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Extremist Website Issues Violent Threat Against Border Patrol Posted by David Stein <http://yesbuthowever.com/author/david-stein/> in News and Analysis <http://yesbuthowever.com/category/news-analysis/>, Politics<http://yesbuthowever.com/category/politics/>on June 11, 2010 WHITTIER (YBH.ME <http://yesbuthowever.com/>) – La Voz de Aztlan, the Southern California-based secessionist “Chicano news service” that traffics in anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and homophobia, and which advocates the “ethnic cleansing” of non-Latinos from the American Southwest, has posted a thinly-veiled violent threat on its website, aimed at U.S. border guards. [image: http://yesbuthowever.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Project2-297x300.jpg] Logo from Voz de Aztlan's Youtube page The website posting centers around the recent shooting death of 15-year-old Mexican citizen Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka. Huereka (whose last name has also been reported as “Heureka” and “Güereca”) was shot June 7th by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during an altercation at the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas border. Although the circumstances surrounding the shooting are not totally clear, what is known is that Border Patrol agents on bicycles were pelted with rocks while trying to apprehend several Mexican migrants who were attempting to cross illegally into El Paso. The confrontation escalated to the point where one of the agents discharged his weapon at the rock-throwers. The shooting led to a brief cross-border standoff during which Mexican security forces pointed their weapons at the Border Patrol agents, threatening to kill them if they crossed the border. The incident has drawn angry responses from high-ranking Mexican officials, including Mexican President Felipe Calderon. A June 10th Voz de Aztlan website post about the shooting reads in part: *“The video (of the incident) has been shown widely in the Mexican media and has added more outrage against ‘los gringos’….This murder incident is just one of many that have occurred on the border involving racist and trigger happy US Border Patrol agents, especially after the passage of the anti-Mexican SB1070 in Arizona….Many (Border Patrol agents) are White supremacist gringos that hate Mexicans. It is not going to be safe for these agents after this incident. They are going to have to watch their backs more carefully. In the future, they may have to deal with ‘snipers with real bullets’ instead of rock throwers.”* Structurally, this ominous threat bears a resemblance to the one issued by a New York-based Muslim extremist website (RevolutionMuslim.com) that targeted “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker in April. That threat was “predictive” rather than direct, straddling the line between legality and a criminal act (the threat read, “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them”). Because of the generalized, “prophetic” nature of the “South Park” threat, the NYPD and the FBI declined to treat it as a criminal offense. It’s very likely that by following the same formula, Voz de Aztlan might similarly skirt any legal repercussions. However, whereas the threat against South Park was an isolated occurrence, U.S. Border Patrol agents face the very real possibility of violence on a daily basis, violence which has, in the past, included incidents of agents being shot at from both sides of the border. It would seem prudent for the Border Patrol to take threats like the one from Voz de Aztlan seriously. La Voz de Aztlan may be a fairly small organization, but it does have an audience. Its Youtube page, which includes videos mocking the Holocaust and spreading the vicious lie that Israeli soldiers murdered Haitians and stole their organs during Israel’s much-praised earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, receives thousands of views. And only two months ago, Voz de Aztlan followers nearly crashed the website of the Cal State Long Beach newspaper with a massive volley of comment postings<http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/the-hilarious-haters/jew-bashing-gay-trashing-la-vo/>containing anti-gay slurs. The Voz de Aztlan website promotes a Spanish-language translation of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the notorious anti-Semitic tract that was a Nazi propaganda favorite, and Voz de Aztlan publisher Hector Carreon, who has referred to Osama bin Laden as the modern heir to the legacy of Robin Hood and Pancho Villa, recently expressed his belief that Jews created the swine flu virus to specifically exterminate Latinos. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
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