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Gunman enters Miami Herald newspaper offices
Reuters ^ | 11-24-06 | Staff

Posted on 11/24/2006 11:23:24 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182

MIAMI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A man possibly carrying a machine gun entered the headquarters of the Miami Herald newspaper on Friday, forcing some workers to evacuate the bayfront building in downtown Miami, police and newspaper officials said.

The man, who was wearing camouflage, was identified by Herald employees as Jose Varela, a cartoonist who had worked for the Herald's Spanish-language sister publication, El Nuevo Herald.

"We believe he's armed with what the security guard is describing as a machine gun," Miami Police spokesman Delrish Moss told CNN. No one was was being held hostage and no shots had been fired.

Miami Herald Executive Editor Tom Fiedler said the man apparently believed the newspaper was not being properly run.

El Nuevo reporter Rui Ferreira said in a blog that he had spoken to the gunman, who told him, "You are speaking to the new director of the newspaper and I am going to unmask all of the true conflicts in the newspaper."

Varela called the paper a "pigsty", said it made fun of the Cuban exile community in Miami and that the paper paid poorly.

"They've been making fun of people long enough and today they will see it end in violence. But someone has to pay and that person is going to be (Humberto) Castello." he said, referring to the Spanish-language paper's executive editor.

Ferreira said Varela had been in the newsroom a week ago and told former colleagues he had bought himself a sawn-off shotgun and an Uzi submachine gun because he felt unsafe in Jupiter, a Florida town he moved to after his recent divorce.

The newspaper is owned by McClatchy Co. (MNI.N: Quote, Profile, Research).


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To: Retired Chemist

Larry Coker?


21 posted on 11/24/2006 12:14:25 PM PST by wordsofearnest (Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Where in the he!! are the human shields to protect him from the bad, bad Jackboots........??? Oh my.....

I just hope it's the beginning of a trend for the MSM.


22 posted on 11/24/2006 12:15:59 PM PST by Gator113
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Who did Dave Barry piss off this time?


23 posted on 11/24/2006 12:18:56 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: ExSoldier

Love your tagline. Is that your own, or did you borrow it from somewhere? I might need to hang a framed copy of it, and ought to attribute it properly.


24 posted on 11/24/2006 12:19:28 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Anti-Bubba182

The Herald needs a policy prohibiting people from carrying machine guns into the newsroom.


25 posted on 11/24/2006 12:21:45 PM PST by Tribune7
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To: ApplegateRanch

I would love to see a mime field where they lay down a bunch of mimes like Marcel Marceau. I am sorry but that gave me a mental picture that left me LOL!


26 posted on 11/24/2006 12:22:41 PM PST by samantha
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To: ExSoldier
Hi ExSoldier-

That is unfortunate news your family has gone insane and has turned extremely liberal. You must be very disappointed with them. We're glad you're here.

~ Blue Jays ~

27 posted on 11/24/2006 12:25:43 PM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: samantha
I would love to see a mime field where they lay down a bunch of mimes like Marcel Marceau.

That is exactly what was intended.

Concealed mimes, and when the perp steps on one, he is immediately, harmlessly enclosed in an invisible, inescapable box.

28 posted on 11/24/2006 12:26:42 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Sounds like the cartoonist has lost his sense of humor;)


29 posted on 11/24/2006 12:31:18 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Nathan Zachary
A disgruntled cartoonist? What's this world coming to?

When I first saw the headline about an armed cartoonist entering the Miami Herald my first thought was, is this a Dave Barry Column?
30 posted on 11/24/2006 12:38:47 PM PST by redheadtoo
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To: Anti-Bubba182; All

Jupiter FL? Actually that is a pretty safe area compared to Miami. It is rather nice and marked with very large homes.

I bet he has a semi-automatic not full auto. (class three license and all that)

For some reason I think this is not the fist time this has happened to the Miami Herald.

The Miami Herald is notoriously anti-cuban or more correctly pro-communist. It is also one of the papers that Laura Ingram said lost 9.X% of thier readership. (I think it was just short of 10%)

I would file this under dinosaur media alert.

