Civil Rights: The gradual degradation of the term...and the meaningful protections they once provided

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(please forgive our continued reposting and tweaking of this blog-entry.  It seems to not be holding its margins, and also to be dropping words and phrases between sign-offs.   Probably just (Sir Edmund) Hillary wiggling her nose in this general direction.)
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  As the Ghosts of Texas's past accompany us during this time for remembering the foundation of our Republic, there are other furtive shadows, images, and remembrances that flash before us as we slog through the mud of an uncommonly cold, wet, and miserable March and April, 1836.

 

     We think now of images of what is referred to now simply as "Selma".   We are told that we must all think the same about "Selma" and that one side was right and the other wrong....that there were only two sides.   Soon, the times will allow only such an interpretation, but such a viewpoint will not be accurate, only convenient.

     The term "civil rights" lamentably has come to mean something that is vaguely to be identified with a Negro movement, or some combination of racial and ethnic groups' movements, perhaps even including the certain behaviourally self-identifying  groups such as the Society of Left-handed Glider-pilots and Gravel-grinders.   In fact, civil rights are simply and correctly defined as rights that are derived in this republican democracy as deigned by Providence as something endowed to and for all free men.

     At each juncture, when people have tried to further and more specifically assign "civil rights"  as particular properties and prerogatives of specific racial, ethnic, social, or other cohorts of the population at large, general application of true, common law, Constitutionally recognised (and, once again, Providentially endowed) civil rights have been eroded.

     The "civil rights movement" as it began to accelerate in the mid-1960s pushed for all kinds of "rights", including the right to forced acceptance and association.  There was also a successful movement to outlaw emotional stupidity, stupidity, and obnoxiousness.   So long as members of some offended group's could convince a small number of intellectual and judicial elites it would be possible to convict a fellow citizen of having committed a "hate crime".  People would no longer be allowed to hate barbed-wire fence repairmen.....if such an action would please the underwater cupcake bakers.  Later, when the underwater cupcake bakers declared that they would make no cupcakes for wedding receptions of the plumbers and pipefitters, judges trundle to the bench to close down the cupcake bakers and their bakeries for being meanies.

     When  the cupcake bakers said that they would make cupcakes for birthdays and other accomplishments of, by, and for the plumbers and pipefitters but not for wedding receptions, the judges further hardened their hearts and threatened to throw the cupcake bakers into prison.   Their businesses were ordered to be shuttered, and rallies were arranged to heap scorn upon and throw tomatoes at their storefronts.

     So much for the sign that says, "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone".    Unless, of course, if the cupcake makers come to the plumbers and pipefitters and say, "We need to install both a water and sewer, as well as a natural gas feed to our bakery".

     The rule of the Nouveau Secular Humanist Civil Rights now says that the plumbers and pipefitters can certainly refuse to attend the wishes of the cupcake bakers.  After all, who says that the cupcake bakers have any civil rights?  Huh?  Huh?   Civil rights are only specifically for people who have been historically underserved and discriminated against.  And the secular humanists will determine who those people are.

     It will always be assumed that the guilty will be the traditionalists.  The traditionalists are  those who actually do the charitable works without announcement or seeking credit. They are the ones  who actually pay the taxes, those who attempt and almost always succeed in complying with social, cultural, and legal obligations.

    So...as we stumble towards organic law, measuring the reasonable desired outcome based on a standard of the moment, we, oddly, do not become more progressive, but edge steadily back into the jungle where monsters, created by the progressives, kill thousands of their own, without a second thought.   But they demand the right to burn down whole cities on the premise that one of their monsters was somehow injured or killed by a non-monster, acting rationally and legally

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    One can consider that if a certain self-identifying group, say of 30,000,000 people has members who kill 4,000 of one another, then any insurance analyst knows there is a problem within that group.  More than one per thousand dead per year would close down every carnival ride in the nation were it to be a general community situation.   The problem is, the figure is more like 9,000 per year.  That is something like 30 per day.  Every day.

Cecil B. DeMille
Could he make a film about
how, in last 30 years, black
 people have killed more
 Americans than the Japanese
  and the Germans killed in
 World War II (and 80% of
 those killed were black)?

