Good article Travis! I was unaware of Jack Wheeler, or his web site, (and I am too cheap to pay $8.98 to join his "To The Point" web site, but this article is succinct and accurate!!
Thanks for sharing! KeithInKöln On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Here' a great one: > To The Point News - CINCO DE > REALITY<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/> > > *CINCO DE REALITY* > <http://www.tothepointnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4068&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=2> > > <http://www.tothepointnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=emailform&id=4068&itemid=2> > *Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler * *Wednesday, 05 May 2010 * > > *Today is May 5th - celebrated by American gringos as an excuse to drink > cheap tequila margaritas and eat bad Mexican food by calling this day "Cinco > de Mayo." > > Nobody in Mexico cares about May 5th. Only we, us gringos, pretend to. For > if you ask just about any reveler at the nearest Pancho Villa's Cantina or > some such Mexican-themed bar anywhere in the US, just what is being > celebrated today you'll get either a blank stare or "It's their July 4th " > ignorance. > > So first the real history. Then the reality - the horrific reality of how > the fascists of the American Left are using Mexico to destroy their own > country. > > The founder and creator of Mexico was Hernando Cortez (1485-1587). The > Aztec Empire he liberated in 1521 was about the size Kansas, some 80,000 > square miles. Over the next 200 years, viceroys appointed by the King of > Spain expanded the colony of Nueva España or New Spain by twenty times > (through appropriating land from Indian tribes) to 1,650,000 square miles. > > When the French lost the Seven Years' War, by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 > they ceded their territory of Louisianne (named after Louis XIV) west of > the Mississippi to England which awarded it to Spain for being England's > ally in the war. This added another 828,000 square miles to the Viceroyalty > of New Spain. > > When Napoleon seized power after the French Revolution, he wanted > Louisianne back for France. So he made a secret deal in 1800 with the King > Charles IV of Spain (actually with his wife Queen Maria Amelia and her lover > Manuel de Godoy for Charles was retarded) to trade (a "retrocession") all of > it for control of Tuscany in Italy. It was called the Treaty of Ildefonso. > > President Thomas Jefferson's spies in Paris found out about the secret > treaty in 1801, and that Napoleon needed some fast cash. He had lost his > cash cow of Haiti and its sugar exports in a rebellion and might be open to > a deal over Louisianne. The negotiations were concluded on May 2, 1803: > 828,000 square miles for $15 million, or about three cents an acre. The > Louisiana Purchase. > > Charles IV abdicated his throne in 1808 in favor of his son Ferdinand VII, > who was so pro-British/anti-French that Napoleon invaded Spain and replaced > him with his older brother Joseph Bonaparte as King. The people of Spain > rebelled, which left the Spanish government in chaotic breakdown - and which > gave the people of New Spain cause to rebel against their colonial rulers in > Europe. > > By the time Ferdinand VII regained the throne in 1814, he needed money to > suppress the rebellion in New Spain. His government had challenged the > legality of the entire Louisiana Purchase, claiming France had no right to > sell it and never owned it anyway, since the secret Ildefonso treaty was > invalid. President James Monroe saw the opportunity. > > By 1819 at Monroe's instructions, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams > concluded a deal with Ferdinand's emissary Spanish Foreign Minister Luis de > Onis called the Adams-Onis Treaty. The US paid Spain $5 million for the > 70,000 square miles of Spanish Florida, and Spain recognized the validity of > the Louisiana Purchase, thus settling the US-New Spain border.* > ** > *Ferdinand could now suppress the New Spain rebellion - but the general in > charge of the suppression who was infamous for his brutality, Augustin de > Iturbide (1783-1824), decided to rule New Spain for himself. In 1821, he > made a deal with the rebels, who put him in charge of their rebellion. > Ferdinand > capitulated, and on August 24, 1821, his emissary signed the Treaty of > Cordoba recognizing the sovereign independence of New Spain. > > You'd think that August 24, then, would be Mexico's Independence Day, but > it's not. It's September 16 instead, for in the wee hours of that day in > 1810 a Catholic priest, Father Miguel Hidalgo called for his flock in the > small town of Dolores in Guanajuato state to rebel against their Spanish > rulers. His cry or grito of rebellion is what