Thread: ACTIVISTS CLAIM ILLEGAL in FATAL CRASH was a SCAPEGOAT

What is difficult to know? If the ILLEGAL was not here he could have not KILLED a United States Citizen!!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5621509.html

March 14, 2008, 11:07PM
Motives for quick arrest questioned
Activists say Hispanic driver in fatal crash was a scapegoat


By PEGGY O'HARE
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

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Several civil rights activists on Friday alleged "anti-immigrant hysteria" motivated the quick arrest of a Hispanic truck driver involved in a fatal collision that killed a Harris County sheriff's deputy who was drunk on duty.

And the League of United Latin American Citizens is calling for an independent agency such as the FBI to investigate how the Harris County Sheriff's Office and Harris County District Attorney's Office handled the case.

"We don't feel the sheriff's office and DA's office can do a fair and unbiased investigation on this case," said Francisco B. Rodriguez III, director of LULAC's local office. "They have done minimal work because they thought they had a scapegoat."

The truck driver, Mexican immigrant Jose Jesus Vieyra, 57, remains in the Harris County Jail on a $35,000 bail, charged with criminally negligent homicide. Activists are calling for his bail to be lowered so he can return to work as he prepares to defend himself.

Vieyra was charged less than 24 hours after sheriff's deputy Craig W. Miller crashed his leased Toyota SUV into the rear of Vieyra's box truck on the Katy Freeway service road Feb. 21.

Sheriff's officials initially said Vieyra caused the crash by crossing three lanes of traffic and veering in front of Miller. The sheriff's department has said it is still interviewing witnesses and hasn't completed an accident report.

But test results released Thursday by the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office show Miller, 43, was highly intoxicated when the crash occurred as he drove to an undercover surveillance assignment.

Those findings indicated Miller had a blood-alcohol level between 0.27 and 0.32 — more than three times the legal limit — when he died.

Prosecutors said they have not decided what to do about Vieyra's case, so he remains in jail, where he has been for more than three weeks. If he is released, Vieyra will likely be deported because he overstayed his 2006 visitor visa, authorities said.

Rodriguez charged that the sheriff's office is engaged in a cover-up.

"What we would have liked was a thorough investigation," Rodriguez said. "It's been almost 30 days — yet the sheriff's office has not gone out and interviewed all the people who were in contact with Mr. Miller.

"They didn't extract information from the black box," Rodriguez said, referring to the crash computer in Miller's leased Toyota. "A lot of things fell through the cracks."

The sheriff's office declined to respond to Rodriguez's comments. Sheriff Tommy Thomas, who was absent from a press conference announcing Miller's toxicology results on Thursday, also declined comment Friday.

One immigrants' rights activist said authorities' swift and stern reaction to the Feb. 21 crash was "extreme" and called it typical of incidents involving injuries or death to a law enforcement officer.

Vieyra's high bond and the time he has already spent in jail is "really less about the reality of crime ... and more about catering to the erroneous notion that his undocumented status is equal to him being a criminal," said activist Maria Jimenez of Houston.

And Harris County has an unreasonable practice of setting high bail for undocumented immigrants arrested for crimes because of fears they will abscond before trial, Jimenez said.

Another civil rights activist said Vieyra was charged very quickly.

"This rush to judgment, this anti-immigrant hysteria, it clouds the truth. It really does," said Randall Kallinen, president of the American Rights Association, a civil rights and civil liberties group based in Houston.

The Mexican Consulate in Houston is closely monitoring the case and said Miller's blood-alcohol level changes the situation for Vieyra, said spokeswoman Lolita Parkinson.

Harris County prosecutors may not be so quick to set him free, however. Assistant District Attorney Bill Hawkins said allegations that Miller was drunk don't affect causation in the collision.

Hawkins said he will wait for the sheriff's investigation to conclude before taking the case to a grand jury.

During an interview Thursday, Vieyra was apparently being treated as if he were highly dangerous. Despite being locked behind protective glass, he was shackled at the ankles and had his hands cuffed behind his back unlike other prisoners, who were able to walk freely behind glass in a common room as they spoke with visitors.

That's because Vieyra has been housed in administrative segregation — apart from the jail's general population — for his own safety, said sheriff's office spokesman David Crain. Such a classification is used for all inmates charged in high-profile crimes, including capital murders.

Sheriff's Office policy calls for all such inmates to remain shackled and handcuffed when they receive visitors or are removed from their cells. But sheriff's administrators are now weighing whether to allow deputies the discretion to remove such restraints from inmates who pose no threat to others, Crain said Friday.

Vieyra "is not a threat," Crain said. "He poses no hazard or danger to us. He clearly should have been moved to visitation without the restraints."

Chronicle reporters Brian Rogers and Dane Schiller contributed to this report.

peggy.ohare@chron.com

If he is released, Vieyra will likely be deported because he overstayed his 2006 visitor visa, authorities said.

"Will likely" be deported??????????

How about will most definitely be deported!

The truck driver, Mexican immigrant Jose Jesus Vieyra, 57, remains in the Harris County Jail on a $35,000 bail, charged with criminally negligent homicide. Activists are calling for his bail to be lowered so he can return to work as he prepares to defend himself.

Activists want him freed so he can return to work AS A TRUCK DRIVER???? Does he even have a driver's license?

If he is released, Vieyra will likely be deported because he overstayed his 2006 visitor visa, authorities said.

He is an illegal immigrant, illegally in our country. Is there an ICE detainer on him?

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"This rush to judgment, this anti-immigrant hysteria, it clouds the truth.

"ANTI-IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA" - Is this the newest line they have to fall back on?

Suddenly, everyone who is against 'illegal immigrants' are 'hysterical anti-immigrant" people?

