Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s “war on terrorism” comes home

[IndianaGreen]

Just as the official version of the execution-style shooting of a young Brazilian in the tube (subway) by British security forces was shown to be a pack of lies (wore a heavy coat, ran away, carried bomb), the official version of the execution-style shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar at Miami's airport has started to develop cracks. Passengers interviewed by MSM have clearly stated that the first time they heard the word "bomb" was when they were asked about it by the FBI. What other lies have they told about this sad event?

These people have been lying for 5 years. Why are we still giving them the benefit of the doubt, when we should be taking anything they say with a grain of salt?

Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s “war on terrorism” comes home

By Bill Van Auken
9 December 2005

The most chilling aspect of the brutal state killing of Rigoberto Alpizar, the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant gunned down while fleeing an American Airlines Boeing 757 in Miami Wednesday, is the utter absence of any statement of remorse by government officials.

Rather than publicly acknowledge that a horror and a tragedy had resulted from the use of lethal force against an unarmed and innocent man, spokesmen for the Bush administration and various state agencies praised those who killed him and virtually celebrated the spilling of blood on American soil in the so-called “global war on terrorism.”

The initial facts that have emerged from the shooting are appalling. Alpizar, a US citizen who left his native country 20 years ago, was returning with his wife from South America, where they had participated in missionary work with her uncle, a Michigan dentist who provides free treatment to the poor.

As the two were boarding a connecting flight in Miami bound for Orlando, Florida, Alpizar became extremely agitated, bolted up the aisle and tried to flee the aircraft. It was then that he was confronted by two undercover air marshals.

Passengers said that his wife was running after him shouting, “My husband is sick, my husband is sick.” Others heard her pleading, saying that he was bipolar and had not taken his medicine. She told them that it was her fault for persuading him to get on the plane.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/dec2005/shot-d09.shtml

[flordehinojos]

1. this article sort of supports what i had said yesterday:

"goons and mercenaries are thesort of people that the bushes look for to enforce their unlawful laws. in jeb's okay corral, where you can shoot someone if you feel threatened, no questions asked, no punishment meted out, the goon who killed the passenger did just what the bushes expected him to do.
and did you notice that from wolf blitzer, to tweety matthews, to the few talking heads, that they kept repeating the shooting in miami, not much did they have to say about the moron's moronic speech yesterday? a coincidental distraction. it worked in favor of the bushes...and actually may have reinforced some of his gibberish about terrorists out to kill us here so we better kill them there."



what is the bush legacy to america?: blood and gore. death and killings. that is what the bush legacy to america is!

[Retired AF Dem]

3. I';m still waiting for the blood bath to start in FL

I remember a CBS show several years ago. A group of people, men and women were saying how the police are always so quick to use force. Than these people were placed in shoot no shoot situations. These guys shot kids, innocent women, shit nobody was safe on the streets with them. It was an eye opening experience. I always have to smile listening to some "expert" who has never had to make a split second decision on the use of deadly force.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Keith Olbermann warned his audience about the official version

Keith reminded the audience of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in a London tube as an example of an official version that was subsequently discredited.

I found the roughing up of passengers just as disturbing:

John McAlhany, a Florida construction worker on the plane, told the Miami Herald that other passengers were “treated roughly” by the cops.

“They put a gun to the back of my head and said, ‘Put you hands on the seat,’” he said. “That was more scary than anything else.”

Who will protect us from the goons hired to protect us?

[cornermouse]

2. Its time to face the fact that when you get on a plane, you're

putting yourself in a position where if the terrorists don't get you, our government will.

Me? I'm driving from now on.

[IndianaGreen]

5. The parallels to the shooting of Brazilian in a London subway

Beware of the official version of events, it is liable to be debunked if you are willing to wait for the truth.

There are parallels to the execution-style shooting of Menezes, who was already cuffed when shot by a SAS assassin. The official version was that Menezes was fleeing the police, refused to stop, was wearing a heavy winter coat (it was summer), jumped over a turnstyle, officers feared for their lives.

New claims over bungled shooting of Brazilian

By Mark Sellman, Times Online, and Daniel McGrory


The Brazilian electrician mistakenly killed by police in the aftermath of the second London bombings was being restrained by an officer before he was shot eight times as he was sitting on a Tube train, it emerged tonight.

Witness statements and photographs from an independent police investigation leaked to ITV News also show that Jean Charles de Menezes did not run away from police at Stockwell Tube station in South London and was wearing only a denim jacket before he was shot dead on July 22.

The evidence contradicts claims from the Metropolitan Police at the time that the Brazilian’s "clothing and his behaviour at the station added to their suspicions", that he vaulted the ticket barrier and was wearing a heavy overcoat, which could have concealed a bomb.

It also emerged that one of the undercover team keeping Senhor de Menezes’s home under surveillance was relieving himself instead of filming the operation, so officers could not tell if they had tracked down one of the alleged bombers.

His advice was "it would be worth someone else having a look" to ensure they had the right man. No other officer apparently did take a picture of him even though he had to take a bus journey to the station.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1738370,00.html