No one seems to have noticed the irony. The two Montebello events define our national loss of sovereignty like a pair of matching bookends.

The Reconquista of Aztlan by hordes of law-breaking invaders across our southern border is being conducted with the complicity of our own politically liberal citizens. This loss of national sovereignty was highlighted on March 27, 2006 at Montebello High School in California during a student protest over immigration reform.

The resulting imagery of the American flag flying upside down underneath the Mexcan flag atop a US public high school fanned outrage across the United States. The picture became the icon for a groundswell of opposition to illegal immigration. Eventually, aroused public opinion led to the defeat of S. 1639, the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill” that would have given amnesty to as many as 20 million illegal aliens.

And today marks the beginning of a conference among US President Gerge Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The meeting is being held in Montebello, Quebec to discuss, among other issues, the formation of a North American Union from these three currently sovereign countries.

The Canadians are not all that happy about the potential loss of national self-determination either. It was necessary to surround the conference hall, a chateau no less, with cadres of police in full riot gear.

Cross-posted from ADMC