Regardless of the political season, the issue of immigration is always considered a hot topic. In fact, the topic of immigration brings out every political spectrum when trying to solve the issue. Moreover, the most vocal of the groups most likely are xenophobic hate groups. Frighteningly, their presence have seeped into Congress and are constantly advocating for draconian measures to be included in any type of immigration reform bill. Even more alarmingly, nativism – a movement which is oftentimes fueled by xenophobia and hate – have already entered into the mainstream media.

Nativism, the hostile reaction towards the flux of immigration, is not really a new phenomenon that currently was spawned within this new century. According to David Bennett, author of The Party Fear, nativist movements usually occur during times of major social, economic, or political disturbances are taking place. Oftentimes, American nativists will project their insecurities on the immigrants, ethnic/religious groups, or anybody different from their own for the troubles that America is experiencing.

It is interesting to note, the Immigration Act of 1965 signed by President Lyndon Johnson is considered to be part of Civil Rights legislation. Along with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, the Immigration Act became one the cornerstones to the Civil Rights Movement. The Act, was to rid the nation's history of racism and discrimination in immigration. It removed barriers based on national origin, and measures favoring immigrants from Western European countries. It also opened the door to more diverse patterns of immigration. Now, those changes and the Civil Rights tradition are once again under attack. The anti-immigrant sentiment is sweeping the country like wildfire.

Inspired by political successes in Arizona, and fanned by national and grassroots anti-immigrant groups, and like the predecessors, nativists continue the tradition of misrepresenting and disguising "their xenophobic and racists beliefs in order to garner favor with the American public."

One can expect to find groups like "Minutemen," who are trying to frame themselves as brave souls who are taking it upon themselves to protect our borders from lazy, shiftless, drug smuggling South-of-the-Border immigrants. In fact, they had to armed themselves, just in case they were attacked from violent border runners, particularly in the middle of the desert, at night, when no one else was around.

So it is not surprising a group like The Minutemen are reported to have to racist, White Supremacist groups. In fact, Minutemen found Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist are following in the footsteps of other anti-immigrant activists before them. Klansmen were on the Mexican border 28 years before the Minutemen came up with this bright idea. In 1977, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan lead by David Duke and Tom Metzger also hatched the same plan of taking the law into their own hands to keep immigrants at bay. They formed Klan Border Watch, a KKK vigilante border patrol in southern California. The "Klan Border Watch" claimed to stretch from Texas to California, and was part of the "battle to halt the flow of illegal aliens streaming across the border from Mexico."

The Minutemen may speak of patriotism, and claim they have "no affiliation with, nor will we accept any assistance by or interference from, separatists, racists, or supremacy groups" but the simple truth, it just another public relation bullshit spin. Even more sickening, trigger happy white, jack-booted, skinhead members from the neo-Nazi National Alliance and other sick white supremacist groups are chomping at the bit to participate.

Perhaps most disturbing is Jim Gilchrist's partnership with Swift Boater Jerome Corsi to write a book about Mexico's conspiracy to trash America: [Hat tip to Orcinus.]

Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project, and Jerome Corsi, Harvard Ph.D. and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," have teamed up to write a shocking account of the endless flow of drugs, terrorists, and economic refugees at America's borders -- and to expose the Mexican government's open complicity in this full-fledged crisis. The to-be-titled book will be published by World Ahead Publishing and available in bookstores nationwide this July.
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"Illegal immigration is bankrupting states along the border, but this is about more than economics -- we're placing our national security at risk," says Gilchrist, who along with other Minuteman Project volunteers has come under fire while on patrol and carrying nothing more than binoculars and cell phones. "Drug lords and violent gangs like MS-13 are streaming into the U.S. from Mexico. Terrorists are also walking in unopposed; our southwestern border is littered with Arabic papers and Islamic prayer rugs."

Sure it is easy to dismiss this book as a "joke," but this is exactly how propaganda is supposed to work because propaganda can be either blatant or subtle as a joke. Once that stage is completed, they will employ symbols (e.g., waving the flag) to stir audience's emotions to win their approval until their the sick agenda has been met. And what once was considered an "outrageous idea" - the creation of Fortress America - has now gained acceptance.

The December House vote of 260-159 is the strongest endorsement yet for building a wall, which Rep. Duncan Hunter, a San Diego County Republican, has been pushing for two decades as a tactic against illegal immigration. Support for the wall was even stronger than for the bill it was attached to -- a larger plan to curb terrorism and illegal immigration sponsored by Wisconsin Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner that passed 239 to 182.

