While the mainstream media drools over Arnold's irrelevant past, Crus Bustamante's connection to a terrorist group is ignored, or worse covered up.
However, the Blogosphere is on this story:
Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs posts:
The leaders of the Raza Unida Party (RUP), a “political party” created by MEChA, took a meeting with Yasser Arafat in Lebanon in 1980, with a portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeini glowering over the festivities:
(Hat tip: Adam.)
UPDATE: Here is a page with info about the founder of the RUP: Jose Angel Gutierrez.
Here's the pull quote header on the Gutierrez's link
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."
Think that's ancient history or a distortion? Read this October 18, 2000 Star-Telegram interview with Guteirrez.
Stefan Sharkansky of Sharksblog has a must-read piece on MEChA:
IMO Sharkansy's money graf is:
MEChA's El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan lists the group's "Organizational Goals", including:
economic control of our lives and our communities can only come about by driving the exploiter out of our communities, ourpueblos, and our lands and by controlling and developing our own talents, sweat, and resources. Cultural background and values which ignore materialism and embrace humanism will contribute to the act of cooperative buying and the distribution of resources and production to sustain an economic base for healthy growth and development Lands rightfully ours will be fought for and defended. Land and realty ownership will be acquired by the community for the people's welfare. Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the Chicano defense units.
(The "our lands" include, for example, California, Texas and Colorado) It's nationalism! It's socialism! It's national socialism! It's where Cruz Bustamante got his start in politics!
"I think the actuality of what takes place in those organizations is to provide student leadership. For me, and many, many others, we were running for student government. That's how I got here today."
You'll notice the MEChA info is on the University of Michigan server. Yes, our tax dollars are supporting this self=avowed terrorist organization.
An interesting side note: Cruz Bustamante recently completed his undergrad degree at Fresno State. He attended a Hispanic only graduation event.
Founded as the Chicano Commencement Celebration, the event was Olgin’s and Garduque’s joint master’s thesis along with establishing the Chicano Alumni Association. Co-founders were then-La Raza studies professor Ernesto Martinez and student director Frances Pena-Olgin, who is now the director of Fresno State’s University Outreach Services.
Can you imagine the media uproar if a Republican Lt Governor attended such an event?
Vote Yes on Recall and No on Bustamante.
Posted by feste at August 30, 2003 02:53 PM | TrackBackKill. them. all. Yep sure sounds like the PLO...don't it?
It's puzzling that the media is not picking up on this story. I have a feeling it's sheer ignorance as much as bias or PC...in these times, that is much scarier.
Posted by: feste at August 30, 2003 06:13 PMI'm more of a cynic. I believe it's entirely PC bias. The only group on the planet that the media will attack are white conservatives. Everybody else gets treated with kid gloves.
And the "official" position at my blog is Yes on Recall, McClintock for Governor.
Posted by: beaker at August 30, 2003 07:44 PMAs you can see I've added a McClintock banner and click-through. Tom is the only sensible choice.
In all the recent election ads on TV and radio, Arnold , Senator Feinstein, Steve Westly were all promoting Props 57 and 58. There was no word from Crus B. It seems that he disappeared from the political arena. What gives????
Best Regards,
Frank Gross III
Posted by: Frank Gross III at March 6, 2004 09:16 PMGood question...nothing in the Scramento Bee or the SF Chronicle...he must be waiting in the weeds.
Posted by: feste at March 6, 2004 10:25 PM