Thread: Why did the press ignore murderous rampage just outside

Why did the press ignore murderous rampage just outside nation’s capital?

* March 15th, 2011 12:59 pm ET



On February 10, 2011, Prince William County police arrested Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, 37, after he allegedly went on a shooting and stabbing spree which left three people dead and three others wounded. When he was taken into custody, the Salvadoran national had in his possession, a machete as well as a .38 caliber revolver.

The two separate attacks occurred only a few blocks apart.

The list of victims follows:

The Hood Road attack:

-Brenda Ashcraft, 56, pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds

-William Ashbey Ashcroft, 37, died in route to the hospital

-34-year-old woman, gunshot wound, survived

-15-year-old girl, gunshot wound, survived

The Brent Street location

-Julio Cesar Ulloa, 48, pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wound

-77-year-old unidentified woman, suffered stab wounds, severe lacerations to the head, survived

According to Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen, the suspect was ordered deported in 2002, but was never detained by federal immigration authorities and never left, despite two more arrests after his deportation order.

-On March 13, 2004, Alfaro was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault and battery. He was found guilty and sentenced to 90 days in jail. However, all of the jail time was suspended and he was only ordered to pay $187 in court costs.

-On January 25, 2008, Alfaro was arrested again and charged with drinking alcoholic beverages in a public.

According to court records, he paid a $25 fine and $72 in court costs and never appeared in court for the charge.

Of course, Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro’s next court appearance came on February 11, 2011, when he was arraigned on three counts of first-degree murder.

Those are the facts of the case, now for the pressing question…

After only a brief mention the day after the attacks occurred, this case disappeared completely from newsrooms across the country.

Why would the American press simply ignore a case in which a man running through the streets of a Washington D.C. suburb with a machete and a gun, left innocent victims both dead and severely wounded in his path?

Are the facts considered too gruesome for human consumption?

That explanation does not hold water when you consider that this is the same news media which broadcast from every angle, the image of the dead and dying in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated Haiti last year. Of course, now, that same media complex is scouring the streets of northern Japan to bring into our living rooms, every sickening image of human suffering that nature hath wrought.

Could the story not be important enough?

That explanation also seems ridiculous in light of the 24/7 coverage devoted to the drug-addled actions of actor Charlie Sheen and his never-ending desperate pleas for attention.

So, why has the mainstream news media decided that such a mass and brutal attack should not be examined?

Could it be the fact that the man held responsible for this horrific act is in the country illegally?

Could it be the fact that Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro was ordered deported but simply never left and the federal government never followed through on that order?

Could it be that though this illegal alien who had been slated for deportation was arrested twice more while he was considered an immigration fugitive, and simply released both times?

Could it be the fact that this illegal alien, contrary to what both Presidents Bush and Obama have told us…was not “just here to work?â€

This is the first I heard of this story. If it was a white guy, it would have been front page news. I wish one of the shows like 60 minutes would have the stones to run a story about how many illegals murder people. Sick of shows showing them picking lettuce.

Sick of shows showing them picking lettuce.

I wish they could add up all of the costs associated with illegal aliens and then could be applied to the wages of those who pick lettuce.

I wonder how much lettuce pickers would make if the subsidies and thievery of taxes for social services and law enforcement, and legal counsel eating at the trough, schooling, etc., were included into the wages?

Originally Posted by pattyk

This is the first I heard of this story.

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