Reno Gazette Journal promotes attackers in hate crime

Reno Gazette Journal joins the copycat reporters, copying
Censored News articles

By Brenda Norrell.
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

The Reno Gazette Journal joined the copycat crew today, copying information from two articles in Censored News. If the journalists who are receiving paychecks were doing their jobs, they wouldn't have to sit in their easy chairs, and wait for the unpaid writers at Censored News to do it for them.

One article is about a Northern Paiute traditional gatherer being fined $800 by the Nevada Game and Fish.

The other article is disturbing, as the Reno Gazette Journal prints an extensive interview with the family of an accused attacker in a hate crime, without interviewing the victims.

The Reno Gazette's coverage reveals why racists continue to attack in the state of Nevada with impunity. In this case, the accused white attacker is the son of a retired police detective in Lyon County, Nevada.

Reno Sparks Indian Johnny Bonta was not only beaten and stabbed, but the attackers attempted to slit his throat, which is attempted murder. His son-in-law was also beaten in the attack by three men. Johnny Bonta, the victim, was jailed with a broken nose and cuts and bruises. He was denied medical treatment in jail. Police refused to take a statement from the family. Johnny Bonta was never charged and was only released from jail when tribal authorities intervened.

The Reno Gazette reporter takes the hit and run approach, saying the victims, the Bontas, could not be reached for comment by press time. This is unacceptable, reprehensible reporting in a hate crime.

Forbes did a far better story reporting the hate crime. However, if Forbes did not actually interview the family, then credit should be given to Censored News, or the subsequent copycat reporters who waited for Censored News to take all the risks, and then came out of hiding to collect their paychecks.

The hate crime took place on May 24. The Reno Gazette woke up from its snooze today on July 6, in time to do some damage control for the family of a retired white police officer.

Mainstream news reporters, don't think I'm doing your work for you so you can sit in your easy chairs and collect a paycheck off my efforts. That includes you, Indian Country Today, and your 'reporter' that I haven't seen out on a news story in the past 29 years.

And that includes you Reno Gazette Journal which copied two of my articles on Censored News on Wednesday. Then, you, the Journal promoted the attackers in a hate crime -- without interviewing the victims. Your journalism is a crime against humanity.

For all of you reporters who want to know what is in the Chinga La Migra downloads from Arizona police files, please feel free to stay up all night, every night, downloading torrents, zip drives and software updates so you can read, study and evaluate the massive data. Again, I'm not doing your work for free so that you can get a paycheck.

Forbes article: http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/07/06/did-police-turn-a-blind-eye-to-attack-on-native-american-family-in-nevada

Reno Gazette Journal favors alleged hate crime attackers:
http://www.rgj.com/article/20110706/FERNLEY01/107060391/FBI-investigating-possible-hate-crime-Fernley?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFernley+Leader%7Cs

Here's the original articles from Censored News:

Reno Sparks Indian beaten in hate crime (June 6):
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/reno-sparks-indian-beaten-in-nevada.html
Hate crime attackers talked about it on Facebook
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/06/attackers-in-nevada-hate-crime-talked.html
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Owe Aku International Justice Project: Lakotas celebrate the struggle

By Owe Aku International Justice Project
http://www.oweakuinternational.org/
Published at Censored News

Owe Aku International Justice Project is celebrating its first anniversary of working for the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council in international advocacy on behalf of the Lakota Nation. Lakota leaders have been going to the United Nations since 1977 and have always been active participants in fighting for the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples and the territories from which we originate. Owe Aku International Justice Project reflects the ongoing effort and unwavering commitment brought to our work by Lakota leaders, elders, and communities.

Over the last year we have made advances in approaching the world family of nations in bringing settler nations, including the United States, closer to justice, especially with respect to accountability for their innumerable violations of human rights and genocide against Native nations. With the support of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council, we have stood proudly in denouncing all who would diminish our sovereignty or pretend that the rights of white, christian nations somehow have precedent over all other inhabitants of our verdant Mother Earth. We are committed to the preservation of a way of life, not just expediency within a western model of “justice.” When necessary, regardless of the foe, we will stand on the traditions brought to us through our ancestors and do battle on behalf of our people.

