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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-11 12:40 AM
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LA Times: Mother describes border vigilante (Minutemen) killings in Arizona
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-minutemen-murder-20110126,0,4235852.story


Reporting from Tucson —
As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, "Please don't shoot me."

But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia's father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the gunfire.
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Prosecutors allege that in May 2009, Shawna Forde decided to strike an odd alliance with drug dealers in southern Arizona: Forde would help the traffickers ransack their rivals' houses for stashes of drugs and cash, which could then fund her fledgling group, Minutemen American Defense.
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Forde's trial was almost delayed by the Giffords shooting. Her attorneys questioned whether an accused murderer allegedly driven by right-wing passions could get a fair trial here. The man charged in the Giffords rampage left behind a trail of writings with no coherent ideology, but Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik set off a national firestorm by insisting that Arizona's conservative politics played a role in that attack.



Another incident of right wing violence generally ignored by the media.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-11 12:47 AM
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1. Now, now, "alleged" right wing violence
There's no hard evidence that Forde is right wing. She could be one of those kajillions of liberal border vigilantes, you know.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-26-11 12:54 AM
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2. Just speechless...
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