Posted on 04/09/2005 2:55:29 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Day Seven
Thursday April 7, 2005
"...Just then, Jay comes over to get a dub of the Barton interview...he heads back to the RV, I head back to my room to edit the audio to send out to KFYI, the Clear Channel News Network and producers of various talk shows.....I end up having dinner with Jim Gilchrist at the chow hall...tonight it's spaghetti....as we sit and talk, someone brings him an envelope...inside, color pictures of the legal observers rolling their own, and smoking their own.....Just by looking at the pictures you can't tell if it's marijuana or tobacco....but, inside there's also a handwritten letter from an Arkansas couple who claim they took the pictures at one of the rallies last week in Naco and that they smelled marijuana coming from the three young legal observers...Jim hasn't decided what to do with the pictures and story.
Jay Lawrence stops by and looks at the pics...he starts laughing....Jim has to leave, he's headed out on a night patrol...Jay and I chat for a bit....he turns in early since he has to head out early tomorrow morning....I head back to the room and read a little before I go to bed...more stations to service first thing in the morning.....Have a good night!!!!
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A friend of mine e-mailed me a link to this story and message string this morning, claiming to have a story about ACLU members that were smoking pot on the job, with photos and proof.
Instead I find an unsubstantiated and poorly written syopsis based entirely on the heresay of an anonymous Arkansas couple and some snapshots of a couple of anonymous college kids smoking in plain view.
It sounds to me like someone's been spending a little too much time with Dan Rather.
There are many reasons to doubt the validity of this claim. Were they huddled in a corner somewhere or in their cars, it might look suspicious instead, they're out in the open. Additionally, If you look at the pictures, there are multiple rolled cigarettes present. Marijuana smokers light one joint and pass it around, especially in public. While there is still a fraction of a chance that these kids are in fact nonchalantly smoking marijuana on the job, on the border, in broad daylight and in public view, any reasonable person can see that this is very unlikely. The stupid cocky college kid 'argument' really only goes so far. I can only assume that this conveniently anonymous Arkansas couple was either mistaken or deliberately lying to hurt the ACLU observers.
I come to forums such as this one to avoid sensationalist mainstream crap; otherwise I'd just watch FOX or CNN.
If an organizaton were to challenge my good intentions and my love of country, I'd be angry and on the defensive as well. I would think, however, that the "good guys," who I can only hope are sick and tired of the everyday corruption in our federal government and national media, would have some integrity and do some investigating before running wild with an unlikely story that furthers their cause.
Otherwise, they're no better than the knee-jerk reactionaries and sensationalists that they oppose.
As for your desire to be persecuted by uniformed men, there are professionals who provide that service for a reasonable fee.
P.S.
Signing up with the user name "seeificare" and writing a shrill self-defense is a beautiful bit of irony. I'm beginning to suspect seriously that you are a Freeper having a bit of fun.
Being out in the open has a different meaning down along the border.
You could be out in the open and no one could be within miles of you to see what your doing.
Like I said, I'll take the word of the folks that smelled to MJ over someone that was not there.
LOL, very good.
How did they get the photos so butt crack close?
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