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Chicano Park
By
Roger Ogden
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Contents
Background ................................................................................................................................................... 1
Chicano Movement Founders ....................................................................................................................... 2
The Mexican Mural Movement .................................................................................................................... 4
Promoting Communism ................................................................................................................................ 6
The Concept of “Aztlan”................................................................................................................................ 9
The Concept of La Raza ............................................................................................................................... 11
Nazi-Like Symbolism ................................................................................................................................... 12
Pseudo-Indigenous Identity ........................................................................................................................ 23
Occult Inspiration of Racial Supremacy Theories ....................................................................................... 25
Revolutionary Murals.................................................................................................................................. 29
Anti-Law Enforcement Murals .................................................................................................................... 32
Extremist Use of the Park ........................................................................................................................... 34
National Historic Landmark Fraud .............................................................................................................. 37
Conclusions ................................................................................................................................................. 37
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................ 39
Appendix A – The Spiritual Plan of Aztlan ................................................................................................... 40
Appendix B – Human remains interred illegally in Chicano Park ................................................................ 43
Note: This document is under construction. Constructive criticism is welcome. You can contact the
author of this document by going to this link below:
https://patriot-fire.net/contact/
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List of Figures
1. Chicano Park logo with map of Aztlan ................................................................................................................ 1
2. Reies Tijerina ..................................................................................................................................................... 2
3. Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales .................................................................................................................................. 2
4. Cesar Chavez ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
5. Jose Angel Gutierrez .......................................................................................................................................... 3
6. Historical Mural, honoring Chicano heroes, such as communist dictators. ......................................................... 5
7. Historical Mural - Memorializing mass murderers, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara .............................................. 6
8. Che mural on electrical transformer .................................................................................................................. 6
9. Monumental mural, memorializing communist terrorist, Che Guevara ............................................................. 7
10. Mural memorializing socialist, Salvador Allende of Chile ................................................................................. 8
11. Chicano Park logo, showing map of Aztlan ....................................................................................................... 9
12. Flags of Aztlan and La Raza on main flagpole in park ..................................................................................... 11
13. Depiction of human sacrifice from Aztec Codex ............................................................................................. 14
14. Kiosko - Styled after the Aztecs main temple for human sacrifice .................................................................. 14
15. “My Race First” mural, (Mi Raza Primero) ...................................................................................................... 15
16. Jose Vasconcelos with his Nazi paymaster ..................................................................................................... 16
17. Pre-park, Chicano-Power graffiti with Nazi swastikas .................................................................................... 18
18. Prophecy of Quetzalcoatl mural with swastika .............................................................................................. 19
19. Chicano Park Logo Mural with swastika ......................................................................................................... 19
20. La Raza “embryo” with swastika .................................................................................................................... 20
21. Close of La Raza" embryo" associated with swastika ..................................................................................... 20
22. Birth of La Raza mural .................................................................................................................................... 21
23. Children’s Mural with historically-accurate Nazi swastika .............................................................................. 21
24. Nazi battle flag compared to UFW flag designs .............................................................................................. 22
25. Typical Nazi and Mexican eagle depictions .................................................................................................... 22
26. Cuauhtemoc, Aztec warrior, who fought against Spanish conquistadors. ...................................................... 23
27. Neo-Aztec "sacred" dancing ........................................................................................................................... 23
28. Fire circle for pagan/occult religious ritual ..................................................................................................... 24
29. Sweat lodge for pagan/occult religious ritual ................................................................................................. 24
30. Madame Helena Blavatsky, founder of Theosophical Society ........................................................................ 25
31. Theosophical Society logo featuring a swastika. ............................................................................................ 25
32. Freemasonic-like pyramid and all-seeing eye ................................................................................................. 26
33. Intertwined snakes symbol, suggestive of the gnostic occult. ........................................................................ 27
34. The Caduceus, a symbol of gnostic occult. ..................................................................................................... 27
35. Our sacred land mural .................................................................................................................................... 28
36. Mexican revolutionary mural ......................................................................................................................... 29
37. Zapata statue ................................................................................................................................................. 29
38. Land redistribution to Chicanos ..................................................................................................................... 30
39. Sacred heart filling San Diego Bay with blood ................................................................................................ 31
40. “Demonic” police burning in hell - Historical mural ........................................................................................ 32
41. Che mural with police beating a Chicano ....................................................................................................... 33
42. ICE choking an illegal alien ............................................................................................................................. 33
43. Mock Trump hanging in Chicano Park, “My Name is Judas”. .......................................................................... 34
44. David Rico indicted for plotting violent overthrow of the U.S. government. .................................................. 35
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Background
Chicano Park is the most anti-
American public park in the nation. It
is controlled by a far-left, political cult,
which claims to own the land,
promotes communism and a Nazi-like
“La Raza” ultra-nationalism for the
Southwestern United States, which
they call their national homeland,
Aztlan. The park land was seized by a
group of radicals in 1970.