Considering that we are in heavy Christmas ad time. (or holiday ad time if you are anti-american) This is bad for the Miami Herald. As an advertiser I would be looking to get them to cut my holiday rates.


31 posted on 11/24/2006 12:47:23 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: ExSoldier

Wow. That's incredible. Very interesting information.


32 posted on 11/24/2006 1:03:01 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Doe Eyes
If you want more liberal, you need to photoshop in the mastheads of the NYT or SanFran Zaminer.
As is said locally, They report, we despise.
33 posted on 11/24/2006 1:04:27 PM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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To: longtermmemmory

Jupiter?
If I won the lottery, Jupe would be my first choice for a place to reside.
Looks nice, and is as civilized a town as you can find.
I know of no negatives about it, except for the costs of housing. Muy upsacle.


34 posted on 11/24/2006 1:09:53 PM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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To: Gideon Reader
Maybe he has lots of fish. That is what we use the "wrapper" as it is dismissively known as here in SoFlo,for

Holy cow GR, don't use it for that! - you will never get that smell out of the fish.

35 posted on 11/24/2006 1:30:22 PM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I have often suspected that many newspaper cartoonists have no sense of humor.


36 posted on 11/24/2006 2:52:07 PM PST by Grut
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To: ApplegateRanch

Too funny....What a story in a mind, mime picture. LOL!


37 posted on 11/24/2006 4:24:47 PM PST by samantha
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Love your tagline. Is that your own, or did you borrow it from somewhere? I might need to hang a framed copy of it, and ought to attribute it properly.

I spent over an hour trying to make the whole thing fit in the space provided for the tagline. I'd love to give the proper credit....and it AIN'T me! Couldn't fit it though. Actually it's Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin. I thought that it was very appropriate since I teach social studies in an inner city high school...where the ummmm "party line" is decidedly different.

38 posted on 11/24/2006 4:31:02 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: Blue Jays
That is unfortunate news your family has gone insane and has turned extremely liberal. You must be very disappointed with them.

Actually I find it rather amusing. I am also extremely proud of all their accomplishments! For me Rule #1 is that "family rules." They're all proud of me, too. Just because we disagree on politics....who cares? I don't. In at least one case I think the problem is environment: Living for the last 30 yrs in Boston and working as a journalist & producer can't help but be a corrupting influence. They live in their world, I live in mine. There are times when the two worlds can peacefully coexist such as family reunions and various Holidays. ALSO, I had a firm hand in doing a little "corrupting" of my own. When you're the chief babysitter to a nephew from the age of 13, there can't help but be a small transfer of ideology! LOL THAT kid is now 36 and a hunter (bow & rifle); has several handguns and is a CCW permit holder. I'm damn proud of that one!

39 posted on 11/24/2006 4:41:53 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier

You're in an excellent position to sneak Second Amendment awareness into a segment of the population that needs is most. 2A organizations have utterly failed to target inner city blacks, despite the fact that the cities where they are a large presence are the ones with the most onerous anti-gun laws. It really shouldn't be a difficult concept to get through to people whose crime-infested communities give rise to a most urgent need for effective self-defense. We need to generate a wave of pissed off law-abiding black people demanding to know why politicians (mostly white -- think Bloomberg for a current high profile example) are so keen on keeping them from defending themselves and from eliminating violent criminals from their communities by the direct method.

I used to be appalled by the frequent reports of high profile black crime victims (often hip-hop artists or similar semi-celebrities) who refuse to cooperate at all with police efforts to identify and prosecute the perps. But I've come to have a more moderated view of that. Most of these guys pack heat "illegally" (though quite Constitutionally), and properly regard the police as enforcers of laws aimed at preventing them from defending themselves this way. And in some cases, they and their pals will track down their attackers themselves, and deal with them a lot more appropriately than our expensive, ineffective "justice" system would.


40 posted on 11/27/2006 7:43:30 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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