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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 02:51 AM Feb 2015

Political Activist Beheaded In Central Mexico

Source: Bernama (Malaysia)

Political Activist Beheaded In Central Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Feb 6 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE) -- Police found the decapitated body of political activist Gustavo Salgado on a highway in the central Mexican state of Morelos, the People's Revolutionary Front, or EPR, said Thursday.

The body of the 32-year-old EPR member was found on Wednesday afternoon, a day after he was reported missing, by police in Mototepec, a town outside the city of Ayala.

Salgado, who appeared to have been tortured, was identified by EPR members, who blamed the government for the murder.

"This crime is part of the policy of terror that the state has implemented to try to scare the popular movement in general and our organisation in particular," the EPR said.

Read more: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1106775



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Political Activist Beheaded In Central Mexico (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2015 OP
... shenmue Feb 2015 #1
That's the danger of being a progressive activist in an Oligarchy nikto Feb 2015 #2
already mtasselin Feb 2015 #3
Weird discredited conspiracy theories. Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #4
When journalists get death threats, when their families are threatened, then they are murdered, Judi Lynn Feb 2015 #6
Beautiful answer---Love it! nikto Feb 2015 #7
gustavo, hopemountain Feb 2015 #5
 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
2. That's the danger of being a progressive activist in an Oligarchy
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 04:19 AM
Feb 2015

How long will it be before America is the same?

mtasselin

(666 posts)
3. already
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 08:41 AM
Feb 2015

Nikto, this is already happening in America when you have journalist such as Micheal Hasting car blow up and then there is Phillip Marshall who was in investigating 911 who they say killed his kids and then shot himself in the left temple when he was right handed. If anyone gets to close to the truth they will be eliminated and I mean anyone.

Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)
4. Weird discredited conspiracy theories.
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 11:37 AM
Feb 2015

If you are right handed it is quite natural to shoot yourself in the left temple - if you shoot yourself at all.

Michael Hasting's car accident seems to have been a car accident. Some of his own family and friends have said that he was in an odd state before the accident with his brother describing it as "manic", which would unfortunately explain what happened.

The Philip Marshall thing - well, he just snapped. He did kill his kids, his wife's dog and then himself. Philip Marshall had bipolar disorder. There was a prior police history related to threats to family members!
http://www.uniondemocrat.com/News/Local-News/Sheriff-details-investigation-of-Marshall-murder-suicide

A lengthy history of run-ins with wife Sean Plummer, the children’s mother, is documented dating back to 2008, when she began divorce proceedings, only to later withdraw the petition and reinstate it in October 2012.

On Nov. 11, 2008, Plummer’s sister, Erin Chamberlain, then a Murphys resident, told police Marshall threatened Plummer she “will not see December.” Eleven days later, Chamberlain said she felt threatened “for the safety of her children” as Marshall repeatedly drove past her home. Phone messages Marshall left at Chamberlain’s home in December included statements that "if you don’t call me, mom is going to have problems, we don’t want this,” “Sean, you are going to get what's coming to you" and "Macaila, this is daddy. We are going to have lunch. We need to talk right now. If not, something is going to happen.” On Dec. 7, the report states Marshall violated an emergency protection order.


Believe in CT all you want, but there is no reason whatsoever to find these deaths suspicious. They are, sadly, particular instances of common but tragic incidents.

Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
6. When journalists get death threats, when their families are threatened, then they are murdered,
Fri Feb 6, 2015, 07:52 PM
Feb 2015

it stands to reason they were killed by someone who planned to kill them due to the work they were doing.

The connections between murders of journalists are clear when some countries have it happening so often they are named the world's most dangerous places for journalists.

There's a reason for that, and the answer is not that those countries have far too many conspiracy theorists!

Imagine a mind so empty and unused one attempts to claim that journalists, and political activists, human rights activists, union activists, liberation clergy, indigenous leaders, etc., etc., etc., are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when they are even tortured before being murdered.

It truly takes all kinds, doesn't it?

 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
7. Beautiful answer---Love it!
Sat Feb 7, 2015, 01:26 AM
Feb 2015

It is quite possible and reasonable to be suspicious about certain events without suscribing to
any particular ("conspiracy&quot theory about what happened.

As with 9-11, JFK/MLK assassinations, and other events where the Official Story seems inadequate,
honest suspicion compels us to "keep the case open", and to keep asking questions,
even when the masses (and those emotionally in need of a "comfortable explanation&quot ,
give up thinking about it, and accept whatever story is officially given.

The cry of: "Conspiracy Theorist!" is a proven technique for erasing suspicion, humiliating questioners,
and eliminating further investigation.


For any event, Just follow the cui bonos, I say.


Some things happen by accident.
Other don't.


It behooves us as a society to grapple with the difference.


http://thesuspicionist.blogspot.com/

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