Saturday, August 25, 2007
Another Sac Bee Columnist Is Judgment Challenged

Sac Bee columnist Marcos Breton wrote a real whopper last Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - a whopper full of irrational emotion usually found in only in unstable teenage girls, ACLU lawyers and "Progressives."

Breton wrote about Jose Eduardo Moran-Marques, the illegal alien being after indictment by the grand Jury, and for further investigation into the trestle fire March 15th. Moran-Marques deliberately lied to police, giving a false name and birthdate and was indicted last week. While he hasn't been named a "person of interest," the police are obviously interested in this lying, criminal of an illegal alien who has been deported 10 times, always to return to his American life of crime.

Where Breton goes so wrong in his opinion column is when he mocks the feds for indicting Moran-Marques for lying, saying that "Maybe next he'll get indicted for being short." What a stupid thing to say. Moran-Marques has a rap sheet as long as my legs. He's more than a "nuisance" as Breton tries to imply; Moran-Marques is a bad dude who should be locked away in an American prison, since he seems to love being in America so much.

Breton unsuccessfully tries to make this look like a racial profiling case, mistaking the police and fed interest in Moran-Marques because he is an Hispanic.

Yes, he's only been deported 10 times, so I guess we all know he's here illegally, which is a problem. And that he is here illegally and continues to commit crimes is another problem Mr. Breton.

(KCRA.com) Investigators believe the Trestle fire was started with the use of an accelerant, but the fire burned too hot for any other forensic evidence. Witnesses led the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to Jose Eduardo Moran-Marques, a national from El Salvador. Originally arrested as a vagrant, federal authorities have charged Marques with lying to investigators about his whereabouts during the time of the fire.

Officers said Marques has a history with run-ins with park rangers and the law -- six times this year -- in connection with illegal camping, drugs and having his dog off its leash.

A witness told investigators that because Marques was angry about being constantly pushed out of this area, he set the fire in retaliation.

IN addition to making false statements to police and federal agents, Moran-Marques, has six aliases and has provided authorities with at least two birth dates, was arrested in February in Sacramento County on a misdemeanor drug possession charge, according to court and jail records.

His criminal history in Sacramento includes three separate drunken driving charges to which he pleaded no contest in 2005, resulting in just over a year in prison and five years of probation, court records show.

Tell me again Mr. Breton why you are defending this guy? Lying, arson, multiple aliases, drunk driving, drugs, homelessness, illegal camping... he's a real stand up guy.

Mr. Breton is letting his emotion take over any common sense he may have. Or perhaps he is falling prey to a cultural phenom... either way, stick to the facts, then draw conclusions.

It's okay to trust, but at least verify. That's pretty basic stuff for such an experienced journalist.

posted by fetching jen @ 2:12 PM

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