Soldier Stabbed After Return From Iraq

[Zedicus]

http://www.kpho.com/news/11001314/detail.html

Soldier Stabbed After Return From Iraq

POSTED: 12:23 pm MST February 13, 2007
UPDATED: 5:38 am MST February 14, 2007

PHOENIX -- A Valley soldier is fighting for his life after he was stabbed 11 days ago in his front yard.

Jason Okon is a three-year Army veteran who recently returned from Iraq, where he was awarded a Bronze Star for valor.

He planned to get a full-time job when he returned, and eventually attend Arizona State University. When he couldn't find work, he and his wife decided to move to Wisconsin.

Okon's wife, Elizabeth, said her husband was doing some yard work the day before they were scheduled to move to Wisconsin.

Elizabeth Okon said a man, later identified as 34-year-old Armando Martinez-Lozano, approached Okon with a knife and said something to him in Spanish. She said her husband told Martinez-Lozano to leave, and the other man stabbed Okon in the stomach and ran away.

KTAR reported that Martinez-Lozano lived within a block of the Okons' home, near 54th Avenue and Camelback Road.

Elizabeth Okon called 911 and her husband was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he remains in the intensive care unit. He is comatose and on a ventilator, but his wife said Okon is in stable condition.

Martinez-Lozano was arrested by police and jailed on charges of aggravated assault against Okon and the three officers who arrested him.

Armando Martinez-Lozano

Police said Martinez-Lozano is an illegal immigrant and the Immigration and Naturalization Service has placed a hold on him.

Okon's family and friends said they think the stabbing was a hate crime because Okon is a decorated soldier. His wife said he often wore his camouflage around town and in their yard.

"This is domestic terrorism in its rawest form," family friend Albert Fernandez said.

Police have not labeled the stabbing a hate crime.

An account has been set up at Southwest Healthcare Credit Union to help the Okon family. Elizabeth Okon is pregnant and the Okons have two daughters, ages 2 and a-half years and 8 months old, and sold almost all of their possessions in anticipation of their move to Wisconsin. Elizabeth Okon and the children have been staying with a neighbor.

• Click here for instructions on donating to help the Okons.

Emphasis Added.

Police have not labeled the stabbing a hate crime.

And why is that?

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Hate Crime?

Police have not labeled the stabbing a hate crime.

And why is that?

Well, you see, soldiers are not a minority or "protected group" so it's okay to hate them. In fact, judging by some of what I see in the media, we're encouraged to hate them.

So naturally, hating them couldn't be a crime, right?

Q.E.D.

 

[Cosmoline]

Another job American's won't do--stabbing soldiers in the gut

 

[pacodelahoya]

Just an isolated incident, most of these immigrants are just moms and dads looking for the American dream.

 

[RioShooter]

Just an isolated incident?

• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

Just an isolated incident, most of these immigrants are just moms and dads looking for the American dream.

Where that is a good sell, it is not true. The illegal immigrants do not want to be part of America, they simply want to come here to work--their allegence lies with Mexico (at least that is what they say--in the demonstrations.
Mexico does not want to solve the problem, because a lot of American money flows back into Mexico from these workers.
And far too many of them are violent criminals:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52198
Not too isolated.

 

[pacodelahoya]

Obviously, my sarcasm is not as witty written as it is spoken.

My humble apologies.


Cosmoline, that's because Americans are soft and lazy.

 

[Dr. Dickie]

I suspected that you might be, but you were too subtle and no to know for sure.

 

[Titan6]

An invading Army

There are estimated more illegal alien gang members in LA than there are US Soldiers in Iraq. They kill more people every year than we lose in combat deaths every year. If this is not an Army of occupation I don't know what is.
Edit: Not LA, meant CA which is more comparable in population size anyway..

 

[strambo]

The whole idea of "hate crimes" is PC stupid BS. Obviously, if you attack someone with a lethal weapon...ya don't like 'em! How about we charge, prosecute and keep in prison for long sentences (or deport to Mexican prison in this case) people who do these things and not try and get into their heads. Why does skin color, or religion or sexual orientation make a stabbing or murder worse than just a garden variety 'ol killin?

If a gay guy murders a redneck then they just get a plain old sentence instead of super-secret hate crime add on for the reverse? Why are some lives worth more? :banghead: Sorry for the rant...hope this soldier recovers fully and justice is done.

 

[BigFatKen]

Minorities with knives are just protecting themselves from racists with guns.

From http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=8029&news_iv_ctrl=2662

Last week on Wednesday, October 4, confronted with anti-racist protesters at Columbia University, the Minuteman violently attacked the protesters who were unfurling banners and Gilchrist terminated his speech and left the auditorium....

Gilchrist has spent much of the last week portraying himself as the champion of free speech and open debate, claiming that student protesters prevented any intelligent debate....

Despite their posturing as free speech advocates, this incident makes it unmistakeably clear that the Minutemen, in the words of Ms. Garcia, "are not promoting free speech. What they want is a pristine environment where racists and fascists can promote their agenda and their propaganda without challenge. That's what they're asking for... These are people with guns. These are people with rifles, people that stand on the border in the middle of the desert, and they declare open hunting season on defenseless immigrant families."

bold added.

To understand the above, the Minutemen are the racists. The anti-racist protesters are doing the "good" work by shouting down their debate rivals.

Our soldiers are people who protect us from afar. The Border Patrol protects us nearby from invasions of Minorities. Therefore, by this way of thinking, the whole of the USA is racist, except for Minorities already here.

You see the Minutemen are racists who carry guns. Actually usimg a knive is somehow better to them.

 

[Art Eatman]

OT. THR is not a member of the illegals-done-it media.

Art