Showing posts with label Massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massacre. Show all posts
Saturday, March 23, 2019
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
FBI closes Las Vegas shooting case without discovering motive
By World Tribune on January 30, 2019
by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2019
The FBI on Jan. 29 reported that it ended its investigation into the Oct. 1, 2017 Las Vegas massacre and, after 16 months of investigating, could not determine a motive for the attack which left 58 people dead and hundreds wounded.
FBI special agent in charge Aaron Rouse said, “It wasn’t about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue. It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.”
But no specific motive was given for the massacre carried out by Stephen Paddock from his room in the Mandalay Bay hotel.
Related: Statement by Las Vegas policeman cites multiple active shooters on Oct. 1, 2017, Dec. 31, 2018
Paddock was not directed or inspired by any group and was not seeking to further any agenda, according to a report compiled by the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). He did not leave a manifesto or suicide note, and federal agents believe he had planned to fatally shoot himself after the attack, according to the report.
Paddock’s physical and mental health was declining, the 64-year-old’s wealth had diminished, and he struggled with aging, the report said.
The BAU’s report also said that Paddock was inspired in part by his father’s reputation as a bank robber who was once on the FBI’s most wanted list.
He was similar to other active shooters the FBI has studied – motivated by a complex merging of development issues, stress and interpersonal relationships, the report said.
His “decision to murder people while they were being entertained was consistent with his personality,” the report said.
“This report comes as close to understanding the why as we’re ever going to get,” Rouse said.
Las Vegas police closed their investigation into the shooting in August 2018.
Police characterized Paddock as a loner with no religious or political affiliations who began stockpiling weapons about a year before the attack, according to a report by The Associated Press. He spent more than $1.5 million in the two years before the shooting and distanced himself from his girlfriend and family.
Paddock sent his girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to visit her family in the Philippines two weeks before the attack and wired her $150,000 while she was there. Danley, a former casino worker in Reno, returned to the U.S. after the shooting and told authorities that Paddock had complained that he was sick and that doctors told him he had a “chemical imbalance” and could not cure him.
Danley, who is Catholic, told investigators that Paddock often told her, “Your God doesn’t love me.”
A Reno car salesman told police that in the months before the shooting Paddock told him he was depressed and had relationship troubles. Paddock’s doctor offered him antidepressants, but told investigators that Paddock would only accept a prescription for anxiety medication.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Jonestown massacre: Why the phrase ‘drink the Kool-Aid’ hurts this cult survivor
She escaped the worst murder-suicide in US history, but one thing still haunts this survivor, even 40 years later.
Emma Reynolds@emmareyn news.com.au
November 17, 20189:26pm
Jonestown, anniversary of a massacre
After she escaped the cult, Deborah Layton wanted to get as far from her past as possible, terrified of being labelled the “Jonestown girl” or “Kool-Aid kid”.
She was the one who warned US authorities they needed to save the People’s Temple church members awaiting death in a remote jungle clearing in South America.
Her testimony was the impetus for Californian Congressman Leo Ryan to lead an investigations party to the Jonestown camp in Guyana, South America — an arrival that triggered a mass murder-suicide that left 913 people dead. That was November 18, 1978, but the images of bodies strewn around the community are still as vivid 40 years on.
But Deborah hates how the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” has become a euphemism for unquestioning obedience, after Reverend Jim Jones’s followers downed lethal cocktails of grape-flavoured Flavor-Aid, potassium cyanide, Valium and Phenergan at their leader’s command.
The horrifying images of dead bodies strewn around the compound of the People’s Temple cult in Jonestown, after 913 people drank cyanide-laced grape juice at Reverend Jim Jones’s order. Picture: David Hume Kennerly/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Wounded guard in Vegas shooting staying in hotel for free
Associated Press
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press
9 hrs ago
© The Associated Press FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, personal belongings and debris litters the Route 91 Harvest festival grounds across the street from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas. The upcoming Las Vegas…
LAS VEGAS — The corporate owner of the Las Vegas hotel where a gunman unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history is giving a free hotel room at one of its properties to a hotel security guard who is expected to be a key witness in lawsuits against the company, officials said Friday.
MGM Resorts International is concerned about the safety and well-being of Jesus Campos, 25, an employee on paid leave while he recovers from a leg wound received in a hotel hallway during the Oct. 1 massacre, company executive Alan Feldman said.
Fifty-eight people were killed at nearly 550 were injured when authorities say Stephen Paddock rained gunfire from the windows of a 32nd-floor hotel suite into a crowd of country music concertgoers.
A Houston-based lawyer suing MGM Resorts and other defendants on behalf of a California woman who was wounded in the shooting called the arrangement odd and said he believes the hotel company is trying to control Campos.
"I really think it's about not allowing reporters and lawyers and investigators to get to him," attorney Mo Aziz told The Associated Press. "I think they want to make sure he doesn't make any statement that could really become problematic. And the reason they put him up on their property is so that they'll know at all times where he is and who's talking with him."
Feldman said "a very unusual circumstance" arose when police and a union official identified Campos as a hero whose arrival in a hotel hallway unwittingly stopped the shooting.
"When his name became public, Jesus was inundated with media coming to his home," Feldman said. "Out of concern for our employee's well-being and privacy, we provided a room for him."
Campos' lawyer, Frank Flansburg III, said Campos and his family experienced "extensive and intrusive media attention."
Police said the wounded Campos remained at the Mandalay Bay in the immediate minutes after the shooting, and provided his account of what happened to investigators while he was being treated at a hospital.
Campos made no public appearances after his hospital release, and at the last minute canceled a scheduled live interview Oct. 5 with Fox TV's Sean Hannity and taped interviews with other networks.
The following week, Campos and Stephen Schuck, a hotel engineer who escaped injury when bullets whizzed down the hallway, taped an interview with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. It aired Oct. 11.
Flansburg, who said Campos is not agreeing to more interviews, confirmed that the weekend after the shooting, Campos traveled on a pre-planned trip to visit family members in Mexico.
Campos is a U.S. citizen who was born in the Southern California town of Paramount, his lawyer said.
MGM Resorts has 11 hotel properties in the Las Vegas area. Flansburg declined to say where Campos has been staying.
He said Campos "accepted and appreciated" the MGM Resorts offer of lodging for his "privacy and protection."
LAS VEGAS — The corporate owner of the Las Vegas hotel where a gunman unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history is giving a free hotel room at one of its properties to a hotel security guard who is expected to be a key witness in lawsuits against the company, officials said Friday.
MGM Resorts International is concerned about the safety and well-being of Jesus Campos, 25, an employee on paid leave while he recovers from a leg wound received in a hotel hallway during the Oct. 1 massacre, company executive Alan Feldman said.
Fifty-eight people were killed at nearly 550 were injured when authorities say Stephen Paddock rained gunfire from the windows of a 32nd-floor hotel suite into a crowd of country music concertgoers.
A Houston-based lawyer suing MGM Resorts and other defendants on behalf of a California woman who was wounded in the shooting called the arrangement odd and said he believes the hotel company is trying to control Campos.
"I really think it's about not allowing reporters and lawyers and investigators to get to him," attorney Mo Aziz told The Associated Press. "I think they want to make sure he doesn't make any statement that could really become problematic. And the reason they put him up on their property is so that they'll know at all times where he is and who's talking with him."
