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To move forward, we need to step first left, then right,
left, right
Carol Negro, whose letters mostly criticizing those aligned on the Liberal
side of the aisle I found in Tribunes for Feb. 12, April 16, August 20,
August 27, and Sept. 10, not to mention letters critical of her from other
readers in other issues, reports she was a Liberal for 53 years, until two
years ago, in fact. I reserve the right to agree or disagree with her on
any given issue. However, I do not find the terms Liberal or Conservative
at all useful in describing political ideologies. But when she can attack
"The Democrat Legislature" I do have to wonder if some Liberal done her
wrong. Has she jumped sides to get revenge? "Democrat" in this context is
meant as an insult. The word is "Democratic." I am a member of "The
Democratic Party." I am no more a member of the "Democrat" party than one
out five Pacificans are members of "The Republic party." She asks that I
trust her to understand the Left. Perhaps she understands some individuals
whom she has identified as on the left, but I doubt she really understands
"The Left." Those words are much too vague, much too amorphous, to be
understood. As for trusting her, I wouldn't trust even myself to understand
something so vague. Some folks experience a religious conversion, changing
their entire belief structure. I have no idea why a person in her fifties
would undergo such a political conversion, even to the point of using words
intended to demean and belittle an organization she may have once
respected.
I often disagree with Ian Butler on given issues. I believe he feels the
same about some of my opinions. Yet I find it difficult to find in his
letters the fulfillment of Ms. Negro's comments. It has never occurred to
me, even when I disagreed with him profoundly, to think or to say that he
is "biased, emotional, simplistic, filled with S double speak."
While I don't think it was a good idea to allow persons in this country
illegally to get driver's licenses, I don't think it likely that all the
evils Ms. Negro predicts are coming down the line. A driver's license for
those here against the rules is simply a tacit admission that we haven't
the ability to control our borders. I am more concerned that naturalized,
legal Mexican-Americans are considered by their nation of origin, the
Republic of Mexico, to have remained citizens in good standing of that
nation while swearing allegiance to this one. Be an American, or be a
Mexican, but don't try being both.
I do think it highly unlikely many illegal immigrants from south of the
border are all that anxious to serve on American juries, despite Ms.
Negro's concerns. It is a simple fact, however, that English speaking
Americans came to the northern and western Mexican territories in the
1840's and wrenched away 40 percent of Mexico's lands from that sovereign
nation. Talk about dangerous immigrants! Californios who had been given
large ranchos by a sovereign nation for services rendered had to go into
the courts of another nation, whose language and laws were alien to them,
hire lawyers at high expense, to defend their rights to their own lands.
Francisco Sanchez was forced to prove that he really owned the lands that
became Pacifica. It is no coincidence that 15 years after he died, most of
Rancho San Pedro was in the hands of Yankee lawyers and bankers.
Paul Azevedo proudly acknowledges he will have been a
Pacifican for forty years as of Sept. 30, and a Pacifica voter since Oct.
19, 1963. Newly moved Pacificans, or persons newly 18, should register by
Sept. 22 to vote in the Oct. Statewide election. The Reactor's e mail
address is Paul@thereactor.net.
Check The Reactor's website at www.thereactor.net.
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