Tough immigration laws, lax gun laws, anger at Washington - the U.S. state of Arizona, site of the massacre of Tucson, is considered the focal point of heated policy debates in the United States. Above all, Democrats were there last many threats. John Roll knew only too well that he was living in dangerous times - and worked.Already last year he received death threats. "They insulted him. They threatened to kill his family. They said that they would kill him," one colleague. "They really wanted him dead." Roll, chief of the District Court in Tucson, Arizona, was involved in one of the most violent disputes in the U.S.
- the debate over illegal immigrants. In very few countries that will be discussed as intensively as in the old Wild West territory, with its 625-kilometer desert border with Mexico. In early 2009 landed a controversial civil action for Rolls judges' table: 16 Mexican immigrants accused a U.S.
rancher to have abused her. It was a bold affront, brought the nation's soul to a boil. Roll, a 1991 by then U.S. President George Bush appointed Republican, left the action to be won - and so acted in the said threats. Temporarily, he was placed under even personal security. "It was nerve-racking," he recalled after themselves.
"But that's just the nature of things." Stronghold of the zealots is freaking Almost two years later, rolling the volatile situation in his home state now but still fell victim. Six people died when the suspected assassins Jared L. Lee pulled out on Saturday in front of a supermarket in Tucson the weapon, the U.S.
Congressman Gabrielle Giffords in the head shot and then fired around. Among the dead is a nine-year-old girl - and John Roll, 63 The judge lived near the crime scene and was stopped by spontaneous, as a gesture against Giffords. His presence was apparently accidental. His death, however, seems to be a tragic consequence.
Finally, the murder occurred in a hot U.S. political climate in which hatred, anger and radical actions promoted louder. And if there is for this national trend is a focus, a national stronghold of the freaking zealots, it's Arizona. "I've always suspected," best-selling author Alisa Valdes, who lives in Albuquerque in the neighboring state of New Mexico says, but spends much time in Arizona.
"The next U.S. civil war will break out in Arizona." "Jared L. Lee, American Hero," postulated time on Sunday, a new Facebook page, in allusion to the alleged shooting death of Tucson. "The man who fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War of 2011. Let the revolution begin! "" Powder keg of anger "Arizona has always been a" powder keg of anger "(ABC News)." We have become the Mecca of prejudice and intolerance, "the Tucson District Sheriff Clarence Dupnik complained on Saturday.
Arizona is .. long ago, "a kind of capital" angry, narrow-minded fanatics more so in recent months: since had the political opponents in the canyon country supplied more brutal war of words and foremost, therefore, came the Tea Party, whose slogans in Arizona even more radical than usual - accompanied from the traditional Wild West Waff Enge thumb.
For many, it was only a matter of time that were in the wild threats deeds. Because the immigration debate is not the only sticking point that comes together in Arizona lately, as under a magnifying glass. The health reform Barack Obama and his supposedly restrictive firearms policies come here for some time pointed to a very considerable resistance.
The situation in the Congress election campaign in 2009 felt. "The nation arms itself," oracular as the unsuccessful Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle. "If we win at the ballot box not - what is the next step, "These are not unusual sounds in the desert nation of just 6.4 million inhabitants in 1912 as the last entered U.S.
territory south of Canada into the Union?. In Arizona, not only with the least-populated America is the Grand Canyon and the Mojave Desert. Has always been here even grows the largest mistrust of the distant Washington - and to strangers of any kind Harte immigration laws, rules This is how lax arms adopted Arizona last year, the strictest immigration laws of the United States.
Accordingly, the police may ask anyone at the roadside for his papers, the "looks" like an illegal immigrant - that is, preferably Latinos. Companies are punished if they "illegal aliens" deal. Parts of the law throughout the country so controversial that the U.S. Supreme Court, she is now checked for a possible unconstitutionality.
At the same time was in Arizona the loosest gun laws of the United States in force: Adults may carry firearms at any time with them, without weapons permit or background check. Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican place, it's great: "This law shall respect the constitutional rights." Democratic Rep.
Ed Pastor from the capital, Phoenix sees it differently: "Everyone here gets a gun, no matter what emotional state he is." The suspected shooter from Saturday, Jared L. Lee, had spread his confused, anti-government tirades of YouTube before. The murder weapon, a Glock, he apparently bought it legally.
Governor Brewer can not be trifled with it otherwise. To save measly $ 1,200,000 from the budget, they now emphasized the financing of organ transplants for financially needy. Since then, only two patients have died because they have already promised transplants were suddenly failed, an estimated 100 affected people have no hope.
"Death due to budget cuts," the New York Times summed up bitter. Target of political anger in Arizona these days are still almost exclusively the representative of the U.S. Democrats. Gabrielle Giffords also got the feel for some time. At a town meeting that they held in August 2009 in the border town of Douglas, a man slipped a revolver from his waistband and clattered to the ground.
It was the first time that their employees called the police. Macabre parallel: Then as now, the incident occurred in front of a supermarket of cheap chain Safeway. After attacks on Giffords Giffords of Obama's controversial health reform had voted, someone blew up in their party office in Tucson a window pane.
Giffords were allowed to be there says: "Nothing surprises me." Finally, she represents a constituency in the differences of tradition also like to have played with the gun. Some in the notorious Wild West town of Tombstone ("grave stone"), motto: "The Town Too Tough to Die." The town was the site of the legendary cowboy gunfight at the OK Corral "in 1881, later with the Hollywood film" was transfigured.
"My Darling Clementine, we are," sighed Sheriff Dupnik resigned on Sunday, "the grave stone of the United States." Giffords was in Arizona because not even the only one who in the crosshairs found. Ed told Pastor, in his appearances in the congressional campaign of 2009 he had often protesters seen with firearms.
The Democrat Raul Grijalva from Giffords neighboring district also received threats and was forced to close his office after he found a poisonous substance in the mail had party colleague Harry Mitchell held public meetings during those weeks finally decreases only by phone -... lost and then against a conservative Republican Judge Roll was at his in fine Deten immigration decision in one week alone more than 200 abusive calls Fanned was the anger of local radio talk shows, which called for open resistance to rolling and peers.
Later, when some of the backers have been identified, decided not roll but in a criminal complaint. counter free gun ownership Roll the way, had no objections. He has openly against the Brady Law, the 1993 country-wide restrictions firmly set. Among other things, thanks to Rolls 'opinion' levered the Supreme Court in 1997 passage of the law again.
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