     Then, when the self-identifying group...a special "group with civil rights"....also manages to kill another 4,000 of the "majority group", the one with no "civil rights"....things become even more problematic.   Why?  It is simply because the per capita rate of felonious killing of black people by black people is staggering in terms of its scope and quantity.  The fact that black assassins kill so many people outside of their own demographic cohort just worsens the overall effect.

     The relative lack of the killing of black people by any other sector of the American population is telling as well.   It is, quite frankly, embarrassing.   It is shameful how the Obsolete media makes, always, a Cecil B. DeMille production out of Ferguson-like episodes that are, while lamentable, actuarially very rare.   Cecil has to do two months of filming of riots and disorder in Ferguson, even while at least 1,500 Negroes  were killed by other Negroes on criminal felony of manslaughter to capital murder in places having nothing to do with Ferguson.   It occurred during those roughly two months all around the nation, principally in large cities.....and principally in the centres of said cities, frequently at or around public and/or subsidised housing.

     This  is the legacy of the "Great Society" and "income redistribution", also known at the "Aunt Zietuni - Uncle Omar Syndrome".

 

    But the solution is to blame ''white privilege' and 'trigger happy cops';  truly a bad blame assignment when the real culprit is the "soft bigotry of low expectations" practiced by progressives who demand organic law and special categories of people and policies that literally castrate productive, moral,  male influence out of the majority of household realities in the "under-privileged community".

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    It is a bad game, Watson, this Great Society shakedown of the productive, so that Hillary can live behind gated portals and tell us how much she has done for the women....and Barry can tell us he knew nothing of it until he heard about it on the television news....like the rest of us.

Thanks for your time and interest. More later.

El Gringo Viejo

(to-morrow, perhaps we can explain how we are, and are not, related to this, and not that, Texas cattle trail from the century before last)

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Re-post: Those most somber moments....the Cornerstone Event of the Republic of Texas

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San Antonio de Valero de Bexar, 6 March 1836 - shortly after sun-up

It is done, the Alamo is lost

     During these hours the fires ordered by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had consumed the remains of the Defenders of the Mission of San Antonio de Valero....known to the locals as..."la capilla de los Alamos....the chapel of the Cottonwoods.

Col. James Bowie

    Only one of the defenders was not thrown onto the common pyre. Juan Jose Esparza was the only person to be granted permission to be buried in Holy Ground, under Christian Rites. All the others were immolated. Including David Crockett. Esparza was a close friend of James Bowie, the co-commander of the outpost. Esparza essentially snuck into the compound through a window, bringing his wife and children with him. That evening or the next day, he took to the defense of his very ill friend, Col. Bowie and bolstered him in the continuing arguments that he had with the childish and arrogant, 28 year old William Barrett Travis.

Travis was Southern aristrocracy. He also carried the rank of Lt. Colonel. He looked down his nose at the sometimes sober Bowie, who was famous as an alligator wrestler, dueler, gambler, and adventurer. Travis was cold, spoiled, arrogant, and as we say in the South, 'full of himself'. James Bowie was a man of Eastern Tennessee with considerable life experience in and around Southern Louisiana, especially New Orleans. He spoke Cherokee, and could read, speak, and write English, Spanish, and French, making him comfortable in any environment...low or high. All who knew him thought him given to flights of extreme chance in business, and perhaps being fascinated with risk. People say he invented the Bowie Knife, but that honor actually belonged to his brother Rezin Bowie.

Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna c. 1869

When Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered the Defenders burned in a commom pyre like dogs, finally even deciding to throw Bowie in with the rest, Juan Jose Esparza's brother, Francisco, a middle ranking officer in the Mexican force under the command of General Filisola, asked the Supreme Commander for permission to take Esparza's remains to be buried. That was the only one who received such permission. There were 17 known Latin Defenders, although there is a probability that some of Captain Juan Seguin's men were never rostered....meaning there may have been as many as 35 to 60 Latins....known as Tejanos. Impromptu volunteers would not have been out of the question because Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was extremely disliked by the people of Coahuila and Texas, Latin and non-Latin alike.

