Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Machete Control Now!

Well, this doesn't exactly give me a case of the warm-and-fuzzies.

Eastie gang linked to al-Qaeda

A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to "turn up the heat" on its members, the Herald has learned.

MS-13, which stands for La Mara Salvatrucha, is an extremely violent organization with roots in El Salvador, and boasts more than 100 "hardcore members" in East Boston who are suspected of brutal machete attacks, rapes and home invasions. There are hundreds more MS-13 gangsters in towns along the North Shore, said Boston police Sgt. Detective Joseph Fiandaca, who has investigated the gang since it began tagging buildings in Maverick Square in 1995.


Where's Mayor Menino's press release on this? Machete-wielding Al-Qaeda operatives are attacking, robbing, and raping the people in his city, and the main focus of his agenda so far in the new year has been to go after the people who save their parking spaces with folding chairs? Well, you got to have priorities, I guess.

And once again, as if you didn't see this coming, I'd to take to take this opportunity to thank our ever-benevolent elected officials for Massachusetts' "common-sense" gun control laws. I mean, we can't have potential rape victims bringing handguns to machete fights now, can we? That would reduce the foreign-born terrorist population in the greater Boston area. And then we'd be less diverse. Horrors.

The theory that Salvadoran criminals manage to smuggle people over the border was bolstered this month when two Boston men described as MS-13 leaders were spotted on the North Shore days before Christmas - a year after they were deported by Boston Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators for gang-related crimes.


Well, that plan worked like a charm, eh? More support for my theory that the effectiveness of any government-controlled organization is inversely proportional to the number of words in its name.

One of the two men, Elmer "Tiger" Tejada, 24, who had been deported after being convicted of a slew of crimes, including attempted murder charges for hurling a machete at Chelsea cops, was busted in Lynn on New Year's Day. Tejada is described as "an original MS-13 member" from East Boston, sources said.


I hear that in his senior year he was voted "Most Likely to Pop a Cap in the Ass of Anyone Who Called Him By His Real Name".

A manhunt has been launched for the second fugitive, who is in the country illegally, Boston police said.


NO! I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

UPDATE (1/8/05): Michelle Malkin has more (with links and links and links).