Posted on 08/17/2019 2:32:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
The El Paso shootings were horrific. Patrick Wood Crusius, a crazed man with white supremacist views, gunned down over 20 people at a local Walmart on August 3 and wounded scores more. He was targeting Mexicans. His manifesto is littered with racial overtones, yes, but he noted that his views predated Trump’s 2016 win, that Republicans are terrible, and that a lot of people have to die to in order to maintain the sustainability of the planet. There is an eco-terror angle that makes up the core of his manifesto that the media is ignoring. Eco-terrorism isn’t an activity of the far-right and the anti-Trump media need to deliver uppercuts to the White House that trashes them on a daily basis. Meanwhile, a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio who is a self-avowed leftist is having his political views masked by the news media because, well, it just doesn’t fit the Left’s ‘all mass shooters might be racist right-wingers’ narrative. The Dayton shooter was pro-gun control, by the way. Anyway, I digress.
President Trump said that the El Paso shooter should get the death penalty. I think many would agree given the heinous nature of the crime, but Mexico’s president does not want that. In fact, he said he’s exploring ways to possibly extradite Crusius to prevent his possible execution (via AFP):
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that Mexico does not want the El Paso shooter who killed 22 people -- targeting Mexicans -- to be executed, and will seek to extradite him from the United States.
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Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment leftist, said that while Mexico condemns Crusius's "reprehensible, abominable" crimes, it does not want to see him put to death.
"Our constitution does not allow the death penalty. We do not want the death penalty, as a matter of conviction. Life imprisonment does not exist (in Mexico), either," he told a press conference.
"I have given instructions to explore the possibility of requesting this person's extradition," he added.
"We do not want impunity. We want the punishment to be exemplary.... It should serve as an example that human beings must end such acts. These irrational acts of extreme hate are not good for the United States or any country."
Eight Mexican nationals were killed in the shooting. A federal investigation into whether this was a hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism is underway.
(H/T RedState)
We were able to execute Tim McVey really fast, but, but, but that was because they didn’t want him talking. This ecoNut the Deep State wants to explore his motives. I don’t think the manifesto is his writing just pulled from some blog or several blogs that were all nut jobs.
Not no.
Two comments:
1.I believe that “lethal injection” is BOTH “UN-Texican” & is known to be UNRELIABLE. ========> Texas should return to hanging.
(It’s NOT well-publicized but there have been SEVERAL cases where the inmate died after a considerable period of pain & might well have “survived as a vegetable” for YEARS.) Hanging is quick, clean & certain.
AND
2. A few years in a Mexican prison would be WORSE than execution. = I’ve visited correctional facilities there & KNOW what they are like.
(My adopted daughter’s birth family has a long-term contract to build all the State & Federal prisons in Mexico.)
Yours, TMN78247
Good luck with that one. After all Obama is not president anymore.
A white supremacist that randomly killed seven white people. make perfect sense.
The El Paso shooter should not be extradited as he’s an American citizen. Mexico has eroded our sovereignty too much as it is.
Life in a Mexican prison.,.. Okay with that
Saves us money and garunteed ass whipping datly
Which government employee was it that said some generalized derogatory thing about Walmart shoppers? Peter Strokz (sp?) Or was it Comey?
“..hy would ordinary Walmart shoppers (instead of, say a La Raza convention) be targeted?...”
Because “ordinary Walmart shoppers” aren’t as likely to be shooting back as are La Raza gangbangers.
This guy wanted a soft target.
As for extradition, tell Mexico “You can have him, but it’ll cost you 200 miles of wall construction, up front.”
After the EP shooting there was a big increase of Hispanics taking firearms training
You missed where he said, “there is no life sentences in Mexico”.
8 posts in before somebody gets it.
Labrador just imbued moral authority to any president who wants to extradite Labrador for Mexico’s crimes against the US.
who the hell do they think they are? Mexico is a dump bordering on third world country, and yet they think we should listen to them!!!!
“Weird. Cruzius isn’t Mexican, so what’s the basis or desire for importing him into Mexico?”
Leftist virtue signaling. “See how compassionate we are? We want to save this guy from harsh American justice even though he targeted and killed Mexican nationals. Unlike this hateful American right-wing administration, we turn the other cheek.
What a crock.
Trump should give them Eric Holder in his place.
He strikes me as being as sane as Hinckley so his fate is likely to be some sort of permanent lockup in a mental institution. Come to think of it, that sounds like Mexico.
More interesting would be to catapult him (minimum altitude 200 ft.) over the border. We will not advise direction or range. Now Mexico can try to catch him to save him.
I think I see the PROBLEM!
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