Okay, this is the second incident in maybe 11 days of the PTB striking out at me through the media (Tampa Tribune LIES printed daily) (it's a lil warning to shut up, perhaps?) .... anyway, I timestamp and document all of my legal work so I can 'prove' that the long, useless Tribune article pertaining to code enforcement was drummed up in response to my work towards going in front of City Council and having a few words with the city at large. No hope for most of the City Council and when did they and the County Commissioners become so many ministers? !!! TAMPA THE NEXT GREAT MINISTRY !!!! (My apologies to the city and county council and commission members who are actually a voice for the city and you know who you are) .... Oh, and whenever I want to go have a word I have several subjects I'm likely to expound on.....
You MUST remember my post from yesterday concerning the shooting in Tampa and how it was covered up and hushed ... (still no update on this by the way) And, you all know that I am posting under the name Vox Populi which most probably know translates to "Voice of the People". At any rate, here is the Tampa Tribune top article in the Metro section today ......
(maybe this will look familiar? HAHA)
Voice Of The People (i'm sure the link won't be good for long)
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By CHRIS ECHEGARAY The Tampa Tribune (i'm sure if mr. echegaray was contacted he would claim he has worked on this piece for weeks)
Published: Jan 10, 2007
(OH, and you'll notice they mention the police on down there; another vague threat once you get used to the way they frame their threats)
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TAMPA - DJs Everardo "El Tigere" Lopez and Victor "El Peligroso" Ramirez - Tiger and Dangerous - start out running a typical zany morning show. They tease a caller about having smelly feet and athlete's foot, and Ramirez throws on laugh tracks.
In an instant, the mood turns stern.
"Don't drive without licenses," Lopez tells his listeners. "Take public transportation. You can even ride your bicycle to the bus stop and place it at the front of the bus."
It's early Monday morning at La Ley 760 AM, a Tampa Spanish-language radio station whose name means "the law." The disc jockeys know who's tuning in - some of them illegal immigrants who aren't allowed driver's licenses but decide to drive uninsured, unregistered cars anyway.
Numbers of such stations are growing and, in this region, increasingly becoming the main platform where the immigrant community debates the issues and gets vital information. Nationwide, Clear Channel converted 20 stations to the Spanish-language format in a two-year span.
Last year, U.S. Spanish-language radio stations spurred conversation on immigration reform and spread the word on "Day Without an Immigrant" marches that drew millions.
In Hillsborough County, listeners of Mega Communication's La Ley and three other Spanish-language stations are more than 64,000 Mexicans, Guatemalans, Costa Ricans and Hondurans, according to 2005 census figures. That's not counting migrants typically unreached by census workers.
DJs Lopez and Ramirez are Mexican and often serve as counselors and confidants to their callers - and it doesn't cost anything to listen.
For instance, in October, Lopez and the audience urged a woman who was scammed out of $5,000 to report it to police. She did.
"I wasn't going to report it," station caller Melida Roa said. "I was afraid, but they were so adamant about it that I did. I wouldn't have the courage to do it if not for the radio."
The scammers weren't found - but at least others might not fall victim. It was the right thing to do, Roa said they convinced her.
In November, a caller described sneaking through the desert in Arizona and hurting his toe on a cactus. His toe was infected, and he went to a Tampa Bay area hospital.
The caller said doctors amputated his toe in the emergency room and showed him the door. Days later, the problems reappeared. Lopez confirmed the man's story and lined up medical help through the Mexican Consulate.
"You do get some prank calls and fraudulent people," Lopez said. "But this was real. It's one of those things that people know to call us. We try to help if we can."
On Monday, listeners called from Plant City and Dade City, from strawberry fields and from a carwash to chime in and offer shout-outs to friends and family.
"How many days a week do you work?" Ramirez asks the man working at the carwash.
"Every day," the man says.
With a growing Mexican and Central American population in Hillsborough County, La Ley was poised for success, former owner Alfredo Alonso said. The signal reaches from Sarasota to Gainesville.
New York-based Alonso is senior vice president of Hispanic radio for Clear Channel.
"The immigration push came from the West Coast, and it was more of a Mexican phenomenon," he said. "Florida has a Caribbean-heavy population, but you see the change in Tampa with a lot of Mexicans."