This movement must be halted before any outrage to stop America's xenophobia will be easily ignored.

Welcome to America, "the land of opportunity" Fortress America!

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Found this on La Bloguerrera.

"I was on the New Jersey Turnpike yesterday and at the toll booth there were stickers that someone stuck next to the ticket generator....The stickers read, 'Bring our troops home and put them on the Mexican Border.' Of course I googled the stickers and they belong to a White supremacist group. I know a picture is worth a thousand words, but I thought it was pretty interesting the logic and the phobias at play."

You bet, that came from the National Alliance, you know, the type of scum that could be found hanging around the gun shows, the casinos and the Sizzler. These assholes are a veritable subtype of humanity and are just mean, stupid and racist as you'd imagine them to be. And they tend to shoot first because of their obvious problems moving, let alone seeking cover, should the lead start flying.

I am fed up with wingnut hostility, threats and garbage like this, and honestly, it is the same crap when sick fucks who like give out permits to hunt liberals and have no moral qualms venting out my frustrations.

When can we stop putting up with this shit?

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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine came out with their finding in their landmark study, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, which documented the disparities in treatment of minorities in the American healthcare system. They found:

Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare than non-minorities, even when access-related factors, such as patients' insurance status and income, are controlled.

The report found that one of the major factors for the lack of health insurance is due to racial disparities that occur regarding healthcare. These disparities occur in the societal context of broader social and economic inequality and a history of racial and ethnic discrimination.

The state of healthcare in America, the study found that too many Hispanic Americans do not have access to even basic health insurance coverage. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004 [PDF] report, "[t]he uninsured rate in 2004 was 11.3 percent for non-Hispanic whites and 19.7 percent for blacks" compared to the "uninsured rate for Hispanics ... was 32.7 percent."

Interestingly, a study conducted by the Aetna U.S. Healthcare, over half of Americans (55%) believe people of color receive the same quality of medical care as White Americans do and only a third (28%) do believe African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups receive a lower quality of care. In the same study, they found:

A substantial majority of White Americans (63%) see no differences in the quality of healthcare, while an almost equally strong majority of African Americans (59%) see lower quality care for people of color. Hispanics are divided on the issue.

According to Aetna U.S. Healthcare, the highest uninsured rate in the United States is among people of Hispanic origin. Over one-third, or 39 percent, of Hispanics were uninsured compared with only 14 percent for non-Hispanic whites. [Aetna U.S. Healthcare, "Concerning the Uninsured Worker: An Introduction to a Critical Issue for All Americans," May 1999]

Although tens of millions of Americans lack health insurance, the issue is the ability keep health care. In most other economically developed countries, governments guarantee health coverage, or require that citizens have it. However, in the U.S., coverage is not stable. It can come and go. This can have devastating clinical and financial consequences for those who find themselves without health insurance, even for relatively short periods. Recently, September 2005, a study conducted The Commonwealth Fund found that the young adults and Hispanics with Medicaid or private insurance, were relatively likely to lose their coverage. And less than half of people who transitioned into and out of low income and were initially uninsured were able to obtain coverage.

In another report by the Commonwealth Fund, when it comes to the workforce, The Commonwealth Fund found that Hispanics lag far behind non-Hispanics in health insurance coverage.

In the job market, Hispanics are at a double disadvantage: they are more likely to be employed in industries and occupations where employer coverage is less likely to be offered and within these industries, Hispanics are less likely than non-Hispanics to be offered coverage. For example, within the construction industry, 64% of non-Hispanic whites are offered and eligible for coverage, compared to 46% of Hispanics. Yet when they are offered health benefits, Hispanics are just as likely as non-Hispanic whites to accept it.

Lower income accounts for some, but not all of the disparity between Hispanic workers and other workers. Among families with incomes of less than $15,000, 45% of Hispanics are uninsured compared with 29% of whites and blacks. Among full-time Hispanic workers, 58% have coverage through their job, compared with 75% of blacks and 80% of whites.

"Even after years in the workforce, many Hispanics in the U.S. remain shut out of employer-based health insurance, because they are working in lower-wage jobs, often in small firms, within industries that either do not offer health benefits at all or that restrict eligibility to certain groups of workers." said Claudia Schur, deputy director of the Project HOPE Center for Health Affairs and lead author of the report. "Policymakers, employers, and health care leaders need to be aware of the complex nature of the issue in order to craft appropriate solutions."

