While the blowhard right is busy making hate into a multi-million dollar industry, they should be reminded of the cost. The murder of 16-year-old Ricky Flores is one example.
The Hispanic youngster from St. Johns, Arizona, was the victim of a contract killing after he got a white girl pregnant.
Did the 24-hour blather of hate from Fox, Rush and the rest of the imbicle right play a role? How about the introduction of gun-totting terrorist whack jobs into the national debate? Did his race play a role?
It's hard to know. But I choose to remember a kinder, gentler time when the first reaction to news of a teen pregnancy wasn't contract murder.
The parents of the girl are apparently cooperating with police after being promised there will be no death penalty for them. Story in White Mountain Independent.
There has been little information released on how the boy was actually killed. His burned body was found in a grave in the National Forest.
It would be ironic if the foment against illegal aliens contributed to the death. Hispanics settled St. Johns in the 1870s. They were some of the earliest Europeans in east-central Arizona.