Most immigrants get their information from radio because it carries local news they can identify with, Alonso said.
"There's not too many media outlets the newly arrived immigrant can go to," he said. "So they go to local radio for local content opposed to the national news the major [Spanish-language] TV networks have. This allows them to get a local perspective."
Alonso was part of the English-to-Spanish conversion at Clear Channel. The company has 40 Spanish-language stations. "Advertisers realize they have to cater to" a growing number of Spanish speakers, he said.
Brenda Canino, the Tampa Police Department's Hispanic liaison, uses La Ley and the other Spanish stations to talk about issues of domestic violence, recourses available if employers cheat listeners, and child and family safety.
"These stations are very important because we can educate them on Florida laws," Canino said. "The station also refers listeners with problems to me."
The radio station is where the police department and the immigrant population talk without an adversarial relationship, Canino said.
"They have to go somewhere they can trust," she said. "The radio station is very community-oriented. Everyone calls them."
Reporter Chris Echegaray can be reached at (813) 259-7920 or cechegaray@tampatrib.com.
(for the record, I only read the Tampa Trib (LIES printed daily) in self-defense and that is widely known.)
Also, when I told the boyfriend that they were firing a warning shot he reminded me that Charles Manson thought the Beatles were talking to him through their albums, backwards or not I'm not sure... (before my time) ROFLMFAO!!! Okay, everyone knows that's true, right? HA!! In the past two years this is about the 20th documented incident of some strikes coming out in the Tampa Tribune pertaining to my work. (yeah yeah I got the goods on it but why bother? Time-consuming) And boring. I save it all because the search function on the Tampa Tribune is without a doubt disabled for any type of real function.
If only they could make themselves aware that sometimes I plan to go before City Council and then decide to save the ammo and sometimes I just decide to squash it but NEVER will I be intimidated into not going before City Council. Hell, I would be PROUD to be arrested in City Council for talking too long (what's this THREE MINUTE BULLSHIT???) and was proud to meet Terry Neal who has been arrested at City Council for continuing to speak after being told to stand down. And I am beside myself with JOY that Charlie Miranda is running for City Council but believe he should be running for Mayor. COME ON Charlie, run for Mayor !!! As well, I hope Joe Redner never gives up although I am deeply troubled by his new friendship with Randy White and the never-ending church of no walls. Okay, since Tammy Faye and what's his name I have been mighty suspicious of any ministerial types living VERY VERY WELL (BAYSHORE!!!!) while their flock is mostly destitute or transplants.
The bad thing about talking about this is that I will be crushed when they don't talk to me in the newspaper anymore. It's been a source of amusement for a couple years now. I guess I will have to go to the thrift stores and find some albums that formerly belonged to some old Tampa resident and play them backwards, in lieu of having the newspaper talk to me.
This is scary behavior but I'll tell you what's worse: Sick behavior. I got in my personal vehicle this morning which will have to go to my mechanice AGAIN because one day a couple weeks ago my neighbor had one of his cohorts tamper with it (and then he drove by and gave me one of his big fat scary looks that's meant to say "Get the hell out of here and sell me your house for a few thousand dollars or I will f your car up once a month" (like he's been doing), and so that will be an expense. As well, the car had been sprayed with whatever toxin they use, luckily leaving traces again. Maybe they can burn the car the same way they threatened to burn my house down? It's another story but they have burnt every house we have lived in since we came to Hillsborough County and once I run across the family historian I'll find out about our homes in Hernando. Very very crass behavior. I think they must be prejudiced.
Anyway, please keep talking to me through the Tribune. I really feel your power. Instead of buying a paper, I have devoted my life to caring for other people and loving everyone. I gotta say, "IT DOESN'T SUCK." I have a great life.
And my boyfriend thinks that me and charles manson think alike. Actually, some might take that as a compliment because Charlie is widely known to be a brilliant, (albeit psychotic and insane and a serial killer and all that disgusting stuff; still shudder when I think of what he did)
charismatic man. Anyway, I laughed my ass off at the comparison.
I have a turntable but even when everyone else did it, I was NOT absolutely NOT turning my freaking albums over and playing them backwards. Who had time for that?
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