The New Orleans Riot, which occurred on July 30, 1866, was a violent conflict outside of the mechanics institute in New Orleans during the reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention.
The Radical Republicans in Louisiana reconvened the Constitutional Convention were angered by the enactment of the Black Codes in Louisiana and by the legislature's refusal to give black men the vote.
The reconvened convention was illegally formed and its intended purpose was to use the popular Republican swing in Washington, D.C. to attempt to take control of the state government.
New Orleans had been under martial law imposed by the Union for the greater part of the American Civil War but on May 12, 1866 Mayor John T. Monroe was reinstated as acting mayor, the position he held before the civil war. The convention was led by Judge R. K. Howell and was undertaken with the aim to seize the state government.
The riot illustrated conflicts deeply rooted within the social structure of Louisiana. It is noted that nearly half of the blacks in the riots were veterans of the Union army and more than half of the whites were former Confederate soldiers.
The reaction to the riot was felt throughout the United States and led to the Republican Party taking control of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the United States election, 1866. The estimate of the number of casualties comes to 38 killed and 146 wounded.
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an AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER whom served loyally in the Confederate Army.
There were those, JosephM. Some went with their owners, some volunteered to protect the only homeland they knew, I assume some believed in State's rights, some were given their freedom in return for fighting, especially toward the end of the war when the South was running out of men to soldier. History is always more complicated than we're taught.
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he should be "disappeared". A message needs to be sent
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he should be "disappeared". A message needs to be sent
Oh, a message will be sent. I doubt that he will disappear though, I expect he will be left where he can be found and some pictures will show up on the Net. I suspect it will not be pretty. Good.
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Second revolution at the ballot box, but not the kind with guns and stuff. Liberalism and Progressivism will be dirty words for a decade or so after Obama but the left will come up with some other word to fool the gullible into following them.
I suspect the next go around will be fiscally responsible style progressivism which will draw a lot of Libertarian leaning folks in. Still, a step further away from Marxism, no matter how imperfect, is a step in the right direction.
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Soap Box, Ballot box, Cartridge box. If we don't win in November, the third option will be all that's left to us.
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#3 Second revolution at the ballot box, but not the kind with guns and stuff.
You are wrong. There will necessarily be a brief period involving the "guns and stuff". It is inescapable.
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I agree, but they won't be pointed at other Americans. The Chinese will have to decide if they really think they can win. I suspect they'll make the same mistake the Japanese and Germans made, but with more horrific consequences.
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well if history repeats itself, the conditions are certainly right. First we have taxation without representation and then we have the issue of states rights with the flashpoint of illegal immigration (those supporting have very similar arguments to the support of slavery) and then the issues re: raids across the Rio Grande.
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ayuh, that'd be encouraging if the GOP were any more trustworty than the Donks. At least the Dems don't lie to you - they come right out and tell you they're going to screw you.
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B. I understand what you're saying - but voting in this election is like skydiving - when the chute doesn't work, you'll be kicking yourself in the butt all the way down, saying " I just KNEW this was going to happen!"
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We cannot generally be held accountable for the roster of candidates, but we certainly are held accountable to vote. I believe we are nearing the first of four major political tipping points. The first is of course the upcoming November elections, thence January 2011, followed by the same in 2012 and 2013. Better days are coming. We just somehow stop the bleeding and hang on. This is a great land and a great people. What we are seeing is a wicked and deceitful aberration. This too shall pass.
Knuckles, etc, if you do not vote in an election you agreed to the outcome, whatever it might be. Do you trust the people around you to vote in your interest instead of theirs?
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That's ok then, Knuckles dear. As long as you vote your conscience, whatever that might be, I can't complain. And I am quite sure there will be problems with the voter lists again this fall -- the Soros people worked hard to get Secretaries of State in position to ensure that. Nobody said taking back our country would be easy.
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The problems are political parties and professional politicians, neither of which were contemplated by the Founders. Partisanship is superceding patriotism. The only person I'd really trust in office is the independent who was dragged in, screaming and kicking... and I'd watch him like a hawk.