Even worse, when it comes to undocumented workers, they are "twice as likely as U.S.-born Hispanics to be uninsured (49% v. 24%)."

For obvious reasons, not having health insurance can kill. About 18,000 deaths among those 25-64 in 2002 could have been prevented had they had insurance, according to the Institute of Medicine. Even when being uninsured does not result in death, it can have profoundly serious repercussions:

• Uninsured people are almost twice as likely as the insured to delay getting needed medical care (15.7 percent vs. 8.6 percent).


• Cancer patients who don't have coverage die sooner than those with insurance, largely because of delayed diagnosis.


• Twenty-five percent of adult diabetics who were uninsured for a year or more went two years without a checkup, compared to 5 percent of diabetics with insurance.


• Children without coverage often go without medical care for  common childhood illnesses. For example, children with insurance are more than twice as likely to get medical help for recurrent ear aches and nearly twice as likely to get asthma treatment as children lacking coverage.

In addition to health consequences suffered by uninsured individuals, there are community-wide clinical consequences as well. In 1997, New York experienced a large rubella outbreak, which started in an Hispanic immigrant community where many people had no insurance, and did not receive rubella vaccinations. Subsequently, surrounding communities also became infected.

In recent news, a recent report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) cited that the hospital system are not prepared to handle the number of patients if a pandemic, in fact, "most states have few plans in place for coping and the federal government has not taken charge of such preparation."

According to TFAH:

While considerable progress has been achieved in improving America's health emergency preparedness, the nation is still not adequately prepared for the range of serious threats we face.

To achieve an appropriate level of preparedness, efforts must be rapidly enhanced and accelerated, requiring improved policies and funding at all levels of government

This is considerably serious among the Hispanic and non-Hispanic uninsured community because in a very recent study by Institute for Health and Aging, it was found that "not only did uninsured persons with chronic health conditions lack adequate health care, their illnesses were also poorly controlled."

Compared with insured respondents, uninsured respondents were much less effective at managing their illnesses. The uninsured had poorly controlled illnesses, frequent health crises, difficulty procuring medication, used medication incorrectly, demonstrated poor understanding of their illness, and displayed little knowledge of self-care measures or risk awareness. They rarely had a regular physician or attended a specific health clinic.

Since studies show that persons who are uninsured seek a doctor until it is too late, then the chances of a serious avian flu outbreak are considerably high. It is critical that these findings be taken seriously because hospitals and other health care providers simply would not be aware or have any knowledge if the Avian flu outbreak were occurring. Considering Dr. David Nabarro -- U.N. coordinator for avian and human influenza -- predicted that the "range of deaths could be anything between 5 and 150 million."

Therefore, this is not just a "Hispanic thing" this is an American issue that should be taken seriously. If the pandemic predictions are correct, there is enough information that shows that the speed of on outbreak will depend on the adequacy of a person's health care. As long as the Hispanic community continues to be highest among those who are uninsured, those numbers will be a reality and deaths of thousands Americans will be on Congress' and Bushes head.

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It seems like the whole right wing nuthouse is all up in arms because Dudya neglected them in this little Port deal. The minute they found out, you would think the neocons were about to do their own little lynching.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist vowed to introduce legislation to put the deal on hold, and House Speaker Denny Hastert roused briefly from hibernation to voice concern. South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham rushed to the airwaves to claim that the administration was "tone deaf politically" and that now was no time "to outsource major port security to a foreign-based company."

"Boo Frickety hoo!"

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It seems with all the Cheney hoopla, Texas has started it's new operation "to take back our border." It seems Gov. Rick Perry decided boost his ratings since he really doesn't have any achievements to run on. Perry, like BushCo, will quickly latch on the current fear-factor that will either frighten the people, play to their prejudices or greed. So this time around, Perry's latest bogeyman are "drug smugglers and illegal immigrants."

As the 2006 governor's election campaigns gear up, Perry figures he might as well cashing in on this latest fear:

Gov. Rick Perry launched a new border safety initiative today dubbed "Operation Rio Grande" to combat growing violence, though he warned that border law enforcement remains mainly the federal government's responsibility.

