Miranda Rant

Consider this a Miranda warning.

Award winning columnist and lefty activist Robert Miranda goes all out today in his rant, titled "Who you calling illegal?"

Latinos are a people who remember our ancestry. We know that the lands that were taken after the Indian Wars and the Mexican-American War are ancestral lands that many Mexicans consider to this day as part of their ancient history.

Illegal! Who you calling "illegal"?

The Aztecs and Incas, Apache, the Comanche, Pueblo Indians and all the native people who for thousands of years harvested these lands and built cities -- and lived free under their own set of laws and rules -- thrived and prospered. Today these cities are being discovered under mounds of rubble and dirt and are being exposed to the world as proof of the wonders and genius of our ancestors.

These lands stolen by the greed and manipulations and war of those who arrived on ships from Europe, and then began stealing land that was never theirs, today have descendents who have inherited their wealth from this theft and have turned to the descendents of the native people and have called them "illegal.''

Who you calling "illegal"?

Read the whole whacky piece.

He seems to be asserting the rights of any latinos to break United States' immigration laws because they may be descendants of people who lived on the land hundreds of years before it became a part of the nation.

It echos the arguments of those who advocate reconquista.

A rational discussion of current immigration laws must include recognizing the perspective, motivation and beliefs of those who believe we should have open borders.

I've been criticized for saying the May 1st rallies celebrated lawlessness. A thorough read of Miranda's column leads me to conclude that was exactly their intent.