Why is everyone so afraid of May 1st?
350466
AFRAID??? Why Should WE Be Afraid???\n\nWE Cant Get Deported, \nBut YOU WILL Be Deported\nOne Way Or Another\n\nHasta La Vista Baybee
552223
thank you very much! i hate how everyone gets all excited about it too. and then people wonder why this country is going down the pee hole...
429865
I'm am definitely taking off may 1st!\nAnd my aunt who owns a large grocery store, a restaurant, and a wholesale distribution warehouse is closing all her businesses for that day!!!she's very wealthy, and she's supporting it alot! I think alot of employers are going to be out boycotting!!! \nso,shake that off racists!\n\nAlot of the people on here leaving rude messages are just jealous because alot of the illegals work harder than them and they feel guilty and scared that harder working people are going to achieve more!\n\nlazy mentality!
368350
the first of may,definetely
730188
Im from England... HI there. lol\n\nIf someone said next thursday i would think they ment the 11th as the 4th would be this thursday.... but i would always ask to make sure.
1003832
Didn't ja see Independence day?\nThe govinment is shi.tting in it's briefs (or mebbe panties) cause they kno that the aliens are gonna come and whack and zap the cities.\n\nand i'm gonna tel my momma you spoilt my appetite by scaring me! so there!\nst
261262
The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!  And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be.  Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810.  And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. \n\nSo, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. \n\nThe French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas. \n\nUnder Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War. \n\nThe French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did. \n\nUnder the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  The Mexican Army was less stylish. \n\nGeneral Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks.  In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.  The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes. \n\nWhen the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away.  The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.  This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War. \n\nUnion forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City. \n\nIt might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862.  But who knows? \n\nIn gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces.  As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America. \n\nMexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans.  That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty.  There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.  VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!
8355
Shock. And what a wake up call! America had always felt it was safe and not a target. This put American's in panic mode. People felt much more vulnerable than they ever had. Yes, they supported the war after this.........but fear was rampant!
644636
I understand it to mean, don't be fooled by May's seemingly milder weather. Don't start going out without jackets etc. Many people get sick in May because of this, I know because I am from Ireland and the weather can be very deceiving. So basically don't take off your coat till June....
385669
why in the world do you think that any one would be "DUE"\nan attack in the US.???????
448820
Are we Afraid Hell NO ! You people want more than what we're giving you and the price of freedom isn't cheap. OUr poor fathers worked hard to make this Country work for business men like myself, and We are not going to set back and watch you destroy what we have in order to make you any happier here. you start at the bottom and work your way up or you can all go back to where you all came from. It's that easy There will be hell to pay the day they open the gates and just allow you free passage into this country, because I'm not alone on this one !!!
319554
I would guess that the reason is because the holiday was first called to celebrate the winning of the 8 hour day.  It was won by Americans, socialists, anarchists, unions, who fought for the right to not have to work to death in the way the capitalists wanted them to.  I would imagine the point they will make on May 1 this year is that our economy relies on the work of these workers, and that capitalists have brought them here to work in many cases and they have not given them even basic human rights, and that the politicians who are pimping out this issue for political gains might just get what they ask for, that is no immigrant labor.  It will show (to those educated enought to pay attention to the facts) just how much of our country is sustained by this labor and how equal people really are, and the basic communist principle that an injury to one is an injury to all, they will show you people griping about being born here, yadda yadda, just how much your job will be affected for ignoring your fellow workers.
464410
Well, I'm not actually having fun, I've just been awake for a short time, so am doing this while drinking my coffee for the wake-up process.\n\nYes, tomorrow is May 1st, seems like only yesterday it was March (or even New Years).  \n\nHave a good day, and don't worry so much.  :)
996459
It's "aren't people" -- FYI\nPeople are mostly kidding.  The date today is 6/6/06 - NOT 666 as in six hundred sixty-six.  No one said the world is going to end on 666 anyway.  It's a mark - not a date
599719
Its always between 27th May and 3rd June. Why? You didnt do well?
1055626
nope, its only an independence day for United States of America because on that day it got its independence. lolz. (thats obvious)\nHappy Early Independence Day to u. i cant wait until the fire works, man, it'll be so much fun.
468220
Well May 1st will be holiday.