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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:20 PM
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So, Alberto Gonzolas just captured 10,000 fugitives
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050415/D89FITT00.html

What I want to know is why did they wait to capture these guys? They were rapists and murderers. Did they just want to capture them all in one week to make an impression? They must have had some idea where these people were before this weeklong crusade. If they were as dangerous as they are making them out to be, you'd think they'd want to get them into custody as soon as possible rather than doing it all at once.

Maybe they will make the first week in April "Capture Fugitive Week." They'll concentrate their efforts in that one week and make a huge splash for the newspapers.

Am I missing something?
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:22 PM
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1. Where are they going to put them?
On the first plane to Iraq?
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:26 PM
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4. At all of those secret detention camps that were built around....
...the country by FEMA and RX84

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/camps.html
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 11:40 PM
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7. Oh Good. We can turn Iraq into the next Australia
We can have all the criminals working as slaves in the oil fields!

:)
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chalky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:24 PM
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2. Well...I'M not saying it was a PR stunt, but...
The headline on my daily TruthOut email:

FOCUS | 10,000 Fugitives Nabbed, Officials Admit PR Stunt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/041405X.shtml

Just sayin'.
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Turn CO Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:25 PM
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3. Are you missing something? We all are. Like an explanation

of how and why they apparently possessed the knowledge of whereabouts and the means to make these arrests of apparently very, very dangerous people who were out "on the lamb" for unknown, undisclosed reasons, but waited until some big "spring cleaning" day to grab headlines. F'ing limelighting sob's.

Is this going to sway me in any way and make up for Abu Graib and the torture memos, Alberto? Hell no! Bite me, you thug-lican.

Gonzo is a thug.
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TheModernTerrorist Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:38 PM
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5. maybe
the fugitives all decided to come out of the woodwork on the same day, and it's jsut a big coincidence that they ALL got captured that week </sarcasm>
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 12:31 AM
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9. Amazing ins't it,, what a little ink
and a few cameras will have us all believing.
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Dufaeth Donating Member (764 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-14-05 10:39 PM
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6. My Fiance is in the parole/probation field and
Edited on Thu Apr-14-05 10:47 PM by Dufaeth
when it came up on the newsshe laughed. Her immediate impression was that it was a PR stunt. Their file rooms are always filled with such people that are never picked up.

Even if they are, the prisons are so overcrowded it doesn't matter. She mentioned a murderer who was placed on probation last week, having only served a few months waiting for sentencing.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 12:37 AM
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11. I'd be very interested
The article says 700 picked up for murder, rape and robbery. So what did the rest of them do? If she finds out more, I'd sure like to know.

I know what you mean though. Nothing gets to me more than making an appointment to go to prison.
:wtf:
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Dufaeth Donating Member (764 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 07:41 AM
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12. I would hypothesize that the majority are parole/probation violators:
Meaning they hadn't shown up for their scheduled meetings, tested positive for drugs, didn't pay their parole fees or any other violation of the rules for which a warrant could be issued. These people aren't necessarily hiding.

Many don't even know they have a warrant out until they get pulled over for speeding and arrested or if the Absconder unit decides they are important enough to go pick up(probably decided by the computers if I had to guess, but I'd have to ask my Fiance).

My fiance said last night, that the Absconders unit had been planning a big operation last week, but she didn't know it was part of this until yesterday.
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 12:01 AM
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8. Several theories running through my mind:
1) latest distraction du jour to keep our minds off of DeLay scandal, SS privatization/destruction, American Taliban trying to build theocracy, etc.
2) excuse to build more prisons and maybe even get to fry more people (you know how the "Culture of Life" pResident LOVES the death penalty
3) to pander some more again still over and over more more more again more again to the radical fundie extremists trying to destroy democracy once and for all
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 12:34 AM
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10. 700 murder, rape & robbery
What did the other 9500 do? Smoke a joint?
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 07:59 AM
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13. It was the headline story all day on CNN, but only a sidebar on
the NYTimes website, later in the day. That tells you something.

You're right: why wait around if they knew where these dangerous people were?

Or are they going to sweep up all these people just to make an impression, and let them go because of insufficient evidence?
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-15-05 08:19 AM
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14. I just said the same thing on the LBN thread.
I worked at a sheriff's office that periodically had round-ups, but it was for traffic tickets and bad checks--things that did fall by the wayside because the cops were too busy fighting the really bad stuff. They knew where these people lived, but they were not dangerous, so they weren't a top priority.

Now if they had warrants for violent and sexual offenders, and they knew where they were, that is the height of stupidity to leave them out on the street until a pre-determined round-up date. Thanks a lot, Alberto.
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