Ku Klux Klan Anti Latino?

En respuesta a un anuncio del temor de los latinos por un recrudecimiento de la xenofobia en USA, pienso que es lo que se avecina.
El Ku Klux Klan surgió al igual que el nazismo, en un conjunto de seguidores que se identificaron con sus objetivos, eliminar de alguna manera al extranjero.

El artículo dice "tienen que sacar las capuchas del cajón", no se ilusionen. Esta vez no habrá capuchas, esta vez habrá dedos discando en un handy para denunciar a los latinos.
Recuerden que el Ku Klux Klan y los Nazis tenían un saludo similar, la diferencia, por una cuestión de propiedad intelectual, radicaba en que unos utilizaban el brazo izquierdo y otros el derecho, pero no importa el dedo que dispara el gatillo, las ejecuciones serán igualmente consentidas, aprobadas y los norteamericanos se sentirán orgullosos de limpiar su tierra, de blanquearla. ¿Acaso el color de las capuchas no es blanco?

Rousing the Zealots Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and militiamen are
revivified by the furor over illegal immigration By JEFFREY RESSNER of
Time Magazine


Pugnacious anthems and racist diatribes have never been in short supply
at Nordic Fest, an annual white-power Woodstock held over the Memorial
Day break near the former mining town of Dawson Springs, Ky. And this
past weekend was no exception. On the agenda were a Triumph of the
Will--themed running event and a cross "lighting" sponsored by the
Imperial Klans of America. But something new did arise at Nordic Fest
this year: bellicose talk and plans of action against illegal
immigrants. Among the scheduled guest speakers was Hal Turner, a New
Jersey Internet radio talk-show host who recently instructed his
audience to "clean your guns, have plenty of ammunition ... and then do
what has to be done" to undocumented workers.


With immigration perhaps America's most volatile issue, a troubling
backlash has erupted among its most fervent foes. There are, of course,
the Minutemen, the self-appointed border vigilantes who operate in
several states. And now groups of militiamen, white supremacists and
neo-Nazis are using resentment over the estimated 11 million illegal
immigrants in the U.S. as a potent rallying cry. "The immigration furor
has been critical to the growth we've seen" in hate groups, says Mark
Potok, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law
Center. The center counts some 800 racist groups operating in the U.S.
today, a 5% spurt in the past year and a 33% jump from 2000. "They think
they've found an issue with racial overtones and a real resonance with
the American public," says Potok, "and they are exploiting it as
effectively as they can."


Both Potok's group and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are worried that
extremists are burrowing their way into the anti-immigration mainstream.
Mark Martin, 43, of Covington, Ohio, is a chef at a French restaurant
and tends his backyard organic garden. But he also dons the black and
brown uniform of western Ohio's National Socialist (read: Nazi)
Movement. "There's nothing neo about us," he says. Martin admits he
frequently harasses day laborers and threatens them with deportation.
"As Americans, we have the right to make a citizen's arrest and detain
them," he insists. "And if they try to get away, we have the right to
get physical with them." Martin gleefully boasts about leading eight
fellow storm troopers in disrupting a May 1 pro-immigrant rally in
Dayton by taunting protesters. Although police ultimately restrained
him, Martin believes his agitation was worthwhile because it attracted
new recruits. "After the rally, the Klan called us," he says. "Now we've
started working together more often."


In addition to white supremacists, the immigration debate seems to have
reinvigorated members of the antigovernment militias of the 1990s. Those
groups largely disbanded after the Oklahoma City bombing orchestrated by
militia groupie Timothy McVeigh and, later, the failure of a Y2K bug to
trigger the mass chaos some militia members expected. "We've seen people
from Missouri and Kentucky militias involved in border-vigilante
activity, especially with the gung-ho Arizona group Ranch Rescue that
used face paint, military uniforms and weapons," says Mark Pitcavage,
fact-finding director of the ADL. "It's a natural shift. Militias fell
on hard times, and this anti-immigration movement is new and fresh."


One leader who has morphed from militiaman to Minuteman is Mike
Vanderboegh, 53, of Pinson, Ala. Once the "commander" of what he called
the First Alabama Cavalry Regiment Constitutional Militia, which
published antiterrorism screeds, Vanderboegh is the past Alabama state
director of the Minutemen. He has advocated hurling bricks through the
windows of Congress members who support giving illegal immigrants the
same rights as U.S. citizens. Those bricks, he says, should be used to
build a wall sealing the U.S. off from Mexico. He argues that the open
borders facilitate drug trafficking and the sexual exploitation of
immigrant women.


Vanderboegh says he is not a racist, and he has taken pains to distance
himself from neo-Nazis. He acknowledges that anti-immigrant sentiment is
giving the Klan "fertile ground for recruiting," whereas a few years ago
"they could have held a convention in a phone booth." "Illegal
immigration and the destruction of the rule of law is social napalm, and
people are running around with matches," he warns. "One day it will go
off." With reporting by Christopher Maag/Cleveland, Verna

Con esta gente por aquí seguro que en Irak se está más seguro,
me voy, adiós!
(Lo gracioso es que el artículo lo publica TIME, del grupo Warner,
el mismo al que pertenece CNN, cuya gran estrella Lou Dobbs
comenzó el incendio)