May 04, 2006
Celebrate Cinco De Mayo—Victory Over Invaders!
President Bush has already
celebrated Cinco De Mayo this year
at the White House. [RealVideo].
He had to skip this ceremony in 2003, but announced that
it wasn't meant to be a deliberate snub of Mexico, which
had just
pulled out of its 45-year old
mutual defense treaty with the United States on the
grounds that it didn't want to
participate in any actual, well, defense. Our
Allan Wall commented”
“It’s bizarre when you think about it. The Bush/Rove
administration feels obligated to apologize for not
publicly celebrating a
Mexican holiday!
“How many times has Vicente Fox celebrated the Fourth
of July in Los Pinos- the Mexican White House?
“He could if he wanted to. Why not invite a delegation
of some of us Americans who live in Mexico? (I could be
invited—my wife voted for Fox!) The program could
include some
American music and folk dances. Then Fox could
gush a little about how American expatriates have
enriched the culture of Mexico. I’m not holding my
breath …” [Memo
From Mexico: Cinco De Mayo Means Freedom From
Foreigners. Why Don't We try That In The U.S.?]
May Day, just past, is the International Socialist
version of
Labor Day. The American Labor Day was
put in September, with the
idea of disassociating the American Labor Movement
from
international socialism.
But as
Allan Wall pointed out, May Day is a public holiday
in Mexico— where they like socialism.
In fact, they’ve given it a new
twist. Instead of taking from
Mexico's rich to give to Mexico's poor, they take
from the
Americans to give to the Mexicans.
As an example, one of the other
public holidays this month is May 18, the Dia de
la Expropriacion Petrolera—the anniversary of the
Nationalization of the Petroleum Industry in 1938.
This was the biggest
armed robbery of the twentieth century. It left all
the
oil in Mexico in the hands of
corrupt Mexican governments, who couldn't even get
most of it out of the ground; a lot of it is
just sitting there, because they won't allow
foreigners to touch it. And this is a public holiday?
Peter Brimelow recently
pointed to an analysis of what Cinco De Mayo, and
the Mexican National Anthem stand for, by
Mark In Mexico.
I wrote about the bloodthirsty
Mexican National Anthem, Mexicanos Al Grito De Guerra,
in
2002,emphasizing
their unwillingness to let foreigners "profane
Mexican ground" by setting foot in Mexico—Mark In
Mexico insists on pointing out that Mexico has
never won a war "much less a fair fight."
Here's a roundup of what VDARE.COM
writers have said on previous Cinco De Mayos:
