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Nobody’s Opinion; This May Day, was an historical one in the history of mankind, for today, the day that communism is celebrated all over the word, was for the very first time celebrated in the greatest freedom loving land in history---The United States.

Somewhere a great eagle is crying.

Russia had over a million people today march to honor the statue of Karl Marx. In Cuba over a million people today listened to Castro once again denounce the United States. In the streets of America, over a million people marched to demand “immigrant rights.”

Our first very proud communist march…workers unite! Rich people need you!

It was one of the saddest days in the United States history. The day that the average American citizen was reminded that his future and his children’s future were numbered

Unless…we slap ourselves, wake up, and come to our senses.

Many Mexicans feel that most of the southwest rightfully belongs to them, and they have leaders that tell them to eliminate the gringo’s because they are old, and white, and should get out of the way.

Unlike the “Boston Tea Party” where the people protested another country for overtaxing them, the Mexicans should be protesting their government, not ours.

We have done nothing but be kind and compassionate to Mexicans, given them jobs, health care, free schooling, and hope...at the expense of our own survival.

And now they want more?

The man who is always is in the wrong place at the wrong time, Geraldo, was only too glad to lead the parade.

But--let’s go back, when American leaders fought for their countries.

In 1818, John Quincy Adams, who was Secretary of State, after years of obstinate patience, finally got the British to give up the 49th Parallel, which placed the Mississippi entirely within the United States. The British went on to claim most of Oregon and Washington, but Monroe (the President) and Adams said…”no way.”

Hey, leaders actually protected our borders back then.

Can you see anyone in the administration or Congress saying “No way! You cannot take our country!” to Mexico? No, we keep hearing…”No way, you cannot have Iraq.”

If we could move Iraq into Texas, our boys would be closer to the border.

Anyway, John Quincy Adams went on and got the fishing rights off the Grand Banks, making years of Red Lobster customers very happy campers, and for that he didn’t even get a fish memorial.

Then John Quincy told the British that they had no rights in any part of North America. They had claimed “India; you claim Africa, you claim—perhaps, a piece of the moon.“ said John. “No, (when asked about Canada) . Keep what is yours, but leave the rest of the continent to us, there the boundary is marked."

He was called “acrimonious” which back in those days meant he would not get invited to go to the moon or India any time soon.

Spain (notice I did not say Mexico) owned much of the land to the south of the United States at that time---Florida, Texas, and Cuba, so they claimed. But the Spanish were having a rough time, and many of the people from “Spanish” Florida were fleeing north to Georgia.

We had trouble even back then with immigrants fleeing north into our country. It must be a genetic thing. Every day a Mexican gets the bug to just…walk north.

The Plantation Owners (who already had slaves) begged Washington to help deal with the problem. The Spanish were not doing a very good job of ruling the Mexicans. In fact, they were having problems back overseas due to Napoleon.

John Quincy, being the true American that he was, was determined to get as much of the land owned by Spain as he could, but the Spanish Minister did not want to give up Texas and silver-rich Mexico.

John Quincy Adams wanted to remove all foreign influence from North America. He reasoned if Spain could not control the people in her own domain, than she should turn it over to a nation who could.

Wow, can you imagine such bold thinking from a Secretary of State today.

Think we’ll see Ms. Rice on CNN saying “If Mexico cannot control the people in her own country…then she should turn her country over to America, who will control them.”

No, instead, we have a company merger. And no one controls anyone…it’s a free for all.
And the dictators all go home to their mansions.

Anyway, John Quincy was unfortunately at that time not president, and Monroe, who was no Jefferson, decided to give up Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and a part of Colorado.

He signed the Transcontinental Treaty on February 22, 1819 and paid the Spanish government $5,000,000. Florida was thrown in thanks to John. It was not ratified until February 22, 1821.

Those states that were giving up at that time are pretty much where all the Mexicans are now. It’s uncanny, and it’s exactly why they think they are taking back what is rightfully theirs. Only it was actually Spain’s.

Now go forward to 1844 and the war with Mexico for Texas. We fought it, we won.

Pretty simple.

Mexico at that time had an unstable government incapable of defending its claim.

And right now, The United States seems to be in the same burrito.

If our leaders won’t protect our claim to our own states, then it’s up to us to find leaders that will.

And if freedom in America goes, I don’t think that precious freedom in Iraq is going to mean a hill of bunker beans.

Nobody’s Perfect; Tim Robbins got lost today. He was marching in a protest march against the American Embassy in Athens, Greece. You know they missed him in L.A. He must have missed his plane.

Nobody Knows; Why the death of Lucille Ball was so quietly mentioned and ignored. She was an all Ameican Icon, just as much of our culture as Bob Hope. So why was she ignored in the Media? Was she a Republican? She must have been, because she was married to Desi...the Latin we all loved. This would have made great press for the amnesty movement. I guess they don’t want the Mexican boys to get any ideas.

Nobody Wins: When every illegal baby born in America becomes a citizen and therefore so does the next five generations of his immediate family, nobody wins because this cuts Medicare benefits for all Americans in half. Even the Mexicans will want to be illegal again, just to get better benefits.