What have we come to when a little boy could get killed with an axe to the face as he played outdoors with friends? Nine-year-old Jordin Paulder died Monday night in Fulton County Georgia, apparently the victim of “Honduran native” Santos Benigno Cabrera Borjas.

Three children were playing in the parking lot of the Chastain Apartments in Sandy Springs early Monday evening when a red car with a wobbly wheel drove through.

Jordin Paulder, a 9-year-old boy with chubby cheeks, called out to the car’s passengers to tell them of the bad tire.

Jordin didn’t mean to insult anybody, he just thought they should know, witnesses told police.

But the car stopped. A man got out and slammed an ax into Jordin’s face. Emergency workers were afraid to remove the ax during the helicopter flight to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite hospital, where Jordin died.
[Boy, 9, hacked to death, 6/7/06, Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

When the police approached the crime scene, Cabrera Borjas fled to a nearby apartment complex. After he broke an officer’s arm by throwing a tire iron (or maybe a “rimmed tire” — accounts differ) and made threats with an iron pipe, the officer shot and killed him.

Since the accused killer is dead, there will be no trial to remind the public that illegal immigration is not a victimless crime — assuming Santos Cabrera Borjas was indeed an illegal entrant. The authorities may not pursue that detail, wishing to forget the whole sordid thing.

However, the killer’s family already has a lawyer making “police brutality” and “wrongful death” noises, so the ugliness may continue. (Are unfounded lawsuits what the President meant today when he called for immigrant “assimilation”?)

Attorney Richard W. Summers said interviews with residents at the Chastain and Chateau Villa apartments are “leading me to the conclusion that [police] may have shot the wrong guy and were over zealous and hasty in their actions.”
[Police '99 percent sure' slain suspect was child killer, 6/7/06, AJC]

Interestingly, in 2004 “The [Georgia] Supreme Court has suspended Atlanta lawyer Richard W. Summers for 6 months” to discipline the attorney for shady practices. Funny how these people find each other.

I’ll be on the Ron Smith Show on WBAL Radio in Baltimore (AM 1090) at 2:05 pm Eastern time (11:05 am PDT) on Thursday June 8. You can listen in by going here and clicking on “Listen Live.”

Republican Brian Bilbray has defeated Democrat Francine Busby so the GOP gets to keep their Congressional seat in an overwhelmingly conservative district…wow, what a victory.

He beat her by roughly four points.

Two years ago the previous Republican occupant, Randy Cunningham, beat Francine Busby (yes, the same lady) by a whopping 20 points.

In fairness, the margin of victory for Cunningham was due in part to a high name recognition established by his lengthy career…and contrary to recent events, he was well-liked. Even so, a 16-point shift in just two years should have both parties taking a closer look at the bigger picture.

This race has been touted as some sort of fortune telling device for the November elections. The outcome was supposed to give the world a crystal ball view of the national electorate by answering a simple question: Just how hated are the Republicans?

While we didn’t get an answer to that question, we were sent a message…

Busby and the Dems had one campaign strategy: Republicans are so evil that we could run a pot-bellied pig on the ticket and walk off with 75% of the vote…even if the pig is gay and tried to marry another gay pig.

They were so sure of this assessment that Busby didn’t even bother to develop an issue agenda but Brian Bilbray did…it was a single-issue agenda but it was the right issue.

The Bilbray campaign strategy was: If we oppose amnesty for illegal aliens, they will come.

Now then, all the political analysts from the world of serial news will spend the next several days if not months trying to decipher the secret code–the message voters are supposedly sending to politicians everywhere.

Undoubtedly we will hear stupid commentary such as people are obviously mad at Republicans and if that race was anywhere else Bilbray would not have won or even worse, people love the Democrats these days.

The Democrats will point to the $5 million dollars spent by the Bilbray campaign and suggest his victory was bought; an expensive strategy the GOP will not be able to employ nationwide.

The Republicans will acknowledge that immigration reform was the only factor in this election and criticize Democrats for being on the wrong side of the issue…and then they will reiterate their commitment to comprehensive reform and a clear path to citizenship for the 12-20 million illegal aliens in America today.

There was a message to be found in yesterday’s election:

The Democrats are wrong; the Republicans are wrong…Bilbray is right.

The Washington Post reports:

“The president has been supportive of the Senate approach, and in his speech Tuesday indicated that he does not regard such an approach as “amnesty” because illegal immigrants would have to get behind legal immigrants in line for citizenship.”

It is so frustrating that the media lets President Humpty Dumpty use words to mean whatever he wants them to mean. First, the main point is not whether illegal aliens get citizenship now or or later or never. The benefits of citizenship are modest: you get to vote, but you also have to serve on juries, which most citizens view as a burden, not a benefit. (For immigrants, the benefits also include you can bring in your siblings and your parents. Permanent legal residents only get to import their spouses and parents. And citizens can’t get deported after getting out of prison.)

No, what illegal aliens primarily want is residency, permanent legal residency. Illegal aliens don’t want amnesty for illegally voting (hopefully) or illegally serving on juries (undoubtedly); they want amnesty for illegally residing in America.

Second, back in 2004, as you may recall, but nobody in the MSM seems to remember, Bush was defining “amnesty” (which he has always claimed to be against) not to mean “getting ahead of legal immigrants in line for citizenship,” but as “getting on the path to citizenship” at all. Republican Congressmen didn’t want illegal aliens getting the vote because they would predominantly vote Democratic. As I pointed out back then, this Rovian gambit was rhetorically unsupportable — if the debate was over illegal aliens getting residency without citizenship vs. residency with citizenship, the Democrats would win because Americans like to believe that making somebody an American citizen is a good thing.

Apparently Brian Bilbray has defeated Democrat Francine Busby in California’s 50th District Congressional District. [Republican wins bellwether House race - Br Robert Tanner AP June 7 2006] As predicted by Peter Brimelow yesterday, none of the MSM outlets surveyed just now in Google News (6-35 AM NY time) mention Bilbray’s stand against the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration bill, clearly the top factor in the race.