Who Said Irony Is Dead?

Tell me it's not just me. Is this woman's choice of signs deeply weird, or what?

In Houston, Leslie Wetzel, a director of U.S. Border Watch, was one of two anti-immigration protesters outside the office of Senator John Cornyn, a Republican. She carried signs that said, "Remember the Alamo" and "Come and Take It."

In response, Ms. Wetzel said, advocates for immigrants pushed bullhorns in her face and tried otherwise to intimidate her.

"They should all be put on a bus and deported," she said. "If you're illegal, you're out of here. Period. It's not a racist thing. It's a question of law and order. Either we're a nation of law, or we're going to be a nation of anarchy." [NYT 2 May 2006]

Let's pass over the whole "come and take it" thing - what, she was so impressed by Bush's "Bring it on!" shtick that she didn't notice how well it played in the audience? But, that's not the really weird part.

I'm trying to reconcile the Alamo with "a nation of law"... but it's not happening. Especially given the essentially lawless takeover of Texas by Americans who immigrated to Mexico and then seized control of the area when the Mexican government passed laws they didn't like (one of which was, by the way, an anti-slavery law).

Like I said, deeply weird.