Friday, January 21, 2005
A Call to Arms!
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Remember this story?
January 11, 05 CERES, Calif.—A Marine based at Camp Pendleton shot and killed one police officer and injured another before being shot to death by [police] hours later.
Police are trying to determine if the shooter, 19-year-old Andres Raya of Modesto, wanted to die in what authorities call “suicide by cop.” Raya’s family told police that he was afraid he would be sent back to Iraq for a third stint of duty, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
And then this development?
“[Raya] said it sucked, that he didn’t like it,” said Ortiz [a friend] of the war. “Seeing that kind of s--- over there makes people go crazy.”
Ortiz claims Raya told him about getting hit by a piece of a bomb that exploded near him in Iraq.
“He’d start crying when I was talking to him. It was the memories.”
Officials with the Marines told sheriff’s detectives, however, that Raya never saw combat in Iraq.
...[His cousin said that Raya had] encouraged him to see Michael Moore’s controversial film, “Farenheit 9/11” around Thanksgiving. He then asked what he thought of it.. ..."I don’t know if he felt betrayed by the government because he didn’t feel it was right.”
...Family members say Raya was distressed over his impending return to Iraq.
And this further development?
...authorities revealed a picture of a disturbed young man who slipped into the Marines despite a petty criminal history that involved an arrests as a youth for possession of explosive materials and drug violations. Nor were Marine authorities aware that Raya was involved in gang activity. T.V. Johnson, a spokesman for the U.S. Marines, said the Marines would have kicked Raya out if they knew about his involvement in gangs…
An analysis of chemicals in Raya’s body showed large quantities of cocaine, said Lt. Heyne.
He commented that the investigation has consumed “a lot of resources” since the case grew to national importance out of suggestions that similar crimes might take place elsewhere in the country as servicemen return from tours of duty in Iraq.
A search of Raya’s room produced evidence of his involvement in the Norteno gang. An electrical power unit was marked with “XIV,” a symbol used by members of the Norteno 14. Numerous photos stored inside of a safe show Raya flashing gang signs, mostly with friends. ...
[Aslo found in his room was the book,] "Midst of My Confusion," by Sir Dino...who has ties to the notorious gang Nuestra Familia [and who is now in prison under RICO charges]
...A compelling piece of evidence linked Raya to the break-in and burglary of the Ceres High School gym, reported to police on Dec. 28. Stolen in the burglary was a computer and multi-media projector valued at $5,700. Lt. Heyne said Raya was involved in the break-in, in which the American flag was ripped into pieces and laid on the floor of the CHS gym to spell out “F--- Bush."
Also left at the scene of the burglary was a camcorder that did not belong to the school. Raya showed up at the high school office a couple of days later demanding that the seized camcorder to be turned over to him. When school officials informed Raya that police would be called, he left the campus.
On the videotape inside the camcorder, Raya appears with other gang members and admits taking the camcorder “from an Army guy." Raya and the others are seen smoking marijuana cigarettes and showing gang graffiti…
Heyne shared with reporters comments made by Raya as he was walking away from George’s Liquors, where he stood over wounded Sgt. Stevenson and shot him in the head, he encountered “several citizens and told them, ‘You have nothing to worry about. You’re citizens, you’re not law enforcement,’ “ said Heyne. “And as they were walking away he asked an interesting question, ‘Did you vote for Bush?’ I don’t know what would have happened if they had responded if they had responded to that question.”
...said Lt. Heyne, “[Raya] was not in a combat unit and did not see combat in Iraq. No one close to him was killed in combat. He was not in Fallujah. There is no indication that Mr. Raya ever even fired his weapon while in Iraq."
Have you heard this part of the response from the Aztlan Community?
FROM EMAIL: [One] piece of evidence that the police gave the press were two photographs showing Raya making funny signs with his hands. They say that these are “gang signs”. Should the white cops be excused for making such an idiotic conclusion? Anyone who has live in Mexican-American communities know that kids and teenagers are always making these sort of hand gestures to each other for fun.
...In the final analysis, US Marine Andres Raya was truly a teenager of conscience. His conscience dictated to him what he had to do. He experienced first hand the brutality against the Iraqi people but he also experienced the brutality against the Mexican people here at home. His choice was to either wage war against the Iraqi people who never harmed him, his family or community, or wage war against those who have historically oppressed the Mexican people here in Aztlan ever since the great land theft of 1848. We now know what choice he made. The question is, will more soldiers of Mexican descent make the same choice in the near future?
And there we have the set-up. The Moonbats, Communists and Socialists are attempting to repeat what worked so well during the Viet Nam War; to divide the country by demonizing our sons and daughters who are in the military. The portrait of the Viet Nam veteran of a drug-crazed, hair-triggered looser has been proven to be utterly false [see the book Stolen Valor B.G. Burkett] yet it was a key piece in the propaganda campaign that weakened the will of America and led to our political loss of that war. [despite the fact that we never experienced one military loss in Viet Nam]
Now they are doing it again. They attempt to portray veterans of Iraq simultaneously as dangerous, trained killers ready to wage war against US, and poor lost souls victimized by the ‘military/industrial complex.’ What could be more repugnant, more galvanizing than to ‘learn’ that your own sons and daughters are being transformed by the WOT/Iraq War into ‘baby killers’? What could better motivate even the most apolitical to stand against something—anything—that would so harm our own children?
And thus another wedge is driven between the American people and good sense.
Think of Lt Smash, Sgt Hook and all the others we have come to know through their blogs. Think of the men and women you know personally—good, strong, smart, capable, honest, dedicated soldiers. Think of what they have told us about their reasons for putting their lives and sacred honor on the line.
Let’s not let the 5th Column Moonbats get away with it this time, eh?
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UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is all over this story both in her column and her blog.
ThanQ! for the tip, Digger
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