NATIVO LOPEZ MENTORED BY...... DA DA!!! BERT CORONA!!!!

The People Versus Nativo Lopez


By: Lloyd Billingsley

FrontPageMagazine.com
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nativo Lopez, variously described as a “Latino activist” and “Hispanic activist,” has been charged with voter registration fraud. Missing from news reports is the back story, the alienation of professional ethnics from the people they claim to represent, and the failure of such radicals to deploy immigrants in anti-American causes.

Nativo Lopez, 57, is an old-line leftist and class warrior of unusual ferocity, in the mold of his mentor, Bert Corona, who left the University of Southern California to organize workers for the Communist Party USA, in which he stayed even through the Nazi-Soviet Pact. Corona defended the decidedly non-latino German Democratic Republic also known as East Germany, as a kind of workers’ paradise, despite its practice of gunning down workers who attempted to leave.

Lopez took on Corona’s militancy and shared his view that the country where millions of Mexicans had come to seek a living, and had prospered far beyond the prospects of their native land, and where they enjoyed not only liberty but many government benefits, was actually a factory of Anglo-capitalist oppression. The pair ran various divisions of the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, the group that registered illegals to vote in 1996, the year Loretta Sanchez defeated Robert Dornan by fewer than 1,000 votes. The California Department of Education gave Hermandad millions of dollars in adult education funds to which they had no claim, and even punished the whistleblowers who uncovered the fraud.

Nobody ever elected Nativo Lopez as part of any political vanguard, and he often found himself at odds with California voters. In 1986 those voters made English the official language of the Golden State by passing Proposition 63 by 73 percent, a landslide. Lopez ran to the barricades against it as an instrument of “Anglo” oppression. In 1994 Californians voted in Proposition 187 to curtail spending on illegal immigrants. Lopez was one of the loudest voices against the measure, since overturned. In 1998, California voters approved Proposition 227, which effectively banned bilingual education policies which were harming the academic achievement of low-income children. Here Nativo Lopez also proved a reactionary.

In 1997 he managed to secure a seat on the board of education in Santa Ana in southern California. His record in the post was not distinguished and he tried to thwart the will of the people by imposing discredited bilingual policies. The people had other ideas. In 2003, they voted to recall Nativo Lopez by a vote of 63 percent, in a city where hispanics, most of Mexican extraction, make up 90 percent of the voting population. Lopez blamed affluent residents who did not want “brown” children on their streets. His efforts to overturn the vote failed and Rob Richardson won election to replace Lopez on the school board.

Lopez went on to make amnesty for illegal immigrants his major concern. He threatened that illegals might shut down ports and rail lines if full amnesty were not forthcoming. He helped organize protests in 2006, when he told Lou Dobbs that using the term “illegal immigrant” was equivalent to various racial epithets. He also spearheaded a boycott in the Los Angeles area, and pushed for drivers licenses for illegals.

Lopez now comes billed as boss of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, likely to distance the organization from its troubled predecessor. He also serves as president of the Mexican American Political Association and enjoys a reputation as a “latino activist.” None of that prevented the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office with bringing charges of filing false documents, perjury and fraudulent voting. Now it really is The People versus Nativo Lopez, and if convicted he could receive an unpleasant change of address for a few years.

What will come of the charges is unclear, but they might indicate that voter fraud, as an issue, is finally getting the attention it deserves. Meanwhile, Nativo Lopez’ record confirms that militant rhetoric about “the people,” is usually at odds with the people themselves. Immigrants come to these shores for many reasons, but few seek to deploy themselves against American democracy at the behest of self-appointed professional ethnics like Nativo Lopez, who does show some ability to change.

In 2004 he switched his registration to the Green Party. Lopez told Socialist Worker that the Democratic party “is an unresponsive party to the needs of the majorities and is driven by white male millionaires and their political consultants, who only seek to impose their political will on the majorities (including white workers) – and only support those candidates of color who they can control and manipulate for their own economic interest.”

But Lopez remains at odds with some Green Party doctrine. As he told Socialist Worker, “I still covertly like cockfighting – an old Mexican tradition.”

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NOTE:  Somewhere in reading articles on Nativo, I came across his new trial date.... April 11, 2011.

NATIVO LOPEZ, THE HISPANIC AL SHARPTON

Evidently, Nativo or his followers are promoting this title for him, but I've been pulling up articles on him and reading some of the comments under the articles...  there's a "And the Rest of the Story" here.... most considered this the better title for him:  "Nativo Lopez, the Hispanic Al Sharpton Without the Credibility."  I don't think much of the original title either.  At any rate, here's an excerpt from an informative article on more than just Nativo Lopez, but it's long so I just took the part about him out to post.  Click on the link when you have time and read the full article.  It gives background info and motivations on some of California's politicians so the picture of why California is in the shape it's in becomes rather clear. -- Faye

Standing just behind Governor Davis at his signing ceremony – probably to pull his puppet strings – was another MEChA-like figure who ought to become better known to those White Americans now taking their last gasp.


