by Ann Coulter
Throughout the two-hour gang rape, other men stood and watched—some cheering—without calling the police. One witness said he thought she was dead: “I saw people, like, dehumanizing her; I saw some pretty crazy stuff. . . . She was pretty quiet; I thought she was like dead for a minute but then I saw her moving around, I was like, ‘Oh.’”4 The victim, called “Jane Doe,” survived, but was left with bone fractures, burns, hypothermia, and head lacerations. She was in too much pain for nurses to insert a speculum for the rape exam,5 though they did remove the foliage from her anus.6
Here are the first few paragraphs from a classic MSM column about the Richmond gang rape:
Los Angeles Times
November 7, 2009
Saturday Home Edition
A Deeper Lesson in Gang Rape
by Sandy Banks7
When a public tragedy like this occurs,
It’s a “tragedy”! I don’t remember the fake UVA fraternity gang rape being called a “tragedy.”
. . . it is our instinct—our responsibility, even—to try to understand it. We look for clues to its cause, its meaning in personal stories, official actions and social forces.
Are the kids deranged? Did the school do something wrong? Is this just a reflection of a violent culture?
Is it the school’s fault? America’s violent culture? She couldn’t possibly be referring to a foreign culture we’re required to import because Democrats need votes . . .
In the Richmond gang rape case, I was surprised that so many readers made race the subtext. And they took me to task for not mentioning the race of the victim or her attackers.
YOU DIDN’T MENTION THE RACE OF THE VICTIM OR HER ATTACKERS?????????
“The discomfort you folks feel in acknowledging racial attacks on whites prevents you from writing the facts,” one reader’s e-mail said.
I admit to feeling “discomfort” as I tried to get a grip on the racial dimensions of the assault. The victim was white; her attackers were described to me by students as mostly Latino, with one black and one white.
Actually, the “white” one was a Mexican, too—one of our famous “white Hispanics,” Cody Smith. That’s according to the victim,8 who had known him since seventh grade.9 And the charges against Smith were later dismissed.10
But I didn’t mention race in my column because I don’t believe that explains the attack. . . . Gang rape—and bystander inaction—didn’t migrate here from across the border; it’s not the province of any one ethnic group, income level or generation.
Journalists are supposed to report facts, not decide what “explains” the crimes they’re reporting on and then give us only the facts that support their side.
Just ask the woman who told me about the gang rape of her college roommate at a fraternity party in 1972 on the University of Virginia campus.
Excellent counterexample! A non-disprovable story from forty years ago.
It was gossip fodder on campus, but the girl was too ashamed to come forward. “It was never reported, no one was ever arrested and all the perpetrators are now probably lawyers [and] businessmen,” she wrote.
We’ll be here all week if we’re allowed to start citing gossip that includes words like “probably.”
Why is it that whenever immigrants commit a shocking gang rape, newspaper columnists wander off into fictitious rapes committed by white fraternity members? I’m not saying there has never been a gang rape at a college fraternity that resulted in actual convictions. I am saying that if that had happened, we would know about it. In fact, the media would never stop talking about it. A white fraternity gang rape would be world-famous. There would be Hollywood movies, television documentaries, Broadway plays, a plaque, a law named after the incident, women’s studies courses—perhaps entire college majors on the case. At the very least, it would not be hard to find.
By contrast, the way we know about immigrant gang rapes—often the only way we know—is that there are case numbers, defendants, and convictions. Usually there are a few people in the community who know the facts, so the truth seeps out, in spite of media censorship.
We know the facts of the Richmond gang rape not because of bald accusations of the sort regularly printed in the New York Times about hoax campus rapes, but because there were trials, sworn testimony, and DNA evidence against specific named defendants. The men convicted for the gang rape attack were Manuel Ortega, twenty; Elvis Torrentes, twenty-three; Ari Morales, seventeen; Marcelles Peter, eighteen; Jose Montano, nineteen; and John Crane Jr., forty-three—five Mexicans and one African American.
