Read Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole Online
Authors: Ann Coulter
He was convicted and sentenced to death—a sentence that was repeatedly appealed and repeatedly upheld. Unable to grasp that he had done anything wrong, Medellin wrote on his prison webpage: “My life is in black and white like old western movies, but unlike the movies, the good guys don’t always finish first.”
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A strictly impartial observer might not concur with Medellin’s assessment of himself as “the good guy.” The first of the men executed for the crime was the only black assailant, Sean O’Brien. He had tearfully confessed upon his arrest
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and his last words were: “I am sorry. I have always been sorry.”
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At his execution, Medellin said, “Don’t ever hate them for what they do.”
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Hate
them?
No worries there—it’s you we hate. Jennifer’s father, Randy Ertman, summarized our feelings toward Medellin in his statement to the court when the last three defendants were sentenced to death: “I hope you rot in hell. I honest to God mean that. I hope they rot in hell, sir. I hope to be there when you die, you sick pieces of (censored). Thank you, Your Honor, for allowing me to speak. I appreciate it, sir.”
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That doesn’t move the story along; I just admired his eloquence. Before Mr. Ertman spoke, one of the sheriff’s deputies said they’d give him a few minutes to talk and “if he comes over the rail, we’ll give him a few more.”
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Medellin’s aunt, Reyna Armendariz, denounced the death sentence for her nephew, saying: “We acknowledged that he committed a crime!”
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Unironically, his cousin Reyna Armendariz agreed, saying, “Only God has the right to take a life.”
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT OUR CULTURE?
Of course, it’s hard to see the cultural divide with the media hiding the fact that five of the six rapist-murderers were Hispanic, at least one an illegal alien, and his brother either illegal or an anchor baby. One of the victim’s parents later said, “The problem with the youth of America starts in the home. So parents, please be there for your children, always.”
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However true that may be, the problem with these particular youths mostly started in Mexico.
For more than a decade after this widely publicized crime, the only clue that it was not a problem of “America’s youth” was the perpetrators’ names. For my readers who enjoy puzzles, try to spot any similarities: Jose Ernesto Medellin (Hispanic), Vernancio Medellin (Hispanic), Peter Anthony Cantu (Hispanic), Derrick Sean O’Brien (Black), Efrain Perez (Hispanic), Raul Omar Villareal (Hispanic).
It was not until the media saw a chance to spring the leader of this murderous gang rape that the word “Mexican” appeared within a mile of the defendants’ names. There are nearly one thousand articles in the Nexis archives about the case—even the
New York Times
wrote about it, despite the absence of an illegal alien valedictorian anywhere in the story. But apart from one
Houston Chronicle
article that described Medellin as “Mexico-born,”
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American news consumers only found out Medellin was an illegal alien when that fact was used to try to overturn his death sentence. The girls were murdered on June 24, 1993; the first time Medellin was identified as a Mexican citizen
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was in a November 28, 2004,
Chicago Tribune
column by a Northwestern University law professor, calling on President Bush to show respect for the World Court in “a Texas case involving Mexican citizen Jose Medellin.”
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That, incidentally, was the professor’s
full description of Medellin’s crime: “a Texas case.” Seeing a chance to nullify Medellin’s death sentence, the media suddenly exploded with references to his Mexican-ness.
EUROS SIDE WITH MEXICAN GANG RAPIST
Mexico, President Bush’s dearest international ally, brought a lawsuit against the United States in the International Court of Justice on behalf of its native son, Jose Ernesto Medellin, arguing that Texas failed to inform him of his right to confer with the Mexican consulate. It probably didn’t occur to the police to ask Medellin if he was Mexican, with the media referring to the suspects exclusively as: “five Houston teens,” “five youths,” “the youths,” “young men,” “members of ‘a social club,’” “a bunch of guys,” “six young men,” “six teen-agers,” and “these guys”
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(and, oddly, “America’s hottest boy band”).
