Via Rick Perlstein.
Orcinus has a video up which shows a Minuteman actually shooting and (it seems) killing an illegal immigrant sneaking into the country. The clip is shot with a night vision lens and depicts the Minuteman conversing with a buddy over the radio.
After shooting the illegal immigrant, for a moment, you get sense of nervousness from the shooter. He asks his buddy what they should do.
The buddy replies, “Get the shovel, get some lime, and hey, grab me a 12-pack, too, while you’re up there.”
They giggle and laugh. Then the shooter yells out, “We fucking nailed him, dude!”
Disgusting. Simply disgusting.
I’m sure this sort of thing isn’t an isolated incident. How many other crazy conservative nutjobs camp out on the border like it’s Tin Can Alley? And why doesn’t the albatross of murders like this one hang on the Minutemen every time they hit the news?
I’d say they were a bigger threat to our security than anti-war Quakers in Florida, wouldn’t you?
I totally find that disturbing, but I also find it equally disturbing the name-calling… It’s not just conservatives who do that or who are that extreme. Nothing gets resolved from a post that says look at this wacko…I still find it disturbing but most people know what this libertarian thinks on solutions.
I don’t know, I don’t really think it’s a stretch or unfair namecalling to say someone who murders someone for trying to enter the country is a conservative nutjob, raee. And it pretty much is just conservatives who are minutemen and hate immigrants. it’s not like oldmancoyote was saying, “all extremists are conservative,” just the kind that tend that want to kill all immigrants tend to be conservative …
p.s. that’s awful. where did the video come from? do they know if they really killed the guy? can they identify the shooters?