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My ¡Ask a Mexican! YouTube experiment is barely a month old, and some Know Nothings are already missing the point. Take the example of YouTube subscriber Aztlanbuster, who stole my YouTube clip regarding the Reconquista and relabeled it "MEXICANS WANT CANADA TOO." I thought it was Mexicans who were prone to stealing and piratería, Aztlanbuster—gracias for proving me wrong! And the lack of humor toward satire—are you majoring in Chicano Studies?
Not missing the point is Brook Young, proprietor of Immigration Watchdog and a guy who's so border enforcement-serious users must register to post comments on his site. Since I don't have papers to comment on his site, I'll use the open borders at Navel Gazing to extend my thanks to Brook for his plug today titled "Brown Supremacist Gustavo Arellano Shows His Ugly Face On YouTube." Dunno where you got the brown supremacist thing from—I was fighting your raison d'etres over at La Voz de Aztlan and the Mexica Movement before Lou Dobbs knew what a La Raza was, although I won't dispute your description of my mug. But wasn't it Thoreau who said those who sport soul patches shouldn't throw ugly charges? Congrats, by the way, on making the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest Nativist watch alongside our very own Wiley Drake. And buena suerte (Aztlanista for "good luck") with your fight against Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist!
**UPDATE: The MySpace page Exposing Justice--devoted to exposing "criminal illegal aliens" and definitely not Raza--weighs in.
March 16, 2008 21:50
Immigration Watchdog against Gilchrist? This wouldn't have anything to do with his association with Barbara Coe from the California Coalition of Immigration Reform (CCIR)?
Watchdog is going after the Mexican, too? The Mexican? For real?
These anti illegal activist groups are too busy fighting amongst themselves to get anything done. Why would Watchdog come out against Gilchrist? This Watchdog has turned into an ego maniac. Now Watchdog is wasting his time attacking The Mexican? Please. Can't he think of more productive things to do with his time?
March 17, 2008 04:47
Now if only we could get Republican party members to fight amongst themselves, the same way that these anti-immigration groups are doing (saying this as I position my right, pinky finger next to my lips, and start my "Evil" laugh MWAH HAH HAH HAH!). ;-)
March 17, 2008 08:18
Being that it's St. Patrick's day, I saw this story on msnbc.com, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23636868/from/ET/, that discusses what Ireland's liberal immigration laws has done for it's economy (and apparently it be doin' wonders for "The Olde Sod").
I guess the msnbc.com story goes to prove that in the U.S., "La Reconquista" is really nothing to be feared, and that maybe we can learn a bit o' a lesson from those "wee leprechauns", who aren't afraid of foreigners "who be stealin' their crock o'gold". ;-)
IRLANDA PARA SIEMPRE!/ERIN GOBRAGH!
El frances, quien es irlandes para hoy (manana es un otra cosa)