Mexicans celebrate as their > July 4th. > > Iturbide is an embarrassment to Mexicans, for once the independence treaty > was signed he betrayed the rebels and declared himself Emperor Augustin I of > New Spain, which he renamed Mexico. He promptly repudiated all treaties > made by Spain - Adams-Onis in particular - except of course the one that put > him in power. > > Hardly a year passed when a general of Iturbide's army, Antonio Lopez de > Santa Anna (1794-1876) overthrew him. Years of coups, counter-coups, and > chaos followed, with a full dozen Mexican states in open rebellion against > the central government in Mexico City: Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, > Querétaro, Durango, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Yucatán, Jalisco, Nuevo León, > Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, and Tejas. > > Several of these states formed their own governments. All were brutally > suppressed by Santa Anna. One succeeded in gaining independence - Tejas, > which became in 1836 the Republic of Texas. Mexico demanded it back and > warned the US if it annexed Texas, there would be war. > > When James Polk (1795-1849) became president in March of 1845, he promptly > moved to accept Texas into the Union, which is it was that December. In > 1846, the Mexican government was such a chaotic mess that it had four > presidents, six war ministers, and 16 finance ministers - in that one year. > Nonetheless, it got what it said it wanted when 2,000 Mexican soldiers > attacked 63 US soldiers on a border patrol at the Neuces River, killing 11, > and the Mexican-American War was on. > > By March of 1847, US forces had secured most of northern Mexico. Then > General Winfield Scott landed 12,000 soldiers at Veracruz - among whom were > Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Thomas Jackson, later to be nicknamed > "Stonewall." > > After securing Veracruz, Scott marched to Mexico City to defeat the forces > of Santa Anna - who had by now seized the Mexican presidency for the sixth > time - at the Battle of Chapultepec on September 13, 1847. The war was > over. > > General Winfield Scott was military governor of Mexico City, the Mexican > government existed in name only, and many a US Congressman and Senator was > demanding the US annex the entire country of Mexico. > > Polk turned this demand down. He declared instead that in exchange for the > US to uphold Mexican independence and end the US military occupation, that > Mexico was to relinquish any claim to the territory of Texas and the > Louisiana Purchase, and that Mexico was to cede to the US its territory > between the western border of the US (meaning Texas and the "Missouri > Territory" of the Purchase) and the Pacific Ocean, an area of over 500,000 > square miles. > > On February 2, 1848 at the basilica of Guadelupe in the village of Hidalgo > on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo codified > Polk's deal. Mexico promptly resumed fluctuating between dictators and > anarchic bloody chaos. > > In 1851, the nephew of Napoleon (the son of Napoleon's brother Louis), > Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873), seized power in France and declared > himself Emperor Napoleon III. After a decade of imperialist adventures > from Italy to Algeria to Indochina, he set his sights on Mexico. It was > in its usual state of civil war - and by 1861, so was the United States. > > Colluding with a group of Mexican monarchists who wanted the anarchy to > end, he ordered the French Army to invade Mexico. After suffering an > initial defeat at a place called Puebla, his forces and the monarchists > succeeded in taking over the government and placing a Hapsburg prince, > Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria (1832-1867) as Emperor of Mexico. > > Why Maximilian of Austria? Because he was Napoleon III's secret first > cousin. Napoleon's son, Francois Joseph Bonaparte (1811-1832, given the > courtesy title of Napoleon II when a child by his father) was exiled with > his mother Marie-Louise to Austria after Waterloo (for she was the daughter > of the Emperor of Austria, Francis II). At age 20, Francois had an affair > with Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805-1872), whose husband Archduke Franz > Karl was retarded, and she became pregnant. > > Two weeks after she gave birth to Maximilian, Francois/Napoleon II died, > and Sophie accused Austria's Minister of State, Prince von Metternich > (1773-1859) of poisoning him to squelch the scandal of Maximilian's real > paternity. Years later, Sophie became deranged with bitterness over > Maximilian's fate. > > Once America's Civil War ended, President Andrew Johnson wasted no time in > telling the French he wanted them out of Mexico. He sent arms and money > to the leader of the Mexican