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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36730)	7/6/1999 10:45:00 PM
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we will start here: <<But investigators have raised questions about the series of events, saying the evidence does not match the Marines' story. Although they claim they acted in self-defense, the Marines followed Hernandez, from a distance, for more than 20 minutes after he fired his rifle, investigators said.>> mapinc.org On May 20, 1997, Ezequiel Hernandez, an 18 year-old high school student from the town of Redford in West Texas, was shot to death by a unit of four Marines. Esequiel was a U.S. Citizen. lulac.org Marines "Score" One in Drug War The Killing of a Misidentified Goat-Herder By Jim Hightower The United States Drug War, with its multibillion-dollar budget, its high-tech arsenal and its use of the U.S. military on American soil has gunned down Ezequiel Hernandez Jr. just outside of Redford, Texas, right on the Mexican border. Far from chalking-up a successful hit, though, it turns out that Hernandez was not a drug king-pin, a runner or even a user. He was just an 18-year old kid, herding goats about 400 yards from his family's home. The people here are not involved in drug trafficking, don't know of any drug routes in the area, and had no idea the U.S. Marines had heavily-armed, camouflaged patrols all around them. Why kill a goat-herder? The Pentagon claims that Zeke, as he was known to his friends, was shooting at the four-man patrol, so it was self defense. But all who knew Zeke say there's no way he would do such a thing -- he was a straight-arrow who even had a Marine poster in his room. Yes, he carried a gun to fend off coyotes and snakes -- but his [quote] "weapon" was an ancient, 22-caliber shooting-gallery gun his grandfather had given him. Not exactly a threat to four Marines. Indeed, when they killed him with a blast from an M-16, he was 230 yards away from them, he received no warning and the autopsy shows that he was turned away from the patrol, not facing them in a firing position. What we have here is not merely a personal tragedy, but an infuriating example of a grossly-wasteful, misdirected and monstrous "drug war" that essentially is making criminals out of innocents and now has murdered an 18-year old goat herder outside of his own home. After Zeke's death, his younger brother tore down that Marine poster and ripped it to bits. But it's not the fault of that four Marine patrol -- the fault is in George Bush and other politicians who militarized this sorry "war" -- and put the Marines where they don't belong. metroactive.com First you call it "one shot - one kill" then you call it an "accident"? Did those armed jerks need to be 400 yard for their home? OK, next you will defend the killing of Randy Weavers wife?