Comments on: Anti-Migrant Democrats Aiding Wave of Hate Crimes

By: Boys Will Be Boys Will Be… Killers? « The Czech

Boys Will Be Boys Will Be… Killers? « The Czech — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:36:07 +0000

[...] Bleh. Check out the Unapologetic Mexican’s post on this crime, Anti-Migrant Democrats Aiding Wave of Hate Crimes. [...]

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:42:49 +0000

I love the whole “Oh but not your kind, just those other ones” vibe to this worn out defense.

Yeah. My UNCLE uses that. He came over legally and has so bought in to the right wing crap that HE gripes about “the illegals.” Thing is, he had nothing to do with how legally or illegally he came over because he was a kid.

Apparently BillO had some wisdom to share on Lucero’s murder, too, conflating it with an undocumented dude’s drunk driving manslaughter of two citizens. If you haven’t read this post already, I think you’d like his take:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/11/hate-crimes-and-illegal-immigration.html

Pretty sure I’ve referred you to him before, I think to a post about the detention centers they’re sending undocumented folks to.

By: nezua

nezua — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:27:49 +0000

thanks so much for the “rant” amiga. and for filling in so much information. and for the action you speak of.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:43:42 +0000

Jack Eddington is a county legislator who has been in step with Levy, and because his district is the Patchogue-Medford area, he’s had a lot of opportunity to piss people off with his racism. He got a crew of cops together once to bust up backyard volleyball games, the only online record of which I can find at a white supremacist site (http://whitereference.blogspot.com/2007/10/massive-tsb-in-long-island-ny.html). There is also stuff like this:

“And, more recently, Legis. Jack Eddington – whose office is located near where Lucero fell, dying – singled out two speakers who wanted to use Spanish translators at a public hearing, demanding to know whether they were legal.”
–http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lijoye1612180441nov16,0,2836543.story?page=2

I was at the next meeting mentioned in that article, and the first thing he said was, “I hear people blaming a legislator, and it’s not about that.” Then he was cut off, because we all know he’s full of shit. He tried saying that if people want him to listen to them, they can’t go in and tell him they think he’s doing a horrible job. Then he left for a county meeting before it was over. It really showed he cared (like the school superintendent, who got up and said, “It’s not the schools” blah blah, and left before he heard anyone who was not a politician or leader of an invited organization speak).

My friend’s brother is one of the kids charged. One of the others has been to my house as a friend of my brother. I can muster up a small amount of sympathy because I know how poisonous the atmosphere is here, how easy it must have been for them to get caught up in it (because I also know how their parents talk and how segregated the schools have been), but then I see other kids taking up collections to “free” them, writing “Free our boys!” on their MySpace pages, like they’re political prisoners. It seems no one is learning anything because we can’t place blame on anyone BUT the kids, making the politics of it a non-issue. Hopefully it will have consequences for Levy and Eddington, though. I know I’ll be doing my best to see that they aren’t re-elected.

(Sorry to rant!)