Feldman said "a very unusual circumstance" arose when police and a union official identified Campos as a hero whose arrival in a hotel hallway unwittingly stopped the shooting.
"When his name became public, Jesus was inundated with media coming to his home," Feldman said. "Out of concern for our employee's well-being and privacy, we provided a room for him."
Campos' lawyer, Frank Flansburg III, said Campos and his family experienced "extensive and intrusive media attention."
Police said the wounded Campos remained at the Mandalay Bay in the immediate minutes after the shooting, and provided his account of what happened to investigators while he was being treated at a hospital.
Campos made no public appearances after his hospital release, and at the last minute canceled a scheduled live interview Oct. 5 with Fox TV's Sean Hannity and taped interviews with other networks.
The following week, Campos and Stephen Schuck, a hotel engineer who escaped injury when bullets whizzed down the hallway, taped an interview with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. It aired Oct. 11.
Flansburg, who said Campos is not agreeing to more interviews, confirmed that the weekend after the shooting, Campos traveled on a pre-planned trip to visit family members in Mexico.
Campos is a U.S. citizen who was born in the Southern California town of Paramount, his lawyer said.
MGM Resorts has 11 hotel properties in the Las Vegas area. Flansburg declined to say where Campos has been staying.
He said Campos "accepted and appreciated" the MGM Resorts offer of lodging for his "privacy and protection."
Sunday, October 08, 2017
Foreign Affairs Mag Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media
by Tyler Durden
Oct 8, 2017 10:21 AM
Submitted by Mike Miles, journalist, writer and book author
Foreign Affairs Magazine Advances Domestic Terrorism To Remove Alternative Media
Is Foreign Affairs magazine advancing “domestic terrorism” because it could help remove alternative media, and even jail editors and writers or worse. The recent article is entitled “Should We Treat Domestic Terrorists the Way We Treat ISIS? What Works—and What Doesn't.” It begins as follows:
The mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday night has again raised fears about terrorism. There’s much we don’t yet know. The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed the attack, but the FBI claims that there is no international terrorism link. The attacker, Stephen Paddock, was 64 years old and white, fitting a stereotype of a right-wing terrorist more than a jihadist one. And he may just be a crazy nut. But regardless of Paddock’s particular pathology, the situation highlights how the United States treats similar forms of violence differently depending on the nature of the perpetrator.
Many commentators have already demanded that we make a case for domestic terrorism including such prominent Youtubers as Philip DeFranco. He runs a website of some six million and offers mildly libertarian commentary. But perhaps he doesn’t understand that he may eventually become a victim of what he wants to invoke. There are many such well-meaning people who quite possibly misunderstand what is happening
How about PropOrNot? This outfit lists around websites “friendly” to Russia and in total includes many of the major alternative websites in the country. Those who run the website say they believe these sites provide propaganda for Russia.
A recent reading of PropOrNot seems to reveal that the site may have reduced some of the finger-pointing. It says that it does not “censor.” However it continues to list websites nonetheless. The Washington Post drew information from PropOrNot long ago when it was trying to paint alternative websites as Russian sympathizers.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
University moves to fire professor who says Sandy Hook massacre is a hoax — and allegedly harassed parents of victims
By Susan Svrluga
December 17 at 1:23 PM
Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday moved to fire a professor who outraged many by calling the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School an elaborate hoax.
James Tracy, an associate professor at the university, has written that although the news media reported that 26 people died in a mass shooting at the school in Newtown, Conn., the incident was staged.
[After Newtown shooting, parents enter the lonely quiet]
Last week, the parents of of one child, Lenny and Veronique Pozner, wrote an opinion piece in the Sun-Sentinel that began: “It’s been three years since we last embraced our precious little boy, Noah. At six-years-old, he was the youngest child murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School….
“The heartache of burying a child is a sorrow we would not wish upon anyone. Yet to our horror, we have found that there are some in this society who lack empathy for the suffering of others. Among them are the conspiracy theorists that deny our tragedy was real. They seek us out and accuse us of being government agents who are faking our grief and lying about our loss.”
Among the conspiracy theorists — and they mention Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “rantings on the Alex Jones radio show” — one who got widespread attention was Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy.
“Tracy even sent us a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived, that we were his parents, and that we were the rightful owner of his photographic image. We found this so outrageous and unsettling that we filed a police report for harassment. Once Tracy realized we would not respond, he subjected us to ridicule and contempt on his blog, boasting to his readers that the “unfulfilled request” was “noteworthy” because we had used copyright claims to “thwart continued research of the Sandy Hook massacre event.”
[False flags, true believers and trolls: Understanding conspiracy theories after tragedies]
They noted that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech but does not ensure someone a job, and called on the university to do the right thing.
Tracy wrote in an email that he is not able to comment publicly about the matter at this time.
On the “Hoax at Sandy Hook” Facebook page, a post apparently written by him several days after the op-ed piece ran defended his assertions that no one died at the elementary school that day, that the event was a staged drill, that “local co-conspirators” benefited financially by faking grief, and that the Pozners were trying to intimidate his employer into firing him for his extensive research.
The post quoted the Pozners as writing:
“The FAU Academic Affairs Faculty Handbook clearly states that ‘A faculty member’s activities which fall outside the scope of employment shall constitute misconduct only if such activities adversely affect the legitimate interests of the University.'”
“Do ‘the legitimate interests of the university’ include the pursuit of truth?” Tracy asked in the post.
He gave examples of that research, such as, “Other anomalies were striking when the performance occurred, including no surge of EMTs in to the building, no string of ambulances to take them to hospitals to be declared dead or alive, no Med-Evac helicopter called to the scene, no 469 other students evacuated and no bodies placed on the triage tarps outside. ”
Tracy earned his doctorate at the University of Iowa, according to Florida Atlantic’s website, and “teaches courses examining the relationship between commercial and alternative news media and socio-political issues and events.” He presents his expertise as “media history and analysis, political economy of communication.”
On social media, people called on the university to fire Tracy “if they had an ounce of human decency” and “if you have any compassion for human suffering.”
A university spokesman said that by law the school is unable to comment at this point in the process, beyond the public statement that university officials posted Wednesday:
“Today, James Tracy, an associate professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, was served a Notice of Proposed Discipline — Termination by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Florida Atlantic University.
A school bus traveling from Newtown, Conn., to Monroe stops near 26 angel signs in January 2013, on the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students since the previous year’s shootings. (Jessica Hill/AP)
Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday moved to fire a professor who outraged many by calling the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School an elaborate hoax.
James Tracy, an associate professor at the university, has written that although the news media reported that 26 people died in a mass shooting at the school in Newtown, Conn., the incident was staged.
[After Newtown shooting, parents enter the lonely quiet]
Last week, the parents of of one child, Lenny and Veronique Pozner, wrote an opinion piece in the Sun-Sentinel that began: “It’s been three years since we last embraced our precious little boy, Noah. At six-years-old, he was the youngest child murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School….
“The heartache of burying a child is a sorrow we would not wish upon anyone. Yet to our horror, we have found that there are some in this society who lack empathy for the suffering of others. Among them are the conspiracy theorists that deny our tragedy was real. They seek us out and accuse us of being government agents who are faking our grief and lying about our loss.”
Among the conspiracy theorists — and they mention Republican candidate Donald Trump’s “rantings on the Alex Jones radio show” — one who got widespread attention was Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy.
“Tracy even sent us a certified letter demanding proof that Noah once lived, that we were his parents, and that we were the rightful owner of his photographic image. We found this so outrageous and unsettling that we filed a police report for harassment. Once Tracy realized we would not respond, he subjected us to ridicule and contempt on his blog, boasting to his readers that the “unfulfilled request” was “noteworthy” because we had used copyright claims to “thwart continued research of the Sandy Hook massacre event.”
[False flags, true believers and trolls: Understanding conspiracy theories after tragedies]
They noted that the First Amendment protects freedom of speech but does not ensure someone a job, and called on the university to do the right thing.
Tracy wrote in an email that he is not able to comment publicly about the matter at this time.
On the “Hoax at Sandy Hook” Facebook page, a post apparently written by him several days after the op-ed piece ran defended his assertions that no one died at the elementary school that day, that the event was a staged drill, that “local co-conspirators” benefited financially by faking grief, and that the Pozners were trying to intimidate his employer into firing him for his extensive research.
The post quoted the Pozners as writing:
“The FAU Academic Affairs Faculty Handbook clearly states that ‘A faculty member’s activities which fall outside the scope of employment shall constitute misconduct only if such activities adversely affect the legitimate interests of the University.'”
“Do ‘the legitimate interests of the university’ include the pursuit of truth?” Tracy asked in the post.
He gave examples of that research, such as, “Other anomalies were striking when the performance occurred, including no surge of EMTs in to the building, no string of ambulances to take them to hospitals to be declared dead or alive, no Med-Evac helicopter called to the scene, no 469 other students evacuated and no bodies placed on the triage tarps outside. ”
Tracy earned his doctorate at the University of Iowa, according to Florida Atlantic’s website, and “teaches courses examining the relationship between commercial and alternative news media and socio-political issues and events.” He presents his expertise as “media history and analysis, political economy of communication.”
On social media, people called on the university to fire Tracy “if they had an ounce of human decency” and “if you have any compassion for human suffering.”
A university spokesman said that by law the school is unable to comment at this point in the process, beyond the public statement that university officials posted Wednesday:
“Today, James Tracy, an associate professor in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, was served a Notice of Proposed Discipline — Termination by the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Florida Atlantic University.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Conyers prayer vigil for Charleston Emanuel AME shooting
Posted: June 18, 2015 4:53 p.m.
By Martin Rand, III
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CONYERS - In the wake of the massacre that took place yesterday at a historically black South Carolina church, Conyers church leaders are getting together to host a prayer vigil tomorrow to honor the victims.
Wednesday evening, 21-year-old Dylan Roof, a white male, walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and fatally shot nine black people. He was arrested this morning in North Carolina, according to reports.
Macedonia Baptist Pastor Billie Cox, who's organizing the praying vigil for the community, says this event is meant to bring the community together during this moment of sadness.
"We're praying for the lives lost and the families affected by the lost," she said. "That doesn't exclude the family of the shooter. They need prayer now as well."
Cox gathered several pastors from other churches in Conyers to attend the vigil as well.
"I wanted to pull together churches so we could show a solidarity front," she said. "We want (people) to know that the church is safe."
At least six pastors have agreed to attend the vigil as of Thursday evening, including Pastor Al Sadler, Church of New Beginnings, Bishop John and Toni Alvarado, Grace Church International, Pastor Tim Hogg, The Father's House, Pastor Efrain Poloche, Conyers Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist and Pastor Al Vaughn, Rock Temple AME Church.
Vaugh says that after situations like this, it's important for people to use love to supersede the hateful act. Also, love needs to be extended to Roof too because "it's the way we're supposed to be as Christians."
"The thing the church really needs to do now is to let love go abound," said Vaugh, who may go to Charleston to speak with some of the victim's families. "This is the time to show the love of Jesus Christ."
Cox says the dress code for the vigil will be casual and people can "just stop by."
"We just want to pray with the community," said Cox.
The vigil will begin at 6 p.m. tomorrow night, Friday, at the Macedonia Baptist Church, 1052 Barton Street, Conyers.
This event is just to pray and bring the community together, says Cox, but in the future, the pastor wants to have a "real" discussion racial tensions, or the "the white elephant in the room" as she referred to it, in this county which "keeps getting swept under the rug."
"Racism is still alive and well," she said. "This isn't the event for that, but we need to talk about."
The pastor brought up how this shooting is similar to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Four young girls died and several others were injured in the bombing, which was racially motivated.
"This is the 21st century," said Cox. "This is something that shouldn't be happening now."
There will be another praying vigil taking place at the Antioch AME Church, 1790 Ebenezer Road, Conyers, on Monday at 6:45 p.m. says Vaughn.
CONYERS - In the wake of the massacre that took place yesterday at a historically black South Carolina church, Conyers church leaders are getting together to host a prayer vigil tomorrow to honor the victims.
Wednesday evening, 21-year-old Dylan Roof, a white male, walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and fatally shot nine black people. He was arrested this morning in North Carolina, according to reports.
Macedonia Baptist Pastor Billie Cox, who's organizing the praying vigil for the community, says this event is meant to bring the community together during this moment of sadness.
"We're praying for the lives lost and the families affected by the lost," she said. "That doesn't exclude the family of the shooter. They need prayer now as well."
Cox gathered several pastors from other churches in Conyers to attend the vigil as well.
"I wanted to pull together churches so we could show a solidarity front," she said. "We want (people) to know that the church is safe."
At least six pastors have agreed to attend the vigil as of Thursday evening, including Pastor Al Sadler, Church of New Beginnings, Bishop John and Toni Alvarado, Grace Church International, Pastor Tim Hogg, The Father's House, Pastor Efrain Poloche, Conyers Hispanic Seventh Day Adventist and Pastor Al Vaughn, Rock Temple AME Church.
Vaugh says that after situations like this, it's important for people to use love to supersede the hateful act. Also, love needs to be extended to Roof too because "it's the way we're supposed to be as Christians."
"The thing the church really needs to do now is to let love go abound," said Vaugh, who may go to Charleston to speak with some of the victim's families. "This is the time to show the love of Jesus Christ."
Cox says the dress code for the vigil will be casual and people can "just stop by."
"We just want to pray with the community," said Cox.
The vigil will begin at 6 p.m. tomorrow night, Friday, at the Macedonia Baptist Church, 1052 Barton Street, Conyers.
This event is just to pray and bring the community together, says Cox, but in the future, the pastor wants to have a "real" discussion racial tensions, or the "the white elephant in the room" as she referred to it, in this county which "keeps getting swept under the rug."
"Racism is still alive and well," she said. "This isn't the event for that, but we need to talk about."
The pastor brought up how this shooting is similar to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. Four young girls died and several others were injured in the bombing, which was racially motivated.
"This is the 21st century," said Cox. "This is something that shouldn't be happening now."
