Maybe I'm the only one who feels offended that Sen. McCain and entourage visited the place where indigenous people have venerated Tonantzin and have danced to her for more than 2000 years.
This man has no shame whatsoever, is there any doubt that he wants to ingratiate himself to Mexicans in particular and Latinamericans in general? He is desperate and is willing to do anything, even use the belief of millions for political points, without even the slightest understanding of, or total disregard for, whichever is the case, what she has historically represented and what she represents today to so many of us?
McCain, Jebb Bush and Joe Lieberman represent and stand against what our symbol represents and what it means to millions, which is totally contrary to what these......... people support and advocate for; to continue the 'Manifest Destiny' agenda, McCain was and is totally in favor of the Iraq invasion (More people of color slaughtered) and wants to continue the US War Policies, preferably against people of color, mainly Brown, for a 100 years more, maybe a thousand.
For, how can anybody believe that McCain did honor Tonantzin when he dishonors, allows vicious attacks to, and persecution of the people who believe in her and have her color? Yeah, I'm talking about Immigrant workers whom he is willing to harm even more by destroying the economies and industries of their country by advocating and working in earnest to implement more 'free trade agreements' and thus force more of them into the 21st century's version of slave labor?
After all, I have not heard him advocating to stop the raids and the separation of families until Immigration Reform is enacted, have you? At best he has paid lip service to this issue, in his theatrical ways, he introduced legislation for immigration reform to then flip-flop again, all for political points, from where I stand, in a true and tried Republican tradition, he lights up both sides of the candle, or as the Native Americans say: "He speaks with forked tongue".
He is the Senator from Arizona, isn't he? I have not heard a blip from him about how Arizona treats the immigrant and Latino communities, hasn't he heard of the abuses of Law Enforcement Officials, namely Sheriff Joe Arpaio? He, who proclaimed not only to be proud, but that it is an honor that his name is associated with the Ku Klux Klan and also proud to collaborate with vigilantes who have stated their desire to start shooting Mexicans (Illegals? Is John McCain's racism so deep that he is willing to let this brutally abusive sheriff waste taxpayers funds in pursuing undocumented immigrants while at the same time neglects his duty of going after real criminals? Has anybody heard McCain say anything against what this sheriff has been doing?
How can one believe that he is sincere in his 'honoring' Tonantzin when, as the Senator from Arizona, doesn't even acknowledge the abuses being committed against the Mexican/Latino community in his home state? Hasn't he heard about the racial profiling going on there? And what about the super oppressive legislation being enacted there as well? Hasn't he heard the words that the Media Hatemongers, whom he calls 'my friends', spew daily against people of color? What the hell! Let's call it for what it is, Racism, Xenophobia and Nativism.
I'm so upset at this ignominy and that not many more are clamoring in protest of this slap in the face by this man, his entourage and the greedy Prostitute that is the Catholic Church Hierarchy, what? Prostitute it is too strong a word for the Catholic Church? Well, my fear is that I'll be offending sex workers with the use of it, after all, they work and risk life and limb (The Sex Workers) for the money they receive, as far as I'm concerned, the members of the Catholic Church Supreme Hierarchy are not worthy to even kiss the ground the sex workers thread.
For the ones who are offended by my calling the Catholic Church Hierarchy, a prostitute, allow me to remind you that for more than 200 years after the claim of her apparition to Juan Diego (Nahuatl name Cuauhtlatoatzin ("La venerable águila que habla" ("The Venerable Eagle that talks/speaks"))), their predecessors attacked the belief for Tonantzin and her believers, it was not until they saw the profits that embracing her followers would bring that they jumped into the pile of gold that the Cult of Tonantzing was and is today, and that is only one instance, the Catholic Church Hierarchy is and has been so corrupt, in so many areas, and at so many levels, that entire volumes have been written which validate my claims, for space's sake, I'll not go into the many crimes committed by them throughout history and I also must leave out for the same reason, the ones committed by omission.