With less than $8,000 this year we have helped sponsor three treaty gatherings on our national territory, we have attended a regional meeting of the Organization of American States in Ottawa, we were a presence in the Permanent Forum in New York, we helped sponsor a film forum on Indigenous environmental issues and we challenged several federal government policies designed to again deceive American citizens about the continuing cultural, environmental and physical assault on Lakota and Native communities. We have crafted policies and positions that reflect our connection to our communities and environment and we have not wavered in challenging those that would compromise our approach.

“Oyate tokeca ob tokan wowicasa sni ogna woope wowapi iyopteyapi.”

“Those approving things without the people’s knowledge are not a red star and they stand with the people of a different way and they pass letters of law in a sneaky way.” (Alexander White Plume, NaCha.)

Never has it been more apparent that the very basis of Lakota society, the tiyospaye (clan, extended family, community), is the most crucial aspect of any society that hopes to live in peace and harmony with the environment. This message is every bit as important as international law and being the connection between the two will always be our main objective. To achieve this we hope to show more clearly how we at Owe Aku and Owe Aku International Justice Project are enhancing the strength of our own communities, creating more environmentally sound infrastructure on our territory and addressing the trauma brought to us by the colonizers with their genocidal policies, diseases and unbridled abuse of natural resources for the benefit of a few select members of their “cultures.” We at Owe Aku International Justice Project pledge that our work in international forums will always be only as vital as our connection to the tiyospaye and to our homeland; “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”

It has been a good year and we can be proud of our modest gains and steady march forward. Now, as our second year begins, we look forward to more work designed to positively enhance more of our people’s lives and to sending out those voices of strength to be heard for seven generations. This is a Lakota project from a Lakota vision, but it is a universal need.
Bring back the way.

More:
http://www.oweakuinternational.org/
Kent Lebsock, Coordinator
Owe Aku International Justice Project for Lakota Treaty Justice and Advocacy
oweakuinternational@me.com

Livestream: Greek Swedish Norwegian Flotilla Ship at Sea now

Broadcasting Live with Ustream

Gaza Freedom Flotilla II: The Juliano boat of Greek, Norwegian and Swedish activists was live, and went offline with boats approaching them. A member of Sweden's Parliament is said to be onboard. (Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 11 am Eastern Time)

Hacked police data: Assassins plan special ops team on Arizona border

Hacked Arizona police files describe mercenary-type patrols on the Arizona border

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Updated July 17, 2011

SASABE, Ariz. -- In the leaked files of Chinga La Migra, a police report describes an encounter with a heavily-armed man at Sasabe and states there is a "mercenary-type" action planned for this area. It is the second time that e-mails leaked by hackers in the Chinga La Migra data revealed heavily-armed mercenary types here at Sasabe, southwest of Tucson. In the first police e-mail leaked off-duty Marines were exposed patrolling with assault weapons.

In this second e-mail from police files, agents working in the town of Sasabe in March said they were approached by a man who engaged in a conversation with agents.

The agents said they immediately noticed that the man had a Glock pistol holstered on his right hip. The man also retrieved a Saiga shotgun, along with a 10-round magazine and a 20-round drum magazine from his truck and showed the agents.

“He stated that he is soon to receive funding in the amount of $350,000.00 from what he described as ‘Concerned citizens’ and that he planned to use this funding to bring up to five men into the area," the police report states.

The armed man “went on to describe these men, as well as himself, as prior military, all with extensive experience such as Recon, Sniper and Ranger Training, etc., and plans to conduct mercenary type operations in both the Sasabe, Arizona and Sasabe, Sonora border area," the police report states.

The police report states that he admitted to having "Improvised Explosive Devices" deployed in the desert near Sasabe.

Agents were urged to take extreme caution while working in the area near Sasabe. In April, after the man was seen in Sasabe, there was a five-hour police search of the area with a bomb crew.

