https://buelahman.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/who-is-cowboy-hero-carlos-arredondo/
We might be reminded that our current secretary of state, John Kerry, first came to our attention receiving an inordinate amount of media attention for a peace activist. Later he would play a leading role in the abandonment by our government of hundreds of POWs. See http://www.dcdave.com/article5/100303.htm. He played a minor supporting role in the cover-up of the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster. See http://www.dcdave.com/article2/990207.html. Most recently, he stood in mute acquiescence as a University of Florida student was tasered for asking him an embarrassing question at a public forum. See http://www.dcdave.com/article5/081019.htm. One must be wary of these over-publicized peace activists. Consider who’s doing the publicizing.
Who Is “Cowboy Hero” Carlos Arredondo?
From Wikipedia: Anti-war activist Carlos Arredondo, photographed by Andy Carvin at the January 27, 2007 Iraq war protests in Washington DC.
My how things change when one puts on a cowboy hat for the TV.
Some argue that he is “the most interesting man in the world”:
This dude has been around the block, has he not? I mean he has been featured in many news articles going back to 2004. He caught himself on fire, for Christ’s sake.
“My husband almost killed himself in grief,” his wife says. “The day [the Marines] came to tell us Alex was dead, he poured gasoline all over himself and all over the inside of [their] car and lit it on fire. He survived … physically.” ~ Mélida Arredondo
He is an anti-war protestor that waves American flags, honoring soldiers (seems like a disconnect of sorts to me). He has ties to Ted Kennedy. He has been featured in videos and numerous articles on the web. Also, illuminated with one sentence from Wikipedia is this nugget:
Arredondo and his wife Melida both spent time as inpatient psychiatric patients.
Just as DC Dave and I pointed out in yesterday’s post about Bruce Mendelshon’s many interviews and seeming hero focus, this guy also has been featured in the same way. And now he is being touted as a hero. But what if he was acting? What if the guy in the wheelchair is a fake? Wouldn’t that make Carlos some sort of fake, as well?
Here is the problem I have with Cowboy’s story. It don’t really add up time-wise, nor by his actions, as James at the Memory Hole Blog explains in this fabulously illuminating post called The Unlikely Antics of Boston’s “Cowboy Hero”:
The photos taken that day of the overall scene and Arredondo’s activities therein suggest that he went about his purported heroic exploits in a much more time-consuming–and perhaps somewhat less noble–fashion.The series of photos suggests how it will be several more minutes before Bauman is taken to the ambulance. Why is it that proper medical personnel in the interim didn’t attend to the grievously wounded man? Perhaps this is nothing a dramatic photo shoot couldn’t take care of.The last photo which shows the timers is where they are being removed (why?). The time shown is 4:14:26 which is close to five minutes after the blast. In this photo Arredondo may be seen bending over where the injured lay, yet he is mostly obscured.Thus in contrast to mainstream media’s account of Arredondo’s heroism, it appears that five minutes transpired before Boston’s Cowboy Hero escorted Bauman to hospital.CCTV video capturing Arredondo’s valorous gallop to the ambulance with Bauman suggests that more than one take may have been necessary to produce the desired shots, including one with an awkward interruption midway through after Bauman unexpectedly lost what is left of his lower appendage.
CCTV video indicates at 3:05 that Arredondo escorted Bauman to the waiting ambulance–over six minutes after the ordnance detonated.
In summary, in spite of there being ample personnel attending to the wounded at the bombing, and despite apparently having both legs blown off, Jeff Bauman was left completely unattended for at least 2 minutes and 20 seconds.Then, after going so long without attention it is not even medical personnel who attend to him. He is instead in the care of a civilian in a cowboy hat who, after several more minutes, puts him in a wheelchair to wheel him to an ambulance. Why didn’t medical personnel take over at some point in time?Why didn’t the ambulances go to the actual scene where the injured lay? If the police vehicles can come and go, then why couldn’t the ambulances?Is Carlos Arredondo really the hero US news media portray him as? Are such news outlets perhaps perpetuating a misconception? Did Arredondo really jump the fence and rush to assist Bauman? Or was this perhaps a contrived scene where Arredondo fulfilled a particular predetermined role? Was the apparently maimed man who would later play a key role in identifying the Tsarnaev brothers as the alleged evil culprits deliberately left unattended for a photo shoot? Why otherwise would Bauman be ignored by everyone including his valiant rescuer for so long?Moreover, why have the major and even certain alternative media failed to forthrightly examine what appears to be an increasingly curious and implausible event?
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