Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck Advocates Slaughtering Immigrants Like Pigs

Victory: Over 4000 Change.org members signed the petition demanding a public apolgy from Rep. Peck -- and you won!

File this under "atrocious statement of the month": Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R-Tyro) piped up during a debate about feral swine control funding with a suggestion as unrelated as it was offensive to murder undocumented immigrants. "It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem," Peck declared to gasps from the audience and fellow lawmakers.

Rep. Peck is not sorry. He was just making a funny, after all. Because nothing spells humor quite like advocating the murder of hardworking mothers, fathers, and children. Especially when you get to compare them to wild pigs at the same time! Ho ho ho, ha ha ha ... eh.

"I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person," Peck went on to say. Really? I wasn't aware that people who lived in the southeast portion of Kansas were such fans of slaughtering human beings as if they represented nothing more than so many feral pigs. Isn't it a rule that genocide jokes are never funny? But Peck thinks that being disgruntled (ahem) by federal inaction on immigration reforms completely justifies his brand of "humor."

Let's think about this: Brisenia Flores was only nine when she and her father were murdered in their Arizona home by extremist Minutemen border vigilantes. Minutemen leader Shawna Forde, who would patrol the border gun in hand, was just weeks ago found guilty of invading Brisenia's home and stealing away her life. Forde's hatred for immigrants and willingness to execute an innocent child in cold blood was fueled and supported by dehumanizing nativist rhetoric — like Rep. Peck's "joke."

Appropriations Chairman Marc Rhoades, R-Newton, called Peck's off-topic suggestion of bloodshed "inappropriate," which rather understates the manner, and expressed a preference that his colleague not feel the need to share his brand of humor in the future. Peck, however, still doesn't see any problem with his remarks. He also feels confident that he won't have to deal with any more controversy over his outrageous statement, telling the Lawrence Journal World. "I think it's over."

Let's prove him wrong, shall we?

Tell Kansas State Republican officials that Rep. Peck's remarks go beyond the "inappropriate," and demand they immediately censure him for the offensive, dehumanizing, and dangerous suggestion that we slaughter immigrants like wild pigs.

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