Response: Some armed patrols on the border target drug cartels, not hunting migrants

One person who says he is armed at the Arizona border responded to the original article published here by Censored News, and the data from the Arizona police files.

Responding, the man said he is armed and at the Arizona border, but he is not part of the Minutemen or Blue Lights patrols. Instead, he said he is there to halt the armed cartel drug runners coming north, weapons going south, and for the protection of the communities.

He said the cartel escorts accompanying the drug loads are armed with AK47s. Some of the cartel lookouts on this side of the border are also armed with AK47s. Since it is very desolate country, any help is usually about an hour away, if any help comes at all. So to go out there unarmed is suicide, he said.

He points out that there are corrupt Border Patrol agents on the border and they report people with false information if they get in the corrupt agents' way.

The corruption within the Border Patrol was the subject of testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, on June 9, 2011, in Washington. Officials testified that 127 Border Patrol agents have been arrested and hundreds more are now under investigation, for corruption, including drug smuggling and accepting bribes from drug runners.

Responding to Censored News, the person who is armed at the border said he is there to halt drug cartels from coming in, prevent weapons from going south into Mexico and to protect the local area. He said there are good people on the other side of the border in Mexico and they do not deserve to be slaughtered by the drug cartels.

But he said he is not there to hunt migrants. He said he even carries extra water and food for migrants that are left stranded.

He points out that the U.S. government has supplied the cartels with over 2,500 AK/47s.

This fact was revealed in the recent testimony, and news reports, of the ATF Fast and Furious operation. Those ATF weapons in the operation, which the ATF claims were part of a sting operation, are being used on both sides of the border. These weapons that the US allowed to "walk" across the border were proven to be used in the murder of two US agents, Brian A. Terry, U.S. Border Patrol officer, shot and killed in December near Nogales, Arizona, and Jaime Zapata. Zapata was an ICE special agent based in Laredo, Texas and killed by an armed gang in northern Mexico.

The Los Angeles Times points out that not only did 2,500 weapons wind up in the hands of the cartels, but the DEA and FBI were paying the same cartel members as informants. “The official said at least half a dozen cartel figures were being paid by one U.S. law enforcement agency while they were being targeted by another.” http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cartel-guns-20110717,0,6972222.story

Further, responding to Censored News, the armed man patrolling the Arizona border says that Wells Fargo/Wachovia was caught laundering $378 billion of cartel drug money over a period of 4 years, over 90 billion a year. He pointed out that not one criminal charge was brought against them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

Further, the man patrolling the Arizona border said the intent of the government is not to stop this drug running, but it is to keep it going so there are more people in this country "doped up who can't think straight and will obey whatever they are told." Referring to the US military and drug running, he said: Why do you think we are in Afghanistan?

He said it is because 90 percent of the world’s opium comes from there.

He said by patrolling the mountains at the Arizona border, he is trying to stop the drug trade and not only put a crimp on the cartel cash flow, but also on the U.S. government cash flow and corruption.

Leaked Arizona police files

In the leaked police files, the investigation of the armed man at Sasabe becomes more bizarre when Todd Russell Hezlitt arrives on the scene. Hezlitt is described by police as a past affiliate of the armed man.

However, in the police report Hezlitt claims he is performing surveillance on the man, following contact from Intel about the man’s “alleged Improvised Explosive Devices deployed in the desert near Sasabe and other erratic behavior."

“Hezlitt claims he wants to help us run him out of Sasabe” and that Hezlitt no longer associates with him, the police report states.

“Hezlitt did have a weapon on him and was also wearing body armor at the time of the encounter.” (The complete hacked police file was available in several places on the Internet, but was removed after this article was posted.)

Hezlitt is easily found on the Internet as both a member of the Marine Corps who began, but not completed the training of the police academy of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

Hezlitt is also shown to be an associate of Shawna Forde, leader of the Minutemen American Defense, convicted in the murder of a nine-year-old and her father in Arivaca. Forde received the death sentence in February for her role in the murder of Raul "Junior" Flores, 29, and his daughter, Brisenia, 9, on May 30, 2009.

