Attack of the open-borders mau-mau-ers
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about
you?
The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow
to left-wing word police and militant propagandists
who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last
week, in the wake of angry protests against the
publication, vandals threw paint bombs and
spray-painted graffiti on its offices.
So, what exactly is the News-Press’ unforgivable
crime? Calling illegal aliens “illegals” in a
headline for a story about illegal aliens descending
on California DMVs. A new law went into effect last
Friday allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver’s
licenses without proof of lawful residence. The
article featured interviews with ecstatic illegal
aliens, including one who has been in the country
illegally for “22 years.”
Latina magazine called the News-Press headline —
“Illegals line up for driver’s licenses” — the “most
offensive headline against undocumented immigrants
ever.” Hyperbole much? Ethnic agitators from a group
called “People Organized for the Defense and Equal
Rights of Santa Barbara Youth (PODER)” condemned the
paper as “blatantly racist,” demanding that the
paper adhere to the slanted guidelines of the
Associated Press or face a boycott.
The blatantly biased AP rules advise journalists to
abandon the concise terms “illegal,” “illegal alien”
or “illegal immigrant” in favor of the wordy,
whitewashed “‘living in’ or ‘entering a country
illegally’ or ‘without legal permission.'” Illegal
aliens with Obama amnesty cards are now people with
“temporary resident status” — blatantly blurring the
distinction between legal foreign visitors who
received legal temporary status and illegal
border-crossers, illegal deportation evaders and
illegal visa overstayers who successfully won the
political illegal alien amnesty lottery.
Because references to the rule of law are considered
oppressively racist/colonialist/imperialist, social
justice mobsters are pushing the term “undocumented”
on media coddlers. But it is patently absurd to
force a newspaper in the name of “accuracy” and
“objectivity” to call illegal aliens queuing up for
government-issued documents “undocumented.”
These “undocumented” aliens, now eligible for state
driver’s licenses, federal work authorization
permits, in-state college discounts, bank accounts,
taxpayer identification numbers and birth
certificates issued by Mexican consular offices on
government soil, are the most documented aliens in
American history.
News-Press publisher Wendy McCaw told me this week
that the free speech-stifling thugs “have threatened
to return on January 19 to deliver a petition and
stage another protest against us if we do not offer
a retraction by 3 p.m. that day.” McCaw vows she
will not bend to the ultimatum or any other — and
she has a track record to prove her toughness.
McCaw has defied the progressive forces of political
correctness for years in previous First Amendment
battles over whom she should hire and how she should
run her newspaper. Radical elements in her community
and industry have long held a grudge against her and
her paper for resisting union pressure and refusing
to conform to left-wing orthodoxy.
And boy, do these people know how to hold grudges.
In addition to the paint bombs, unhinged mau-mau-ers
spray-painted a radical Reconquista slogan on the
News-Press building: “The border is illegal, not the
people who cross it.”
Yes, they’re still trying to re-fight the
Mexican-American War of 1848 and re-litigate the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. No surprise. Santa
Barbara has been a longstanding hotbed of tribal
grievance politics. In the late 1960s, liberal
Latinos at the University of California at Santa
Barbara unveiled El Plan de Aztlan, which states:
“We do not recognize capricious frontiers on the
bronze continent. Brotherhood unites us, and love
for our brothers makes us a people whose time has
come and who struggles against the foreigner
‘gabacho’ who exploits our riches and destroys our
culture. With our heart in our hands and our hands
in the soil, we declare the independence of our
mestizo nation. We are a bronze people with a bronze
culture.”
The Aztlan plan birthed Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) — an identity politics
indoctrination machine on publicly subsidized
college and high school campuses nationwide whose
members have rioted in Los Angeles and editorialized
that federal immigration “pigs should be killed,
every single one” in San Diego.
As I’ve reported previously, the MEChA Constitution
calls on members to “promote Chicanismo within the
community, politicizing our Raza (race) with an
emphasis on indigenous consciousness to continue the
struggle for the self-determination of the Chicano
people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan.”
“Aztlan” is the group’s term for the vast
southwestern U.S. expanse, from parts of Washington
and Oregon down to California and Arizona and over
to Texas, which MEChA claims to be a mythical
homeland and seeks to reconquer for Mexico.
MEChA’s symbol is an eagle clutching a dynamite
stick and a machete-like weapon in its claws; its
motto is “Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”
Translation: For the Race, everything. For those
outside the Race, nothing.”
Tell me who the racists are again.
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Copyright 2015