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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Campos: The high cost of 'freedom'

The story of this murder is dropping off the news radar.
[...]
The reaction to the shooting death of Rigoberto Alpizar provides a sobering glimpse into America's current obsession with keeping ourselves "safe" from "terrorism." Alpizar was shot by federal air marshals after he ran off a plane that was about to depart from Miami to Orlando.
Initially, authorities claimed that Alpizar had yelling that he had a bomb as he ran down the plane's aisle with a backpack strapped across his chest. Yet The Orlando Sentinel interviewed seven passengers who claimed Alpizar wasn't saying anything at all, let alone yelling about a bomb, while no passenger backed the government's story.
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