Truth And Common Sense

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37671

What happens when the Mexican La Raza movement actually wins.  Well, you get a Mexican city inside the United States.  Welcome to Maywood, California.

Boasting a population that is 97% Hispanic, more than half foreign born, and 40% illegal, the Los Angeles County, Calif., incorporated city of Maywood has achieved the Reconquista goal. It is now as lawless and chaotic as any place in Mexico. Maywood is a warning to every city and town in America.

The Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted out to neighboring cities or to L.A. County government.

How did this happen? Until recently, Maywood was the model for “brown power” politics.

Now I read the article and most of what Hedgecock (who I’ve listened to before) says makes sense.  However, no  matter how obvious it appears to be, you must be careful to make sure your cause/effect conclusions are correct.  Hedgecock states that the city is broke and lawless.  Is it broke because the Mexicans are running it?  Is it broke because it exists in California, which is broke?  Is it broke because the city mismanaged itself and its environment above and beyond its political agenda to push illegals forward?  Are you saying that Mexicans are lazy, criminal and corrupt by nature?  That if you put a bunch in an area that area will become corrupted and useless in short order?

That is an argument I can’t answer.  I know from personal experience, on a one to one basis, the Mexicans I met were workers. Maybe not educated, but hard working.  But that is on an individual basis, not grouped together and not grouped together in a state where “getting free stuff” was sold as a right.

However, I would guess there is more than enough evidence to prove that pushing the illegal agenda certainly didn’t help the city.  If you were a business owner would you put your money into a place where this happens?

In August 2006, a “Save Our State” anti-illegal immigration rally in Maywood drew hundreds of protesters-but a larger number of defenders of illegal immigration. The pro-illegal protesters carried signs which read “We are Indigenous ! The ONLY owners of this Continent!” and “Racist Pilgrims Go Home” and “All Europeans are Illegal Here.”

According to newspaper reports at the time, objectors to illegal aliens were subject to physical attacks. A 70-year-old man was “slashed,” a woman attacked, and cars vandalized. Pro-illegal demonstrators raised the Mexican flag at the U.S. Post Office.

The illegal population and their sympathizers became increasingly radicalized. Elections to the City Council saw “assimilationist” incumbent Hispanic council members ousted by La Raza supporting radical challengers.

What is a “La Raza” you ask?  La Raza is a poison.  It poisons the minds and attitudes of Mexicans by selling a silly notion that parts of  the United States is really Mexican territory.  Here is another article from Human events

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863

It is actually pretty nice to the group.  Take the time to read it.  There is plenty more on the web.  La Raza believes they can repopulate the areas once owned by Mexicans.  Those areas are Arizona, California, New Mexico and maybe Texas.   Here’s the problem. La Raza is wrong.  Wars are fought, treaties are made, purchases are transacted for a reason.  Mexicans want to be able to move into an already developed part of our nation, fleeing their third world lives, and take it over.  They don’t want to expend the energy (or don’t have the will or skill) to fix their own backyard and simply want to move into yours- of course throwing you out in the process.

Hedgecock outlines the problems the city has suffered, highlighting the corruption and the troubles with the police department.  It is rather scary but reads exactly like the script for a dying city would read.

Even the L.A. Times called the Maywood Police Department a “haven for misfit cops.” Their story alleged that a veteran officer was extorting sex from relatives of a criminal fugitive; that another officer tried to run over the president of the Maywood Police Commission; and that another officer has impregnated a teenage police-explorer scout.

Charges of corruption and favoritism led to one recall of city council members and threats of more recalls are heard to this day.

Maywood is represented in the state Senate by Democrat “One Bill” Gil Cedillo. He earned the nickname by introducing every year in the state legislature a bill to grant drivers licenses to illegals. Maywood is represented in Congress by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard, a staunch advocate of amnesty for illegals.

Today, Maywood is broke. Its police department dismantled along with all other city departments and personnel. Only the city council remains and a city manager to manage the contracts with other agencies for city services in Maywood.

Maywood is the warning of what happens when illegal immigrants, resisting assimilation as Americans, bring with their growing numbers the corruption and the radical politics of their home countries. Add the radical home-grown anti-Americanism of Hispanic “leaders” and groups like La Raza and you get schools where learning is replaced with indoctrination, business and jobs replaced by welfare and gangs, and a poisonous stew of entitlement politics.

This article is well worth the visit because it reminds us there is a delicate balance between the grand “melting pot” that is America and the dangers of ethnic politics. Maywood California refused to find that balance and is paying the price.