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To: LindyBill who wrote (374809)	7/25/2010 6:11:59 AM
From: Tom Clarke	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794327

From the comment thread at Confederate Yankee >>Not so fast. Maybe yes, maybe no. I actually DID speak to the Webb County Sheriff's and they would not confirm or deny that any ranches had been seized. They pleaded agnosticism. I just spoke to Kimberly Dvorak who I know and has been a source on ACORN and other stories for Breitbart's sites. Kimberly wrote this article on the situation this morning: is.gd Kimberly is adamantly standing by her story, and gave me the name of one of her three sources inside the Laredo Police Department and Webb County Sheriff's Department she says not only confirmed the story of the ranches being seized, but elaborated in great detail what was happening. She also has other sources on the ground, non-law enforcement. She is mid-stream in developing and further reporting the whole story, and she has reason reason to believe that law enforcement is in mid-operation on the ranches, and do not want their operation interrupted with publicity before they are finished. Given the shootout that occurred on the 22nd, it would also make some sense that the ranches were simply "seized" by retreating Zeta gunman. Kimberly has a very long record as a very credible journalist, with established sources inside the Mexican cartels themselves. I have no idea what quite is or isn't going on here, but I say let's give ol' Kim the hours ahead to track all this, and flesh it out, one way or the other. She's asked for the rope, and I'm giving it to her. As someone else likes to say: Developing... >>From someone near the scene, who knows Kim Dvorak and is monitoring the situation: "RE: Laredo: I just spoke to Kimberly Dvorak who has been a source on ACORN stories for Breitbart, and wrote this article: is.gd. Kimberly is adamantly standing by her story, and gave me the name of one of her three sources inside the PD/Sherrif’s Dept., two of whom…she says not only confirmed the story of the ranches being seized, but elaborated in great detail what was happening. She also has other sources on the ground, non-law enforcement. She is mid-stream in developing and further reporting the whole story, and she has.. reason to believe that law enforcement is in mid-operation on the ranches, and do not want their operation interrupted with publicity before (23 minutes ago via web) patriotresistance.com Furthermore, Breitbart is confirming: bigpeace.com Additional details, with a classic "we can neither confirm or deny" twist are here: deathby1000papercuts.com confederateyankee.mu.nu

To: LindyBill who wrote (374809)	7/26/2010 12:22:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794327

Lindy, some things, such as Saddam's WMDs ready to launch in 45 minutes, and the invasion of Laredo and the Time magazine big story years ago about Moscow's male child prostitution are obviously fakes yet they induce the credulous to believe. The common factor seems to be the "wanting to believe". That's how con men conduct their operations. It's amazing what a large proportion of the population can be induced, willingly, enthusiastically, determinedly, to march goose-stepping around the place, join Jim Jones in Guyana or David Koresh in Waco, or Heaven's Gate ready to fly to Hale Bopp, or bow to Mecca like sardines in a can all neatly lined up, or Rome, or Washington, or Helengrad, and generally fall for the swindles and cons of the world. The Laredo invasion just didn't make sense. Things have to fit with human nature to be true; human nature and physics, chemistry, mathematics, and the four forces of the apocalypse. How the world actually works, not how some people might want it to work. That leaves plenty of room for very weird and statistically absurdly improbable to happen. Mqurice