Personally I think we reached the game-fail stage. For any set of rules, people will game the system to achieve their ends in fashions the rules don't normally allow or contemplate. US politics is at that stage with the political class building on 200+ years of gamesmanship. It's reached the stage where the gaming prevents the system from doing what it was designed to do.
Time for a game-changer. As bad as O is, he's just one man. I think the larger problem is the half-a-thousand in the Boarding School for Kleptocracy we call Congress. The recent Rangel business proves they can't/won't police themselves, so we need to do it for them.
I've long thought that the checks and balances system breaks down w/r/t Congress. If I were appointed Czar of Fixing Everything That's Wrong, I'd appoint a permanent Inspector General or Independent Prosecutor, reporting to the Supreme Court with powers including subpoena, recommending dismissal from Congress and filing of criminal charges in Federal Court. Yes, this conflicts with the Constitution but that's what we have Amendments for.
Late on a Saturday night two weeks ago, an unemployed carpenter packed his mother's Toyota Tundra with guns and set off for San Francisco with a plan to kill progressives. That's why progressives don't want people to have guns.
When California Highway Patrol officers stopped him on an interstate in Oakland for driving erratically, Likker? Drugs? Just being unbalanced?
Byron Williams, wearing body armor, fired at police with a 9mm handgun, a shotgun and a .308-caliber rifle with armor-piercing bullets, Oakland police say. Shot and captured after injuring two officers, Williams, on parole for bank robbery, told investigators that he wanted "to start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU," according to a police affidavit. Moron.
His mother, Janice, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son had been watching television news and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items." As a felon, perhaps he was not allowed to vote in November? So he had no outlet for his rage. We'll hear all about the need to limit gun ownership because of this. But since he's a convicted felon, he wasn't supposed to have guns in the first place. So a convicted criminal violated the law (again). Color me surprised.
But what television news show could have directed the troubled man's ire toward the obscure Tides Foundation, which sounds as if it's dedicated to oceanography, or perhaps laundry detergent, but which is in fact a nonprofit that claims to support "sustainability, better education, solutions to the AIDS epidemic and human rights"?
The Tides Foundation does indeed make that claim. It's an odd mix of objectives, though...
A week after the incident, the mystery was solved. "Tides was one of the hardest things that we ever tried to explain, and everyone told us that we couldn't," Fox News host Glenn Beck told his radio listeners on Monday. "The reason why the blackboard" - the prop Beck uses on his TV show to trace conspiracies - "really became what the blackboard is, is because I was trying to explain Tides and how all of this worked." Beck accuses Tides of seeking to seize power and destroy capitalism, and he suggests that a full range of his enemies on the left all have "ties to the Tides Center." On Monday, he savored the fact that "no one knew what Tides was until the blackboard." Was Beck talking about the Tides after the shooting? I'm not clear on that. Is there something wrong about talking about Tides, and talking about them more than once?
For good measure, Beck went after Tides again on Fox that night. And Tuesday night, Wednesday night and Thursday night. That's on top of 29 other mentions of Tides on Beck's Fox show over the past 18 months AHA!(two in the week before the shootout) according to a tally by the liberal press watchdog Media Matters. Other than two mentions of Tides on the show of Beck's Fox colleague Sean Hannity, Media Matters said it was unable to find any other mention of Tides on any news broadcast by any network over that same period. Fox reports, the shooter decided.
It's not fair to blame Beck for violence committed by people who watch his show, but I'm gonna do it anyway. Yet Williams isn't the only such character with a seeming affinity for the Fox News host. In April 2009, a man allegedly armed with an AK-47, a .22-caliber rifle and a handgun was charged with killing three cops in Pittsburgh. The Anti-Defamation League reported that the accused killer had, as part of a pattern of activities involving far-right conspiracy theories, posted a link on a neo-Nazi Web site to a video of Beck talking about the possibility that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was operating concentration camps in Wyoming. Idiot stuff to be sure, but the shooter there was also prohibited by law from having guns and had them anyway.
Beck has at times spoken against violence, but he more often forecasts it, warning that "it is only a matter of time before an actual crazy person really does something stupid." There are enough crazies in the world that anyone who forecasts violence is bound to be right ...
