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bentparrot
Joined 2010
Posts: 286

13 years ago

Big Brother

13 years ago

Boncur posted a message about a try by the US Embassy in Quito to interdict crime and American criminals in Ecuador, under the guise of keeping us safe.

Don't go near that site with the proverbial ten foot pole!

I'm BentParrot. You may know me as Ray. I yak a lot. I touch upon politics, and I dig at posters like ILA, who is most assuredly,whacked, but is surly a lady I'd probably marry if she were not so outspoken.

No "anti-crime" unit is your friend. Any organization that depends solely upon your identification or testimony to solve a crime, is worthless. They depend on INFORMERS! We all know how reliable they are.

Okay, you ask. But does he speak from first hand knowledge, or tales told to him to pass on?

I speak from first-hand knowledge.

In 1959, a good friend was released from prison after three years for statuary rape. He was 19; she was 16. She waited for him to be freed. His friend "ratted" him out to the authorities for buying him a beer - underage at 17, in New York, in the Fifties.

In 1961, my boss, Charlie I. Walker, was arrested by Interpol agents in Kano, Nigeria, during a refueling stop en-route to France. He was accused by the USAF of stealing art that had been missing from museums in Belgium and The Netherlands since World War II. He had not been stealing. He simply had recovered art taken by Nazi sympathizers for private collections in the Belgian Congo, and was trying to return them to their rightful owners.

By the way. The United States wanted to Court Martial Charlie, while the United Nations wanted to pin a medal on him. The UN prevailed.

In 1959, Saks 5th Avenue in New York was the victim of a major fur robbery- three million in today's dollars. I was identified as the perpetrator! Hell, I was just a kid when they brought me in. Miranda rights were unheard of then. I was questioned for hours upon hours without knowing why. As it turned out, I had and alibi that could not be challenged. The guy who was eventually arrested and convicted could have been my twin!

In 1982, a good friend, Dick Hoover, was tried and convicted for striking against the United States for his role in the air traffic controllers strike of August 3, 1981.

Dick was sentenced to a year in the Federal prison in Big Spring, Texas, one of three persons so sentenced in the United States.

Dick is free today, but he's a bitter man. A similar "anti-American" perpetrator, from 30 years earlier, CBS Radio commentator, John Henry Faulk, tried to speak in Dick's behalf at his trial, but his testimony was deemed irrelevant by the presiding judge. (Google John Henry Faulk - you may be enlightened!)

In 1953, a movie was released called The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur). Many parts of this French movie were deleted in the version released in the US because it was anti-American OIL! Nevertheless, the movie dealt with the trials and tribulations of four European expats, who were trying simply to survive in an untenable environment.

That movie, which is probably one of the best films to ever document the difficulties and horrors facing the "unwanted", is a "must see". Watch it! You won't be disappointed.!

I can go on, but fatigue is setting in.

Ray

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