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NYC journalist killed in Mexico shootout[Oaxaca]
Houston Chronicle ^ | Oct. 28, 2006 | COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 10/28/2006 6:05:14 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: SwinneySwitch

Sound like the decedent was allied with the bad guys.

He fought the law and the law won.


21 posted on 10/28/2006 8:28:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: SwinneySwitch

pics from dear bradley@risingup.net from the last several weeks...

tremendous amount of graffiti, damage... they are destroying that town... lots of che graffiti, anarchist symbols, indymedia grafitti, etc.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/29/18304401.php


22 posted on 10/28/2006 8:42:17 AM PDT by Tamzee (If you got 75 or 80% of what you were asking for... you take it & fight for the rest later - Reagan)
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To: Tamzee

The first sentence is wrong, hm? Seems that he was deterred by violence....


23 posted on 10/28/2006 8:44:36 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: montag813

I'm capturing a bit about him to post for the records... he IS gonna be a rachel-corrie-type martyr for the left... watch for a play about him in about a year LOL

He called himself an anarchist in his own writings... this piece discusses his history as a squatter and being on the violence watch lists for the nyc gop convention...

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"Anarchists Say Smears Were Way Out Of Order"

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_73/anarchistssaysmearwere.html

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Brad Will, 34, a veteran former East Village squatter and activist now living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, said he was disturbed to hear from friends that his photo was among those shown on “Nightline.” In addition, he said, a waiter friend of his at an East Village restaurant, reported that while taking an order on Aug. 30 she noticed some detectives at a table flipping through photos, one of which was Will’s.


“She said, ‘Watch out, they’re following you,’ ” Will said. “It made me nervous.


“I’m planning on launching some kind of lawsuit, defamation of character. They put my photo on ‘Nightline,’ ” he said. “I never hurt anyone in my life. There are no cases pending against me. I’m a journalist now, I don’t want my career to be ruined. I don’t want to lose my job — I just started working at a health food store in the East Village.”


Will videotaped the convention protests for Indymedia, doing his best to avoid arrest, though he did get pepper-sprayed during the arrests of 500 to 600 protesters during a “street party” march on 16th St. on Aug. 31.


“The police were targeting people with cameras,” he said. “They got me on the side of my face and shoulder.”


Like others identified as potentially violent anarchists, Will doesn’t deny having been arrested before. He’s been collared about seven times, but like others on the N.Y.P.D.’s “Top 50” R.N.C. protesters list, he said these arrests were for nonviolent civil disobedience, mostly for sitting down in community gardens to block bulldozers, then getting grabbed by police.


“Very violent arrests,” he deadpanned. He was also arrested for sneaking into the former E. Fifth St. Squat when it was being demolished in 1996 and for participating in Reclaim the Streets events, “anti-capitalist” actions temporarily “taking back” public space by dropping flower planters in the street and staging dance parties.

“Pretty violent,” Will again said sarcastically.

To Will, anarchy means “anti-authoritarian,” “anti-oppression,” “self-rule,” “local control” and, ideally, no government. He contributed a chapter on community gardens to a book on global movements, “We Are Everywhere,” in which he identified himself as an anarchist.

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24 posted on 10/28/2006 8:55:57 AM PDT by Tamzee (If you got 75 or 80% of what you were asking for... you take it & fight for the rest later - Reagan)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Will, who was working for Indymedia.org, an independent Web-based media organization

Independent. Right. It's flaming liberal.

25 posted on 10/28/2006 9:22:07 AM PDT by lowbridge (A liberal is a person that will gladly give you the shirt off of someone elses back.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

http://www.cpj.org/killed/killed06.html


26 posted on 10/28/2006 9:26:48 AM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: lowbridge

It's communist.


27 posted on 10/28/2006 10:21:41 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic is that the Free Clinic knows how to stop a leak.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Flaming liberal...communist. Same thing. '-)


28 posted on 10/28/2006 10:23:07 AM PDT by lowbridge (A liberal is a person that will gladly give you the shirt off of someone elses back.)
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To: taxed2death

if iwas the fatal shot,the shooter was pretty good,one-handed,unstable stance and maybe 30 feet away-and it was a center mass hit dead center


29 posted on 10/28/2006 10:33:28 AM PDT by steamroller
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To: steamroller

btw-if i had to bet,i'd say the shooter was plaincothes mexican pd-they have a shorter tolerance span for leftist agitators during critical times than we do-if it was a .45 acp the shooter had to be pd or military-no one else can get get that caliber in mexico-when i was with ins we were always locking up mexicans who had purchased colt super .38's to take back home because they were 1911's,but not .45acp,so they were okay to own south of the border


30 posted on 10/28/2006 10:40:08 AM PDT by steamroller
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To: SwinneySwitch

Who wants to bet that AMLO is behind this...


31 posted on 10/28/2006 3:52:36 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Caipirabob

http://fotos.eluniversal.com.mx/fotogaleria/wfg.html?gal=2839

What's eerie is to see the photos just before he's killed.


32 posted on 10/28/2006 6:26:51 PM PDT by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" for the Unborn Child)
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To: Caipirabob

Before, I thought that the APPO violence is closely related to how the Pre-Nazi SA started. But the more foreign influence is pouring into the area, the more it may ressemble the Spanish Civil War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

It could go either way. The devil is very hard at work here. It's obvious that he's tried to sucker the Western Hemisphere into a protracted confrontation. The other angle we shouldn't ignore is the pan global influence that some other players would want to manipulate (and deflate US power).

Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Holy Rosary, and the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist will stamp this out.


33 posted on 10/28/2006 6:34:57 PM PDT by SaltyJoe ("Social Justice" for the Unborn Child)
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