There will be another praying vigil taking place at the Antioch AME Church, 1790 Ebenezer Road, Conyers, on Monday at 6:45 p.m. says Vaughn.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Der Anschlag in Paris (Massacre in Paris) - Bill Hughes
Der Anschlag in Paris, wer verbirgt sich dahinter? - Bill Hughes
Published on Mar 10, 2015
Der Sprecher ist Bill Hughes, möge es alles zum Segen dienen.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Resident Evil: The Jesuit Threat to Humanity
Resident Evil: The Jesuit Threat to Humanity
by Mike Bellinger
The New Resistance
Real History
There is an invisible power which secretly rules.
When Martin Luther sparked the spiritual and social revolution in Europe we now know as the Reformation, he sent an arrow deep into the heart of the Vatican power base. As the Reformation spread and enlightenment became commonplace, the Dark Ages ended, didn't they? Apparently they did not. The Vatican, in its lust for power over all human life, soon spawned an advocate who was worthy of the devil himself. He went by the name of Ignatius Loyola. Loyola was a self-made man. He suffered many trials and defeats in his life, but persevered to become the head of what he named the "Society of Jesus" whose members later became better known under their assigned nickname: the Jesuits.
Ignatius Loyola formed the Jesuits as a military order with the stated purpose of overthrowing the reformation started by Martin Luther and restoring the temporal (political) and religious domination of the Vatican in all walks of life. In other words, he wanted to bring back the Dark Ages. The domination of the Vatican and the Pope as Monarch over all Kings, Queens, secular leaders and the rest of humanity was (and still is) the avowed mission of the Society of Jesus.
Loyola's mandate was that the end justified the means, and any means of restoring Vatican domination was acceptable. The mission of the Jesuits was the extermination of all heresy and all heretics. Protestants and all other non-Catholics must be converted or eliminated - either sooner or later. The saying among the Jesuits was that "It is no sin to kill a heretic". This murderous justification apparently became their creed.
They demanded absolute, unquestioning obedience from their members. To achieve the fourth and highest vow of initiation, and thereby be initiated into the actively evil pyramidal top level, a Jesuit must be a loyal member for 35 years. This requirement ensured the smallest possibility of dissent or original thinking ever surviving in anyone reaching leadership role, or from ever altering their stated purpose or mission as set out by founder Ignatius Loyola.
As a military order, they fought many open political wars with European Kings, Queens and statesmen. Their favored tool against such power was assassination. Because of their small numbers, they became experts on poisoning and all known methods of assassination. They were even connected to the Borgias, as in Lucretia Borgia.
In those days most everyone had a confessor. The Jesuits deliberately sought these roles and came to dominate the confessor positions in European society. In that role they were able to use the intelligence they gathered from their political, social and business victims to gain advantage in politics, business and education. The confessor spies then used that information and position coupled with blackmail, bribery and intimidation to seek advantage for the Vatican in every endeavor. The Jesuit intelligence apparatus is unequaled on this planet. They were in place before we ever even dreamed of such an enterprise. Their missionaries carried this intelligence gathering on throughout the world when Columbus opened up the frontier, and no one has ever outdone them. This is one of the secrets of the Jesuit-Vatican control of much of the world.
The other very successful and crucial tactic they employed was to infiltrate all of their enemies. Opposing religions, enemy political structures, business, media and education, both domestic and foreign, were infiltrated by Jesuit missionaries and the many unidentifiable junior Jesuits: those secular followers who were all too willing to accept Jesuit favors and position in exchange for selling their countries and their souls to the Vatican.
What happened in Europe was that after 250 hundred years of bloody Jesuit-instigated massacres of Protestants, the bloody Jesuit Inquisitions (some estimates put the total Vatican and Jesuit death toll at 60 million human beings, making Hitler seem like an amateur) and resulting wars with European monarchs and statesmen, the Jesuits had been taking quite a beating themselves. Many had been executed outright, and as a group they were thrown out of almost every country in Europe at one time or another. Even several popes turned against them due to public outcries from some still loyal Catholic countries. But they always somehow managed to regroup and return. When they did, they always extracted bloody revenge on whatever country or ruler had expelled them. They killed the popes who banished them and took over the Vatican completely in the 1700's. This would prevent any further rear-guard actions against them in the future as they had suffered previously. This consolidation of Jesuit control over the Vatican itself marked a new phase in the ongoing battle against Protestantism and all the other non-Catholic "heretics" of the world at large.
The lessons learned from open conflicts with the European powers led to the next and most sinister phase of the Jesuit takeover of world society. They realized that the most effective and efficient method of seizing control of a society was by their already useful tactic of infiltration, but this time in secret. The instruments of that infiltration would be the many secret societies which they targeted and assumed control of. The international nature of the Masonic brotherhood made them an ideal tool for using its membership to advance Jesuit goals. Publicly, the Vatican and the Masons were enemies; but F. Tupper Saussy found evidence linking them, and Jon Eric Phelps notes that Adam Wieshaupt, the founder of modern Bavarian Freemasonry was a Jesuit agent.
The Knights of Malta (formerly Knights Templar) are the premiere secret society of the Vatican these days, but they are subservient to the Jesuit General. Many of America and the Western World's power elite are Knights of Malta.
Once they spread their influence through the secret societies worldwide and coordinated with the English Roundtables to impose a worldwide network of control, the whole phenomena evolved into what we know of today as the New World Order (or what the elite-controlled press so disingenuously refers to as Globalism, as if that is something to be desired). The Globalists have many nicknames, but their agenda is one and the same. It is total control of this planet. They have many factions who compete with one another for position and advantage like a group of churlish relatives, but the ultimate goal is always unchanged. And the Jesuit overlords lurk in the background, pulling all the important strings.
If you know anything about the history of the elite Brotherhood, then you will know that the Rothschild’s banking faction developed the art of financing wars from both sides of a conflict by utilizing the secrets of Central Banking with their ability to create enormous debt loads in the resident populations resulting from the issuance of government authorized fiat money. The incredible profits generated by war, reaped from both the winners and losers, led to a syndrome where induced wars became a way of life for the overlords because of the vast financial profits and additional benefits derived from it.
In addition to massive financial profits, war results in many other '"benefits" for the overlords. Some of the most important to them are increased centralized control of the population by government, increased militarization, and the public fear of conflicts to come, leading them to let their "peace-loving" statesmen do all their thinking for them.
But the Jesuits have a much darker rationale behind all the world conflicts they have overseen in the last 600 years. They have used all of these various wars as cover-ups for their mass exterminations of Protestants and all other non-Catholic peoples worldwide. This is the real horror of the Jesuits and the Vatican. They are the most prolific mass murders in all of human history. No one and nothing else in known human history compares to their record of calculated genocide. Now you know why we must stop this evil. The Vatican, as it is now, is the incarnation of hell itself. There can be no doubt of that.
Here are some Jesuit/Vatican atrocities to mull over.
The Crusades: Who knows how many died? And then the children’s crusades ... Good God.
The Inquisitions: In “Vatican Assassins,” Eric Jon Phelps cites a source that estimates roughly 60 million people were murdered in the various stages of the Inquisitions. Think about that number for a minute. Most of these people were tortured to death.