At Phoenix New Times, Stephen Lemons reported on Hezlitt two years ago and the disturbing connections between Minutemen and Arizona law enforcement.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2009/07/shawna_forde_associate_a_forme.php

Lemons wrote in 2009: “Cooperation between law enforcement and minuteman groups is a worrisome issue in Arizona, especially with Sheriff Joe Arpaio here in Maricopa County.”

The exposure in the police files of the armed man and the plan for mercenaries in Sasabe, a tiny community on the border south of Three Points, is the second time that heavily armed civilian patrols in Sasabe were exposed in the Chinga La Migra files.

In the previous e-mail that exposed contract assassins here, the police data reported an encounter with an off-duty Marine hunting migrants with assault weapons in Sasabe. The information was in a report for the month of October 2008, by Arizona's HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) Investigative Support Center.

This report reveals information on the Border Watch Group the Blue Lights, which little has previously been published.

"In other incidents reported in October, U.S. Border Patrol agents encountered two subjects who claimed to be members of the Border Watch Group the Blue Lights based on the Caballo Loco Ranch. The subjects, armed with pistols and at least one M4 rifle, were dressed in full desert camouflage uniforms, similar to those of the United States military. They stated they were not members of the Minutemen but paid contract employees who ‘get the job done’ and ‘were not just volunteers.’ They possessed valid United States Marine Corps identification cards."

Patriots and white separatists at the Caballo Loco Ranch near Sasabe

Assassins, patriots, and white separatists camping at the Caballo Loco Ranch have posted online.

An Internet user who called himself "Marine 1," posted online at the Patriots Border Alliance and described Operation Ice Storm scheduled for January of 2008 and based at the Caballo Loco RV Ranch. “Since being asked by many Minutemen this past spring to form a border watch group, we have performed one weekend and one 30-Day Muster in Palominas Arizona and New Mexico. We have stood in protest and supported the ongoing events at Pruitts Furniture Store in Phoenix, and we continue to be active and help stop illegal immigration across the land."

The posted message included directions to the Caballo Loco RV Ranch: From Tucson, take Hwy 86 west to Three Points. Take Rt 286 South, just before mile marker 34 make a left turn onto a dirt road, and follow that for 8 miles. The road is well-graded and suitable for cars. The dirt road is marked with a sign, "Caballo Loco RV Ranch."

In the hacked police e-mails, Arizona police also took note of Riflestock 2011, which was advertised online for the southern Arizona border.

The public announcement said, “Suppose a couple thousand patriots, and their families, showed up near the Mexican border, somewhere in Arizona, for a weekend of fun, music, games, shooting, hiking, and, good old-fashioned comradery. Would this event be newsworthy? Perhaps approaching that of Woodstock, back in1969? Would it send a message to the government that, "If you won't protect our borders, then, we will"?

“Riflestock is not intended to be a border operation, itself, though the ability to see the damage done, take pictures of illegal critters, and, perhaps, scare the hell out of some of them, by our sheer numbers, and to actually visit the site of America's ongoing war with illegal border crossings, is in the offing.

"The event is intended to run from Friday, March 18, through Sunday, March 20, with a pig roast (bring your Muslim friends) on Saturday afternoon," the Riflestock announcement said.

On the southern Arizona border, human rights organizations, including Derechos Humanos and No More Deaths, have exposed the xenophobia targeting migrants and the escalating violence, resulting in beatings, shooting deaths and hanging of migrants.

Derechos Humanos in Tucson has documented the deaths of migrants in the desert, including the victims of death by blunt force trauma, shotgun blasts and other violence:
http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net/projects/arizona-recovered-bodies-project

Also see:
Hackers expose racismm's underbelly: Driving while Black, Brown or Red in Arizona
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/hackers-expose-racisms-underbelly.html

Arizona police are tired of Border Patrol lies and delays
Delays mean death in the desert for migrants in distress
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/arizona-police-tired-of-lies-and-delays.html

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