Thread: MEDIA Blackout on the Vista CA RIOTS!

Friends,

I just did a Google News search on the words Vista Riot

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=u ... earch+News

It appears that at this time, the news about the riots is being contained to California, a few websites, and a newspaper in MO.

We need everyone's help flooding the national media about this. Also, please flood www.DrudgeReport.com with copies of the original articles about the riots.

We need each of you to put your hands on the wheel here and help us push!

Also, please monitor national and local media and let us know when and where you can find this information.

Does everyone understand what this means? The rest of the nation does not know about the riots. If it does not break on tonight's news then clearly there is a Media Blackout on this info.

W

I briefly saw it on Fox News ealy Tuesday morning, and after that I never heard another word about it.
I was hoping Lou Dobbs would mention it, but he didn't.

I'm over on the Drudge sendin it over and over...

Vista is the town next to me (Escondido). Let me do some research on the North County Times and see what I find. Wasn't one of our members at the riot?

saw it on fox last night ( tuesday )

Surreal scene gripped Vista streets Monday night

By: TERI FIGUEROA - Staff Writer

What began as a peaceful day of protests in Vista on Monday morphed into a strange scene, with police shutting down roads as protestors jammed onto street corners. At one point, a main thoroughfare in the city hosted a bizarre sight: about 200 police officers marching down an empty street.

By the end, events treaded into dangerous territory, when the riot-gear clad law officers stared down an unruly rock-throwing crowd.

In the Townsite neighborhood around 9 p.m., the crowd at the corner of West Los Angeles and North Santa Fe hovered around 800 or so. Many were quietly standing along the street corners; a few spilled into closed-off North Santa Fe. Some chanted in Spanish. Others drove slowly around, shouting and holding up flags. Electricity fused the air, and most in the crowd appeared fascinated by the scene.

By 9:30 or so, a few in the crowd moved slightly down the street, in front of a large apartment complex on West Los Angeles.

Traffic there came to a halt as a group of unruly protesters ---- who appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s ---- stopped and partied in the middle of the road, an impromptu happening. Vehicles blocking the intersection parked in a circle. One person crawled up on top of a car and shouted. Another man sprayed a fire extinguisher into the air. Many ran around with large flags.

People and protestors floated in and out of the area down side streets.

By 11 p.m., less than a mile away, law enforcement officers from agencies across the county were lined up on North Santa Fe Drive, at the corner of East Vista Way.

With police dogs and their handlers leading the way on foot, about 35 police and sheriff's cars carrying about 200 officers, followed behind. The walking officers and cars with flashing lights spread out the width of shut-down North Santa Fe during their slow push north up the street.

A handful of protestors followed the parade of police and deputies in alleys parallel to the street, some whistling and calling out jeers.

At one point, the push stopped and a contingent of about two dozen officers turned up a side road to seek out the unruly, who appeared to disperse.

The eerie parade of police then crawled further up North Santa Fe, turning right at West Los Angeles, the site of a massive gathering earlier in the evening that saw about 800 people lining the sidewalks and some spilling into the shut-down street.

But when the rolling armada of cars reached the intersection, the area was mostly clear ---- save for a few people who'd parked in a dirt lot on the northeast corner of the street. One woman, holding an infant, stood outside of her car, videotaping the surreal scene.

The march down West Los Angeles came to an abrupt halt about 11:20 p.m. when officers stopped about 100 yards from the large apartment complex at 300 West Los Angeles, at the corner of Benito Juarez ---- which happened to be site of the earlier impromptu street party.

The geography of the area ---- since the complex runs along a sharp curve on West Los Angeles ---- meant the contingent of officers were staring straight ahead at what appeared from one vantage point to be about 50 people on a knoll inside the gates of the apartment complex.

Sheriff's officials put the number of gathered protesters between 200 and 300, with a few of them throwing rocks. At least one sheriff's patrol car has "a big dent" from a hurled rock, said Lt. Hernando Torres of the Vista substation.

Whatever the number was, the protestors and the police and deputies stood watching each other for long, tense minutes.

Police dogs barked. Protestors whistled. A helicopter roared overhead. And, over a loudspeaker in the rock-dented sheriff's car came a repeated message ---- in English and Spanish ---- warning everyone to go home.

Behind and alongside the officers one West Los Angeles, a few residents peeked out of their windows ---- and a handful ventured outside their doors ---- to watch the stare down.

About 20 minutes into the stand-off, many of the gathered protestors suddenly broke and ran deeper into the complex. Some who stayed remained on the grassy hill inside the fence, staring at the police.

The officers pushed forward.

The crowd thinned a little more.

Two minutes after midnight, about two dozen riot-gear clad officers pushed not far up a driveway into the very darkened complex.

A few minutes later, the officers left the complex. Torres said on Tuesday that the SWAT officers in the driveway encountered about 15 or so people, who quickly dispersed.

By 12:30, with the area quiet and seemingly cleared of protestors, police and deputies regrouped down the road and began to leave in small groups ---- a far less imposing image than their approach.

By 1:30 a.m., Torres said Tuesday, the scene was declared clear of trouble.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/05 ... 5_2_06.txt

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Friends,

I just did a Google News search on the words Vista Riot

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=u ... earch+News

It appears that at this time, the news about the riots is being contained to California, a few websites, and a newspaper in MO.

We need everyone's help flooding the national media about this. Also, please flood www.DrudgeReport.com with copies of the original articles about the riots.

We need each of you to put your hands on the wheel here and help us push!

Also, please monitor national and local media and let us know when and where you can find this information.

Does everyone understand what this means? The rest of the nation does not know about the riots. If it does not break on tonight's news then clearly there is a Media Blackout on this info.

W

I posted a streaming video link that I think Michelle Malkin's site linked to.

Here's the link on ALIPAC. http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-25150-.html

Maybe a link to that video should accompany the e-mail to Drudge, et al.

Yes, we have the articles on our homepage and in our news section, but none of the national newspapers or Associated Press have picked up the story yet.

Our people are putting it on sites and talk radio hosts are talking about it.

That is good news that it was mentioned on Fox. Can you tell us more about what Fox said and on what show and for how long?

Fox does not archive transcripts so we can't spot the news there unless we see it by watching.

W

That video clip is of the smaller altercation at Santa Ana right? Not the Vista clash?

W

I sent this out to nearly 2500 differnet media outlets and no responses yet.

I did a search on the ap new wire

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/s ... sta%20Riot

No results

Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/news/newssearc ... archtype=a
No results found for 'Vista Riots'