("ANTI-IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA" - Is this the newest line they have to fall back on?)

Our Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors pay Top Dollar to come up with these "lines" for their ILLEGALS and ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS to use while they continue to invade the United States!!

During an interview Thursday, Vieyra was apparently being treated as if he were highly dangerous. Despite being locked behind protective glass, he was shackled at the ankles and had his hands cuffed behind his back unlike other prisoners, who were able to walk freely behind glass in a common room as they spoke with visitors.

Do they think he should be treated better than the two American border patrol agents? I think not.

Either way if the accident was his fault the justice system will handle it, if not he should be deported. If he is a flight risk he should stay in jail until they have the facts.

Several civil rights activists on Friday alleged "anti-immigrant hysteria" motivated the quick arrest of a Hispanic truck driver involved in a fatal collision that killed a Harris County sheriff's deputy who was drunk on duty.

So several civil rights activists are diagnostic physicians?

They should use a dictionary to look up a meaning of a word before using it.

Are they familiar with the diagnosis and meaning of the word paranoia?

Definitions of Hysteria on the Web:

A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power ...
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a psychological disturbance, arising from trauma, that manifests itself in physical impairment, such as paralysis, blindness, deafness, or anesthesia.
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The dog goes crazy, racing blindly and howling before convulsion, once common in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
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A mental disorder which appears on the surface to be a physical symptom. For example, a seeming paralysis which is not based on physical impairment but is a manifestation of mental distress would be called an 'hysterical paralysis'. ...
www.caseman.co.uk/glossary/g-j.html

craze: state of violent mental agitation
excessive or uncontrollable fear
neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Hysteria is a diagnostic label applied to a state of mind, one of unmanageable fear or emotional excesses. The fear is often centered on a body part, most often on an imagined problem with that body part (disease is a common complaint). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria

Definitions of paranoia on the Web:

Suspicion of others that is not based on fact.
www.alzgmc.org/about_alz/glossary.htm

(par-a-noy-a) A mental state that includes unreasonable suspicions of people and situations. A person who is paranoid may be suspicious, hostile, feel very important, or may become extremely sensitive to rejection by others.
www.copingwithmentalillness.com/cope/re ... ssary.aspx

A moment in the real estate process when you needlessly second-guess yourself, asking, "Am I normal?" Ah yes, you are normal.
realestate.aol.com/glossary

a disease-like state, characterized mainly with abnormal suspiciousness and crazy ideas
library.thinkquest.org/C0115926/glosary.htm

America's security blanket
www.belacquajones.com/dictionary.php

a condition characterized by ideas of reference, suspicious thinking, and high levels of anger. In the most extreme forms, paranoia appears as delusions of persecution and/or grandeur. ...
www.asisonline.org/library/glossary/p.xml

Is used by mental health specialists to describe suspiciousness or mistrust that is either highly exaggerated or not warranted at all. Simple suspiciousness is not paranoia – not if it is based on past experience or expectations learned from the experience of others. ...
www.causewayworkcentre.org/resources/glossary.htm

Perpsecutory delusion, and suspiciousness in the elderly often are seen in conjunction with onset and progression of dementia.
www.people.vcu.edu/~swharkin/swhpages/glossary.htm

Symptoms of delusions and impaired contact with reality but without the severe personality disorganization characteristic of schizophrenia.
suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/schizgloss.html

A condition characterized by the gradual development of a delusion
www.snowdenmentalhealth.com/glossary.mgi

is a mental condition in which an individual unjustifiably feels threatened by other people.
www.a2zpsychology.com/psychology_guide/ ... nology.htm

A general term for delusions of persecution, grandeur, or both, found in several pathological conditions. Essentially, a person believes his/her difficulties are intentionally caused by others. It can be produced by large doses of certain drugs, such as cocaine and alcohol.
www.dss.mo.gov/cd/info/cwmanual/section ... ary/pq.htm

a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Paranoia is an excessive anxiety or fear concerning one's own well-being which is considered irrational and excessive, perhaps to the point of being a psychosis. This typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a likely threat, or a belief in a conspiracy theory. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

Since 1992, Paranoia: The Conspiracy & Paranormal Reader has presented alternative views and marginalized theories of the inner workings of the cryptocracy. Subjects include conspiracy theories, parapolitics, alternative history, and the paranormal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia (magazine)

Paranoia is a humorous role-playing game set in a dystopian future similar to 1984, Brazil, Brave New World, the "downunder" civilization of A Boy and His Dog, and especially Logan's Run; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than dark and ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia (role-playing game)

A psychosis characterized by a system of delusions with often include the belief of persecution or grandeur without hallucinations.
depression.about.com/library/glossary/blglossaryindexp.htm

So the IA was forced into driving the truck? Driving without a license is still a crime in the US, no? Doesn't matter who hit who in this case.

He was in an accident, was found to have no license and being in the country illegally...all grounds for deportation.

Vieyra's high bond and the time he has already spent in jail is "really less about the reality of crime ... and more about catering to the erroneous notion that his undocumented status is equal to him being a criminal," said activist Maria Jimenez of Houston.

Well, DUH! No errors about it, he IS a criminal, he ignored an order of deportation from 2006!

The only way we are going to win this thing is too be louder than the opposition!!! Every single one of has to get in their traitorous faces.

Letters to the editor, calls to federal and state Congressmen, repeatedly, go to town hall meetings, post comments to newspapers when the libs are making their cases in articles, hammer the local news stations, etc...

Americans must not whimp out and just whine. When we have illegals beating 3 year olds, it is time to come out of our shells and DEMAND representation.

Think about the 3 year old every time you are hesitant, embarrassed or shy. Take a stand...it could be your child, your cousin, your niece or nephew...