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[JelloShotGirl 0]

Just wanted to know your thoughts about that in which an Ecuadorean 38 year old man was killed by a gang of white youths (17 and under) ...........I live in that town. I get upset cuz my husband is "brown" and this could have happened to anyone......................................................

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Some context, courtesy the NYT:

November 14, 2008

Editorial

The High Cost of Harsh Words

Words have consequences. Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive, is learning that the hard way during a horrible week. Seven teenagers were arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing last Saturday of Marcello Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, on a street in the Long Island village of Patchogue.

The apparent lynching caused shock and anger across the country. Politicians, religious leaders and villagers gathered Wednesday in Patchogue to console the victim’s relatives and to condemn racial hatred. Mr. Lucero’s brother, Joselo, spoke movingly in English and Spanish of how strangers’ words of support had made him feel like part of a larger family.

Mr. Levy was not there. He later called Joselo Lucero, who asked him to please stay away from public remembrances.

Mr. Levy’s past harsh words and actions against undocumented workers have now left him cornered with a tragically limited ability to lead the county in confronting a brutal act that surely pains him as much as anyone.

Local lawmakers often complain about immigration, but Mr. Levy went much farther than most. He founded a national organization to lobby for crackdowns. He went on “Lou Dobbs.” He tried to deputize county police to make immigration arrests and to rid the county work force of employees without papers. He sought to drive day laborers from local streets, yet rigidly opposed efforts to create hiring sites. Even as tensions simmered in places like Farmingville, a hot spot for anti-immigrant resentment, Mr. Levy would not budge.

He parroted extremist talking points, going so far as to raise the alarm, utterly false, that illegal immigrants’ “anchor babies” were forcing Southampton Hospital to close its maternity ward. He denounces racist hatred, yet his words have made him a hero in pockets of Long Island where veins of racism run deep.

All that came back to haunt Mr. Levy this week, when an evil act underscored the need to draw together. Immigrant advocates assailed him for having poisoned the atmosphere. Some called for his resignation. With tactless self-pity, Mr. Levy complained to Newsday that the killing would have been a one-day story anywhere but his home turf. He laments that people overlook his recent, far more measured tone on the issue. He insists that people have a distorted picture of him. Mr. Levy needs to realize that distortions cut both ways.

[charramal 0]

Just wanted to know your thoughts about that in which an Ecuadorean 38 year old man was killed by a gang of white youths (17 and under) ...........I live in that town. I get upset cuz my husband is "brown" and this could have happened to anyone......................................................

OMG! That is so scary. There are gang youths here in the neighborhood and i am scared of them that they might do some trippin and hurt me and my husband.

Actually whenever we're leaving the apartment they were all looking at us as if they were thinking or planning to do something against me and my husband. They look high, omg.

[DARUMA07 25]

Just wanted to know your thoughts about that in which an Ecuadorean 38 year old man was killed by a gang of white youths (17 and under) ...........I live in that town. I get upset cuz my husband is "brown" and this could have happened to anyone......................................................

OMG! That is so scary. There are gang youths here in the neighborhood and i am scared of them that they might do some trippin and hurt me and my husband.

Actually whenever we're leaving the apartment they were all looking at us as if they were thinking or planning to do something against me and my husband. They look high, omg.

You can't live in fear! You just have to be street smart and not to get yourself in a situation that you can't get out of. Never show that you are intimidated. They see that as a major sign of weakness. You and your husband will be ok!

[alienlovechild 75]

Just wanted to know your thoughts about that in which an Ecuadorean 38 year old man was killed by a gang of white youths (17 and under) ...........I live in that town. I get upset cuz my husband is "brown" and this could have happened to anyone......................................................

There's a special place in hell for a group of cowards that kill anyone for sport .

The idea that violence against immigrants is a one-way way street is quite PC but focusing on crimes by illegals may seem like a cheap shot that ignores that most illegals want to keep a low, law-abiding profile.

I haven't heard this mentioned much nationally compared to running total we've had on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article....RTICLE_ID=53103

Edited November 14, 2008 by alienlovechild