tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21813039983102439982024-03-05T22:00:16.305-08:00Borderline MadnessWith all the madness in the world today, sometimes, you just have to draw the line somewhere.iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-14028845478868614472015-01-21T16:51:00.001-08:002015-01-21T16:51:50.487-08:00Freedom of information is not free!<p dir="ltr">Sorry I haven't been active lately. </p>
<p dir="ltr">After naively believing that I could get the government to help me solve both my personal and my hobby problems, I came to the startling realization that we really have no rights when it comes to freedom of information. Thus, I figured it was pointless to continue pushing for answers that we'd never get.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I guess you could say I fell into somewhat of a depression, feeling that I let every one down considering we had made such good progress only to run into a wall I could not overcome.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I have so much to say and not enough words to say them.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here is a recap of what I've discovered:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1) Our freedom to information is worthless unless you have money to buy it, and even then could you find out that you paid for naught.<br>
2) You can invent information and get away with it. All you have to do is take a course on how inventing information is bad.<br>
3) The Texas Attorney General, FBI, Texas Rangers, DPS, and pretty much every agency that claims to be there to protect your rights, are worthless, useless, and a waste of tax payer money. They can never do anything!</p>
<p dir="ltr">In trying to deal with some corruption in our local court house, I also learned that having evidence of said corruption is considered a "suspicion" and the FBI does not investigate a case going off of "suspicion". Wow!</p>
<p dir="ltr">But...I figured it wouldn't be a waste of time to rant here. I mean, I've pretty much been discussing this with myself, and that was a waste of time, lol.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So here I am again :)</p>
<p dir="ltr">I installed blogger on my phone and this is the first time I've used it in a while, so I have no idea how this post will look. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Also, Google Ads sent me a notification that they deactivated my account because I was in violation somehow. I have no idea how, but apparently I was. Yet, logging on today I see they still have their ads up. Bunch of rats. I hope no one clicks on their ads. I'll see how I can have them removed...if they can be removed.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In any event, I'll see what I can rant about next. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I haven't been keeping up with the news lately, so I have no idea what is going on in the world today, but I'll get to it fast.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Until then, I hope all is well to those who have been here before and kept up with my blog.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank you and until next time :)</p>
iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-36217279206112824152012-07-09T19:11:00.000-07:002012-07-09T19:11:50.977-07:00Religion doesn't Hurt Anyone<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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When I posted <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2012/07/footprints-in-sand.html" target="_blank">my last post</a>, I already knew I would get a
thrashing for it, but I never expected it to come from my family.
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My family reads my blog?!!</div>
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That’s a new one for me, lol.</div>
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I didn’t even know they knew I had one, but now I do, and in
the most upfront manner, may I add.</div>
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Nothing beats waking up to your mother chewing your butt
out over something you posted on the internet!</div>
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I'm 33 mom!! </div>
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But, it wasn't just my mother that tried to chastise me.<div class="MsoNormal">
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I received emails, text messages, and facebook messages
asking me what was wrong with me for posting such “vile” stuff.</div>
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Just so they know, nothing is wrong with me.</div>
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A better question to ask would be, what is wrong with people
who believe in something that doesn’t exist, to dedicate their lives and their
living to a being that was created to control the masses?</div>
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Maybe what they meant was why was I being so harsh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Me being harsh?</div>
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I’m not being harsh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m being realistic.</div>
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If you think what I have to say about religion is harsh,
then maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your beliefs because there is nothing harsh
about telling people that something that doesn’t exist, doesn’t exist.</div>
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Unless they are kids, then that’s different.</div>
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I had a hard time telling my daughter that Santa didn’t
exist, but it had to be done because Santa couldn’t afford her gifts anymore,
lol.</div>
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And the toothfairy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She found that out on her own when she caught me sneaking glitter under
her pillow with a dollar bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oops!!</div>
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But, like my mom says, “What’s wrong with letting them
believe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do you have to try to
influence them to believe like you do?”</div>
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Why?</div>
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Because it is not just a harmless game that is being played!</div>
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It’s not like saying, “Oh, what’s wrong with letting them
play with water?”</div>
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This is mass brain washing at its finest!</div>
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Do you know who else brain washed the masses?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hitler! </div>
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So, sure, the lady next door might be a great example of a
good Christian and she is hurting no one with her prayers, right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, she keeps her religion to herself.
Right?</div>
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Right.</div>
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But this isn’t about the nice little old lady next door, or
the good Samaritan working at the Red Cross.</div>
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This is about the idiot that thinks he can play god just
because he read the bible and now he knows what “god wants” and so he wants to
shove it down everyone else’s throats.</div>
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And while we can sit here and say, “Oh, that’s just one
person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s many more good for
everyone bad.”</div>
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No, that’s not true.</div>
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Entire countries have changed their laws to fit their religious beliefs!</div>
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<a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/photo_galleries/africa/2010831920332122.html" target="_blank">Here is a story</a> of a religion that forces little girls to get married to protect them from sin:</div>
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"If they have sex and are not married they commit adultery and this is
forbidden in Islam. So we allow them to marry and not to commit a
crime." </div>
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You can find more evidence of harm by religion at the Facebook website called <a href="http://www.facebook.com/EvidenceofHarmbyReligion" target="_blank">Evidence Of Harm by Religion.</a></div>
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What some people fail to see, or maybe I just don’t make
myself clear enough, is that religion has a source. That source is fed to
believers as being the ultimate power.</div>
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If you believe in the ultimate power, then his word is the
ultimate word.</div>
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You can’t challenge that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You just can’t challenge that ultimate power and his ultimate word!</div>
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If you do, guess what?</div>
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You are a non-believer!!</div>
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You are a non-believer, because if you truly believed that
there is a god in the sky and that the bible is the word of god, or whatever
religion/religious book you’re into, then you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cannot</i></b> change any of it
without consent from the Supreme Being.</div>
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That’s like me making plans on how to budget your money, but
you change them to your benefit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Those are no longer my plans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those are your plans!!</div>
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And you can’t say you trust me with your budget, because if
you trusted me, you would have never changed my plans to begin with.</div>
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It’s the same thing with religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can’t say you believe in the teachings of
your religious book, but not follow it to a T.</div>
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Not that I’m encouraging anyone to follow it to a T, but that’s the way I
see it.</div>
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Now, what does this have to do with the nice old lady across
the street?</div>
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Well, she’s bending the rules, and when it comes to
religion, I cannot trust rule breakers.</div>
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It’s not to say that I don’t appreciate the good religious
people, but faith is a strong thing.</div>
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What I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i></b> saying is that these good
religious people will one day have to face their faith and it may be something
where they prefer to not bend the rules anymore.</div>
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They’ll do it because it will make them feel like they are
doing good in the eyes of their lord.</div>
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It is evident already in today’s society.</div>
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Yes, the little old lady across the street has no problems
with gay people, but she is not in agreement that they should be allowed to get
married.</div>
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Yes, John Doe at the Red Cross, is a good guy, and while he
can accept gay marriages, he cannot support abortion.</div>
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Yes, Jane Doe from the super market accepts gay marriages
and supports abortion, but she cannot tolerate other languages.</div>
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Yes, Juanita Venado from your yoga class accepts gay marriages,
supports abortion, is accepting of all languages, but she believes a woman’s
place is in her home, not out there doing a “man’s job”.</div>
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Their religious beliefs haunt them and will always hinder
progress, because when you challenge those beliefs, they will stomp their feet
down and will not budge.</div>
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How do I know?</div>
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Because I was there before, and thankfully, I saw my way out
of it.</div>
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What happens to religious people when they bump into the
wall of reason?</div>
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They begin to doubt your intentions.</div>
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Yeah, you religious readers who read my last post, and who
are reading this one, you know what I am talking about.</div>
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You are wondering if I am Satan tempting you into sin.</div>
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Do I not sound like the devil throwing a tantrum because of
religion?</div>
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To religious people, voices like mine, where once there was
reason to them in it, all of a sudden it starts to shift to doubt, because I
have challenged their belief.</div>
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And when you challenge those beliefs, you become the
enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You become the voice of Satan,
and like a good religious follower, they must shun the voice of Satan and stay
strong by their god.</div>
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Remember, they changed the rules of their god to their
benefit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it is no longer beneficial
for them to change it because I am challenging them against their belief.</div>
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Where they stopped believing that god hates gays, or that god hates abortion, or that god wants us to speak only one language, or that god prefers women to be silent and obedient;</div>
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Now they want to believe because I sound like Satan when in reality I'm just trying to open their eyes to the fact that they've been brainwashed?</div>
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That is exactly why I say that I am trying to convert people to
stop believing in religious fairy tales, and start using common sense.</div>
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Sure, there are many good things in the bible that we can
learn from, but it continues to be just a book.</div>
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There are many great fictional books out there that we can
learn from too, but we don’t go around worshipping the authors.</div>
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“But Myra,
I’d rather believe in god and find out he doesn’t exist than to not believe in
god and find out that he does!”</div>
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Oh my!</div>
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What are you worried about then?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That if you don’t believe and it turns out
that there is a god you will go to hell?</div>
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In that case, you are damned either way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You believe in god, but you don’t follow his
word to a T.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You invent your own
religion and you sin repeatedly by not following his commandments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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If hell exists, you’re going to hell either way!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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What?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you expect
mercy from a god that has no qualms about killing innocent little children just
because you kept strong to your faith?</div>
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You are out of your mind!</div>
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What you are saying sounds just like what I told my husband
once, but I said it smarter and it had nothing to do with religion.</div>
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I said, “I’d rather checkup on you and distrust you and find
out that you are not cheating on me than to trust you wholeheartedly and find
out you are cheating on me.”</div>
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Which sounds smarter to you?</div>
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I would rather not be the idiot who’s sitting at home
trusting her husband while her husband is out cheating on her.</div>
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That’s why I think it is wiser to not believe while you are
living, and find out he exists when you are dead than to live believing and
finding out he doesn’t exist.</div>
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Not that it matters much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are going to be dead anyways.</div>
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So what have you got to gain by believing?</div>
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Do you think that by not believing you will start breaking
rules and stuff?</div>
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Do you not trust yourself enough to know right from wrong
without religion in your life?</div>
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If, by now, you still think I sound like Satan tempting you
to turn away from god, then you understand why it is so important for me to
abolish all religion.</div>
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There is no getting through to people who insist on making
the voice of reason their enemy.</div>
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Maybe to you there is no harm in believing, and who am I to
tell you what to believe and what not to believe in, right?</div>
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I am no one other than the gay couple that was not allowed
to marry because of the little old lady.</div>
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I am the pregnant teen that couldn’t get an abortion because
of the good Samaritan at the Red Cross.</div>
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I am the immigrant who was taunted at school for speaking a
different language.</div>
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I am the woman who was denied a job because of my sex.</div>
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I am the rule that you broke when you invented your
religion.</div>
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I am the Satan in your hell, and you are the god in mine. (Not really, but I thought that sounded cool, lol)</div>
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So, naturally, you can do as you will, but I do hope you wake up soon. </div>
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<span>I might rant about religion some more before moving on to another topic. Religion has been a lot on my mind as you can tell.</span></div>
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In the mean time, I will pray to the Unicorn goddesses that
they shine many rainbows in your life.</div>
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Take care, and until next time….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-52415463188723283362012-07-03T23:36:00.001-07:002012-07-03T23:36:33.904-07:00Footprints in the sandDuring the past couple of days, I've had this anger that's been festering inside of me regarding religion. <br />
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The feeling is akin to watching a girlfriend getting brain-washed by an abusive boyfriend and not being able to do anything about it because she claims to be happy with him and besides, it's her life, right?<br />
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Yet, you want to do something about it because you care.<br />
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I believe this feeling began to manifest itself after I watched a documentary (<span class="title ">National Geographic: Inside North Korea) in which Lisa Ling travels to North Korea to get an inside look at their oppressive government.</span><br />
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<span class="title ">In the film, there's a segment in which an eye doctor is allowed to go in and help some North Korean's.<br /><br />As each patient has their sight restored, everyone of them thanks their supreme leader, Kim Jong-Il. Here's the segment I speak of:<br /></span><br />
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That's not much different than how I view religion now a days.</div>
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I mean, what's the first thing the majority of us say when we find out everything is going to be ok?</div>
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"Thank God!"</div>
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If things aren't going well, who do we turn to? God.</div>
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If we've tried and we can't succeed, what do we say? </div>
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"Let's just leave it to God"</div>
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And it's not necessarily just God, but whatever god that person tends to worship.</div>
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We've had politicians who want to use their beliefs to tell us what we can or cannot do and they usually base those beliefs on one thing alone: The Holy Bible.</div>
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Now, here is where I must warn everyone who is religious, because what I am about to say will more than likely come out as offensive, but I am saying this as someone who is on the outside looking in, and who's been there.<br /><b><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">What I am about to say is offensive!</span></b></div>
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If you believe in a god, you are either brain washed or have not grown up yet!</div>
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Look, I've been there. </div>
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I grew up reading the bible and going to church and praying to god and there was even a time when I thought I was chosen to be one of god's brides.</div>
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It's one of the reasons why I am obsesses with the game Zelda.</div>
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I am supposed to be Link, god is Zelda, and I'm supposed to save her from the evil forces of the world by destroying the devil, a.k.a Gandandorf. </div>
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When I was about 9 or 10, I forced my parents to baptize me and I went to CCD classes religiously so that I could do my communion, and at one point in my life, I actually considered becoming a nun.</div>
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When I went to college, I remember writing on the bottom of the top bunker, "God DOES exist! Just ask me! He's helped me so much!"</div>
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And one time, I was disappointed in my Atheist brother (who oddly enough is now going to church, lol) because he refused to give credit to god for helping him with his eye surgeries. </div>
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I clearly remember him saying, "God was not there for me when I needed him most. I was! He did not help me get better through my surgery! I did!"</div>
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It was a crush to my heart! How could he not see the blessings of our Lord and Saviour!!</div>
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That is exactly how I thought, but thankfully, not anymore!</div>
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Which brings us back to the title of this post, "Footprints in the Sand".</div>
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We've all more than likely heard the poem and seen the picture. It goes something like this:</div>
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This is undeniable a beautiful poem, but to the faithful, it's another cover over their eyes that they do not notice.</div>
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It's not just this poem, but every post you put on facebook, every religious picture you share, every prayer you have hanging on your wall, there I see it: Kim Jong-Il!</div>
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In other words, brain washed!</div>
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What do you mean that god carried you when there was only one set of footprints? Are you kidding me?!!</div>
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God does NOT exist!</div>
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Do you know who carried you when there was only one set of footprints?</div>
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It was your family!</div>
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Your friends!</div>
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Your children!</div>
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It was YOU!!!</div>
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You carried yourself!</div>
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These poems are meant to brain wash you into believing that there is an invisible being who is helping you out in your times of hardship, and that you should thank that invisible being when he helps you.</div>
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But tell me...</div>
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How do you know he exists?</div>
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For me, I knew he existed because my parents told me.</div>
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And when it wasn't my parents, it was the tv, the neighbor, our church, my friends, our teachers, our schools, and even our money.</div>
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The seed of doubt was planted in my head when I was in college taking a sociology class and our professor had us imagine our world without those influences.</div>
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It was the hardest thing to over come!</div>
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But think about it...</div>
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How do you know the devil exists?</div>
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Have you seen him, or have you only heard about him, and if you've only heard about him, can you remember who it was that told you about him?</div>
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Wasn't it your parents?</div>
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And didn't your parents get that from church, who in turn point to the bible to "prove" to you that he does exist?</div>
