Holger Called It Back In August - Mexican Army Murdered American Citizen, Planted Evidence In Coverup

I'm usually a bit above doing the "I told you so" but hell, I told you so! LOL Back in August, I ran this blogpost regarding the murder of an American citizen by the Mexican army and how, in my estimation, this was a murder and a coverup - not a gunfight like the Mexican officials had claimed where American, Joseph Proctor, had first fired upon them with an automatic weapon.

Well, it's been four months since my prediction and now, the Mexican government has admitted to the fact that Joseph Proctor was murdered by Mexican troops and that a "throw down" weapon was placed on Proctor's body - several Mexican troops are under arrest.

First, let me excerpt what I had written back in the August post:

Let's look at the details of the shooting and killing of the American man, Joseph Proctor, on the outskirts of Acapulco, Mexico...from the article at the El Paso Times:


A Mexican soldier said that a U.S. citizen attacked an army convoy and was killed when troops shot him in self-defense outside the resort city of Acapulco, a police official said. The man's father said Monday that he found it hard to believe.
An army lieutenant told police that Joseph Proctor opened fire on a military convoy with an AR-15 rifle, forcing the soldiers to shoot back, said Domingo Olea, a police investigator in the western state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located.

Olea provided no further details on Proctor, who was found dead in his car early Sunday.

A Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the army was investigating the lieutenant's claim. The official said Proctor might have been a passenger in the car, although nobody else was found with him at the scene.

Proctor's father, William Proctor, said he did not know of his son being involved in any illegal activity and did not believe he would have owned a gun or attacked soldiers.

He said Joseph had sometimes complained about being pulled over by Mexican security forces looking for bribes.

"He would get mad when the police pulled him over looking for payoffs," Proctor said.
Okay, now am I crazy here folks or does this little "story" by the Mexican army reek to high heaven? Let me break down this scenario with comments:

1. The Mexican army is renowned for stopping foreigners at check points and shaking them down for bribes and payoffs - Joseph Proctor had a history of vocalizing his objection to these shakedowns.

2. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an American citizen in Mexico, where assault rifles are illegal, sudddenly comes into possession of an AR-15. By the way, the Mexican army uses American-made AR-15's. And it's my guess that if an American citizen actually WANTED to get an illegal assault rifle in Mexico, the only ones for sale would probably be AK-47's.

3. Joseph Proctor decided he was mad at the Mexican army so he decided to fire on an entire military convoy....from his car! That's right, Proctor was killed while in his car. Now I ask you, if you wanted to mow down a bunch of Mexican soldiers with a weapon the length of an assault rifle, would you be sitting in the front seat of your car?

4. There is no history of crime in Joseph Proctor's past and no history of gun ownership.

So, how about we cut through the bullshit afforded us by the Mexican army spokesman and call a spade a spade. Per Holger, here's what happened:

Joseph Proctor found himself stopped at a Mexican army security checkpoint. The soldiers found an "infraction" regarding his papers or his vehicle and they offered to let Proctor go if he were to hand over some compensation. Proctor lost it. He got mad as hell and resisted the shake down. Things got out of control and one of the soldiers responded by firing off several rounds from his AR-15 into the body of Joseph Proctor while he was inside of his car. Knowing that they made a helluva mistake, the Mexican army commander at the scene had a throwdown AR-15 placed in the car with Proctor and a story of his attack was developed.

Now, whether you believe my take on this story or not....WHERE is the bloody coverage of this story? I mean seriously...we have an American citizen dead at the hands of the Mexican army and not only is the State Department nor our Embassy people doing a damn thing to even investigate this, but there is zero coverage of this. Let's put the shoe on the other foot. How about a Mexican citizen with a visa for America is shot and killed by Arizona National Guard troops in Arizona - would that get any coverage? Wouldn't there be an international and Mexican outrage?

Well, since this happened several days ago and the only press it's getting is from a local Texas newspaper and a peon blogger named Holger...I guess we better just move on, huh?