Most every broadcast has some violent imagery: "The clock is ticking. . . . The war is just beginning. . . . Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government. . . . You have to be prepared to take rocks to the head. . . . The other side is attacking. . . . There is a coup going on. . . . Grab a torch! . . . Drive a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers. . . . They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered. . . . They are putting a gun to America's head. . . . Hold these people responsible." Visited Daily Kos, lately? How many readers go there? No question. Been there and to the other progressive web sites, and the commenters there can match craziness one on one with any ultra right wing-nut.
Beck has prophesied darkly to his millions of followers that we are reaching "a point where the people will have exhausted all their options. When that happens, look out." One night on Fox, discussing the case of a man who killed 10 people, Beck suggested such things were inevitable. "If you're a conservative, you are called a racist, you want to starve children," he said. "And every time they do speak out, they are shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?"
Here's one idea: Stop encouraging them. You first, pal. Let's have the progressive commentators like yourself stop encouraging the hard left crazies. Deal?
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Might be a good idea, get the nuts out in the open where we can see and capture them instead of fermenting in silence until another Oklahoma City style Bomber goes BOOM.
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This explains Alger Hiss.
I knew there was a solution somehow related to the international communist conspiracy.
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Hollyweird came out with a movie in 1993 titled "Falling Down" with Michael Douglas. Douglas played a fired defense worker who goes postal. Sounds somewhat like the guy in this piece.
Older readers will recognise this mantra from the past: South Korea stole our first Five-Year Plan. According to this urban legend, when a Korean was accused of this petty larceny by a Pakistani, he retorted: Yes, but we implemented it.
The other pat on the back we give ourselves is about how PIA helped establish Air Malta and Emirates. I suppose thats how those who have failed comfort themselves after having been knocked out of the league many years ago: in our period of decline, we sit around, reminiscing about the good old days.
Younger Pakistanis may find it hard to believe, but there was a time when Pakistan was held up as a model of development. India, constrained by its tightly regulated economy, was plodding along on what was called the Hindu rate of growth. Buoyed by foreign aid, then quite efficiently utilised, and with relatively liberal economic policies, Pakistan grew at a respectable rate that gave economists the widespread expectation that soon, the country would reach the take-off stage.
In the mid-1960s, a Turkish friend who worked for one of his countrys financial institutions told me that Pakistans Industrial Development Bank (IDBP) was cited as an exemplary state-sector enterprise in his organisation. As a young student, I remember feeling quite proud of my country. What institutions do our young people have to be proud of today?
In 1963, I drove from Germany to Pakistan with some friends over a series of steadily deteriorating roads. In Iran, we came across a metalled road 100km or so before and after Tehran. The rest were unpaved dirt roads. Poverty was so widespread that workers in eastern Iran would beg us for a box of matches. When we crossed into Pakistan, it was like entering a developed country: although the roads in Balochistan were also unpaved, they had been neatly graded and properly marked. The border rest-house where we spent the night was adequate, and we were cooked a hot meal. Sleeping in the open under a brilliant, star-speckled sky, it felt good to be back.
So what happened to derail this success story? The short answer is 1965. This brief, pointless war, needlessly provoked by Pakistan, destabilised Ayub Khans government, and set in motion a chain of events that had far-reaching consequences that haunt us still. Without getting into the causes leading up to this military disaster, I do see it as a hinge moment in our history.
Although the economy has grown in fits and starts since then, governance and institution-building have recorded a steady and terminal decline. Internationally, we are toxic, with our geopolitical location, our nuclear arsenal and our scary jihadi threat the only reasons why we figure in the calculations of other countries.
Many Pakistanis are convinced that if only we would get a good leader, everything could be fixed. Scores of readers have emailed me over the last couple of years, complaining about Asif Zardari. What have we done to deserve him? they moan. Its almost as if they think some celestial figure should parachute down to take over. The reality is that all the actors are on the political stage, and we know what the options are.
A sizeable chunk of our chattering class is convinced that once Zardari quits the scene, rivers of milk and honey will start flowing again. Considering that his predecessors in the presidency include such stellar figures as Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Farooq Leghari and Pervez Musharraf, it is difficult to understand how Zardari can do any worse. Indeed, whatever his many detractors say about him, his performance in office has been far better that anybody could have hoped for.
