GOProgrom - Newt Declares War on Brown People

Newt Gingrich (disgraced former Congressman and serial philanderer) decided to create his own Willie Horton moment when he stepped into the Slime light as headliner at the Iowa Republican straw poll. Taking up the hysterical ravings of the nativist border vigilantes, Newt declared:

"There is a war here at home, and it is even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being killed by violent, evil people here in America than in our official military "combat zones" overseas."

Of course his statement was inflammatory bullshit drawn straight from propaganda spread by openly racist organizations.

Over at Huffington Post, Pachacutec has done a good job of documenting Gingrich's call to racist vigilantism.

Locally we've got our own nativist border vigilantes. Last month they held a 'conference' in Everett. When the executive director of the Washington State Human Rights Commission, Marc Brenman wrote an opinion piece published in the Everett Herald the border vigilantes complained that it was unfair of him to say:

Unfortunately, it seems like the Minutemen have made progress in some of our communities, including in Everett. The Minutemen rely on the use of hateful speech, the Big Lie, and fear of people who are different to corrupt and coarsen political dialogue, just as their Nazi forebears did. The so-called Minutemen, like their former fellow traveler Tim McVey, are precursors to domestic terrorism and vigilantism. The federal government is charged with enforcing the immigration laws of the United States. Let the federal government do its job, without "assistance" from gun-toting, self-appointed know-nothings.

Their main rebuttal to the statement was; Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers' Party and "Minutemen are not socialists!" Of course their argument holds no more water than if someone were to say that North Korea must be a lovely free country because its official name is 'the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea'.

And the results of our local border vigilantes paranoia-fest and Gingrich's racist demagoguery have already appeared in the form of border vigilante video depicting cold blooded Murder. Mr. Brenman is absolutely right: "The so-called Minutemen, like their former fellow traveler Tim McVey, are precursors to domestic terrorism and vigilantism."