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Now, I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I feel that I have to start saying what I believe. <br /><br />I know it will offend some people, but I hope everyone takes it as constructive criticism. <br /><br />It's just got to the point where I see religion as verrrrry bad, and it should be abolished. <br /><br />It's hard to explain, but in my opinion, religion is the root of all our social problems, and it doesn't matter if those who practice it are good people, so long as religion stays alive, there will always be someone who wants to use it for bad, and religion doesn't take people one by one. </div>
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It takes them in masses because most everyone needs something to believe in. <br /><br />They need to have a purpose, and when a bad person gives them that purpose, they can easily be manipulated. <br /><br />Just look at our current state of politics. Religion plays in almost every aspect of it. So many lives are being injured because of it, and in my opinion, I think that enough is enough!<br /><br />People need to know the truth, and that truth is that god does not exist, so they are basically ruining the lives of others over something that does not exist.<br /><br />Am I trying to convert people? </div>
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Yes I am.</div>
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I am trying to convince them to believe in themselves and to thank themselves.</div>
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Alas, I've reached the end of my rant, plus time is making me cut this short, but I will leave everyone who is religious with a little task.</div>
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In the next couple of days, try and catch yourself when you thank your god, or when you bring him up in your thoughts and <i>why</i> you bring him up.</div>
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Do I really need to leave it up to him, or is there something I can do about it?</div>
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Take care, and until next time.</div>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-9776706936507333932012-05-07T10:12:00.002-07:002012-05-07T10:12:43.085-07:00Back AgainI want to thank everyone who has called, written, and spoken with me directly about continuing with my blog.<br />
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I
must admit that it feels nice to have a group of people who are so
supportive, but I must publicly announce that I never had the intention
of quitting. <br />
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Therefore, I would like to apologize for not being around lately. I burnt out and took a long break, but I have not given up.<br />
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Several factors contributed to my burn out.<br />
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One
was having three computers break on me consecutively (I'm having bad
luck with computers), and while I have a smart phone, it's kind of hard
to write whole paragraphs with that stupid touch screen that keeps
pressing the smiley face every time I want to delete a character
(Arrgh!!). <br />
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The other is that I have nothing new to
report, and the fact that it seems everyone is doing a damn fine job of
preventing me from obtaining any new information in the case is a result
of my burn out.<br />
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The last I heard was from the Attorney
Generals office, whose explanation as to why the Sheriff of Zapata has
not released information to me, despite having been ordered by the
Attorney General's office themselves, is that so long as Sigi is playing
phone tag, it is considered him "trying to work things out" with the
AGO.<br />
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I gave the AGO my new address so they could resend
me anything they might have sent to the last address, and the lady,
Tamara Wilcox, said she was going to send me something, but to date, I
have not received anything from them.<br />
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This new address is an address I can trust, so I am positive this time that they have not sent us anything.<br />
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I followed up on 3/28/2012 by calling the AG's office to find out if they've heard anything from Sigi.<br />
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Coincidentally, Ms. Wilcox claims that she just called Sigi on 3/27/2012, but he wasn't in his office.<br />
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Upset, I asked her if there's a timeline. We've been waiting for over a year for this information!<br />
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Alas, she said there is no timeline, and so long as he is <i><b>trying</b></i>
to contact them, then it is considered him trying to work things out
with the AG, and the AG, according to Ms. Wilcox, is not going to spend
resources trying to sue the Sheriff when it is evident he is trying to
work things out with them.<br />
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How it is evident is beyond
me, but none of this smells right, and I'll look into the PIA handbook
to see how much Ms. Wilcox is saying is true, because as far as I know,
this is like paying a bill, and playing phone tag with a bill collector
does not mean the bill is paid, and the bill collector sure as hell
isn't going to wait around for you to get back to them if your bill is <i>waaay</i> past due.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Update:</span> <b><i>I found <a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/other/TX-Access/agcanhelp.htm" target="_blank">this article</a>
that basically says I may as well give up pursuing the Sheriff with the
AGO. As a matter of fact, I have decided to just give up for now, and
if in the future I am contacted or new information is released to us, I
will pick it up again. That's the only thing left to do as no lawyer
will represent us, and our only hope, the Attorney General, as is stated
in the article, hasn't pursued a case since early 1995. I highly doubt
they'll decide to pick one up now on account of us.</i></b><br />
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So, for the meantime, I'm thinking about tackling new projects on my blog (something I should have been doing anyways)<b><i>, </i></b>and putting the Hartley case in the back burner until we get/hear new information on the case.<br />
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For now, I have a doctors appointment to tend to, but I will be getting back on shortly to report on other news around web.<br />
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Until then, thank you for staying tuned...iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-47354758228058324992012-01-06T20:50:00.000-08:002012-01-07T19:06:34.893-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: A Guilty ResponseI was at the Dollar General the other day when I overheard the manager and one of his employees joking around. Apparently, the manager found something that was broken, and before he could say anything, his employee jumps right out of the blue declaring, "I didn't do it! It was already broken before I got here!"<br />
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The manager bursts out laughing and tells him that he wasn't even thinking that, but now that he brought it up...<br />
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That scene has been playing in my head for the last couple of days because it so reminds me of what the Texas Department of Public Safety did to us.<br />
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They sent us the DVD we requested for the David Hartley Police stop in Rio Grande City, but they made sure to let us know to <u><i><b>not</b></i></u> look at the closed captioning time stamp because it was wrong.<br />
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Geez, I didn't even know the video came with closed captioning so I would have never guessed to look there, but...thanks?<br />
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So what's the first thing I do? I look at the closed captioning time stamp.<br />
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Now, when I first read their letter about the incorrect closed captioning time stamp, I assumed that since we requested the video <i>waaay</i> after the incident happened, that what I was going to see was the date the video was uploaded for us to view.<br />
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Instead, I get something that I just cannot ignore: <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">a time stamp that indicates the possibility that the stop might have actually occurred two days before David was supposedly shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is the letter that they sent us:</span><br />
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Notice they claim to have sent us a station activity log and the audio communications. We had already previously received those, so it is nothing new. If you are interested in viewing/hearing them, you can read my previous blog here: <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/07/falcon-lake-murder-if-you-ever-touch-me.html">LINK</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As for the dash camera video, here is the dash camera video with the closed captioning on (and check out the ending so you can see a close up of the truck "full of marijuana" that ended the stop):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now, there are several reasons why I have an issue with their claim that the closed captioning has the incorrect time and date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of them being, how do they know it's incorrect? They state that the station activity log reflects the correct time and date of the stop, but how do they know that that is the correct time and date?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Secondly, the time stamp seems to be working just fine. If the police officer hits the brake, the time stamp reflects a little "B". When the lights go on, it shows a little "L", and when the microphone turns on, it shows a little "M". So it seems to be working just fine. Or do you mean to tell me that the Texas DPS is in the habit of operating units that display the wrong time stamp? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Third, they told us before that the dash cameras they use do not have a date and time stamp, so what is this?!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fourth, to add more to the mystery, if you notice the cars in the video that parked on the side of the road across from where the police stop David. Where those cars are parked, that's Sanchez Funeral Home. While it may be nothing, normally, the only time cars are parked there is when there is a funeral service going on. I called Sanchez Funeral Home to check what times they held services on September 30 and the 28th, but they claim that they had NO services on those days. Could those cars be parked there because of a funeral service? If so, the time stamp on the closed captioning might be even more off than we think!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lastly, and most importantly, had Tiffany kept her story straight from the beginning, I might have not heeded my doubts so much. But not only did she not keep her story straight, everything and everyone that is involved with this case has been real shady.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Take for example, the Zapata County Sheriff, Sigifredo Gonzalez, who STILL has not answered ANY of my public information requests, with the exception of the half assed response he gave us for the 911 call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But, I'm not going to be too hard on him just yet, as it has come across my attention that it could be possible that I am the one to blame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You see, I do live close to the border, so the last thing I want is for anyone to know where I live, especially Sheriff Sigi because if I am correct about his involvement and his connections with the cartel, then he doesn't need to know where I live</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">So I asked to borrow a P.O. Box from a friend who lives out of state, and I guess my friend just lost interest in this case because he has not responded to my inquiries regarding some pending PIAs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Long story short: I might have to re-request everything again and have it sent to a different address just to be on the safe side.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Anywho, I'm sure by now that those of you who have been keeping up with the Hartley story have heard by now that there were some human remains found near Falcon Lake.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This is one of the few times that I agree with Sigi and state that I do not believe those remains are from David.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In one of the first videos aired by Will Ripley, which is no longer available, Tiffany looked amused, almost as if she found it funny that anyone could find David's body, either because she knows there is no body, or because she knows the body won't be found on Falcon Lake.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Whatever the case, I'd really like to get my hands on those photos, but it opens a whole new fresh can of worms.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Why would the cartel go out of their way to drag a dead body up stream? And, assuming Tiffany's story is true, a dead body to top it off!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">And why tie the feet if the man was supposedly already dead? It's not like they needed to kill him anymore. Usually the feet are tied to drown the victim, not sink him, even though it is possible for someone to tie the feet to sink a body, but that's not something commonly practiced by the cartel on an already dead body. Again, it's just not something the cartel would do.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Also, the guy who found the body claims that he saw what looked like a bullet hole on the back of the skull of the remains he found, <i>but he wasn't sure</i>. While I can't judge what he saw without pictures, it could be further proof that what he found was not David. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I mean, in several interviews, Tiffany kept pointing to her forehead to emphasize where David was shot, so I'm pretty sure it couldn't be too hard to notice a hole on the skulls forehead. The back of the head is one thing if the skull is laying facing up, but the forehead, basing on the details he gives, should have been visible and one would more than likely clearly see a bullet hole on the forehead.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But, like I said, without pictures we can only speculate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, that is all I have for now on this subject considering that I must re-do several requests to ensure that I have not been denied information.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I know that the Texas Attorney General has already received some of my complaints, and I am keeping my fingers crossed that I am not made to look like a fool for failing to receive the information that they might have already sent out.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But I have a new address now. I just hope it doesn't turn into a big deal having to request everything all over again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Until next time, please stay tuned...</span><br />
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<br />iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-62368895189258460872011-11-16T23:10:00.001-08:002011-12-09T05:09:24.299-08:00Starr County says whaaat?You know, life out here in the country is pretty much droll.<br />
<br />
Normally, we have nothing else to do other than wait for something interesting to happen, and when it does, we start swarming around like hungry bees.<br />
<br />
I mean, it's pretty often that I am sitting at home, minding my own business, when all of a sudden, here comes a relative, friend, or neighbor to ask me if I have heard about what is going on, and my answer is usually, "No I haven't".<br />
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Following course, they usually proceed in telling me what just happened, and it never fails that the next person who comes along to tell me the recent exciting events that has the whole town buzzing with excitement, it never fails that they add more to the story than there is to it.<br />
<br />
It is why my mom and I usually laugh when we jokingly share news.<br />
<br />
"Hey mom! Did you know there was a car accident down the road?"<br />
<br />
"No mija! Quando paso?"<br />
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"It must have been recent because the cops were just arriving. You should have seen it! There were 20 police cars, 15 ambulances and they had to bring in 5 helicopters!"<br />
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In reality, it normally is just some guy getting pulled over, and because the news is not exciting enough, we make it so.<br />
<br />
Now, I admit, I rarely go out and I rarely watch TV, and as a result I often question if the stance that I have taken to protect the border from being demonized is an ignorant one.<br />
<br />
I see my reality of life on the border, and pretty much assume that everyone around me lives pretty much the same life style.<br />
<br />
I go town. It's peaceful. I come back. It's peaceful. What a peaceful day! <br />
<br />
On the other hand, I wonder if I did myself a great disservice of subscribing to my local news sources.<br />
<br />
It pretty much seems that there is something going on every day, and it just reminds me of what my best friend once told me.<br />
<br />
She said, "Don't watch the news unless you want to get depressed."<br />
<br />
Of course, she was referring to children being murdered or being abused by their parents. Apparently, there's a story about that every day, and it saddens her that someone would want to hurt their children in such manner.<br />
<br />
However, we don't live in fear that our next door neighbor might murder their child, so why do we live in fear that the border is anything like they make it sound on the news?<br />
<br />
As an example, the other day I received a call from my husband who asked me to check out the news because apparently he heard that the cartel had crossed to this side and that a war had broke out between them and the local police.<br />
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"It's so bad that the local police has requested back up from other cities because they don't have the power to control them. This has all gone to shit!" he said.<br />
<br />
Now, I've always said that the day our borders actually turn into a war zone, I would tell you.<br />
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I'm not going to say that it won't suck having to admit that my home has turned into a disaster area, so when my husband told me this, my heart sank.<br />
<br />
How could I face my blog and tell them that it has finally begun and that I can no longer defend the border from being maligned?<br />
<br />
After such an event, there can be no denying that the borders are dangerous, so to me, it was as if my career had ended.<br />
<br />
I checked the local news stations and nothing was on, so I went online to check my news sources on facebook and sure enough, the rumors had started.<br />
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"...there is a shooting with the cartel. There is a bp dead!"<br />
<br />
"15 individuals have crossed to this side!"<br />
<br />
"I heard that 18 armed men crossed the river near Garceno..."<br />
<br />
In the end, the reality turned out to be that there was no border patrol agent dead and it was never confirmed how many individuals really crossed, although one news source stated about 10-15 suspects.<br />
<br />
And the shoot out?<br />
<br />
There was no shoot out here unless the border patrol are covering up something.<br />
<br />
The reason I say that is because the shoot out actually happened IN Mexico, which is why the suspects had to swim the river to get to safety on THIS side.<br />
<br />
Where it gets fishy is the part where one of the suspects, who was supposedly shot, is taken to the hospital in Rio Grande City in critical condition.<br />
<br />
It's fishy because it begs the question: How can a critically injured man swim a river in his condition?<br />
<br />
Could the border patrol have shot him and disguised it as a consequence of a battle gone wrong in Mexico?<br />
<br />
But that's neither here nor there.<br />
<br />
The moral of the story is that sometimes things are taken out of context and made to sound more extreme than they really are.<br />
<br />
Having said that, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that no war has broken out on our peaceful borders.<br />
<br />
Then the next day, as I'm getting ready to go run an errand, my neighbor runs to me in a panic.<br />
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"Did you hear about the men that crossed the river yesterday?!!! The ones that got away are holding the kids at the middle school hostage. They've thrown road spikes to thwart the police and they are threatening to start shooting the students if the police don't let the other suspects go! The school has gone into lock down!"<br />
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**SIGH**<br />
<br />
Will it ever end?<br />
<br />
So here I go to check out my sources, and guess what, it was all a lie.<br />
<br />
No, my neighbor wasn't being intentionally mean.<br />
<br />
That's just the way rumors get started and it makes for a great story to us socially deprived border folk.<br />
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Unfortunately, it hurts us just the same, and thus, my job gets harder to do, as I don't only have to tackle the exaggerated stories about our borders that are being created by those who don't live here, but I also have to wrestle with the locals who delight on such rumors.<br />
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For now, rest assured that our borders are just as safe as they have ever been, and the reality is, the news and rumor is making people panic, including myself I must admit.<br />
<br />
Before I end, I want to share a video with you from our local news station that captures the kind of drama that exists here.<br />
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The reason I am sharing it is because I live around the area where these residents live and I know for a fact that the situation is not as extreme as they make it sound, but stories like theirs are convincing to others, who tell others, who tell others, until the rumor grows.<br />
<br />
One of the posters on the facebook wall for this newstation questioned why the station was only reporting about the negative stories in Starr County, but when something positive happens, they are never there to report it.<br />
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I could not agree more with the person who posted that question, and thus, I will do my best to share the positive while I battle the negative.<br />
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As a final note, we would like to remind you that we have not given up on the Tiffany Hartley story. We are still working to resolve some issues and we have not received any new information that we would like to share other than we are still in the process of taking the Sheriff to court for disregarding the attorney general's decision.<br />
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Also, we sent out some more complaint letters to the attorney general, which they have already responded to having received.<br />
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We also had sent an amended FOIA to customs and border protections, to which they have not responded and are already way past their deadline to respond, so we must now figure out to whom we should address our complaint to.<br />
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Until then, rest assured that I am still here and counting on you to stay tuned...iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-73891244059989694372011-10-13T00:23:00.000-07:002011-10-13T08:13:34.187-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: The OAG decidesWell, we have finally received the decision from the Attorney General as to whether the Sheriff is allowed to except information, and they've ruled against him because he took too long to respond.<br />
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However, because he was able to provide compelling reason to withhold certain information under the guise that the witnesses lives "were in danger" because he had "sources" telling him that the cartel were seeking to "eliminate" all the witnesses, the OAG allowed him to withhold identifying information, or so that's what I understand from their letter. Here is what they sent us:<br />
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It's a little confusing because they are addressing Sigi, not us, but mainly what they are telling Sigi is that the only information he can withhold is identifying information, which is what should be done anyways.<br />
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On the other hand, I'm not completely positive on this.<br />
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The OAG keeps referencing items that they've highlighted, but until we get this information from Sigi, we won't know for certain what he was allowed to withhold.<br />
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According to the OAG, Sigi has 10 days from the receipt of their letter to provide the information to us. We received this letter on September 20, 2011.<br />
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Holy crap!<br />
<br />
Sigi is late again with providing this information to us!<br />
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More signs that something is up with this Falcon Lake murder story. <br />
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So what's our next step?<br />
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I believe our next step is to write a Writ of Mandamus. This is sort of like Tiffany Hartley and Judicial Watch's <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/tiffany-hartley-v-federal-bureau-investigation">lawsuits</a> against the FBI, the DOJ, and the DOS.<br />
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In short, Sigi is being ordered to give us the information we are requesting.<br />
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According to the <a href="http://law.onecle.com/texas/government/552.353.00.html">Texas Government Code § 552.353</a>:<br />
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<pre>(e) An offense under this section <b><i><u>is a misdemeanor</u></i></b>
punishable by:
(1) <u><b>a fine of not more than $1,000</b></u>;
(2) <u><b>confinement in the county jail</b></u> for not more
than six months; or
(3) <u><b>both the fine and confinement</b></u>.