Catherine De Medici instigated the butchering of 75,000 French Protestant Huguenots on August 24, 1572. In 1598 Henry IV issued the Edict of Nates to protect them. By manipulating the rescinding of the protective Edict of Nantes in 1685 by the Jesuit confessor to King Louis XIV (using religious blackmail), another HALF MILLION FRENCH HUGUENOTS were butchered by the vile French Catholic Dragonades. In 1655 again, British Protestant hero Oliver Cromwell threatened to invade France and crush the French Crown for a new massacre being waged upon the French Vadois Protestants of valley of Piedmont by six Catholic Regiments by the Duke of Savoy.
The massacre of the poor Irish protestants on October 23rd 1641 - the "Feast" of Ignatius Loyola. How fitting a day for a massacre by these bloodthirsty swine. It is estimated that 150,000 Irish Protestants were butchered in the streets and in their homes. This slaughter took place over an eight-year period. Finally, once again it was Oliver Cromwell who finally invaded Ireland and attacked the Jesuit base at Drogheda and in a rage exterminated the entire Catholic village of 2000. Only this invasion finally ended the massacre of the Protestants. The present day Irish Protestants are still at war with the fanatical Irish Catholic Jesuits, and this is why they need the continued protection of the British Army.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Waco After 20 Years: A Warning Against Unrestrained Government
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the Waco, Texas, massacre of Branch Davidian church members at the organization's Mount Carmel compound. Some 82 Davidians (including 26 children) and four ATF agents were killed in two related episodes, a February 28 military-style assault by 100 ATF agents and an April 19 fire after a six-week stand-off provoked by the FBI.
The Waco massacre ranks among the largest mass-killing of American citizens by its own government since 19th century Indian massacres, such as Wounded Knee, the Dakota Sioux War of 1862, and the Trail of Tears.
The massacre began in a February 28 raid by AFT officials on the compound where Davidians lived. The Davidians were ready for the ATF. Four ATF agents were killed and another 16 injured, and the ATF was repulsed from the Mount Carmel Center compound. Six Davidians — a Seventh Day Adventist splinter group — were also reportedly killed in the February 28 melee.
The raid was a result of ATF allegations that the Davidian's leader David Koresh (also known by his birth name Vernon Howell) had modified legally purchased AR-15 military-style rifles to fully automatic status, a federal crime. The FBI later concluded that the Davidians had modified 48 firearms to fire in fully automatic mode, and that they also had 21 silencers and a number of “practice” hand-grenades.
Koresh had been the subject of a series of articles in the Waco Tribune-Herald beginning the day before the February 28 ATF raid. The paper quoted former Davidians who claimed firearms violations as well as polygamy and child molestation by Koresh. The series began with the following allegations:
Waco — If you are a Branch Davidian, Christ lives on a threadbare piece of land 10 miles east of here called Mount Carmel. He has dimples, claims a ninth-grade education, married his legal wife when she was 14, enjoys a beer now and then, plays a mean guitar, reportedly packs a 9mm Glock and keeps an arsenal of military assault rifles, and willingly admits that he is a sinner without equal....
An eight-month Waco Tribune-Herald investigation that involved numerous interviews with Breault and more than 20 other former cult members and a review of court records and statements to law enforcement officials revealed complaints that Howell:
• abused children physically and psychologically;
• boasted of having sex with underage girls in the cult;
• and has had at least 15 so-called “wives.”
The ATF raid was initiated in advance of anticipated annual March budget hearings in Congress, and Mike Wallace of CBS' 60 Minutes noted in a May 23, 1993 broadcast after the end of the siege that “almost all the agents we talked to said they believe the initial attack on that cult in Waco was a publicity stunt — the main goal of which was to improve ATF’s tarnished image.” Indeed, earlier in the year Wallace had aired a program alleging a culture of sexual harassment against women in the agency. The codename for the eventual February 28 military-style assault, deemed a “dynamic entry” by the ATF, was “Showtime.”
And “dynamic entry” was the ATF's first option, not its last option. The U.S. House of Representatives reported on August 2, 1996 after an investigation: “The subcommittees conclude that the ATF was predisposed to using aggressive, military tactics in an attempt to serve the arrest and search warrant. The ATF deliberately choose not to arrest Koresh outside the Davidian residence and instead determined to use a dynamic entry approach. The bias toward the use of force may in large part be explained by a culture within ATF.”
In a phone interview with CNN the evening of the initial ATF raid on February 28, Koresh claimed that the ATF agents had started the shooting:
They started firing at me. And so what happened was is that I fell back at the door, and bullets started coming through the door. And so then what happened was some of the young men with us just started firing on them. And I was already hollering, I was saying “go away.” You know, I was hollering “Go away. There's women and children here. Let's talk.”
Koresh's interview coincided with the experience of Texas law enforcement when he had a run-in with the law several years earlier. Local officials reported no difficulties talking with Koresh, or with arresting him for an alleged crime (which resulted in a hung jury). McClennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell told the Houston Chronicle on March 1, 1993: “We had no problems. We treated them like human beings rather than storm-trooping the place. They were extremely polite people. After the trial, although we didn’t agree with everything they believed or said, many of the staff were pretty sympathetic with them.”
Though the U.S. government has always claimed that the Davidians fired the first shots, even the FBI concluded in its report Project Megiddo that the ATF provoked the Davidians: “The violent tendencies of dangerous cults can be classified into two general categories — defensive violence and offensive violence. Defensive violence is utilized by cults to defend a compound or enclave that was created specifically to eliminate most contact with the dominant culture. The 1993 clash in Waco, Texas at the Branch Davidian complex is an illustration of such defensive violence. History has shown that groups that seek to withdraw from the dominant culture seldom act on their beliefs that the endtime has come unless provoked.”
The federal government clearly also violated the federal Posse Comitatus Act during the six week Waco seige, which bans the use of the military in law enforcement within the territorial United States, since they used military advisors and tanks to distribute a military-style tear-gas round called CS gas. Use of CS gas canisters was later banned even in war by the 1997 International Chemical Weapons Convention, and Davidians later blamed the fire on the use of the combustible gas canisters to end the siege.
While the official government report stressed that none of the victims of the fire was a direct result of the CS gas canisters, the failure to escape the fire may have been partially — or fully — a result of disability from the gas, which stings the eyes, throat, and skin. This may have been particularly the case for the women and children victims, who were in an enclosed area of the compound where the fumes would be slow to disperse.
The Washington Post admitted on September 4, 1999 that the White House's seven years of denying that the government had used military projectiles had proved to be a lie. “The episode has become a painful embarrassment to the FBI, largely because of the bureau's insistence until last week that no military tear gas cartridges or other potentially incendiary weapons were used during the assault.”
The Washington Post also reported of Richard M. Rogers, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team at Waco:
Rogers, the agent who gave the authorization to use the military rounds, also was the Hostage Rescue Team commander during an earlier siege against white separatist Randy Weaver in August 1992 in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in which Weaver's wife, Vicki, was shot and killed by an FBI sniper. "Rules of engagement" drafted by Rogers, which allowed agents to shoot armed suspects on sight, were later deemed illegal by a Justice Department task force. As a result of his role at Ruby Ridge, Rogers was issued a 10-day suspension in 1995 and voluntarily accepted reassignment to a non-tactical management job. He has since retired from the bureau.
