MediaMatters – Steele tells Hannity: “If you go back and listen to that exchange, there was no attack on Rush” — A Big FAT Lie!
Among many other issues, the HATE rhetoric against African Americans and Latino immigrants, stand out as the primary causes of the GOP’s problems.
Those moderate Republicans who thought Michael Steele could help reel in African Americans and Latinos, into their imaginary BIG TENT, can kiss that wish goodbye and good night!
Brother Steele is clearly a wimp — and is totally incapable of taming and/or organizing the right-wing of the Republican Party. He will never effect any meaningful change in this party of THUGS, BIGOTS and RACIST NEO-NAZI EXTREMISTS.
Michael Steele is just another BLACK TOKEN — being used to provide an illusion of diversity. He missed an opportunity to assert himself two days ago, when he should have stood up to Limbaugh, and challenged him. That opportunity is irretrievably lost, and Mr. Steele is set to be a powerless figurehead …..a yo-yo to be kicked around like a dead football.
Sooner or later, he will resign or will be forced out.
All of them …. leaders of the GOP, have caved in to Limbaugh, the ANGRY WHITE CHRISTIAN MALE — and that will be FATAL.
Until the GOP fixes its archaic 1800′s attitude and RACIST practices and policies, I don’t see any SANE African Americans jumping ship.
As for Latinos, the now three year old Republican campaign of HATE and XENOPHOBIA, which has resulted in several LYNCHINGS, ……I think may have driven Hispanics, and for that matter, many other immigrant communities, away from the Republican Party for good.
Just before Obama took over, idiot Bush “took a final dump” on his already super-soiled legacy, by pardoning two “Hispanic Ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents,” who had been convicted of shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler.
The two men, Texas-based agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, were serving prison terms of 12 years and 11 years, respectively, after being found guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, defacing a crime scene and violating the smuggler’s rights.
Compean and Ramos shot admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled a van full of marijuana. They argued at trial that they thought Davila was armed and that they shot in self-defense, but the prosecutor said no evidence linked the van to Davila and that the agents didn’t report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.
They were fired after their convictions, and all charges but obstruction of justice were upheld on appeal.
One former Justice Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of criticizing president Bush, decried the commutations. “These men were totally unrepentant, there was obstruction of justice, they shot a man in the back. I am speechless. These are terrible clemency cases,” he said.
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I have said this before: Anybody who commits an act of theft (smuggling) of any kind belongs in jail. Similarly, anyone who takes the law into his own hands — and then shoots anyone, including smugglers, in the back, “for sport,” unprovoked or just because he/she thinks he/she can get away with it (with the aid of RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT public sentiment) — is a cold-blooded murderer, or in this case — a cold-blooded attempt to murder, followed by a cover-up.
Compean and Ramos belong in jail. These two “thugs in uniform” were sentenced to jail by a federal jury of their PEERS.
They thought that they are above the law, and therefore chose to shoot an un-armed man, who posed no threat to them — IN THE BACK!
But, that has not prevented the self-ordained independent “Populist Propagandist,” CNN(s) and America(s) modern day Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Lou Dobbs, from describing these two VIGILANTE THUGS as “outstanding Border Patrol agents.”
No they are NOT Mr. Dobbs, especially when we all know that a racist like you will pivot on anything… anything that gives you an opportunity to demonize immigrants, especially Hispanics. These two are just but vigilante bogeymen — a “useful” conduit through which right-wing extremists like Dobbs and his filthy cousins at Fox News — gleefully HIDE BEHIND while promote their agenda of hate against ALL immigrants.
By pardoning these two, Bush has emboldened the anti-immigrant movement — A movement of Racist White Americans (Mostly Republicans) whose sole aim — is to rid America of all Hispanics, Blacks and even non-Anglo whites, if the opportunity presents itself.
Numerous cases of vigilantism and racist attacks on immigrants go un-reported in the United States. Families of immigrants are being petrol bombed, threatened and killed by racist thugs. Immigrants(legal and “illegal”) are under siege, and are terrified all over this land.
