Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Roswell Shooting: The Unspoken Tragedy

A twelve-year old shot and wounded two other children about his age at Berrendo Middle School in Roswell, New Mexico. The national media made a really big deal out of the incident. So did the town’s people, who most likely knew their reaction would end up on television and Internet news, Internet social media, etc. Everyone would be getting their 15 minutes of fame. To look at the photos of people’s reaction, you’d think the town had just suffered a disastrous earthquake or a series of deadly car bombs like the liberated Iraqis do almost daily.

This sort of mass-hysteria response to sad but hardly horrific events has been common in the U.S. since the 9-11 attacks.  It’s truly a strange to see Roswelleans behaving as if the shooting is somehow similar to the horror experienced daily by Syrians. What happened was certainly dreadful for the parents of the children shot, but it was hardly a tragic event for the community as a whole.

However, Roswell and New Mexico have experienced an unspoken or unacknowledged tragedy.

Characters mentioned in one article covering the shooting: New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, Odiee Carranza, New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas, ... Hispanics make up the majority group (44%) of the population of Roswell, gringos Americans 27%. And among U.S. states New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics (46%). “As of 2000, 8.2% of the residents of the state were foreign-born (Wikipedia),” most likely illegals or relatives brought in from Mexico and elsewhere via chain migration. Roswell barely qualifies as an American city and New Mexico barely qualifies as an American state.

City-Data.com rates Roswell high in crime. And News-sky.com said, “Roswell has been rocked by gang violence in recent years and has asked Homeland Security Investigations to step in and help.”

City-Rating.com says this about Roswell:

“The city violent crime rate for Roswell in 2010 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 84.08% and the city property crime rate in Roswell was higher than the national property crime rate average by 67.3%.

“In 2010 the city violent crime rate in Roswell was higher than the violent crime rate in New Mexico by 26.18% and the city property crime rate in Roswell was higher than the property crime rate in New Mexico by 43.27%.”

One Internet commentator said of Roswell: “I live in Roswell, and I am looking to get out. For a town this small, it's nuts how high crime is... I love NM [New Mexico] for a lot of reasons, and when I didn't have kids, it didn't bother me much, but now we have real misgivings about sending out kids to HS [high school] here…  I would NEVER recommend moving here.”

He’s right New Mexico used to be a terrific place to visit or live. Same goes for Roswell. That’s no longer true.

Madeleine Carey compares her hometown Albuquerque to the crime show Breaking Bad:

Breaking Bad has given me a way to explain Albuquerque without saying a word. It’s a place where we struggle with drug epidemics, extreme drought, hunger, drunk driving, gun violence (New Mexico’s gun-death rate is 40% higher than the national average), and a corrupt police force. Nearly 20% of the population lives below the poverty line, and the crime rate is 53% higher than the national average. Albuquerque is a city plagued by mediocrity — a drying river, a losing football team (the University of New Mexico Lobos), a dearth of ambition. But it also gets under your skin and into your blood, like a drug you won’t forget and can’t explain. It will always be my home, even if I am far away.
I wonder if she will remain “far away.” I suppose one would enjoy living in Albuquerque if one wants to live in a world that’s a lot like that in the video game Grand Theft Auto: “Of the 111 Albuquerque gangs, 61 are Hispanic, 31 black, and 19 white.”
Here’s a video on the gang problem in Albuquerque:


What the politically correct video doesn’t mention is the Hispanic factors. Hispanics who have ruined communities in California, in particular, L.A., have been immigrating to New Mexico. In other words, it’s a Hispanic issue. And most of the Hispanics are illegals or the offspring of Hispanics who entered the U.S. illegally.

Take a longer look:


About Hispanic gangs taking over the country, Dave Gibson says,

“At one time, violent crimes attributed to Mexican and Central American gangs were largely confined to Los Angeles. However, just as illegal aliens have spread across this country, so too has a veritable crime wave. We are now experiencing the early stages of the most violent gang epidemic we have ever seen.” (http://www.examiner.com/article/latin-american-gangs-are-taking-over-our-streets)

This is what happens when Hispanics take over an American state or city, turning it into a non-American barrio crime zone. They are also become dead-beat communities that live, one way or another, off the largess government jobs and welfare. The emotional tone of these multicultural communities is a mixture of hostility, aggression, fear, anger, suspicion, resentment, and violence.

Of course the focus of the Roswell shooting will be on gringo Mason Campbell, and the real tragedy that has tragedy of Roswell and New Mexico will be left unacknowledged. And if Mason ends up in a corrections facility, he will find a lot more Hispanics than gringos. In 1996 the prison population consisted of 56.30% Hispanic and 27.25% gringos. (Of course, blacks do their part, 12.24%, even though they make up only 2% of the population.)  (http://isr.unm.edu/reports/1996/WhoInPrison.pdf )

The report dated but if there has been any change, it’s most likely that the Hispanic prison population has grown to match the increase of Hispanics in the state. Here a look at what the Hispanics have given New Mexico:


And continue to give the entire country:


Imagine the cost of dealing with Hispanic gangsters and their threat to Americans. And our dumbass government worries about the Taliban and al-Qaida. Of course, fighting wars is always profitable to those who work for the military-industrial complex, especially for the war profiteers, though costly to taxpayers who have been losing both their money and their homeland.