Photo of April 19, 1993 fire at Mount Carmel: AP Images
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Why We Can’t Stop Rampage Shooters
DEC 21, 2012
By Tom Junod at 1:29pm
Photos via Getty Images
It is now a week after the Newtown shooting and the knowledge that the "lone gunman" — that stock American character — was not really alone at all but rather part of a breed that includes Jared Loughner, James Holmes, and now Adam Lanza is all that we know of him.
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We do not know who he is. We do not know where he is. We know only one thing: that he is more prepared than we are. Indeed, he is preparing right now. He is buying his guns. He is accruing his arsenal. The grudges of a lifetime are coalescing into a delusion, and the delusion is articulating itself into something like a plan. In two months, or two weeks, or two days, the plan will be all that he thinks about, and the pressure will become unbearable. He likes to be alone, but his plan needs people, and before too long he will seek out a place where they gather. It might be a school, or a crowded theater. It might be Times Square.
If he lives in Queens, and if he started his journey in, say, Pakistan, we will call him a terrorist, and have a reasonable chance of stopping him before he kills anyone. If he lives in an American town instead of an American city, and started his journey in his American bedroom, we will call him a "shooter" and we have almost no chance of stopping him at all...
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By Tom Junod at 1:29pm
Photos via Getty Images
It is now a week after the Newtown shooting and the knowledge that the "lone gunman" — that stock American character — was not really alone at all but rather part of a breed that includes Jared Loughner, James Holmes, and now Adam Lanza is all that we know of him.
poli
We do not know who he is. We do not know where he is. We know only one thing: that he is more prepared than we are. Indeed, he is preparing right now. He is buying his guns. He is accruing his arsenal. The grudges of a lifetime are coalescing into a delusion, and the delusion is articulating itself into something like a plan. In two months, or two weeks, or two days, the plan will be all that he thinks about, and the pressure will become unbearable. He likes to be alone, but his plan needs people, and before too long he will seek out a place where they gather. It might be a school, or a crowded theater. It might be Times Square.
If he lives in Queens, and if he started his journey in, say, Pakistan, we will call him a terrorist, and have a reasonable chance of stopping him before he kills anyone. If he lives in an American town instead of an American city, and started his journey in his American bedroom, we will call him a "shooter" and we have almost no chance of stopping him at all...
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Friday, December 21, 2012
After Newtown, experts say kids are resilient in coping with trauma
By The Associated Press
on December 19, 2012 at 1:14 PM, updated December 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM
They might not want to talk about the gunshots or the screams. But their toys might start getting into imaginary shootouts.
Last week's school shooting in Connecticut raises the question: What will be the psychological fallout for the children who survived?
For people of any age, regaining a sense of security after surviving violence can take a long time. They're at risk for lingering anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder.
But after the grief and fear fades, psychiatrists say most of Newtown's young survivors probably will cope without long-term emotional problems.
"Kids do tend to be highly resilient," said Dr. Matthew Biel, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
And one way that younger children try to make sense of trauma is through play. Youngsters may pull out action figures or stuffed animals and re-enact what they witnessed, perhaps multiple times.
"That's the way they gain mastery over a situation that's overwhelming," Biel explained, saying it becomes a concern only if the child is clearly distressed while playing.
Nor is it unusual for children to chase each other playing cops-and-robbers, but now parents might see some also pretending they're dead, added Dr. Melissa Brymer of the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
Among the challenges will be spotting which children are struggling enough that they may need professional help.
Newtown's tragedy is particularly heart-wrenching because of what such young children grappled with - like the six first-graders who apparently had to run past their teacher's body to escape to safety.
There's little scientific research specifically on PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, in children exposed to a burst of violence, and even less to tell if a younger child will have a harder time healing than an older one.
Overall, scientists say studies of natural disasters and wars suggest most children eventually recover from traumatic experiences while a smaller proportion develop long-term disorders such as PTSD. Brymer says in her studies of school shootings, that fraction can range from 10 percent to a quarter of survivors, depending on what they actually experienced. A broader 2007 study found 13 percent of U.S. children exposed to different types of trauma reported some symptoms of PTSD, although less than 1 percent had enough for an official diagnosis.
Violence isn't all that rare in childhood. In many parts of the world - and in inner-city neighborhoods in the U.S., too - children witness it repeatedly. They don't become inured to it, Biel said, and more exposure means a greater chance of lasting psychological harm.
In Newtown, most at risk for longer-term problems are those who saw someone killed, said Dr. Carol North of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who has researched survivors of mass shootings.
Friday's shootings were mostly in two classrooms of Sandy Hook Elementary School, which has about 450 students through fourth-grade.
But those who weren't as close to the danger may be at extra risk, too, if this wasn't their first trauma or they already had problems such as anxiety disorders that increase their vulnerability, she said.
Right after a traumatic event, it's normal to have nightmares or trouble sleeping, to stick close to loved ones, and to be nervous or moody, Biel said.
To help, parents will have to follow their child's lead. Grilling a child about a traumatic experience isn't good, he stressed. Some children will ask a lot of questions, seeking reassurance, he said. Others will be quiet, thinking about the experience and maybe drawing or writing about it, or acting it out at playtime. Younger children may regress, becoming clingy or having tantrums.
Before second grade, their brains also are at a developmental stage some refer to as magical thinking, when it's difficult to distinguish reality and fantasy. Parents may have to help them understand that a friend who died isn't in pain or lonely but also isn't coming back, Brymer said.
When problem behaviors or signs of distress continue for several weeks, Brymer says it's time for an evaluation by a counselor or pediatrician.
Besides a supportive family, what helps? North advises getting children back into routines, together with their friends, and easing them back into a school setting. Studies of survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks found "the power of the support of the people who went through it with you is huge," she said.
Children as young as first-graders can benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy, Georgetown's Biel said. They can calm themselves with breathing techniques. They also can learn to identify and label their feelings - anger, frustration, worry - and how to balance, say, a worried thought with a brave one.
Finally, avoid watching TV coverage of the shooting, as children may think it's happening all over again, Biel added. He found that children who watched the 9/11 clips of planes hitting the World Trade Center thought they were seeing dozens of separate attacks.
on December 19, 2012 at 1:14 PM, updated December 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Anna Delaney, 11, holds her mother Molly, during a prayer service for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School held at St. John's Episcopal Church.New York Daily News
They might not want to talk about the gunshots or the screams. But their toys might start getting into imaginary shootouts.
Last week's school shooting in Connecticut raises the question: What will be the psychological fallout for the children who survived?
For people of any age, regaining a sense of security after surviving violence can take a long time. They're at risk for lingering anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder.
But after the grief and fear fades, psychiatrists say most of Newtown's young survivors probably will cope without long-term emotional problems.
"Kids do tend to be highly resilient," said Dr. Matthew Biel, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
And one way that younger children try to make sense of trauma is through play. Youngsters may pull out action figures or stuffed animals and re-enact what they witnessed, perhaps multiple times.
"That's the way they gain mastery over a situation that's overwhelming," Biel explained, saying it becomes a concern only if the child is clearly distressed while playing.