Lt.Col. William
 Barret Travis

      Bowie, however, is an interesting element among the Texian Forces. Some think he was afflicted with tuberculosis, others say he was fighting the residual effects of a bout with typhoid. Others say that he was struck hard by the death of his fiancée in Mississippi some years before....and then after a very successful marriage ...which had financial and emotional depth into a pre-eminent San Antonio - Monclova - Saltillo based Spanish/Mexican family it all happened again. A cholera epidemic swept through Texas in 1832, so Bowie sent his wife, children, and several of his in-laws to Monclova to wait out the plague in the healthier, drier, and higher air. They all died when the cholera broke out there.
    So, there is reasonable speculation that Bowie, although relatively young and very accomplished, decided that he had a better place to be than on this Earth. From the time after the death of his family, he had taken to drink and, while still gregarious and friendly and popular among the people in and around San Antonio, he was obviously a man with a wounded heart and soul. He would not be the kind of man one would want in charge of a military garrison.
      So you have Bowie, the Mexicanised citizen, and fighter for the Constitution of 1824, and Travis who really did not like the Latins and their peculiar brand of Christianity. Bowie has a Latin friend who essentially comes into the Alamo to die with and for his Anglo friend, literally climbing through a side window into the Alamo during the penultimate night of the siege. Then we have Travis turning to Captain Juan Seguin, a brilliant Mexican army officer who hated Lopez de Santa Anna to ride out for re-enforcements, because Seguin was the only one who knew enough about the lay of the land and the populations to be trusted with the job.

Capt. Juan
 Nepumecino Seguin

     Imagine Captain Juan Seguin riding to find Col. Fannin in order to bring him and his 350 men to the Alamo's defense. He finds that Fannin's group has been annihilated at Victoria, near the coast, and all were lost. General Urrea has riden back from a forward scouting to find that lesser officers have ordered the execution of all the prisoners, some 300 men, according to the orders of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. Urrea is furious, because he knows well the rule of "if we do it, then they will do it ten times over". But, the damage is done, Seguin rides back to San Antonio to find that upon his arrival, the Alamo is fallen, all is lost.
      He continues then to the east, looking for Burleson or Houston or Austin or anyone. He finds Mrs. Dickenson and her baby and Man James. He arrives to meet with Samuel Houston and to confirm that Fannin, Bowie, Travis, and Crockett are all gone. Along with almost 500 regular and irregular militia. Although he is a trained artilleryist, Seguin goes on to command the Texian cavalry at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, where he and the Texian forces destroy Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's headquarters command of some 1,800 men, through a George Washington-like attack on a Holy Day...a Sunday...21 April 1836.
     Lopez de Santa Anna had brilliantly conducted an Army and Navy attack, 1,000 miles away from his point of origin, moving three large corps of combined military force, cavalry, infantry, and artillery over deserts, mountains, cold, snow, and rain, encountering the enemy on frequent occasion and winning a succession of 24 straight engagements. In every engagement the Texians had been beaten badly. And then he camped with his main force on a swampy peninsula, surrounded by water, with no exit. The carelessness of arrogance.
      Finally consider the Yucatecan Infantry, earlier this morning before sunrise. They were put at the front of the attack group, attached to the 2nd Batallon de Zapadores, Ingenieros de Combate. To them it was a form of punishment as Yucatecos, because that province had declared itself allied with the forces supporting the Constitution of 1824. Lorenzo de Zavala had written that Constitution and Lopez de Santa Anna knew de Zavala was taking refuge in Texas. So, the Yucatecan soldiers lay in the heavy wet snow that morning before sunrise, then became exasperated with their suffering, finally rose up and began the attack before the bugle call, that would leave 182 - 225 Defenders dead within the next 2 hours, and a minimum of 400 Mexican soldiers dead, and as many as 225 more dying of their wounds over the next two months.
All of this defense and offense over a place that was neither worth defending nor assailing in military terms. The brother-in-law of Lopez de Santa Anna, Gen. Perfecto de Cos declared, "Con una victoria mas como el este, perdieremos no solo la guerra, pero quizas el pais. (With another victory like this, we should lose not only the war, but perhaps even the country).
From an event that lasted for a little less than a month, that involved directly less than 3,000 men, there are a million stories and angles, points of view, and tidbits that will continued to the analysed, talked about, studied, and frequently misunderstood for the next one thousand years.....or more. To be sure, we shall, and our progeny shall, Remember the Alamo.

