Posted on 12/25/2010 11:20:03 AM PST by Dallas59
MEXICO CITY – Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.
The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.
His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.
His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico's secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.
It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.
Three soldiers have been charged with killing her son. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
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“He has numerous native employees, which engraciates him with the local power structure.”
Yeah, being the Wealthy Gringo wouldn’t make him a target or anything. Brave man.
“For all the crying that “guns used in crimes” come from the US, the reality is that the AR-15 type rifles come from China, smuggled in through the coast or Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela.”
Years ago a friend loaned me a real police equipment catalog and I was surprised to learn that Norinco manufactures a full-auto M-14 clone, which they were selling (legally, to US police forces) for about $700.
Why would a frugal Mexican Drug Lord want to spend at least a Grand on a semi-auto AR-15 in the US when the Chinese stuff is so cheap?
Okay, probably crap, but very cheap crap.
And those that “come from the US” usually are from the defecting mexican army soldiers as they run away to the cartels and take their US-supplied/sold arms with them. Sold to the army, legally, I might add, FMS from the US government to the “government” of mexico..
Bleah. I spit on them and their celebrated third-world “culture,” a culture that ensures they never will evolve into a peaceful and productive and honest nation/people.
A brabe man indeed. He is an ex paratrooper from the Korean war with multiple purple hearts. He doesn’t have the word ‘impossible’ in his vocabulary.
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