Nor is it unusual for children to chase each other playing cops-and-robbers, but now parents might see some also pretending they're dead, added Dr. Melissa Brymer of the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
Among the challenges will be spotting which children are struggling enough that they may need professional help.
Newtown's tragedy is particularly heart-wrenching because of what such young children grappled with - like the six first-graders who apparently had to run past their teacher's body to escape to safety.
There's little scientific research specifically on PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, in children exposed to a burst of violence, and even less to tell if a younger child will have a harder time healing than an older one.
Overall, scientists say studies of natural disasters and wars suggest most children eventually recover from traumatic experiences while a smaller proportion develop long-term disorders such as PTSD. Brymer says in her studies of school shootings, that fraction can range from 10 percent to a quarter of survivors, depending on what they actually experienced. A broader 2007 study found 13 percent of U.S. children exposed to different types of trauma reported some symptoms of PTSD, although less than 1 percent had enough for an official diagnosis.
Violence isn't all that rare in childhood. In many parts of the world - and in inner-city neighborhoods in the U.S., too - children witness it repeatedly. They don't become inured to it, Biel said, and more exposure means a greater chance of lasting psychological harm.
In Newtown, most at risk for longer-term problems are those who saw someone killed, said Dr. Carol North of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, who has researched survivors of mass shootings.
Friday's shootings were mostly in two classrooms of Sandy Hook Elementary School, which has about 450 students through fourth-grade.
But those who weren't as close to the danger may be at extra risk, too, if this wasn't their first trauma or they already had problems such as anxiety disorders that increase their vulnerability, she said.
Right after a traumatic event, it's normal to have nightmares or trouble sleeping, to stick close to loved ones, and to be nervous or moody, Biel said.
To help, parents will have to follow their child's lead. Grilling a child about a traumatic experience isn't good, he stressed. Some children will ask a lot of questions, seeking reassurance, he said. Others will be quiet, thinking about the experience and maybe drawing or writing about it, or acting it out at playtime. Younger children may regress, becoming clingy or having tantrums.
Before second grade, their brains also are at a developmental stage some refer to as magical thinking, when it's difficult to distinguish reality and fantasy. Parents may have to help them understand that a friend who died isn't in pain or lonely but also isn't coming back, Brymer said.
When problem behaviors or signs of distress continue for several weeks, Brymer says it's time for an evaluation by a counselor or pediatrician.
Besides a supportive family, what helps? North advises getting children back into routines, together with their friends, and easing them back into a school setting. Studies of survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks found "the power of the support of the people who went through it with you is huge," she said.
Children as young as first-graders can benefit from cognitive-behavioral therapy, Georgetown's Biel said. They can calm themselves with breathing techniques. They also can learn to identify and label their feelings - anger, frustration, worry - and how to balance, say, a worried thought with a brave one.
Finally, avoid watching TV coverage of the shooting, as children may think it's happening all over again, Biel added. He found that children who watched the 9/11 clips of planes hitting the World Trade Center thought they were seeing dozens of separate attacks.
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Georgetown University Raising Funds For Newtown Victim’s Daughter
December 19, 2012 1:36 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgetown University professor has launched an online fundraising effort to help a graduate student whose mother was killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Mary Sherlach was a psychologist at the school. Newtown superintendent Janet Robinson says Sherlach was killed when she ran toward the shooter who ultimately killed 26 people, including 20 children.
Her daughter, Katy Sherlach, is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Georgetown. Law professor Heidi Li Feldman organized an online fundraising page that’s collected more than $6,000 to help Katy with funeral and other expenses.
Chemistry professor Paul Roepe tells WRC-TV that Katy was with fellow researchers in the chemistry lab when she learned about the shooting. He says the community is taking the loss very hard.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgetown University professor has launched an online fundraising effort to help a graduate student whose mother was killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Mary Sherlach was a psychologist at the school. Newtown superintendent Janet Robinson says Sherlach was killed when she ran toward the shooter who ultimately killed 26 people, including 20 children.
Her daughter, Katy Sherlach, is a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry at Georgetown. Law professor Heidi Li Feldman organized an online fundraising page that’s collected more than $6,000 to help Katy with funeral and other expenses.
Chemistry professor Paul Roepe tells WRC-TV that Katy was with fellow researchers in the chemistry lab when she learned about the shooting. He says the community is taking the loss very hard.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
NY cardinal compares slain Conn. teacher to Jesus
By DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press
Updated 10:23 am, Thursday, December 20, 2012
Firefighters salute as a hearse passes for the funeral procession to the burial of 7-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Gerard Barden, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. Barden was killed when Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. Photo: David Goldman / AP
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A single bell tolled Thursday at the Connecticut funeral of a 6-year-old girl killed by a gunman at her elementary school, while a cardinal in New York compared a slain teacher to Jesus for giving up her life to protect others.
In Newtown, the site of the shooting rampage, grim-faced mourners hurried through the packed parking lot of St. Rose of Lima Church to attend the funeral Mass for 6-year-old Catherine Hubbard.
Catherine's family said in her obituary that she would be remembered for her passion for animals and her constant smile.
Catherine was among the 20 students and six teachers killed when Adam Lanza, armed with a military-style assault rifle, broke into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Dec. 14 and opened fire. Lanza killed his mother at her home before the attack and committed suicide at the school as police closed in.
Funerals were also scheduled in Connecticut on Thursday for 7-year-old Grace McDonnell and 6-year-olds Benjamin Andrew Wheeler, Jesse Lewis and Allison Wyatt, and a memorial was held for teacher Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau.
In New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan told mourners at the funeral of 52-year-old Anne Marie Murphy that the teacher "brought together a community, a nation, a world, now awed by her own life and death."
Murphy's father, Hugh McGowan, said authorities told him that she died trying to protect her young pupils. Her body was found covering a group of children's bodies as if to shield them, McGowan said.
Dolan underscored her sacrifice.
"Like Jesus, Annie laid down her life for her friends," Dolan said. "Like Jesus, Annie's life and death brings light, truth, goodness and love to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness and death."
About 15 people arrived at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Katonah, N.Y., in a yellow school bus with "Newtown" written on its side. The church quickly filled and about 100 mourners waited outside.
Janelle Wingert, of Wyoming, said in an email interview that she met Murphy when they were involved in the same faith-based community service activities in the Newtown area. She said Murphy asked her after 9/11 what she would do if someone attacked a school where she was working.
"She was serious and so intense in the question," Wingert said in a Facebook post. "She died doing exactly what she said she would do — put herself between the gunman and her little ones, who she saw as the most precious of all in God's heart."
Trinity Episcopal church on Newtown's Main Street was filled to capacity for the funeral of Benjamin Wheeler, and scores of mourners who couldn't get in milled about outside. The service for a child described as a lighthouse buff, budding musician and Beatles fan included a rendition of "Here Comes The Sun" and the hymn "Amazing Grace."
Benjamin's five uncles acted as pallbearers. About two dozen Boy Scout leaders lined the front pathway to the church in honor of the former Cub Scout.
In downtown Danbury, mourners filed into the ornate white-pillared First Congregational Church for a memorial service for teacher Lauren Rousseau. The congregation in the packed church sang "Morning Has Broken" and "Let There Be Peace On Earth."
