Driver charged in deaths of four
A man charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter is an illegal alien who only a few weeks ago was arrested on another alcohol-related charge, officials say.
Roberto Castillo, 19, remained in the Washington County jail this morning under $2 million bond after authorities say he slammed into another vehicle at the intersection of Highway 36 South and FM 109 about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
Gee, last time I checked, 19 was two years below the legal drinking age. Are they saying that Mr. Castillo broke the law by purchasing and consuming alcohol? Just like he broke the law by driving while intoxicated? After a previous incident where he broke the laws of the land by also driving while intoxicated? Maybe if his first act hadn't been to break the laws of the United States things might have turned out differently...
Y'know, this really pisses me off. A felony DUI conviction is sufficient to cause the revocation of one's rights to own a firearm in many locations, yet not enough to alert authorities in the case of one's immigration status? If I get caught driving drunk and am sentenced to one year or more - which could certainly have been the case adding in the underaged drinking charge - I lose my 2nd Amendment rights forever. I am considered too dangerous to own a gun - but not dangerous enough to deport if I'm an illegal alien.
And, as usual, nothing happens until someone gets killed. It's interesting, isn't it? Some illegal gets liquored up and plows his truck into another vehicle, killing four people, and it barely makes the news. No one calls for Chivas to be banned; no one calls for a Federal law limiting vehicles to 10MPH or less. A giant collective yawn is let out, and the story becomes a sad footnote in the crime logs; forgotten to all but the families of the victims.
But let some disgruntled loser shoot up their place of employment and it's front page news, with the ghouls coming out of the woodwork to call for more restrictions. Yes, let's pass more laws for these losers to ignore and break at will - making murder double plus illegal will stop them for certain! It's only when the tool used is a firearm does the media take notice - giving credence to the myth of that inanimate object having any power of its own.
And also, the elephant in the room of illegal immigration. Speak out against illegal aliens and you're called a racist or worse; supporters of open borders deliberately blur the line between legal and illegal immigrants to further this smear. They point to the hundreds of thousands of people legally here in the US as evidence of immigrants in US society, conveniently ignoring the difference between legal and illegal immigration. Folks that don't obey one law, there's no guarantee they're going to obey any law.
And in this case, and the one I posted earlier this week, someone else pays the price for their lawlessness...
That is all.
4 comments:
Actually, the first arrest is still pending and his charge was DUI-Minor, meaning he was charged as a minor in possession while operating. Class C mis. charge. ICE won't talk to locals unless it is Class B or higher. So, they didn't even care at the first charge. However, now hat he has been charged with multiple felonies he is on immigration hold.
Everyone around here is pretty pissed off about it all. (Right around the corner from us) Back to the whole non-enforcement of the laws crap
Don't know how the law reads in MA, but in Louisiana you have to be 21 to purchase alcohol in a bar, store or restaurant.
You can consume it if you're 18.
AD,
IIRC, LA is the *only* state in the union that way.
Actually again, in Texas you have to be 21 to purchase but that doesn't hardly slow people down. TABC has sting operations all the time targeting bars that sell to <21 but it still happens A Lot!
Come on over to Bryan/College Station (Texas A&M is almost all there is here) you will see plenty of examples of underage drinking
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