Armed Radical 'Minutemen' Kill Father and 9-Year-Old Daughter in Anti-Immigrant Hate
Right-wing hate groups are hijacking America's economic distress to push their lethal agendas.
Sally Kohn, Center for Community Change, in AlterNet
Brisenia Flores
A week after a white supremacist attacked the Holocaust Museum in Washington, and on the day three teenagers are being sentenced in Shenandoah, Pa., for brutally beating to death a Mexican immigrant, it's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence.
On May 30, 2009, a group of armed men and women killed 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father in Arivaca, Ariz. The vigilantes were Minutemen, members of a "civilian defense corps" that polices the U.S.-Mexico border for undocumented immigrants. When Jason Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Gaxiola, 42, allegedly busted down the front door of the Flores home and killed Raul Junior Flores and his daughter, and seriously injured Flores' wife, the armed gang was supposedly looking for drugs and cash to fund their anti-immigrant organization.
Related:
Right-Wing Violence Will Continue, And Fox News Will Have to Answer For It, Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Agitators like O'Reilly and Beck traffic in incendiary rhetoric and it's pretty obvious where it's leading to.
