Immigration protest a slap in the face to Hispanic veterans

(My new American Thinker post)

According to news reports, they expected 100,000, accommodated for 35,000 but less than half of that showed up. 

Another march without marchers, a.k.a. the story of the immigration movement these days. 

When is this movement going to realize that they need new leaders, or people who understand how to speak to a nation in the middle of a huge recession?

You can't demand "legalization" for 10 milion people when there are millions of US citizens and legal residents who can't find work.

Have any of these immigration leaders walked down the streets of Hispanic districts in the US?  Are they so caught up in the ideology of amnesty that they don't see that the community lacks jobs and economic development?  What planet are these people living in?

As we know now, the gates were closed to many veterans but opened for an immigration march. 

Are you kidding me?  Who made this decision?  He or she should be fired.

Over the last 28 years that I've lived in Texas, I've come to appreciate the role of Hispanics in the military, including our youngest son who is in the US Army. 

Let me cite two examples that came to mind when I heard about this travesty in Washington. 

Joe Pena was a political leader in our area and Korean War veteran. I attended his funeral at our military cemetery in Grand Prairie. The event was full of other Hispanics who proudly wore their uniforms, veterans and those in the service now.

Nathan Aguirre, a young man from our church, was killed in Iraq.I saw this young man grow up.  His father and I served as ushers at church for years.

Can someone explain to me how you lock the gates for World War II veterans but open them for people carrying foreign flags?

The immigration reform movement, and the Democrats who carry their water, need to take a PR class. 

Immigration reform took a huge step backward and you can blame President Obama, Congresswoman Pelosi and the leaders. They are either very "tone deaf" or insensitive to the families of Hispanic military veterans and those killed in action.

P.S. You can hear my chat with George Rodriguez and Bobby Lopez about this here:

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The day my uncle had an encounter with Che

(My new American Thinker post)

Let me add my "thumbs up" to Jorge Ponce & Humberto Fontova for reminding us, especially the younger generation, about the life and times of Che.    

On this day in 1967, Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia.  No one knows for sure but Che disappeared from public view in 1965.  He reappeared in Bolivia in 1966 with a handful of other revolutionaries. Their goal was to take "communism" to South America's poorest country and start some movement over the continent.   

It failed miserably and Che was eventually captured and executed.  His diary (published after his death) reveals a beaten man who could not convince Bolivian peasants to join his movement.  

Che's biggest mistake is that he confused Cuba with Bolivia.  In Cuba, the communists came to power by saying that they were not communists. They betrayed the Cuban people.   

In Bolivia, Che found peasants who were very skeptical of foreigners, specially white guys with an Argentine accent like Che.  

My Uncle Jose, who passed away in 2008, told me about his encounter with Che in 1959.  

"Tio Pepe," as we called him, was an architect in Cuba.  He attended The University of Havana at about the same time that Castro was there.  He was not politically active but knew many of the leaders, like the late Jose Antonio Echeverria, the student leader killed in 1957.

In the early days of what they call "la revolucion," Tio Pepe went down to the military barracks, to see a good friend who was arrested.    

He ran into Che, who was there carrying a pistol and speaking somewhat irrationally. 

Tio Pepe assumed that Che was drunk or under the influence of something.    

Che looked at Tio Pepe and said:  "Que quieres Canto"?  (What do you want Canto) 

Che listened to Tio Pepe's defense and walked away when someone else called his name.  

Tio Pepe told me this story a few years before his death.  He told me that he knew that "la revolucion" was in trouble when he had a direct encounter with this criminal.   

Let me paraphrase Humberto Fontova:  Justice met Che on this day in 1967.  

Thank God that it did!    

P.S.  You can hear CANTO TALK here.

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