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To: CharlesWayneCT
Just for my own edification, would you mind giving me a link to a story (even WND will do at this point) that he was running drugs in June of the year he was shot? I know he was just arrested, I believe for drugs in October. I haven’t seen a report of a June run.

John and Ken had someone on who said that the pot smuggling in the fall was NOT the first time he'd done it since after the shooting, and I believe they mentioned June. I am sorry, I cannot recall the name of the interviewee but he was massively informed about the case and I believe he was quoting someone (a witness or something?) who said he was running the drugs not long after his shooting. In which month did he receive his immunity?

262 posted on 11/26/2007 11:03:32 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I’ll just say that a lot of information about this case seems to come from people being interviewed who know lots of stuff and talked to people who told them things.

A story like that can’t be proven false, isn’t known to be true, and has no probative value.

This is why I wait until facts are presented by reputable news sources before I accept the truth of something. Once in a while, these unfounded stories turn out to be true, but often they don’t. Those that don’t simply fade away, except whenever the subject is discussed you’ll get people who will swear they are true because they read them somewhere.

It’s this last aspect that I’m fighting here. I don’t want people years from now to be repeating every false piece of information WND or others put out on this case simply because they didn’t know the sources had no foundation and were wrong.

Some people get mad at me for that, but I don’t care. Some don’t want to wait for proof, since they are sure they are right. They forget all the times that were wrong.

If there was nobody asking for facts here, someone reading THIS thread would have assumed as “truth” that Davila was paid over a million for his testimony, that the fact was illegally withheld from the courts, and that Davila wasn’t really injured at all, and that he was running drugs in June.

Two of those claims were known to be false, and two others have no evidence to support them. Feel free to believe the two with no evidence, but they aren’t facts yet, just speculation.


263 posted on 11/27/2007 5:37:36 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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