Southern Poverty Law? Helping the oppressed…..?

Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center, Morris Dees of “Hate in America” speaks onstage during the Discovery Communications TCA Winter 2016 at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 7, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images for Discovery Communications)

Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaks during a press conference November 29, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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     Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen resigned Friday, in the latest blow to the embattled left-wing nonprofit.  Cohen’s resignation came nine days after on March 13, citing unspecified conduct issues.

     Cohen announced his resignation in a staff-wide email Friday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported.   “Whatever problems exist at the SPLC happened on my watch, so I take responsibility for them,” Cohen’s email read, according to the Times.

  Current and former SPLC employees have accused the organization of turning a blind eye to sexual harassment and racial discrimination within its own ranks. (RELATED: ‘Highly Profitable Scam’: Former SPLC Staffers Come Clean)

     Cohen took responsibility for unspecified “problems” at the SPLC in a statement released to the Montgomery Advertiser.    Cohen asked the SPLC’s board “to immediately launch a search for an interim president in order to give the organization the best chance to heal,” according to the Advertiser.

     SPLC employees were long aware of racial issues and sexual harassment within the organization, former SPLC staffer Bob Moser recounted in a scathing essay published in The New Yorker on Thursday.  Moser described the SPLC as a “highly-profitable scam” that “never lived up to the values it espoused,” despite its portrayal to gullible donors.

      “We were part of the con, and we knew it,” Moser wrote.

     The SPLC is known to label pedestrian conservative organizations as “hate groups,” and is a key resource for Amazon, Google and other tech companies in policing “hate speech.”  The non-profit recently reported more than half a billion dollars in assets, including $121 million in off-shore funds.

A slice of life during "those times" in The Past

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Noble person, JOSE GALLARDO MARCIAL…

     And it was a merchant and a Highway Patrolman who served as witnesses (essentially character witnesses), both Anglo/Teutonic of ancestry. Please notice that Jose Gallardo Marcial's race/ethnicity is recorded as White, which is actually more correct than other terms and faux inventions such as "Hispanic".

    Also it is interesting to take notice that the recorder in Travis County (Austin) managed to misspell Penjamo (twice), and Morelia (once). Another point that is compelling is that Jose Gallardo Marcial had a well-developed hand in terms of writing in script (cursive) form, indicating an advanced intelligence and discipline, developed at an early age.
      It shows that he probably completed primary, which in these times in Texas would be more than equivalent to High School completion.   He might even completed Mexican secondary, which would to-day, be about the same as two or four years of university in Texas.   (Yes, Virginia, seriously)
   One final thing that is of interest is the fact that his Naturalisation occurred shortly after the Roosevelt Administration had completed a Mexican and foreign nationals expulsion programme. This meant that the two aforementioned witnesses had to have substantially vigorous commitment to keep this obviously worthwhile member of the American community….in Texas (and therefore America).
      We include the above note due to the fact that Conservative / Republicans are always linked to the notion that we want to drive out people of different languages, colours, races, ethnicities, or whatever.  The fact is that we are the most accepting of having new people arrive who are actually qualified to access the ladder of success and who can fold into the peculiar American culture as positive contributors. 
     It was Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, and the ghouls of the "New Deal" who figured out that the best way to solve the Great Depression problem was to run off all the Mexicans…which they did.  Somewhat lamentably, about 20 per cent of all those who were run off (deported) were American citizens.   Another large body of them had been granted work permits and permanent resident-alien status.  That designation was the last step to qualifying for candidacy for citizenship once completing the civic and moral examinations required. 

    Jose Gallardo Marcial went through all of that, and succeeded in becoming an American citizen.   It took eleven years after he was accepted into the country temporarily.  He became a family man, with his wife,  Maria.   He was one of those peculiar birds who never missed a day of work.  He was active in his Church (Roman Catholic) and performed in Christmas Pageants as Joseph for many years.  He served also as sacistran for the Church.

    An oddity or co-incidence, is that my father served as head counsellor at Del Valle High School when he moved up to Austin, Texas in 1966.  Del Valle was adjacent to the recently established B-47 Air Force Base, and the school district had a large military dependent student body.   Jose Gallardo Marcial lived in Del Valle, Texas and had children who attended that high school where  my father was the senior guidance counsellor.  


Thank the Good Lord for people such as Jose Gallardo Marcial who came to Texas to make this land great.

El Gringo Viejo

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Confusion, Contradiction, Disorder, and Disaster - We comment before departure to our place in NoWhere, Mexico...

