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I'll admit it-my bad. Didn't check the date on it-like I usually do, and didn't realize it was from 2 years ago.
Thanks for admitting to your mistake.
Unfortunately, as Jonathan Swift wrote about the utility of falsehood: “If a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect . . . like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
Well, it's not like these illegal invaders haven't thrown rocks at the Border Patrol before. It's happened several times.
This was not a story about rocks being thrown at BP. This was a concocted lie about a "brutal murder" that was never retracted.
President Trump and his allies saw an opportunity to whip up anti-immigrant fervor. At a Cabinet meeting Nov. 20, Trump announced, with cameras rolling, that “we lost a Border Patrol officer just yesterday, and another one was brutally beaten and badly, badly hurt. . . . We’re going to have the wall.” He also issued a similar tweet.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, offered a reward “to help solve this murder” and to “help us catch this killer.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) declared the incident “a stark reminder of the ongoing threat that an unsecure border poses.”
And then there was Fox News, reporting that “a border patrol agent was brutally murdered” and going with the headline “Border Patrol agent appeared to be ambushed by illegal immigrants, bashed with rocks before death.” Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported that Martinez was “attacked at the border in the most gruesome possible way.”
This was not a story about rocks being thrown at BP. This was a concocted lie about a "brutal murder" that was never retracted.
President Trump and his allies saw an opportunity to whip up anti-immigrant fervor. At a Cabinet meeting Nov. 20, Trump announced, with cameras rolling, that “we lost a Border Patrol officer just yesterday, and another one was brutally beaten and badly, badly hurt. . . . We’re going to have the wall.” He also issued a similar tweet.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, offered a reward “to help solve this murder” and to “help us catch this killer.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) declared the incident “a stark reminder of the ongoing threat that an unsecure border poses.”
And then there was Fox News, reporting that “a border patrol agent was brutally murdered” and going with the headline “Border Patrol agent appeared to be ambushed by illegal immigrants, bashed with rocks before death.” Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported that Martinez was “attacked at the border in the most gruesome possible way.”
source: wapo
I didn't say it was illegal aliens that caused this death or the injury to the other Border Patrol agent just that it's not unknown for illegal aliens to have pelted rocks at the Border Patrol therefore I can understand how Trump and others thought this was the same. Anti-"immigrant" fervor? As usual that rag blurs the lines between immigrants and illegal aliens and so do most Democrats and their supporters.
No evidence this was a rock thrower. I see why some thought that, we have plenty video of them throwing rocks. I remember them throwing rocks back when Bush was president. I think they do it sometimes to draw attention away from the real culprits crossing a little further down. So many games, some dangerous.
These illegal scum should be tracked down and put on trial for murder.
What illegal scum? There was no evidence that the agent was killed by illegal scum.
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