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Mark N. Hattarki (gandhiji@cs.utexas.edu) wrote:
: > Just a couple of weeks ago, the radical leftwing hispanic
: > organization known as L.U.L.A.C. made the claim that Taco Bell was
: > running commericals that were offensive.  As a matter of fact, they said
: > that the commericals which contained the spanish speaking, pint-sized,
: > Chihuahua dog named Dinky were "hate crimes"!  

: So you're offended, that they're offended. That offends me.

: BTW - This is basically proof that you have no clue (just accept it-
: everyone else has). It's interesting that you see LULAC as  "radical" and
: "leftwing". So where the people that founded this country.

	And that would be the only quality shared by the founders of
	this country and the self-serving demagogues of LULAC.

: This reminds me of a bit of Texas history. Did you know that farmers in
: south Texas, used to lie to migrant Mexican workers. They would tell them
: that the workers would be paid well if they traveled to their plantation
: and work for them. When the workers would get there, the farmers paid them
: much less, or nothing at all. If the workers tried to leave, the
: landowners would send the police or even the Texas Rangers ( from about
: 1910-60, the Texas Rangers only job was beating up minorities, BTW) to
: arrest the workers.  They would quickly be fined and forced to work their
: debt off to the farmer that originally deceived them. Can you say
: "Slavery"? 

	You don't know much about the Texas Rangers either, do you.
	Walter Prescott Webb wrote a fairly comprehensive history
	of the Rangers.  You might read it, or anything else about
	the Rangers, as evidently you never have.