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Stephen Fuller Austin

Father of Texas by default.  A Good
and Reasonable man who saved Texas.

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        Yesterday we posted a Eulogy that was actually delivered by Col. Juan Sequin when he was essentially mayor and military commandant of San Antonio…almost one year after the fall of the Alamo to the forces of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.   A few days less than a year before, something between 184 and 212 combatants…who all had a militarily possible chance to leave the fortress before all exits were blocked…decided incorrectly to stand up to the most powerful force on the North American Continent in combat at that time and on that date.  It was, to be blunt, a fool's gambit…a "glorious fool", but a fool nonetheless.  

     James Bowie knew better…but he was in and out of delirium for his last month of life.  James Bowie's closest friend in San Antonio de Valero was a fellow by the name of Gregorio Esparza, who literally snuck into the Alamo, well into the siege, to assist his friend who he knew to be near death due to consumption, and/or cumulative coronary problems, and/or prolonged episode of recurring pneumonia due to exhaustion.  Bowie had lost his second wife and his two very young daughters by that wife (1833 - cholera).   That woman was the daughter of a very ranking politician and businessman of the Verimunde family, which was held in high regard in what was then still known as the State of Coahuila y Tejas. 
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     These side trips into this alley-way and that path to the top of a hill can delay a person who wishes to read about the "Texian Revolution" for a millennium and a half.   There are literally thousands upon thousands of Texas Tales…many of them true…that have a long record of enthralling the masses with tales, stories, recountings, and memories about this fabled State.  But, to-day, I am here not to divulge stories and lead people around  the graveyards and smouldering buildings and homes and explain the errors in the historical markers we encounter as we drive through a State larger than either France or Germany.

     To-day's submission is a charge to the OROGs to lurch forth and learn, speculate, "try on" the times and smell the odour of burned sulphur that hangs over battles.  We urge that the OROG tries to truly sense what was going on…this time during the withdrawal of Texas from the Mexican Republic…and why it was so pitifully and miserably a suffered time in this great region.

     Then to think about it…Mexico and the United States would suffer even greater horror just a few tears of the calendar pages down the timeline.  After all was said and done with the Texian Experiment…we entered into a ridiculous war, desired by both sides, that pitted the Republic of Mexico against the United States of America, 1846 - 1848.

     Before long, a prophesy by Mexican General Mier y Teran, a lower level aristocrat, well studied, and cited for bravery in battle.  He declared after speaking with some people who had been moving into Texas,  taking advantage of the laws encouraging Anglo and American investment and legal residencies when Texas was still very much part of Mexico, "You Texans will someday seek to join the Nation which you left (the United States of Mexico) and upon doing so, you will soon wish to leave it.  Beware of that for which you might wish."

    And, certainly enough, Texas voted to leave the same nation it joined in 1846…fifteen years later.   Certainly enough, Mexico lost Texas and great extensions of essentially unoccupied land in what would become the American Southwest after that stupid war.  They thought they were going to take over everything up to and including the Missouri River.

  And then, while the Texians went to fight in 1861 against the hated Yankees and northern industrialists…the French decided to take charge of a punitive war expedition against Mexico and its bad debt and dangerous travel conditions…by installing an Austrian monarch, Maximilian von Hapsburg in 1862…whose reign lasted less than five years.   The Texians thought they were going to escape Washington D.C.'s high-handedness and capricious legal entanglement…but what we wound up with was 10 years of "Reconstruction" (Texas being the longest period of all Southern States) and we wound up with those 10 years and essentially a 50 year depression following "Reconstruction".

Spindletop - 1901

After its first 10 days of spewing mainly pure
East Texas oil, from about 600 feet below the
surface, it was calculated the spew-waste was
1,000,000 barrels.

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      That's right, Mary Lou and you too, Jasper…Texas was something between the Promised Land, the Doorway to Heaven, and just above a "third world" situation for many, many years after  "Reconstruction".
     Pockets of wealth, such as certain oil-field strikes like Spindletop outside of Beaumont, Texas and a few other places had boom-times.   Successful farming, some irrigated, cropped up here and there.  Forestry and ranching, of course were always "going on", and there was a certain level of commercial activity that made Texas and its traditions seem pleasantly prosperous.   As a child and growing up in a rural setting in Texas, I never felt hunger or deprivation of any kind.   

     We swam at the Country Club and at private homes and at the biggest and best public pool in the Southern half of Texas. Heck, we even had a television by 1957…although my parents (mainly mother) would not allow us more than 60 minutes per night…including the news.  We liked the AM radio better anyway.

