Posted on 02/19/2007 8:13:58 PM PST by deport
El Paso Times article which can't be posted...... Other agents are being terminated it seems.
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Get your copy of the Constitution and keep it in your safe. After the coming ugliness, maybe there'll be enough copies left to rebuild America from the ashes.
The AP writer tells you what a certain "written report" says ~ yet, in the preceding 46 clauses the AP writer has been telling you what the border agents did or did not "report" to their supervisors.
I think what we have here is another one of those "when you say it in Spanish it's clear" deals, just like we had in California when the Hispanic caucus went after the Vietnamese candidate and lied about what a letter sent out of his office to new voters really said.
I am sure the AP reporter didn't realize that the use of "report" as an active verb, and "the report" as a noun, are pretty clearly different things in their context in English.
Still, the AP editor did his best to translate this mess into useful English ~ which is what reveals it to be mostly propaganda.
That means he must have fired at least 12 rounds, maybe 17. Something doesn't sound right about that.
Not if it was a .45. Anyone know what caliber gun he used?
That means he must have fired at least 12 rounds, maybe 17. Something doesn't sound right about that.
I beleive they are referring to the drug seizure report, not a shooting report.
The deal is you talk about one thing with a name similar to that of something else you are going to trot out later for a totally different purpose.
We're not going to resolve the issue of the two border agents in these threads but we can sure dig up and highlight AP's treachery.
I'm not sure I understand your point. Where is the propaganda?
She has the agents NOT REPORTING, and then she has a REPORT prepared by a supervisor that doesn't reflect what she wants us to believe wasn't reported.
That is propaganda.
After all the requirement for the agents to do an "oral report" is a totally different process than that which results in a "written report" by a supervisor, and they take place at different times and as a consequence of different rules.
"Retired Border Patrol agent David Ham, a former assistant chief in El Paso, trekked out to the shooting scene not long ago. He wanted to see it for himself as the national outrage grew." "They're picking the wrong guys to make heroes," he said." "After 31 years in the Border Patrol, Ham heads up the retired agents' association in El Paso. Months back, a Border Patrol official gave the group an overview of the case against Ramos and Compean; Ham and some other retired colleagues have since refused to appear at vigils or news conferences in defense of the men. "
Propaganda: information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.
As usual the Associated Press writes another tilted story, a hit-piece almost, to make the agents look bad. It quotes one juror whose happy to see these two agents in jail, but fails to note the one who thinks they're innoncent now and was tricked into voting guilty. Though at least they mentioned two who think they're innocent on some counts they were convicted of. Most of the quotes are anti-agent too. A sad attempt to debunk anything. It doesn't even mentioned the lying before congress or the 81 representatives who support a pardon.
The Associated Press, slowly but surely, becomes a bigger laughing stock at time goes on.
I think I read in the transcript that it was a .40 and that there was a magazine exchange. The reporter's version does not quite jibe with all that I had read in the transcripts either. Definitely propaganda.
"The Associated Press, slowly but surely, becomes a bigger laughing stock at time goes on."
That should read: The Associated Press, slowly but surely, becomes a bigger laughing stock as time goes on.
The AP makes it sound like just a few representatives want a pardon. 81 is a lot.
"The reporter's version does not quite jibe with all that I had read in the transcripts either."
How so?
Vasquez didn't testify, unless the court somehow wiped all mention of his testimony from the trial transcripts that Johnny Sutton released.
And what did he say on Cross Examination? The threat was over by the time this guy arrived. "It was over by the time I got there." He wasn't a sitting duck; Aldrete-Davila was already on the other side of the Rio Grande in Mexico when this guy drove up on the scene!.
This article is filled with the same kind of rhetoric Johnny Sutton has been putting out for the last year.
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