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  Brutal Hate Crimes - Against Hispanics

Los Angeles, Alta California -(ACN) Murderous ogres are today getting away with the horrific killings of undocumented Mexican immigrants due in part to uncaring and often racist USA law enforcement agencies. Anti-immigrant hysteria, resulting in a series of heinous murders of undocumented immigrants that have included women and children.

Mother Lidia Mejia and son  murdered in west Columbus, OhioThe most recent murder of Mexican immigrants occurred at 2:30 AM this past Sunday in west Columbus, Ohio. Ten Mexican immigrants from Leon, Guanajuato were burned to death when an arsonist set their rented apartment building on fire in the early morning hours. Three of the ten where children; Jesus, 6, Jose, 3, and Enrique, 2. Their mother Lidia Mejia, age 22, and their father Ismael Noriega, age 36, also perished in the flames.

Firefighters suspect arson is behind the fire at the immigrant friendly 24-unit Lincoln Park West Apartments that killed the 10 Mexican undocumented immigrants and forced some to jump from third-story windows. An unknown number of people are still missing said Columbus Fire Chief Steve Feustel.

Fire Chief Steve Feustel says it's suspicious that the fire burned so fiercely in a stairway, which isn't designed to burn in modern buildings. In addition, a fire hydrant closest to the apartment building had been broken on purpose according to Fire Chief Steve Feustel.

Mitra Singh, a neighbor, said she was awakened about 2 a.m. Sunday by the sound of people talking and car doors opening and shutting. About a half hour later, she heard a loud whooshing sound, which she said reminded her of using gasoline to burn grass when she lived in New Mexico. "I saw a huge fireball just fly out the front," she said. "It wasn't an explosion. It was just a long loud whoosh, like the traveling of fire."

Gerald Robinson, Chief Deputy State Fire Marshal, said yesterday that the fire was extremely suspicious because of its magnitude, the number of deaths and previous fires in the same building. On July 11, firefighters investigated three fires there, one in a stairwell and two in an abandoned apartment, Fire Chief Steve Feustel said. After what will be called a thorough investigation, let us not be too surprised if the crime will be blamed on the immigrants themselves as was done in the following case that occurred in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lucero Solis QuezadaOn Thursday May 27, 2004 undocumented Mexican immigrants Ricardo Espinoza and his wife Noemi Quezada, came home from work to find the bodies of their daughter Lucero Quezada, 8, and son Ricardo Espinoza, 9, and their cousin Alexis Espejo, 10, dead in pools of blood. One child was decapitated and two partially decapitated. All three children lived in Ricardo Espinoza's and Noemi Quezada's apartment in the 7000 block of Park Heights Avenue in Baltimore.

Alexis Espejo QuezadaThe following Friday, the murdered children's uncle, Policarpio Espinoza Perez, 22, and their cousin Adan Espinoza Canela, 17, came to the apartment to support the family and were promptly arrested by the Baltimore police when a neighbor pointed them out as persons she saw visiting the apartment on prior occasions. The accused relatives of the family, unable to speak English, were interrogated by the police utilizing notoriously incompetent language translators and the two young men ended up being booked for the murder of the three immigrant Mexican children. One piece of evidence that the police say they have is bloody clothing and shoes found in the home of Adan Espinoza Canela who worked for an area slaughterhouse.

Ricardo Solis QuezadaTimothy M. Dixon, Espinoza Perez's attorney, said: "I have no idea why my client is charged with a crime. There doesn't seem to be any evidence of it." The trial has been set for December 13. "On Dec. 13, I am daring the state to bring forth evidence that will implicate my client," said James L. Rhodes, the attorney for Espinoza Canela. Both defense attorneys said that the state had not turned over any evidence that the defense considers incriminating.

Family members are confused by the arrests and don't believe that Canela or Policarpio Espinoza were involved in the crime. There was no animosity between the family members and no possible motive has been established . The accused men were supported in court by both mothers of the slain children and other family members who have maintained that Espinoza Canela and Espinoza Perez are innocent. Noemi Quezada, the mother of two of the three slain children said, "I am 100% sure that they are not the murderers."

In addition, Edgardo Flores Rivas, the embassy's head of consular affairs, said in a letter that the Mexican government has been following the case "with great interest and concern." La Voz de Aztlan has learned that a large number of Mexican government officials believe that the horrific murders of the three Mexican children may in fact be anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican hate crimes.

La Voz de Aztlan received an e-mail on May 28 taking credit for the decapitations of the Mexican immigrant children. We have tied this person to an anti-Mexican terrorist group. The e-mail along with "headers" were forwarded to Irv Bradley, the Baltimore police detective in charge of the investigation.

Bludgeoned Mexican Mother and DaughterThe third horrid case occurred on Sunday February 1, 2004 in Fremont, California. Maria Esperanza Hernandez, 39, of Central Mexico, left her home at 2:30 in the morning, accompanied by her 19 year old daughter for a long walk to work in the laundry room of the Fremont Care Center. The daughter, Maria del Carmen Castillo Hernandez, had accompanied her mother for safety reasons because Maria Esperanza Hernandez had missed her ride.

At approximately 5 in the morning residents were awaken by blood curling screams from the mother and daughter who were being clubbed to death in the street. One resident was able to come out in time to observe a white youth in his twenties standing over the dead bodies. The witness also observed a car with three white men just watching the brutal murders. The witness said that the youth than ran and the car sped away, turning its lights off. Next to the two bodies the murderer left a bloody wooden club he used to bludgeon the mother and daughter to death.