Another Patriot Picnic II was held six months later with the goal of simply flying the American flag and
the park with similar results. Again about 600-700 fanatics again showed up to prevent the patriots
from accessing the park as intended. In the resulting confrontation, one policeman was viciously
punched twice and seriously injured by one of the persons among the park supporters.
The park is not controlled by elected city officials, but the self-appointed Chicano Park Steering
Committee (CPSC). The CPSC is not accountable to city officials or the public. They enforce their rule
over the park by threats, slander and intimidation, as they did to keep the Patriot Picnickers out of the
park
The local media has also suppressed the truth about this radical political park for decades. These Patriot
Picnic events beg the question as to exactly why so many political militants are so absolutely determined
to keep those out, who may be critical of the murals. What do that have to hide? Since they continue
to deny patriots the right to free access to this public park, the tour has to be done via the Internet. This
document has been produced, in order to distribute some of this information that they hope to keep out
of public view. This perverse park with a political-cult following is a brown-supremacist temple
dedicated to spreading the ideas of revolution and the destruction of America.
The extreme political ideology promoted at the park in the artwork and well as the political activists,
who organize events at the park, benefit only the Democratic Party. So, it is also a park that supports
partisan politics at taxpayer expense. It should be illegal – if not treasonous -- for government officials
to fund such a revolutionary political park. It has been funded by all levels of government, local, state
and federal. Obama’s interior secretary made this perverse park a national historic landmark in the last
days of Obama’s term in office, bypassing the lawful congressional process.
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Reies Lopez Tijerina - Was the Elder founder of the Chicano movement in
New Mexico. His followers shot two law enforcement officials in an attempt
to capture a District Attorney, against whom they held a grudge. One of the
officials was brutally beaten to death before just before a trial, in which he
was supposed to testify against Tijerina. Tejerina was diagnosed as a
psychopath in prison.
Tejerina believed that old Spanish land grants, the Treaty of Guadalupe and
Spanish legal documents justified the return of large tracts of land to the
descendants of the original Hispanic inhabitants of New Mexico. Tijerina
also had an apocalyptic religious idea about the Hispanics being the chosen 2. Reies Tijerina
people, which is similar to Christian identity, a Nazi doctrine. Originally an
apocalyptic Pentecostal preacher, he believed and dreamed that the United States would be destroyed
in a nuclear holocaust, but the Hispanic nations would survive and arise to take its place.
Tijerina’s followers shot two Hispanic police officers when they took over a courthouse in Tierra
Amarilla. He also took over part of the Carson National Forest and declared it a separate nation, not
unlike militant Chicanos did in Chicano park not long thereafter. He told the press after the takeover
that “Fidel Castro has what he has, because of his guts. Castro put the gringos off his island and we can
do the same” (from Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun).
Tijerina demonized Anglos and was anti-Semitic. He wrote in his auto-biography, though, that his
biggest problem was not Anglos, but Hispanics who wanted to live the American way of life. He was
diagnosed as a psychopath in prison. Tijerina compared himself to Adolf Hitler’s deputy führer, Rudolf
Hess. Hear Reies Tijerina expressing his concept of La Raza supremacy here (subtitled in English).