The World Court agreed with Mexico, confirming my suspicion that any organization with “world” in its title—International World Court, the World Bank, World Cup Soccer, the World Trade Organization—is inherently evil. The court ordered that Mexican illegal aliens in American prisons must be retried unless they had been promptly advised of their consular rights—a ruling that would have emptied Texas’s prisons.
It wasn’t as if America had shanghaied Medellin and dragged him into our country. He sneaked in illegally, demanded the full panoply of rights accorded American citizens, and when things didn’t go his way, suddenly announced he was an illegal alien entitled to rights as a Mexican citizen. Or as the
New York Times
hyperventilated: A failure to enforce the World Court’s ruling “could imperil American tourists or business travelers if they are ever arrested and need the help of a consular official.”
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If an American tourist or business traveler ever gang-rapes and murders two teenaged girls in a foreign country, I don’t care what they do to him.
WOULDN’T ANOTHER BUSH BE GREAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Texas Governor Rick Perry, Solicitor General Ted Cruz, and the Texas state court said, Thanks for your thoughts, World Court, but rulings from the Hague are not American law, so we’re ignoring it. Medellin appealed Texas’s decision to the Supreme Court, but before the Court could hear the case, President Bush sent a letter to the Department of Justice, announcing that he had decided that the United States would obey the ICJ ruling.
With this odd development, the Supreme Court sent Medellin’s case back to Texas. State officials were incredulous.
We have to obey some guys in the Hague? And our president says we have to do that? Why does he claim to be
our
president, then?
They couldn’t believe the ICJ order was being taken seriously by anyone, regarding it as equivalent to a resolution from the Seventh International Congress of Star Trek Fans—impressive to fellow enthusiasts, but not something anyone could expect actual lawyers to treat as law.
Texas courts proceeded to rule that a presidential memorandum isn’t federal law, either. So the case went back to the Supreme Court and, this time, the Court seconded Texas’s plan to disregard Bush’s idiotic memorandum. It was a 6–3 decision with you-know-who dissenting.
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(Justices Breyer, Souter, and Ginsburg). Historical note: That same day, the Supreme Court upheld another death sentence out of Texas, against Ruben Cardenas, a forty-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, convicted of raping and murdering his sixteen-year-old cousin.
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Medellin was finally executed on August 5, 2008.
WHY DO HISPANIC VALEDICTORIANS MAKE THE NEWS, BUT CHILD RAPISTS DON’T?
A
LL PEASANT CULTURES EXHIBIT NON-PROGRESSIVE VIEWS ON WOMEN AND
children; Latin America just happens to be the peasant culture closest to the United States.
Mexicans alone constitute more than one-third of all legal immigrants and about 80 percent of illegal immigrants. They now surpass every other immigrant group in America, having long since overtaken the once-dominant Germans.
If America had taken in 40 million Norwegians
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over the past few decades, wouldn’t we get a few articles about these strange Nordic people’s brusque manners?
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Of course, we couldn’t actually take 40 million Norwegians because there are only about 5 million of them in Norway. To approximate the number of Mexicans who have come to the United States since 1970, we’d have to import the entire populations of Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Ireland.
What will America be like when it’s majority Hispanic in order to give the Democrats votes and businesses cheap labor? The media could have
made this easy to see by reporting the truth about immigrant sex crimes. But they won’t do that. We’ll never know the story of FLORENTINO LOPEZ-PALOMINOS, listed on the Yakima County docket as charged with “SEX MISCONDUCT 1 DV; INCEST 1 DV”—though you might notice a pattern in the incest cases if you ever peruse your local criminal dockets. To bypass media censorship, we’ll look at a few famous sex crimes, ICE raids and international reports, and the prevalence of prepubescent birth mothers.
