After President Obama and Mexican President Calderon announced Thursday a working agreement on allowing Mexican trucks access to American highways after almost 20 years of the US violating it’s obligation under NAFTA, the airwaves and internet are alive with renewed debate as talkers and opposition groups feed on the unfounded paranoia of the American trucker.
Eric (Bubba Bo)Boulanger hosts the weekend slot on America’s Trucking Network (ATN) heard on 700WLW and XM 152 allowed the usual callers to make veiled threats of violence and destruction of the Mexican trucks and their drivers as he fielded calls on the subject of Mexican trucks. And he didn’t stop those that would use demeaning names for the Mexicans such as “jalapenos” or “beaners”, giving the callers his tacit approval.
Perhaps the most disturbing discovery is some of these “patriotic” American truckers turning to the extremist right wing racist websites to get their message out and enlist the help of the “turd reichers” and knuckle dragging racists.
I refer to a thread on the white nationalist website STORMFRONT. Stormfront was the first major hate site on the Internet. Claiming more than 130,000 registered members,
the site has been a very popular online forum for white nationalists and other racial extremists.
I say an OOIDA member or perhaps staff at OOIDA is turning to this despicable collection of racists in an attempt to derail the new Mexican truck program. A member by the handle of TRUCKIN and who joined the site in February of 2011, heavily promotes OOIDA as the all encompassing solution to keeping those damned Mexicans out of the US. And he has a very receptive audience.
Stormfront, where you’ll find such titillating tidbits as “Beating down a mud [a non-white person] when they try to poisen [sic] one of our own or when they try to seduce one of our girls may not be God inspired, but rather a righteous act of collective preservation.” is a place where this OOIDA message seems to be readily accepted and acted upon.
OOIDA members also appear to be taking their message to the right wing extremist Mexican hate site ALIPAC, who made the list of the SPLC’s Year in Hate and Extremism 2010 Where Stormfront opposes African Americans, Jews and anyone not of caucasian ancestry, ALIPAC is just the opposite. Their focus is on Mexican bashing and demonization of all Hispanics, who they seem to consider to all be illegal.
ALIPAC, the majority of whom are elderly and retired, perfect targets for President William Gheen to scam donations from to support his lifestyle also have a smattering of members who heavily promote OOIDA as the end all solution.
Here’s an example of ALIPAC and their suggestions:
Make a seperate lane for those trucks. Before they enter go over them with a fine tooth comb. Strip it down. Sure its gonna take time but then its their gas. (Mod Edit.) Let them know what is in store.
The mod edit was “then burn them to the ground making sure the wetbacks watch and “………
And if there is any doubt about OOIDA or it’s members aligning with the White Nationalists to push their agenda of opposing Mexican trucks, here’s another post by the same person.
That’s enough to make any self respecting trucker to cut up their OOIDA card and mail it back to them.
A van stuffed front to back with nearly 6,000 pounds of marijuana ran out of gas as it headed toward the Paso Del Norte border crossing and an inspection lane manned by Margarita Crispin, who was sentenced in April 2008 to 20 years in federal prison for helping drug traffickers. PHOTO: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL, EL PASO
On July 1st, MTO reported on the arrest of Customs and Border Protection officer Margarita Crispin of El Paso and followed up on the story on April 21, 2008 when she entered a guilty plea to the charges against her.
Andrew Becker placed this follow up in Mother Jones titled “Will Corruption Cross the Line?”
The rumors about Margarita Crispin started soon after her first day as a customs officer in El Paso, Texas. In March 2003, Crispin started working the line at the Paso Del Norte bridge, across from Ciudad Juárez. Nearly one-fifth of all drugs seized coming across the border enter through the El Paso-Juárez area, and the region is viciously contested by Mexican cartels. So when Crispin waved off the dogs that sniff out drugs in the long line of cars waiting to enter the United States, saying she didn’t like them around her, it raised a few eyebrows.