Of course, the inevitable allegations of graft swirl around this government, as they have around every elected civilian government in the past. The only reason military rulers have been spared this scrutiny is that our media moguls know better than to take on the generals over such a sensitive issue. Mere politicians, of course, are fair game. The wildest, most unfounded charges against them can be amplified in the megaphone that is the electronic media today.
Political discourse in Pakistan today resembles a Roman amphitheatre where gladiators fight and die before a mob baying for yet more blood. In this hysterical environment, it is next to impossible to initiate and sustain a sensible discussion on the real issues. When people get used to a steady diet of raw meat, its not easy to convince them that vegetables are good for them.
Thus, deadly serious matters like religious extremism and violence, illiteracy, poverty, the need for clean drinking water, rapid population growth, the degradation of our urban and rural environment and the water crisis are impatiently swept aside by the public and the media. What counts most to them are the NRO, the 18th Amendment, allegations of graft and the comings and goings of politicians, judges and generals.
This national preoccupation with peripheral issues lets the government off the hook. When the political discourse is diverted away from our pressing problems, the administration is under no pressure to deliver. While civil society is ready and willing to agitate for judicial independence and against the NRO, it does not show the same energy and zeal to take to the streets to demand better governance. I suppose Go, Musharraf, go! makes a better slogan than Clean drinking water for all!
One reason for these warped priorities is that we seem to prefer to talk about abstract issues rather than mundane ones. For our educated middle class, access to clean drinking water is not the problem it is for millions of deprived Pakistanis. Ditto for education and health services as they can generally afford not to rely on creaking state facilities.
In most societies, pressure for change comes from an educated middle class. Until this class feels strongly enough for the countrys masses to demand an improvement in their lives, little will change. Currently, our civil societys problems are more to do with the courts and government departments, so their focus is on reforming them. The medias concern is to improve circulation and audience figures, so they whip up sudden squalls in the teacup about non-issues. And we lap up these little dramas and express our indignation in the comfort of our drawing rooms.
Meanwhile, in the real world, children starve quietly, or grow up stunted, unloved and malnourished in a hostile world. Uneducated, they have little chance of finding a job. But at least we have the consolation of being blessed with an independent judiciary.
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Yup, Blame anybody but Ourselves.
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I see your problem sir. You're going to need to replace the toilet because it's been contaminated.
In protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church
Which is to say, generally Protestant Christian, rather than including Druids, Satanists, Hindus and Jews, right?
in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. That ought to get their turbans in a knot!
Way more at link. It was really tough not to grab the whole thing! :-)
This kind of thing is rude and unnecessary. That it's just as much protected speech as burning the national flag, that does not make it any better an idea. Burning the religious books of others has a long tradition -- the Catholic Church burnt the religious books of heretics, Jews, and Muslims; the Orthodox Church burnt the religious books of pagans and Jews; the Nazis burnt the books of everyone they disapproved of, including various varieties of Christians and Jews; Muslims at various times and places burnt everything that wasn't Quran, Hadiths, and Sunna... Burning books is an act that demonstrates the barbarity and poverty of thought of the perpetrators.
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Whoops! I just saw that ryuge beat me to it on Page 2. If you think it worthy, maybe throw this link under there if you want to delete this article?
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I'm sure the local university's Muslim Student Union is going to have something special planned for this day, too. Probably featuring lots of Pali flags (and defaced Israeli ones).
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I have no idea what the church thinks it's doing.
Doesn't mean they don't know.
But one result will, or should be, that certain kinds of insulting, inciting, impolite speech are allowed to Christians, too.
Sort of a new concept.
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Wanna bet that some government agency decides that this transcends free speech and intervenes?
It may be well placed in a way. The "moderate" muslims will see this and compare it to their own lethal riots at the slighted drummed up excuse and just have to sigh and carry on.
Those who are "radicalized" are going to get radicalized anyway.
The radicals, well, they'll just riot again, and more people will see them for what they are.
Who knows, maybe a few of them will see themselves for what they are and back off.
Besides, it's not like they're burning every last Holy Crayon.
I was tempted top put up the pic of the unnamed one who runs the Westboro Baptist "Church".