Well, now that I've been proven right...what happens now? I read the story about the new revelation from Google (below) and I don't see a single mention of protest by the American government. I don't see a single reference from Barack Hussein Obama or Eric Holder. Where's the outrage? Where's the call for justice? Where's the call for the execution of the troops involved? How high up did the decision to plant the evidence go? How soon did Mexican President Calderon know the truth?

AP IMPACT: Mexico says its troops killed US man


MEXICO CITY (AP) — Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.

The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.

His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.

His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico's secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.

It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.

Three soldiers have been charged with killing her son. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

It is at least the third case this year in which soldiers, locked in a brutal battle with drug cartels, have been accused of killing innocent civilians and faking evidence in cover-ups.

Such scandals are driving calls for civilian investigators to take over cases that are almost exclusively handled by military prosecutors and judges who rarely convict one of their own.

"I hate the fact that he died alone and in pain an in such an unjust way," Donna Proctor, a Queens court bailiff, said in a telephone interview with the AP. "I want him to be remembered as a hardworking person. He would never pick up a gun and shoot someone."

President Felipe Calderon has proposed a bill that would require civilian investigations in all torture, disappearance and rape cases against the military. But other abuses, including homicides committed by on-duty soldiers, would mostly remain under military jurisdiction. That would include the Proctor case and two others this year in which soldiers were accused of even more elaborate cover-ups.

While privately informing Proctor's family about his case, Defense Department officials have publicly refused to discuss it at all. The day after his death, Guerrero state prosecutors announced to reporters that Proctor was killed after attacking a military convoy.

His mother, angry that she kept reading news reports with that version of the events, has asked Defense Department officials to reveal publicly that soldiers were charged with planting the gun on her son. The department replied, in writing, that it would only do so after the soldiers had been sentenced.

Defense Department spokesman Col. Ricardo Trevilla told the AP to file a freedom of information petition. IT DID but was rebuffed with the explanation that information on the ongoing investigation was "classified as reserved for a period of 12 years."

Proctor's family, meanwhile, still doesn't understand why he was killed.

Donna Proctor said her son hated guns so much that he rejected her suggestion that he follow in her footsteps and become a court bailiff, a job that requires carrying a sidearm.

Instead, he become a construction worker and eventually started his own business in Atlanta, Georgia. Last year, he moved to Mexico's central state of Puebla with his Mexican-born wife and their young son, Giuseppe. The marriage foundered and his wife returned to Georgia.

Proctor stayed behind with his son and eventually met and fell in love with Liliana Gil Vargas, a waitress and mother of four. After a vacation in Barra de Coyuca, the beach town outside of Acapulco, the couple decided to move there. Proctor was saving up top to open a restaurant.

According to the document sent to his mother, the soldiers tried to stop Proctor and inspect his vehicle. They claim he fled, prompting one of the soldiers to shoot at him, hitting his car. The soldiers chased down the car and fired again, "wounding the driver who nonetheless continued to drive away, fleeing, crashing the car three kilometers down that road," the document said.

A superior officer in the patrol told the battalion commander what happened. The battalion commander sent another officer to the scene with the AR-15 rifle "in order to be placed in the vehicle, using the hands of the deceased to try to simulate an attack against military personnel," the document says.

For the family, there are many unanswered questions. Did Proctor really flee? Why would he have refused to stop?

Donna Proctor said he complained about being shaken down by Mexican police and soldiers but also spoke of being friendly with soldiers on the base near the home he was building in Barra de Coyuca.

"He was 32. He loved life. He loved his son and he wanted to work hard to give him something," she said.

Donna Proctor said Mexican Defense Department officials visited her recently in Long Island and compensated her for the cost of flying her son back to the U.S. and the funeral. She said she told them she wanted justice — and for the world to know what really happened.

"I told them I had no intention of this being the end of it," she said.