Thanks for your attention. Remember the 6th of March 1836.  Remember the Alamo!

El Gringo Viejo

 

Contemplations: Bull-cows and girly-men, clocks that run backwards, and the plate ran off with the spoon.

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High diddle diddle,

The Cat and the Fiddle,
The Cow jump'd over the Moon,
The little dog laugh'd to see such Craft,
And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.

 

    Bull-cows and girly-men.  We have dwell't far too long in the morass.  The strange reductions that come from the stinking cauldron after all the fluid is gone and only the rot remains to reveal the labours of a civilisation ruled by bull-cows and girly-men.   During these moments it appears that the reawakening occurs more on the Left than the Right, when various Rip van Winkles stir from their slumber and see Helen Thomas waddling to the lectern that Helen sees to be a pulpit-cum-tabernacle and they listen to her say wizened things such as ".....Ah ain't no ways taihred."

   The young people (those under the age of 90) shriek in revulsion and think they are having an ecstasy-marijuana-alcohol induced delayed throwback to a better time and flee from the messenger of Death.




A surreptitious photo taken of Po ca hon tas
 ('naughty girl' in English)....whose real name
 was Ma ko at ah....during her swearing-in as
United States Senator for Mass ah Choo setts.
(which in English means Small Land - Many
 Foolish Palefaces) 

     The fact is that the leftist...even the most left-wing...press is dive-bombing (Sir Edmund) Hillary, relentlessly, after having just found out that she is a serial murderous, mendacious, marxist hag who regards all other humans as lower life forms.

     Of course, they have known it all along, but something better has come along, and she is a better bet because she is just as much a Marxist but she is a lot younger (17 months) and prettier (not a witch ugly hag) because several mirrors she has used over the years did not break.   And, of course, she has more legislative experience than (Sir Edmund) Hillary, having been entertained at the Court of HRH James I and received there essentially as the princess she is.  She was also a baptised Anglican, whereas (Sir Edmund) Hillary was expelled from the only church she has known since being kicked off the Senatorial Watergate committee in 1973, that being the Holy Tabernacle of Mother Margaret Sanger.

      Where good ole' HDR22@Twitter goes wrong....(who does bear a strong resemblance to Helen Thomas)....is that she has a problem that is due (but not limited) to:




1.         Vince Foster's office invasion by Maggie and Bernie immediately after Vince was found in Fort Marcy Park well into stage II rigor.


2.          Corkscrewing into the Bosnia.


3.         Worrying about her daughter trapped below the burning Twin Towers.


4.         Making 100,000 USD profit on a 1,000 investment in cattle futures in less than 10 months....by studying articles in the Wall Street Journal.  (Statement declared ''inoperative" by Bernie and staff shortly afterwards)


5.          Repeatedly lying to a Washington, D.C. grand jury, and failing to "remember" points about her involvement in felony fraud at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.  Forewoman said they were ready to indict, but the prosecutor suddenly dropped the proceeding.


6.           Direct involvement along with Janet Reno in the planning and execution of the assault on the idiotic Mount Carmel religious cluster of David Koresh (real name Vernon Howell) where finally 42 children were immolated by overreaction by the central government police and military on the scene.

7.          Benefitting very directly from the crash of an Air Force passenger plane in Bosnia, during a landing in perfect weather conditions, killing all on board except the stewardess, who escaped without injury, almost miraculously.  She died later in a hospital, later that same day.  Ron Brown, Secretary of the Department of Commerce died in the crash.  He was to give a deposition in a criminal proceeding, while trying to prepare a plea deal by "singing" on the Clintons after his return to Washington, D.C. three days later.