(f) <b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">A violation under this section
</span></b><b><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> constitutes official </span></b></b><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">misconduct.</span></b> </pre>
</blockquote>
We'll let you know how that works out.<br />
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In the meantime, we're working up another FOIA similar to the one that Tiffany Hartley sent the FBI, DOJ, and DOS.<br />
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I'm hoping the one we send them will make them interested in investigating Tiffany deeper, but my partners in this case believe that we'll get about as much from them as Tiffany has, meaning we are expecting to get nothing from them.<br />
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Personally, I think it's still worth a try. I'm really interested in knowing if the FBI was involved in this case or not.<br />
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It may be the reason why the FBI was unable to provide Judicial Watch any information. They may have never been involved.<br />
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Not that that leaves them off the hook, but if that's true, then why has Tiffany been deceiving us on that?<br />
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I've tried looking for articles that mention the FBI involvement in the case, but the only one I found was one claiming that they weren't involved.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?list=195030&id=527960#.TpIEWLJH5iM">ValleyCentral</a> reports:<br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">"Even though Hartley's
interview was inside the FBI building, <span style="font-size: large;"><b>no FBI or American authorities
were present during the questioning</b></span>, something Hartley was okay with."</span></div>
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Of course she was okay with it.</span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><br /></span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Lord forbid the FBI might actually want to investigate <i>her</i>, right?</span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><br /></span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">Which is why I suspect that these lawsuits she just tossed into the ring have her looking nervous.</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">One bad step, and the FBI might decide to do what they should have done a long time ago to her.</span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><br /></span><br />
<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">But I also suspect that she didn't squeal too much about NOT submitting a FOIA because</span><br />
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<span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">a.) she didn't know a FOIA could lead to a lawsuit, and;</span></blockquote>
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b.) she knew they were not going to have any information on the case because they were never involved.</blockquote>
I also suspect that Judicial Watch was aware of b, but it was in their best interest to have them NOT provide any information so they could go forth and sue.<br />
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From what I have read, but don't take my word for it, it seems that these lawsuits really mean nothing. If they don't want to provide this information, they don't have to, but they have to pay for the attorney fees, which might explain why Judicial Watch was all too ready to accept the case.<br />
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Like I said, don't take my word for it, and I will investigate that to see if I hit the nail on the head or not.<br />
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In any event, in the end, I'm really interested in seeing how this lawsuit is going to play out.<br />
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My bet is that it was all a publicity stunt to help boost Judicial Watch and, garner some support to scare whomever into giving Tiffany a death certificate for David, even though we don't really know if he's dead or not.<br />
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<br />
Well, that's all for now.<br />
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I will keep you informed soon as to what has been going on in this case as soon as we get more information from the PIA's and FOIA's (or complaints for such) that we sent out.<br />
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Until next time, please stay tuned for more....iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-31443586211698038022011-09-27T23:44:00.000-07:002011-09-27T23:48:22.883-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: UpdateI just want to let everyone know (because a lot of people have been asking) that there will be some updates pretty soon.<br />
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I understand that many of you are getting anxious to hear what is going on in the background, but rest assured that the delays on this case are only because information is being withheld from us and the appeal process is a pretty long one.<br />
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We found that out the hard way.<br />
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A complaint that many people have been giving me a lot of is that I am taking too long to post and that my posts are too long to follow.<br />
<br />
A good blogger needs to do things the opposite, blog more and say less, lol.<br />
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I appreciate constructive criticism, thus, I will work on posting more often and making them shorter and easier to follow.<br />
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I just find it hard to make a long story short without excluding important details, and this story seems to be full of important details if you ask me. <br />
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Anyways, I decided I will also start working on other stories/cases during periods where we are awaiting information.<br />
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Now, this does not mean I have given up on this case.<br />
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All it means is that if I want to keep people interested, I need
to blog more, and I'm not doing that during times when responses are taking
too long to be received and thus there is no news to share in this case.<br />
When I started this blog, I didn't do it with the intention of working solely on the Tiffany Hartley case.<br />
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My problem is that I cannot multitask, but I'm sure that if I try, I can work on another case or two that is related to the demonizing of our safe American borders.<br />
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In the meantime, back to the Tiffany Hartley case, let me tell you what has been going on so far:<br />
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Currently, we are reviewing the decision of the Attorney Generals office in regards to the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7awR41vl8xd_OSHpg2U-cyl9EZzQbHPkHkTalYNSR5922-TIwR_H0YDN_fYrqaIcMhx92a9xnA1JIgIO-5uwFzmeAtL6my6fD5rQgScAgfTT9aIPfsIxfJKRRl8aPcfKUVbLBZr168T4/s1600/911PIAcomplaint.png">911 PIA complaint </a>we sent out.<br />
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I will comment further sometime in the next few days as to what their decision was.<br />
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I'm not sure what exactly I have stated in the past, but one thing is for sure, we didn't have our stuff organized.<br />
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Now that we do, we realize that many of our complaints to the Attorney General were never sent out.<br />
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Here is a list of the <b>complaints</b> that we sent out this week to the OAG:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGD9bkidJZOb6_rlTSTJhFRd_JAS98o-EgtXjeC4AJLcLCAMC7ef9QuFP1eaMVr6DidE6Sg8r1xzBTJnSi3nzVzVayAtaqsY4XsBnpiQIOOBnyHCXE98DUuyP06quljZnixZUrf4M8uc/s1600/Pirtatepiacomplaint.png">Public Information Request for ALL Pirate Related incidents on Falcon Lake </a></li>
<li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9P-ead7pL5hfkJAYTmx01sLKghpiGvdy1stUXmDNLwu-0ZTJDnixzm5CB77dxXMuGJ1UGQLsmcB0jSGLYoPfXCAVY-EVfzHt8uwgZuLpJHwZXzNIn_Y_VjfoB6T3IiLyrx6iPhQx45cs/s1600/emailPIAcomplaint.png">Public Information Request for information on where the Sheriff got the CBP photo</a> (this one also includes the request for information on where the Sheriff got the photo of the white house in Starr County that he claims was shot at by stray bullets from Mexico)</li>
<li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB_YrAqDEStLd1WwxONv3cunaXGQN2aLCiimtAMLJbNaffyzNu7glv7TN0AoWxHllC7gHJlAO0BkxPDaSrVuSAK7u9JdNWNQEZ0oyK-mJq5ImGs8qPOVhPi6Um1s5SeWTJ_NJdSVGksTY/s1600/bloodevidencePIAcomplaint.png">Public Information Request for information on the bloodstain</a> on Tiffany's life vest, coordinates given, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_CfjXrXz39lbq98g-lwAGoSrbRf6Bu4SZ9DmkvBl7_PC90GU3O59FQDlbcdFay9QcaRtKMlPv7sZD2NfmMONhJDIhrisXLuPGevKmIou5GnJ348j-1AJPzCnuqDTZRs5kEuEJG9nu0Ho/s1600/DPSPIAcomplaint.png">Public Information Request for the DPS dashcamera video</a> and other information</li>
</ul>
We did not submit a FOIA complaint for the CBP request for in information for several reason.<br />
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One, we cannot prove they have that photo in existence.<br />
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Two, the photo <u><i>might</i></u> be in existence, but after the Sheriff's reply stating that he received the CBP photo at his office "around noon", well, noon to me can be anywhere from 12 noon to 2pm. Our request only covered from 2pm to 6pm, thus, we re-did the FOIA, amended the time to 9am to 6pm to cover every possiblity, and we included a picture this time so they know what picture we are talking about. We also included references so they know we're not making this up.<br />
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And, three, we only had 60 days to appeal, and those 60 days are up.<br />
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We found out a little too late, so instead, what we are going to do is re-send them the amended FOIA, and if they insist they don't have it in their possession this time, then we'll take it a step further.<br />
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This is the new amended FOIA we sent them:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIi0fSpXgB89BysH_LZ8qSpTzntr9hnTxcIfbfr9RHq0Gjkeqd6w8fKOc8B3ner46mhZi5QNQAvATVSOG5X5pEuHWQoXk71Q9WUoPqhQZrc3Wthwkw9bx2D7Rvni4A_BU9jv_iVfTf5ag/s1600/cbpamendedfoia.png"> CBP FOIA for information</a> on CBP photo Sigi released to the media of "suspects" on a boat.</li>
</ul>
Now, this times, if they insist the photo is not in existence, we will make sure not to miss the 60 days deadline, and we will seek further action in order to verify that this photo does not exist.<br />
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In the meantime, I have been watching all the Tiffany Hartley updates on the news lately, and I have a couple of choice words I'd like to share, but, I'll leave that for my next blog because I want to accompany it with a video or something and right now all my trial software has expired, so...<br />
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Until next time, please don't forget to stay tuned for more...<br />
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<br />iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-32346566907247111662011-08-23T06:47:00.000-07:002011-08-23T06:47:10.838-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: Falcon Lake Phishing?Ha! Ha! Ha!<br />
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Ok, so I thought that was a catching title, but I also thought it was appropriate as well.<br />
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Maybe I'm the only one that finds humor in that?<br />
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Whatever the case, I believe that we have all heard of people "phishing" for information on the internet. Usually phishing is associated with some form of scam in which a person tries to obtain personal information from another by making them believe they are a legitimate website or a legitimate company.<br />
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In this case, I believe phishing is the appropriate term to use when referring to what the Sheriff of Zapata County is trying to do.<br />
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While he may not be trying to scam people to obtain their personal information, he is trying to scam them into believing something untrue, and very likely trying to scam legislators into giving him more "border security" monies.<br />
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Why do I say this?<br />
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It all goes back to our public information requests.<br />
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Here is what has been going on:<br />
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Back on May 13, 2011, we sent the Zapata County Sheriff a Public Information request for more information in regards to all the pirate related attacks he claims have occurred on Falcon Lake.<br />
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Personally, I have never bought into the claim that so many incidents have occurred. While I believe but one of the incidents, there are some that I just don't buy. I talked about this <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/03/falcon-lake-murder-pirates-psychics-and.html">in my blog</a> back in March.<br />
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But it is pretty hard to let go of the fact that it might be possible that these claims aren't coming from Sigi alone. After all, the reports claim to come from the people who have been attacked, but I do believe in conspiracies, and so I sought out to find out more about these stories and try to see if there is more to it, if they actually happened, or if it might be possible these are just part of a bigger plan.<br />
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Yes, I am talking about a conspiracy!<br />
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I very much have every reason to believe that a conspiracy is at play.<br />
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I have lived on the border long enough to know fact from fiction, and obviously, or I wouldn't be writing about it, the stories coming out of Zapata County are not ringing like facts to me.<br />
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And <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/03/falcon-lake-murder-broken-window.html">like I said before</a>, this wouldn't be the first time someone tries to make up a story for political reasons.<br />
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But the reason these stories work is because most people don't have the experience of living on the border like others. They rely on the news to tell them how things are going here, and frankly, I've noticed, the news really likes to make things interesting, and the only way to make things interesting is to fabricate a little and make things sound outrageous.<br />
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In short, it is a publicity stunt.<br />
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They want to keep their viewers entertained, and they are not going to be actively watching the news if there is nothing on there to report about, or at least nothing interesting to report about.<br />
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So people fall for it, mainly because they don't have the time or the education to actively seek out information to get down to the facts.<br />
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And frankly, I think that is what the Sheriff of Zapata County wasn't expecting, that someone who has the time and the education to seek out information would do so.<br />
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He probably thought he'd wave his badge around and people would buy his bull shit.<br />
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Sadly for him, that is not the case and I strongly believe that that is why now he is cowering and trying to hide in the shadows and trying to wiggle around the hard questions we are asking him that the media should have been asking of him and Tiffany from day one.<br />
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So back to the nitty gritty of our May 13th PIA request. Our May 13th PIA request was this:<br />
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However, we never got a response back from Sigi, even after the 10 days required for him to respond, so we called his office and tried to get information, but he was never there.<br />
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So we emailed him instead. Here is our complete conversation via email:<br />
First request:<br />
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Sigi's response:<br />
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Notice, here is where my phishing comment comes into play. The Sheriff is basically using the, "I heard it from a friend of a friend of a friend" excuse. He is trying to be sly and wiggle through undetected, and I admit, I almost fell for it if my coworkers on this case hadn't pointed out to me the obvious...<br />
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</b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">"How does he verify any of his claims?"</span></b></span><br />
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It took me a while to get what they meant, but finally, I got it.<br />
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So we wrote him back with the tough questions that he has never been asked before, and as expected, he never responded back. Here was one of the last emails we sent him that he never responded to:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>To date we have not heard a response from Sigi, but it's not like he's been busy. He's obviously had time to respond to criticism of his claims on the Zapata Times. In response to <a href="http://www.internationalnewsdaily.org/2011/06/25/an-unsecured-border-zapata%E2%80%99s-s-o-s/">this interview</a>, <span data-jsid="text">Renato Ramirez from Zapata Texas (President of IBC Bank) fires a fiery criticism of Sheriff Sigi. Here is what he has to say:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Renato Ramirez's fiery response to Sheriff Sigi <br />
http://issuu.com/lmtonline/docs/thezapatatimes070211 </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span data-jsid="text">Miffed, the Sheriff responds back in a childish way. Here is what he has to say back:</span><br />
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What ensues, is a battle of wits as Renato responds to his letter the following week:<br />
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Renato never replies back, and I don't blame him. Sigi never answered his questions about what has Sigi done for Zapata County. The most Sigi does is take credit for our safe communities making it sound like he's the reason they are safe, but never admitting that they have always been safe, with or without him.<br />
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I decided to contact Renato Ramirez and was glad when he responded back. <br />
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What he had to say about Sigi's final response was appropriate and just what I was thinking.<br />
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This is the most important part, in my opinion, of what Mr. Ramirez had to say:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote>"Sigi claims he made Zapata safe--the reality is that the law enforcement officers in the Zapata County Sheriff's department amount to 10% of all law enforcement in Zapata County. FBI, CBP, ICE, DEA task force, TPW agents, TABC, ATF, etc.--more than twelve state and federal agencies are protecting Zapata. He stated in the Presencia News that these agents cover up crime. He is really not thinking very logically." </blockquote></blockquote>No, he is not.<br />
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Sigi refers to the 700 comments in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-07-15-border-violence-main_n.htm">this article</a> instead.<br />
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I think Sigi didn't sort out the comments from newest to oldest, because for the first couple of pages, it is border residents speaking up and thanking USA Today for finally telling the truth about the borders, and not all that media hype.<br />
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But, our request for information for the CBP photo wasn't the last request we sent. There was one more important request we made to which he has not responded to either. <br />
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That request was in regards to the blood stain evidence on Tiffany Hartley's life jacket.<br />
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This was the request:<br />
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We have not heard from Sheriff Sigi since he received this letter, and it was sent to him via email, pasted and as an attachment to ensure that he received it.<br />
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We are currently working on another complaint to send to the Attorney General.<br />
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In the mean time, we have already spoken with the person in charge of our case at the Attorney General's office, Mr. Sterner.<br />
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Mr. Sterner says that Sigi did file a request for ruling on July 6th, something that we never got.<br />
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However, he stated that the <span data-jsid="text">July 6 letter was Sigi complaining that the Pirate PIA had already been requested when we sent out the first PIA related to Tiffany Hartley. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">Remember in that PIA we r<span class="text_exposed_show">equested all information related to the Tiffany Hartley case? </span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><span class="text_exposed_show">Well, the Pirate PIA would have included the Tiffany Hartley case, so in short, we requested the same information twice, or so that's what Sigi was trying to tell the AOG, to which I explained to them that it was not the same thing, although we did admit that we did not know how to phrase it to where they could exclude the Tiffany Hartley case because we had already requested for that. </span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><span class="text_exposed_show"> But then, he (Sigi) tried using that as an excuse to not release information on our first PIA, which Sterner clearly said he did not see that happening unless he could provide a better reason. </span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><span class="text_exposed_show">So, basically, what happened is that Sigi started off complaining about the Pirate PIA and tried using that as an excuse to not release the Full 911 call and the rest of the information related to the Hartley case. </span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"><span class="text_exposed_show">Isn't that something?</span></span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"> Mr. Sterner then said that they (OAG) have 45 business days from the day they request a ruling to issue a ruling so in this case the 45 business dead line is September 14th, so they will issue a formal attorney generals opinion on whether they have to release this information to us then. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text"> Then he asks me if I got a copy of a July 6th letter from Sigi's office, and I said no. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">So he noted it on the file that we didn't receive it. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">He also said that what happens when they missed their dead line (which Sigi was way past the 10 days to respond) is that they wave all discretionary exceptions so the only information that can be withheld from them is confidential. </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">They can't claim litigary exception or anything like that, which is a good thing I believe.</span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">I still need to call Mr. Sterner back and ask him a few more questions, like does the 45 business days deadline also include our May 13th request for information, or the 911 call PIA which had been our first complaint letter we sent, because in my opinion, those are long over due, and the 45 business days should only include the requests for information that were sent out in June.</span><br />
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I will keep you posted as to what is going on as soon as we receive more information.<br />
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Take care, and until next time....<br />
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iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-44712214473135196682011-07-01T08:45:00.000-07:002011-07-01T08:45:47.731-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: "If you ever touch me again, I will kill you!"I have no idea how to start this blog off.<br />
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I mean, it's not that I don't have anything to say, but I just don't know how to go about saying it.<br />
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In the past few weeks we have received various information that seems to amount to nothing and everything at the same time.<br />
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Quite frankly, I'm very frustrated.<br />
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Frustrated because even though we have received <i>some</i> information, there is more still missing, but as usual, the Sheriff of Zapata County is stalling once again.<br />
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This time, he hasn't even responded to our PIA request and we are fixing to, once again, file a complaint with the Attorney General.<br />
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In my opinion, the only people who stall this information that should be readily available to the public are those who have something to hide, so...what are you hiding Sheriff Sigi?<br />
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Let me begin by letting you know what we have asked for so far.<br />
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We wrote the Texas Department of Public Safety to request the full video of David Hartley being stopped in Rio Grande City with a time stamp on it, all the stops made that day, the name of the officers involved in the stop, and other information.<br />
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While they told us they would be taking a while with the police stop video, they did submit to us some information that seemed to only confuse the matter more.<br />
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One paper had all of the stops made that day by the officers, but it did not include the stop of David Michael Hartley. Here is that document:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Notice that the stop of David Michael Hartley is missing on this report, but now we have an explanation as to why there were three officers present for one stop: One was in training.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Later we received more information. This time, the stopping of David Hartley is shown, but there seems to be some inconsistencies with the report. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The report is several pages long, but here are the parts of the report that are of interest:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1481ih3KW3sPydvyDM7Ps1HVXYulzh_SewFjwH_czEJ2k7UxX-jEyKhXRZb1fI5iqrD8sNFBSjytJcq99twhkr_ZIrh2zLgRbpo9ujV26aeHPrxWtioDa1Y_pSI5TbEGu349XNWSELA/s1600/policelogpaint.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1481ih3KW3sPydvyDM7Ps1HVXYulzh_SewFjwH_czEJ2k7UxX-jEyKhXRZb1fI5iqrD8sNFBSjytJcq99twhkr_ZIrh2zLgRbpo9ujV26aeHPrxWtioDa1Y_pSI5TbEGu349XNWSELA/s320/policelogpaint.png" width="140" /></a></div>I was going to detail the call log for a better understanding of what it tells is going on, but I found it too tedious.<br />
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For one, it is evident that there is information redacted, naturally, as PIA allows for them to withhold information such as drivers license numbers and such.<br />
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Lastly, without those numbers, there is no telling exactly what vehicle it is they are checking, but it is obvious they are checking at one point a Colorado drivers license and a Mexican drivers license at the time when David Hartley was stopped.<br />
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The coordinates for the stop also coordinate with where David Hartley was last stopped in Rio Grande City, Texas.<br />
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Having said that, the information does not coordinate with what we see and hear in the video on YouTube.<br />
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Mind you, we are still waiting, past the required time allotted for a PIA request, for the full video of the stopping of David Michael Hartley.<br />
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Therefore, we cannot comment further with confidence that the information they have given us is contrary to what we see and hear on the YouTube video of the DPS stop.<br />
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What I can say, however, is that it is very odd that the Hartley's is the only stop made that day in which they had to communicate through a DEL (Direct Exchange Line or private line).<br />