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4. Cesar Chavez
Jose Angel Gutierrez – Gutierrez is the youngest of the four founders and
was a protégé of Reies Tijerina. He was mainly a political organizer,
starting a political party, called La Raza Unida (the united race). He became
a professor at the University of Texas, now retired. He translated Reies
Tijerina biography, “Mi Lucha por La Tierra” (My Struggle for the Land)
from Spanish into English. In the foreword of the book he called for Aztlan
(the American Southwest) to be united with Mexico. He also called for the
ethnic cleansing and/or extermination of “gringos”. See a video of him
declaring that the “gringos” must go here.
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Diego Rivera, one of the founding artists of the Mexican mural movement was a communist and an
atheist. There was a strong anti-Church element to the Mexican revolution. In one of his most famous
murals for the revolutionary Mexican government, he painted himself as a priest as a provocation to
Catholics.
The mural that Rivera did for Rockefeller in the 1930's is a good example of provocation used in the
Mexican mural movement. The artists at Chicano Park are doing much the same thing. To see an early
example of provocation in mural art by Diego Rivera, see the YouTube video about the Rockefeller
mural, Man at the Crossroads.
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Historical Mural – The Historical mural memorializes Chicano heroes, several of which were dictators,
murderers and terrorists. Notice Rivera and Frida Kahlo are picture, the 4th and 5th people on the top
from the left. Rivera was the first muralist of the Mexican mural movement. Three of the four founders
of the Chicano movement are shown, Reies Tijerina, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and Caesar Chavez.
Corky Gonzalez was a frequent participant in the annual Chicano Park Day celebration and some of his
burial ashes are spread in the park, although it is legal to deposit such remains without authorization.
A Mexican revolutionary with bandoliers on a horse is depicted also the mural waving a flag, with the
symbol emblazoned on it of the “superior”, mestizo race, La Raza. A slogan is painted nearby in Spanish,
stating “The revolution continues”. That is, the Mexican revolution continues here in the American
southwest, the struggle for control of the land.
It is not clear why Jose Angel Gutierrez is not mentioned in the park. Gutierrez was the founder of the
La Raza Unida (the united race) political party in the 1960’s. Corky Gonzales and Gutierrez were rivals
for control of this party, which is based on racial and ethnic identity. Since Corky was a favorite at the
park, perhaps this is the reason that Gutierrez seems to have been banned from the park. La Raza Unida
still exists are a political party, but is just a small remnant of what it was in the 1970’s.
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Promoting Communism
The most obvious subversive murals are those glorifying communism.
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Flags of La Raza and Aztlan – These two flags are raised every year at the Chicano Park Day celebration
in the middle of the Park the Chicano Park. Steering Committee members will tell you that the upper flag
in this photo is the flag of Aztlan and the bottom flag is the flag of Chicano Park.
The American flag is banned in the center of the park where this flagstaff is located. In recent years the
Chicano Park Steering Committee has had to make some concessions at the Hispanic Veterans Memorial
at remote low-visibility corner of the park. The veterans had to fight hard just to have a small memorials
to Hispanic veterans place in this remote corner of the park with a flagstaff. The leadership of the
Steering Committee swore at first that the American flag would never fly above the park. The had to
give in and allowed the American flag to fly three days a year only at the memorial, on Veteran’s,
Memorial and Intendance Days.
As a result of the second Patriot Picnic the American flag is allowed to fly freely, at least for now at the
Veteran’s Memorial in this far corner of the park. In time, it can be expected that the anti-American
Chicano militants will try to turn back even this small concession when they think no one is paying
attention any longer.
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Nazi-Like Symbolism
This is the “Prophecy of Quetzalcoatl” mural at Chicano Park with five Border Town Patriots posing in
front of it. The mural features a huge, rounded, reverse swastika. There are other, smaller such
swastikas scattered around the park.
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The Nazis were irredentist. That is they were obsessed with lost territory and so are the Chicanos. The
Nazis wanted to regain the territory in the east, lost in World War I. The Chicanos want to takeover
“Aztlan,” which they identify as the Southwestern United States, to which they lost their claim in the
Mexican-American war. Chicanos teach that the Park is the first park of Aztlan to be occupied.
The Nazis looked back at the Vikings in much the same way that Chicanos look back to the Aztecs, as the
pagan source of their artificially fabricated “culture”, even though few, if any, could show any real direct
ancestral connection to their supposedly pagan forebears.
16. Quetzalcoatl figure on Templo Mayor, main site for human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism
Quetzalcoatl was typically featured on the pyramidal temples where untold thousands of human
sacrifices were performed by Aztec priests, as well as ritual cannibalism and collection and display of
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human body parts as trophies. This photo show statues of Quetzalcoatl on the Temple Mayor, the main
temple in Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. Aztec society was one of the most demonic societies in
history. In traditional Christianity the serpent is associated with Satan, which seems totally appropriate
for an Aztec god like Quetzalcoatl.
The “Kiosko” at Chicano Park was constructed in the style of the Templo Mayor.
14. Kiosko - Styled after the Aztecs main temple for human sacrifice
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In an article signed by José-Vasconcelos in the Timón magazine (No. 16, June 8, [940] under the title “La
Intelligencia se impone” (Intelligence is imposed), he asserts the following:
"Hitler, although he has absolute power, is a thousand leagues from Caesar-ism. The force does
not come to Hitler from the barracks, but from the book that inspired his brilliance. Hitler does
not owe his power to the troops, not to the battalions, but to his own speeches ... Hitler
represents, in short, an idea, the German idea, so often humiliated in the past by the militarism
of the French, the perfidy of the English. Against Hitler, it is true, they are fighting "Democracies"
governed by civilians. But they are democracies only in name. "
In "Facing Destiny" (Editorial, No. 14, May 25, 1940), the magazine states:
"What is appearing obvious, even for the stubborn, is Germany's triumph over their rivals and
the historic change that consequently is going to take place in the world ... But we will win with
the German victory! And not because we believe that. Germany is going to become champion of
Latin America. It is the law of history that each people conquer their own freedom ... And now we
in Spanish America think that an inspired nation always manages to take advantage of the great
historical changes in benefit of its future ... »
«On the occasion of the recent birthday of Adolf Hitler, Minister Ribbentrop declared that the
German president is the greatest man that the centuries have produced. There is no
exaggeration in what the Ministry of Reich Relations affirmed ... Like the Germans, the French,
the English, the Belgians, the Scandinavians, the Americans, etc., they will have to recognize the
greatness of Hitler, not limited to the German people, but displaced towards all men who walk
on the rugged and painful territories of civilization ... True greatness is in the directors of men,
and Hitler is the greatest of them all. Ribbentrop is right ... »
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This photo is Chicano graffiti at the Chicano Park site a year before the takeover by Chicano fanatics. It is
taken from a San Diego historical Facebook page, Vintage San Diego. Note the historically-standard Nazi
swastikas next to the “Chicano Power” slogan. The Chicano Park artists just used a modified version of
the Nazi swastika, in order to allow them to deny the parallels to Nazism in the subversive ultra
nationalist message that they display in the murals at Chicano Park. Note the more accurately
represented Nazi swastikas next to the “Chicano Power” slogan. The photo is from the Facebook page,
Vintage San Diego.
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UFW Nazi-like flag -This is a comparison of the designs of a famous Nazi battle flag and the original flag
of the United Farm Workers, which was the organization of one of the Chicano Founders Cesar Chavez.
Both flags have a white circle in a field of red with a nationalist symbol within the white circle. The
United Farm Workers flag was reportedly design by the brother of Cesar Chavez, Richard Chavez. The
design was changed later probably due to some recognizing the similarity of the designs.
The Chicanos will say that the eagle in the UFW flag is the Mexican eagle. However, the design is much
more similar to a typical Nazi eagle (left) than to a typical Mexican eagle (right), as you can see below.
Which eagle do you think was the inspiration for the UFW flag?
How can Nazi-like ultra nationalism and Communism be allies? – Marx wrote in the communist
manifesto that, “In short the communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the
existing social and political order of things.” A movement that has a racial concept much like a reverse
version of Nazism can be allied with leftists as long as it is against the existing system. In neo-Marxist
political jargon it can just be called a national liberation movement. For this reason the far left and
Chicanos can have an alliance of convenience, even though Chicano-ism/La Raza appear to have adapted
some of their racial concepts from the Nazi ideology or in parallel to Nazi ideology.