     Allow, we pray, that we return to the mission of this posting.  The time between the dawning of the 2nd day of March, 1836 and the setting of the Sun on the 6th day of March, 1836 is that period of pronounced lack of information…leading to numerous deep and wide bad decisions and overreactions and under-reactions.   Most Texians have a hard time with determining which date pertains to which event…like which came first, the chicken or the egg or the clad de pollo?    They…even the ones such as my boss…have to remember "When were they fighting the Mexicans? the Spanish? the Yankees?  It all runs together.    Who was in charge here?"   

Captain Robert Edward Lee surveys the damaged
Fortress of Liberty…The Alamo in 1854

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   That problem is a  reasonable problem.  We move quickly to challenge…are YOU sure that the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas against the will of the Usurper Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna occurred on the 2nd of March or was it the 6th of March…both of the year 1836?

     Or was it visa versa?   Captain Robert Edward Lee was impressed with the lack of impressiveness of "The Alamo".    He seemed to concur with the idea that the people inside,  defending the Alamo, both Latinoid and Angloid, must have been…(one searches for the kind words)…overconfident (or perhaps deranged). 

    One must understand, once again, that the Army brought to bear upon that one point on the continent of North America, by a deranged, and brilliant, General of a powerful nation's commanding general who was obviously invincible by the analysts from the point of the defence.   They should have left 10 days earlier, but they did not read their own tea-leaves…

General Jose de Urea
Brigadier, Mexican Army of Invasion

Under the Command of Gen. Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna - 1836

We also recognise that this photo from
the 1840s reveals an image that is very
much the same as my 2nd Nephew.
They are very similar in that they are
 both iron-willed, very intelligent, and
of very similar appearance (handsome).

 My nephew's wife is actually more
 intelligent, but that will be an
 argument for another day.
  She is also better-looking and.
 an attorney of record,

 Gen. Urea and my nephew are
 both better looking than your 
humble servant, but we pray thee
 prayest naught to nary a person of
 such confidence.

(Yes, Virginia, that is the way your people
and my people spoke 200 and 300 years
 ago. It is fun to practice!")
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    They had many Spanish / Mexican allies in their ranks.  They had men who needed more training and instruction about what it means to be Texian.  They, quite frankly, needed to retreat and join with another strong man…one to and with whom, I have no particular affection nor allegiance.
     Samuel Houston…but whom else could weld together a reasonable defence and a reasonable channel towards the establishment of a land of liberty and a life of Liberty?

    The destruction and murder of the Goliad Prisoners…a matter much more complicated and convoluted than  even Texians to the Core have knowledge or understanding…raises its ugly head.  It is my opinion for instance that General Urea was, as a lowly Brigadier, searching for some way to rid his beloved Mexico of this horrid, self-consumed, nut-case…Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, looking for some backing to dispatch said Maximum Commander to either Hell or into perpetual nothingness. He would have his chance not quite later than sooner.  My affection moves to Urea…but reality had other intentions and motives.

     It is lamentable…but much like the loss of Alexander  Hamilton to a useless piece of garbage such as Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States…Mexico lost this man…Jose de Urea…when he foolishly failed to declare the "Presidente y Commandante de las Fuerzas Militares de la Republica Mexicana" a failed and flawed,  immoral, and un-Mexican fraud,  Antonio de Padua Maria Serverino Lopez de Santa Anna y Perez de Lebron…creature from Hell, enemy of Mexicans and Gringos alike painted the unfortunate portrait of Mexico and Mexican leaders for the world…and worse…for the Gringos before there was such a thing as a word that described "Gringos" at that time and at that place.  Such a word became heard and recognised in the latter-most 1840 decade.  If Jose de Urea had taken the reins of power and forged an agreement with the Royalists and later... the military and the forces of representative democracy in the various State Congresses…Mexico would have looked more like Texas.  But he chose, "I say, old man, perhaps it is better not do so,"as the Brits would say.

    But, once again…let us charge ahead to…what about Lorenzo de Zavala?…3,000,000 dollars Americanos of his personal money…invested in the War Against Lopez de Santa Anna.  He and the son of Moses Austin…Stephen Fuller Austin…defeated the Powerful Nation of Mexico…not Houston…not Somerville…not American resources…It was a cloudy time.