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Assemblyman Joel Anderson, 77th District (Ca), is giving Compean an Accommodation for his service and attached is a copy of the last letter the Assemblyman wrote to George Bush asking him to pardon or commute the Agent’s sentences.
On Friday, July 3rd, 2009, Jim Gilchrist took a break from slinging mud against his compatriots and along with staff and independent Minutemen and Friends of the Minuteman Project, Inc. attended the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly Dinner meeting honoring Ex Border Patrol Agent and convicted felon Jose Compean.
It is truly shameful, that in America today, liars and cowards, such as Ramos and Compean are, are hailed as heroes and Patriots.
In the words of Jim Gilchrist, leader of the Minuteman Project and close associate of indicted Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde;
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Former Border Patrol Chief Deputy and pedophile Joseph W. Giuliano who now seeks leniency for his perverted crimes
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Joseph Giuliano, the former high-ranking Border Patrol official accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl, changed his plea to guilty of third-degree child rape Thursday in Whatcom County Superior Court.
Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Mac Setter said he’s recommending Giuliano serve one year in custody of the Whatcom County Jail on work release [, Back at the Border Patrol?!?] and three years of sexual deviancy treatment after that, the Bellingham Herald reported.
The paper also said the plea means Giuliano will have to register as a sex offender.
Giuliano was the No. 2 man in the local Border Patrol before he was arrested on suspicion of raping the high school girl, who was a friend of the family.
Police say Giuliano admits he had sex at least 24 times with the girl.
Setter alleged in court last October that Giuliano had sex with her for the last time on Oct. 13, after police had already visited the girl’s high school and had told Giuliano that he was under investigation, at which time he denied anything was happening. Setter says later, the girl told police they had sex later that same night.
The victim told detectives she had been involved with Giuliano. She said they arranged meeting times by communicating through text messages. The two met in his car, in her bed and at his house, she said.
When questioned by detectives, Giuliano admitted to having had sexual intercourse with the victim on at least 24 different occasions, according to the statement of probable cause. He said their relationship began in April 2008 and continued until October.
At times, he told the girl it was wrong and feared he would get caught, the statement said.
The victim is not related to Giuliano, who is married. Setter says Giuliano’s wife was not aware of the alleged abuse.
Giuliano had been a Border Patrol agent for more than 20 years and as deputy chief has overseen operations in Western Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
WE FIRST REPORTED THIS STORY HERE
The lenient sentencing recommendations from the prosecutor’s office (when they could say the maximum time for the counts, 15 years; Why do they ask a 14-year old girl that is still probably romantically involved in her mind, what do her parents think?). Sentencing is June 25th. Call and bring this up everywhere you can, the people that are hearing of it are livid.
Contact information for Judge Charles R. Snyder, who will determine sentencing for Giuliano on June 25th:
Judge Charles R. Snyder
Whatcom County: Superior Court
311 Grand Ave, Ste 301
Bellingham, WA 98225-4048
(360) 738-2457
Border Patrol Agent Luis Edward Hermosillo charged with sexual assault
A U.S. Border Patrol officer has been jailed in lieu of $1 million this weekend after he was accused of using his job to rape a woman, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said this evening.
The officer, Luis Edward Hermosillo, is assigned to the federal agency’s Indio sector.
Investigators suspect there may be more victims.
“The investigation is still continuing,” said Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez. “The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department believes there may be more victims.”
Hermosillo, 41, remains jailed today on charges of kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault , sexual penetration, and sexual penetration under the color of authority.
Investigators said they learned of the incident on June 13, when they were notified by staff at a local hospital that a 26-year-old woman was seeking treatment for a sexual assault.
The assault is believed to have occurred in the area of Highway 86 at Avenue 72 in Thermal.
After an initial investigation, authorities identified Hermosillo, of Indio, as a suspect, according to a news release issued this evening.
Hermosillo was arrested on Friday.
He is detained in the Riverside County Jail in Indio and is expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol declined to comment this evening because he said he was unaware of the arrest.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Senior Investigator Joe Quintero at the Riverside County sheriff’s Indio station, at (760) 863-8990.
