realthog

. . . it's nine-year-old Brisenia Flores, who the other night was shot dead in her bed in Arivaca, Arizona, by anti-immigration vigilantes anxious to eliminate witnesses to their murder of her father and (as they thought) of her mother.

You'll recall the histrionic outrage purveyed by our rightist bloviators a few weeks ago when a Department of Homeland Security report (commissioned under the Bush Administration) indicated there was a serious threat of domestic terrorism from extremist groups on the far right. While clearly the reference was to neo-Nazis, racial supremacists and all their loathsome ilk, the rightist punditocracy and political establishment chose to emasculate the report's impact by claiming it represented a leftist attack on conservatives.

Net result: not much was done.

It would be (almost certainly) ridiculous to suggest that Brisenia Flores paid the price for that spin campaign, but unless our conservative commentators, in or out of Congress, begin to take their human responsibilities a bit more seriously there are going to be lots of other Brisenia Floreses.