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Pseudo-Indigenous Identity
Cuauhtemoc Mural – Cuauhtemoc
was the Aztec chief that resisted
Cortez after the death of
Moctezuma. He was the nephew of
Moctezuma. Moctezuma is held in
Mexico as being a traitor to the
Aztecs, because he did not resist the
Spanish conquest. Cuauhtemoc is
considered to have saved the honor
of the Aztecs, because he did resist.
The supporters of Chicano Park are
obsessed with the idea that they are
the indigenous heirs of the Aztecs
and indigenous peoples in General.
The Aztecs were a tribe that was
26. Cuauhtemoc, Aztec warrior, who fought against Spanish conquistadors.
destroyed almost 500 years ago.
Few, if any, of the supporters can
prove they have any significant Aztec heritage. Indigenous people are those who still live in their
ancestral land and for who there is some continuity with the original people. Chicanos are using these
terms in a very loose manner.
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There are questions about the origins of the racialist La Raza, the
relationship to Nazism and why do Chicanos use the swastika at the
Chicano Park. The Swastika, mentioned above was an occult
symbol used by mystics, who preceded the Nazi movement and
predicted the coming of a German messiah. At Chicano Park, a
slightly different swastika is being used in the same way. 30. Madame Helena Blavatsky, founder
of Theosophical Society
The swastika is an ancient symbol, which was re-introduced and
made popular in modern times by the infamous Madam Helen Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical
Society in the late 1800’s. She used the swastika in the logo for the Theosophical Society. The
Theosophists were a gnostic occult group, related to Freemasonry.
Madam Blavatsky introduced a theory of the seven root races. She taught that the highest existing race,
the fifth race, is the Aryan race. It is clear in his book, La Raza Cosmica that Jose Vasconcelos was
familiar with the teachings of Theosophy.
Vasconcelos developed a similar racial theory for the Hispanic Mestizo race, the idea of “La Raza”, which
is evident in the murals at Chicano Park. His book “La Raza Cosmica” was published in 1925 at about the
same time the Nazi racial ideology was being developed. Such racial theories, based on social
Darwinism were widespread in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
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It is interesting to note that around 1900 the world headquarters of the Theosophical Society moved
from New York to Point Loma in San Diego after Blavatsky died. A number of prominent San Diegans
belonged to the Theosophical Society. The new head of the group was Madame Tingley. Theosophy
was the first “new age” cult in California, which spawned many others. The La Raza concept was not
developed in San Diego, but the presence of the Theosophical Society in San Diego may have created
some lasting interest for such racial mysticism in San Diego.
The campus is located where the Nazarene College is now located and some of their original buildings
are still there. The military closed down the site on Point Loma as WWII approached due to the
apparent connections between Theosophy and Nazism. The school has no connection to Theosophy.
The land has changed owners a couple of times over the years since it belonged to the Theosophists.
The park as held to be sacred as the first part of Aztlan to have been separated from America. A couple
of Chicano heroes have had their ashes interred in the park, which is illegal without permission form the
proper authorities. The interment of their dead here also promotes the idea that it is sacred ground.
The dances that the neo-pagan Aztec dancers are said to be sacred a kind of prayer to their ancestors.
The prayers to their ancestors might be suspected to be a call to “restore” Aztlan.
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Nuestra Tierra Sagrada Mural – The translation of the title, “Nuestra Tierra Sagrada, Chicano Parque” is
“Our sacred land, Chicano Park”. The figure in the mural holds a map that insinuates that their land is
what is now the western United States and also show Florida and being a part of this. Florida was
originally claimed by Spain and Chicanos can extend their claim to Spanish land to Florida. This claim is
more ambitious than in most maps of Aztlan that are found in the park. The Park is not “sacred” in a
traditional Christian sense, even though they the local, radical, liberationist, Catholic priest has called it
that. The park is “sacred” only in the cult, quasi-religious, occult sense of the Chicanos, who control the
park. City officials say that they control the park, but that is not true. The Chicano Park Steering
Committee was started by the original occupiers of the park. They have always controlled the park via
their paramilitary Brown Berets and their allies on the far left. The Steering Committee is not appointed
by the City or any other official authority. They are self-appointed and not accountable to anyone.