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Also of interest is the fact that when we called to find out why the Hartley's were not listed in the first report, they claim it is because that report only includes those stops that resulted in a ticket, but the second report clearly shows that the stops that they DID list on the first report, from what I could tell, some of them did NOT result in a ticket. I do not see what the significance in that could be other than it is very odd.<br />
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However, that information is secondary.<br />
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Our main point, even though we had other points to check, was that we just wanted to verify for ourselves that the Hartley's were stopped that day and at that time.<br />
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That point is confirmed with those reports.<br />
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On the other hand, there was also one more bit of information that DPS sent us, and that is an audio that they titled "Multiple recordings.wav", a name that was misleading as there was only one recording in that file that lasted a total of 52 seconds. The audio is just the recording of the officer calling in to check Tiffany Hartley's jet ski, and that in itself, is odd.<br />
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Why only one jet ski? Why only Tiffany's jet ski? Why not David's jet ski as well?<br />
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Here is the audio recording they sent us, and I'd like to thank a friend who is working with me on this for making this audio into a small clip:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">How do I know it's Tiffany's jet ski?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, with the help of my wonderful friends who are helping me with this case we were able to verify that the jet ski in which Tiffany came back in <i>is</i> hers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is what we did: We compared pictures and with a little back ground checking online, we were able to obtain information about the jet skis. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, I shouldn't include myself in that "we" since my friends did the hard digging. I just compared these pictures:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdPyV0zPGBEvoP5GtMWOU8xmaP5besF01KGnGW6fVZ8Ha_R6RWo_tvJV292yJ_IB_GAAL4HatgCWXfmcIL64zmvQlxuSy8BYhyphenhyphenEVowf90UzmzXtn4HIEZFGn4-c7Mu8IEK3v8msXSDg4/s1600/jetskitx1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdPyV0zPGBEvoP5GtMWOU8xmaP5besF01KGnGW6fVZ8Ha_R6RWo_tvJV292yJ_IB_GAAL4HatgCWXfmcIL64zmvQlxuSy8BYhyphenhyphenEVowf90UzmzXtn4HIEZFGn4-c7Mu8IEK3v8msXSDg4/s320/jetskitx1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>From the inquiry results on the jet skis, we were able to note that the Jet ski with the <b style="font-weight: normal;">TX Number </b>3671AX has a serial number of ZZN48962E404, which is what the officer is running in the audio clip in the above video (in police talk that's :<b> Z</b>ero <b>Z</b>ero <b>N</b>ora <b>4 8 9 6 2 E</b>dward <b>4 0 4</b>).<br />
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In the YouTube video provided online, it is the only jet ski they run also, hence, it seems, they only run Tiffany Hartley's jet ski.<br />
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I will let this information simmer for a while as we await more information that has been requested.<br />
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We have also received a response from Customs and Border Protection in which, it seems, they are claiming that they do not have any records in regards to the following photograph:<br />
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Their response was odd as well because we were fixing to call them to find out what was taking them so long to respond when we received two letters from them on the same day.<br />
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One letter saying that they needed more time because they were contacting their field offices to gather the information we requested. Here is the letter:<br />
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The very next letter stating they could not find anything that we requested. Here is that letter:<br />
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Normally, you get one letter stating they need time to find the information, and then a few weeks later the other letter claiming they found nothing, but both on the same day?<br />
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It's almost like they didn't even look, if you ask me.<br />
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With that said, it begs the question: Who is lying?<br />
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I mean, if it's Sheriff Sigi, then why has CBP not stepped in to say that the Sheriff is lying?<br />
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Then again, the Sheriff has lied on other occasions and no one has stepped in to call him out on his lies.<br />
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What am I talking about?<br />
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Here's a read so that you may understand: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/commit/c640/wtpdf/1108-SigifredoGonzalez-1.pdf<br />
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On page 10, Sigi claims the following:<br />
<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;">A single mother living in Starr County, Texas, has to hide under her bed, along with her young daughters, every time she hears gunshots in Mexico. Bullets from gun battles in Mexico have struck her home. Figure 7 below shows the bullet indentations to her home.</blockquote>He follows it up with this picture:<br />
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And then pictures of the bullet indentations on the walls.<br />
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Being from Starr County myself, I found this story odd.<br />
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For one, there are few places in Starr County where this could be possible because the houses are just a block away or less from the border. One of those places is Rio Grande City, which would be kind of ridiculous considering that most of the battles in Camargo, Mexico (Rio Grande City's Mexican border neighbor) take place in the city or away from it. The city of Camargo is about 5 miles away from the houses on this side, so unless a bullet can travel 5 miles, wavering around trees and brush, then it is possible. It would also be possible if they have a battle right by the river, an incident that is very rare except to U.S. law enforcement.<br />
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About a year or so ago there was one incident on the international bridge in Rio Grande City where residents on this side could hear a gun battle that took place ON THE MEXICAN side, but no buildings on this side were struck, and it was the last known event in Rio Grande City where one could actually say we heard the gunshots. This was back when the drug wars were barely starting and things started to get serious in Mexico. I was the one that called the news station to <a href="http://www.valleymorningstar.com/articles/rio-72450-city-grande.html">report on the incident</a>, and it is not the first time that the news has misquoted what I said. People were not rushing back into the store to "seek shelter from the gunfire". It was the workers who work in the back of the H-E-B building and they rushed inside because the sounds of the gunfire could be heard and they had no idea where it was coming from until someone came in to tell them the gunshots were being fired at the customs facility in Mexico. The customs facility in Camargo is about 3 blocks away from H-E-B, so the shots sounded very close.<br />
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The reason I called the news station was because this was around the time people were starting to panic, and I admit that with all the rumors going on, I started to panic as well. When I heard the gunshots, someone who had just come back from where the incident took place came in claiming the Mexican cartel were shooting at OUR customs facility and that they were trying to gain access into the US because they were chasing another cartel. While I defend the border from malicious rumors, I also love our border patrol and law enforcement officers and won't stand for any of them getting attacked by drug cartels, so I wanted the news to investigate and find out what happened. Instead, they just reported on the news with the usual exaggeration.<br />
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Anyways, for the most part, the houses on this side are protected by miles of fields and/or woods on either side of the border. <br />
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Another place where this might be possible is Roma, Texas, but they'd have to either be shooting at buildings intentionally or they'd have to be lousy shooters, as Roma, Texas is at a much higher elevation than it's Mexican neighbor city, Miguel Aleman, Mexico. To see what I mean, check out my diary entry titled <a href="http://borderlinemadnessdiary.blogspot.com/2011/06/violence-on-border.html">"Violence on the Border?"</a> and watch the video towards the end of the entry so you can see the difference in elevation between the two border cities.<br />
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Another place where this might be possible is Fronton, Texas, but also, highly unlikely because of the farm fields that separate the two neighboring border cities.<br />
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I set out to look for this house anyways.<br />
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I drove up and down the border covering miles and miles, through vacant and populated places, for almost two weeks, and all to no avail.<br />
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I became frustrated because I had covered almost every inch of the border where this could be possible, not only traveling the areas by car, but also looking for this house via google map through street view from home.<br />
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In the end, I decided to dig deeper.<br />
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I called the Starr County Sheriff's department and spoke to Chief Pena and asked him if he knew of any such incident in which a house was struck by stray bullets from Mexico in Starr County.<br />
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Immediately one could tell that he was not aware of any such incident occurring, and after our brief interview, he down right plainly stated that to his knowledge, no such incident ever occurred, but I should call the Roma Police Department and see if they knew anything about this incident. He did state that every once in a while they get called out to Fronton, Texas to check up on calls where a citizen is worried because they can hear gunshots in Mexico, "but hitting houses [on this side]? I had never heard of that."<br />
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Asked if he believed the story that houses were getting shot at on this side by stray bullets from Mexico, he states, "I honestly say...I don't believe that."<br />
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So I called Roma Police Department and spoke with Captain Francisco Garcia who also stated that he was not aware of such an incident ever occurring in his jurisdiction in Starr County.<br />
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"I think he was talking about some houses, but they were over there in Zapata County", Captain Garcia states.<br />
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Really? But Sheriff Sigi <b><i>is</i></b> from Zapata County and I'm sure he'd be using his bragging rights if that were the case, not to mention that he not only wrote about it, but he also <i>talked</i> about it as well.<br />
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So I set out to talk to the Zapata County Sheriff to find out exactly where this house was at and where he got this information from, but unfortunately, and as always, Sigi was not in his office.<br />
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I was first told he wasn't going to be there until Thursday, but then I asked to speak to the second in command, or the person who is in charge during Sigi's absence.<br />
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That's when I was transferred over to Captain Sanchez who now told me that Sigi was going to be in and out of the office because his mother-in-law was ill and she "had taken a turn for the worse".<br />
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He was not able to help me, so I let him know to tell Sigi I was sending him an email and if he could respond to it. If not, I'd be calling back on Thursday.<br />
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I called Thursday only to be told that Sigi was now out of town, "but he was here yesterday" said the lady!<br />
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Naturally, I was upset. I don't like being put through the run around, and I told them so too, so after giving them a piece of my mind, I told them what they needed to do, which was take down my questions, get some answers, and when I call back on Tuesday, there should be NO EXCUSE for me not receive those answers.<br />
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I checked my email to see if Sigi had responded, and have been checking it ever since, but no response from him. I'm positive he has already seen my email, and you know what?<br />
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While I understand that Sheriff's are politicians and sometimes can be busy, the questions are not too complicated and don't require a lengthy amount of time to research. All I wanted to know was the location of that white house in Starr County (what city?), the date and time if possible that the house was shot at, where was our "All pirate attack related incident" PIA, and who gave him that CBP photo of the "suspects" on the boat? He should have information readily available if he is telling the truth. The fact that he doesn't is very suspicious that he is lying because only liars buy time.<br />
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I honestly hope that Tuesday will bring us some answer, and if not, then it is time to take stricter action.<br />
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Yet, this scenario is very reminiscent of our last one when we couldn't seem to catch Sigi in his office.<br />
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We suspected then that he was trying to come up with something to distract from the facts we were finding, and sure enough, he came up with the picture of the "suspects" on a boat.<br />
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Now I have to wonder what he's planning. What "new evidence" will he produce for us this time?<br />
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Or worse, what travesty will befall our peaceful borders to "prove" <b><i>his</i></b> point?<br />
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It's not like the Sheriff is a patient man, or an honorable one at that.<br />
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What do I mean? <br />
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During our research, we came across this lawsuit in which Sheriff Sigi viciously attacks not only a helpless patient that is restrained to a stretcher, but a firefighter who tried to stop him from hurting the patient that was restrained!<br />
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Here is the details to that lawsuit: http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/03/23/TexasLaw.pdf<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b>E. FACTS</b><br />
<blockquote><b>6.</b> On or about March 20, 2009, BUTTERFIELD suffered personal injury resulting from a blow to the face. Mr. Butterfield was pushed and was struck in the mouth by Defendant GONZALEZ’ closed fist. </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>7.</b> The SHERIFF of Zapata County, Texas, in uniform, during working hours, and most importantly while acting as the Sheriff of Zapata County struck Mr. Butterfield. Additionally, the SHERIFF proceeded to immediately threaten Mr. Butterfield by stating that “<b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">if you ever touch me again I WILL KILL YOU!</span></b>” </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>8.</b> The incident arose when Mr. Butterfield along with another firefighter, Miguel Sosa, were assisting with an aggressive patient. <i><b>The patient was handcuffed to a stretcher. The SHERIFF appeared and started striking the helpless man in the stretcher.</b></i></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>9.</b> Mr. Butterfield witnessed the incident and intervened by putting himself in between the patient and the SHERIFF, which was for the protection of the patient who was defenseless. The SHERIFF then pushed and struck Mr. Butterfield in the mouth and threatened Mr. Butterfield with imminent bodily injury. Several people witnessed the incident.</blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"></blockquote>Wohow!!!<br />
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The report goes on to say that Mr. Butterfield later approaches Sigi when he believes Sigi has already been calmed down, only for Sigi to continue with his threat that if Mr. Butterfield ever touches him again, he will kill him!<br />
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Oh, the agony of this report that it leaves out so many questions in need of answers.<br />
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Who was this patient that Sigi unleashed his anger on, and why? What business did this man have with Sigi that he would provoke such anger on a Sheriff? Where did this incident occur? Was it at the Sheriff's department, on the street, or at the fire department? Was the patient a jailbird, a mental patient, or someone who got hurt committing a violent act?<br />
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We tried to contact Mr. Butterfield, but it was no surprise to us when he refused to answer our letter. With Sheriff Sigi on the loose, I would fear for my safety too. I just hope that me digging up this information does not put him in harms way, but then again, this was public information. It was just hidden away in the spider web of the Internet, which makes me wonder:<br />
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Why hasn't the media reported on this incident either?<br />
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What powers are being wielded in Zapata County that are stonewalling our efforts to find answers?<br />
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It's not like we are asking Sigi to bring down the moon and the stars for us. The information we are requesting should be readily available.<br />
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So why isn't it?<br />
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The only comfort we have right now is that the Attorney General has already responded to our appeal.<br />
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The problem is waiting to find out if Sigi will snub his nose at the Attorney General as well.<br />
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Here is the letter the AG sent us:<br />
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Let's just hope that from here until then we can find the answers we are looking for before Sigi's temper gets the best of him and he takes it upon himself to respond to our "touching" for information.<br />
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Surely if he has no respect for a fire fighter colleague, then what respect will he have for a regular citizen?<br />
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In the mean time, he'll continue to prance around like a banshee claiming that our borders are not secure, and he'll be right this time.<br />
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Our borders are not secure because <i><b>he</b></i> is the corruption that disgraces us all.<br />
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In the meantime, stay tuned for more information we are gathering.<br />
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Until next time...iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-70421994411402799592011-05-27T20:52:00.000-07:002011-05-27T21:10:36.837-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: An acceptance of guilt or a failed plan?Thank you everyone for waiting for the information I have had pending. I apologize for the wait, and believe me, what I am about to share with you is not everything that we have so far, but it is really quite astounding!<br />
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First of all, let me begin by letting you know what has happened so far:<br />
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In March 2011, we sent out a FOIA request for a <b><i>full</i></b> and <b><i>complete</i></b> copy of the original call made by Tiffany Hartley to 911 operator. Among other things, we also requested any and all information related to the case (to sum things up) which included witness interviews, field notes, memoranda, etc. <br />
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You would have thought we'd get more than what we got!<br />
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Instead, we got two audio cds, and 3 paper documents. That was it!<br />
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Here is the letter that was sent by the Sheriff of Zapata that summarizes more or less what we got:<br />
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The content of the audio is still being reviewed, but we have found something that sounds very damning! Listen to audio 5 of the 911 call:<br />
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Now, let me explain something about audio 5 of the 911 call. When you edit it in programs like Audacity or Wavepad, it tends to change the frequencies of voices.<br />
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In other words, where you have someone saying, "Let me have that hat", editing the frequencies can change that sentence to sound like, "Bet we grab a snack". <br />
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Many of the people working with me have had that difficulty because the more they mess with those programs, the more they change the sound of words, making it sound like Tiffany Hartley was saying something else.<br />
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However, the reason why I'm confident I'm as close to what Tiffany said as possible is because I used a program that I have been used for heavy editing in the past. <br />
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That program is Adobe Soundbooth CS5.<br />
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What I like about Adobe Soundbooth CS5 is that you can select the frequencies you want to change, as opposed to changing ALL the frequencies. The reason Soundbooth can do that is because it gives you a thermal image of the audio. <br />
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In this case, I highlighted around Tiffany's voice and removed the sound around it, being as careful as possible not to change the voice frequencies. Doing that changes the tone of the voice, but pretty much keeps the words in tact. <br />
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What happens when you remove the sound around the voice is that you take the higher frequencies out of it, along with the noise, and so you keep the words, but they sound more flutey as opposed to Tiffany's regular voice.<br />
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Having said that, I'm shocked!<br />
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I'm shocked that this was actually caught on tape! It is no wonder the Sheriff of Zapata County went to such extreme lengths as to take it upon himself to withhold information!<br />
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Unfortunately for him, he's not smart enough, as he left in not only audio 5 of the 911 call, but the address of the Good Samaritan!!<br />
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Let me just say this, I'm under the strong impression that Tiffany NEVER left the public boat ramp, and if she did, she probably just circled around it to get to the Good Samaritan's house! <br />
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Take a look at this map:<br />
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The blue dot is the Good Samaritan's house. The yellow star is the public boat ramp.<br />
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Why in the world would Tiffany end up at that exact house, in that exact location?<br />
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But the audio, man. The audio! <br />
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To hear Tiffany say, <b style="color: red;">"Why'd they make me shoot somebody where I could never look for David"!</b><br />
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Is it just me? Am I the only one that hears that? What do you hear?<br />
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And assuming that what I am hearing is correct, who is this "somebody" that they shot out there?<br />
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Or was this failed planning? Maybe Tiffany thought that she could go with the excuse that they, the pirates, made her shoot David, but later figured out that that would never fly.<br />
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But what if they shot someone with the idea that maybe in time they would find a body and claim it was David, but Tiffany, smartly, thinks about the fact that the body is in an area where they will never find "David"?<br />
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Then again, listen to the beginning of the 911 call. A few seconds into the call, Tiffany states, "by the Church". <br />
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In other words, assuming David was shot, she was saying that he was shot "by the Church". <br />
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The good Samaritan later relays the same message to the operator. <br />
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So why does Tiffany go on later to claim that they were "half way" to the US? And assuming that is true, then where does the good Samaritan get that he saw a boat chasing her?<br />
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Not to mention, remember this picture?<br />
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Well, listen to this interview Tiffany had in which she estimates there were two to three people in each of the 3 boats:<br />
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http://www.1310kfka.com/audio/Hartley02231102.mp3<br />
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<b>Amy: </b> <i>And, how many people do you think are in these boats?</i><br />
<b>Tiffany: </b> <i>Um, if I had to guess, which I don't even have a clue how many were in there, but uh, three let's say</i><br />
<b>Amy:</b> <i>In each one of the boats..ok</i><br />
<b>Tiffany:</b> <i>Yea, two to three in each boat.</i></blockquote></blockquote><br />
So yeah, maybe she's guessing, but it still defies logic as to why the Sheriff of Zapata County would use the above picture to point them out as "suspects", when even he's been saying all along that they were looking at about 6 or seven suspects. I remember 9 somewhere, but I'm not up to researching, but even at 9! How would that work with 3 boats, when the above picture shows 6 people in one?!!!<br />
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Did these merry pirates decide to take a jolly ride by hopping altogether into one boat? <i> Geez!</i><br />
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Even more bothersome is the fact that the report we received claims that the good ol' Sheruf of Zapata didn't gather ANY evidence at the scene!!!<br />
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Here's a snapshot of that document:<br />
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WOW!!!!<br />
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Yes, there are all sorts of crazy stuff going on here. Soooo, the jet ski doesn't count as evidence? The life vest doesn't count as evidence? <br />
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"No evidence gathers".....hmmmmm.<br />
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This isn't over yet. There is still more information pending, and hopefully evidence we'll receive in a week or two that we can look over and I will later share with you once we are done reviewing.<br />
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In the meantime, please share this far and wide.<br />
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I have no idea what to do with what I have found, and those who are helping me have found that in order for us to do any more we'd have to hire a lawyer and a court approved forensic specialist to analyze the audio if we want to take this to court, which so far no one is doing.<br />
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Since we have no money, we'll use what we have: our voices!<br />
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Tell everyone you know. Share this with all your friends. Share it with the media, anyone who is willing to listen, and hopefully take this up.<br />
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Again, if what I am hearing is correct, then someone was killed out there on Falcon Lake, and Tiffany basically states that someone made her do it (shyeah right). <br />
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Justice needs to be done, and if the Sheriff of Zapata County will not fulfill his duties as a law enforcement officer, then someone needs to step in and take away his badge.<br />
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Please stay tuned for more.<br />
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Until next time.....<br />
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P.S. Here's the incident report narrative for anyone who wants to view it:<br />
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Anyways, let me know what YOU hear in that audio 5 of the 911 call. Take care!<br />
