Court says gang tattoos won’t save felon
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1284
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, generally regarded as one of the most liberal federal appeals courts, has made a surprisingly sane ruling in the landmark case of Jean Pierre Arteaga, an http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2394 from El Salvador.
Displaying a touching faith in the idiocy of the US criminal justice system, Arteaga’s argument was that because his body is slathered in http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2028 tattoos, deporting him to El Salvador would put his life at risk.
Arteaga faces deportation for an impressive list of gang related felony convictions. His legal team wanted Arteaga to be given “humanitarian refugee status” because of the “persecution” he may face when rivals or “Sombra Negra” government death squad commandos read his tattoos and recognize him as a “gangbanger.”
The California 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finally decided to reject Arteaga’s claims, seeing them as logically similar to the parricide who pleads for lenience because he is an orphan.Arteaga, as an immigrant who came to the United States at age four, is probably correct about his chances in the barrios of El Salvador. While the US coddles its Third World criminal population with generous welfare payments, affirmative action, costly “diversion” programs, free schooling and films and music lionizing gang “culture,” El Salvador is a burro of a different color. Having survived a brutal communist insurgency, the Salvadoran government is faced with marabunta gangs dominating whole areas, and responds with the kind of violence it used to suppress the Marxists.
Many of El Salvador’s gang leaders, among them the founders of the savage Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13), are communist veterans of the FMLN, whose narco-Stalinist ideology informs such decisions as their alliance with “anti-imperialist” Islamists and “Aztlanista” people smugglers from Mexico who work in tandem with Mexico’s spectacularly corrupt politicians, military and police forces. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1251 of a Vietnam War memorial in Connecticut with the slogan “Kill whites.” Hispanic gangs are particularly race conscious; a major federal prosecuton in Los Angeles ended in the conviction of top mestizo gang members for a campaign of ethnic cleansing against blacks. A similar prosecution of another Hispanic gang in LA is gearing up now.
El Salvador’s gang problem is compounded by the growing numbers of deportees from the United States, who provide leadership along with sartorial and musical advice to homegrown criminal syndicates. The US justice system is also blamed by the Salvadoran police for inculcating deportees with a sense of arrogance born from the lenience and weakness these criminals come to expect. The Salvadorans have, with justification, complained to the US government for saddling them with thousands of homicidal, cowardly punks who have no respect for the law. The US has deepened anger in San Salvador by complaining to the Salvadorans for “violating the civil rights” of deported gangbangers who wreak havoc on El Salvador. After decades of civil war, and based on law enforcement http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1670 in Latin America, the Salvadoran police and army have “unofficially” formed Sombra Negra (Black Shadow) countergang death squads who react to the gang insurgency with tactics out of the old anticommunist playbook: the criminal is “disappeared,” kidnapped, subjected to mindbending torture for information, and killed. Often his severed head is left in a conspicuous location as a warning to his friends who, often as not, employ similar methods against their rivals.