    Please dig into your own research.   We tend to find something like 2,300,000 direct and indirect followers of our remarks about the time we publish about things that carry import to the history of those times in the formative period of Texas.   There will be more, when we have time and effort stored up  about the rest…incredible stuff…that does not favour Fess Parker swinging Old Betsey on the parapets or scenes of cowardly Mexican running away from the walls…at the beginning of the final attack…

Please remember:

      There was only one devil in the matter of Texas establishing itself as a separate and equal State in the Mexican Republican Union…and his name was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.   We must…MUST…avoid referring to him as "President", or "General" or "Vice-President", or "Maximum Authority" because he sacrificed all those titles due to his avarice and lack of concern  about those soldiers who died, advancing his orders, thinking that he had any idea what century it was or what planet he was on.   (!!!)

More Later…

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Eulogy for All Times

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Colonel Juan Nepomuceno Seguin'sAlamo Defenders' Burial Oration
delivered in San Antonio
25th February 1837

Eulogy published in the 
Telegraph and Texas Register
of Columbia (later Houston), Texas April 4, 1837

 

 

"Companions in Arms!! These remains which we have the honour of carrying

 

 on our shoulders are those of the valiant heroes who died in the Alamo.

 

  Yes, my friends, they preferred to die a thousand times rather than submit

 

 themselves to the tyrant's yoke. What a brilliant example! Deserving of being

 

 noted in the pages of history. The spirit of liberty appears to be looking out

 

 from its elevated throne with its pleasing mien,  pointing to us, and  saying: 

 

 "There are your brothers, Travis, Bowie, Crockett, and others whose valour 

 

 places them in the rank of my heroes."   Yes! Soldiers and fellow citizens, these

 are the worthy beings who, by the twists of fate, during the present campaign

 delivered their bodies to the ferocity of their enemies; who, barbarously

 

 treated as beasts, were bound by their feet and dragged to this spot, where

 

 they were reduced to ashes. The venerable remains of our worthy

 

 companions as witnesses, I invite you to declare to the entire world, "Texas

 

 shall be Free and Independent or we shall perish in glorious combat."

 

Colonel Juan N. Seguin, Commandant

San Antonio, Bexar, Texas 

Army of the Republic of Texas

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Just a nice, calm picture…Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, upper gardens…a pleasant, jumbled mess that pleases me immensely...

Just a nice picture of what El Gringo Viejo sees in the early morning with his coffee and dog
and the birds and the butterflies.   Amalgamated Butterfly Union does not permit butterflies to
 work before 10:00 in the morning.

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Ocasio - Cortez and the re-re-rewriting of the 638th rewriting of History and the Democratic Socialist Final Solution of Evil, Poverty, and Bad Stuff…and everything…all the time

(1)     Bulletin:

From Reuters -

(1) UK appoints top cop as new anti-slavery chief, after criticism over delay

(2) Water-stressed Pakistan looks for billions in donations to build dams

(3)  Future of food under "severe threat" as species diversity disappears - UN

(4)  Insurance not enough to offset financial risks of climate change, analysts say

(5)  Prepare now for accelerating climate threats, military officials warn

(2)     FROM -     OCASIO - CORTEZ's PLATFORM for AMERICA

The clarion call for all people to be given everything they need all the time.

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     Quite obviously, the time has come to SCREAM BLOODY MURDER…!!!   We, as a nation, have stumbled along now for 240 years or so, generally accommodating business potentates, business conglomerations, labour leaders and groups, all nature of social organisation, unions, guilds, and chambers of commerce and so forth.  We have seen these crops prosper and those crops wither.

     

   We have seen factories, military bases, farms large and small produce, fail, re-establish, change crops, fail, and start over again.   We have dealt with these and those peoples with this and that language and background…who have gone and not returned, while others came to replace them.  And we have seen people who declared they would never leave, leave and die a great distance from where they were born, regretting having left or wishing they had left sooner.

     In short…we have seen it all,  done most of it…and still wonder how it can be.  Truly, how can it be?   The "Platform" for the Ocasio forces is truly the representation of a pitiably immature, totally self-possessed and involved nine-year old.  She is certain that she can sit upon a variation of a baby's high-chair, while decked out in taffeta and velour, with a silver wand topped by a a solid 19.5 K gold star with a large diamond in the middle and appoint this occurrence and dispatch that bad, evil, wrong thing to the bin of iniquity.

     It is rather much like Puff, the Magic Dragon, but done for and by little girls who wave their wands about during the sleep over…and who, as midnight draws near…decide that "staying up to see the dawn" is a little out of reach.   Some little girls are 29 years of age, by the calendar, but still cling to the notions held as pre-adolescents, nurtured by deranged college professors who think the next try at marxism will be the one that finally works.

It never works.

El Gringo Viejo

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