      One can remember how Web Hubbell, number 3 man in the Department of Justice, lamented when his near hysterical wife called and said that he would have to take another term for "them" or something terrible could happen.  She indicated that she had just come from conferring with "them" and they were most emphatic.   Web Hubbell, Hillary's fellow partner at the Rose Law firm, declared to his wife, "Well, I guess I'll just have to roll over one more time for them."  And he did.

     Ron Brown's lady friend, and a major Democrat fund-bundler, also withdrew her willingness to testify on the record after the plane crash, after first agreeing to go on the record for a reduced charge to a misdemeanour count.

(8)         The framing of the employees of the White House Travel Office, under orders from (Sir Edmund) Hillary, by the FBI so as to remove them to make way for (Sir Edmund) Hillary's friends and relatives to take said positions.   It took them less than a year to drive the office into a shambles.

(9)         The holding of well over 1,000 FBI personal raw data files, that were all rifled and in disarray after being "lost somewhere in the White House" for several months.   The mere holding of one personal raw data file by Nixon staffer Charles Colson, unopened , resulted in his imprisonment for 3 years.  But quickly we remember that Sandy Berger, heroic Clinton staffer, literally stuffed his underwear, pants, and socks with ORGINAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,  in order to destroy them and keep ''hot evidence"  from surfacing about lies that Billy Jeff Blythe told under oath to the 9 - 1 - 1 Commission.   (the Bush Administration deferred prosecution of poor Sandy, and suggested that he had suffered enough just by being caught lying about having stolen and destroyed the documents)

     And on, and on.   The thing is that there are a lot of people who would like to have a piece of (Sir Edmund) Hillary's hide.  The Benghazi matter is so gross and corrupt that it defies description.  New scuttlebutt indicates not only gross mendacity and arrogance on the part of (Sir Edmund) Hillary (and Barry Soetoro & Company) but also complicity in a process that even Muammar Khadafy advised the State Department was crazy. 

    These matters listed above are just a distillation of very, very few points of Hillary Clinton's despicable, dishonest, and massive record of dishonesty and corruption.   It is for this reason that people are bringing the wood chipper up to Hillary's back door.   When she is gone there will be few tears, even among her posse.  Sorry Huma, but what you thought you hitched your star to was really a broken down garbage wagon.

El Gringo Viejo

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Interesting Notes - Popular Will

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       This is just a brief note about a couple of radio audience polls that have been conducted on our local rightwing crazy talk and news and information station down here on the Frontier.   The Station, for those who might be interested, is KURV - 710 AM located in the McAllen - Edinburg - Mission complex of Hidalgo County of Texas.   We were one of the four back in 1988 who decided to drop 1,500 USD on the sponsorship of a visit and show called "Rush to Excellence".   It was a one man show that was somewhat reminiscent of a combination of Will Rogers, Jackie Gleason, and Clem Kadiidlehopper (Red Skelton).  The rest, of course, is history.

      In any regard, this station has a weekday audience poll (not pretending to be scientific) that measures the attitude of the audience.   That audience is about 70 per cent Latin, and about 90 per cent centre-right to really hard-core, such as your friendly Gringo Viejo curmudgeon.

      Yesterday's poll pertained to the question, "Would you support the idea of Texas becoming a separate Nation?"   The response?  72% yes   -     28% no

      To-day's question is "Would you attend Netanyahu's speech to-day if you were to be a member of Congress?"       The response?     97% yes  -     03% no

      If the OROGs will tolerate our analysis for a bit, these voters are, for sure, tending to be disposed to answer in this manner.  We are, frankly, a bit surprised at the high percentage of positive response concerning withdrawal from the American union.  My estimate was that the response would be in the neighbourhood of 38 per cent.   Recent polling across the entirety of the Republic of Texas has continued to show a steady, slow increase of those seriously responding in favour of what I choose to call, "...an amicable withdrawal".

     The hysterical, bigoted, Jew-hating refusal to take a seat on the floor of the Congress to hear a well-argued point of view from one of the Planet's wisest Statesmen speaks volumes about the quality of elected and appointed officials that compose the Democratic National Socialist Workers' Party.   It is very apparent that they would prefer to allow the Rulers of Persia,  a gaggle of seriously psychotic Bozos, to finish the job the earlier Democratic National Socialist Workers' Party almost completed.  The thing I would like to ask the new, improved DNSWP members is, "How are you going to give Palestine back to the Palestinians when it will be too radioactive to re-occupy occupied Phillistinia?"

