May 5, 2011, the first Thursday in May, is annual “National Day of Prayer” by Act of Congress (36 U.S.C. Sec. 119.) However, it will be ignored as such as the politically correct continue the farce of celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a day which even Mexico ignores. School kids won’t be told of the American National Day of Prayer, going all the way back to George Washington in 1775, but will be told about Mexico’s great victory over the French in the Battle of Pueblo. Alas, however, they won’t be educated to the fact that it was a singular, and shortlived “victory,” as Napoleon III sent in the French troops and quickly trounced the Mexican army, won the war, and re-took Mexico.
It is rather pathetic, and demeaning, that the U.S. should decide that a day should be set aside as purportedly honoring another country for its victory in a single battle while otherwise losing every battle and the war. Also, in my opinion, it is utterly demeaning for U.S. politically correct liberals, politicians, media, and teachers to “celebrate” a day to honor Mexicans which Mexico itself declines to celebrate.
How would we like it if Mexico decided to honor Americans in Mexico by celebrating a day that Americans do not celebrate? It is a farce, 25-years long now in Portland.
It has given America something, however, what Time magazine called the “Seventh Drunkest Day of the Year.” Indeed. It ought to be recognized with a minute of silence for all the Americans killed or injured on American roads by Mexicans driving under the influence, Mexicans being disproportionately overrepresented among those guilty of driving drunk. It is another Mexican tradition, and another way American lives are enriched by multi-culturalism, diversity, and illegal aliens importing the failed, corrupt Mexican culture into America.
Meanwhile, as expressions of “Happy Cinco de Mayo Day,” which is not a Mexican traditio, ring out from liberal media and politicians seeking votes, atheists continue their legal assault on the American tradition of the “National Day of Prayer” on the first Thursday in May. The atheists in the Freedom From Religion Foundation (isn’t that what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were about) have appealed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal in Chicago for a rehearing en banc, after that circuit recently held that atheists do not have legal “standing” to sue against the American tradition of a National Day of Prayer.
The Alliance Defense Fund has won an important victory in the Day of Prayer case, especially on the issue of legal “standing,” which ordinarily requires a litigant to have a legally cognizable injury. The Seventh Circuit ruled that a feeling of “alienation,” i.e., hurt feelings, taking offense at acts or symbols reflecting America’s own religious history or heritage, is not a cognizable injury conferring “standing” to sue.
However, that important victory, and the American tradition of a National Day of Prayer, is all but ignored by contemporary Americans as they celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which Mexico doesn’t recognize as a holiday or celebration day. Thanks to the the ACLU, kids in American schools can’t utter a prayer on the National Day of Prayer. But they can be propagandized on Cinco de Mayo about the glories of Mexico, an utterly corrupt failed state in which 36,000 have been slaughtered in the ongoing narco wars, i.e., more deaths than America suffered in the Korean War.
Today, in Southern Arizona, there are signs posted warning Americans not to travel in our own country due to the dangers presented by the invasion of illegal aliens into our porous borders, including narco trafficers. Never in our history before the Obama regime have Americans been told they cannot safely travel in our own country due to the threat presented by foreign nationals illegally traversing our borders with impunity. Obama and his equally incompetent Attorney General Eric Holder are acting to protect Americans from these foreign invaders from Mexico by suing Arizona for trying to do what Obama and Holder have failed to do — their duty to protect Americans, first and foremost.
Notwithstanding these Mexican outrages and failures of the Obama regime to cure and correct them, Americans are urged, by politicians from from the White House on down, and by liberal media, to celebrate “Cinco de Mayo. ” Our children are lied to in schools by politically correct liberal teachers and administrators that it is a significant day in Mexican history and culture, a myth which even the Mexicans decline to accept. Indeed, the very rich ruling class Mexican oligarchy is no doubt laughing-all-the-way-to-the bank at American gullibility as we celebrate “Cinco de Mayo” and they celebrate counting the $17-billion sent back to Mexico annually from the U.S. economy by Mexico’s greatest export– its own people, whom the corrupt oligarchy and government encourage to illegally invade America.
On the first Thursday in May, as General Washington first said in 1775 as Commander-in-Chief in 1775, and the U.S. Congress codified in 1952 (26 U.S.C. Section 119), Americans should celebrate a National Day of Prayer. As for Cinco de Mayo, Americans should not celebrate a day which even Mexico does not, but, instead, address two words to the corrupt, wealthy, ruling class Mexican oligarchy and government, as well as the Mexicn nationals it sends here illegally, including its murderous drug trafficers: Ya Basta! (Enough!)
(Rees Lloyd is a long time civil rights, workers rights, and veterans rights attorney, and a member of the Victoria Taft Show Blogforce.)
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