I reported last night around 7:30pm PST or so in my Immigration thread about the local news reporter who went all Aztlan some local radio show hosts:

Check out this recording of the John and Ken Show where they were on live with a local channel here, Fox 11. You hear some funny stuff as usual but what you need to listen for is the ending. A reporter from that channel, Tony Valdez, basically spews forth the Aztlan message that the southwestern United States was taken from them and they want it back. Quite amazing actually.

The money quote from this fool:

“You took this country. You killed people to take this country for yourselves.”

Well, the story is gaining some traction as Hot Air is now blogging about it along with Michelle Malkin, Wizbang, A Certain Slant Of Light, Boots & Sabers, and Ed Driscoll.

Great news that the story isn’t going away since this fool and his employers need a history lesson:

8 August 1812 — About 130-men strong, the Gutierrez-Magee Expedition crossed the Sabine from Louisiana in a rebel movement against Spanish rule in Texas.

1817-1820 — Jean Laffite occupied Galveston Island and used it as a base for his smuggling and privateering operation. (The South’s favorite pirate!)

3 January 1823 — Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River. The Mexican government enticed citizen (via land grants) from the United States to help colonize Tejas. They were known as Texians.

Mid-1824 — The Constitution of 1824 gave Mexico a republican form of government. It failed, however, to define the rights of the states within the republic, including Texas.

6 April 1830–Relations between the Texans and Mexico reached a new low when Mexico forbid further emigration into Texas by settlers from the United States.

26 June 1832–The Battle of Velasco resulted in the first casualties in Texas’ relations with Mexico. After several days of fighting, the Mexicans under Domingo de Ugartechea were forced to surrender for lack of ammunition.

1832-1833 — The Convention of 1832 and the Convention of 1833 in Texas were triggered by growing dissatisfaction among the settlements with the policies of the government in Mexico City.

2 October 1835 — Texans repulsed a detachment of Mexican cavalry at the Battle of Gonzales. The revolution began.

9 October 1835 — The Goliad Campaign of 1835 ended when George Collingsworth, Ben Milam, and forty-nine other Texans stormed the presidio at Goliad and a small detachment of Mexican defenders.

28 October 1835 — Jim Bowie, James Fannin and 90 Texans defeated 450 Mexicans at the Battle of Concepcion, near San Antonio.

3 November 1835 — The Consultation met to consider options for more autonomous rule for Texas. A document known as the Organic Law outlined the organization and functions of a new Provisional Government.

8 November 1835 — The Grass Fight near San Antonio was won by the Texans under Jim Bowie and Ed Burleson. Instead of silver, however, the Texans gained a worthless bounty of grass.

11 December 1835 — Mexicans under Gen. Cos surrendered San Antonio to the Texans following the Siege of Bexar. Ben Milam was killed during the extended siege.

2 March 1836 — The Texas Declaration of Independence was signed by members of the Convention of 1836. (Signed at Washington on the Brazos) An ad interim government was formed for the newly created Republic of Texas.

6 March 1836 — Texans under Col. William B. Travis were overwhelmed by the Mexican army after a two-week siege at the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio. REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

10 March 1836 — Sam Houston abandoned Gonzales in a general retreat eastward to avoid the invading Mexican army.

27 March 1836 — James Fannin and nearly 400 Texans were executed by the Mexicans at the Goliad Massacre, under order of Santa Anna.

21 April 1836 — Texans under Sam Houston routed the Mexican forces of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. Thus, independence was won in one of the most decisive battles in history. Sam Houston was the first president of Texas. As a side note, he was thought to be rather fond of his drink.

November 1839 — The Texas Congress first met in Austin, the frontier site selected for the capital of the Republic.

11 August 1840 — The Battle of Plum Creek, near present-day Lockhart, ended the boldest and most penetrating Comanche challenge to the Texas Republic.

June 1841– The Texan Santa Fe Expedition set out for New Mexico. Near Sante Fe, they were intercepted by Mexican forces and marched 2000 miles to prison in Mexico City.

5 March 1842 –A Mexican force of over 500 men under Rafael Vasquez invaded Texas for the first time since the revolution. They briefly occupied San Antonio, but soon headed back to the Rio Grande.