"The state will not wait for Washington to take all the necessary actions," Perry said.
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The governor cited examples of escalating violence, including an armed standoff last month between state authorities and apparent drug smugglers wearing Mexican military-style uniforms in Hudspeth County.

Perry noted other border security problems, such as the apprehension of four Iraqis headed to the United States by Mexican officials and the discovery of a crime organization's weapons stockpile in Laredo.

Things must be so bad at the border, Perry had to activate the Governor's Emergency Management Council to handle the problem. It is an all out war.

A state operations center will serve as a coordination point for state, local and federal officials and will be a hub for incident reporting for law enforcement agencies up to 100 miles from the Rio Grande, Perry said.

Other action includes dispatching a DPS "rapid response" team of troopers to trouble areas; assigning DPS narcotics, motor vehicle theft and criminal intelligence investigators to conduct patrols and surveillance and assigning state law enforcement aircraft to the border.

The plan also involves the deployment of a DPS SWAT team, Texas Department of Criminal Justice canine search teams and Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens, in addition to helping develop regional SWAT teams. The Texas Rangers would investigate alleged incursions by the Mexican military along the border.

Man the barricades! Hide the women and children, y'all, the border is under siege!

Last year, the State Department issued a travel warning for the Mexican border, singling out Nuevo Laredo in particular as a destination to avoid. The media has also jumped into the bogeyman bandwagon, such as Time's "The Brewing Border Wars."

The month-long, bi-national celebration of George Washington's birthday recently began in Laredo, the Texas border town where debutantes and politicians gather to attend balls and watch the Mexican Army join the parade—the only place in the U.S., in fact, where a foreign army is allowed to march down the street. Parade organizers say the 108-year tradition is evidence of the close ties between Mexico and Texas, but those ties seem lately to be fraying as the 1,250-mile border becomes increasingly dangerous. To the east of Laredo, renegade Mexican Army commandos are part of the Zetas, a brutal drug smuggling gang, and Laredo's sister city, Nuevo Laredo, once a favorite spot among Texans for weekend shopping trips, has been wracked with kidnappings, political assassinations and even a shootout between police and drug gangs near an international bridge.

The mass media is not the only one to portray, a possible border war, the local media as well. Midland's KWES has done a three part series on the Border Sheriff's Coalition's "Operation Linebacker," which also could be found on South Texas Chisme. (See here, here and here). It is interesting how the talking heads at KWES can make things sound so ominous.

It's a place that appears to have no boundaries ... an area so vast and so isolated, that most would have no idea an everyday war is being waged, right here, in Brewster County.
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Dodson and his deputies are on a mission ... to stop illegal immigrants and drug smugglers from getting into the United States ... a mission known as 'Operation Linebacker.'

"Operation Linebacker is an operation dubbed by the Border Sheriff's Coalition," Dodson explained. "'Linebacker' meaning, just like a football team, we're trying to help out the Border Patrol."

Is it really that simple to manipulate the American public? Apparently so. Sure, we don't think of ourselves as being susceptible to propaganda, or that we are even exposed to propaganda. But we are, it is called advertising. In this case it is not only trying to shoehorn people's attitudes in a particular direction, towards a certain product, but also towards a vision of a culture where the product and the company selling it can flourish.

Not convinced? Why not view the PBS series Frontline, called The Persuaders, which you can view it online. Part 5: "Give Us What We Want" is the most important one of the series, it discusses how right-wing political consultant Frank Lutz uses focus groups and Happy Meal McLanguage to sell people on policy by using words like "responsibility" and "integrity" regardless of actual merit.

They are selling this, like the Iraq War, the Patriot Act and the Bush tax cuts, despite the obvious absurdities and contradictions in their position, mostly because they can throw some buzzwords in or, better yet, completely lobotomize the language associated with the issue in a way that is purely Orwellian in intent. For example, in Texas and the Southwest, the buzzwords thrown around are "illegal immigrants" and "drug smugglers"; but Florida, its different, refugees. In the Southwest, is all about roundups and deportation, in Florida, the right wingnuttery act like they really care.

Gov. Jeb Bush along with Sen. Mel Martinez put in calls to the White House on behalf of the 15 [Cuban refugees], while South Florida's Cuban- American U.S. House members launched a lobbying campaign to convince the Bush administration to change the controversial "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy.

