MECha's Plan: The Plan of San Diego

[Jeanfromfillmore]

This is what MECha is actually promoting and what the La Razaists are openly stating they are striving for.

The Plan of San Diego:

PLAN OF SAN DIEGO. With the outbreak of revolution in northern Mexico in 1910, federal authorities and officials of the state of Texas feared that the violence and disorder might spill over into the Rio Grande valley. The Mexican and Mexican-American populations residing in the Valley far outnumbered the Anglo population. Many Valley residents either had relatives living in areas of Mexico affected by revolutionary activity or aided the various revolutionary factions in Mexico. The revolution caused an influx of political refugees and illegal immigrants into the border region, politicizing the Valley population and disturbing the traditional politics of the region. Some radical elements saw the Mexican Revolution as an opportunity to bring about drastic political and economic changes in South Texas. The most extreme example of this was a movement supporting the "Plan of San Diego," a revolutionary manifesto supposedly written and signed at the South Texas town of San Diego on January 6, 1915. The plan, actually drafted in a jail in Monterrey, Nuevo León, provided for the formation of a "Liberating Army of Races and Peoples," to be made up of Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Japanese, to "free" the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Colorado from United States control. The liberated states would be organized into an independent republic, which might later seek annexation to Mexico. There would be a no-quarter race war, with summary execution of all white males over the age of sixteen. The revolution was to begin on February 20, 1915. Federal and state officials found a copy of the plan when local authorities in McAllen, Texas, arrested Basilio Ramos, Jr., one of the leaders of the plot, on January 24, 1915.
The arrival of February 20 produced only another revolutionary manifesto, rather than the promised insurrection. Similar to the original plan, this second Plan of San Diego emphasized the "liberation" of the proletariat and focused on Texas, where a "social republic" would be established to serve as a base for spreading the revolution throughout the southwestern United States. Indians were also to be enlisted in the cause. But with no signs of revolutionary activity, state and federal authorities dismissed the plan as one more example of the revolutionary rhetoric that flourished along the border. This feeling of complacency was shattered in July 1915 with a series of raids in the lower Rio Grande valley connected with the Plan of San Diego. These raids were led by two adherents of Venustiano Carranza, revolutionary general, and Aniceto Pizaña and Luis De la Rosa, residents of South Texas. The bands used the guerilla tactics of disrupting transportation and communication in the border area and killing Anglos. In response, the United States Army moved reinforcements into the area.
A third version of the plan called for the foundation of a "Republic of Texas" to be made up of Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, and parts of Mississippi and Oklahoma. San Antonio, Texas, was to serve as revolutionary headquarters, and the movement's leadership continued to come from South Texas. Raids originated on both sides of the Rio Grande, eventually assuming a pattern of guerilla warfare. Raids from the Mexican side came from territory under the control of Carranza, whose officers were accused of supporting the raiders. When the United States recognized Carranza as president of Mexico in October 1915, the raids came to an abrupt halt. Relations between the United States and Carranza quickly turned sour, however, amid growing violence along the border. When forces under another revolutionary general, Francisco (Pancho) Villa, attacked Columbus, New Mexico, in March 1916, the United States responded by sending a large military force under Gen. John J. Pershing into northern Mexico in pursuit of Villa. When the United States rejected Carranza's demands to withdraw Pershing's troops, fear of a military conflict between the United States and Mexico grew. In this volatile context, there was a renewal of raiding under the Plan of San Diego in May 1916. Mexican officials were even considering the possibility of combining the San Diego raiders with regular Mexican forces in an attack on Laredo. In late June, Mexican and United States officials agreed to a peaceful settlement of differences, and raids under the Plan of San Diego came to a halt.
The Plan of San Diego and the raids that accompanied it were originally attributed to the supporters of the ousted Mexican dictator Gen. Victoriano Huerta, who had been overthrown by Carranza in 1914. The evidence indicates, however, that the raids were carried out by followers of Carranza, who manipulated the movement in an effort to influence relations with the United States. Fatalities directly linked to the raids were surprisingly small; between July 1915 and July 1916 some thirty raids into Texas produced only twenty-one American deaths, both civilian and military. More destructive and disruptive was the near race war that ensued in the wake of the plan as relations between the whites and the Mexicans and Mexican Americans deteriorated in 1915–16. Federal reports indicated that more than 300 Mexicans or Mexican Americans were summarily executed in South Texas in the atmosphere generated by the plan. Economic losses ran into the millions of dollars, and virtually all residents of the lower Rio Grande valley suffered some disruption in their lives from the raids. Moreover, the plan's legacy of racial antagonism endured long after the plan itself had been forgotten.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Don M. Coerver and Linda B. Hall, Texas and the Mexican Revolution: A Study in State and National Border Policy, 1910–1920 (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1984). Charles C. Cumberland, "Border Raids in the Lower Rio Grande Valley-1915," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 57 (January 1954). Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, "The Plan of San Diego and the Mexican-U.S. War Crisis of 1916: A Reexamination," Hispanic American Historical Review 58 (August 1978). Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States and the Mexican Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981). James A. Sandos, "The Plan of San Diego: War and Diplomacy on the Texas Border, 1915–1916," Arizona and the West 14 (Spring 1972). James Sandos, Rebellion in the Borderlands: Anarchism and the Plan of San Diego, 1904–1923 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992).
Don M. Coerver
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o...s/PP/ngp4.html