The rape of a high school sophomore at her homecoming dance is not a hazy memory of something my college roommate told me about: Ortega admitted in court that he initiated the rape, beat up the victim, ripped her clothes off, forced his penis into her mouth, and dragged the unconscious girl around the courtyard. Other witnesses testified in court that Ortega also stomped on the girl’s head and tried to penetrate her with a skateboard.11
WE DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE THEIR RACE!
As for Ms. Banks’s claim that she didn’t even notice that the gang rapists were Mexican and their victim white, YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME. The media always notice race. It is the first thing they look for in any crime—hoping against hope to have finally found Tom Wolfe’s “great white defendant.” They’ll even turn a Hispanic perpetrator white, as the New York Times did with George Zimmerman. After the police shooting in Ferguson, did anyone need to ask: Hey, does anyone know the race of the cop or the race of the guy he shot?
Like Banks, the author of the New York Times’ (sole) article on the Mexican gang rape also studiously avoided any mention of the attackers’ ethnicity. It began: “Around 4 p.m. on Oct. 24 of last year, Cynthia Avalos saw a short young man with close-cropped brown hair walking near Richmond High School, drunk.”12 The man was lead rapist Ortega. How is the fact that he is short or had “close-cropped hair” relevant? Does that explain the attack? Are gang rapes the province of any one stature or hairstyle?
The reason the Richmond rapists’ Mexican-ness is wildly relevant is that the rape never had to happen. A sixteen-year-old girl at her homecoming dance was gang-raped and left for dead because the Democrats need more voters. We could save a lot of soul-searching about “our” violent culture if journalists didn’t hide the fact that gang rapes are generally committed by people who are not from our culture. Outside of a fictional television drama—and secondhand tales of college rapes that might have occurred forty years ago—you are not going to find a group of white men raping young girls. Gang rape, child rape, elder rape, and murder rape are highly correlated with specific ethnic groups—ethnic groups we are bringing to America by the busload. Sixteen-year-old honors students in Richmond, California, have no familiarity with the cultural norms being imposed on the nation, which no one asked for, which Americans didn’t consent to, and about which they certainly have received no warning.
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HERE’S A STORY, ROLLING STONE!
THE MEDIA BALANCE OUT THEIR CENSORSHIP OF NEWS ABOUT IMMIGRANT rapists with false accusations of rape against American white men. The whiter and more American, the better—white cops, white prosecutors, white lacrosse players, white military contractors, white fraternity members. (Tawana Brawley, Duke lacrosse, Jamie Leigh Jones, and the Rolling Stone’s hoax gang rape.) Instead of body cameras on cops, what we really need are body cameras on journalists and neurotic women.
The fake rape cases always produce a blizzard of articles with such titles as: “Does Privilege Breed Contempt?,”1 “When Peer Pressure, Not a Conscience, Is Your Guide,”2 and “Why Soldiers Rape: Culture of Misogyny, Illegal Occupation, Fuel Sexual Violence in Military.”3 It’s getting to be like a decades-long performance art piece to see if the media can get people to believe that white American men are huge gang rapists.
The New York Times alone has ceaselessly run front-page stories, editorials, letters, and book-length articles on the subject of alleged, but unprov
ed, date rapes on college campuses.4 In the nine months between March 29, 2006, and the end of 2006, the Times ran more than fifty stories about a rape at Duke University that never happened.5 It’s as if the media were prospecting for ice in the Mojave Desert. Are you sure you don’t want to try the Antarctic? If the Times dedicated 1 percent as much coverage to rapes committed by foreigners on U.S. soil, it might actually reduce the number of women who are raped by helping remove the main perpetrators from the country.
