Website: Accused Nativist Killer Set Up By Hispanic Guards
Last week, prosecutors in Pima County, Ariz., announced they鈥檙e for Minuteman American Defense leader Shawna Forde, who in which a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter were shot to death.
But those prosecutors have it all wrong.
At least, that is, according to a new website proclaiming Forde鈥檚 innocence and portraying the border vigilante leader as the victim of a government conspiracy abetted by a racist, sexist media smear campaign.
鈥淪hawna鈥檚 become the target of a socialist government鈥檚 clumsy attempts to marginalize and terrorize America鈥檚 patriots,鈥� declares a recent post to JusticeForShawnaForde.com. The site also blames 鈥渢he unholy government/Marxist-media alliance鈥� and Latino corrections officers in almost the same breath: 鈥淭he evidence is there: Shawna has been set-up to be punished for things she didn鈥檛 do by the (mostly Hispanic) Corrections Officers (CO鈥檚) in the women鈥檚 side of the prison.鈥� No evidence at all is offered to support this assertion.
The Arizona Daily Star the creator of the website as Laine Lawless, a militant feminist and hard-core border vigilante with a (although she denies corresponding with leaders of the National Socialist Movement, telling the Star that the E-mail in question was fabricated by unknown persons). 鈥淚鈥檓 tired of women getting screwed over by men in this movement,鈥� Lawless told reporter Tim Steller. 鈥淣obody in the Minuteman movement except for me is willing to talk to her [Forde].鈥�
The website for Border Guardians, the border vigilante group founded by Lawless in 2005, features a 鈥淔ree Shawna鈥� banner that links to the JusticeForShawnaForde.com website. 鈥淪hawna is being targeted by design simply because she is a Caucasian woman who鈥檚 been doing a man鈥檚 job,鈥� the site reads. 鈥淭his case has politics, sexism and racism written all over it.鈥�
Lawless鈥� site compares Forde to former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, 鈥渁nother white Christian woman [who] has been demonized in the press, just for being a woman who鈥檚 pretty and who鈥檚 also successful, and the vulnerability of her family has been shamelessly exploited.鈥�
Pro-Forde website spokesman John Lyon is a member of the Phoenix-area nativist extremist group . Members have harassed Latino immigrants outside day labor centers and carried pistols to anti-immigrant demonstrations.
鈥淚鈥檓 not condoning any kind of criminal behavior, certainly not murder of a child or even of a drug dealer,鈥� Lyon told The Arizona Daily Star. 鈥淚鈥檓 sensitive to the issue of racial exploitation. They exploited her [Forde] for her race, her sex and her political affiliations.鈥�
In the news media, Lyon said, 鈥渆verybody else is protected, but white people are fair game.鈥�
