August 27, 2003
Hispanic Gunman Kills 7 in Chicago; etc
If you’ve heard about the
Chicago Warehouse Shooting today, you should know
that the gunman was named Salvador Tapia, according to
the
New York Times and others, which means that the
headline in a Reuters story I found on South Africa’s
Independent Online web site,
American gunman kills six co-workers, may not be
correct.
It’s quite likely, (I’m
stereotyping, here) that a headline like
“Immigrant Gunman kills six (now seven)
Americans” would be more accurate.
If so, wouldn’t if be fun to see
reporters harassing the Mexican Consul the way they
usually
harass the NRA and the gun manufacturers after a
school shooting? Never happen, though.
Of course, I don’t know that Tapia
was an immigrant. It’s reported that he’d been arrested
at least a dozen times in Chicago in the past, which
would, in a sane world, would suggest that he’s a
native-born
undeportable American citizen.
Otherwise he would have been
deported, no?
That’s right,
no.
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Mexican Consuls and Capital Punishment
In September of last year, our
Allan Wall did a piece called
For Fox, Some Dead Mexicans More Equal Than Others,
detailing the hero’s funeral given to Javier Suarez
Medina, who was executed for killing a Texas police
officer, and the efforts made by El Presidente and his
diplomatic corps to exempt Mexicans in America from the
death penalty.
The “others,” not so important to
Senor Fox, are the Mexican and Mexican-American
victims of Mexican criminals in the Southwest.
One thing that immigrants are
fleeing is the corrupt, high-crime, unaccountable regime
in Mexico. And when they are fleeing to Texas, they are
fleeing to a state that promises to use the death
penalty to punish the murderers of its residents. They
are fleeing, in fact, to
civilization.
Mexican residents of Texas have
started to complain about the Consuls. They want to know why
Crime victims suffer as accused receive aid,” as the
Houston Chronicle put it recently,
“A thief stole a woman's purse and she screamed. Her
husband gave chase. The thief shot the husband, who fell
dead as his wife watched.
“Both the killer and the victim in that north Houston
shooting two summers ago were citizens of Mexico. Yet,
in the ensuing months, the Mexican Consulate here helped
the killer while doing nothing for the victim's family.
“‘Why does the government (of Mexico) help the
murderer and not me’" the widow, Marlen Sosa Velasquez,
22, asked recently. ‘I'm the victim.’”
A good question. The answer is
that the Mexican government opposes capital punishment
in principle, because they made themselves give it up in
1929, after horrors like
the execution of Father Pro.
Another story about recent story on
the same theme says that:
“Last
December, after prosecutors announced that they would
not seek the death penalty against Guerra, the Mexican
government issued two press releases boasting of its
role in keeping the accused killer off death row. Mexico
abolished capital punishment in 1929 and it works hard
to keep its citizens off death row.”
“Some
immigrant activists criticize Mexican consulate,”
Associated Press, Houston, August 25/2003
Why is it that in Texas, if you
commit murder, you can be executed, but in Mexico, you
can’t even be imprisoned for life? Because Texas is a
democracy - in which the citizens believe in, and
require justice.
In Mexico, the ruling class don’t
trust the government, and each other, with this kind of
power.
I don’t blame them.
Mexicans in the United State do
not have all the rights of American citizens. This
goes double if they’re illegal.
But they do have the right to
justice, and that means that their murderers should be
punished with the
same severity as if they were Americans killing
other Americans.
If Fox and his diplomatic stooges
ask why, President Bush should tell them: “It’s a
free country.”
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