posted
This is the calander date on which Santa Anna murdered a bunch of people that were trapped in an old church. He could have just left them and gone along the way looking for the Army of Texas. A few days earliers he murdered a large group of unarmed men at Goliad. He could have, as he had promised them and their wives, not killed the men at Goliad. After the fight on March 6, Santa Anna had even those men who had surrendered put to death, over the objection of his generals who had promised them they wouldn't be killed.
The men murdered in both atrocities included some with Spanish names. It isn't the heritage that was wrong, it was the dictator.
Just as wrong are those that wish me to celebrate Mexicam independence day. The Spanish didn't slaughter any of my ancesters, Santa Anna and Mexico did.
Posts: 11304 | From: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: Mar 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
bdgee, I know some folks in California that call the Santa Anna,the " the death wind "..
Way back when, well,lets just say many years ago..I traveled thru a laid back desert town in Texas, on my Chopper....Spent some time at the Alamo...Geezzz, it was a lot smaller than I had invisioned it as a kid..
Posts: 10729 | From: oregon | Registered: Feb 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
Bush Proposal Prompted Surge in Illegal Immigrants Watchdog Group Claims Administration Sought to Cover Up Data
By William Branigin Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 28, 2005; 7:39 PM
President Bush's proposal for a guest worker program to help stem the tide of illegal immigration actually prompted a surge of illegal border-crossings that the administration then sought to cover up, a watchdog group charged today, citing a 2004 survey by the U.S. Border Patrol. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062801135.html
"The results indicated that President Bush's proposal had actually lured greater numbers of illegal immigrants to violate the law," the group said in a 16-page report on the Border Patrol survey. It said the Bush administration aborted the survey on Jan. 27, 2004, within a few weeks after it began, because it was producing "politically inconvenient and/or potentially embarrassing data." The U.S. government never issued a report based on the survey.
"The White House directed Homeland Security public affairs officers to deliberately withhold information from the public and the media about the Border Patrol survey and a related spike in illegal immigration," Judicial Watch said, citing documents it obtained under the FOIA.
-------------------- Don't envy the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise. Posts: 36378 | From: USA | Registered: Sep 2003
| IP: Logged |
That part of the Alamo that still stands is only the old chapel. The actual grounds of the Alamo at the time of the battle would have covered several city blocks of modern San Antonio. It had been used as an Outpost camp of the Spanish and Mexican armies until a few years before and was walled along it's outer perimeter. There was a second inner set of walls within the outer walls. Those walls and a number of buildings within them no longer stand.
Until the Daughters of the Texas Revolution became active in this century, there was no effort to preserve even that part of the Alamo that still stands. (I don't know if it remains in that place, but years ago, in the State Capital building in Austin, along one of the walls under the dome, there was a bronze plaque naming my aunt and a couple of other women, as Members of the Daughters of the Texas Revolution instrumental for the preservation of the Alamo. She was very proud of that.)
Posts: 11304 | From: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: Mar 2005
| IP: Logged |
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