<span id="goog_2011101585"></span><span id="goog_2011101586"></span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-22523714285734119282011-04-22T17:53:00.000-07:002011-04-22T17:53:35.442-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: Reenactment of the Falcon Lake Murder storyI apologize for not getting this up sooner, but here it is:<br />
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I know it's a little blah, but I look forward to getting some feedback and hopefully some other ideas as to what other kind of videos I can produce.<br />
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This video is a little off as I had meant to make it word for word based on what Tiffany said, but I couldn't resist and add, slyly, my own opinion in there. Towards the end, I went a little off track and reenacted the story based on what she said in other interviews, not this one.<br />
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Anyways, it's practice, but I've been wanting to post something like this for quite a while now, and so here it is.<br />
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Enjoy!iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-91845579115934324252011-03-27T01:51:00.000-07:002011-03-27T07:44:37.181-07:00Falcon Lake Murder: Pirates, Psychics and Sheriff SigiYou know, this story would almost be funny if it weren't really happening.<br />
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It would make for <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">a good movie too</a>.<br />
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But the truth is, it's not funny because evidence is pointing to a very big and scary cover up.<br />
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Some day, I hope to be able to share the information that is being gathered on this case, but until then, we'll be looking at the very obvious.<br />
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Take for example the fact that Falcon Lake had previously never experienced any "pirate" attacks until 2010.<br />
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The first attack coming in April 30, 2010, but that news didn't make a big splash, and to me, it was like Sheriff Sigi was upset it didn't cause the effects he wanted, so he tried again TWICE in May, and when that didn't work, he tried again April, with his final attempt, the Hartley's, finally hitting the mark.<br />
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Here are those stories according to <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=7100">Texas Monthly</a> (which got it's news from <a href="http://www.themonitor.com/articles/robbing-38763-cartel-zapata.html">the Monitor</a>):<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>April 30:</b> Five people in two boats were fishing on the lake and visited Old Guerrero, a Mexican city abandoned when the reservoir was created in the 1950s. The group was taking pictures of the church and other submerged buildings at the site when four heavily tattooed men appeared in boats and climbed aboard the fishermen’s vessels. The intruders claimed they were “<i>Federales</i>” — Mexican federal police — but had no uniforms, troopers said. <span style="color: red;">(Note the importance of pointing out they were heavily tattooed men. The scarier the better, even though the last thing these drug cartel members want is to be identified through their tattoo's. A very reliable informant tells me that it is very rare for Zeta's to be tattooed because then it is harder for them to deny any involvement if they are caught. The only one's that are more than likely to be heavily tattooed are the MS13 and other gang members that operate for the Zeta's. However, it is very unlikely that MS13 or gang members will be found on boats. Who knows though? If there can be pirates on speed boats on a lake, there can be gangsters too.)</span><br />
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<b>May 6</b>: Three fishermen were about a quarter of a mile from Marker 14 on the north side of Salado Island, above some submerged ruins, troopers said. As they were fishing, two men in a boat quickly approached and pointed AR-15 assault rifles toward the anglers. One of the gunmen boarded the boat, looking for cash, drugs and firearms. One of the attackers chambered a round in his assault rifle and said he would shoot the men if they did not give him money. <span style="color: red;">(Why would they be looking for drugs? Mexico supplies the drugs, not the US. Again, drugs = criminals, so I classify this as another attempt to make the enemy look scarier)</span><br />
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<b>May 16:</b> Law enforcement officers <u>received a report</u> that a vessel carrying five armed men had approached some boaters. Investigators have not found the boaters to obtain details about the incident, which apparently occurred on the U.S. side of the lake. <span style="color: red;">(Naturally, since no one knows who the boaters were, you just have to suck it up as fact, right?)</span><br />
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And <b>six weeks before May 16 or 19</b>, Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo “Sigi” Gonzalez said <i>the first suspected cartel pirate hijacking he heard of</i> occurred when a group of fishermen had their boat stolen and were left naked on the Mexican side with only a cell phone to call for help. <span style="color: red;">(Well I'll be damned! I thought the first incident happened on April 30th and they were able to make it back, albeit a little short on cash. Fabricating much Sheriff Sigi?)</span></blockquote></blockquote>But that's not all. Sheriff Sigi said the following back in May of 2010:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote>"It makes me nervous that these things are happening. It irritates me because we can try and do more if the federal government would provide more funding," said Gonzalez. "I dread having to even think of having a fisherman resist, shot in the head, and we can't even go retrieve the body." </blockquote></blockquote>Amazingly enough, exactly just that happened on September 30, 2010 when Tiffany and David Hartley were chased by "pirates" and David Hartley was supposedly shot in the head and his body to this day has not been retrieved because "we can't even go" over there.<br />
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If that's not surprising, later that same day, Sheriff Sigi goes into details about what more than likely happened to the body. This is what <a href="http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/default/article/American-shot-while-jet-skiing-on-Falcon-Lake-815823.php">he predicted</a>:<br />
<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote>"I don't think we're ever going to find him," Gonzalez said late Thursday. "We can't go over there, obviously, and I'm thinking that if the Mexican authorities have not gone to look for him,<span style="color: red;"> the people that did this would</span> -<i> if <u><b>I</b></u> were them</i> -<span style="color: red;"> have cut the vest and let him sink, or <i><u><b>I</b></u></i> would have pulled the body out of the water <u><i>so there'd be no evidence</i></u></span> ... before the Mexican military gets there."</blockquote></blockquote>While, personally I don't believe that David was ever shot to begin with, assuming he was, then it is no coincidence that Sheriff Sigi was once again correct in his predictions. No body was ever found!<br />
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Then, that weekend, a private investigator, Raul G. Reyna Jr., from Edinburg, Texas <a href="http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/-118189--.html">tries stealing some of the spotlight</a> and Sheriff Sigi doesn't like it. He warns the private investigator:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote>Reyna needs to be careful about nosing around too much in this case "because <u><b>he’s going to come up missing a head.</b></u>"</blockquote></blockquote><br />
In his comments, he also adds:<br />
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<blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #cccccc;">"If we know there’s no body to be found, why should we risk more people searching? <i>Why should we risk having people out there searching <u><b>and getting beheaded</b></u> </i>when we can’t find a body? </span></blockquote></blockquote>Now, the article that published the above quotes from Sigi is dated Sunday, October 17, but in there it says "this past Saturday", which I'm sure they didn't mean "yesterday" because more than likely the paper was written on Saturday, October 16 or around that time. Which means, the Saturday they are referring to is Saturday, October 9, 2010.<br />
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The reason I believe this also, asides from the above mentioned reasons, is because I've done a search and every post that has this news story has no comments in regards to the beheading of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas on October 13, 2010. Neither in the news article or in the comment section, and you know those anti-immigrants, racist, xenophobic, and/or Tiffany supporters would not have let that one go. And because it is a news article, I find it odd that they would not mention his beheading when it very clearly relates to what Sheriff Sigi is warning about.<br />
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Which brings us to Sheriff Sigi's other predictions: <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/falcon-lake-murder-murder-and.html">The beheading of Rolando Armando Flores Villegas</a>.<br />
It may be possible that Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was set up to be beheaded, and I'm not going to beat around the bush with this one:<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b> I strongly believe Sheriff Sigi had something to do with it!</b></span><br />
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Rolando Armando Flores Villegas was<span id="goog_191411005"></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"> very adamant<span id="goog_191411006"></span></a> that nothing in Tiffany's story was adding up. There was no body. No jet ski. No witnesses (besides an unreliable good Samaritan. My words, not his.). So it's very possible that he was on to something and Sheriff Sigi didn't like it.<br />
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In short, he wasn't being "careful about nosing around too much in this case", and like Sheriff Sigi predicted, he ended up "missing a head".<br />
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Let us see what other predictions the Sheriff has in store for us:<br />
3/31/2009 - "Gonzalez, who heads the Southwestern Border Sheriff’s Coalition, said <a href="http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/border-sheriffs-say-federal-government-must-do-more-secure-border-005458">it’s only a matter of time before a shootout breaks out between cartel members and federal, state, and local law enforcement. </a><br />
...<a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_house_hearings&docid=f:55055.wais">We are looking for help in catching the bad guys who are coming in, sir, and also protecting the citizens and residents who are already living in our counties <u><i>so that they not get kidnapped and not get extorted, not have their homes invaded, that they not get tortured and things like this."</i></u></a><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">And no wonder he makes it sound so dangerous here on the border. Look at what he's asking for for his local agencies: </span> "<b>$500 million a year for 5 years</b> was the figure that we looked at as being actually something meaningful that would provide the resources"</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Is Sheriff Sigi crying wolf? Why shouldn't he?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">According to the <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.5/barry.php">Boston Review: At War In Texas by Tom Barry</a>, "</span></span> Sheriff Gonzalez has so much border-security funding from DHS and DOJ that each of his deputies is assigned two vehicles, a patrol car for regular duty and a new SUV for overtime border-security operations." Later on, Mr. Barry goes on to say that "Border sheriffs enjoy virtually unlimited overtime-pay accounts, new fleets of vehicles, and the latest security technology."<br />
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Of course, Sheruff Sigi doesn't want to use that "latest security technology or new fleets of vehicles cuz the boogy men pirates might put a dent in 'em.<br />
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Most importantly, Mr. Barry notes that, "in Zapata County, Sheriff Gonzalez has so much border-security funding from DHS and DOJ that each of his deputies is assigned two vehicles, a patrol car for regular duty and a new SUV for overtime border-security operations."<br />
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Holy crapoly! No wonder Sheriff Sigi is making all these predictions that <b><u><i>mysteriously</i></u></b> are coming true! <br />
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But back to his predictions, and sorry these are not coming out in order, iammetx is too lazy to place them in order, but don't worry, they all happened in 2010.<br />
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Apparently there was an incident back in March 2010 with an "armed" Mexican helicopter flying over U.S. airspace and hovering over homes.<br />
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According to the Sigster, this was a Mexican Marine helicopter because it hovered over the homes of CBP agents and surely they know what they were looking at.<br />
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Oddly enough, the only people who could confirm this actually happened were, according to the Sigi, a deputy, a local news reporter, and a federal officer who, the sheriff said, "has since been muzzled by higher-ups".<br />
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Uh-huh.<br />
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Asides from that, they had pictures! Albeit a bit blurry, but they claim you can actually see where it says Marina on it. Here's one that they provided, although you can't really tell where it actually is. It could have been taken in Mexico for all we know:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MEXICAN-NAVY-HELICOPTER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://www.federaljack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/MEXICAN-NAVY-HELICOPTER.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span class="article_author"><i></i></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Which oddly enough looks exactly like this helicopter photo taken in 2009:</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.enlineadirecta.info/fotos/Z-helicoptero.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.enlineadirecta.info/fotos/Z-helicoptero.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Too bad we can't see a chopper number in that back tail for the first photo. Sneaky little punks!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> Here's another one compared to that one:</span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.valleycentral.com/uploadedimages/kgbt/news/Stories/MexicanHelicopter4.jpg?w=440&h=330&aspect=nostretch" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.valleycentral.com/uploadedimages/kgbt/news/Stories/MexicanHelicopter4.jpg?w=440&h=330&aspect=nostretch" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Yowzers! Now that's a chopper! Where it is at or if it is even Mexican remains to be a mystery, and I'm sure Sigi is loving every minute of it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Especially with his prediction of "<a href="http://wn.com/Alert_Helicopter">it's not the first time and it won't be the last.</a>" </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Surely enough, he was right, <a href="http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/04/02/mexican-helicopter-spotted-in-texas-airspace-again/">again</a>. Too bad the link to that article will never be found complete, as it was scrubbed from the Internet like most news articles involving the Sigster. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">However, I was able to find a forum where you can see<a href="http://www.blogger.com/"> a little bit more of that article</a> where it clearly states:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span>Border Patrol spokesman Jason Darling says the Mexican military is conducting operations near Zapata along the Rio Grande."<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Chucks! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">It is little wonder that Sheruff Sigi didn't go into detail about the fact </span></span>that <a href="http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=505987">a long-standing agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada allows for temporary incursions for medical or law enforcement purposes.</a><br />
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But what can you expect from someone who's stomping his foot down in order to pocket $500 million every year for 5 years under the guise of border security, right? <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Well, here are some of his predictions that are yet to come true, so let's keep an eye out for this guy:</span></span><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><a href="http://ourtribune.com/article.php?id=10537"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">"Osama Bin Laden can come across border and not get caught" </span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.policeone.com/border-patrol/articles/2063226-Border-sheriffs-meet-in-El-Paso/"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span>Be careful of the lull before the storm"</a><span style="color: red;"> </span></blockquote></blockquote><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">And come to think of it, there has been a lull in Sheriff Sigi's diatribe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I wonder what he's planning next? <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Bomb-plot-alert-at-Falcon-Dam-781861.php">Blaming Osama bin Laden for another 9/11 on the border?</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">All I know is that before 2010, we didn't have so much commotion here on the border, and all of it coming just from one county and one Sheriff, the Sigster. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Let's just hope he keeps it at 2010 and shuts it at 2011, but we'll find out pretty soon as we continue to investigate this case.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Until next time...</span></span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-67887272147314511022011-03-02T23:12:00.000-08:002011-03-02T23:12:21.156-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: To be or not to be?Well, this case gets more and more frustrating as time goes on.<br />
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Recently, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez has announced four suspects in the David Hartley murder case. According to <a href="http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=586554">Action4News</a>, "the four of them...<u><i><b>were part of a larger group of seven men</b></i></u> that attacked David and Tiffany Hartley..."<br />
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So we now have a group of seven men. Two of them are the Farias brothers, and now these two new suspects, with 3 more still unidentified.<br />
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Now in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfjIyGZ_Oo">this Youtube video</a>, Tiffany Hartley says the following @ 3:03:<br />
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<blockquote><b>Anderson Cooper:</b> <i>How many people were there? How many boats were there?</i><br />
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<b>Tiffany Hartley:</b> <i>There was <b>three</b> boats, um, that were chasing us and then one boat came up to <b>me</b> and I saw <b>two people</b> in that boat but there was a sss, <b>third or fourth person</b> in that boat, I just didn't see them.</i></blockquote></blockquote><br />
In short, there were<b> 4 people</b> in that one boat. You either saw them or you didn't, but you already gave a number (I'm talking to Tiffany here) which means there was more than two people in the boat, and you can't go from third to fourth unless you recognize there was a third person in that boat, which you clearly recognize when you said "fourth person".<br />
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So four people in one boat, two boats left, and 3 people needing placement on those boats. How should we place them? One in one boat and two in the other? Or were all 3 in one boat and the last boat driven by ghost pirates?<br />
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Oooh! I like the sound of that...ghost pirates! It makes for an interesting read, yes?<br />
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Further into the interview @ 3:26:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>Anderson Cooper:</b> <i> And, and how many guns were there? Were there just one?</i><br />
<b>Tiffany Hartley:</b> <i>Um, I just saw the one, uh, that was pointing at me. I wasn't looking for any other ones.</i></blockquote></blockquote>Notice the little shake of the head at the end of that answer, lol. Sorry, but I can't help but laugh at the absurdity of this whole case and how <b>INVESTIGATORS</b> can't see what we see!<br />
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I mean, I could read her thoughts with that one shake.<br />
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"Good comeback Tiffany! That was a good answer!" she thinks in her head.<br />
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Why a good answer?<br />
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She only saw <b>ONE</b> gun.<br />
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She saw bullets flying. She saw David Hartley flying. She saw boats coming, but she didn't see any other guns but the one that was aimed at her?<br />
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So who was the one saying that they were waving <b>GUNS</b>? Or are you saying that all the barrage of bullets came out of one lone gun?<br />
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These must be some very poor pirates. I wonder if they took turns with their one gun, and I apologize for making fun of an incident that sounds so severe, but frankly, I just don't believe any of this story and I cannot fathom why NO ONE, to this date, has done nothing other than attack our beautiful and secure borders.<br />
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It's sickening really.<br />
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So, 7 suspects, 3 boats, 1 gun. <br />
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It almost sounds like a catchy song.<br />
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A song that keeps on changing, because now the Sheriff claims it wasn't just any gun, but a rifle! <br />
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And to make matters worse, now the Sheriff is also claiming that the story about the suspects is untrue but it really isn't.<br />
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If that's confusing to you, then welcome to the club because just about every article I read in which Sigi denies having mentioned four more suspects in this recent news, well, they all seemed to have disappeared from the web and they have been replaced with recounting about what we already knew months ago.<br />
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Personally, I think it was just a media stunt that was made because both Tiffany and Sigi feed off the lime light and, well, they were running short on energy and they decided to feed off the media frenzy caused by the capture of the ICE agent murder suspects.<br />
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However, the announcement was a fart in time, for no sooner than the news got out, Sheriff Sigi was claiming that there are no suspects and that it was all a misunderstanding.<br />
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Elsewhere, Tiffany continues to play the victim role: <br />
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Seriously, again, I just don't get it.<br />
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She can remember certain details, like her <i>not seeing</i> the "third or fourth" person in the boat, 3 boats, she could see bullets hitting the water, hear them hitting the water as well, she could see David flying, a gun to her face, the person holding the gun looking back and picking up, putting down, picking up the gun, erm "rifle", and she also fled "not looking back" until she could not "see them anymore"....yet she claims she wouldn't be able to identify the suspects in a line up?<br />
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Wait a fuckin moment here!<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: yellow;">How in the world do we have suspects then if this poor excuse for a lady claims she doesn't know who shot her husband, what they look like, what they wanted, where they went, how they got there, or where they are?</b></span><br />
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You can't just go around picking up people, especially if they are coming from unknown sources, and I don't care what Sigi says if they are reliable sources. The fact that their identities have to be kept secret speaks volumes of very shady people, and very shady people deal in very shady ways.<br />
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What proof do we have that these suspects even committed a crime?<br />
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Was there a description of them? No!<br />
Were bullets found and traced back to them? No!<br />
Were they found in possession of something that linked to David Hartley? No!<br />
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We're reliving a witch hunt, and if Sheriff Sigi gets away with believing fairy tails from people who probably want to set up others, then we're in for big trouble here on the border.<br />
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<div style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ANYONE COULD BE SUSPECT NOW IF WE ARE TO TAKE MERE ACCUSATIONS AS EVIDENCE!!</b></span></div><br />
What kind of a Sheriff is Sigi? He's no Sheriff! He's a wanna-be punk Sheriff who wants fame and will obtain it by falsely framing himself a hero. Just watch!<br />
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Before I do that, though, did I mention that in one of her claims she states that she fled, "NOT LOOKING BACK" until she could "NOT SEE THEM ANYMORE", yet the witness says there was a boat chasing her?<br />
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Ok, now let me go throw a tantrum.<br />
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I'll post more information which I have found soon. Until then...iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-37315073156185768022011-02-25T09:38:00.000-08:002011-02-25T09:57:51.561-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: David Hartley, a missionary, and an ICE agentI'm going to be taking a break for a little bit on the Falcon Lake Murder case, and only because I'm waiting for new information to arrive, which is hopefully soon.<br />
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For the mean, you can check out my new blogs, <a href="http://borderlinemadnessdiary.blogspot.com/">Borderline Madness Diary</a>, and coming soon, <a href="http://borderlinemadnesspoetry.blogspot.com/">Borderline Madness Poetry</a>.<br />
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However, before I put the Falcon Lake Murder case on standby, allow me to share some final thoughts for the week.<br />
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I think that the worse case scenario for me is that everything I've been posting about the David Hartley murder case turns out to be so wrong.<br />
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It's not that I would hate to be proven wrong. To the contrary, I hope to be proven wrong.<br />
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What it is is that I would hate to think that Tiffany Hartley has been telling the truth this whole time (which I clearly state again that I very much doubt) and that people like me have been giving her a hard time during what is probably the worst time time in her life. I would hate to think that instead of giving her support, that I instead gave her more grief.<br />
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Having said that, one thing that has been bothering me for the past week is the underlying injustice for us all.<br />
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For us, those who seek true justice, it is the lack of enforcing the laws in serious situations like the David Hartley murder. It was a biased investigation that, asides from giving preferential treatment to women, it also gave preferential treatment to white victims, and preferential treatment to anti-immigrant hysteria.<br />
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For those who are victims, assuming they have been telling the truth, the unfairness comes in minimizing what is priority to what is not.<br />
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What do I mean?<br />
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Well, if you haven't heard about it, a few weeks ago in January 2011, a missionary couple was attacked by the drug cartels. The husband was able to escape, but the wife was not. She was shot in the head as their truck was bombarded with bullets. Unlike the David Hartley murder case, they had the truck, which was riddled with bullet holes, as proof of the dangers that they had escaped, and unfortunately took the life of a good Samaritan. This case did not gain too much attention because the surviving spouse did not parade himself in front of the media like Tiffany Hartley did after David's supposed murder.<br />
