REIES LOPEZ TIJERINA


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Reies Lopez Tijerina

Now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States.
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I believe the origins of the Anglo psychopathy began when the English were excluded from the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed June 7, 1494, between Spain and Portugal. The treaty was brokered by the Pope. It was at this time that the Anglo not only rejected the legitimate body of the era, but also the religion that went against them. The Anglo, without respect for authority and religion, and to get back into the colonization game, legalized piracy. They had to operate outside the law to become the law. Over the last 480 years, the Anglo complex of psychopathy has worsened. His conscience tortures him, and his thinking grows demented for having violated his own religion, his own law, and humanity
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This is a very interesting historical and psychological hypothesis, but it is supported by very few especially English and Anglo Americans. They find it absurd that they would ever feel guilty and lawless for not following a treaty between two enemies—Spain and Portugal and formalized by the Pope whose authority they had rejected. What Lopez Tijerina refers to as “piracy” was privateering which most countries engaged in with no guilt whatsoever. There is guilt for the Anglo discrimination against the Hispanics of the new world on the part of many Anglos but it is for their past discriminatory behavior not for opposing the Spanish or the Catholic countries.

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I am not for separatism from the United States. My motto is justice but not independence from or revolution against the United States.
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Reies Lopez Tijerina
Reies Lopez Tijerina
  • Born: September 21, 1926
  • Died: January 19, 2015
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Reies Lopez Tijerina, was an activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. As a vocal spokesman for the rights of Hispanos and Mexican Americans, he became a major figure of the early Chicano Movement (although he preferred "Indohispano" as a name for his people) and founded the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. As an activist, he worked in community education and organization, media relations, and land reclamations. He became famous and infamous internationally for his 1967 armed raid on the Tierra Amarilla courthouse.