Wednesday, March 14, 2007

OG does expose' on Oklahoma 'Minuteman' group

For whatever reason (ad revenue, I reckon) the Oklahoma Gazette won't post Greg Horton's article, "MinutemenThe Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is attracting recruits in Oklahoma by rewriting American history," in its entirety. Too bad. I would've forwarded it to lots of folks.

Anyway,

Writes Horton, quoting a Minuteman member, who talks of "Maria Holloway," a woman raped and killed in rural South Texas after coming across the border.

"We’re supposed to be a Christian nation!” he said. “Where is our outrage? We can summon outrage for Natalee Holloway, but Maria is raped and left for dead by an American citizen and we remain silent. These people are engaged in a modern-day slave trade. Seventy-seven percent of the women who cross the border are sexually assaulted. They are forced to work at slave wages cleaning or cooking, or sometimes forced into prostitution. And that’s the ones (who) don’t die in the desert.
Continuing ...
“We would do these ladies a favor if we stop them at the border and say, ‘You can’t come in this way.’ We have a moral obligation to stop this for their benefit. We cannot be a sovereign nation if we ignore this tragedy. We will be punished; we are being punished.”

So, I guess I'll need to go find me a free copy of the OG and comment more about the story later. Something tells me that Horton's take on illegal immigration doesn't match mine or that of Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore.

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