This activist is Nativo Lopez, elected in July as President of MAPA, the Mexican American Political Association. Months before that he was head of the public school board in Santa Ana in California’s once-conservative Orange County south of Los Angeles. He also headed a radical Hispanic grievance organization called Hermandad Mexicana Nacional.

This ethnic demagogue has come to be widely known in Southern California as “the Hispanic Al Sharpton.”

Nativo Lopez believes that Spanish should be the language of California, the language of the future reconquista. After Californians passed Proposition 227 mandating, in effect, an end to bilingual education, Lopez did all in his power to undermine it. He lobbied parents to sign waivers so that their children could continue to be taught in Spanish, not English.

“A Santa Ana nonprofit has agreed to pay more than $600,000 to the U.S. Government to settle a case in which prosecutors alleged that Hermandad Mexicana Nacional leader Nativo Lopez wrongly diverted grant money meant for English classes for immigrants,” reported the local Orange County Register newspaper.

After voters passed a $145 million bond issue to build more schools for Santa Ana’s growing families, Nativo Lopez and a Hispanic fellow school board member insisted on managing the proposed construction themselves and personally screening every prospective architectural firm. While they dithered, legal deadlines were missed that cost taxpayers many millions of dollars.

“Lopez and others,” reports Steven Greenhut in the Orange County Register, “were soliciting the architectural firms for campaign contributions at the same time he was screening the contract applicants.”

In Santa Ana almost three-quarters of the residents speak Spanish at home. But most Hispanic parents want their children to enjoy the path to success that in American opens with speaking English. Many resented Lopez’s high-handed efforts to keep their children in Spanish-only ghettos. Others were infuriated by Lopez’s incompetence and appearance of corruption.

Families in this mostly Hispanic community launched a recall petition against Nativo Lopez, not unlike the petition to recall Gray Davis.

“Lopez responded to the recall effort in a way worthy of a caudillo in a Latin American state,” wrote the Orange County Register’s Steven Greenhut. “His followers harassed those collecting signatures for the petition.”

When this failed to stop the petition from gathering enough recall signatures, Greenhut continues, “Rather than put the measure on the ballot, the school board dominated by Lopez allies…voted to spend $30,000 to hire a consultant who will call a sampling of people who signed the recall petition and ask them if they really knew what they were doing when they signed it. ‘Imagine the possibilities for intimidation,’ said Ron Unz, the co-author of the 1998 initiative, Proposition 227….’Hey, did you really mean to sign this petitition? Didn’t you really mean to support our good friend Nativo?”

Despite such thug-like threatening tactics, notes John Fund of the Wall Street Journal, Nativo Lopez “was recalled by a resounding 71% vote. He lost every precinct” in this largely-Hispanic city.

But Lopez did have one powerful supporter who traveled all the way from Sacramento to fight against his recall. That friend was Cruz Bustamante, Lt. Governor of the State of California, whose MEChA background as a Hispanic racist was documented in this column.

And days ago this same Nativo Lopez stood behind Gray Davis as the Governor with his pen effectively erased the border separating the United States from Mexico. No wonder Davis wanted no non-Hispanic media to record his moment of shame and betrayal.


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MAPA Prez Nativo Lopez: Trial or Mental Competency Court?

(Or maybe better entitled.... "Bring on the Clown..." -- Faye)

Opinion by Denise A Justin


(August 10, 2010) in Society / Animal Rights

Nativo Lopez, Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) National President, appeared on August 6, 2010, in Los Angeles Superior Court Dept. 123, for a hearing regarding his mental competency to stand trial, based upon the opinions of two court-appointed psychiatrists.

Judge Patricia Schnegg had ordered the examinations to establish (1) whether Lopez is capable of understanding the nature of the charges against him and (2) capable of cooperating with counsel during a trial on eight felony charges related to voter fraud. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/nativo-lopez-indicted-by-grand-jury-jailed

Lopez, represented by Public Defender John Powers, refused to identify himself, as he has done repeatedly at prior hearings. Judge Schnegg informed him that the report by one of the psychiatrists had not been received, and she would grant him the option of agreeing to re-examination by the same doctor, with the requirement that he provide valid identification at that time.

As Lopez defiantly launched into his well-memorized tirade on “conditional acceptance,” the Judge advised him that his failure to agree could result in the court immediately ordering him to a state mental facility, based on the one psychiatrist’s determination that he is mentally incompetent. That jogged Nativo’s memory sufficiently to agree to the second appointment. Judge Schnegg set the next hearing for September 20, 2010, in Dept. 123.