     Furthermore, we ask, "Where will the 'Palestinians' be able to put their open sewers and tons of filth and garbage?  Where will they be able to relieve themselves against 'other peoples' house walls?  Where will they be able to graffiti every available surface with profane, obscene, hate-filled epithets and slogans against the Hebes and other Palestinian factions that wore their beards too short or too long?  How long will it take for them to re-establish their three mafias, Muslim Brotherhood,  Hamas, and Hezbollah, to murder 'Palestinians' of their lives and extort them of their wealth?

     When the Jews of Israel, Europe, and the United States are immolated and microwaved into oblivion, and the Wizards of Teheran can then take their scimitars out after small bunches of Jews hiding in the mountains or in the backwaters of the Amazon,  then perhaps the ''Palestinian" mothers can try to start loving their children at least as much as they hated the now dead Jew children.

     What a disgusting bunch of people.  I recant, lament, and confess that at one time I hoped that there was health in them and that equitable solutions could be found for those forgotten masses.  But, truly, how can one assist those who could and would not self-assist.

    For the Egyptian, yes....and various other groups here and about among the Arabs...but groups that cannot believe without killing those who do not believe in like manner, I am tired beyond tolerance or any understanding or any forgiveness.

     We must forever remember that the "Palestinians" were given something and they turned it into nothing.   The Jews were given, and and sometimes even purchased, nothing, and they turned it into something.

El Gringo Viejo

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(Repost), appropriate because it deals with Lorenzo de Zavala, who wrote the Declaration of Independence from Mexico

(We introduce new news about Lorenzo de Zavala, about something that had puzzled us over the years.  It turns out that Sr. Lorenzo married after the death of his first wife.  He second and last wife was an Anglo-American woman of high position.  More will be entered as some soon time, as my Granma used to say, about this intertwining.   The family's genealogy is very, very interesting.)

This is known as the Zavala Flag.   It is perhaps the first official flag of the Republic of Texas 1836 -1845, being designed by and named in honor of the first Vice-President of the Republic of Texas, Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Saenz who guided the erswhile State, part of the Mexico City assignment of the Estado de Coahuila y Texas, during its earliest formative moments.   He wrote the Declaration of Independence, thereby legalising the separation of the entity of Mexico from the entity of Texas in terms of political inter-relation.

 

     Lorenzo de Zavala essentially financed the Texas Revolution against Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, spending a sum of 3,000,000 dolares in backing the effort.   He was also involved in recommending a firm Republican form of governance, following the template of the United States of America, and steering away from democratic formulas that were being bantied about in Europe and in South America.    Lorenzo de Zavala was also a Scottish Rite Mason as well as a devout Roman Catholic.   He thought that men of substance should be members of agencies of good, both in the spiritual realm as well as the secular.   As a side note, in that day, many Roman priests and officers of the Roman Catholic Church were member s of the York Rite Masonic order, and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was a member of the Roman Church, the Scottish, and the York Rite Masonic Order.   he wanted to have his bases covered, perhaps, but it is certain that Lopez de Santa Anna never guided his life or politics by the lamp posts established by those august organisations.

     M.L.J. de Zavala Saenz was  a very close friend of Stephen F. Austin, who is generally regarded as The Father of the Texas Republic.  It was Austin who remained loyal to the limit to Mexico and even to Antonio Lopez....the man who served nine times as President of Mexico and eleven times as Vice-President.   There are those who doubt that the Flag envisioned by de Zavala was ever approved, authourised, or sewn.   Frankly, some of the students of Texas History who come to that conclusion are among those who do not want to allow any credit to any Latin individual for any positive contribution to the Texian cause.    The problem with that notion is that it would reqjuire one to disallow contributions of Eisenhower and  Nimitz during World War II because they had substantial German ancestry and German surnames.
     Conjecture allows that de Zavala might have proposed a variation of Jane Long's first non-Spanish flag in Texas, which was a solid red rectangle with a five-pointed star in the very middle.   This flag was presented by Mrs. Long to her husband in 1819, during the last moments of Spanish dominion in Texas.