11 September 1842 — San Antonio was again captured, this time by 1400 Mexican troops under Adrian Woll. Again the Mexicans retreated, but this time with prisoners.

Fall 1842 — Sam Houston authorized Alexander Somervell to lead a retaliatory raid into Mexico. The resulting Somervell Expedition dissolved, however, after briefly taking the border towns of Laredo and Guerreo.

20 December 1842 — Some 300 members of the Somervell force set out to continue raids into Mexico. Ten days and 20 miles later, the ill-fated Mier Expedition surrendered at the Mexican town of Mier.

29 December 1845 — U. S. President James Polk followed through on a campaign platform promising to annex Texas, and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.

What became of this? The Mexican-American war:

The Mexican-American War grew out of an US expansionist policy known as Manifest Destiny and Mexico’s refusal to recognize Texas as a legitimate state after the 1836 Texas Revolution. Mexico had long declared its intention to recapture what it considered to be a breakaway province, however nearly a decade had passed and Texas had solidified its position by establishing diplomatic ties with Great Britain and the United States. Officials in the Republic of Texas had for most of its short existence expressed interest in being annexed to the United States, however this had been blocked in Congress because of ongoing difficulties regarding admission of slave states. Finally in 1845, in his last days in office, President John Tyler used the fear of a British encroachment to swing the offer of annexation to Texas. Texas accepted, and became the 28th state of the United States.

If he wants to talk about people killing people for land how about what the Aztecs did to the neighboring tribes? Pretty awful stuff. Like the talk show hosts said, when is the Statute of Limitations up? How long do we have to hear about events 2-3 hundred years ago to justify their stand today?

Fox 11 in Los Angeles needs to get complaints about this idiot, here is how to contact management:

Comments or questions about Fox 11 newscasts:
newscomments@fox11.com

News story ideas, tips, or press releases:
newsdesk@fox11.com

Comments about Fox 11 programming:
programming@fox11.com

Fox 11 Undercover:
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Phone – 310.584.2300

UPDATE

ABC news wrote this article a few days ago that goes into this war:

The territory north of today’s 1,952-mile border half of Mexico at the time was ripped away in 1848 after a U.S. invasion that ended with the capture of “the halls of Montezuma,” Mexico City itself.

Ulysses S. Grant, who took part, called the invasion “the most unjust war ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.”

The loss changed Mexico’s destiny and still tears at the country’s heart. Primary school textbooks harp on it. Intellectuals often refer to it. Museums are dedicated to it.

In the United States, some anti-immigration activists see migrants as a threat to American land and culture, part of a Spanish-speaking invasion that will reclaim the American Southwest.

Sounds horrible doesn’t it, until they go into the fact that a majority of those in those lands were Indians, who owned the land before Mexico.

“Re-conquest,” too, may be misleading. Before the war, most people in the Mexican territory north of the current border, from California to Texas, were Indians. They spoke little Spanish and paid little allegiance to Mexico.

Spain began establishing missions in “Alta California” shortly before the American Revolution, and the land became Mexico’s after its own independence from Spain in 1821. But only a few thousand Spaniards and Mexicans were living in the area when the United States took the 525,000 square miles under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo decades later, paying $18.25 million in cash and assumed debts the equivalent of about $434 million today.

Shouldn’t the Indians want to reconquest this land then instead? How about before them? Maybe cave people?

Give it a rest.

I enjoyed this part of the article tho:

Yet after visitors tour exhibits decrying the aggression that “mutilated” the nation, they can stop by the museum souvenir shop to find Mickey Mouse computer games and a “Movie Talk” course in learning English.

In fact, many Mexicans complain about U.S. domination. Mexico City’s Independence Monument has been ringed by buildings bearing the names of Ford, Sheraton and American Express, with the U.S. Embassy a few steps away. Mexicans watch “Los Simpsons” and NFL football on television and shop at Wal-Mart, Mexico’s largest private employer.

The inroads of the English language have met official resistance, at times with comical results. Officially mandated “perro caliente” never caught on as a substitute for “hot dog.”

Oh my, they are upset that there is English signs, English companies, and English being spoken…..sound familiar?

I reported last night around 7:30pm PST or so in my Immigration thread about the local news reporter who went all Aztlan some local radio show hosts