Arizona-style immigration laws make even less sense in Texas Oh boy, oh boy...
Parents, you know how it is with kids. One acts up, and so you have to focus your attention on the troublemaker and take your eye off the others. Then, when you're not looking, another one gets out of line. You talkin' about the gubbamint, Ruben?
States are much the same way. The eyes of the nation are fixed on Arizona, the undisputed problem child in our national immigration debate. But there are other states where lawmakers are eager to follow Arizona's lead and blame Washington for not solving a problem that, in truth, their own residents (i.e., employers) helped create. My grandparents were immigrants, too, and they received no amnesty. They had to work for a living. Make the employers suffer, I say. Close the border. Send them home.
At least half a dozen of the states thinking about going on this suicide run can perhaps be forgiven their ignorance because the experience of having a sizable population of illegal immigrants is new to them. In Utah, Georgia, Ohio, Maryland, Oklahoma and South Carolina, illegal immigrants are still a rather exotic import.
But then there's Texas, which used to be part of Mexico and where lenient immigration policies toward white settlers from the South and Northeast led to a famous tenant dispute that included a dustup at the Alamo in 1836. In Tejas, Latinos are indigenous and as ubiquitous as bluebonnets. In the Lone Star State, where my mother and grandparents and great-grandparents were born and raised and where I spent five years writing about immigration and other issues for the Dallas Morning News, legislators should know better than to even flirt with the idea of adopting a divisive and dangerous law like the one in Arizona. Anybody else from Texas got an opinion? I say, let the voters speak.
This was true even before Clinton appointee U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, in defense of the Constitution, but not the government who chooses to ignore the law ripped the guts out of the Arizona law by striking down its most egregious and indefensible parts. Bolton had her pick of seven lawsuits seeking to block the law's implementation, and she based her ruling on the lawsuit filed by the Obama administration. The Justice Department argued that Arizona had exceeded its authority and trampled on powers reserved for the federal government. Swell. So how do we get the Federal Government to do their job? OK, so why do we have to wait until November?
Bolton agreed. She was particularly bothered by those elements of the law that all but required racial profiling by forcing police officers to arrest people they suspect are in the country illegally, made it a state crime for the undocumented to seek work, required legal immigrants to carry papers proving their status, and allowed police to detain and arrest people who could not prove their legal status. So the judge issued a preliminary injunction against those parts. The rest of the law - which did things such as making it a state crime to transport illegal immigrants - was allowed to go into effect. Almostforced the police? My experience with the police is that some are lienient and some are not. So who would force the police - to a mna/woman/person - to all be Dick Cheney with a truncheon?
So much for Gov. Jan Brewer's bravado in telling the federal government that Arizona would "meet you in court." This battle is far from over, and the issue is probably headed to the Supreme Court. So far, it's Liberal Common Sense, 1, Arizona, 0.
But like the saying goes, common sense isn't always common - even in Texas. State Rep. Leo Berman, a Republican, is drafting an Arizona-style bill for Texas and plans to introduce it next session. How dare he run against the liberal common sense? Adding fuel to the bonfire, Texas Republicans recently adopted an over-the-top platform at their state convention that, among other things, encouraged the Legislature to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense "for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the state of Texas," and to "oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship." Texas Republicans also want to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, ban day-labor work centers, limit bilingual education to three years,
We observed when trailing daughter #1 went to the local preschool in Germany that it takes six months of full immersion in the local language to become reasonably fluent. Of course, that six months is quite painful, but considerably more efficient than bilingual education. Were I an immigrant I would demand full immersion rather than bilingual nonsense.
and deny non-U.S. citizens access to state or federal financial assistance for college. Not me, man; I WANT to pay for illegal immigrants to go to Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, and other lefty diploma mills
Non-U.S. citizens generally have access to their own nation's tertiary education systems, which are generally considerably cheaper, tuition-wise, than American schools. How fair is that for their American schoolmates?
In Texas, Latinos are forecast to make up nearly 80 percent of the population growth over the next 30 years (compared with only 4 percent for whites), and Latinos could outnumber whites by 2015, the San Antonio Express-News reported last month. What the Texas GOP drafted was a pact with the devil. Ruben, Ruben.. Are you saying all Latinos love illegal immigrants? That the proposed law pits Anglos against Latinos? That everybody thinks like you do? My grandchildren live in Texas, Rueben; that's where we're going when we retire.
All of which leads me to ask my friends in the Lone Star State the same question my mom used to ask me growing up: "If all the other kids jumped off a cliff, would you do the same?" How high is this cliff you've constructed in your own imagination? Aren't you running with the liberal herd, headed for the November cliff?
Apparently they would. His e-mail address is at the link. Try not to come off as one of those gun-toting, bible thumping, legal-immigrant hating, xenophobic (did I use that big word correctly, TW?), Bushites. There are plenty of logical fallacies in his dribble for the WaPo faithful.
Yes, you did, Bobby dear. Although I think it's Bushies.
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It would fix 90% of the problem if illegals couldn't get work here. But, neither party has any desire to punish the employers who hire illegals.
AS PJ O'Roarke said, "When buying and selling is controlled by politicians, the first thing bought and sold are politicians.
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Ruben's a smarmy little open-borders punk who tries hard to hide it. He was let go at the SD Union Trib and the comments were unanimousl positive about that. If you actually DID go hard at the employers (a good idea), he'd find that "too harsh" or find some other reason to keep la raza safe
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We are not on the edge of the cliff. We went over it and are looking at the edge slip away.
It was reported that a memo was written in the government which said to explore ways to implement amnesty through the executive branch rather than legislatively--similar to implementing cap and trade via EPA. It seems like we are getting an executive branch dictatorship aided and abetted by the Democratically-controlled Congress.
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Ruben Navarette is an idiot that needs to get the full attention he deserves - none. The man cannot say anything without showing he's so liberal even San Francisco couldn't stand him. I usually don't read what he writes, because it has very little connection to reality. My brother and many of my other family members live in Texas. Latino citizens are fine, but illegals cause all kinds of problems, including being about 70% of those in the drug trade.
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Create a guest worker program to protect the immigrants and control their access to the US. Give illegals six months to get across the border or get themselves into the guest worker program. Make it so that guest workers don't bring family and any children of guest workers born here are not citizens. Then control the border so that only illegal crossings occur.
beyond that citizenship is another issue altogether and doesn't not need to be dealt with at this point.
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The "cliff" was breached by LBJ's immigation legislation in 1965. "One man, one vote" + demographics will settle the issue once and for all. HAMILTON spins in his grave as he concept of an American REPUBLIC DIES.
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I live in Texas, too - and the illegals aren't any more popular there, especially with the horrific drug-gang border violence.
And I would guess that while a lot of Hispanics would have been prepared to be indulgent ... patience may be wearing a little thin. Tejanos have been Americans for a long time, and the 1836 dustup which he refers to so humorously, featured a great many Tejano Federalistas (who favored for Mexico a confederation of fairly independent states and a small federal government) who fought with their Angelo neighbors against the Centralistas (a more authoritarian, powerful and dictatorial style of government) espoused by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Texas was just one of the Mexican states which rebelled when Santa Anna made himself supreme dictator over Mexico - and the only successful one.
At the Alamo - most of the artillery crews were Tejano, and Sam Houston's scouting company on the retreat across Texas was led by Juan Seguin - just about all Tejanos. At the battle of San Jacinto, Houston wanted to keep them safe, fearing that they might be mistaken for the enemy in the heat of battle, but Juan Sequin angrily refused, demanding a place in the battle line. He got it - his men put pieces of cardboard in their hats to mark them. (The Texians/Tejanos didn't have uniforms, of course.)
I don't think dear Ruben knows those little factoids about that little dustup in 1836. Putz. Centralista - Federalista... round two of that is looking more and more of a possibility.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Adding fuel to the bonfire, Texas Republicans recently adopted an over-the-top platform at their state convention that, among other things, encouraged the Legislature to create a Class A misdemeanor criminal offense "for an illegal alien to intentionally or knowingly be within the state of Texas," and to "oppose amnesty in any form leading to citizenship." Texas Republicans also want to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, ban day-labor work centers, limit bilingual education to three years,
