Update [2005-4-9 12:46:46 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando.
Cross-posted at The Next Hurrah
Abu Ghraib can happen here. Having previously discussed the made-for-cable Minuteman Project, it's important to note that there's an element of the right-wing US population that is not only anti-immigrant, it's downright supremacist in its actions and tone.
TUCSON, Ariz. - A civilian border-watch group dismissed a volunteer who had an illegal immigrant pose for a mocking photograph.
Organizers of the Minuteman Project said that although authorities have determined that the man did not illegally detain the immigrant, he still violated the group's procedures. They added that the volunteer had given the immigrant $20 and fed him during Wednesday's encounter.
This was bound to happen. As noted, on their website the Minuteman Project disavows the very element they were bound to attract.
The Minuteman Project has no affiliation with, nor will we accept any assistance by or interference from separatists, racists or supremacy groups or individuals, no matter what their race, color, or creed.
Right. As if vigilantism is so easily purged. But why fault them? If torture is okay with
Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Bush, what's wrong with a little humiliation of Mexicans, anyway? I mean, they're not even Muricans. And if the President says it's okay...