      In "The Lone Star Flag of Texas", an article which appeared in the September 1948 issue of Frontier Times, author Adina de Zavala suggests a meaning for each point of the star. According to the article, the five points of the star represent the characteristics of a good citizen, which are fortitude, loyalty, righteousness, prudence, and broadmindedness.   Once again, various Texans were inculcated with this legend....although it might be a "Washington and the Cherry Tree" moment in history.   But!  On the other hand!   M.L.J. de Zavala y Saenz could well have proposed that the points did stand for something like what his great-granddaughter suggested, because they are core principles of Scottish Rite Masonry.   It would have come from a translation from the words, "fortaleza, lealdad, moralidad y catecismo, prudencia, y optimismo en el porvenir''.

 

    This is all but a fuzzy prologue to point out that "Here we are again".   We were treated shabbily by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna when he abrogated the Mexican Constitution of 1824 (written in large part by M.L.J. de Zavala y Saenz).   We were treated shabbily by the United States after annexation, and they failed to strictly adhere even to the agreements solemnly made by Texas with the Caddo, Alabama, and Coushatta nations and other indigenous tribes, and committed all nature of arrogance against Texas and Texans up to and during the War Between the States.   The liberation of the Negro resulted in little or no improvement in his lot, proving that the process of manumition would have been immensely superior to the release of the Negro by sudden emancipation from the wretched institution of slavery.    Manumition would have made better citizens of freed slaves than would have any emancipation and flood of laws.   Manumition papers would have been something a Black person could stuff in front of the nose of any white person to show..."The people who know me best said that I am worthy of liberty!"   And the white skeptic would have had to yield, then, to the obvious truth of the statement.   That would have been something far better than laws written, essentially, in a foreign land, to control and manage something the writers could never really understand.   They could hate slavery, but they had no idea how to end the institution in such a way as to be beneficial in the long run to all.

     From that point, through Reconstruction and then finally into the Progressive Movement, we find ourselves ever more surrounded by wise fools who  want to improve and regulate our lives.  Income tax, public assistance, programs to solve this problem and that problem.   Housing, health, urban problems, education, family disintegration, energy problem, farming and ranching, wildlife and fish conservation, postal service, train service, how far parking metres are spaced, one from the other....it is never ending.
      We now live in a Nation wherein all the problems we are facing are traceable to a central government program and/or initiative.    Efforts by the progressives to control everyone's lives and form a Utopia on Earth have left the central government bankrupt, and in the position of changing all the rules concernng our previously agreed association with that central government.    In cyber-jibber, it is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 2.0 .   Throw in the repeated disasters of the Progressive marxist agenda's affect on Texas, and we have  Destroy Texas 3.2 .

     At last best count, there are probably 1,200,000 Texans who are affiliated with a non-militia Texas Nationalist or Texas Re-establish the Republic movement.   There are many more who are beginning to move from the posture of "should re-establish" the Republic, to the default setting, "We never should have joined the Union."
     When the "control" group....someone like Barbara Bush can tell the world that she and her husband really like Billy Jeff Blythe...he's like a son to us..." then there are real problems with the perceptive and procedural processes of the Poobahs.   Billy Jeff is a piece of marxist white-trash who managed to brutally assault and/or criminally sexually assault various women of different category.   He was in no way a purposeful or great economic thinker or fiscal magician.   He was surrounded by a Republican Congress for three-fourths of his term, a term that was marked by four years of economic stagnation and malaise, but that now is regarded as some kind of Golden Epoch.   It was not.   It, in fact, laid the groundwork for the mess that Barak Obama and his marxist minions have managed to foist upon us...and Texas is left with no control.   We are governed by earmarking robots, taxing and spending automotrons, and organic law national socialists working to impose total control on every aspect of human activity in Texas.

