Stephen Lemons: Remember Brisenia and Raul Flores
The New Times columnist is noting that amid all the political points being made over the killing of border rancher Robert Krentz, perhaps by a drug smuggler from Mexico, the right has forgotten other border violence coming from its side:
But such hatred, xenophobia and immigrant-bashing has a price: a price paid last May by nine year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, Raul, allegedly murdered by minutewoman Shawna Forde and two of her cohorts, Albert Gaxiola and Jason “Gunny” Bush.
The murders took place as part of a home-invasion robbery in Arivaca, Arizona, about 11 miles north of the border. Forde was the leader of the aptly acronym-ed M.A.D., or Minuteman American Defense, and was well-known in wingnut and nativist circles.