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Revolutionary Murals
The Mexican mural movement began when the
Mexican government tasked Jose Vasconcelos the
minister of education to produce murals on public
buildings that would illustrate the principles and
history of the Mexican revolution. Vasconcelos
commissioned the first murals. For that he is often
called the father of the Mexican mural movement.
He did not paint murals, but he made it possible for
artist, like Diego Rivera to paint murals on public
buildings.
It is illegal for reasons of health and other reasons to spread the 37. Zapata statue
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Mock Hanging of President Trump - In March of 2018, during his visit to see the wall prototypes, they
held a mock hanging of President Trump in Chicano Park, with Congressman Juan Vargas and other, local
Democratic politicians present. Congressman Vargas bellowed repeatedly that Trump was not welcome
in San Diego. In the photo of the mock hanging, Trump is holding a sign that reads, “My name is Judas.”
Incitement of action against Trump and Law enforcement - On April 22, 2016, a Chicano Park Steering
Committee member, David Rico, gave a ranting speech before several thousand people at Chicano Park
Day. He said they needed to meet to plan a response to Trump’s visit to San Diego and also to the San
Diego Police and the Border Patrol, who are “killing us,” he said.
During Trump’s campaign visit, hundreds of protesters marched from Chicano Park to the Convention
Center, where Trump was speaking and the police guarding the entrance to the Convention Center were
violently assaulted in an attempt to shut down Trump’s campaign speech. A couple months later on July
29, 2016, two policeman were shot and one killed not far from Chicano Park. These events cannot be
connected directly, but it makes an interesting chronology of events, knowing David Ricco’s history of
political militancy and criminality. Whether connected or not, it is outrageous to have such a man on
the Steering Committee of a publicly funded park with a revolutionary theme calling for “action” against
Trump and law enforcement. David Rico is a convicted felon, who tried to incite a violent revolutionary
uprising the year the park was seized.
Rico was one of the original occupiers of Chicano Park. In the book “Do It Up Brown!” by Patty Newman
it is stated that a few months after the Park takeover in 1970, Rico was indicted by a grand jury along
with two other Brown Berets, Carlos Calderon and Richard Gonsalves for distributing bombs, soliciting
murder and plotting the overthrow of the U.S. Government.
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44. David Rico indicted for plotting violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
All three of these Brown Berets were convicted of distributing bombs and criminal syndicalism. The
leader of the group, Carlos Calderon was convicted of soliciting murder, also. The statement below is
taken from the archived file of court case number CR22236 attributed to Carlos Calderon, and presented
as evidence of their motivation in court.
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Below is another excerpt of evidence produced at the trial of the Brown Berets. “Carneles” is slang,
meaning “brother”. This was and ad placed in “El Barrio”, an insert placed in the underground
newspaper, “Street Journal”. The newspaper had a circulation in 1970 of several thousand people in
Barrio Logan and surrounding area of San Diego.
The recipes they are referring to were for making Molotov cocktails and other weapons that would be
useful for an uprising. The immediate use for the firebombs was to attack San Diego City College, where
there was a dispute with the administration over the disciplining of some students.
Some of the planning meetings were held, ironically, in Our Lady or Angels, the neighborhood Catholic
Church. This church is to this day a supporter of the park and militant Chicano politics.
This was a time of the Chicano Moratorium was taking place in Los Angeles with much rioting and fire-
bombings of buildings. The three Brown Berets were planning ultimately to incite a violent,
revolutionary uprising, also, in San Diego, with a goal of liberating Aztlan, the American Southwest.
Click these links for video of the extremist activities that the park attracts.
The attraction that the park has for anti-Americans of all kinds, communists, radical Chicanos,
anarchists, etc. is due to the political nature of the park, which ironically has been supported for almost
five decades by tax funds from city, state and federal government. The Obama administration granted
$1.6M for the restoration of many of the murals just before the 2004 election.
