Above: Bob Clark, director of classic "A Christmas Story",
and his son were killed by a drunk illegal alien on 4/4/2007.
Posted on 12/26/2013 7:32:05 AM PST by montag813
Above: Bob Clark, director of classic "A Christmas Story",
and his son were killed by a drunk illegal alien on 4/4/2007.
by John Hill
For many Americans, Christmas means something else besides faith, family, food (and presents). It means movies: It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (pick one), Miracle on 34th Street.
On Christmas I often watch a modern classic: A Christmas Story, the irreverent adaptation of Jean Shepherd's memoir of Christmas memories from childhood. Many of our readers also caught this extraordinary film (at least) once yesterday, as the cable network TBS shows it non-stop for 24 hours every year at Christmas.
But I watched with a heavy heart, as I remember that Bob Clark, the prolific director of this film, and his 22-year old son Ariel, were killed by a drunk driving illegal alien from Mexico.
As news reports detailed it at the time:
The crash occurred on Pacific Coast Highway PCH between Sunset Boulevard and Temescal Canyon Road in Pacific Palisades when the GMC Yukon Hector Velazquez-Nava was driving drifted into oncoming traffic and struck the elder Clark's 1997 Infiniti Q30 head-on. According to the District Attorney's Office, at the time of the crash, Velazquez-Nava had a blood-alcohol content of .24 percent -- three times the legal limit, and he did not have a license.Velazquez-Nava, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading no contest to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
But he never should have been here in the first place. As is so typical in these cases: he had been deported at least twice prior to killing the Clarks.
There is an epidemic of illegal alien crime across this nation. Whether it is the child rapes and assaults we hear about on a weekly basis (but the media does its best to ignore), murders of citizens, police and border agents, to the seemingly endless string of DUI deaths at the hands of illegals - almost all of whom had prior records yet remained in this nation.
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Every Christmas with the family gathered I make this remark, Bob Clark and his son was MURDERED by an ILLEGAL ALIEN.
Bob Clark also directed the great Black Christmas.
Talk about two extremes....
Now when he is out of prison, he will get a free education at a university and money for housing and food and free healthcare.
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