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June 16, 2006
 
 

Illegal Alien March Organizers Really Do Drink the Reconquista Kool-Aid


"While cruising the media circuit organizers of illegal alien protests and lobbyists for legislation in favor of amnesty say one thing, but behind closed doors they are talking Reconquista -- or the overthrow of the state governments of the southwest of the United States and their return to Mexico. School children in Mexico are taught from grade school that the southwest states are part of Mexico and not the United States. James Pinkerton at Newsday attended a recent panel discussion," says Digger's Realm. He quotes from Pinkerton, who wrote about the panel, "Consider the words of Roberto Lovato, identified as a writer for New American Media, describing itself as 'the country's first and largest national collaboration of ethnic news organizations.' Speaking first, Lovato declared that he had problems with the words 'civil rights.' Why? In part because that phrase had been used by black Americans half a century ago - it was their term. But mostly, he continued, the term is inapt because today 'a lot of the members of the movement were political revolutionaries in countries such as Nicaragua and El Salvador.' And that's why, he concluded, 'this is not just a civil rights movement - this is the northernmost expression of a continental rights movement.'"

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