Border Patrol officer faces 3 charges of sexual assault
A Border Patrol officer accused of sexually assaulting a Mexican woman traveling on a tourist visa to Cathedral City with her two children followed her from a Salton Sea-area checkpoint, then pulled her over and demanded she drive to a secluded area, court records show.
Luis Edward Hermosillo, 41, faces three sexual assault charges stemming from the alleged assault June 13.
Hermosillo, who works out of the Border Patrol Office in Indio, appeared in court Monday for his arraignment, which was delayed until July 7.
His attorney, Robert W. Krause, asked Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jorge Hernandez for the delay because he needed more time to review the case.
“It’s a very important case and we just want to make sure everyone is prepared,” Krause said outside of court.
Hernandez granted the delay and kept the defendant’s bail at $1 million.
Hermosillo is accused of following the 24-year-old victim from a checkpoint in the Salton Sea area before pulling her over on the Highway 86 Expressway near Mecca, according to a declaration in support of an arrest warrant.
Hermosillo asked the woman to pull off the highway onto a secluded area on Avenue 72 so he could inspect a briefcase inside her vehicle that he claimed he forgot to examine at the checkpoint.
The woman, who was driving with her two 5-year-old and 2-year-old children, recognized the officer from the Salton Sea checkpoint and complied with his request.
Once off the highway, Hermosillo, who had a dog with him in a white F-150 pickup truck, pulled up next to her vehicle and asked her to drive to the end of the road, according to sheriff’s Investigator Bradley Farwell, who prepared the declaration.
The victim complied and got out of her vehicle to open her trunk, the investigator wrote. The officer asked her if he could search her person, but she declined.
“The Border Patrol Officer had the victim turn around and place her hands on the edge of the trunk of her vehicle,” Farwell wrote. “(Hermosillo) then used his hands to squeeze the victim’s breasts and feel around her upper torso.”
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Former U.S. border patrol agents and now convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from prison Tuesday, but will remain in a community confinement program until March 20, U.S. Bureau of Prison officials said.
The two agents had been in prison since 2007. President George W. Bush commuted their sentences before he left office.
Traci Billingsley, bureau of prisons spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the two men are out of prison and under the “supervision of the community corrections office for a period of community confinement.”
Community confinement means the sentenced person has to spend the last phrase of their sentence either in a halfway house or in home confinement.
Dallas criminal defense lawyer Ed Mason, who represented Compean in his appeal, said Tuesday morning that he had not yet talked to Compean but was awaiting his phone call.
“I think he might be on his way to El Paso,” Mason said in a telephone interview. “We haven’t been able to talk to him yet.”
Billingsley said she could not release where the two agents would spend the last month of their sentence, but it is possible they could spend it at home.
Compean had been in the Elkton Federal Prison in Elkton, Ohio. Ramos was at the Phoenix Federal Prison.
The two former agents were convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up. Compean was sentenced to 12 years and Ramos to 11 years in prison. Both agents were found guilty of civil-rights violations and discharging a irearm during the act of a crime, an offense that includes a mandatory 10-year sentence.
Not “American Heroes” or “Patriots” but two felons back on the streets of America. At least with these two, we won’t have to worry about a recurrence of their crimes.
SOURCE: El Paso Times
Blagojevich free on $4,500 bail after arrest
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to hear federal corruption charges against him. He was released on $4,500 bail.
The governor, who appeared in court in a blue jogging suit, also had to forfeit his passport.
FBI agents arrested Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, early Tuesday on federal corruption charges related in part to the selection of President-elect Barack Obama’s successor to the Senate, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declared Tuesday a “sad day for government.”
“Gov. Blagojevich has taken us to a new low,” he said. “This conduct would make [Abraham] Lincoln roll over in his grave.”
Lincoln was a congressman from Illinois before becoming president.
Fitzgerald said the government had bugged the governor’s campaign office and placed a tap on his home phone.
Each was charged with a count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and a count of solicitation of bribery, authorities said.
