Gonzo's Beast

Gonzales may have resigned, but his legacy lives on:

(Sep 12, 2007) BIG CREEK, W.Va. - Inside a shed on a remote hillside of this coalfield community, authorities say a young black woman was tortured for days, sexually assaulted, beaten and forced to eat rat droppings.

Her captors, all of them white, choked her with a cable cord and stabbed her in the leg while calling her a racial slur, poured hot water over her and made her drink from a toilet, according to criminal complaints.

This is the beast that Bush, Cheney, Gonzo, Ashcroft, Yoo and their ilk have unloosed upon the land. And lest you think this is an isolated incident...

At one point, an assailant cut the woman's ankle with a knife and used the N-word in telling her she was victimized because she is black, authorities said.

Now, O'Reilly had something to say a while ago:

That’s because the newspaper and many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed.

As did Fox's John Gibson:

John Gibson ... warned last week of the demographic trends in the United States: "Twenty-five years and the majority population is Hispanic," he said. His solution? "The rest of you: Get busy. Make babies." [...]

After all, it's just a game:

Shoot-to-kill video games such as "Border Patrol," a game created in Flash that is easily accessible on the Internet through extremist Web sites, have become increasingly popular among those opposed to immigration and are widely shared among extremists in the United States.

But sometimes it's not a game and words have consequences:

White supremacists have taken to the streets in a deliberate attempt to attract publicity and to exploit and co-opt the national discussion on immigration for their own hateful purposes.

Remember the Danzinger bridge incident post-Katrina:

"We cannot allow our police officers to shoot and kill our citizens without justification like rabid dogs," District Attorney Eddie Jordan said Thursday in announcing the indictment.

But the right wing certainly defends its own. Here's one cause celebre:

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), founder of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and a presidential candidate, visited Ramos in prison and told him of the movement against his incarceration, including candlelight vigils, rallies, and a storm of criticism on conservative talk radio and television. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) threatened to call for impeachment proceedings against President Bush if the agents were harmed in prison, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) promised to look into the matter....A fusillade of bullets from Compean and Ramos missed. Finally, Ramos took careful aim as Aldrete-Davila neared the border and hit him in the buttocks. After the shooting, the agents collected all shell casings at the scene, threw them away and did not mention the shooting to superiors, a violation of Border Patrol procedures that call for an oral report after a weapon is discharged, according to the report and court records.

Whereas none of the above have made a sound about what was happening on the border:

But Agustin Martinez says he was with his brother that night and that no rocks were thrown. He says the agent shot his brother in the back as they were running away. The shooting sparked widespread condemnation in Mexico, and newspapers covered the story daily. President Vicente Fox ordered a full investigation and even sent Washington a diplomatic note.

Or about the Jena Six:

The principal told the students they could "sit wherever they wanted." The following morning, three nooses were discovered hanging from the tree....(public prosecutor) Walters thus argued that the tennis shoes that Bell was wearing and used to kick Barker were deadly weapons, an argument with which the all-white jury agreed. Despite conflicting witness accounts on whether he was even involved in the attack[14], Bell was found guilty and will face the possibility of up to 22 years in prison when he is sentenced on September 20, 2007.

Guess they forget the unforgettable words from the past of a great Republican:

a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal