Hoku Jeffrey Debating Opponent Revealed As Violent Anti-Immigrant Vigilante
 
CalStuff and ResIpsaLoquitur have both discussed the recent appearance of Hoku Jeffrey on Comedy Central's fake debate show, "Crossballs."  I think the show is hilarious, but what's getting ignored is the other guy who got hoaxed on the same episode, anti-immigrant vigilante Chris Simcox.  Simcox is the founder of the Tombstone Militia.  In January 2003, Simcox was charged with two misdemeanors for knowingly bringing a firearm onto a national park and then lying about it to a law enforcement official.  In keeping with post-9/11 scaremongering, Simcox later changed the militia's name to Civil Homeland Defense, but despite the attempt to paint himself as an anti-terrorist fighter, he's really just focused on getting rednecks with guns to harass Mexicans, as this list of incidents on the Arizona-Mexico border indicates.    (Never mind that most terrorists in the U.S. have come either through the Canadian border or through perfectly legal student and tourist visas.)  According to Dusty Escapule, the mayor of Tombstone, Arizona, Simcox's vigilante behavior is a menace to his local community: "The guy is a lunatic and is going to get somebody killed."  What's worse is that Simcox has been saluted as a hero on VDARE, an anti-immigrant web site that still remains on Res Ipsa Loquitur's blogroll.   

- posted by Jon @ 6:23 PM |