[Twoller]

"The liberated states would be organized into an independent republic, which might later seek annexation to Mexico."

Sound like what we have currently in Kosovo where the Albanians who have seized the territory have already made overtures about joining it with Albania.

For insects, the basic strategy for survival is quantity over quality, in humans the basic strategy for survival is quality over quantity.

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Plan of San Diego, 1915
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In early 1915, a Spanish document appeared in the south Texas town of San Diego calling for Chicanos in the U.S. Southwest to start a race war at 2 a.m. on February 20. The document called for the recapture of all lands stolen from Mexico by the United States in 1848, as well as for the execution of all adult white males. African Americans, American Indians, and Asian immigrants were invited to join the uprising, which would result in a new Mexican republic and the acquisition of six states in North America to be used by blacks to establish their own separate nation.

Although "the Plan of San Diego" never materialized, it shocked U.S. and Texas authorities, setting the groundwork for General John Pershing's "Punitive Expedition" into Mexico the following year. Fearing an invasion, Anglo vigilantes in southern Texas murdered hundreds of Chicanos through 1915. African Americans in Texas apparently suffered no similar reprisals, and appear not to have taken the Plan seriously.

Although the authors of the Plan remain unknown, they were no doubt influenced by the chaotic violence unleashed by the Mexican Revolution. Radical reformers from Mexico often took refuge in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, where San Diego is located, so the Plan may have been an attempt to turn growing Chicano unrest in Texas against the established governments. One theory suggests that Mexico's president, Venustiano Carranza, or his subordinates, released the Plan as a way of manipulating the United States into formal recognition of his administration.
Sources:
James N. Leiker, Racial Borders: Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande (College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002).
Contributor(s):
Leiker, James
Johnson County Community College, Kansas
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/plan-san-diego-1915


The Plan de San Diego was a failed insurrection in 1915 in south Texas, whereby Hispanics were called on to massacre all the Anglo men and reclaim the entire Southwest for Mexico. It was suppressed by Tejanos and the Texas Rangers.
After 1911 the ferocious civil wars in Mexico led 600,000 to 1 million refugees to flee north across the border, which was generally open. In south Texas a band of radicals newly arrived from the killing fields of Mexico issued the manifesto "Plan de San Diego" in 1915 calling on Hispanics to reconquer the Southwest that had been lost in 1848 and kill all the Anglo men. The leaders were two adherents of Venustiano Carranza, a revolutionary general in Mexico. Rebels assassinated opponents and killed several dozen people in attacks on railroads and ranches before the Texas Rangers smashed the insurrection, with probably a thousand killed in skirmishes, as most rebels returned to Mexico. Tejanos strongly repudiated the Plan and affirmed their American loyalty by founding the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). LULAC, headed by professionals, businessmen and modernizers, became the central Tejano organization promoting civic pride and civil rights.
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Plan_de_San_Diego

Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans.

