Re: BREWER WARNS OF IMMIGRANTS AND 'BEHEADINGS'

Republicans like Jan Brewer, the
goal
is to literally terrify the American public.
---
as if the 12 Americans they kill every day in the USA won't?

In this case, that means connecting illegal immigration to images
Americans have seen of
terrorists beheading the innocent, and hoping people are confused
enough to miss
the distinction between a Mexican worker, hoping to provide for his/
her
family, and members of al Qaeda.
----
wrong association, dumbass

The decapitated bodies of 12 men were discovered early Sunday
scattered in and around a state capital in southern Mexico. Nine of
the corpses were strewn along a busy street, where the Guerrero state
governor later appeared for a religious procession.
The gruesome display comes as drug traffickers and their death squads
fight law enforcement authorities as well as one another for control
of prized routes into the United States.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/21/AR2008122101995.html

On Jul 3, 9:39 pm, VT Sean Lewis <thevirtualtr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BREWER WARNS OF IMMIGRANTS AND 'BEHEADINGS'....  
> Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) continues to try to defend her anti-
> immigrant  
> policies, and isn't above _using shameless demagoguery_
> (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/
> brewer_claims_illeg...
> _the.php)  to scare people into  agreeing with her.
> In an interview on Fox News last week, for example, she claimed: "We
> cannot
>  afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with
> it,  
> everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the
>  
> extortion and the beheadings ..."  
> There's no better way, it seems, to make the case for strict  
> anti-immigration laws than to claim that undocumented immigrants are
> pouring  into the
> country to decapitate innocent Americans. But just because she says
>  it on
> television doesn't make it true.
> Brewer didn't just slip up; she seems to seriously believe immigrants
>  
> who've entered the U.S. illegally are engaged in "beheadings." Offered
> a chance  
> to walk it back on a local public affairs show this week, Brewer
> insisted
> that  there have been "bodies in the desert ... that have been
> beheaded."
> When told  that media research could find no such incidents, the
> governor
> didn't  care.
> Eventually, a spokesperson for Brewer said that the Arizona governor
> _may
> not have been referring to incidents in Arizona_
> (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/
> brewer_claims_illeg...
> ) ,  but could have meant illegal immigrants beheading people in other
> states.
> First, Brewer was clearly talking about Arizona. Second, there aren't
>  
> reports of beheading in other border states, either. Third, this is
> probably the
>  most unpersuasive spin I've heard since the RNC spokesperson _tried
> to
> explain_
> (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/
> 2010_07/024551.php)  Michael  Steele rejecting the RNC's line on
> Afghanistan.
> There's no great mystery here. For Republicans like Jan Brewer, the
>  goal
> is to literally terrify the American public. In this case, that  means
> connecting illegal immigration to images Americans have seen of
> terrorists  
> beheading the innocent, and hoping people are confused enough to miss
> the  
> distinction between a Mexican worker, hoping to provide for his/her
> family, and  
> members of al Qaeda.
> But trying to connect crime to immigration problems is _a losing
> proposition_ (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/
> 2010_05/023621.php)
> .—_Steve Benen_ (mailto:sbe...@washingtonmonthly.com)  1:25 PM
> _Permalink_
> (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/
> 2010_07/024552.php)

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