U.S.
> So please listen to those statements carefully."
>
> Interruption by State Sen. John Vasconcellos, D-San Jose: "Since we stole it
> from them, why do you say it's unfair to steal it back from us?"
>
> Yeh Ling-Ling: "I'm sorry?"
>
> Vasconcellos: "We stole it from them in the first place."
>
> Yeh Ling-Ling: "Exactly what do you want to have happen?"
>
> Vasconcellos: "I found your testimony (shaking his head, putting his glasses
> down) . I don't want to debate you."
>
> Yeh Ling-Ling: (with a questioning look) "Exactly?"
>
> Vasconcellos: "I don't want to debate you. I've listened to what you've had
> to say, period."
>
> Since nobody in the chamber voiced any objection to Vasconcellos' remarks,
> the reasonable inference is, yes, the Left is moving even further left, and
> American legislators like Vasconcellos believe that since Mexico was stolen
> by the U.S., there really isn't anything to debate.
>
> It should be noted as well that Ling-Ling has been confronted by other
> California Democrats while delivering similar testimony. Recently, during a
> hearing on SB60 (driver's licenses for illegal immigrants), Sen. Nell Soto
> castigated Ling-Ling in a manner similar to Vasconcellos', stating that her
> remarks were "blatantly racist," had no place at a legislative hearing and
> "really insulted the intelligence of some of us here."
>
> Ling-Ling, whose group is based in Oakland, responded from the audience:
> "They were quotes, OK, from Mexican-American leaders."
>
> What could Soto say? It was an embarrassing moment for SB60 backers.
>
> We All Need to Remember Our History
>
> There are as many arguments that promote integration and assimilation as
> promote separatism. What we need to be well aware of is the history nobody
> can deny. In a nutshell, and not to oversimplify:
>
> 1821: Spain accepts Mexican independence.
>
> 1836: Texas breaks free of Mexican rule.
>
> 1846-48: Mexico loses much of its territory in the Mexican-American War.
> Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed.
>
> 1867: American Union Army assists Mexico's Benito Juarez, a democratic
> reformer, removes France from Mexico.
>
> 1910: Mexican Revolution.
>
> 1914: U.S. Marines enter Veracruz.
>
> 1916: U.S. chases Pancho Villa out of New Mexico.
>
> 1938: Mexico nationalizes PEMEX. Cardenas and Roosevelt sign Good Neighbor
> Policy.
>
> 1942: Mexico supports U.S. in WWII. Relations generally stable during
> postwar years.
>
> 1960s: Tourism industry thrives, Mexican nationalism rises.
>
> 1971: U.S. imposes 10 percent tariff on all imports, hurting Mexico, which
> sends almost 70 percent of its exports to the U.S.
>
> 1980s: Mexico supports nationalist movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
> U.S. drug war creates mutual tensions.
>
> 1992: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed. U.S. moves plants
> to Mexico to exploit cheap labor.
>
> 1995: Devastating Mexican peso devaluation.
>
> 2003: Mexican population in U.S. reported to have increased 10 percent in
> just three years, mostly as a result of illegal immigration.
>
> History is never pretty, but ultimately, each nation is responsible to its
> own citizens first (the U.S. apparently excepted). Since Mexico is unable to
> reform its endemic corruption, forcing the majority to live in poverty and
> squalor, it exports its economic problems to the U.S., then blames the U.S.
>
> California is a state where many schools today, as a policy, suppress
> references to our nation's Founding Fathers. Portraits of George Washington
> and Thomas Jefferson are prohibited. In San Francisco, a student needs a
> lawyer to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
>
> To these ingrates, some wisdom and common sense from Thomas Paine ("Common
> Sense," March 21, 1778):
>
> "To argue with a man who has renounced the authority of reason, and whose
> philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering
> medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture."
>
> Our laws, and generosity with taxpayer dollars, are literally inviting
> Mexico's poor to migrate to California at a time when we claim to be broke,
> while we increase border enforcement and deportations. It's an absolutely
> crazy situation.
>
> Meanwhile, back in Sacramento, the place where race is everything, laws are
> pushed to make the situation worse. And nobody will talk about it, except
> perhaps those who claim California belongs to Mexico.
>
> The irony in all this is that the "progressives" actually want to go
> backward in history to find justification to correct past injustices and
> keep their followers on the plantation. "Conservatives" want to be realistic
> about where we are today and go forward, but are accused of being stuck in
> the past. Go figure.
>
> Until the dishonesty and tactical bluster cease, California is at serious
> risk of becoming a Third World entity, and the longer Democrats are in
> power, the more businesses will continue to flee the state, the more wealthy
> taxpayers will relocate and the more our standard of living will continue to
> decline.
>
> The country knows few Democrats who can sustain an argument in favor of the
> policies of their party. But they know many who will sling the mud when
> reason, fact and common sense fail. All the reason why "Throw the bums out!"
> has become California's new pastime.
>
> * * * * * *
>
> Patrick Mallon will be on KSFO-560 San Francisco, with Melanie Morgan and
> Lee Rogers at 7 a.m. Pacific Time Monday, 6/30.
>
> Patrick has appeared on programs such as "The Al Rantel Show" (KABC-790 Los
> Angeles), with Melanie Morgan and Lee Rogers (Talk Radio KSFO-560 San
> Francisco), George Putnam's "Talk Back" (KPLS-830 Los Angeles) and "American
> Breakfast" with Phil Paleologos. He may be reached at pat...@newsmax.com.

Oh golly, can't we all just love each other? I will join the Sierra
Club so that I can do something meaningful like picking up styrofoam
cups. I'm sure the latino's will rush to help. Unless, of course, they
are too busy breeding.

James

[Jim]