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UPDATE – Suit was filed Tuesday
A $7.5 million wrongful death and Civil Rights lawsuit will be filed againstU.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett .
A law firm representing the parents of a Mexican man killed by Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett recently submitted a $7.5 million claim notice, which is a prelude to filing a lawsuit, against him and the government.
Meanwhile, a personal lawsuit against Corbett is expected to be filed separately today in federal court in Tucson.
The federal tort claim, dated Dec. 2, is brought against Corbett for causing wrongful death, and against the Homeland Security Department, Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Justice Department for negligently employing Corbett.
“Agent Corbett, while acting within the course and scope of his agency with the United States Border Patrol, negligently and/or wrongfully shot and killed decedent. At the time of the shooting, decedent showed no resistance to agent Corbett’s demands and was on his knees in a submissive position,” states the document.
The claim seeks a total of $7.5 million, including $2.75 million for the victim’s father Renato Ariza Dominguez, $2.75 million for the victim’s mother Maria Clara Leonor Rivera Cordero, and $2 million for the estate of the deceased.
The document alleges that witness statements as well as the autopsy and ballistic analysis contradict Corbett’s version of the story. It says the death could have been avoided if Corbett was not negligent or did not act wrongfully.
The document also states the government should have known Corbett was involved in numerous incidents of misconduct that made him an inappropriate person to be a Border Patrol agent, such as assaulting a man in Pennsylvania, committing domestic violence and voicing his hatred of Mexicans.The assault and domestic violence claims did not result in convictions.
Corbett went on trial twice this year in federal court in Tucson on criminal charges of negligent homicide, manslaughter and second-degree murder for the death of Dominguez-Rivera, an illegal immigrant, near Naco on Jan. 12, 2007.
Both trials resulted in mistrials due to hung juries. Prosecutors have not officially decided whether or not they will take the case to trial a third time.
During the trials, Corbett claimed he shot Dominguez-Rivera in an act of self-defense to prevent the victim from smashing his head with a rock.
On Monday, Sean Chapman, the lead defense attorney representing Corbett in the criminal case, said “I have no comment” regarding the federal tort claim.
Bud Tuffly, president of the Local 2544 National Border Patrol Council in Tucson, said he could not comment specifically on the document because he has not seen it, but he said the union will continue to support Corbett.
“We will stand behind him 100 percent and we will defend him through this civil action as well,” he said. “We are not going to back down.”
Federal government officials named in the tort claim could not be reached for comment on Monday, including Annmarie Highsmith, associate chief counsel for the Homeland Security Department’s Customs and Border Protection.
On Monday, attorney Federico Castelan Sayre, of the law firm in Santa Ana, Calif., that submitted the federal tort claim, said a lawsuit for negligent hiring and supervision eventually will be filed. For now, the parties involved are given a period of six months in which to respond to the claim, he added.
Also, Sayre said, a civil rights lawsuit will be filed against Corbett today in U.S. District Court in Tucson in a way that allows federal officers to be sued in the same fashion as state officers. He said that filing is “basically receiving the final touches.” Rick Gonzales, a Tuscon attorney, will be the local counsel, with assistance by Sayre.
Sayre, who was born and raised in Tucson and graduated from the University of Arizona, practices law in California. He represented Rodney King against the City of Los Angeles, which resulted in a $3.8 million verdict, and has worked with Gonzales in the past.
Remember OJ Simpson? The burden of proof murder is much less in a civil action than in a criminal trial. Although in the case of this murdering coward, testimony and forensic evidence suggested the lying bastard Corbett was guilty of murdering in cold blood, Javier Francisco Rivera. The breakdown in the system was the jurors in both instances who violated their oath as jurors to look at the evidence with fairness and impartiality. This time, the result will be different. Wonder how Corbett feels now at the prospect of working for the family of the man he murdered for the rest of his life? Oh wait a minute! This coward will probably seek reassignment to Florida or another state where he can protect his assets, just as OJ Simpson did!
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