calls for violence against Mexican immigrants
Lodi Unified School District teacher Joe Guzzardi spoke last month at a anti-Mexican rally sponsored by the rabid Barbara Coe, leader of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform based in Huntington Beach, California. Today, a number of vigilante web sites, including Glenn Spencer's American Border Patrol, are publishing an article by Joe Guzzardi titled "It's Coming . . . !" in which he writes "The immigration question I’m most frequently asked is: 'How will this all end?' Guzzardi adds, “Will frustrated Americans eventually resort to random violence?” The Barbara Coe meeting took place on January 28 and on February 1, there was a horrific vigilante murder in which a Mexican mother and her daughter were bludgeoned to death by four vigilantes in Fremont, California. It is interesting to note that a few days after these types meetings, there is a rash of beatings and killings of Mexican immigrants. The same thing occurred after a similar meeting in Sierra Vista, Arizona sponsored by Glenn Spencer of American Border Patrol. Right before and after the meeting, there were at least three shootings of Mexican migrants along the US/Mexico border by white vigilantes on horseback.
Public school teacher Joe Guzzardi makes little attempt to disguize his call for violence. In his recent article, "It's Coming . . . !" he writes, “Do something, do anything—but please stop pretending that ‘this’ will all work out.” He adds "Tempers are rising" and "If we want to end the insanity, what options do we have? " Guzzardi also writes, "What else is boiling over that might push otherwise peaceful beings too far?" There is no question what this crackpot means by his written words. He is inciting Mexican hating bigots to take actions like the one that occurred to mother Maria Esperanza Hernandez and to her daughter Maria del Carmen Castillo Hernandez on February 1 in Fremont, California. ( Please read "News Bulletin" at http://www.aztlan.net/bludgeoned.htm ) Also, there is no question what he means by his title, "It's Coming . . .!" Must we outline its meaning for our readers? Why is a racist "violence advocating" bigot like Joe Guzzardi allowed to teach at a California public school? Why hasn't the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing not undertaken an investigation in order to strip this nutcase of his license?
White Supremacists Beat Raza To Death.
The Alta California Spanish speaking media in Los Angeles is now reporting that the heinous bludgeoning to death, on Sunday February 1 in Fremont, California, of Maria Esperanza Hernandez and of her daughter Maria del Carmen Castillo Hernandez, both undocumented immigrants, was the work of anti-Mexican vigilantes. Fremont police detectives are calling it a possible "hate crime" and are asking the public for help in solving the cowardly crime. Fremont, California is about 15 miles north of San Jose and has a reputation of harboring racist and violent white supremacists. The 210,000 population of Fremont is 42% White, 37% Asian, 13% Latino and 8% Other. The largely affluent community contains gangs of white shiftless youths known to harass Mexican immigrants who take the bus or walk to the town to work in menial jobs. On Sunday February 1, 39 year old Maria Esperanza Hernandez, 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 was unable to obtain a driver's license due to her undocumented status and because she 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 of the Mexican mother and daughter. The witness also observed a car with three men inside just watching the brutal murder. 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 is just one of many that are becoming disturbingly common in Alta California and that are a consequence of the ever louder racist agitations by anti-Mexican bigots such as Glenn Spencer and Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado. One particular savage murder in this category was the dragging death of a tomato worker from Oaxaca, Mexico that occurred on July of 2000 in the Carmel Valley of the City of San Diego. The incident included the cruel and brutal beatings of 5 other elderly workers that worked in an area's nursery. The criminals were 8 young white thugs that lived in the affluent homes of Carmel Valley. The hoodlums were essentially protected by the white judge and merely given a slap on the wrist. They were charged for the beatings but never for the dragging death of the undocumented tomato worker from Oaxacans:
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