By releasing these two, George W. Bush has proven one thing — When he initiated the immigration debate three years ago, it was not a heartfelt gesture, rather, it was a despicable political maneuver that ended up falling flat on its face.
| If I had some “Medicine” to make these SMELLY GOONS piss uncontrollably in their pants, I would apply it in overdose! |
AND HERE ARE THEIR MEDIA COUNTERPARTS
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References:
1.Nashville, Tennessee — Racist Nativists Fail in “English First” Referendum. — “The results of this special election reaffirms Nashville’s identity as a welcoming and friendly city, and our ability to come together as a community,” Mayor Karl Dean said in a news release. About 10 percent of Nashville’s nearly 600,000 people speak a language other than English in their homes, according to census data. The city is 5 percent Hispanic and home to the nation’s largest Kurdish community and refugees from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Levy has turned the local police into la migra — resulting in immigrants becoming the mute prey of criminals. Steve Levy, like Lou Dobbs of CNN, tolerates the poisonous notion that ‘illegal‘ is a stain that can never be erased, with no path to atonement, then you turn the undocumented into a permanent class of presumed criminals who have no rights. He is in complete dis-regard of the fact that undocumented immigrants are human beings, and do have rights. They have the right to be paid for their labor, to speak freely and to congregate in public places without fear. — New York Times Editorial
A New York Times Editorial
A Catastrophic Silence
Suffolk County executive - Steve Levy [Enlarge] The killing of Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, on Long Island this month brought with it a cruel blessing. From a shocking crime — an assault by a gang of boys accused of making a hobby of hunting Latinos — came a chance for a stricken, divided community to bind old wounds and to bury anger.
Instead, the moment is collapsing into the same old shouting. Advocates for immigrants are condemning the Suffolk County executive, Steve Levy, as somehow complicit in the killing for his rigid devotion to immigration enforcement. Mr. Levy is lashing back and trying to distribute blame fairly. He wonders, for example, how a gang out of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ could have run free for so long, firing BB’s and hateful slurs at random victims, jumping and punching them for sport.
Why, he asks, were their friends and acquaintances silent? It’s a fair question, but there is another silence Mr. Levy should focus on.
The silence that echoes most painfully is that of the Latino victims of these and other hidden crimes. Mr. Lucero’s death has set loose a flood of stories of abuse and harassment. A police precinct commander lost his job over his handling of two other attacks against Latino men that fatal day, an acknowledgment that in Suffolk, equal protection may not always apply to everyone.
Mourners Grieve for Slain Immigrant
Suffolk is not the only place with hate crimes or fearful immigrants. The same silence ruled in Postville, Iowa, where children worked brutal hours on a slaughterhouse killing floor. It hung over a factory in New Bedford, Mass., that systematically cheated workers of wages and the Louisiana shipyards where legal guest workers were held in modern-day indentured servitude.
The Racist ‘Republican’ Killers
Jeffrey Conroy, 17, foreground, and other teens arrested in a hate crime murder, are led out of the Fifth Precinct in Patchogue, N.Y., for arraignment on gang assault charges in connection with the death of a 37-year old immigrant. Police said the seven high school students looking “to beat up some Mexicans” attacked the immigrant from Ecuador who worked in a dry cleaners shop. According to police, Conroy fatally plunged a knife into the man’s chest him during the brawl.
The silence of undocumented immigrants is the catastrophic silence of people taught by legislative harassment and relentless stereotyping to live mute and afraid.
Mr. Levy sees no role for himself in this drama.
‘Since when is enforcing the law seen as something negative and inflammatory?’ he asked his critics this week.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has reported that the number of hate groups targeting Latinos and immigrants has increased over the the last four years.
The reasons are clear: The climate created by paramilitary raids that treat workers and families like criminals; the unconscionable spread by some politicians and media personalities of lies and distortions that dehumanize immigrants, and the growing climate of hate surrounding the immigration debate have proven to be ideal breeding ground for racism. — [ MORE HERE ]
References:
1.Grand Jury Indicts 7 Teens in Immigrant Killing — Seven teenagers learned Friday that they had been indicted in the fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant who police say was targeted because he was Hispanic, but they must wait to hear the specific charges.
4. Key Findings In New Report: Immigrants Contribute $10.6 Billion to Long Island — Long Island WINS released a new report yesterday entitled “Strengthening Long Island: The Economic Contributions of Immigrants to Nassau and Suffolk.”
5.News about Marcelo Lucero — including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
6. Related Content from NYDailyNews.com — Marcelo Lucero
7.Fear & Loathing in Prime Time: Immigration Myths and Cable News — “Number one, the illegal aliens shouldn’t be here. And number two, the culture from which they come is a lot more violent than the USA.” — The O’Reilly Factor, January 15, 2007