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Conclusions
The revolutionary politics is not just presented in the murals as history, but is still promoted to the
public via the murals and political activities in the park, inspired by the radical theme of the Park, while
being supported by tax money.
The Chicano political movement had its heyday in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Chicano groups still exist, but
are a part of a larger “La Raza” movement. The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is the umbrella
organization for Chicano and “La Raza” organizations. In the summer of 2017, NCLR changes is name to
the UnidosUS. The name change appears to have been caused by the growing realization that it really
does mean “the Race” and not “the People” as pro-Raza propagandists have claimed for many years.
Chicanos are a social class, not an ethnic group. There is no “Chicanolandia”, from which they
come. Militant Chicanos should not be taken as representative of all Mexicans or all Mexican-
Americans. Historically, Chicanos are a class of disaffected people, who don't feel accepted, either as
Americans or as Mexicans. This creates feelings of inferiority and resentment. Supremacy movements
tend to grow out of such feelings if historic oppression, but that does not justify them.
David Rico can be seen as one crackpot, who doesn’t represent everyone who support the park.
However, the fact that he has been on the Steering Committee for probably decades just shows that the
people who run the park embrace him as an example to follow.
In any case, the Steering Committee is a self-appointed group, which is not accountable to anyone. They
essentially control the park by means of intimidation, either political or often physical intimidation. The
San Diego parks and recreation manage states adamantly that the city controls the park, but they really
do not. The City should appoint a steering committee and finally assert control over the park.
The teaching and support of anti-American, revolutionary, political militancy should not be charged to
the taxpayers. The support of Chicano Park benefits the political Left, that is, the Democrat party. The
park is not being administrated in a way that conforms to the law. The Chicanos often say it is their
land, as the first part of Aztlan to be conquered and the San Diego City government has essentially
ceded it to them. They should remove the most offensive murals and disband the current extremist
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Chicano Park Steering Committee. If this is not possible they should cut off all funding to maintain the
park.
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Bibliography
1. Brown-eyed Children of the Sun by George Mariscal
2. Chicano Manifesto, Armando Rendon
3. Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century, David Montejano
4. Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Governments War on Dissent, Ernesto B. Vigil
5. Do It Up Brown, Patty Newman
6. Grito! Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967, Richard Gardner
7. Jose Vasconcelos – The Nazi Propagandist Behind La Raza Nationalism
8. King Tiger: The Religious Vision of Reies Lopez Tijerina, Rudy V. Busto
9. La Raza Cosmica, José Vasconcelos
10. Little Cesar, Ralph de Toledano
11. Los Nazis en Mexico (2007), Juan Alberto Cedillo
12. Lost Lands Forgotten Realms, Bob Curran
13. A Nazi Fifth Column and Communist Allies are Active in Mexico, Life Magazine, June 10, 1940
14. Made in Aztlan, Centro Cultural de La Raza, San Diego
15. Making of a Chicano Militant, Jose Angel Gutierrez
16. Message to Aztlan, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
17. Mexican Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan, Armando Navarro
18. Mi Lucha por la Tierra, Reies López Tijerina
19. North from Mexico, Carey McWilliams
20. Ese olvidado nazi mexicano de nombre José Vasconcelos, coincidencias y divergencias
21. Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness, Warren C. Carroll
22. El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan adopted at the first National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in
Denver, Colorado, March 1969.
23. La Revista “Timón” y la colaboración Nazi de José Vasconcelos, Centro Virtual Cervantes website.
24. Sal, Si Peudes: Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution, Peter Matthiessen
25. San Diego archived court records, case number 22236
26. Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid by Peter Nabokov
27. They Called Me King Tiger, Jose Angel Gutierrez
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In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the
brutal "gringo" invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land
of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the
determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our
responsibility, and our inevitable destiny.
We are free and sovereign to determine those tasks which are justly called for by our house, our land,
the sweat of our brows, and by our hearts. Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the
fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. We do not recognize capricious frontiers
on the bronze continent.
