Posted on 04/08/2006 1:50:37 PM PDT by Dallas59
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS CONFERENCE Sunday, April 9, 2006 12:00 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 710 S. Sultana Ave., Ontario, CA 91761
Louise Corales, whose 14 year-old son, Anthony Soltero, died on April 1 after committing suicide, will speak to the community and ask for a prayer for her son this Sunday, following the 11:00 a.m. mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario, California.
Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and threatened to fine his mother for Anthony's truancy and participation in the student protests."
Anthony was learning about the importance of civic duties and rights in his eighth grade class. Ironically, he died because the vice principal at his school threatened him for speaking out and exercising those rights," Ms. Corales said today. "I want to speak out to other parents, whose children are attending the continuing protests this week. We have to let the schools know that they can't punish our children for exercising their rights."
Anthony's death is likely the first fatality arising from the protests against the immigration legislation being considered in Washington, D.C. Anthony, who was a very good student at De Anza Middle School in the Ontario-Montclair School District, believed in justice and was passionate about the immigration issue. He is survived by his mother, Louise Corales, his father, a younger sister, and a baby brother.
Ms. Corales will speak to the community after mass on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. She will ask for a prayer for Anthony, whose funeral and burial are scheduled for Monday, April 10 in Long Beach, where he was born..
big BS
Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington.
Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington.
Correction: he died because the vice principal at his school threatened him for speaking out and exercising those rights he shot himself. The vice principal did not shoot him.
...he died because the vice principal at his school threatened him for speaking out and exercising those rights," ...
Actually, he died becuase of HIS OWN DECISION to kill himself.
It's not the vice principal's fault even though it was a pretty stupid thing for the VP to say.
(from DailyKos):"*UPDATE* - I did not post this story to be a flame war about who is responsible, who should be strung up, or why or if anyone could have prevented this. No one needs to be called or e-mailed right now.
"Please respect that a child died, and if this community can send healing thoughts and prayers, I'm sure it would be most appreciated by the family.
"And if you are so inclined, feel free to sends cards of condolence and/or flowers to the church for Sunday:
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
710 S. Sultana Ave., Ontario, CA 91761
"2nd UPDATE: I understand concerns people might have about the veracity of this press release - I did not see anything on the internet, but I did talk to a family representative who did not give me the impression that this is fake.
"In light of concerns that some of you might have, I would suggest unrecommending this diary - go to the right and hit the same button you hit to recommend. Also, if you e-mail me, I will send you the e-mail addressof the person who sent out the press release, so you can do your own verification.
"Again, it is not my intention or desire to decieve anyone, nor do I feel that is the intention of the person who put out the release."
I figured it was BS.
Not BS, it is enemy propaganda bull shit.
Uh, no, he died because he shot himself in the head.
If the mom wants to blame the school officials, it's only fair to point out that most kid's don't shoot themselves when they run up against authority. Probably no small part of it has to do with his upbringing.
There is as yet no evidence that anyone died. This is from a completely unverified posting to the DailyKos. It has all the earmarks of a bogus story planted just to stir the muck.
It is almost certainly false, completely made up. Nevertheless, watch the loons run with it. It will be urban legend by nightfall and on protester's signs on Monday.
Either it's a fake, or the Catholic Church holds masses for suicides now.
Good eye for detail.
A little thread can unravel the largest sweater.
I cannot find as of yet anybody who died on April 1(april fools?) by that name, however I have found a poster there named Tony Soltero who frequents that site and blogs there and as of a posting of his on the 5th is yet dead.
Exactly.
Even this propaganda can't pass the smell test for Catholics, or even non Catholics alike.
Darwin Award.
What's next? Mahoney offers strychnine-laced koolaid to deportees to save them from the 'cruelty' of being sent back to their home countries?
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