As for my credentials for speaking as I have, I only need one but I'll give you three, I'm a Catholic, a Danzante Mexica and Gudalupana and I consider it my sacred duty, in the most forgotten, but that should be the most revered, Catholic tradition and by also emulating Jesus of Nazareth of denouncing what the hypocrites have been doing, how they have sold the poor and most oppressed to Mammon, is there anybody who would like to argue with me against what I'm saying? That their demigod, which is not my concept of God, eats at the rich man's table and does his bidding?
And they have the gall to take McCain, J. Bush and Lieberman to El Tepeyac, to allegedly honor Tonantzin, WHAT A PILE OF BS.
And just to finish and not let it be unsaid, a few words about the RATzinger at the Vatican, who has for years dismantling any and all tenets of Jesus' Liberation Theology, they have been pushing aside bit by bit what the Second Vatican Council, which opened on October 11th 1962, was trying to accomplish, he (RATzinger) is stepping all over the Populorum Progressio by supporting regressive politicians such as joined-at-the-hip G.W. Bush and McCain, the representative of Jesus on Earth? Ha! He denigrates the Man.
Do I have a reason to be upset and to believe that McCain's visit to Tonatzing desecrated a shrine and was a slap on the face? I think I do.
With all due respect to your also valid opinion, this is mine.
Aurora
SFCA 070408
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Institutionalized Terrorism and domestic espionage
(Nexus of politics and terror - "Protect the Americans Act")
Before I emigrated to the US in Jan. 1969 and since then, I kept hearing that the guiding principle of the United States of America was that it is better to let 9 guilty people go free before unjustly condemning an innocent one.
Even before I came here, I knew that it was pure BS because justice is not blind hence it is not dispensed equally, that your ethnic, economic, ideology or national background/origin play a big role as to who gets convicted and what sentence is given; but as a guiding principle I thought it was a good one to strive for.
In the ensuing 39 years, my views and opinions were reinforced continuously.
"The land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"
"Give me liberty or give me death" These words ring so hollow after witnessing the aftermath of 911, people were terrified to go out, to fly, afraid of their own shadow to the point of letting a corrupt government take away their, albeit not for all, precious liberties, by enacting legislation that would allow Government institutions to break the law while violating the Constitution.
I must clarify that not all Americans allowed themselves to be stampeded into capitulation, a good one third refused to go down quietly and have fought valiantly ever since to preserve their way of going about living, and it has come to pass that the numbers have been reversed to the point of leaving approximately only one third of the population still cowing at a fabricated boogey man crouching in every imaginable nook and crannies, I'll venture to say that there is no hope for these people, commonly referred as RightWingNuts who behave no different than sheep or the bobble heads people place on the dashboards of their cars, yep, yep, yep...
It was incomprehensible to me how people were railroaded into submission by the use of fear, especially in this country allegedly populated by brave Patriots, where the phrase, uttered by a president considered to have been great, "You have nothing to fear but fear itself" Is considered a shinning path to bravery and victory.
Alas, that was not the case this time or in any of the many other cases in the past.
For many of us, 911 was a case study on how people can be manipulated into accepting the normally unacceptable such a cruelty and injustice toward other human beings and more paradoxically yet, to themselves.
For the first time in my life, I was seeing and living the lessons of history which were until this point, at an intellectual level, I witnessed the development of a terror campaign such as the ones which made possible, the Native Americans Relocation, the Chinese Exclusionary Act, nazism, The Japanese internments, Operation Wetback, The Mexican Repatriation Program, The Zoot Riots, Braceros, McCarthyism, Operation Return to Sender, Operation Endgame, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and many others against African Americans and Pacifists in the 60s and 70s. - The list is so extensive.
And now, many American sheeple are doing it to themselves, again, with many programs of which I'll mention just one for now, The Patriot Act.
It is both sad and terrifying to see how many people are in support of letting the Government spy on them, how they still believe what their elected(?) (A puzzle here too) Officials tell them when it is in the record the countless times said Government has lied to them to date.
A current campaign of fear is the "Protect America Act", where The President and Republicans want a) to continue spying on the American People and, b) Give Retroactive and Prospective immunity to Giant Telecommunication Corporations who engaged on illegal domestic espionage and who will do the same in the future.