This case remains unsolved due in large measure to lack of diligence and incompetence by the mostly white Fremont Police Department. As an example, we recently discovered that the sketch of the prime suspect that is published in the Fremont Police "Ten Most Wanted" web page had been grossly mislabeled, possibly on purpose. The error is shown at http://www.aztlan.net/Ten_Most_Wanted.htm Please notice that the prime suspect in the bludgeoning of the Mexican mother and daughter was labeled as - - Torres, Carlos aka Rodriguez, Carlos Hispanic 5 ' 8, 155lbs Blk Bro Age 20 Rape - - . After we e-mailed the police department and pointed out their gross error they promptly changed it to what they now have at http://www.fremontpolice.org/wanted/wanted.html Instead of thanking La Voz de Aztlan, the Police Chief Craig Steckler sent us a very offending letter. There is very little respect of the Mexican-American community by white police chiefs throughout Alta California.

Texas Skinhead's Sodomized Hispanic Boy, Trial Begins
by: krazypuppy

Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 17:01:35 PM CST

David Tuck (on the left) is the skinhead who along with his buddies attacked a Hispanic boy at a party, including kicking a PCP pipe so deep into his rectum that the boy fell unconscious.

Tuck and his posse (also charged was Keith Robert Turner) called the boy racist names and beat the boy so badly it was not known if he'd survive. They poured bleach on the boy's body and then left him for dead.

Tuck has not expressed any remorse.

Thankfully, the boy did survive after months in a hospital undergoing intensive surgery.  But do you think he will ever physically or mentally be the same? How long do you think it will take for him to stop having nightmares?

Is the kind of trash that conservatives like mAnn "Where's a skinhead when you need one?" Coulter and Michelle Malkin want in the Republican party?

GMT expertly  described how the hateful "free speech" of the Coulters and Malkins of the world transforms into violent criminals and sodomized victims in communities around the nation.

What amazes me is that Tuck's attack was not labeled a hate crime. Maybe the prosecutors are being careful but an example must be made out of Tuck or more Texans will become victims of such bigotry.

Texas Skinhead Sentenced to Life for Hate Crime
by: krazypuppy

Sat Nov 18, 2006 at 23:42:07 PM CST

The Spring, Texas skinhead teen that sodomized and left for dead a Hispanic teen has been sentenced to life in prison.

David Tuck of Spring will spend at least the next 30 years of his life in jail when he will be eligible for parole. We've been following this story here, here, and here.

Tuck expressed NO remorse and details came out during the trial about his life that indicate he had serious behaviorial problems.

In fact, this was not the first time Tuck attacked Hispanics. In 2003, Tuck and his friends sent a man to the hospital and then attacked the arresting officer. In FIFTH grade, Tuck beat his teacher. In several of his attacks, Tuck screamed "white power" and racial terms at his victims.

This was a horrible story but some good may come out of it.

Police: Hispanic immigrants targeted in fatal Ga. attacks
TIFTON, Ga.

— Efrain Navarro woke at 1:30 a.m. to the sound of loud groans, as if someone were hurt.

Then, listening through his bedroom door in the dark, he heard men inside his mobile home speaking English — an unusual sound, given that he lived with two roommates who speak Spanish.

Navarro sprinted through the darkness for the front door, barely seeing the outline of one of his roommates sprawled on the floor. After hearing two gunshots, Navarro said, he hid in his truck until daylight Friday.

That's when Navarro and residents of three nearby trailer parks discovered shockingly similar crimes. Five people, including one of Navarro's roommates, had been brutally slain in their homes. Six more were wounded, one critically.

The dead were all Mexican immigrants. All lived in mobile homes in Tift County and neighboring Colquitt County, rural areas where migrant workers toil on cotton and peanut farms. Some of the victims were beaten with an aluminum baseball bat found at one of the scenes, and at least one victim was shot, police said.

Two suspects were being sought. Investigators believe the killers targeted Hispanic immigrants in the string of overnight robberies about 180 miles south of Atlanta.

"We think they're tied together," said Colquitt County Sheriff's Capt. Hal Suber.

All but one of the dead belonged to the same family, said Francisco Dominguez, who says his uncle and a cousin were killed in their trailer on the outskirts of Tifton.

"He came here to work and here is where he died," Dominguez said of his uncle, who moved to the United States last year. "He should have gone out to build chicken houses this morning."

Colquitt County Sheriff Al Whittington stressed that the attacks didn't appear to be hate crimes. Many immigrants are undocumented and therefore can't open bank accounts, which means they tend to carry a lot of cash or keep it in their homes.

"That makes them an easy prey," Whittington said. "I don't think it has anything to do with race or hate."

He also said there have been other robberies of immigrants in the past two weeks, including some in neighboring Cook County.

Hispanics in the area fear being targeted.

"They're panicking," said Luz Marti, a volunteer with Our Divine Saviour Church in Tifton. She added that the counties where the attacks took place are home to at least 14,000 immigrants from Mexico and Central America.

And, she said, a lack of Spanish-language media beyond La Estrella del Sur, a newspaper printed twice a month, makes the community especially jittery.

Navarro, a Mexican immigrant who spoke through an interpreter, said he never even saw the people who broke into his home.

"I heard them speaking in English, so I couldn't understand anything," he said in Spanish. "I opened the door and looked both ways and didn't see anything, so I ran out as fast as I could."

At Town & Country Mobile Homes in Tifton, a 14-year-old boy found two bodies — one behind a trash can and the other out in the open.

Neighbors said they didn't hear any gunshots or notice a struggle during the night.

"All I heard last night was the dog barking too much," Margarito Castillo said. "We're used to having the dog bark because there is always strangers walking up and down the street. So we didn't pay much attention to that."