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> Don't forget: as the Idiot-in-Chief likes to say, "Family values
> don't stop at the border."
>
>
> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/perkins/20031128-9999_mz1e28perki
> n.html
>
> Joseph Perkins
> THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
>
> November 28, 2003
>
> The young couple and their 9-year-old son were detained by police on
> the evening of Oct. 7 after having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
> earlier that day.
>
> Two officers walked the husband and the son to an ATM, relieving the
> husband of the cash they forced him to withdraw. Meanwhile, two other
> officers escorted the wife to a police station.
>
> She was ordered to take off her clothes - the better to strip search
> her.
> Then one officer allegedly .d her as the other kept watch.
>
> Had this crime occurred in San Diego, had the young couple and their
> son been Mexican nationals, it would have touched off a firestorm.
> There would have been demands for justice by a rightfully angry
> Mexican community. There would have been marches and demonstrations
> organized by activist groups like MEChA.
>
> There would have been declarations by politicians - like California
> state Senate President Pro Tempore John Burton, who suggested last
> week that anyone opposing driver's licenses for illegal immigrants is
> "racist" - that the police are hateful toward brown-skinned people.
>
> But there have been no demands for justice in this case. No marches or
> demonstrations in support of the victims. No blanket condemnations of
> the cops by politicians.
>
> That's because the crime took place in Tijuana. And the victims were
> Americans.
>
> So the husband and the wife, a 32-year-old with an Iowa driver's
> license, are left to the tender mercies of the Mexican judicial
> system.
>
> After filing a criminal complaint with the Baja California Attorney
> General's Office, four Tijuana municipal police officers were charged
> with crimes against the American turistas.
>
> The most serious charges, including ., extortion and abuse of
> authority, were made against officer Héctor Manuel Arias Campos. He's
> a supervisor on the Tijuana police force working in a unit assigned
> to assist tourists.
>
> Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse.
>
> Baja California's top state law enforcement official promises to
> throw the book at Arias Campos and his three subordinates if they are
> found guilty.
>
> "In this case," said Attorney General Antonio Martínez Luna, "the
> punishment has to be more severe. Police officers are the first ones
> who should obey the law."
>
> But Mexican officials have been anything but severe with Tijuana
> police officers who prey upon the border city's 26 million yearly
> visitors.
>
> Earlier this year, in fact, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana beseeched
> city officials to follow up on complaints from American tourists who
> said they had been shaken down by the border city's crooked cops.
>
> Tijuana's internal affairs unit responded by recommending punishment
> for 16 officers involved in eight different incidents. And a
> six-member commission - including two Tijuana City Council members,
> two city government employees and two private citizens - acted upon
> the recommendations, suspending the 16 officers 30 days without pay.
>
> That, apparently, is the going punishment south of the border for
> shaking down Yankee turistas.
>
> Indeed, the leniency with which San Diego's Mexican neighbor deals
> with its corrupt cops explains why, as a spokeswoman for Martínez
> Luna's office acknowledged, "Police extortion is common among
> tourists."
>
> Let us consider again if the situation were reversed, if Mexican
> nationals were shaken down by cops in San Diego or Nogales, Ariz., or
> Columbus, N.M., or El Paso, Texas.
>
> You can bet your last peso those police officers would not get off
> with a mere 30 unpaid days away from the force. They'd be fired.
> They'd be thrown in jail. They'd be vilified as racist, xenophobic
> cops on the evening news, on the front page of the morning paper.
>
> Yet there hasn't been even the slightest suggestion in any quarter
> that the Tijuana police officers who allegedly .d an American
> women, who shook down her husband were either racist or xenophobic.
>
> That's because, under the liberal orthodoxy, only white folks can be
> racist. Only Americans can be xenophobic.
>
> Well there's at least one young American couple that knows better.
> They've learned firsthand, from the Tijuana police, just how hostile
> some brown folks can be against non-browns, how contemptuous some
> Mexicans can be toward Americans.
>
> "If ye love wealth better than liberty ... servitude better than ...
> freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your
> arms ... May your chains set lightly upon you. May posterity forget
> that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
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