by Elliott Young
Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans. By Benjamin Heber Johnson. Western Americana Series. (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 260. $30.00, ISBN 0-300-09425-6.)
The 1915 Plan de San Diego rebellion in south Texas has remained a footnote to U.S. national history. This book will change that.
The ambitious Plan de San Diego called for the overthrow of U.S. rule in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, as well as for the creation of an independent republic for blacks, Mexicans, and Indians in the liberated territory and for the killing of all white males over sixteen years of age. Although the plan was discovered before it was launched, rebels attacked south Texas ranches, irrigation pumping stations, and railroads in the subsequent months, killing scores of people. Texas Rangers responded brutally, harassing the local Mexican population and wantonly killing hundreds of Mexicans and Tejanos. Economic and ethnic dislocation, together with the rising nationalist and militant spirit of the Mexican Revolution, all contributed to this rebellion, but Benjamin Heber Johnson also shows how individuals took advantage of the chaos to settle old scores.
The most original and perhaps controversial thesis in this book is that the rebellion was in part a "Tejano civil war" (p. 70). The fact that three Tejano deputies were assassinated, that elite Tejano Florencio Saenz's holdings were repeatedly attacked, and that several other Tejanos were killed by rebels in a period of less than three months indicates that Anglos were not the only targets of this rebellion. Some of the Tejano elite, like prominent Brownsville lawyer J. T. Canales, who served in the Texas legislature both before and after the conflict, vigorously opposed the rebellion and even organized regular patrols along the border to assist the army in capturing raiders. Whether the killing of Mexican collaborators should be labeled a civil war will continue to be debated, but Johnson does a service by turning our attention to divisions within the Tejano community. Although Johnson credits Chicano historians in the 1970s with resurrecting the memory of the Plan de San Diego, he also argues that they had "lost the ambivalence and sense of division within the Tejano community expressed by" earlier Chicano scholars such as Americo Paredes (p. 205).
The final chapters of the book follow the story of what Johnson calls the Tejano Progressives as they sought to pick up the pieces after "the spectacular failure of the Plan de San Diego" (p. 181). With armed insurrection all but discredited, Tejano Progressives organized the Texas Mexican community to claim their rights and equal treatment before the law as U.S. citizens. In 1929 these efforts coalesced into the civil rights defense group known as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), an organization that Johnson compares to the better-known NAACP.
The rebel attacks on troops, the assassination of collaborators, the indiscriminate repression of the local populace, and the United States Army's effort to separate "good" from "'bad" natives that Johnson describes in early-twentieth-century south Texas seem as if they were ripped from yesterday's newspaper dispatches from Baghdad. With Latinos already surpassing African Americans as the largest minority and estimated to reach one quarter of the U.S. population by 2050. this crucial episode in the making of Mexican American identity deserves the attention and careful analysis that Johnson provides. Whether or not "the Colossus of the North will itself [soon] be a Latin American nation," as Johnson declares, the story of the Plan de San Diego and the rise of the Tejano Progressives should become a central part of U.S. history (p. 207).
Lewis and Clark College
ELLIOTT YOUNG

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar...cId=5008732971

[usa today]

Most of us that have been in this for many years are well aware of this

We have seen and read this plan many times , also we have posted it on many sites

Its time to bring it up and pass it out again because it is getting closer

[Twoller]

Here is Wikipedia's entry on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...y_20th_century

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The Mexican Revolution that began in 1910 against President Porfirio Díaz changed the relatively peaceful state of affairs along the border. Soon after, violence on both sides of the frontier escalated as bands of Mexicans took over border towns and began crossing the Rio Grande on a near-daily basis. Taking over trade routes in Mexico by establishing themselves as road agents, Mexican banditos turned towards attacking the American communities for kidnapping, extortion, and supplies. As Mexican law enforcement disintegrated with the collapse of the Diaz regime, these gangs grouped themselves under the various caudillos on both sides of the border and took sides in the civil war, most simply to take advantage of the turmoil to loot.[18] Then, as the lack of American military forces for defending the border became clearer, the scope of the activities soon turned to outright genocide with the intention of driving Americans out of the Southwest entirely; this became known as the Plan de San Diego in 1915. In several well-rehearsed attacks, Mexicans rose up and in conjunction with raiding Villista* guerrillas, within weeks had killed over 500 Texan women, children, and men.

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This is the main entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...anger_Division

More about "plans" issuing from Mexico during this period. In Wikipedia, Plan de San Diego is not listed here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plans_in_Mexican_history

Wikipedia only takes time to mention the Plan de San Diego in the context of the History of the Texas Rangers and takes great pains to suggest the Texas Rangers were equally criminal. More fake symmetry grafted on to history.

*the Villistas were followers of Pancho Villa