New Border Fear: Militia Violence

[babylonsister]

New Border Fear: Militia Violence

Joshua Lott for The New York Times

The home in which Raul J. Flores and his 10-year-old daughter were killed last month in Arivaca, Ariz. The authorities arrested three members of what they describe as a rogue border patrol.

By JESSE McKINLEY and MALIA WOLLAN
Published: June 26, 2009


ARIVACA, Ariz. — “Somebody just came in and shot my daughter and my husband!” the woman shouted to the 911 dispatcher. “They’re coming back in! They’re coming back in!”

Multiple gunshots are then heard on a tape of the call.

The woman, Gina Gonzalez, survived the attack after arming herself with her husband’s handgun, but both he and their 10-year-old daughter died.

The killings, last month, have terrified this small town near the Mexican border, in part because the authorities have now tied them to what they describe as a rogue group engaged in citizen border patrols.

The three people arrested in the crime include the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a Washington State-based offshoot of the Minutemen movement, in which citizens roam the border looking for people crossing into the country illegally. Former members describe the group’s leader, Shawna Forde, 41, as having anti-immigrant sentiments that are extreme, at times frightening, even to people accustomed to hard-line views on border policing.

The authorities say that the three suspects were after money and drugs that they intended to use to finance vigilantism, and that members of the group may have been involved in at least one other home invasion, in California.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27arizona.html?ref=todayspaper

[annabanana]

1. Wacky Loners, all of them,

right?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Right.

Roving gangs of wacky loners.

[rucky]

3. Another hero terrorist group for the wingnuts.

I'm afraid this is going to get worse before it gets better.

[WCGreen]

8. Once it starts in ernest, it will never stop...

Welcome to Lou Dobbs America...

[UTUSN]

4. K&R #1 n/t

[backscatter712]

5. And people wonder why I keep guns...

Explicitly to protect against right-wing thugs.

I'll give up my Second Amendment rights when they give up theirs...

[Turbineguy]

6. These are the sorts of people

with whom Hitler's message resonated.

[madrchsod]

7. these are the same kind of people who worked in the death camps...