Sunday, July 27, 2008

Remembering A Forgotten Veteran

I guess I'm the only one, huh? Boston Globe certainly doesn't!

I've said it once, I've said it a million times: WE GOT TRILLIONS for occupations and BILLIONS for banks and Israel, and yet we have NOTHING for....

"The homeless man, a 40-year-old US Army veteran, was killed in broad daylight on the Fourth of July, one of the city's busiest holidays, near Faneuil Hall Marketplace, one of its biggest tourist destinations."


Yeah, that we find out ONE WEEK LATER!!!

PFFFFFFTTTT!


Also see:
Drunk Killed in Downtown Boston and Other Unsolved Crimes

"Killing of homeless man leaves questions; Beating on July 4 witnessed by many" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 11, 2008

There are no roadside memorials for Timothy Finch, no flowers, cards or R.I.P. signs.

The homeless man, a 40-year-old US Army veteran, was killed in broad daylight on the Fourth of July, one of the city's busiest holidays, near Faneuil Hall Marketplace, one of its biggest tourist destinations.

Yet Finch's slaying was obscured by the same shadow of anonymity that shrouded his life. Police said that his gruesome beating was witnessed by tourists and other passersby who dismissed it as a run-of-the-mill scuffle between homeless men and that people walked by as he lay dying, thinking he was merely slumped on the sidewalk. One of the initial calls to police was for a drunk man lying on the ground, bleeding.

But we are a COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE -- especially in "liberal" Massachusetts!

Soon after the killing, the scene was cleared, and Fourth of July festivities resumed.

Almost as if Mr. Finch DIDN'T MATTER AT ALL, huh?

And in the days after, it was business as usual at Faneuil Hall, with little reminder that a man had recently been killed there.

Are you PROUD, Massachusetts?!?

And yet the governor can PARTY DOWN and hand out scads of $$$$ to favored friends like at rich Hollywood folk, Wall Street, corporate and lottery favorites!!!!

Also see: Bodies Pile Up While Patrick Tours State

How much scitte are you going to suck before you gag, America?

Several advocates who work with the homeless said they did not know Finch, a veteran with an honorable discharge. He had registered at homeless shelters years ago, and in 2001 he was enrolled in a program at the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, according to the shelter. He returned there in 2005 for emergency overnight shelter.

But he had not returned since, nor had he stayed at other area shelters contacted by the Globe, leaving advocates to wonder if he led a life wandering on city streets.

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Now compare the front-page propaganda you get from the lying, war-promoting, agenda-pushers: Family's hopes for soldier end

Quite a difference in attention and emphasis, huh?

I mean, BOTH were VETERANS!!!

Yeah, I am sick of the Zio-media and their agenda-pushing, thank you.