rebellion against Maximilian, Benito Juarez, > and encouraged Americans to volunteer to fight for him. This enabled > Juarez to defeat Maximilian's forces, and capture and execute Maximilian > himself in June, 1867. > > Thus Mexico's independence, from 1867 onward, is thanks to America. Don't > expect any gratitude. Oh, and that initial defeat of the French at Puebla > that didn't even slow down the French in conquering Mexico? It was on May > 5th, 1862. Yep, that's the vaunted "Cinco de Mayo." It's just an excuse > for a party in Gringoland. > > Now you know the history, but you may not know the depth of hatred and > bitterness many Mexicans feel over it. Our history is one of freedom, > democracy, political stability (except for that War of Northern Aggression > thing), incredible prosperity, the greatest success story of any nation > ever. Their history is one of bloody anarchy, dictatorship, endless > corruption, and grinding poverty. > > And because they haven't got the balls to take responsibility for the > failure of their history, they blame it on us. It's all our fault. We > stole their land, or some other childish excuse. > > Not all Mexicans feel this way, of course. There are plenty of normal > decent people in Mexico who bear no grudges. But virtually the entire > intelligentsia and ruling elite of Mexico feel this way. And thanks to > the evil synergy of the American Left's fascist will to power and it's > masochistic **fear of the evil eye of > envy*<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/content/view/3410/44/> > *, Mexican hate and envy is indulged and encouraged. > > There's the clearest demonstration of how Mexico's ruling elite encourages > envious hatred towards America in the entrance foyer of the Museo Nacional > de Historia, the Museum of National History in Mexico City, where there is > an enormous mosaic map depicting Mexico Integral - Greater Mexico, Mexico > Integrated and Whole. > > Every class of students on a field trip from their school to the museum is > made to sit down and gaze up at the huge map, while the teacher explains how > so much of Los Estados Unidos was stolen from Mexico and really belongs to > them. > > In fact, the teacher explains, what the Norteamericanos call the Louisiana > Purchase was illegal - stolen by France, then illegally sold by France. So > it, too, should belong to Mexico. > > Everywhere in Mexico, every Mexican schoolchild is taught that just as all > the treaties signed by Spain ceding territory to the US are illegal, so is > the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo. Every Mexican national legally or > illegally in the US is told by the Mexican government his or her allegiance > is to Mexico - not America. > > Thus we have the rise of the Reconquista movement by such rabidly racist > groups as **Aztlan, La Raza, and > MEChA*<http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html> > *. Thus we have 20 million illegal aliens in the US from Mexico, waving > signs claiming that the whole southwest of America is theirs.* > ** > *The hysterically dishonest depiction of Arizona's new anti-illegals law > by Democrats, moonbats, the so-called "mainstream media," and RINO > politicians like Gov. Arnold could not be a more explicit expression of > their masochistic desire to see their own country destroyed. > > So I might as well be explicit myself. From now on, I will look upon > those Americans who are more pro-Mexico than they are pro-America, who claim > illegal aliens in America have more rights than Americans themselves, as my > countrymen no longer but as traitors to my country. > > I do not wish them executed for treason, or imprisoned, or harmed in any > way. I suggest merely that if they hate their country so much, they > should leave and go live in Mexico. > > One of the earliest articles in TTP was on the mortal danger of Mexico to > the US: **America's > Curse*<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/content/view/1368/2/> > * (July 2003). > > That was followed by **Mexico As > Takfiristan*<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/content/view/1378/2/> > * (April 2004), **Mexican > Nazis*<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/content/view/1401/122/> > * (May 2005), and **The Second Civil > War*<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/4068/2/content/view/2207/2/> > * (March 2006). I really encourage you to read the entire series. > > The situation is now reaching a crisis stage, with the Democrat Party in > full power in Washington and having become a party of treason. I am > coming to believe that our nation's actual existence is at stake in the > elections of November 2nd. > > Sorry to sober you up on this Cinco de Mayo, but that's Cinco de Reality. > * > > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
