http://news.yahoo.com/fc/business/aviation_security
>From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ...
>Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:27:52 -0800
>
>Something to prime the dicussion perhaps?
>
>http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2005/091205miamiincident.htm
>
>Miami Bomb Incident Starts to Look Suspicious
>Eyewitness says Alpizar never mentioned bomb, passengers were more afraid
>of Air Marshals putting guns to their heads
>
>Paul Joseph Watson | December 9 2005
>
>The shooting of Rigoberto Alpizar at Miami International Airport stinks
>like a giant festering rat just two days after it happened. Alpizar never
>screamed that he had a bomb and passengers relate that they were more
>frightened of Air Marshals putting guns to their head and threatening them
>not to look at what was taking place on board American Airlines Flight 924.
>For those of us who researched the brutal murder of Charles De Menezes in
>London, striking parallels have begun to emerge.
>
>We live in an age where government deception about everything under the sun
>is a matter of course and no major event can take place without us
>automatically being suspicious about whether there were underlying motives
>involved.
>
>The incident seemed straightforward enough when the official version of
>what happened was released.
>
>A mentally unstable man runs off a plane with a backpack screaming that he
>has a bomb and he is shuffling around in his bag apparently attempting to
>detonate it. Most people agree that to shoot him dead as the Air Marshals
>did was an extreme but necessary course of action to take.
>
>Wait.
>
>Let's take a step back here.
>
>Is a real suicide bomber going to announce that he is trying to detonate a
>bomb? How many Palestinians have you heard about who explain what they are
>about to do and risk being apprehended before being able to do it?
>
>Furthermore, we have eyewitnesses confirming that Rigoberto Alpizar's wife
>was hysterical in trying to get the message across that the man was
>mentally ill and did not have a bomb.
>
>OK, so even considering these questions, many people would still maintain
>that if they were on the plane and this happened they would still want the
>guy filled with bullets, better to be safe than sorry.
>
>This is where the waters begin to muddy.
>
>Time Magazine reported the comments of one of the passengers on board
>American Airlines Flight 924. This is what he had to say,
>
>"I never heard the word 'bomb' on the plane," McAlhany told TIME in a
>telephone interview. "I never heard the word bomb until the FBI asked me
>did you hear the word bomb. That is ridiculous."
>
>So if we are to believe this eyewitness, the 'madman' Alpizar never claimed
>to have a bomb, therefore his only crime was running on a grounded plane.
>
>If he didn't announce that he had a bomb then why was it necessary to shoot
>him dead?
>
>McAlhany's account of the drama takes on an even more intriguing turn when
>we consider the following from Time Magazine,
>
>When the incident began McAlhany was in seat 24C, in the middle of the
>plane. "[Alpizar] was in the back," McAlhany says, "a few seats from the
>back bathroom. He sat down." Then, McAlhany says, "I heard an argument with
>his wife. He was saying 'I have to get off the plane.' She said, 'Calm
>down.'"
>
>Alpizar took off running down the aisle, with his wife close behind him.
>"She was running behind him saying, 'He's sick. He's sick. He's ill. He's
>got a disorder," McAlhany recalls. "I don't know if she said bipolar
>disorder [as one witness has alleged]. She was trying to explain to the
>marshals that he was ill. He just wanted to get off the plane."
>
>McAlhany described Alpizar as carrying a big backpack and wearing a fanny
>pack in front. He says it would have been impossible for Alpizar to lie
>flat on the floor of the plane, as marshals ordered him to do, with the
>fanny pack on. "You can't get on the ground with a fanny pack," he says.
>"You have to move it to the side."
>
>By the time Alpizar made it to the front of the airplane, the crew had
>ordered the rest of the passengers to get down between the seats. "I didn't
>see him get shot," he says. "They kept telling me to get down. I heard
>about five shots."
>
>McAlhany says he tried to see what was happening just in case he needed to
>take evasive action. "I wanted to make sure if anything was coming toward
>me and they were killing passengers I would have a chance to break
>somebody's neck," he says. "I was looking through the seats because I
>wanted to see what was coming.
>
>"I was on the phone with my brother. Somebody came down the aisle and put a
>shotgun to the back of my head and said put your hands on the seat in front
>of you. I got my cell phone karate chopped out of my hand. Then I realized
>it was an official."