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In that case, many people kept bringing up the expensive truck the missionaries were driving. In their head, they could not understand why this couple, knowing the dangers of Mexico, why would they drive a truck like that in Mexico?<br />
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Well, having been all along the Mexico border, in Matamoros, Nuevo Progresso, Diaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Camargo, Miguel Aleman, Ciudad Nuevo Guerrero, Nuevo Laredo, and as far in as Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi, in all these places, it is not uncommon to see people driving fancy vehicles.<br />
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Naturally, one should still take precautions, but I fail to see in cases like these why they would be targeted for the truck they drove. This is one case where I truly believe it was a case of mistaken identity, but the one case where everyone seems to be going just the opposite of what I think. But it is because of the fact that I know that they are not the only ones driving nice looking trucks, and if you've been to these border towns and have seen the missionary truck, you'd realize that the missionaries' truck was blah compared to what other people are driving in these Mexican border towns.<br />
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Do I suspect foul play in the missionary shooting? No I don't. The only foul play is that they, in my opinion, were mistaken for rivals, especially because, according to the way the story goes, they didn't stop for the road block and instead sped off away from it, in my opinion, giving the impression that they were hiding something when in reality they were just speeding off in fear.<br />
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If that sounds like the David and Tiffany scenario, then you are right, but the only difference is that the missionaries had a truck riddled with bullet holes to prove they were being shot at, not to mention the wife who later died in the hospital as a result of being shot in the head. In Tiffany's case, there were no bullet holes anywhere, not even a nick, and this was after being chased by 3 boats full of "pirates", David's body nor his jet ski were ever found, and her story changed as often as the wind changes direction, among other things.<br />
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The one thing that both Tiffany and the missionary do have in common though, is that the people who killed their spouses were never caught. In Tiffany's case, one investigator was supposedly beheaded for providing information that could have lead to the suspects, and that is still being debated by many of us as to whether things really happened <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/falcon-lake-murder-murder-and.html">the way they are telling us it did</a>.<br />
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On the other hand, in February 2011, two ICE agents were shot in Mexico while on duty. One was wounded in the leg and the other died as a result of multiple gun shots to the chest.<br />
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The following is STRATFOR's report on the attack of the ICE agents:<br />
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In my humble opinion, STRATFOR is full of shit. Honestly.<br />
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For one, if the cartels were after the vehicle, why didn't they take it?<br />
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Two, I find it mighty fishy that one of the ICE agents survived with only two shots to the leg while the other was shot multiple times in the chest.<br />
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Three, I find it mighty fishy that the cartel would not hide the evidence of their crime. Many people go missing in Mexico and no one ever finds out what happened to them. Why in the world would they leave themselves up for grabs like that? It isn't that I am trying to glorify the cartels. I am not. I find them disgusting, but, the patterns of how they operate do not match with this case nor with the Hartley's case.<br />
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Three, the people in Mexico do not see Americans as a threat! <i>WTF</i>?!<br />
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Does STRATFOR really call themselves "intelligence professionals"? Well, they are surely lacking in the "intelligence" part, because this case smells all over, just like David Hartley's supposed "murder".<br />
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And to me, that's upsetting, because cases like these, I'm sure, are going to become more common.<br />
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People have found an easy way to commit murder and blame the violence in Mexico!<br />
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However, to be fair, what is very astounding is the fact that even before the month was over, they had already arrest not one, but 500 suspects nationwide!!! This only days after ICE practically states they are going to get revenge for their fallen hero by finding the shooters.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b>Boy, that was quick!</b></div><br />
What about the missionary and Tiffany Hartley and other Americans who have been murdered in Mexico as a result of the drug wars?<br />
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<u>Why was the government not quick to respond to their case in capturing the shooters, or as efficient?</u><br />
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<div style="font-size: 14px;">According to <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/02/25/ice-avenges-agents-death-massive-mexican-drug-trafficking-sweep/">Fox News</a>, Deputy special agent with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement said, "<i>This is personal...We lost an agent, we lost a good agent. And we have to respond.</i>" </div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote>Federal, state and local authorities across the country are sending an unequivocal message to Mexican drug cartel members in the U.S. and Latin America: If you kill a U.S. agent, there will be repercussions.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Dang! No, really...<b><i>DAAANG</i></b>!!!</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In other words, <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">if you are not a U.S. agent, then you are not important.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">So I take it, Tiffany Hartley and the missionaries, Nancy and Sam Davis, and countless others who have lost a loved one as a result to the drug wars in Mexico- none of them will ever find justice because they are not special. They are not U.S. agents. They are just American civilians and the life of American civilians are not important.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Boo! Big fucking BOO!</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Excuse my language, but, it is shit like this that makes me feel sorry for people like Tiffany Hartley, though I may not agree with her version of the story or the stance that she has decided to take about the border, or how her story is negatively affecting the communities on the border.<br />
</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">But I urge her to keep demanding justice for David, just in case I am wrong about David Hartley's supposed "murder", and for the sake of those who are not "special U.S. agents"...<br />
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<b>...most importantly for them.</b></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</div></div>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-64190039431756404252011-02-18T23:24:00.000-08:002011-02-18T23:24:57.787-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: A message from the cartelsThe other day when I released the post about the Subway's interview, someone mailed me a link to the Narco blog with the message, "It says here who killed David Hartley." The link was the following:<br />
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http://www.blogdelnarco.com/2011/02/cartel-del-golfo-y-carteles-unidos.html<br />
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For those of you who do not understand Spanish, there is a translate button on the top left corner, but mainly what this link takes you to is a blogger who supposedly received an anonymous email from the Cartel del Golfo (CDG) and United Cartels (UC) on February 16, 2011. In the email, the CDG and UC give a list of murders and a series of other bloody events. On that list was no other than the murder of David Hartley.<br />
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The text translated by me reads as follow:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: yellow;"><blockquote>Juan Pedro and Jose-Manuel Zaldivar Farías, also known as "El 27" and "El 31", killed the American tourist David Hartley at Falcon Dam and the head of the PME (ministerial state police) group in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Juan Carlos Ballesteros who was beheaded and his head was sent in a briefcase to the premises of the Mexican army. </blockquote></blockquote><br />
Naturally, even after reading this, I didn't believe it because it sounded to me like they were just regurgitating everything the American media had said. Secondly, they provide no proof to link these suspects to the beheading other than fingerpointing, not to mention other points I brought up in a previous blog. (Read my thoughts on this <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-one-ever-said-comandante-armando.html">here</a> and <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/falcon-lake-murder-murder-and.html">here</a>.)<br />
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I still had to wonder if maybe I was being hard headed about this? After all, El Blog del Narco does have a reputation for being able to communicate with the cartel and provide information that is not available to others, but it just seemed too childish a email to come from some big drug cartels.<br />
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However, had it not been for my friend Javiera, I would have never noticed one very big clue that only adds more to this mystery, and that big clue is: <br />
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<i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">According to a number of news reports, the media, Sheriff Sigi, and Tiffany, it wasn't Juan Carlos Ballesteros who was beheaded, but </span><u><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Rolando Armando Flores Villegas</span></u></b></i><i><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">!</span></b></i><br />
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So who's lying?!!! The CDG or everyone else?<br />
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Here's the problem: Personally, I don't believe this is a real letter from the CDG, and if it is, they are just coming up with events to blame on the Zeta's. They are, after all, feuding, and what a better way than to get people fired up by putting the blame on their enemy?<br />
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However, we don't even really know who it was that was beheaded!<br />
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The Mexican news is famous for showing us the gruesome details of a beheading like this, and if not them, surely there's a picture floating around the internet to prove this beheading, not that I want to see it for any other reason other than I want proof!<br />
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Secondly, what if they are giving the facts? What <i>if</i> it was Juan Carlos Ballesteros who was beheaded and not Rolando Armando Flores Villegas? Why would no one speak up about it if that were the case? Not to mention that there is more reason to believe that Juan Carlos Ballesteros would be the one to have been decapitated and not Mr. Villegas, because it was Mr. Ballesteros and Sheriff Sigi who released that information to <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/715047.html&ei=NE9DTc6_NcP38AaUvLiFAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/715047.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DMld%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divns">El Universal</a>, and not the other way around!<br />
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To be honest, this only furthers my suspicions that Sheriff Sigi works for the CDG. He was the first one to place the blame on the "Zetitas", and now the CDG is following in his footsteps by insisting that the beheading was a result of people investigating the David Hartley case, and this is only assuming that this email was really sent by someone who knows more about the background on David Hartley's disappearance.<br />
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Stay tuned...iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-8638309097922633762011-02-17T17:13:00.000-08:002011-02-17T17:13:38.458-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: SubwaysSince law enforcement apparently is not doing anything about the Falcon Lake murder case, we were left to do our own independent investigation.<br />
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Some of the the doubts we had were regarding the police stop and the claim that the border patrol saw Tiffany and David eating at Subways.<br />
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While we have to wait for the video of the police stop, a good friend of mine, Javiera, whom I converse daily with about this case, took some of her time to investigate what she could about it. <br />
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Both Tiffany and Sheriff Sig claim that Tiffany was seen by border patrol with David eating at a Subway's, later confirmed by a reporter from The Monitor that that Subway's happened to be in Zapata. <br />
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Interestingly enough, Javiera called the Zapata County Subway to see if anyone had actually seen David and Tiffany together that day, and they didn't even know who Tiffany and David were! <br />
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They thought she was talking about Harley Davidson motorcycles! <br />
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<i>They'd never heard of the Falcon Lake murder!</i><br />
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Naturally, I needed to call Zapata Subway and confirm this for myself. <br />
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To make a long story, Javiera was right, but at the same time, they were able to direct me to someone who was there on September 30th, 2010.<br />
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I was not able to get in touch with this person immediately, but some time between 2/14/11 and 2/17/11, I finally made contact.<br />
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This person, who does not want to reveal their identity for safety reasons, claims that Sheriff Sigi never came to them with any questions.<br />
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No one had ever done an interview with any of the employees or the owner and that no investigation was done at that Subway restaurant!<br />
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The witness was, however, able to confirm that they did see David and Tiffany Hartley eat there. The witness claims to have seen them come in between 12:30 noon and 1:30 pm ("somewhere around there").<br />
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According to witness, the "couple" ordered their meal to go.<br />
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Witness was not able to give any more information other than they had used a credit card "or a debit card" and that the couple had acted regular when they order "their sandwiches".<br />
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I did find the following statement from the witness very interesting:<br />
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Witness states, "<i style="background-color: yellow;">I did see the couple eat there, and then I went back to see if it was the same girl that came out, because I was not able to see the guy, right, anymore. He, he disappeared. But the girl that came out in the news was the same girl that was there having lunch at the Subway</i>."<br />
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So I called the witness back for further explanation of that statement.<br />
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What witness meant was that they went back out of curiosity to look at their security video to see if the girl was the same as the one on the news. I asked if it was possible to get access to that security video.<br />
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Unfortunately, they only keep them for two months and since no one asked for them and they didn't think the couple eating at Subways was important, they didn't save the video.<br />
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<i><b>If Sheriff Sigi had been doing his job, they would have acquired that video from the security cameras as evidence.</b></i> <br />
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As it is, the witness could not confirm what the Hartley's were driving in or how they arrived to the store. All the witness knows is that Tiffany came to the store, possibly with someone considering the witness continually used the word "they", "them", "their" but then later says she could not see the guy because he "disappeared".<br />
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I asked the witness what they meant by "disappeared". Did they mean the guy moved out of the scope of the camera or was Tiffany alone? I asked if Tiffany was alone because there were times when the witness would single out Tiffany as if Tiffany went in by herself.<br />
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The witness responded with, "No, she was definitely with somebody but I do not know if, if it was the same guy that was shot in the lake because, because I did not see a picture of him, right, to compare, but the girl, the girl was the same as on tv."<br />
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I asked if there were any border patrol eating there at the time. Witness claims that they did not recall them being there but that they were "definitely not in line placing an order" with the Hartley's.<br />
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When asked how they wanted to be addressed in this blog, the witness said to just put down "*****" because "all that matters is that they ate there."<br />
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Thank you very much for your help, witness, but that is not all that matters.<br />
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Other things that matter are fact that the so called Sheriff of Zapata County did not actually call Subways or interview its employees to confirm if David and Tiffany had been there? Fortunately for him, that much seems to be true, but it was very important that he had done this investigation early on, because, as you can see, the Subway's witness has given useful information. <br />
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Did they notice Tiffany and David arguing? No. <br />
Were anyone of them visibly upset? No. <br />
Did they look happy together? They looked like any regular couple. <br />
Were they conversing? They did not stay long enough to notice. <br />
Did you overhear them talking about anything out of the ordinary, or anything at all? No.<br />
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All of those very useful questions, but none were asked except by irrelevant me! Why?!!!<br />
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Not to mention, why does Sheriff Sigi publicize this as a fact <i>if</i> it was never confirmed? The witness cannot confirm if that was really David because no one ever showed up to take her statements and show her a picture of David!<br />
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Even more interesting is the <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16283930">Denver Post</a>'s claim that <span id="redesign_default">"in his most <u><i>extensive</i></u></span><br />
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<span id="redesign_default">What border patrol and how could they have seen them <i>eating</i> there <i>if they ordered to go</i> according to my witness?! Not to mention that my witness does not recall any border patrol agents eating there, so how can we be certain of how the border patrol "witnesses" came to the conclusion that who ever was with Tiffany was David Hartley?</span><br />
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<span id="redesign_default">Stay tuned for more revelations about this case as we pick up gear and do our own hard core investigation, sort of like it should have been done by law enforcement to begin with, but using only those resources available and limited to us.</span><br />
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</span><br />
<span id="redesign_default">On a final note, I want to give a big thank you to Javiera for her help, ideas, and most importantly for dedicating her time and using her experience as an investigator to help me in investigating this case. </span><br />
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<span id="redesign_default">I truly appreciate your help and thank you for taking this case to heart like I did. Gracias!</span><br />
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<span id="redesign_default">Until next time...</span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-53399557805495662382011-02-15T18:37:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.213-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: David Hartley's Ring & FriendsThe silence in the Falcon Lake Murder case is maddening!<br />
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It is almost as if the world has forgot what has happened here on the border, and those that have to carry the weight of a supposed crime having been committed are those that actually live here.<br />
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We are the ones that are paying the ultimate price through loss of revenue to our businesses that depend on tourism! <br />
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We are not going to forget!<br />
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<i>We will continue to demand justice until justice is served!!</i><br />
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For the life of me, I cannot understand how someone like Tiffany Hartley and Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez can get by with what they have done in claiming a crime was committed without any deep investigation. Their only proof to David's murder being a life vest with a microscopic drop of blood, an unreliable eyewitness that contradicts Tiffany's story, and a DPS stop BEFORE the incident occurred, none of those actually proving if David was murdered and, if he was murdered, it doesn't prove who murdered him either.<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>So how can they get away with it?</i></span></b></div><br />
Now, Tiffany Hartley comes up with another change to her story.<br />
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According to an interview given by Robin Craig of <a href="http://blogs.chron.com/todayswidow/2011/02/tiffany_hartley_widow_of_david.html">"Today's Widow"</a> , Tiffany now claims to have looked back and repeatedly yelled, "<i>Honey! Honey!</i>", later also adding that she was screaming, "<i>I need you! You can't leave me! I don't know what to do!</i>".<br />
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That's not the story she was telling people at first.<br />
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On the other hand, there are plenty of things that are odd with this case.<br />
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One of those oddities being her <a href="http://www.themonitor.com/video/?videoId=632381756001">The Monitor interview</a>.<br />
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When interviewer, Martha Hernandez asks Tiffany why she has David's ring, she claims at 14:33:<br />
<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;">"we didn't wear rings and stuff when we went jet-skiing or anything for fear that we might lose it. But, um, so, yeah, I was thankful that he had it home so I could have it".</blockquote>While it could be possible that this one time happened to be one of those times, I still think it's important to note that she is lying because there is a picture of David jet-skiing where he is wearing his ring.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkE7SO0BUAGFLWVcQbExocv3FGkdwiGfgAMEeH7_IL-KwoUdeXBizjjtBJDk_2UjoYTMzvCcYowcGtg_sme_dpm3InH8LccJ0Bct34SQJzDFvFooIszkaJKg4vwrPny3ElxjE2cgcSb3s/s1600/dvjtski.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkE7SO0BUAGFLWVcQbExocv3FGkdwiGfgAMEeH7_IL-KwoUdeXBizjjtBJDk_2UjoYTMzvCcYowcGtg_sme_dpm3InH8LccJ0Bct34SQJzDFvFooIszkaJKg4vwrPny3ElxjE2cgcSb3s/s320/dvjtski.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Other oddities that are also of interest, and that have never been mentioned in the media or by Tiffany, except on <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-02-15T18%3A37%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1">her facebook wall</a>, is her past history with the cartels.<br />
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Something that is also strange is David Hartley's increasing and decreasing friends on his Facebook page. Unfortunately, I was not able to take screen shots of his facebook page when he had 218 friends, but I was able to take it when he had 215 on January 12, 2011:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQs1hxC_8XpRdOLyZxWJxk7pG_Lb707ewINqI17uK6uHQbaAENWHQRQAvwt2fmablAcuj_XjauEsU6K-BOfgvPKKJZJyYbTP590Xsnqlgc0O69me8q3JOZiPRnKSZC3c7ls0Ur9jv_Fc/s1600/dmhfriendsscreenshot215.bmp" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQs1hxC_8XpRdOLyZxWJxk7pG_Lb707ewINqI17uK6uHQbaAENWHQRQAvwt2fmablAcuj_XjauEsU6K-BOfgvPKKJZJyYbTP590Xsnqlgc0O69me8q3JOZiPRnKSZC3c7ls0Ur9jv_Fc/s320/dmhfriendsscreenshot215.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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At 210 friends on February 7, 2011:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGLGdEW8rKdrhzvO9PQD9EHW4NNEjDNa2DvTyQQPj_w2RNBPYydhh0yy1OHkba0lQc7W-RTFZCdWMPUvCtquVxuYH63HNrzwaLFdhU34orogKtuwG3jbkud6fSXkDYp3L3SFS-fVRjmI/s1600/dmhfriends210+feb7+2011.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGLGdEW8rKdrhzvO9PQD9EHW4NNEjDNa2DvTyQQPj_w2RNBPYydhh0yy1OHkba0lQc7W-RTFZCdWMPUvCtquVxuYH63HNrzwaLFdhU34orogKtuwG3jbkud6fSXkDYp3L3SFS-fVRjmI/s320/dmhfriends210+feb7+2011.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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And a screenshot on February 14, 2011 at 209 friends:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwq3u8pCL0ks34WQOlsBTS5o8cZVNKcd1skWEhbgb79BuIQ7R2xaGLByunq0i7lfzoATQ3oeeDoy5l8z3wvfo8xyC42bP3MYmUYkRC9-RB58uN7Qt54ljrDYFiA3LvKZR0ZARtowevXM/s1600/feb14+2011+209.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwq3u8pCL0ks34WQOlsBTS5o8cZVNKcd1skWEhbgb79BuIQ7R2xaGLByunq0i7lfzoATQ3oeeDoy5l8z3wvfo8xyC42bP3MYmUYkRC9-RB58uN7Qt54ljrDYFiA3LvKZR0ZARtowevXM/s320/feb14+2011+209.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><br />
In the process, some friends have been added and deleted and one is left to wonder who is controlling David Hartley's facebook page?<br />
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Is it David Hartley? Could it be possible that he's still alive?<br />
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Or is it Tiffany? And if it is Tiffany, what kind of sick mind would delete her "deceased" husbands friends from his list and why?<br />
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***sigh***<br />
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I wonder how long this mystery will continue?<br />
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It makes me wonder if there is anything that can be done to start it?<br />
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If this case is a huge cover up, then who do we turn to? Who do we complain to?<br />
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<div style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Who will help us?</i></b></span></div><br />
In the mean time, those that are truly suffering are the businesses that operate on the border. They depend on the tourism that, sadly, is being scared away thanks to people like Sheriff Sigi and Tiffany.<br />
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If by chance, Tiffany happens to be innocent, which I doubt, and this whole case did happen the way it was said to have happened, then I would apologize and just accept it for what it is.<br />
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Unfortunately, neither Sheriff Sigi or Tiffany are helping out much. They continue to demonize the border and we are left with nothing else to do but investigate on our own and try to solve this puzzle ourselves.<br />
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We are left to seek the justice that law enforcement should be providing for us!<br />
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We are left with having to protect our border from the same corruption that Sheriff Sigi and Tiffany claim only happens in Mexico - corruption of the law, deceit, murder, and criminals, like Tiffany might be, getting away with a crime.<br />
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They contradict their claims that it is the drug cartels and undocumented immigrants bringing that corruption over here, when in fact, they are the ones guilty of mocking the law with their ever changing stories, insufficient evidence, and lack of investigations.<br />
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In short, if your biggest fear is this country turning into another Mexico, then thank Sheriff Sigi and Tiffany for following the Mexican trend of corruption.<br />
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Because of that, and much more, we will not give up doing our own independent investigation and defending our borders from corrupt politicians, corrupt law enforcement, and lying political pawns on this side.<br />