In order to get the Times’ attention, here are a few immigrant rapes that took place on college campuses:
In March 2013, two Penn State girls were kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a couple of illegal aliens from Mexico, after the illegals offered the girls a ride to their dormitory. The attacks were interrupted when a campus police officer saw a woman’s leg dangling out of the Mexicans’ pick-up truck.6
In November 2013, a student at Goldey-Beacom College in Delaware was raped by Carlos E. Bastardo, an immigrant on a student visa from Brazil. Unlike “date rape” cases featured in the Times, the victim wasn’t drunk and didn’t wait to report the rape. After being assaulted, she ran from the room, went straight to a hospital, and called the police.7
In February 2013, Diego Gomez-Puetate, an Ecuadoran student at the College of Idaho, raped an unconscious student at an “International House” party, stopping only when he was caught by her friend. He was convicted of the rape in August of that year.8
In August 2012, a Skidmore College international student—and residence hall assistant—Ajibu Timbo from Sierra Leone was arrested for sexually assaulting a college employee.9
None of these sexual assaults was ever mentioned in Times, despite providing an opportunity for the Times to drone on about the “campus rape culture.” If only immigrants were college athletes, newspapers might report their sex crimes, and Law & Order could finally have a plotline “ripped from the headlines” that’s not ludicrous.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BEATS GAY
After decades of the media’s hiding the ethnicity of any rapist who isn’t white, in 2014, Boston Globe columnist James Carroll asked: “Why do hard-drinking fraternity members and entitled athletes stand at ground zero of the danger zone? . . . Why are the brightest and most privileged people in America the owners of this grotesque problem?”—and so on.10 Carroll’s conclusion? We need to import yet more illegal immigrants from Latin America!11
I’m fairly certain more immigration from Latin America will not reduce the incidence of rape. In fact, the evidence suggests that it would do exactly the opposite.
About the same time Carroll was bleating about the rape culture of privileged white men, Mexican immigrants went on trial in Richmond, California, for the violent gang rape of a lesbian. Humberto Salvador had smashed the woman on the head with his flashlight, forced her to strip naked on the sidewalk, and raped her. His fellow Mexican gang members then joined in, taking her to an abandoned building where they passed the naked woman back and forth among them. While raping her, Salvador kept asking her—in Spanish—“You like men now, don’t you? Tell me you like men.”12
Not one single news outlet mentioned that the lesbian’s assailants were Mexican,13 allowing half-wits like Carroll to keep penning pieces about the “brightest and most privileged people in America” having a rape problem. In the PC ranking, evidently, “Hispanic immigrant” beats “gay.” News coverage about the vicious hate crime described Salvador as “Richmond Man”—or the more lavishly specific “Man”:
“Richmond Man Convicted in Gang Rape of Lesbian”
—Associated Press, December 19, 2013
“Richmond Man Sentenced to 411 Years, Four Months for Gang Rape”
—Contra Costa Times (California), May 16, 2014
“411-Year Term Given in Rape of Lesbian”
—San Francisco Chronicle, May 20, 2014
“Man Sentenced in California Gang Rape of Lesbian”
—Associated Press, May 20, 2014
Also about the same time Carroll was hoping for more poor Central American illegal immigrants to pour in and put an end to America’s infernal rape culture, Juan Carlos Sanchez was charged with raping his stepdaughters, aged nine and eleven—with the assistance of his wife and mother-in-law, who were also charged with child abuse.14
That Juan Carlos Sanchez should not be confused with the Juan Carlos Sanchez who was one of Colorado’s “Most Wanted Sex Offenders,” convicted in 2005 for raping a twelve-year-old girl after slipping a muscle relaxer into her drink.15
Nor was it the Juan Carlos Sanchez, twenty-two, charged with statutory rape for having sex with a thirteen-year-old girl in North Carolina in 2007.16
And it was not the thirty-five-year-old Juan Carlos Sanchez Ayala arrested in Sacramento in 2004 for molesting a five-year-old boy.17
It was a different Juan Carlos Sanchez. Sometimes, it seems like we’re not getting the crème de la crème when it comes to immigrants. Maybe it would work better if the decision of who gets to live here were made by us, not them. Perhaps we should consider qualifications more stringent than “lives within walking distance.”