NOT BEN FRANKLIN’S AMERICA
The three young girls kidnapped and held as sex slaves for more than a decade in a boarded-up house in Cleveland had been held by Ariel Castro. Even the
New York Times
couldn’t avoid reporting that story. But then it turned out Castro wasn’t the only Hispanic raping young girls—
on his block
. While investigating the Castro case, detectives happened upon Elias Acevedo, forty-nine, who had lived down the street from Castro. Acevedo, they discovered, had routinely raped his own daughters when they were children. He had also raped his brother’s common-law wife when she was eighteen years old and pregnant. And he had raped and killed two of his neighbors in the 1990s. All in all, it wasn’t a great street to go trick-or-treating on. Acevedo pleaded guilty to 173 counts of rape, 115 counts of kidnapping, and one count of gross sexual imposition. The only mention in the
Times
of this case of incest, child rape, and murder—on the same block as the sensational Ariel Castro case—was a tiny Associated Press item on page A-18, headlined: “Ohio: Life Sentence in Murders and Rapes.”
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Possible
New York Times
obituary for Hitler: “Austrian Painter Kills Self
.”
Chandra Levy’s killer turned out
not
to be Democratic Congressman Gary Condit, but Ingmar Guandique—an illegal alien from El Salvador, given temporary amnesty by President Bush.
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(Does that guy have any brothers? I’d love to see another one like him in the White House!) The
one Central Park rapist that even liberals admit was guilty was Hispanic: Matias Reyes.
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After the other attackers had finished with the victim, Reyes came across the jogger’s beaten and bloody body, and raped her himself.
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Among Reyes’s many, many other rapes, he had also raped and killed a pregnant woman in the presence of her children, and he had even raped his own mother.
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PENIS-CHOPPING IMMIGRANTS
The incessant rape in Hispanic societies seems to have driven the women mad. American doctors pioneered penis reattachment surgery after Ecuadoran immigrant Lorena Gallo chopped off the one belonging to her husband, John Bobbitt. After her arrest, Lorena told the police that she had chopped it off because: “He always have orgasm, and he doesn’t wait for me to have orgasm. He’s selfish.”
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(Whatever happened to the silent treatment?)
For scholars: The only other instance of this particular crime being committed against an American man occurred in 2011—by another immigrant. The man’s Vietnamese bride, Catherine Kieu, cut off her husband’s penis, then ground it up in the garbage disposal. Apparently, she was angry that he was divorcing her. Luckily for Kieu, she was from Vietnam, allowing her lawyer to blame her behavior on the trauma of growing up in a war-torn, impoverished nation.
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BABY HOPE
The 1991 discovery of a child’s decaying body in a cooler led to a twenty-two-year search for her rapist-murderer.
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Finally, in 2013, police got a tip that led them to Baby Hope’s rapist and murderer: It was her cousin, fifty-two-year-old Conrado Juarez, an illegal alien from Mexico, who admitted to smothering the four-year-old while raping her. The girl’s name was
Anjelica Castillo and her parents were also illegal immigrants from Mexico. In all, about six family members knew something about the crime but never said anything.
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Juarez said that it was his sister, Balvina Juarez-Ramirez, who helped him dispose of the girl’s body.
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At the time of Juarez’s arrest, Baby Hope’s mother was still living illegally in New York with some of her ten children. After several weeks of interrogation, the mother finally admitted that she always suspected Baby Hope was her daughter, but never told the police.
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This case of incest, child rape, and murder was entirely an illegal immigrant affair. Baby Hope’s parents were illegal immigrants, the cousin who raped and murdered her was an illegal immigrant, and the cousin who helped dispose of the body was an illegal immigrant. Wouldn’t that be an important fact to put right up there in the headline? To even mention, at all? New York taxpayers had spent a kazillion dollars trying to solve the Baby Hope case. Weren’t they entitled to know?
PROSECUTORS AND THE PRESS AS FORTHCOMING AS USUAL
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office sent out a press release on Juarez’s indictment that said nothing about Juarez being an immigrant of any sort, certainly not illegal.
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The NYPD spent twenty-two years and a small fortune trying to solve a case that never should have happened in this country in the first place. How many other crimes went unsolved because, for two decades, the police were pouring resources into a manhunt for a Mexican illegally in this country, who committed child rape and murder in New York City?