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Stay tuned for more important revelations to this case to be posted in the following days.iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-72130176166126648682011-01-31T16:44:00.000-08:002011-09-26T21:02:22.101-07:00Tiffany Hartley: A history with the cartels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Read more on this here: <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-on-tiffany-hartley-what-is.html">Borderline Madness: What is Tiffany Hiding?</a><br />
<span id="goog_1633436034"></span><span id="goog_1633436035"></span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-22422682113728244262011-01-30T21:53:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.216-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: Murder and Corruption Part 2Asides from what I had <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-one-ever-said-comandante-armando.html">previously said</a> about the origins of the news that Mexican commander Armando Flores was decapitated, I would like to add this:<span>.</span> <br />
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<b>Monday, October 4th, 2010</b><br />
<ul><li>Comandante Armando Flores Villegas was telling <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-20T13%3A29%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1">The Monitor</a> that he did not believe the Hartley story.</li>
</ul><br />
<b>Wednesday, October 6th, 2010</b><br />
<ul><li>Zapata County Sheriff, Sigifredo Gonzalez, decides that Flores Villegas is not helping him out, so he brings out a witness who apparently saw Tiffany being chased by a boat. Heck, from what the witness tells us, he was also able to see brains oozing out of David's head, hear the "pirates" speaking in Spanish, and astonishingly tell us what the pirates and Tiffany were thinking. </li>
</ul><ul><li>Also on this day, Rick Perry gives the Mexican President 48 hours to call him with the news that the body has been found. Talk about putting pressure over something that to this day makes no sense, especially with a wife who keeps changing her story and different set of coordinates being given by Sheriff Sigi. Of course, Perry had much to gain at the time with elections coming up, and what a better way to show his cojones than to pretend interest in a story that involved an American presumably being murdered by "bad guys".</li>
</ul><ul><li><span>Later that night, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/07/texas-gov-pressuring-mexico-lake-shooting/">according to U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar</a>, Me</span>xican officials received word of an ambush and had to call off the search. </li>
</ul><b><span><br />
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<span><b>Thursday, October 7th, 2010</b></span> <br />
<ul><li>The search for the body continues at mid-morning.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Sheriff Sigi announces <i>microscopic</i> blood evidence on Tiffany Hartley's life vest.</li>
</ul><ul><li> Later that day, the Mexican authorities increased their efforts under orders from Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernandez.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Also of importance is that on this day, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez also sent word to the Zetas that he wanted David Hartley's body returned with the promise that he had no plans to prosecute. The Sheriff goes on to say, "I sent word to them unofficially. I can't tell you how but I sent word to them."</li>
</ul><br />
<b>Friday, October 8th, 2010</b><br />
<ul><li>Tiffany has offered to take a lie detector test.....<i>maybe</i>.</li>
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<b>Saturday, October 9th, 2010</b><br />
<ul><li>Juan Carlos Ballesteros and Sheriff Sigi tell <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/715047.html&ei=4IlETZvTMYH-8Aahm-SYAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/715047.html%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dfiy%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Divns">El Universal</a> that they have identified two suspects, <span class="postbody">Juan Pedro and Jose Manuel Saldivar Farias.</span></li>
</ul><span class="postbody"> <br />
<b>Sunday, October 10th, 2010</b></span><br />
<ul><li><span class="postbody">N/A</span> </li>
</ul><span class="postbody"></span><ul><li><span class="postbody">According to reports from October 12th, 2010, on this day Mr. Villegas hands over documents to a KRGV photographer. These documents supposedly identified </span><span class="postbody">Juan Pedro and Jose Manuel Saldivar Farias as the suspects.</span></li>
</ul><b><span class="postbody">Monday, October 11th, 2010</span></b><br />
<ul><li><span class="postbody">N/A </span></li>
</ul><span class="postbody"></span><ul><li><span class="postbody">According to reports from October 12th, 2010, Mr. Villegas does not return home that night.</span></li>
</ul><span class="postbody"><b>Thursday, October 12th, 2010</b></span><br />
<ul><li><span class="postbody">Aaron Pena tweets that Comandante Armando Flores Villegas has been beheaded </span></li>
</ul><ul><li><span class="postbody">News stations follow with the same news</span></li>
</ul><br />
What happened between October 9th and October 12th could not be found. Apparently, there was one article by KRGV-TV Channel 5 News that detailed more or less what happened, but that article has mysteriously been removed by Channel 5. <br />
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Fortunately, I was able to find it posted in a forum famous for it's anti-immigrant rants and xenophobic comments, ALIPAC.US. Therefore, I will not link you to their forum, not only because of that, but also because of a possible cover-up to lend their side credit.<br />
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I will instead post up an image of their page in the event they should remove it as well. Here is a screen shot of their page:<span class="postbody"></span> <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6pk9TXQW-NAPgYJZ9EeXzWcGnZShyUO9btv6_6AEc3tIDt49Dt0jpaXDJcGcHd2zBliJvIL4BB8zDdm_m1QJ9fe3gtHVUpDQdzICFHEnLlPiDLsT8ROjYCqAis72a1z_ZQBtQLD8Gqs/s1600/channel+5.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu6pk9TXQW-NAPgYJZ9EeXzWcGnZShyUO9btv6_6AEc3tIDt49Dt0jpaXDJcGcHd2zBliJvIL4BB8zDdm_m1QJ9fe3gtHVUpDQdzICFHEnLlPiDLsT8ROjYCqAis72a1z_ZQBtQLD8Gqs/s320/channel+5.bmp" width="320" /></a></div>Anyone interested in looking for that missing article or a link to where I got this screen shot can type in their search bar the following address:<br />
<span class="postbody"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.krgv.com/content/news/story/Mexican-Investigator-Decapitated/OpJrIpPgVkO31hds1hBhbw.cspx" target="_blank">http://www.krgv.com/content/news/story/Mexican-Investigator-Decapitated/OpJrIpPgVkO31hds1hBhbw.cspx</a> </span><br />
(<i style="color: red;">Again, note this link address no longer works. The KRGV author has removed it for unknown and strange reasons</i>) <br />
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According to the author in this KRGV link, Comandante Flores Villegas<span class="postbody"> "delivered documents to a CHANNEL 5 NEWS photographer over the weekend in Reynosa, Mexico." </span><br />
<span class="postbody">Those documents apparently contained information about the alleged Zeta cartel members suspected in the Hartley case.</span><br />
<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><span class="postbody"></span><span class="postbody">The documents contain information about one of the brothers, Juan Pedro, including his last known address in the Mexican town of Guerrero. Villegas told CHANNEL 5 NEWS photographs of the two suspects were not available, as it is often difficult to obtain photos of known cartel members. <b style="background-color: yellow;">Villegas said the brothers had not been arrested as of Sunday evening.</b> <span style="background-color: yellow;">On Saturday, Tamaulipas State Police Unit chief <b>Juan Carlos Ballesteros released similar information and documents</b> to members of the Mexican media and CHANNEL 5 NEWS sources.</span> Ballesteros told reporters the pair was already wanted for a list of felonies including murder, kidnapping, armed robbery, and arson. Ballesteros said the brothers belonged to a gang of pirates that have terrorized Falcon Lake and a nearby Mexican town.</span></blockquote></blockquote>Now why in the world would ANYONE release information about suspects that have not yet been apprehended to the media? <br />
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What is even more bizarre is the coverage that the beheading got by the Mexican media. <br />
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From my experience, they are not shy about showing the grizzly murders being committed in Mexico on the news. If there's a massacred body, they'll put it up on the air anyways, so why was there no video or picture from them showing a decapitated head or the dead body of Armando Flores Villegas? <br />
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As a matter of fact, what in the word did Armando Flores Villegas look like? Like a friend of mine who is helping me out in this investigation said, normally when someone of interest is murdered, they'll at least place a picture of what he looked like for people to see. <br />
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To this date, neither the Mexican or American media have produced that before death picture, and researching for Mr.Villegas picture online has also brought up nothing.<br />
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For all we know, he could have been a fictional character. In my opinion, if Mr. Flores Villegas did indeed exist, then he is not dead. It could be possible he might be held in captivity, or from the information that we have obtained, it is more than likely that if he is dead, his death truly had nothing to do with the Hartley's. Otherwise, Mr. Ballesteros and Sheriff Sigi would be headless as well, as it has been said already that they too provided this information to the media, and they too are investigating this case.<br />
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In any event, this KRGV report again confirms that Ballesteros did indeed release information about the suspects to the media, and no doubt Sheriff Sigi knew as well. <br />
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However, Sheriff Sigi exclaimed surprise at the news, claiming he had no knowledge of any suspects in the Hartley case. <br />
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That in itself is surprising, considering the Sheriff claims to have "informants" who are working for him "unofficially". Not only that, but the news had been spread from the 9th of October until Villegas' death, so why were Sigi and Ballesteros all of a sudden feigning ignorance?<br />
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As a matter of fact, from the 9th until Villegas's death, both were apparently no where to be found!<br />
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Yet, as was expected by those who were following this story closely, with the death of Mr. Villegas, Sheriff Sigi then just throws his hands up in the air and gives up with the pretense that the search will continue...on this side. Never mind the fact that Tiffany has been stating David was shot in Mexico and was so sure that his body would be on land IN Mexico, not on this side. So what is Sigi talking about when he says the search will continue on this side?<br />
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Furthermore, he also drops all mention of suspects. That is, of course, until <i>his</i> "informants" give him confidential information about who murdered David, why, and that David's body and his jet ski were "destroyed and would never be found".<br />
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So why continue with the search right? I mean, Sigi sure makes it sound like a lost cause, and all these incidents that make no sense keep happening to give support to the fact that this body will never be found...ever!<br />
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Truly, one really has to wonder at the generousity of these so called Falcon Lake "Pirates".<br />
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I mean, these "pirates" were nice enough to hide the grizzly "murder" of David (if they did indeed kill him) from the public; they were nice enough to spare Tiffany Hartley (because they were struck numb by her beauty); they were nice enough to spare a Sheriff who has insulted them at every turn by calling them "Zetitas".<br />
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Yet, all of a sudden they turn savages and start sending messages with the head of someone who was casting doubts on Tiffany's story and basically exonerating them?<br />
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It sort of reminds me of when these so called "pirates" stopped shooting at Tiffany in order to give her time to get back to her husband and try to save him, only to pick up again shooting and chasing her once she decided to flee for safety.<br />
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It's like they know when to strike and when not to. <br />
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Then again, it could also be the fact that Tiffany is being directed by God and the Sheriff has ESP.<br />
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I mean, with those "powers", how can they go wrong, <a href="http://onthetexasborder.blogspot.com/2011/01/falcon-lake-murder-david-michael.html">right</a>?<br />
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Not to mention, also, that Sheriff Sigi is also lucky he has "informants" with whom he communicates with "unofficially".<br />
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If they said the body and jet ski were disposed of and will never be found, then one has to believe these mysterious "informants".<br />
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And whatever you do, just don't cast doubt on the fact that these mysterious "informants" decided to share this very important detail with Sigi until <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/15/authorities-release-new-info-americans-shooting-death-border-lake/"><b><i>AFTER</i></b></a> the November 2010 elections.<br />
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I mean, you have to realize that these mysterious "informants" were just being considerate by making sure that this information didn't interfere with your voting.<br />
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After all, these informants work under cover with the "Lake Pirates" and there's no doubt in my mind that that's where they get their considerate manners from.<br />
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Well, you know how the saying goes: If you lay down with dogs, you wake up smelling like one. <br />
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And if you ask me, Sheriff Sigi sure smells like one.<br />
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Until next time.iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-20396606378129546152011-01-20T13:29:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.218-08:00Falcon Lake Murder: Murder and corruptionWhat is certain is that Comandante Armando Flores is dead.<br />
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What isn't certain is how he died. So where is the information coming from that he was decapitated?<br />
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According to <a href="http://alertaperiodistica.com.mx/agente-que-investigaba-muerte-en-la-presa-el-falcn-asesinado.html">"Alerta Periodista"</a> (written in Spanish but I will translate to English):<br />
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<div style="background-color: #cccccc;">The Attorney Generals office of Justice in Tamaulipas accepted that the regional police officer in command of the Minesterial Police in Camargo, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, was assassinated, but <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">he denied ever giving information to any mediums in the United States in regards to him being decapitated.</span></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;">"I cannot reveal the condition in which he was found, but it was confirmed that it was a homicide," said Rubén Darío Ríos López.</div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><br />
"<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">What I can say is that I have not confirmed to any (news) medium that he was decapitated and that I have not spoken with any reporter from news mediums in the United States</span>," he added.</div></blockquote>So if the Attorney General's office in Tamaulipas did not not release that information, who did?<br />
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According to <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/report_mexican_investigator_of_lake_pirates_incide.php">TPMMuckraker</a>, the news first appeared in a <a href="http://twitter.com/AaronPena/status/27163319247">tweet</a> by Texas State Representative Aaron Peña. That tweet was posted on 10/12/10 at 12:31pm. Flores death had not yet been confirmed, nor had any details been released as to what condition he was found in, which begs the question, how did Rep. Peña know the details before anyone else?<br />
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TPM states to have questioned Rep. Peña about this, to which Peña stated that he had obtained the information from a "trusted source" although he would not say if the source was American or Mexican.<br />
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While it is possible that the information could have been received via a "trusted source" it is this bloggers opinion that this is a hint at something more sinister.<br />
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My opinion is that Peña's "trusted source" was Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez, and only because he's closer to where the murder took place, not to mention that these two have been tightly holding hands since the Falcon Lake "murder".<br />
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One can only wonder what a Representative for Hidalgo County is doing holding hands with a Sheriff from Zapata County?<br />
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It is also strange that in the process of investigating this case, most every source leads back to Sheriff Gonzalez or Rep. Aaron Peña, and forgive this author for not trusting a man (Peña) who would <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-farris/enemy-of-the-valley-aaron_b_798923.html">turn his back</a> on his constituents by choosing to side with the enemy of the Rio Grande Valley...Republicans!<br />
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Furthermore, it is also my opinion that Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez knew about Mr. Flores death because he had something to do with it. Again, while it is possible that he could have received this information first from authorities, or even from people who live there in Mexico, one still has to be leery of his "informants" whom, we all should already know by now, are members of the drug cartel. One also has to wonder at that connection, considering the cartel don't just provide information without a favor being returned.<br />
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I wonder <a href="http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/zapata-38544-sheriff-drug.html">what that favor is</a>, Sheriff Sigi?<br />
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The other problem with this story is that Sheriff Sigi claims that he heard Mr. Flores death was because of some documents he had provided to a news station that revealed the names of Zeta suspects, but the reality is that every news station has been reporting from the beginning that it was Mr. Ballesteros who had given that information, and not Mr. Flores. If anything, Mr. Flores doubted the Hartley story because there was no proof or evidence that anything had occurred that day in September 30, 2010.<br />
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So if it was Mr. Ballesteros who provided that information, information that Sigi was so willing to accept, then why wasn't he the one murdered?<br />
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Now, don't get me wrong. It's not to say that I wish Mr. Ballesteros dead, but the fact that it was Mr. Flores who was murdered is very suspicious indeed, and only because Mr. Flores was doubting this case since he first became involved!<br />
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Suspicious also because the interview he did where he doubted the Hartley story was done on the 9th of October.<br />
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On the 9th of October, El Universal <a href="http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/715047.html">was reporting</a> that it was Mr. Juan Carlos Ballesteros who had given the names of the two suspects. <br />
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In my opinion, these "two Zeta suspects" are rivals of Mr. Sigifredo Gonzalez (and I say Mr. because I have my doubts that he's worthy of being called a Sheriff). Sigi and Mr. Ballestero's coordinated the set up and Mr. Flores probably refused to cooperate.<br />
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Maybe Mr. Flores knew something about this case that would have revealed the truth?<br />
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More than likely that is so because he was <a href="http://sexbuysattention.blogspot.com/2011/01/translated-to-english-final-interview.html">very adamant about claiming that nothing in the Hartley's story added up</a>.<br />
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While I was not able to find the article, I am sure Mr. Sigi said somewhere that he feared that someone was going to get their "head chopped off" for digging too much into the case. It would be no surprise then that Mr. Sigi's fortune telling powers once again offered themselves to come true.<br />
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In fact, to me, it is no coincidence either.iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-47279025966296572682011-01-16T00:07:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.219-08:00Translated to English: Final interview with Comandante Armando Flores Villegas<div style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="240" id="flashObj" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=633081565001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themonitor.com%2Fvideo%2F%3FvideoId%3D633081565001&playerID=23803854001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADpx-JY~,RW6DaRN8orJey0NYJEHeS5QcCpNyVoxW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=633081565001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themonitor.com%2Fvideo%2F%3FvideoId%3D633081565001&playerID=23803854001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAADpx-JY~,RW6DaRN8orJey0NYJEHeS5QcCpNyVoxW&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="320" height="240" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object></div><b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Notes in red and in parenthesis are mine to help the reader understand who he is talking about.</span></b><br />
<b>Interviewer:</b><br />
<blockquote><i style="background-color: #cccccc;">Tell me!</i></blockquote><br />
<b>Comandante Armando Flores Villegas:</b><br />
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<div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i>Armando Flores Villegas </i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i>Look, we don't have the withs or withouts anymore on behalf of the consulate in Laredo Texas, I don't know the name of the consulate. He <span style="color: red;">(Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez)</span> is the one that is saying that a person, who is the wife of Mr. David Hartley, they gave us some coordinates, we went, we have searched all, all the, eh, the coordinates that they gave us, we went with the Mexican army, and they are the ones that are working there because it is a zone of breaches, lining the Rio Salado and they have not found the body. So then the, the, uh, <span style="color: red;">(Laredo)</span> consulate again gave us new coordinates, so there is nothing believable about this story that the person was there. Eh, <span style="background-color: yellow;">we interviewed many people who are fishers there, that are close and have their fishing ranches there in Rio Salado, <b>they did not hear any shots</b> and it appears that no one helped the person</span>. The person who supposedly survived, and we don't know if she <span style="color: red;">(Tiffany Hartley)</span> was on a jet ski or if she was on a boat, we don't have that information. They say she was on a jet ski. <b><span style="background-color: yellow;">We didn't find a jet ski. We didn't find a body. </span></b><span style="background-color: yellow;">We don't know if they had life vests. We don't know anything.</span></i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i>Yes, what happened is that there are some fishing ranches there, on the side of the rivers. (uh huh) They, obviously, since it is very peaceful there, they hear whatever sound from kilometers away. So, they say, they didn't hear any shots or any, eh, water bike, or boats, you do know, their boats</i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i>up till now, <span style="background-color: yellow;">the coordinates that they gave us</span>, the consulate of Laredo, of Laredo, Texas and he gave the coordinates and we, with the Mexican army, went to those coordinates. <span style="background-color: yellow;">We were in the river, it is part of Mexico, and then, in the coordinates that they gave us, we stayed, what would it be, 2, 3 kilometers on all the side of the river. <b> No body has floated up. No jet ski has shown up. We have seen nothing</b>.</span> What is happening is that for security...</i></div></blockquote><br />
<blockquote>(cut)</blockquote><i><br />
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<blockquote><div style="background-color: #cccccc;"><i>so then it is a bunch of wooded area, it is a bunch of breaches that lead to the river. So, there, it is supposed that there is where the armed groups are, and so, the same, we have run with luck and they have not come looking for us. We are, are going with plenty of security, but still, right? But the army and the marines are the one that are there working. We, as ministerial police, cannot enter there without their support. So there we are alone to be ambushed because it is wooded. It is entrance to ranches and entrance to ranches and ranches and ranches and they <span style="color: red;">(the armed groups)</span> are the one that are in power of all those ranches.</i></div></blockquote>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-60665275023065232922011-01-11T20:41:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.220-08:00New Evidence on Tiffany Hartley: What is she hiding?Well, I'm not so sure on whether to call it new because I don't know how many people have already noted this <i>very</i> contradictory find.<br />
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You see, in the process of researching my next blog post, I came across a very interesting article that I had never seen. It's a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">CNN interview</a> of Tiffany and her family posted on October 29, 2010. Within the interview, the following is noted:<br />
<blockquote>But in January of this year, a top member of Los Zetas cartel was gunned down by the rival Gulf cartel, and violence exploded in Reynosa and surrounding Tamaulipas state. Cartels mounted roadblocks, and city officials warned residents not to venture out. There were reports of body parts being left on the streets. </blockquote><blockquote>The violence was so alarming that the U.S. Consulate in Reynosa closed for several days in February.<span style="color: red;"> Calfrac encouraged the Hartleys and other families to move back over the border to McAllen. </span></blockquote><blockquote>"<i>The company started realizing all the danger</i>," Tiffany Hartley said. "They said, 'Why don't you guys move north, get out of Reynosa?' <b>We dragged our heels a little bit. I liked the place I lived in.</b> We were only five minutes from the border.<b> It was hard to leave.</b>" </blockquote>This had me scratching my head in confusion. This isn't the first place where I've seen Tiffany make claims that she felt safe in Reynosa. In my previous blog post, <a href="http://sexbuysattention.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-01-08T22%3A37%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1">"The Falcon Lake Murder: Tiffany Hartley"</a>, I mention an interview Tiffany made with the Monitor. You can listen to that interview here: <br />
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At around 13:00 Tiffany states that she did not have a clue about the violence in Reynosa until they moved there. She goes on to reference that they had been stopped by the cartel and the police, but that David protected her from a lot of things, including being robbed and beaten by the police. Other than that, she had never witnessed any of the violence.<br />
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This is a very important piece of evidence that points to some malicious scheme and it should indicate to law enforcement (above Sheriff Sigi of Zapata) that this story needs to be looked into further.<br />
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Tiffany <i><b>needs</b></i> to stand trial!<br />
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The reason this drew my attention is because I received a screen shot of Tiffany's wall from a friend on Tiffany's list and it is interesting that on September 23, 2009 at 10:21pm Tiffany posts:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">Kicked out of our house by the Mexican drug cartel</span>, homeless.and looking. Bet no ones had a day like this. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"> 5 hours to pack all of your stuff before the cartel would show up</span>. It has been a crazy, stressful, scary day. By the way our land lords are the ones in trouble with the cartel "not us" we just lived there. Thank God for some good friends who lent a hand.</b></blockquote></blockquote>Then, that same day she responds in the same post at 10: 29pm:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span data-jsid="text">thanks, were really thankful God kept us protected during our time of packing. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">Now were in the Holiday Inn, in Mcallen Texas</span>. on the safer side of the river.</span></b></blockquote></blockquote>Later, on September 28, 2009 at 5:48pm she posts:<b> </b><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>Still looking for a place to live, very frustrating. No one allows large dogs and doesn't have any furnishings. But were hopeful and praying that God will bring the right place for us with all of our requirements we need in a place.</b> </blockquote></blockquote><br />
Then on October 13, 2009 at 6:49pm, Tiffany posts:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>Very excited that<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"> we have finally found a place to live</span>. But we have to wait until there done with renovating, unfortunately it will be almost 2 weeks i guess hotel living for just a little longer.</b></blockquote></blockquote><br />
In that same post at on October 14, 2009 at 9:45pm she states:<b><span data-jsid="text"> </span></b><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span data-jsid="text"><span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">We <i>will be</i> <i>back</i> in Reynosa</span> but were only 5-7 min from the border and david is only 15 min to work so it is a perfect location for us.</span></b><abbr data-date="Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:45:42 -0700" title="Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 9:45pm"></abbr> </blockquote></blockquote><br />
I'm assuming they lived in McAllen from October until some time before January 4, 2010, because on January 4, 2010, asked by a friend what's she doing living in Mexico, Tiffany responds at 3:43pm with:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span data-jsid="text">It has been a long time. My husband works for a Oil company and they started a district down here and since he was previously working in Russia and on rotation schedule it wasn't working so well for us so we decided to take this job and now he's home all the time. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">It was a better move for us</span>. How are you and the family doing?</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><br />
But then, on February 7, 2010 at 8:49pm she says the following:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>Were doing good, I've been really busy <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">at work</span> since Valentines is coming up I have been <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">trying to get stocked up at both stores</span> so it's not so crazy at the end of this week. I'm taking a couple of dance classes on Mon & Wed nights. It has been fun. How are you doing?<abbr data-date="Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:49:29 -0800" title="Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 8:49pm"></abbr></b> </blockquote></blockquote><br />
I don't think she'd be working in Mexico, or would she? Maybe I just don't understand her life? Is she working in Mexico or McAllen, or where the heck is she living at at all?<br />
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I guess in McAllen because on February 20, 2010 at 8:19pm she posts:<br />
<blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><b>Had fun at the <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">McAllen</span> Dog Park but Tori is a hurting unit. she really played to hard! Poor baby,</b></blockquote></blockquote>Or maybe they were going back and forth? Hmmm...I say that because then on May 11, 2010 at 9:27pm she responds to a friend (who asks how Tiffany is doing) with:<b><span data-jsid="text"> </span></b><br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span data-jsid="text">Doing good, <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">living in Reynosa, Mexico (border town)</span> not too fun but were trying to find a house across the border in Texas then i'll at least be out of the danger zone but my hubby will have to cross everyday. But were doing well. How are you doing?</span></b></blockquote></blockquote><br />
<b><span data-jsid="text"></span></b>Then on June 20, 2010 at 10:36pm she states yet again:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>What a busy weekend, <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">were moving out of Mexico</span> and heading across the border to McAllen, Tx. Not completely moved but were a lot closer. Got to enjoy the Jet Skies this morning then Davids skie broke, so our trip was cut short:( came home to move more stuff. Sure will be nice when were done moving and hopefully it will be for more than 7 months.</b></blockquote></blockquote><br />
May I note that the spelling errors are hers. After that, it's all talk of living in McAllen, although back to my original point, she does make one more comment of interest. In her CNN interview she stated that Calfrac was the one that had encouraged them to move to McAllen, yet in a post she makes to a friend on July 14, 2010 at 9:46pm she says:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b>Hey, we really miss you guys also. <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">With the slow down in Mexico</span> we will be back in CO for a few months until Calfrac decides where to send us next. Probably at the end of Aug or Sept will be on our way back. We are a little bummed we jus<span class="text_exposed_hide"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">t moved to McAllen, TX a month ago and now were moving again and were really enjoying life down here. We have the beach, good friends and a great church and now were off again just when were getting settled in. But we know God has a plan for us and were excited to see what else he has in store for us. So will see you guys soon. How is the little guy?</span></b> </blockquote></blockquote>and on July 26, 2010 at 6:50pm again she says:<br />
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<blockquote style="background-color: #cccccc;"><blockquote><b><span data-jsid="text">Doing good, we found out were moving again, <span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;">work in Reynosa is slow and the contractor that davids company works for is in real bad shape, fianacially</span>. The sad thing is were not sure where to. Will be coming back to CO for a few months until they find david a more permanent job. Most likely it will be in North Dakota or Pennsylvania. Hey were comeing home for a little while but not sure when. How are you doing? Miss you also </span></b></blockquote></blockquote><span data-jsid="text">Is anyone else noting the irregularities here? Why did she tell CNN that it was Calfrac's idea that they move due to the violence when here she's stating they are moving due to the slow down and bad shape of the company? </span><br />
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<span data-jsid="text">In that same CNN interview, the spokesman for Calfrac, </span>Scott Tuttle, <span data-jsid="text">clearly states that the decision to transfer David was "</span>based on economics, <b>not security risks</b>"! <br />
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<span data-jsid="text">And if it was Tiffany's true reasons were because of the violence, then why did she tell "The Monitor" she had never e</span>xperienced the violence in Mexico and that she loved the place there?<br />
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Better yet, <i><b>why did she claim the move was Calfrac's idea and not due to the fact that the cartel had kicked them out of their home</b></i> <i><b>as she reveals in her facebook page</b></i>?<br />
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I take it this is why Tiffany set her profile to private...<br />
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The less you see, the less you know...and that's something that's been a pretty prevalent practice for Tiffany and Sheriff Sigi: If you don't see a body, you can't know what happened to it.<br />
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Is it little wonder that the Bible thumping Tiffany is now claiming that David wanted to be cremated? Wouldn't that be against their religion? Knowing all that, now I'm sure if they find David's body, she'll want it cremated immediately before they can do an autopsy.<br />
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I do hope someone who can do something about this case is reading this.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">If found, don't allow her to cremate David's body until a full autopsy is done by someone else other than the corrupt officials living here in the valley (namely Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez). </b><br />
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<b style="color: red;">Preferably, let the FBI investigate!</b>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-17951690186477630342011-01-08T22:37:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.221-08:00The Falcon Lake Murder: David Michael Hartley<div style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"><b>A note from iamme: <i>I would like to apologize to my readers who do not know the whole David Hartley/Falcon Lake murder story. My blogs pertaining to this subject are meant for those who have been following the story from the start. Thus, if I omit specifics, it is only because I assume my readers already know what I'm talking about, or what happened before and/or after certain events. Thank you. </i></b></div><br />
On September 30, 2010, David Michael Hartley was last seen shot in the head, floating in Falcon Lake, Texas by his wife, Tiffany Hartley.<br />
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His wife's story of what happened that day is the only confirmation that that is how he was last seen. No body was ever found. No bullets were ever recovered, and Tiffany's jet ski did not even have so much as a scratch from one either.<br />
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With an eyewitness and the backing of Zapata County Sheriff, Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jr, everything seemed to indicate that Tiffany Hartley was telling the truth, especially since the blood on her life vest was later determined to be that of David Hartley's.<br />
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Not only was it the blood evidence, but the fact that pirate attacks had occurred before, but never this severe.<br />
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Still, none of that really mattered to many who followed this story from the start. Tiffany's story could be a lie. Yes, there was blood on her vest that belonged to David, but that still did not explain how it got there.<br />
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Tiffany's reaction to his death, with the help of the witness statement by the "good Samaritan"/eyewitness and Sheriff Sigi, only fueled the fire more that this story was not all that it seemed to be.<br />
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The question is: If it's not all that it seems to be, then what is it really?<br />
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Some people have speculated that this was a drug deal gone bad. Someone commented somewhere to the Hartley story that they believed Tiffany and David had discussed this before. David was to take the money to buy the drugs. Tiffany was to hang back and hidden from view. If anything happened to David, Tiffany was to run away as fast as possible and call for help. That persons opinion was that the drug dealers never saw Tiffany.<br />
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Others have speculated that this was an insurance scam concocted by David and Tiffany. Some believe that David may have not been a willing participant. Others believe it was probably a scam gone wrong. Some of those stories include the "good Samaritan"/eyewitness as the shooter, while others claim it could have been Tiffany and that would explain the blood on her life vest. Maybe the shot was supposed to hit David in the shoulder and ended up hitting him in the head by accident?<br />
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All those reasons sound good and very possible. Why do I say that?<br />
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Because Tiffany likes to talk. If there is one thing that has been told to us, over and over and over again here in America is that you have the right to remain silent because everything you say will be used against you in the court of law. Tiffany hasn't been to court to testify on David's murder, and the way things are going, it looks like she never will. If she did, the following comments she made in one of her <a href="http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/1835956/tiffany_hartley">interviews</a> would provoke a lot of questions:<br />
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<blockquote>"We have heard about the pirates before and we always had talked we would outrun them. We even talk to border patrol and they said you could outrun them because of our jetskis."</blockquote>If they had heard about the pirates before, then why was she claiming they didn't know about the dangers on Falcon Lake water? Maybe she was too embarrassed to admit their stupidity? Ok, but then, a question that begs to be asked is why would they even be discussing outrunning pirates in the first place? When did they talk to the border patrol about this subject? And did the subject of "outrunning" come up with the border patrol? Were they digging for information because they were planning to do something that might require them to run? Kind of like a bank robber scoping out a store to see how many cameras or guards there are so they can plan an escape if things go wrong?<br />
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It's all very interesting, but I haven't discussed one final reason that this could all be a conspiracy with David.<br />
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Through out this whole story, for me, it wasn't only Tiffany that was doing a horrible job at grieving. To me, mostly everyone in both families was doing a horrible job. It got to a point where I felt they were all part of a big conspiracy, but I just couldn't figure out how that could be possible. Not one of them doubted Tiffany and that was very odd given her many conflicting statements, and of course, the many interesting questions being posed around the web. Surely there had to be some doubts from some of them? Especially when the most she could and has produced is sniffles, but no tears. So what possible reason could they have for being fully supportive of her?<br />
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Well, I did some digging. A few weeks back I had heard about a friends brother who was kidnapped in Mexico. They searched for him for weeks, and rumors started circulating that the cartels had killed him. The guy, of course, was involved with the Zeta's. On our last trip to Mexico, this friend informed us that he had news about his brother. He was alive, but he was warned to keep his mouth shut if he knew what was good for him. He was also never going to see his brother again.<br />
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I pondered about this, because something about my friends story felt familiar, and it took me a while, but finally I got it. The reason it felt familiar was because for some odd reason, I felt this was similar to what happened to David. So I asked a good friend who is very familiar if this was possible, for someone to get kidnapped, be labeled dead, but really be alive? Was this some form of secret mission given to certain people involved with the cartels?<br />
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What I learned was surprising! Yes, it is very possible!<br />
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And if it is possible, it may explain why the family seems so fake at their grieving. It may be they are just pretending, because David has to be believed to be dead to the world!<br />
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So what possible reasons would someone in this situation have to pretend to be dead? Ask yourself this:<br />
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What happens when you leave a gang you're sworn into? <i>They kill you</i>.<br />
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It is my opinion that David may have been involved with the cartels. More than likely the Zeta's since they control most of Reynosa. When the cartels had their fall out and the CDG began targeting Zeta's, it could be possible David began to become scared for his life and that of his wife. It could be that he wanted out, or maybe he wanted to join the CDG? Either way, one way or another, he would be getting killed, either by the CDG for being a Zeta or by the Zeta's for joining the CDG. What other options did he have?<br />
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How about faking your own death?<br />
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By faking his death, now he is free to either join the CDG or just leave that life behind. While it is possible that he could just leave and come over to live in America, it is also possible he might have committed a crime that was traceable, and regardless of whether he's in the US or Mexico, they will find him, or worse, his family. The cartels are known for getting revenge by killing the loved ones of the person they are after. Some of those incidents have even been followed into the US, and while some will consider that spill over violence, those of us who live here know that is not the case. It will be considered spill over violence when the cartels start having their wars in our streets like they do in Mexico. In these cases, these are Americans involved with the cartels, doing their boss's bidding of targeting an individual, or their family if they can't find that individual, for something that individual might have done wrong.<br />
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I was told that these fake deaths are extreme. They'll completely alter the person identity if they can. They'll dye their hair, make them shave off their beard, tan or lighten their skin, change their eye color, and in some cases, <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-20/justice/texas.fbi.ten.most.wanted_1_juarez-cartel-drug-cartel-gang-members?_s=PM:CRIME">even perform cosmetic surgery</a>.<br />
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Isn't that the biggest conspiracy theory you've ever heard about this case? I know, I know, but that could very well explain why this whole things sounds of a cover up. It could explain Tiffany's fake tears. Maybe she knows he's alive and is having a hard time acting like a grieving widow? It could explain the fake grieving of the family. Maybe they were informed about why they need to pretend that David is dead?<br />
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But then, where does the "good Samaritan"/eyewitness and Sheriff Sigi fit into this scenario?<br />
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I will tell you what I think in the my following blogs. Until then, keep your mind open about this case, and whatever you do, don't let this story die until the justice is served to those who deserve it.iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2181303998310243998.post-84482168175660917742011-01-07T20:49:00.000-08:002011-02-16T05:33:15.222-08:00The Falcon Lake Murder: Tiffany Hartley<span style="font-size: small;">Tiffany Hartley is a young 29 year old white woman. She is petite, blond, blue eyed, and very pretty. Looking at her, one might never suspect her of having committed a crime if she did indeed commit one. She doesn't fit the normal stereo-type of a criminal, especially not here around the Te</span><span style="font-size: small;">xas </span><span style="font-size: small;">border. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My inclusion of her race and ethnicity is not meant to be taken as an offense. Instead, it is meant to reference an inconsistency on the reporting, by the media, of border violence. Tiffany and David Hartley were in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico <i>illegally</i> when David was supposedly shot and murdered. The media reported on this incident for months! Yet, those of us who live here on the border have heard more gruesome tales of American's being murdered in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico, and those American's happened to be there <i>legally</i>. The only difference is, the majority of those Americans, unlike Tiffany and David, happened to be Hispanic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't believe me? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Well, then answer these question to yourself, and be honest, without researching:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When was the last time you heard of an American being killed in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico as a result of the drug wars? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Do you know those victims names? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Just to clue you in, David Hartley, if indeed he was murdered, wasn't the first nor the last American murdered in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico as a result of the drug wars. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although, David would probably be the first American who was killed while being <i>illegally</i> in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico, but that is my assumption considering the news sources for the other American's that have been killed do not provide the legal status of those American victims in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now, nowhere am I trying to justify that David's illegal status is ground for murder, but his legal status is important to remember, especially since Tiffany and Sigi, and even the "good Samaritan"/eyewitness, have changed their stances from "Bring David Home" to "Secure the Borders".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If Tiffany did indeed commit a crime, then she chose the perfect place to do it. What a better way to wipe her hands clean than to blame it on the brown folk across the pond. Everyone knows the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican border area is a violent place to be at right now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tiffany no doubt knew this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">She and David lived in Reynosa, Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico for 3 years. Reynosa is home to the most violent drug wars on the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican border right now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A curious thing that Tiffany states in an <a href="http://www.themonitor.com/video/?videoId=632381756001">interview</a> with the Monitor how David was beat up and robbed by the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police and she didn't know about it until a year and a half later. What is interesting about that statement is that, again, David seems to be hit in the head with such force that he was knocked down, but if Tiffany was living with David and had an intimate relationship with him, wouldn't she have noticed a bruise to the face on her husband? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not to mention that, yet again, she manages to vilify the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">While it is a certainty that Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police are not saints, the very fact that they would just walk up to a guy and "clonk" him for no apparent reason other than to rob him is interesting in and of itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For those of us who travel frequently to Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico, the story Tiffany tells about David being robbed is unbelievable, not so much because we don't believe he was robbed, but because it's not custom for the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police to just walk up to someone and clonk them in the head just to rob them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, I'm not saying it couldn't have happened, but normally the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police make up some infraction as a way to rob you. You are then forced to bribe the police with money so they can let you go, or otherwise face time in prison, a fate that's probably worse than getting robbed, because now not only have you lost your money, but you're also locked up behind bars for no other reason other than that which the police make up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, American's are very much respected in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico, especially if they are white. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sure, you may get pulled over here or there and get a couple of dollars taken away from you for made up infractions, but for the most part, Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xicans are aware of the fact that American tourism brings them money, and the last thing they want is to scare off Americans from spending their dollars in their economy. Dollars are worth more than pesos, and you can't get those if you keep scaring off the people that spend their dollars on you. It's bad enough that some of them usually find themselves in our country illegally because they are barely making it back home in Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico, so why make it worse on themselves by beating up innocent American's just to steal their money? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, the police may have beaten David, but only if he put up a fight. If that is the case, then I highly doubt that all he received was a clonk to the head. If that weren't a serious offense, I would find it almost laughable, especially since I have had family e</span><span style="font-size: small;">xperience the brutality of the Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xican police when you put up a fight. Believe me, they didn't receive just a "clonk" to the head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So what has Tiffany have to gain by making Me</span><span style="font-size: small;">xico look bad? Perhaps her innocence?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now, I'm not a detective, but maybe I should have been one. When I hear about stories like these that mar the safe Te</span><span style="font-size: small;">xas </span><span style="font-size: small;">borders that I know, I cross my fingers and hope that it's not true. Then, I immediately start digging for information to see what I can find out about those cases. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In Tiffany's case, when I first heard her story, it sounded fishy right off the bat. To be honest with you, even though I didn't believe her story, I didn't suspect her just yet. I was more curious as to what David was doing days before he was murdered, and what a better place to find that out other than to look him up on facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To be honest, I can't remember e</span><span style="font-size: small;">xactly what I saw on David's wall because I never though I would be wanting to use that information later on, but one thing I do remember is that </span><span style="font-size: small;">David's wall was boring. There were rarely any comments, not even from Tiffany and I remember thinking that for all the show of emotions from Tiffany and the Hartley/Young family, it sure seemed like they were cold with him based on what I saw on his wall. At that time, I just disregarded that to them not being facebook freaks like I am. Later, as my suspicions about the case became more persistent, I decided to go snoop around one more time, only to find that David's page had been set to private. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I found that very odd, considering that David is supposed to be dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yes, I know it is possible that Tiffany might have David's password, and no, I don't really believe David did it himself, although that is a possibility in my humble opinion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">No, the odd thing about it is the act of changing a "dead" persons profile to private is a very suspicious act. Why would anyone do that? In my opinion, the only reason to do that is if you have something to hide. Tiffany then set her profile to private too, or so I'm guessing, because I was not smart enough to think about looking at her page before the rumors began to circulate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The only other case in which a person might set a profile to private is to protect their family, but Tiffany and David have no children, so whom or what are they trying to protect? </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course, what is on their wall is none of my business. I have no problem understand that, but </span><span style="font-size: small;">it's not like Tiffany hasn't gone on nation wide television with her mis-matched stories, and she herself has said she has nothing to hide, so why is she hiding now? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not only is she hiding herself, but she is hiding David's page as well and that is very creepy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There's a lot more to this story than we might be aware of. There are several reasons Tiffany may have been involved in a plot to either murder David herself, have him killed, or fake his death. I will follow up on my reasons for believing that as I e</span><span style="font-size: small;">xpress my thoughts on the other suspects in my following blogs. </span>iammehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16508528998231469348noreply@blogger.com8