I don’t know which Freepers you are referring to, but I am among the most vocal when it comes to illegal immigration/amnesty and I’m here to tell ya that it’s my opinion that for whatever reason, this story just doesn’t add up. I am in no way blaming the victims, I just believe there is much more to it than we know.
I’m not referring to any specific Freepers. Well I am but it isn’t like I’ve got a list of names or anything.
For now, let me expand on the thread that ended up so horrifically, at least as I saw it, a couple of weeks ago.
Understand that at that time this story was new. The girl had just reported her husband’s alleged death. The “witness” had just showed uup, anonymous with disguised voice.
I know, for sure, I’m not alone, but right from the start I thought this girl’s story sounded so wrong.
At that time I found myself...well not just me but there were a whole bunch of Freepers that wanted, desperately wanted, to believe this girl’s story.
It wasn’t that they necessarily had any kindness in their hearts for the girl but we’re all exasperated with how our guvment is handling immigration and of late there’s been big problems with Mexican drug cartels, now spilling over into our own country.
THIS very, very odd story was the perfect storm of just how bad this Mexican drug problem has become, the Mexican authorities would not help find this woman’s husband, jet skis are very valuable to Mexicans....
There were just a lot of Freepers that wanted to take this story and champion it as proof positive that the Mexican problem has now gotten so bad that innocent American jet skiers are being murdered while harmlessly playing on a lake.
Never mind that her story had so many holes it would sink a ship. I was lambasting for believing Mexicans over an American and hey, hard as it may be to believe, Americans DO lie. It was like I was unpatriotic because I did not believe this girl’s story.
No wait...it wasn’t that I did NOT believe her story, hell I’m not sure what to believe now though I lean toward not believing her. It was just that I expressed DOUBTS....how dare I....this innocent American woman loses her husband so horrifically and you unpatriotic Benedict Arnold refuse to accept her story unquestioned.
As these things go people got bored and went away. It was just....come on....it doesn’t help to jump on one rather strange, probably FALSE story as some sort of benchmark of proof that the Mexican problem is now officially beyond the pale.
Well the Mexico problem is beyond the pale but not because of this girl’s story.
That’s all. You’ll get a bunch of Freepers that don’t want to hear about the holes in this story...they want to believe, they want to rail at the gods that Mexican drug lords are taking over our waterways, they want to shout warnings to all that soon we’ll not be able to jet ski for pleasure without being shot in the head by Mexican drug lords out to kill...well innocent jet skiers I guess.
I consider it kind of an intriguing story but that’s just my True Crime self coming out. I’d just like to know the truth and I don’t want to be called names and have aspersions cast upon me just because I question this very questionable story.
Anyway....I’m trying to explain myself. I’m sure those Freepers that want to believe this girl at any cost will be around but after this I won’t comment.
They’ll shout you down and call you names.