Then get your elitist ass down into the hills of Morelia with AK 47s and some Chinese RPGs. Attack Ciudad Mexico, the seat of power for the ruling oligarchy that has used the campesinos as slaves since the first revolution. Vincente Fox? Take him out. Go after the 19 ruling billionaire families who control the Mexican government and keep the the people so close to starvation that they have to migrate out of their own land to seek a better life.

What the hell are you doing in Berkeley, California anyway? The Mexicans who made it to the U.S. don't need you half as bad as the poor people of Mexico. If you really want to start a movement, don't screw around, go to the source of the "undocumented immigrant" problem. Bring the ruling class Brahmans of Mexico to their knees. Viva la gente! Viva la revolución.

You want to form a union and have a strike? Hey! I'm behind you all the way. Only do it in Mexico. Viva la Huelga! Mexican workers united against the oppressive oligarchy in Ciudad Mexico.

I can see you ten years from now, running the country of Mexico, the nation's first woman Presidente. They will write books about the day you rode up the Paseo de la Reforma on top of a captured tank and how you climbed the Columna de la Independencia and gave a speech through a bullhorn, "Levantarse patriotas!"

And you'll be celebrated in the United States too. Lydia Chavez, the Joan of Arc of Mexico who caused the greatest reverse migration in the history of the world! Mexicans returned to reclaim their native land from the grip of the oligarchic oppressors.

Lydia, surely you must know that few people willingly become expatriots when things are good at home. So I'll join with you in support of the idea that the Mexican government who forces its people to live abroad and send money home so their families may eat, is a government that has to be dissolved for the good of the people.

But I guess that'd be too much work for you, and it would be dangerous too. I'd say if you tried it, your chances would be the same as towing an iceberg to Guadalajara. (Sigh) But I guess you'll just stay in California where it's safe and you can write papers on how evil America is for wanting to exercise sovereignty and secure our borders.

And in case anybody at the State Department gets pissed off, my last post was obvious satire. But I am asking a serious question for all the bleeding hearts who don't know the meaning of the word illegal: If you care so much, then why aren't you protesting the wages and living conditions that force Mexicans to flee their own country?

That's a fair question and it deserves a real answer.

"But I am asking a serious question for all the bleeding hearts who don't know the meaning of the word illegal: If you care so much, then why aren't you protesting the wages and living conditions that force Mexicans to flee their own country?

That's a fair question and it deserves a real answer."

Try as I might, I can't get a single response from the Aztlan Separatists and illegal alien lovers here. Here are some of their arguments that won't fly:

1. We're all immigrants. Nope. I was born here. You can't have it both ways, Mojados! You hustle your pregnant women across the border so that the kids are born here and so they, by your own definition, are American citizens.

2. We (Mexicans) were here first, especially the Mestizo because the Native Americans were here before anybody else. So fucking what? This is the lamest of the lame arguments. The battles were fought, the blood was shed, and the United States of America prevailed. You lost. The borders were set and that's the end of it. Quit your bitching.

3. "There's no such thing as an Illegal person because each person has value." Yeah? try peddling that crap in some other country besides the U.S. and see how far it gets you. Illegal is what it's called, illegal is what it is. You may have value, but if you sneak across any country's border illegally, they are going to throw your sorry ass in jail and deport you. You're damn lucky that America even gives you a hearing. In some countries, they just shoot you, throw your carcass in a ditch and cover you with quick lime to keep you from stinking up the place.

4. "We're not illegal, we're just 'Undocumented.'" Ummm Hmmm. I love that one. Can I use it? If I ever get pulled over driving without a license I'll just tell the cop, "I'm not driving illegally, I'm just driving 'Undocumented' officer!" Or if I get caught with a fully operational M-60 machine gun I'll just tell the ATF, "Oh, it's OK boys, I don't have a permit for a machine gun but it's not illegal, it's just 'undocumented.'" And I'd like to be a medical doctor. I'd like to perform open heart surgery. I never went to med school or got a license to practice medicine, but if they ever catch me, I'll just tell 'em, "I'm not practicing medicine illegally, I'm just cutting this guy's heart open 'Undocumented.'"

Bah!