HERE ARE SOME RAPE CULTURES FOR YOU!
Outside of the West, all countries have flourishing rape cultures. Every year the State Department puts out a report ranking countries in terms of human sex trafficking, and every year, countries with the least human trafficking include all of the West (America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, nearly all of Western Europe, and Israel), plus South Korea and Taiwan. With only two exceptions—Nicaragua and Colombia (and they’re cooking the books)—the rest of the world is awash in the human sex trade.18
In lying to its readers about another subject—the heterosexual transmission of AIDS19—the New York Times inadvertently revealed how women and children are treated in Thailand:
Five young women in casual clothes sit opposite them on similar benches, but behind a display window of cheap glass. They chat among themselves, brushing each other’s hair or playing with the brothel dog.
In the unshaded light of a pink fluorescent tube, their makeup looks coarse, their lipstick purple. One young woman wears a “Snoopy and his friends” T-shirt dress. Over her breast is a blue, heart-shaped pin with a number. Some women wear yellow pins. These are price tags.
In this establishment, with its chatty mama-san, shrine to the Buddha and small table of snacks for indecisive clients, a half-hour of sex with a woman with a blue pin costs 65 baht, or $2.60; with a yellow pin, $2.
These young women live at the brothel, a shabby building of bamboo and thatch, roofed with tin, in the Thai city of Chiang Mai. They are always on call, and each has between 10 and 20 customers a day. In this area, in this kind of brothel, four of five women carry the AIDS virus.20
We take more immigrants from Thailand than from Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand combined.21
INDIA’S RAPE CULTURE
The New York Times reports that India is “one of the most unsafe countries in the world for women,”22 ranking just slightly ahead of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. Gang rapes are common and cause little alarm.
In December 2012, a fifteen-year-old girl was gang-raped while she was walking home from school in a northern province of India, putting her in the hospital in critical condition. The girl’s rape was not reported for three days because of “family pressure,” according to the police.23 The next day, a female medical student boarded a bus with a male companion in Delhi, where at least six men attacked the two with metal rods, dragged the woman to the back of the bus, and gang-raped her. The victims were then tossed from the moving bus. The rape victim had to undergo several surgeries, requiring most of her intestines to be removed. She eventually died of her injuries. Men in Delhi blamed the woman. “In most cases, it’s the girl’s fault,” Ram Singh told a Times reporter.24
National Public Radio attributes the high rate of gang rape in India to “unelected, all-male village councils” that “influence attitudes toward women.
”25 America was bristling with “all-male village councils” from around 1620 to 1960, and yet women here were astonishingly safe.
LATIN AMERICAN RAPE CULTURE
India’s rape culture is impressive, but, according to Professor Carlos Javier Echarri Cánovas of El Colegio de Mexico, who studies violence against women: “The fact is that the rate of rape in Mexico is higher than in India.”26 A report from the Inter-American Children’s Institute explained that Latin America is second only to Asia in the sexual exploitation of women and children because sex abuse is “ingrained into the minds of the people.” Women and children are “seen as objects instead of human beings with rights and freedoms.”27
Try to imagine waking up to this report on American cities: “Women, especially if they are young, working class and poor, run the risk of being murdered and having their mutilated and raped bodies show up some morning in the streets of numerous Latin American cities, as evidenced by the more than 1,500 cases reported in the last decade that remain unsolved and unpunished.”
That’s from a report by the Inter Press Service titled “Latin America: Women Murdered, Raped—and Ignored.”28 The women’s corpses are typically defaced, especially the genital areas, and their bodies are “positioned so that their sex organs are exposed.” Commenting on the sexually macabre murders, Claudio Nash, the coordinator of the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Chile, said that in Latin America, “being subjected to these kinds of attacks is almost intrinsic to being a woman. They are not seen as violations of basic human rights.”29