Minuteman leader charged with murder, now favors amnesty
15th June 2009
by gordo
Shawna Forde: murderer, washed-up bar hag, and National Executive Director of Minutemen American Defense (image taken from Shawna’s semi-literate racism blog)
The national leader of one of those totally-not-racist Minuteman outfits was arrested for the massacre of a Mexican-American family, including a 9-year-old girl:
Three people, including the leader of a border watch group and an officer within that group, were arrested in connection with a May 30 home invasion that left a father and his daughter dead and the mother wounded, authorities said. One of those arrested, Shawna Forde, is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a group out of Washington state that conducts operations along the U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona. The group is not related to either the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps founded by Chris Simcox, or the Minuteman Project founded by Jim Gilchrist.
Authorities also arrested Jason Eugene Bush, 34, who serves as operations director for the Washington group, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, in connection with the shooting deaths of Raul Flores, 29, and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia Flores, said Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.
Raul Flores was a suspected drug dealer, and the three suspects targeted the house with the intention of stealing money and drugs, Dupnik said. They did not plan to leave any survivors, he said. “The plan was to kill everyone. To kill a 9-year-old because she might be a potential witness is one of the most despicable acts I’ve heard of.”
Dupnik said Forde and her cohorts even searched for the couple’s other daughter, who had spent the night at her grandmother’s, with the intention of killing her.
Not surprisingly, Forde has ties to other Minuteman groups. She was once a leader with the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, and she and her organization have been close to Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist.
Forde appears to have staged an assault last December, which she naturally blamed on Mexicans.
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There are a few of sites out there dedicated to chronicling crimes committed by immigrants. They tend to contain lots of racism, and present a skewed picture of who actually commits the most crimes in this country (immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes, so deporting them would have the effect of making the crime rate go up). Not surprisingly, these sites seem to be avoiding the Shawna Forde story.
Michelle Malkin loves to feature stories about immigrants committing crimes and championing the Minuteman movement. So far, nothing on Forde. However, there is an interesting rant about CAIR’s failure to issue condemnation of an attack by a Muslim in Little Rock.
Like I’ve always said: if you’re going to be a racist, it helps to be a hypocrite as well.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Shorter Michelle Malkin: It’s a shame that our government couldn’t police our border with Mexico more effectively. Otherwise Shawna Forde never would have gotten so frustrated to have committed this somewhat excessive use of force.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I’m speechless.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Soooooooo?
What’s the bad news :+)
June 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Ha. Not like you to be funny, brt
August 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
This happens not infrequently when it is discovered that someone is dealing drugs. It is not a racial or hate crime. A drug dealer is a drug dealer. But, I guess it is appropriate for some to hate a drug dealer. So, this might be classified as a hate crime.