Here is some food for thought, in Know Your Enemy: Political Contradictions of the Right M. Junaid Alam wrote:

Right-wing ideology is mostly a game of smoke and mirrors. Outside the narrow segment of the very wealthy, it achieves its appeal by cleverly capitalizing upon the inchoate prejudices, suspicions, fears, and insecurities prevalent among the public. The method is simple but effective: for any given problem, introduce a few crucial codewords and phrases that both eject said problem’s real dimensions and inject as many emotionally-loaded, jingoistic, and anxiety-inducing intimations as possible. These Trojan horses, once inserted into public discourse, arouse the appropriate psychological insecurities and pre-existing prejudices, and soon come to reshape the framework of public discourse itself. The trick is to recognize this game from the outset – and to reject and dismantle the imposed framework - instead of hopelessly banging on the walls from inside the asylum.

So how bad are our borders? According to a 26-year Border Patrol veteran, Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes, it is the same old one trick pony.

"We've had an ongoing issue with drug trafficking on the border that goes back to when I was in the Patrol. Yes, it flares up from time to time at different parts of the border, but that's the way it's always been," said Reyes, who also was a Border Patrol sector chief.

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It all started on a weekend hunting trip Dick Cheney took at the Armstrong Ranch in Kenedy County. A ranch rich with Texas history, it was once told that Prince Charles even played polo there in 1977. Others who also visited the Armstrong Ranch to play polo were Anne's Husband, Tobin Armstrong of the Armstrong Ranch; his brother John Armstrong of the neighboring King Ranch; and John's son Charles Armstrong. This would build to a lifelong cadre of Republicans familiar with power.

This hunting trip included Harry Whittington, 78, a Republican, chairman of the Texas Funeral Services Commission and served on the state prison board and Texas Public Finance Authority; Katharine Armstrong, whose family owns the Texas ranch where Cheney shot his 78-year-old friend, Harry Whittington, on Saturday; and Pamela Pitzer Willeford, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland.

Thanks to Karl Rove, the master of damage control, this has diverted the news media away from Katharine Armstrong, the wealthy ranch heiress, who is also a lobbyist - a lobbyist who are close friends with the president and vice president.

"I'm going to have lunch with Secretary of State Rice, talk a little business; Mrs. Bush, talk a little business; we've got a friend from South Texas here, named Katharine Armstrong; take a little nap. I'm reading an Elmore Leonard book right now, knock off a little Elmore Leonard this afternoon; go fishing with my man, Barney; a light dinner and head to the ballgame. I get to bed about 9:30 p.m., wake up about 5 a.m. So it's a perfect day."

Armstrong, the daughter of Anne and the late Tobin Armstrong is definitely following in her parents' footsteps. Anne Armstrong, who comes from a wealthy New Orleans family, has a long history with the Republican Party. President Ford appointed Anne as ambassador to the United Kingdom, becoming the first woman Ambassador to the UK, to her credit. President Reagan appointed her to his Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Other positions she held include co-chair of the Republican National Convention; cabinet-level positions for two Republican Presidents, Nixon and Ford; and board member at Halliburton. It is also said that Anne was very instrumental in helping Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison - Anne's best friend - launch her political career.

Tobin Armstrong, who recently passed away, also has a long history working within the Republican Party and the beef industry. Between 1953 and until his death, Tobin served on the board of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. His career in politics is richly associated with Texas political machinery in Kenedy County. According to his obituary, he "served as Kenedy County commissioner from 1979 until his death." Tobin also served as an advisor to Texas Republican Gov. William Clements; it was there he met Karl Rove. According to Karl Rove, Tobin was very helpful in bringing down the Texas Democratic Party.

Katharine Armstrong may not have had the rich experience her parents had, but she did gain a lot of insight. Her upbringing gave her the best of both worlds: from her mother - knowledge regarding foreign policy; and from her father - the lobby experience of the cattle experience and great insight to Texas politics.

Her first governmental experience was given to her when she was appointed to be chair of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission by then Gov. George W. Bush. Coincidentally, this is the same agency that filed the report on the Cheney shooting.

After serving her term, Katharine soon became a lobbyist for James A. Baker III, the former Secretary of State and his firm, Baker Botts. She also lobbies for Prionics, Trajen, and King Ranch.

Besides having strong Republican connections, Armstrong is linked to two family fortunes — those of Armstrong and King — that include extensive corporate holdings in land, cattle, banking and oil. So it should not be surprising that major corporations are willing to pay a hefty price for Armstrong to lobby the federal government in Washington.