>
>In the ensuing events, many of the passengers began crying in fear, he
>recalls. "They were pointing the guns directly at us instead of pointing
>them to the ground," he says "One little girl was crying. There was a lady
>crying all the way to the hotel."
>
>McAlhany said he saw Alpizar before the flight and is absolutely stunned by
>what unfolded on the airplane. He says he saw Alpizar eating a sandwich in
>the boarding area before getting on the plane. He looked normal at that
>time, McAlhany says. He thinks the whole thing was a mistake: "I don't
>believe he should be dead right now."
>
>This account brings several facts into clearer view.
>
> * The reason for Alpizar's rush to leave the plane would seem to stem
>from his unstable emotional state and the row with his wife, and had
>nothing to do with the potential of him having a bomb, as proven by the
>fact that he never said he had a bomb and the subsequent controlled
>explosions proved that he didn't have a bomb.
> * If Alpizar did not have a bomb and gave no reason to make Air
>Marshals think he had a bomb, then he was killed for another reason.
> * The fact that Air Marshals were terrorizing passengers, putting guns
>to their heads and karate kicking mobile phones out of their hands proves
>that, whatever was taking place, they didn't want anyone to have a
>consistent and clear view of what was going on.
> * The eyewitnesses were more afraid of the gun wielding Air Marshals
>than they were of Alpizar and felt their lives were more endangered by the
>Marshals than Alpizar.
>
>This evidence trends towards two possible explanations behind this
>incident.
>
>Either the government wanted Alpizar dead for their own reasons and carried
>out a targeted assassination under the guise of an anti-terror operation or
>this incident was staged to reinforce the myth that there are real
>terrorists running around that the government needs to protect us from by
>taking away our liberties.
>
>This event will lead to even more choking airport security measures,
>reversing more rational trends which began with the announcement that small
>sharp objects would be allowed on planes again.
>
>Whatever the case, this incident has uncanny parallels with the murder of
>Charles de Menezes by British undercover police one day after the supposed
>aborted second London bombings on July 22nd.
>
>The official story seemed to justify the shooting. A man wearing a large
>padded jacket at the height of summer with wires trailing out jumps a
>barrier and runs for the nearest train in a manic fashion as he is followed
>by plain clothed police who had tracked him from a building under
>surveillance due to it potentially housing terrorists.
>
>The official story of course turned out to be a complete lie fronted by Met
>Head (or meat head) Sir Ian Blair, who pathetically clung onto his job by
>endlessly repeating the same bullshit on British television for weeks after
>the event.
>
>De Menezes was wearing a light denim jacket, was playing chase with his
>cousin, did not vault a barrier, did not have wires trailing from his
>jacket and was not seen coming from said building due to the policeman
>watching the building taking a piss at the time. CCTV tapes of the incident
>were seized by police who then claimed that the tapes didn't exist due to
>the cameras conveniently malfunctioning at that exact time, something which
>the London Underground workers wholesale denied.
>
>This and many more startling inconsistencies prove that the police knew for
>certain that De Menezes was no suicide bomber but they had been ordered to
>kill him anyway.
>
>De Menezes was a freelance electrician and potential knowledge of the shady
>'electrical surge' explanation that preceded the official story of the
>London bombings could have sealed his fate.
>
>The murder of Alpizar looks like it's in the same basket. No doubt the
>official probe will bring to light more damning evidence but then the
>establishment lackeys will just pardon their mob bosses anyway.
>
>The Miami Police Department caught a lot of heat recently for their
>Constitution gutting 'Miami Shield' program, where cops will randomly lay
>siege to city buildings, ride buses and trains and demand to see ID's.
>
>Were the events at the airport a response to that criticism? A message sent
>that we need to shut up and show obidience to authority because there are
>terrorist bombers out there that we need to be protected from? The timing
>of the two stories is at the very least interesting if not sinister.
>
>This is a time of universal deceit, and any major event needs to be
>scrutinized without haste because in nearly every case the evidence points
>directly to government collusion and cover-up.
>
>
>
>>From: "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
>>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>>To: "LBO" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>>Subject: [lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ...
>>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:59:55 -0800
>>
>>With the ~300 posts on the London issue, I thought I'd see something
>>posted about this one in Miami yesterday. I forget: are we winning the
>>war on terror?
>>
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