Republican Family Values: Teenagers attack immigrant workers for kicks

[devilgrrl]

Case Hints at Split Between Longtimers, Latinos
In a rural county coping with big changes, five high school students are suspected of attacking immigrant workers.

By Ellen Barry and Rennie Sloan, Times Staff Writers

CANTON, Ga. — In a county where rural Georgia washes up against Atlanta's ever-expanding suburbs, police say that a group of high school boys learned a brutal trick.

Pulling up beside one of the Latino day laborers who stand by the roadside, they would offer to pay him for work. Then they would drive him to an isolated spot and beat him — with a pipe in the first case police recorded, fence posts in the second. In a third case, some of the same teenagers are accused of clambering out of a pickup truck in a dark parking lot and beating a worker with a baseball bat.

In all three cases, the victims were robbed by their attackers.

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When the five high school students were arrested for assaults on Feb. 2 and 3, friends and neighbors described them as ordinary Cherokee County boys, teenagers who went to church with their families and grew up outdoors.

One of them stood out because he was notably well-connected: 18-year-old Ben Cagle, whose family owns Cagle's Dairy. Cagle's grandparents were founding members of Cherokee County's Republican Party, and the family is "huge in the Farm Bureau, huge in the Chamber of Commerce," said Linda Parker, former head of the county's Republican Party.

So well-known are they, in fact, that Cagle's arrest sent ripples through the county establishment: Dist. Atty. Gary Moss recused himself from the prosecution, saying he was acquainted with Cagle's family. A short time later, two Superior Court judges recused themselves, giving no reason.

"I'm surprised that anybody of that stature would get involved," said Bill Shipp, a longtime columnist and editor who publishes a newsletter on Georgia politics. "Having a Cagle involved, that is a real aberration. It's not part of middle-class Republicanism."

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[tjwash]

1. family values...

... probably old, but worth another look anyhow.

[stinkeefresh]

5. ooh! that needs an update!

The Rush entry doesn't mention the oxy!

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I appreciate it when republicans shake off their veils

and reveal themselves as the hateful racist fascist scumsucking pigshit-eating piss-stinking money-worshipping fuckfaces they really are. The only people who wouldn't expect a republican would beat up a Hispanic immigrant are truly fucking naive. OF COURSE they would!


It's like sometimes Jah smiles and does our work for us...they're outing themselves! Thanks.

[grannylib]

4. you said it and said it well. perfect description of repukes.

[redqueen]

12. You forgot 'racist'

:)

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Only if I was gunning to say "racist" twice.

Read it again......However, it might be instructive to point out that most repubs are indeed "doubly" racist.

[redqueen]

14. Dagnabbit

I must've read too quickly and blended 'racist' with 'fascist'.

Oopsie!

But yeah, they do seem to be doubly racist now that you mention it. :)

[slappypan]

3. disgusting

I wonder how much of those "ever-expanding suburbs" is being built by immigrant laborers? I wonder how many of these boys live in houses that are cleaned every day by immigrant laborers? I would bet the Cagle boy's family employs undocumented workers at their dairy. And yes, anti-immigrant racist sentiments are now part of middle-class Republicanism — I hear it in my workplace every day.

[RebelOne]

8. There are plenty of immigrant laborers here in Cherokee County.

And they don't bother anybody. They are just happy to be making more than $1 a day.

[Voltaire99]

6. "William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carrol..."

I await with baited breath the young Cagle monster's suspended sentence.

Predictions? My bet: 50 hours of community service distributing Bibles and pro-life tracts to the immigrants.


http://bobdylan.com/songs/hattie.html

[RebelOne]

7. That's right in my neck of the woods.

I live in Woodstock, just below Canton. Heard this on the news Fri.

[tom_paine]

9. The Nazis are getting restless and EMPOWERED by the Imperials

One day, it is very likely that these monsters will come after US with the blessing of the Imperial Gouvernment.

Don't say I didn't warn you...

[SemperEadem]

10. These are what terrorists look like

"When the five high school students were arrested for assaults on Feb. 2 and 3, friends and neighbors described them as ordinary Cherokee County boys, teenagers who went to church with their families and grew up outdoors. "

That is what terrorists look like.

They were just boys being terrorists cuz they had nothing better to do with their time and intelligence. How sad and how dumb.

Patriot Act, anyone?

[SemperEadem]

11. Cagle's Dairy should become Emilio's Leche

the sins of the father is visited upon the son---and the family has to pay now.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[MadProphetMargin]

15. Krystalnacht (SP?), anyone?

These little snapperheads need to be stuffed in a cell...and given the prison demographics, I am sure they will get along just FINE.