Posted by Jack
I’ve been doing a little research on a net rumor that says UPS may be working with the US government to bring in refugees by stealth under the cover of night. A number of small websites are carrying the story, but none are the big mainstream sites are and I can’t find any credible proof to support the story. However, I did find a response from the site called, Truth or Fiction. From what I have read I’m going to say this story is still inconclusive. There has to be more if this is true. This is a huge story, if true, so I am sure that we’ll get cooberating info within a week or so. If not, every day that passes says it was probably not what the authors believed it was.
Summary of eRumor:
A viral video claims that UPS brought refugees into the country on a cargo flight that landed in Pennsylvania.
The Truth:
Rumors that UPS snuck refugees into the country on a cargo flight that landed in Pennsylvania are false.
That rumor started with a three-minute video posted on Facebook. The video begins by showing the back of a charter bus on a highway at night. A man following behind and narrating the video says that a number of charter buses lined up outside a UPS parcel flight at Harrisburg International Airport and loaded up passengers:
“These buses, there about 30 of them, were lined up on the outside of a UPS flight out of Harrisburg International Airport. That is a parcel flight. Why are hundreds of people being snuck in on a UPS flight? This is no lie. We caught them red handed,” the narrator says.
The video had more than 131,000 views 10 days after it was posted on November 9, 2015. After the terrorist attacks on Paris and public debate on admitting Syrian refugees into the U.S. that followed, the video quickly went viral. Other versions also popped up on YouTube claiming that busloads of refugees had been brought into Pennsylvania on a UPS cargo flight.
A UPS spokesperson told TruthorFiction.com that the rumor is “erroneous.”
“UPS is a cargo airline and has not been involved in passenger flights of any kind into or out of Harrisburg. Suggestions to the contrary are based on misinformation,” Susan Rosenberg, UPS public relations director, told us.
The video doesn’t provide any hard evidence or proof to contradict UPS’s claim, either. After all, it only shows is the back of a charter bus driving on a highway at night. The narrator claims that buses were parked beside a UPS cargo flight, but there’s no video (or proof) that that actually happened. The narrator also says there were “about 30” charter buses driving down the road, but only one or two buses are visible in the video. Also, the numbers don’t seem to check out: there couldn’t be enough people on one cargo flight to fill up 30 charter buses.
Also, the way that UPS uses Harrisburg International Airport in the normal course of business doesn’t jive with the video’s claims. We confirmed that UPS does in fact use Harrisburg International Airport on a regular basis — but we quickly learned that international flights rarely (if ever) fly directly into Harrisburg International Airport from outside the country.
UPS moves about 22,800 tons of cargo through the airport each year. Because there are many warehouses and manufacturers in the region, the vast majority of cargo is outbound rather than inbound. Most often, UPS flies cargo into Harrisburg from airports in Williamsport and Scranton. Then, it’s combined with cargo brought in on trucks, and UPS flights depart from Harrisburg to Worldport, the company’s main air hub, in Louisville, according to Harrisburg International Airport.
So, in the normal course of business, international UPS flights don’t fly directly into Harrisburg International Airport from outside the country. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen, or hasn’t happened.
We’re classifying claims that UPS brought refugees into the country on a cargo plane as fiction. First, the company has directly denied that claim. Second, the viral video shows no proof, other than the back of a nondescript charter bus. Third, it appears that the vast majority of UPS flights fly into Harrisburg from other parts of Pennsylvania (not outside the country), and then depart for Louisville.
There is absolutely NOTHING that I wouldn’t put past the Obumble admin to get their way. Da prez has already flouted many of our laws, even attempting to write laws without benefit of Clowngress.
And, since $hrilLIARy is slipping in the polls, I expect the next big push by the Demwits will be to have as much voter fraud in place as possible before the November election.
Hello, States??? Get your Voter Photo ID plans in place for the upcoming election ASAP!
Remember Soros funded a group to take over State’s Sec. of State positions.
Soros and liberal groups seeking top election posts in battleground states:
“A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier George Soros has quietly helped elect 11 reform-minded progressive Democrats as secretaries of state to oversee the election process in battleground states and keep Republican “political operatives from deciding who can vote and how those votes are counted.”
Known as the Secretary of State Project (SOSP), the organization was formed by liberal activists in 2006 to put Democrats in charge of state election offices, where key decisions often are made in close races on which ballots are counted and which are not.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/23/section-527-works-to-seat-liberals-as-election-ove/?page=all
I remember that, in fact I think we either posted an article or it showed up in comments. You know this is what the left counts on, that the people won’t remember and through slick ads and pretty comforting words they can fool themselves into office. They’ve been pretty successful too! Thanks for the reminder.
I’m sorry, but this is pathetic. Canada has pledged to take 30,000; we are only taking ten. And here you are carrying on like ten will subvert the republic.
Pathetic. Also chicken-shit craven. Are you truly so truly gutless?
Only takes a couple of bad apples to ruin the entire barrel . . . . .
So how may “refugees” have you volunteered to have move in with you, Libby?
That’s just Libby attempting to change the subject. Is it fear of terrorists that animate such stories …or frustration and anger that the problem exists at all due to bad, very bad, management of the war? Libby assumes its the former so she can avoid the reality.
I did a quick search and found this site carrying the same story and asking the same question, “Is UPS sneaking in refugees?”
But it wasn’t the story that interested me, it was one of the comments —
Bill Sanders • 20 days ago
Islamic terror is a creation of the global elite. Anyone vilifying Islam or the West is playing right into their hands. Western civilization didn’t’ bomb Iraq and form Isis – the globalists did. They are not Western civilization. They are the antithesis of it. “Radical Islam,” similarly, is not Islam. They constructed these groups, armed them, manipulated them, and now are using them to cover the other part of their machinations…
I also visited the site this guy links to. Bill Sanders has opened my eyes to exactly where Libby, Dewey, Chris, and a large part of the anti-global-economics, anti-trade, anti-business, anti-capitalism left are coming from. Islamic terrorism is all part and parcel of the malicious machinations of the Illuminati and the global elite.
The Culling of the Goyim, Part WW3
You can find similarly whacky comments in any Breitbart or WND thread, Pie. I don’t judge you for half the commenters on Atlas Shrugged on any given day saying we should blow up the entire Middle East, so I’m not sure why you’re judging me for this.
On one hand, I admire the fact that you’re debunking absurd conspiracy theories rather than spreading them, but on the other hand, this is kind of like saying “We’ve looked into it and found nothing, but we’ll keep you updated if anything changes on the whole Chupacabra thing.”
Jack, given todays climate of information that Government keeps from the people or try’s to explain with trial balloon stories when exposed, coupled with todays problems and the increasing need of people being alert and starting to report, this was a interesting post.
I even read (and cannot relocate) a statement stating this was totally misinterpreted, and offered another explanation. And now that I cannot find that statement again, I wonder if someone even said it or spoke out below their pay grade without approval?
However this story plays out, false, true , even if its conscripted from misinterpretation, even misdirection from conspiracy minded types, thanks for posting it, investigation into this type of scenario is what this administration hates to see published, especially when covertly knowing of it. Fast and Furious comes to mind.
But causing distrust and bringing the consequences on themselves seems what this administrations legacy is all about.
Found it: plus a video from Christy on Refugee relocation in NJ
http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/no_refugees_are_not_secretly_l.html