Earlier this morning I saw this article and debated whether to post it. The idea of a plot is absolutely ridiculous. Yes there are lots of bad feelings, but please! Its kind of like DHS raising the terrorist threat level to boost Bush's ratings... I'm really surprised that the Wash. Post would put in a title like this.... someone warning of a plot ----? to say it like that makes it sounds real. And It IS NOT Real.
Good journalism does not state "warn of plot" if they don't have a fairly good idea the its true... I thought the W.P. knew better.
I almost listed the article without its title. Instead I didn't put in the farfetched remarks about a "reconquista." If you want to read them look it up in the Washington Post.
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Anti-Immigration Forces Warn of Plot
By TRAVIS LOLLER and PETER PRENGAMAN
The Associated Press
Friday, September 7, 2007; 2:06 PM
LOS ANGELES -- On the far fringes of the pro-immigration movement, some Hispanic activists openly yearn for the day when immigrants rise up and retake the American Southwest, more than 150 years after the U.S. annexed it.
"If somebody steals your car, how much of it do you want back? Just the tires? The seats?" asks Olin Tezcatlipoca of the Los Angeles-based Mexica Movement.
Mainstream immigration advocacy groups _ as well as academics and experts on nearly all sides of the illegal immigration issue _ dismiss these "reconquista" notions as rhetorical, not to be taken seriously.
...Aztec folklore puts Aztlan in northern Mexico, possibly along its western coast. Other accounts place it farther north in what is now Arizona, Colorado or New Mexico.
Mexico's huge territorial losses were a result of defeat in the Mexican-American War. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ceded what are now California, Utah and Nevada, and parts of present-day Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming, to the United States.
...Cecilia Munoz, senior vice president for La Raza, said the accusations of a radical separatist agenda are "a little like accusing the NAACP of being the Black Panthers."
"We've been trying to play by the rules and have a polite policy debate about how to reform immigration," she said. "And everybody else has got their gloves off and is hitting below the belt."
for complete article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090701511_2.html
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