A handful of supporters appeared in court and after the hearing surrounded Lopez in the hallway, where he described in Spanish with great clarity what had just occurred. It appeared that his competency to understand the proceedings were unimpaired at this particular time, as he eagerly answered questions and elucidated on details.

Nativo Lopez was previously sent to Dept. 95, Mental Competency Court, where he was found by the examining psychiatrist to be mentally competent after spending one night in jail for refusing to identify himself to Judge Maria Stratton. In this second determination, the prosecution and defense were each allowed to select one psychiatrist to examine him. Should the doctors differ in their findings, the standard resolution would be for the judge to hold a hearing and make the final determination.

Lopez has been the center of many public controversies and investigations. Among the most notable were claims that he misused funds granted by the CA Department of Education for English classes for immigrant students. As a result, he was recalled from the Santa Ana School Board by an overwhelming 71% of the mainly Latino voters of the district. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/nativo-lopez-does-he-speak-for-mapa-and-mexican-americans

Nativo’s current legal problems result from allegations that he registered to vote from the Boyle Heights office address of his Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana organization while still living in Orange County, allegedly to serve on the Board of the Green Party.

Lopez’s activities have also included advocacy for cockfighting, which he contends is a Mexican cultural tradition and an intrinsic part of the Latino economy. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/cockfighting-a-serious-crime-or-legitimate-sport

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/mapa-prez-nativo-lopez-trial-or-mental-competency-court

Nativo Lopez Slammed by Court For Calling Frozen Food Company "Racist"

Nativo Lopez
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Nativo Lopez, Orange County's most controversial political activist, helped organize a 2009 protest against a Southern California frozen food company and distributed leaflets branding the business a "racist employer" because it fired almost 300 warehouse workers who'd provided fake Social Security numbers to get their jobs.

To Lopez, the mass firings by Overhill Farms, Inc. of Vernon weren't just racist but illegal and a trick to employ other workers at lower costs. He said in leaflets that the company was "an abusive and racist employer" that "discriminates against Latinos" and practices exploitation on par with "modern slavery." Lopez, the director of Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, also organized a boycott of Panda Express, which is an Overhill Farm's client.

The company sued saying that Lopez's boycotts and leaflets were based on blatant lies, and won on several points in a district court.

But Lopez appealed, arguing that his cries of racism were protected speech.

On Monday, a California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana considered and rejected his claims. In a 28-page opinion written by Justice William Bedsworth and in accord with Justice William Rylaarsdam, the court ruled that Lopez should have known his claims of racism were unfair because he'd been informed that the company only fired the workers after it had been ordered to do so by the IRS, which had discovered the fake Social Security number scam. Lopez, the justices determined, had made his "racist firing claim sound far more credible than it actually is" by giving "materially incomplete and misleading" information to the public.

The third justice on the appellate panel, Richard D. Fybel, dissented in part.

Nativo Lopez can't escape legal woes.

​"My colleagues in the majority have incorrectly made this court the first state or federal appellate court in America, ever, to hold that the epithet 'racist' constitutes a provably false assertion of fact as the basis of a claim of defamation," Fybel wrote.

He also argued that while he agrees "the employees' claims might not be persuasive . . . that does not make them defamatory."

Wrote Fybel, "To illustrate this point, would it be actionable if the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, Fox News, or MSNBC complained that actions by anyone were 'racist' or 'discriminatory'? Of course not. Employees complaining about their employer enjoy the same protection."

Based on the 2-1 decision, Lopez and the other defendants must pay the appeal expenses for Overhill Farms. But his troubles are worse in Los Angeles, where prosecutors have charged him with eight felony counts for an alleged voter fraud scheme. According to the Register's Martin Wisckol, Lopez--who has battled Fox's Bill O'Reilly on immigration issues and was recalled as a Santa Ana school board official in 2003 after championing bilingual education--will undergo a mental health hearing later this month.

Lopez, a feisty fellow who doesn't back down from fights and compares himself to Gandhi, has enjoyed a rocky public image since the mid 1990s. After losing his congressional seat in 1996 to Loretta Sanchez, Robert K. Dornan accused Lopez of stealing the narrow election with illegal immigrant voters in Santa Ana. The Orange County District Attorney's office as well as the state attorney general (both Republicans like Dornan) investigated but couldn't find evidence of Dornan's assertions. (See Bob Dornon Election Info - Faye)  Most of the people who Lopez encouraged to vote had already been approved for citizenship by federal officials and were awaiting a formal swearing-in ceremony.

--R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly

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