Records reviewed by ePluribusMedia show that Prionics, a pharmaceutical company and the family-owned King Ranch have paid Armstrong - $10,000 and $120,000 respectively - to lobby the White House, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other lawmakers.

Prionics is a pharmaceutical company, which specializes in testing for mad cow disease and related animal diseases. Prionics also happens to have their business headquarters located in Switzerland, the same country as Cheney's other hunting partner Pamela Willeford, U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, is currently residing.

According to their disclosure form, Armstrong "contacted Sec. Ann Veneman at the Dept. of Agriculture regarding using Prionics testing methods to determine BSE," referring to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease. An April 2004 Prionics News Release announced that the US Department of Agriculture had approved the Prionics BSE tests for the current USDA's BSE surveillance program and is the current testing method to determine "mad cow" disease.

ZURICH and BASEL, Switzerland, April 8 /PRNewswire/ - Prionics AG, the world leader in testing procedures for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" disease, and Roche Diagnostics, the number one in-vitro diagnostics company in the world, announced today that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the two Prionics BSE tests, Prionics(R)-Check WESTERN, and Prionics(R)- Check LIA, for use in the United States' enhanced BSE surveillance program. Both tests will be distributed by Roche Diagnostics in the United States. On a world-wide basis, Roche Diagnostics has distributed the

Prionics tests in most major markets since February 2001.

Considering last month's discovery of another case of mad cow in Canada, one does have to wonder what Armstrong, Cheney, and Ambassador Willeford were talking about.

Last week Katharine Armstrong insisted that she never lobbied Bush or Cheney directly. However, NBC News' Aram Rostom reported that Baker Botts and other international clients had paid Armstrong over $160,000 in 2004 to lobby the Bush White House.

The records indicate she was paid the money after she "communicated with the White House on behalf of Baker Botts clients."

In a phone interview, she told NBC News that in return for the money in one case, she set up a meeting at the White House for a Baker Botts client, although she said she felt she could not release the client's name.

"A meeting for doing something with one of their clients," she said, describing the event. "I'm not at liberty to say which." She says she cannot remember which White House official the meeting was with. She also said that during the inauguration proceedings, she got Karl Rove to speak at a Baker Botts function. "I got them Karl Rove," she said.

How was she able to get them Rove? Could she have been able to get him by way of Harry Whittington? It was already established that Whittington had been a friend of the Armstrong family.

Jim Francis, a veteran of Texas GOP politics, said Whittington has been a friend with the Armstrong family since the 1950s, "when Republicans were just in a coat closet in Texas."

Investigations done by ePluribusMedia found state records showing Harry M Whittington served as Secretary and Director for Karl Rove & Company. The question might be posed: Who exactly was most concerned about Harry. Karl or Dick? How might Karl feel about knowing Dick shot Harry? It certainly does explain why Karl Rove was brought into the Saturday night communications between the White House and Texas, doesn't it.

Investigations done by ePluribus found state records showing Harry M Whittington currently serving on Karl Rove's business, Karl Rove & Company, as Secretary and Director.

The question might be posed. Who exactly was most concerned about Harry. Karl or Dick? How might Karl feel about knowing Dick shot Harry? It certainly dies explain why Karl Rove was brought into the Saturday night communications between the White House and Texas, doesn't it.

The degrees of separation are never too far when it comes to the Power Elite.

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Para Justicia y Libertad (For Liberty and Justice) is based on the principles of Emiliano Zapata's manifesto, el Plan de Ayala. Zapata had a strong belief in social justice. The Plan was reminder of the hardships and oppressions that many have been suffering at the hands of corrupt government officials in the past.

The first signature to the Plan was by General in Chief Emiliano Zapata and followed by over forty revolutionary leaders. Preceding the signatures were the words liberty, justice, and law.

The Plan of Ayala can be compared to our Declaration of Independence - they are both manifestos calling for governmental and social change.

This blog is intended to follow the same principles as the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Plan of Ayala - un voz ¡Para Justicia y Libertad!

Xicano/as, it is time to awaken the sleeping giant from its long slumber!

This is our wake-up call to rise up against our oppressors with hopes of a better future. ¡Viva La Raza!




".. la ignorancia y el oscurantismo en todos los tiempos no han producido más que rebaños de esclavos para la tiranía..." (Emiliano Zapata, en una carta dirigida a Pancho Villa)

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