01/19/2012
In the Itzcoatl Ocampo trial, you will see a thousand headlines saying âMarine Accusedâ of killing homeless men for every one that says âMexican Accusedâ. Gustavo Arellanoâs column doesnât so much raise the issue as report that it has been raised â by evil nativists.
Amazingly, the people referred to in his sneering line âone can only sit back and laugh at the above rationalesâand cringe at how these people actually live among us,â arenât Mexican serial killers (or hateful Hispanic columnists) but Americans who want the MSM to do its job. [Correction: I had written Ocallo, rather than Ocampo, now corrected. I did spell Itzcoatl right, because I had the sense to copy and paste it.]
Sunday, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Itzcoatl Ocampo, the 23-year-old Yorba Linda man arrested for allegedly being the serial killer who targeted homeless men in Orange County over the past month, is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court to face charges, but heâs already the poster boy for three groups of people that have populated the comments section of local newspapers and media websites. Each attribute his pathology to a specific Ocampo personal trait without knowing jack shit about his mental makeup.
One group blames Ocampoâs psychosis on him having served in Iraq with the Marines, a point bolstered by Ocampoâs own relatives.
In this good Los Angeles Times profile, an uncle claims Ocampo claimed to see and hear things after returning from his Iraq tour. The statement has been immediately seized by many commenters, whom without knowing anything about Ocampoâs life insist that his service turned Ocampo into a disturbed serial killer, and that more such cases will inevitably emergeânever mind that hundreds of thousands of armed forces members have returned from both Iraq and Afghanistan without having been transformed into serial killers.
The story also notes that Ocampo was born in Mexico, a point that Know Nothings have already seized and will only grow once itâs determined if he entered this country legally or illegally. Since he was born in Mexico and Mexican immigrantsâwhether legal or illegalâare inherently crime-ridden, goes the logic, it follows that Ocampo killed because he wasnât born in this country.
Given our nationâs current xenophobia toward anything brown and general fatigue with the Iraq War, that the above two camps have emerged isnât surprising. But the most bizarre conspiracy regarding Ocampoâs motivations springs from his first name: Itzcoatl, a Nahuatl name meaning âobsidian serpentâ that was the name of an Aztec emperor. White supremacists have already hopped on the following ludicrous conspiracyâthat the name is what motivated Ocampo to commit his crimes, that the power of the bloodthirsty Aztecs reverberated across centuries to motivate the sick individual to target White men.
Thatâs the opinion held by our own precious racialist, Costa Mesa pendejo Martin H. Millard. âWe wonder if âItzcoatlâ is this guyâs real given name or if heâs a Brown racist who took that name as some Brown racists do,â he wrote over at the collection of digital dung known as the CM Press. You know, because anyone with a Nahuatl name is automatically capable of savageryâyou know, because of the whole Aztec thing.
The details will ultimately emerge about Ocampoâs reasoning for committing the murders (if he is in fact the serial killer, of which Anaheim police who arrested Ocampo on Friday are confident). Until then, one can only sit back and laugh at the above rationalesâand cringe at how these people actually live among us.