Not sure why my support for post-reporting is garnering opposition in certain quarters. It has been effectively deployed by others in the past.
Latest developments. Also it looks like Perry is trying to milk this situation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39637423/ns/world_news-americas Severed head turns up in case of missing jet skier Victim is Mexican investigator, Texas county sheriff says SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The severed head of a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of an American has been delivered to authorities in Mexico, the sheriff on the Texas side of the border told NBC News on Tuesday. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez is spearheading the investigation on the U.S. side. David Hartley has not been seen since Sept. 30, when his wife says pirates on Falcon Lake opened fire on them from speedboats while they were returning from Mexico to the United States on Jet Skis. She said her husband was shot in the head and that she managed to flee, under fire, to the Texas side of the lake formed from a dammed section of the Rio Grande. On Monday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he's disheartened that the wife of a missing American who was reported shot by pirates on a Texas-Mexico border lake hasn't heard from U.S. federal officials. Perry said he spoke with Tiffany Hartley on Monday morning about the search for her husband. "She's very frustrated and appropriately so. She's not heard one word from the United States federal government. She's not had a call from Secretary of State (Hillary) Clinton, she's not heard from the administration. And I find that really disheartening," Perry told reporters after speaking to an economic development summit. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to Perry's criticism when contacted by The Associated Press. Perry said he hasn't gotten a call from Mexican President Felipe Calderon, as he requested last week, but he said their two offices are communicating. The Mexican government, in response to Perry's request, stepped up its search for Hartley's body and has named two men they are seeking in connection with the case. Perry said Monday he could not provide any updates on the search for David Hartley or the investigation, including word over the weekend that Mexican authorities were searching for two Mexican brothers as potential suspects. "Both of our federal governments need to do more to 1. Only on msnbc.com 1. USS Cole: 'Rock solid' evidence, no retaliation 2. Clooney sounds alarm over ‘man-made’ disaster 3. Some vets get pink slips instead of tickertape 4. Want to lose weight? Turn off the light! 5. Cosmic Log: Testing Volt from Seattle to SF get to the bottom of this issue," he said. Tamaulipas State Police unit chief Juan Carlos Ballesteros said Mexican investigators believe brothers Juan Pedro and Jose Manuel Zaldivar Farias may have killed Hartley as he took photos of a sunken church at the lake. The brothers already were sought for allegedly being in a gang of pirates that operates on Falcon Lake and for terrorizing a Mexican town at the south end of the lake. Perry said once again that the Hartley incident points to the need for heightened border security by the U.S. federal government. "The American people have had it up to here with their lack of understanding and their lack of action securing that border, where citizens of both sides can know that they are living in a country where they're going to be safe," he said.
The raging possibility that this may be bogus means no politician in their right mind would touch it. You assign it to the proper jurisdiction to ascertain the truth. Then there is Rick. But I assume the family of any American killed outside the United States should receive a letter from the State department, condolences and awareness.
Did Perry call a press conference to say this stuff? Then yes he is milking it. or was he merely responding to a reporters question? Then he is Not milking it. I don't like Perry and will likely vote for White, but I would try to not let our biases affect how we read an article. Remember the Yao article where he simply responded to a reporter asking him what if he still has foot problems during the season - it was blown way out of proportion & all he was doing was answering a question.
Amidst fear of being reported for posting, you know, actual information about this. I'll chance it and offer up the following: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101013/ap_on_re_us/us_border_lake_shooting
again, arguing for the sake of arguing. as i said, many people have implied that perhaps the husband never even went to the lake so at least the video confirms that he did. ok. im still here little man.
report away little man! funny to see the name trader jorge in that link - you really remind me of him! you are probably the most egregious name caller and overall the most insulting/condescending/arrogant poster on this board. but when someone says something you dont like you go crying to the mods. again, you can dish it out, but you clearly cant take it. and what have i said to you that was more insulting than you calling me a dumbass and a r****d?
you know its getting weird when we start talking about severed heads - does this make the womans story more plausible to yall who doubt her? if the pirates (yarghh) were not involved w/ the murder than why kill someone investigating it?
Who? Indeed - well maybe my strategy won't pay off, as your latest 3 post combo seems to show that you are still unmodded. But I consider it worth it on balance, it's the principle of the thing. As for the details of your particular offense - I can't believe I even have to get into this. Suffice it to say, there is a border of acceptable BBS conduct, and you lake pirated across it like a amphetamined-up Zeta on a hovercraft.
