Collected by "Let's Roll".


Mario Obledo, former California Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare;
co-founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
(MALDEF); former president of the League of United Latin American Citizens
(LULAC); recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President
Clinton: "Eventually we are going to take over all the political
institutions of California." ". . . they (those who don't like it) ought to
go back to Europe."

Art Torres, former California state senator, chairman of the California
Democratic Party: "Remember, 187 (proposition to deny taxpayer funds for
services to noncitizens) is the last gasp of white America in California!
Understand that."

Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor: "We are politicizing every
single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country.
. . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going out there
and vote because I want to PAY THEM BACK!'"

Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets: "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock,
Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future! You are old and tired. Go on. We have
beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to
die. . . . Through love of having children, we are going to take over."

Fernando Guerra, professor, Loyola Marymount: "We need to avoid a white
backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . non-Latinos aren't
watching, they aren't raising questions."

Jose Pescador Osuña, Mexican Consul General
We are practicing "La Reconquista" in California."

Armando Navarro, professor, University of California: ". . . you are like
the generals who command armies! We're in a state of war!"

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council: "They're afraid we're going to
take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They're
right. We will take them over."

Charles Truxillo, professor, University of New Mexico: "Republica del
Norte," the Republic of the North, which would include the present U.S.
states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus southern Colorado,
along with several current Mexican states, is "an inevitability." The new
"Hispanic homeland" should be brought into being "by any means necessary."

Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington; founder of
La Raza Unida political party; and beneficiary of American generosity: "We
have an aging white America. . . . They are dying. . . . They are ********
in their pants with fear! I love it!" "We have got to eliminate the gringo,
and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to
kill him."

David Lopez, sociologist, California State University, Northridge: "In 1848,
Mexico lost the war, but in 2050, Mexico will have reclaimed what was
rightfully theirs."

MEChA (Chicano Student Movement): "Chicano and Chicana students of Aztlan
must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo with
the community, politicizing our Raza with an emphasis on indigenous
consciousness to continue the struggle for the self-determination of the
Chicano people for the purpose of liberating Aztlan." -- preamble to MEChA's
national constitution.

Xavier Hermosillo, a Los Angeles radio talk show host
In 1993, proclaimed on the CBS 48 Hours show that Mexican-Americans were
taking political control of the "former Mexican colony, California ... house
by house, block by block".  Excelsior - The national newspaper of Mexico
"The American Southwest ("AZTLAN") seems to be slowly returning to the
jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

In a well-written Mankind Quarterly article, The Deconstruction of America,
by Joseph Fallon, public officials Antonio Villaraigosa, majority leader of
the California State Assembly and Art Torres, Chairman of the California
Democratic Party, speakers at the "Latino Leadership Summit Response to Prop
187" are mentioned for their apparent agreement with many declarations
uttered at the meeting.  Neither Villaraigosa nor Torres repudiated these
comments: "English should be a foreign language"; "We are hostages in our
own land, prisoners of war"; "We live under occupying alien force."; "We
live in the annexed territories of AZTLAN"; and "We're in a state of war ...
a vicious threat to our existence".  And neither man condemned the repeated
calls for the establishment of an independent country of Aztlan or the
references to this country as "AmeriKKKa" and the "United Snakes of
America".

"I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the
territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an
important - a very important - part of this." This statement wasn't made in
secrecy behind closed doors. It wasn't said outside the jurisdiction of the
United States of America. None other than Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo
spoke it in Chicago on July 23, 1997.

Some Hispanic activists deny that there is any sort of organized effort to
take over these states and reclaim it for Mexico. However, Jose Pescador
Osuna, who was once the Mexican consul general in Los Angeles, has been
quoted on the record as saying, "Even though I'm saying this part serious
and part joking, I believe we are practicing 'La Reconquista' in
California."

Felipe Gonzáles, director of UNM's Southwest Hispanic Research Institute,
said there's a "certain homeland undercurrent" among New Mexico Hispanics
who believe land was stolen and promises broken. But, he said, a new nation
would need much more widespread support.

"Educated elites are going to have to pick up on this idea and run with it
and use it as a point of confrontation if it is to succeed," Gonzáles said.

Truxillo contends states have the right to secede under the Articles of
Confederation of 1777, in which states retained "sovereignty, freedom and
independence." He contends the Articles were not superseded in that regard
by the U.S. Constitution and that although the Civil War settled the
question militarily, it was never resolved by courts.

"I am not an American. There is nothing about me that is American. I don't
want to be an American, and I have just as much right to be here as any of
you." Thus spoke one individual identified as a "Latino activist" during a
session of the "National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity," a
$4 million project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Palomas Mayor Julieta Avina has mastered the language of victimology: "To
me, the lawsuit is racist, and I think this issue could lead to
international problems along this part of the border." As for New Mexico
residents who object to subsidizing Mexican children, Avina tells them to
find some other place to live: "If they don't like Mexico they ought to move
to Canada."

In 1986, Nicaraguan defector Alberto Suhr related to U.S. reporters what
he and other Sandinista cadres had been told by Tomas Borge, the Sandinista
interior minister. Borge, a ruthless henchman trained by Castro's DGI,
instructed his comrades: "We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or 15 years
from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they're going to
have one thing in mind - cross the border, go into Dallas, go into Houston,
go into New Mexico, go into San Diego, and each one has embedded in his mind
the idea of killing 10 Americans."
When Borge made that boast, he already had a sizeable fifth column of
propagandists, foot soldiers, and narco-terrorists operating within the
United States. Since then, several million more illegal aliens have entered
the U.S., the Communist EZLN "Zapatista" forces in Mexico's Chiapas state
have declared war on Mexico's corrupt and bankrupt ruling PRI regime, the
Mexican economy has imploded, the drug cartels have taken control over much
of Mexico, and the militant "Aztlan" movement has experienced a remarkable
resurgence in U.S. Hispanic communities.