Sum effect of GOP/Tea Party Family Values?

I think that the only thing that could make this poor Giuliani kid (see below) scream again to the world that she has Daddy issues would be to bring home a girlfriend or, God forbid, a Mexican! I know some people, quite well unfortunately, who've successfully inculcated their daughter--an otherwise bright, engaging, talented young woman--to believe that darker skin is to be feared and disdained, something she does without thinking ( I realize that was redundant but I'm on a deadline here 'cause we're going to FLA tomorrow).

You know how sensitive people are about the appearance of looking or sounding racist or bigoted? All that animus thrown at "illegal immigrants" hasn't been about race or ethnic superiority, because the folks in Arizona are just patriotic Americans. That being said, I agree there is a major problem with the state of immigration in the country. Why else would an 8-y/o classmate of Haydon tell us he wished Godzilla would only attack cities where people who "spoke Mexican lived." When asked why he would say such a thing, he said, "My Dad showed me that Mexicans eat dogs and I believe him because he's my dad."

Now, what would make an innocent kid living in an upper middle class neighborhood harbor such ill-will toward a group of people...unless someone taught him to believe that that way? I Googled the question about dog-eating Mexicans and found exactly one "news" story about a "bunch of dog and cat and rat eating" Mexican gang members. There was no other corroboration of the outlandish charges, but what better way to get American kids to despise Mexicans? A dozen other stories included the question of whether Mexicans eat dogs--curiously, all around the same time frame--with every one of them concluding that, "NO! Goddammit! Mexicans do NOT eat dogs!!!"

Depending on the responses and the amount oF time I have, I may hafta look into this a little more deeply. I've never been prone to conspiracy theories, but the wording and timing of this thing is intriguing as the divisions betwixt the proponents and opponents of the controversial Arizona legislation inre: checking the legal status of EVERY person "of interest". My own feelings (besides the one shown above) are that demagoguery and clever marketing by political machines have effectively branded an entire nation of proud, hard-working and decent people as ruffians, law-breakers, and lazy lay-abouts. Even their legislators are reprobates. But enough about Idaho.

News story:
NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested Wednesday on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge at a beauty supplies store after she was seen on security video pocketing makeup, police said.
Caroline Giuliani, a 20-year-old Harvard University student, was seen taking five items worth more than $100 at a Sephora store in Manhattan, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.

Store managers, after calling police, said they didn't want to press charges against her, Browne said. But police arrested her on a petty larceny charge, he said.

Giuliani, wearing black pants and a red sweater and with her arms folded, exited a police precinct Wednesday evening and quickly got into an SUV with a man and a woman. She did not respond to reporters' questions.

Her father, through a spokeswoman, said the case was a personal matter and asked the media to respect her privacy.

The Manhattan district attorney's office had not decided whether to file formal charges against her, office spokeswoman Erin Duggan said.

Caroline Giuliani is the younger of the former New York mayor's two children with ex-wife Donna Hanover, a television reporter and actress. She is believed to be estranged from her prosecutor-turned-politican father.

In 2007, when Rudy Giuliani was seeking the Republican nomination for president, Caroline Giuliani listed herself as a member of Barack Obama's Facebook group supporting his candidacy. But she left the group after an online magazine sent her an inquiry about it, and she didn't comment on the presidential race.

Rudy Giuliani lost to U.S. Sen. John McCain, who lost to Obama.

He has asked for privacy to deal with strained relationships in his family. His son, Andrew Giuliani, 23, has said their relationship became distant after his father's messy divorce from his mother and marriage to another woman.

The arrest Wednesday was first reported by the New York Post.