The protests turned violent? The protests turned violent? This has been the line carried through by the media in the U.S. as well: "There is violence in Oaxaca. Violence exists in Oaxaca. The situation is violent."

Sleazy rhetorical device No. 1: remove the agents — the subject and the object — from the sentence. No grammatical subject is inflicting violence on any grammatical object, or recipient of the action in the verb. The violence … simply is, flickering like a flame.

State police moonlighting as death squads murdering striking teachers.

I have seen the pictures, read and cross-referenced diverse reports over a long period of tiime, and it is going to take a lot of due process of law by credible investigators to convince me that this is not precisely the problem here.

The more you avoid trying to show me, with credible evidence, why I have been duped by dangerous terrorists merely masquerading as labor unionists and citizens who support them, whose legal rights are being violated, the more I think you are lying to me again.