Tancredo's Minutemen posse a lynch-mob, too?
| By Alan Franklin - Apr 21st, 2006 at 1:10 pm EDT |
Tom Tancredo's Minutemen, cleverly-worded death threats against an African-American legislator, absolutely nothing surprising. After all, what did haters do before they had Mexicans?
"Lynching" e-mail probed
Understatement of the year so far...
"Lynching" e-mail probed
A black Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that he has turned over an e-mail that supports his lynching to the State Patrol for investigation.
Democratic Rep. Terrance Carroll of Denver said the e-mail was sent to him in response to a joke he made suggesting the state build a wall around its borders to keep out the Minutemen, armed citizens who patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico.
"You are SOOOO lucky lynching and firing squad for treason aren't available punishments, anymore," the e-mail read. "I'd vote you in, in a heartbeat."
Carroll said the e-mail, sent Wednesday, was "not acceptable political discourse."
Understatement of the year so far...
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The common punishment for treason *was* hanging.
Perhaps more is made to connect the race of the congressman and less to do with his lack of support for the US Constitution which reads:
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Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
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With over 20 million ILLEGAL immigrants, the cost of the invasion are staggering:
The first study of the net cost of illegal immigration to American taxpayers was conducted in 1997 by Dr. Donald Huddle, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rice University. That study concluded that from 1970 to 1997, illegal immigration had cost taxpayers over $69 billion.
The paradox of course is that liberal/democrats want to protect the rights of workers who benefit the "Big Businesses" associated with conservative/republicans.
What a relief that I'm white.
(2) Donald Huddle's UNPUBLISHED work has been thoroughly debunked as unscientific and was never submitted for scholarly peer-review. See this decidedly NOT liberal Cato Institute publication>> Link
(3) Rep. Carroll's remarks are not treasonous by Constitutional definition. Here you're just making an ass of yourself.
(4) Threatening an individual with vigilante-style lynching is egregious and unAmerican. I seriously doubt that AG Alberto Gonzales himself wrote the email to Rep. Carroll charging him with treason while helpfully outlining the potential post-sentencing remedies.
(5) Conflating domestic anti-terrorism measures via land border control with failed US foreign, trade and economic policies that create mass migration of foreign-born workers is simple-minded and rife with racism. Packin' a pistol on the El Paso border doesn't affect the World Bank/IMF's decisions to loot emerging nation's industrial economies that forces extensive unemployment among low-skilled workers to make a Faustian bargain of starve to death at home or risk getting shot by a fear-fueled yahoo on the border in order to find back-breaking work for slave wages.
(6) Speaking of treason, when do you suppose Bush and Cheney will be brought up on charges of outing a CIA operative, endangering foreign intelligence operations, and lying their way into the Iraq War?
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Agreed........
But, when the DNC does background checks on "gun boat" captains and threatens litagation to silence them when they're saying something against a democratic candidate for President---that *is* "American"
Again, the "lynching" is the wrong focus and an attempt to emotionalize the real argument while using newspeak to detract from the central argument.
{2} 20 Million illegal immigrants is now considered a "conservative" estimate. You're probably not counting the "undocumented workers"