     We must withdraw, in the calmest and friendliest way.    Texas can live without the United States, although it is doubtful that the United States can long endure without Texas.   We must turn in our tribute back to the Republic of Texas, settle our own arguments among ourselves, reduce our taxes, establish schools that are primary and secondary -  grades 1 through 9 - and then University or Advanced Blue Collar Academies offerring two and/or three year  BA diplomas and Master Technician Certificates depending on the chosen field, and run from unions, FmHA, FHA and the panoply of alphabet program ruination.

      We are arriving evermore to this conclusion, along with increasing numbers of Texans.   If it is possible that an election could generate polling numbers by Rasmussen that would show that there are more Americans who would vote for Obama than Romney at this stage, pretty much means that the Republic is lost.   The stupid, the gimme-gimme people, the people who couch their desires for government action based upon what they want or "need" for themselves,  the lazy, those who hate and resent the next person who "has" the least one smallest thing that the "exploited person" does not have, the people on marginal disability, the people who take unemployment compensation for 99 weeks, the people who live on AFDC and Lone Star Card as if it is their Divine Right.....are now dangerously close to that point where their mass overwhelms the Little Red Hen's ability to pull the wagon.    We are nearing the storming of the Bastille and the assault of the bread factory.
     It is drawing nigh the time to say "Good Bye".

More later.   I am sad this dark night.
El Gringo Viejo    

Those of 2 March 1836 compared to those of 2 March 2015: Tale of Two Washingtons

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   There are two Washingtons.  One rests comfortably in the present, fat and self-indulgent by the gleaning of the gain of the productive classes, while moving steadily to further enslave those same masses of foolish people who think something good can come of sending their hopes and fortunes to such a rancid place.

    The other Washington is installed deep within the confines of The Republic of Texas.   It is known as Washington on the Brazos, and it is the official place of birth of the Republic of Texas in 1836.  It is there where apparently the last great hope for a non-socialist, republican democracy, based upon Judeo - Christian life principles and the concepts of common law, private property, self-defence and self-determination began to make its stand.   After 179 years, it has come down to Texas to lead the way back to the Shining City, high on the side of the beautiful mountain.

     We have in the other Washington, the one between Virginia and Maryland where this week finds a supposedly conservative party, led by supposedly conservative men, overwhelmingly elected during the past by-elections did not have sufficient reserve of moral clarity and/or testosterone, to stand up to the forces of certain ruin for the American Republic.  Those forces, of course are the secular humanists within the ranks of both parties and the leftist Obsolete Press.  It is truly a shame when the supposedly free press of the American nation has now passed through forty years of increasingly mendacious and obfuscative posturing.   Reporting the news for them has long since become something, that if it occurs, is accidental.

     The men at Washington on the Brazos had little, risked it all, met in the mud where of the 10 or 12 structures in the community, only three had even plank floors.   Mud was the theme of their stay, Death was the plot.  Even as they met, there were two major columns of increasingly  victorious Armies, worthy of the name, coming within two day's march....in spite of the mud.   They would have to finish their meeting and retreat...not flee.   Their women would have to do very heavy lifting, lugging what could be carried and children to the east.   Wagons were shared, buggies were very rare, provision would have to be provided by Providence.

     The persons at Washington on the Potomac have fine offices, heating and cooling, fancy sanitary facilities and restaurants in their capitol building and all around them in a city full of marble and granite monuments and lofty memorials.   They all had numerous boot-lickers, secretaries, yes-men, handlers, and focus group analysts, along with finance managers. The Democrats uniformly are unabashed facilitators, fully dedicated to the political axiom of "Tax, tax; Spend, spend; Elect, elect."  Their duty is first to self, and then to actively put other peoples' money where the politicians' mouths are.
     The Republicans are shadows of real men.  Scared of obfuscators and liars with press credentials....is this what real men are made from?   Fright ?   I pray not.   I know that there are a few left who have voted on the floors of their chambers as they said they would....but they are never enough.

    To think.   May the Saints intervene as the walls crumble.   We celebrate this date, not this day, but the date of the same number and month, 179 years ago when the Last Republic Standing was founded.   You have beaten us down once during the Reconstruction, but hopefully we can rise as the Phoenix and re-establish the wondrous culture of liberty again.

El Gringo Viejo.

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