One of many Patriotic citizens, Keith Olbermann, who has been challenging the illegal, unconstitutional, corrupt, et al, actions of the current administration, had his staff put together an outstanding piece of chronological video reporting on this issue.
I'll let him tell it and you can see it in the video below.
Aurora Grajeda
SFCA 02.22.08
Nexus of politics and terror - "Protect the Americans Act"
COUNTDOWN 02.21.08 - Keith Olbermann - MSNBC
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi
"We are the ones we have been been waiting for"
"Viva Obama / Aurora Song / Aurora Video"
"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!" - Email GrassRoots4Obama
"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day"
"El Rinconcito de Aurora"
Before I emigrated to the US in Jan. 1969 and since then, I kept hearing that the guiding principle of the United States of America was that it is better to let 9 guilty people go free before unjustly condemning an innocent one.
Even before I came here, I knew that it was pure BS because justice is not blind hence it is not dispensed equally, that your ethnic, economic, ideology or national background/origin play a big role as to who gets convicted and what sentence is given; but as a guiding principle I thought it was a good one to strive for.
In the ensuing 39 years, my views and opinions were reinforced continuously.
"The land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"
"Give me liberty or give me death" These words ring so hollow after witnessing the aftermath of 911, people were terrified to go out, to fly, afraid of their own shadow to the point of letting a corrupt government take away their, albeit not for all, precious liberties, by enacting legislation that would allow Government institutions to break the law while violating the Constitution.
I must clarify that not all Americans allowed themselves to be stampeded into capitulation, a good one third refused to go down quietly and have fought valiantly ever since to preserve their way of going about living, and it has come to pass that the numbers have been reversed to the point of leaving approximately only one third of the population still cowing at a fabricated boogey man crouching in every imaginable nook and crannies, I'll venture to say that there is no hope for these people, commonly referred as RightWingNuts who behave no different than sheep or the bobble heads people place on the dashboards of their cars, yep, yep, yep...
It was incomprehensible to me how people were railroaded into submission by the use of fear, especially in this country allegedly populated by brave Patriots, where the phrase, uttered by a president considered to have been great, "You have nothing to fear but fear itself" Is considered a shinning path to bravery and victory.
Alas, that was not the case this time or in any of the many other cases in the past.
For many of us, 911 was a case study on how people can be manipulated into accepting the normally unacceptable such a cruelty and injustice toward other human beings and more paradoxically yet, to themselves.
For the first time in my life, I was seeing and living the lessons of history which were until this point, at an intellectual level, I witnessed the development of a terror campaign such as the ones which made possible, the Native Americans Relocation, the Chinese Exclusionary Act, nazism, The Japanese internments, Operation Wetback, The Mexican Repatriation Program, The Zoot Riots, Braceros, McCarthyism, Operation Return to Sender, Operation Endgame, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and many others against African Americans and Pacifists in the 60s and 70s. - The list is so extensive.
And now, many American sheeple are doing it to themselves, again, with many programs of which I'll mention just one for now, The Patriot Act.
It is both sad and terrifying to see how many people are in support of letting the Government spy on them, how they still believe what their elected(?) (A puzzle here too) Officials tell them when it is in the record the countless times said Government has lied to them to date.
A current campaign of fear is the "Protect America Act", where The President and Republicans want a) to continue spying on the American People and, b) Give Retroactive and Prospective immunity to Giant Telecommunication Corporations who engaged on illegal domestic espionage and who will do the same in the future.
One of many Patriotic citizens, Keith Olbermann, who has been challenging the illegal, unconstitutional, corrupt, et al, actions of the current administration, had his staff put together an outstanding piece of chronological video reporting on this issue.
I'll let him tell it and you can see it in the video below.
Aurora Grajeda
SFCA 02.22.08
Nexus of politics and terror - "Protect the Americans Act"
COUNTDOWN 02.21.08 - Keith Olbermann - MSNBC
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi
"We are the ones we have been been waiting for"
"Viva Obama / Aurora Song / Aurora Video"
"Yes We Can, Si Se Puede!" - Email GrassRoots4Obama
"March 1st, Int'l Women of Color Day"
"El Rinconcito de Aurora"
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