Brotherhood unites us, and love for our brothers makes us a people whose time has come and who
struggles against the foreigner "gabacho" who exploits our riches and destroys our culture. With our
heart in our hands and our hands in the soil, we declare the independence of our mestizo nation. We
are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our
brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan.
(Translation: “For the Race everything. Outside the Race Nothing.” This motto is similar to one used by
the Italian Fascists, For the state everything, outside the state nothing.)
Program
El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan sets the theme that the Chicanos (La Raza de Bronze) must use their
nationalism as the key or common denominator for mass mobilization and organization. Once we are
committed to the idea and philosophy of El Plan de Aztlan, we can only conclude that social, economic,
cultural, and political independence is the only road to total liberation from oppression, exploitation,
and racism. Our struggle then must be for the control of our barrios, campos, pueblos, lands, our
economy, our culture, and our political life. El Plan commits all levels of Chicano society - the barrio, the
campo, the ranchero, the writer, the teacher, the worker, the professional - to La Causa.
Nationalism
Nationalism as the key to organization transcends all religious, political, class, and economic factions or
boundaries. Nationalism is the common denominator that all members of La Raza can agree upon.
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Organizational Goals
1. UNITY in the thinking of our people concerning the barrios, the pueblo, the campo, the land, the
poor, the middle class, the professional -all committed to the liberation of La Raza.
2. ECONOMY: economic control of our lives and our communities can only come about by driving the
exploiter out of our communities, ourpueblos, and our lands and by controlling and developing our own
talents, sweat, and resources. Cultural background and values which ignore materialism and embrace
humanism will contribute to the act of cooperative buying and the distribution of resources and
production to sustain an economic base for healthy growth and development Lands rightfully ours will
be fought for and defended. Land and realty ownership will be acquired by the community for the
people's welfare. Economic ties of responsibility must be secured by nationalism and the Chicano
defense units.
3. EDUCATION: must be relative to our people, i.e., history, culture, bilingual education, contributions,
etc. Community control of our schools, our teachers, our administrators, our counselors, and our
programs.
4. INSTITUTIONS: shall serve our people by providing the service necessary for a full life and their
welfare on the basis of restitution, not handouts or beggar's crumbs. Restitution for past economic
slavery, political exploitation, ethnic and cultural psychological destruction and denial of civil and human
rights. Institutions in our community which do not serve the people have no place in the community.
The institutions belong to the people.
5. SELF-DEFENSE: of the community must rely on the combined strength of the people. The front line
defense will come from the barrios, the campos, the pueblos, and the ranchitos. Their involvement as
protectors of their people will be given respect and dignity. They in turn offer their responsibility and
their lives for their people. Those who place themselves in the front ranks for their people do so out of
love and carnalismo (La Raza brotherhood). Those institutions which are fattened by our brothers to
provide employment and political pork barrels for the gringo will do so only as acts of liberation and for
La Causa. For the very young there will no longer be acts of juvenile delinquency, but revolutionary acts.
6. CULTURAL values of our people strengthen our identity and the moral backbone of the movement.
Our culture unites and educates the family of La Raza towards liberation with one heart and one mind.
We must insure that our writers, poets, musicians, and artists produce literature and art that is
appealing to our people and relates to our revolutionary culture. Our cultural values of life, family, and
home will serve as a powerful weapon to defeat the gringo dollar value system and encourage the
process of love and brotherhood.
7. POLITICAL LIBERATION can only come through independent action on our part, since the two-party
system is the same animal with two heads that feed from the same trough. Where we are a majority, we
will control; where we are a minority, we will represent a pressure group; nationally, we will represent
one party: La Familia de La Raza!
Action
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2. September 16, on the birthdate of Mexican Independence, a national walk-out by all Chicanos of all
colleges and schools to be sustained until the complete revision of the educational system: its policy
makers, administration, its curriculum, and its personnel to meet the needs of our community.
3. Self-Defense against the occupying forces of the oppressors at every school, every available man,
woman, and child.
5. Economic program to drive the exploiter out of our community and a welding together of our
people's combined resources to control their own production through cooperative effort.
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