Posted on 01/07/2007 5:54:45 PM PST by SmithL
Green Bay -- A Hmong hunter has been found dead in a wildlife area in a case that is stirring memories of a mass shooting that exposed racial tensions.
Cha Vang, 30, of Green Bay, was found dead Saturday morning, a night after he was reported missing in the Peshtigo Harbor Wildlife Area in northeastern Wisconsin. Investigators have not said how they believe he died but said they are treating the case as a homicide. An autopsy is planned for Monday.
Authorities detained a 28-year-old Peshtigo man, James Nichols, who showed up at a medical center Saturday with a gunshot wound that wasn't life-threatening, said Laurel Steffes, a spokeswoman for the Marinette County Sheriff's Department. He is considered a person of interest but was being held on a parole violation from an unrelated burglary conviction and had not been charged in Vang's death, she said.
Dealings between the Hmong, an ethnic minority group from Southeast Asia, and predominantly white residents of the mostly rural north woods have been on edge since November 2004, when Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang, 38, of St. Paul, Minn., killed six white hunters and injured two while trespassing in a private tree stand.
Chai Vang claimed he acted in self-defense after they shouted racial epithets, cursed at him and one fired a shot in his direction. The former truck driver is serving multiple life terms.
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To hell with diversity, the Hmong are out of place, it's time to go back home. And they have fared far better here than white Wisconsins would have in southeast Asia. Think of all the social benefits and welfare the Hmong have received....
Are only whites acceptable to you?
See how the whites, blacks and asians have screwed the place up, maybe we ought to just give ALL of Wisconsin up to the Oneida ~ just the way Thomas Jefferson intended.
This latest shooting was a tragedy. I hope the Hmong are big enough not to enflame a difficult situation that all are struggling to overcome.
Others on this site are way to polite, but if you really believe your post, someone needs to tell you, "You're an idiot."
'Nuf said.
"Chai Vang claimed he acted in self-defense after they shouted racial epithets, cursed at him and one fired a shot in his direction. The former truck driver is serving multiple life terms."
I love this little part to make it sound like the Chai thing (and implicating this latest case) is all because of racism by the whites. Obviously the jurors didn't think that was the case, or he wouldn't be serving multiple life terms.
And there very well may be a "cultural" misunderstanding aspect to this latest case as well. Things such as private property, game limits, hunting seasons, etc.
He's a Texan. He has no clue what's going on up here in Wisconsin.
Yes, Thomas Jefferson wanted to use Wisconsin as a gigantic reservation, just like Oklahoma finally became (until the Cherokee joined the Confederacy).
Well, anyway, both history and biting sarcasm can be lost on some people.
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Yeah, right, if you're stupid enough to believe that.
I think this thread is degenerating rapidly. There are other threads much more interesting; see you later.
I got it, as I'm sure most did. I've been sitting back waiting for your reply.
Way too soft, you can do better than that.
Technically, should the Amerindians own all American land west of the Mississippi?
Why just west of the Mississippi? Most of the tribes in Oklahoma were removed from the East Coast.
And opinion, your opinion is absurd.
Just another "loose end" from the last time the Democrats forced a "Cut and Run" strategy.
And for some of the dense folk on this thread, no, not supporting giving all the land west of the Mississippi to the Amerindians.
And for some of the dense folk on this thread, no, not supporting giving all the land west of the Mississippi to the Amerindians.
You're a large part of why the thread is degenerating.
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