Friends wept on the altar as they remembered the spirited, hardworking, sunny-natured young woman who loved children and animals, especially cats, and who had always wanted to be a teacher. They spoke of how the 30-year-old brightened their lives with her silliness and gave them all nicknames.
A U.S. Justice Department official told The Associated Press that Attorney General Eric Holder would travel to Newtown on Thursday to meet with first responders and law enforcement officials. The trip comes after Holder met with Vice President Joe Biden, who is tasked with leading an administration-wide effort to create new proposals for reducing gun violence.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the trip hadn't been publicly announced.
In addition to the services, the families of 6-year-old Olivia Rose Engel, behavioral therapist Rachel Marie D'Avino and school psychologist Mary Sherlach have calling hours Thursday.
At least nine funerals and wakes were held Wednesday, and more are set for Friday and Saturday.
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Associated Press writer Frederic J. Frommer in Washington, Jim Fitzgerald in Katonah, N.Y., Christina Rexrode in New York, Helen O'Neill in Danbury, Conn., and Eilleen AJ Connelly and Tom Hays in Newtown contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/NY-cardinal-compares-slain-Conn-teacher-to-Jesus-4134484.php#ixzz2FcSNCS6D
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Newtown victim Anne Marie Murphy, of Katonah, laid to rest
http://newyork.newsday.com/news/nation/newtown-victim-anne-marie-murphy-of-katonah-laid-to-rest-1.4357264
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Obama speaks at Connecticut vigil for shooting victims
U.S. President in Newtown, Conn., to console victims' families and thank first responders
CBC News Posted: Dec 16, 2012 8:24 AM ET Last Updated: Dec 16, 2012 6:56 PM ET
U.S. President Barack Obama is attending an interfaith vigil in Newtown, Connecticut tonight in memory of the 26 schoolchildren and teachers killed during a shooting massacre at an elementary school on Friday.
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CBC News Posted: Dec 16, 2012 8:24 AM ET Last Updated: Dec 16, 2012 6:56 PM ET
Obama in Newtown LIVE
U.S. President Barack Obama is attending an interfaith vigil in Newtown, Connecticut tonight in memory of the 26 schoolchildren and teachers killed during a shooting massacre at an elementary school on Friday.
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In Newtown, Sunday services honor victims of tragedy
Yamiche Alcindor and Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY10:44a.m. EST
December 16, 2012
A Connecticut town grapples with deaths and anguish after senseless shooting spree.
A Connecticut town grapples with deaths and anguish after senseless shooting spree.
(Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Early services draw hundreds of worshipers
Police officers stationed in church parking lot
Sign in the sanctuary says of victims: 'You will never be forgotten'
Early services draw hundreds of worshipers
Police officers stationed in church parking lot
Sign in the sanctuary says of victims: 'You will never be forgotten'
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Sunday dawned here with many grieving residents joining religious services paying homage to the victims of Friday's explosion of violence and death at a local elementary school.
At one site, Saint Rose Catholic Church, a 7:30 a.m. mass drew hundreds of worshipers. Outside the church, which has kept its doors open since the tragedy, signs of the grief gripping Newtown lined the front lawn. A table with dozens of dimly lit candles bearing images of Jesus and the Virgin Mary overlooked mountains of flowers and stuffed animals.
Directly across from the front door more lighted candles have been placed at the feet of a large statue of the Virgin Mary. Small white plastic angels hung in a bush bordering Churchill Road -- which has been filled with traffic for days. A nearby flag remained at half staff.
Msgr. Robert Weiss, the church's leader, has been counseling people since the Friday morning, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza's shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School took the lives of 20 young students and six adults before he turned a gun on himself. On Sunday, several wary police officers were stationed in the parking lot of the church observing those entering the church.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Report: Obama Advance Team Scouting Spots for Newtown Visit
U.S. President Barack Obama may visit Danbury and Newtown early next week in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that claimed the lives of 20 children.
By Mark Langlois
3:17 pm
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton Tweeted the helicopters people heard over Danbury today were an advance team setting up for a possible presidential visit early next week.
"We don't know when at this point," Boughton said.
The helicopters visited Danbury Municipal Airportand other locations in the city. The mayor didn't know if the helicopters visited Newtown yet.
"Those helicopters you hear are the Presidential advance team. No details on what day the President is coming," was one of the mayor's Tweets.
Airport Administrator Paul Estefan declined to say anything at all about the helicopters or the president or any visit. Estefan said when President Clinton visited Danbury, the advance team arrived three months before the visit.
"They are scouting landing locations. He's not with them," Boughton Tweeted, referring to the president.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting began at about 9:30 a.m. Friday. In all, 27 people were killed, police said, including 20 children. Among the adults killed were the school’s beloved principaland psychologist.
The identities of all victims have been established, according to State Police Spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance. Families of those killed have asked that no media members press them for interviews.
On Saturday afternoon, state and federal officials were preparing for the expected arrival of President Obama on Sunday.
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,3124907,full.story
By Mark Langlois
3:17 pm
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton Tweeted the helicopters people heard over Danbury today were an advance team setting up for a possible presidential visit early next week.
"We don't know when at this point," Boughton said.
The helicopters visited Danbury Municipal Airportand other locations in the city. The mayor didn't know if the helicopters visited Newtown yet.
"Those helicopters you hear are the Presidential advance team. No details on what day the President is coming," was one of the mayor's Tweets.
Airport Administrator Paul Estefan declined to say anything at all about the helicopters or the president or any visit. Estefan said when President Clinton visited Danbury, the advance team arrived three months before the visit.
"They are scouting landing locations. He's not with them," Boughton Tweeted, referring to the president.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting began at about 9:30 a.m. Friday. In all, 27 people were killed, police said, including 20 children. Among the adults killed were the school’s beloved principaland psychologist.
The identities of all victims have been established, according to State Police Spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance. Families of those killed have asked that no media members press them for interviews.
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http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-newtown-sandy-hook-school-shooting-20121214,0,3124907,full.story
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Monday, October 01, 2012
Ryan won’t call for Rice’s resignation
- 10/01/12 02:03 PM ET
GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Monday that he would "let other people speak on" whether U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice should resign, after some of his Republican colleagues in the House called for her to step down.
"We're making these judgments after we have all the facts," Ryan said of the Romney campaign during an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show. "We don't have all of the facts surrounding this particular person, but we do know the administration has been extremely inconsistent, we do know that was a pre-planned terrorist attack, and the point I'm trying to make is we need to get all the facts to prevent it from happening again."
GOP lawmakers questioned that explanation and called on the administration last week to provide more details about the violence at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that left four American foreign service officers dead. On Friday, the administration said that new information suggested that the assault was a "deliberate and organized terrorist attack."
In his interview with CNN, King said Rice's explanation was "a failure of foreign policy message and leadership" and "a misstatement of facts."
Ryan also blasted Rice's initial explanation in the interview, but repeatedly stopped short of calling for the ambassador's resignation.
"Hey look, I mean, we've seen a confused, slow, inconsistent response to what is now very clearly known as a terrorist attack. To simply conclude right away it was a spontaneous mob is in the face of the facts," Ryan said. "The key is that we get the full story so we can make sure something like this never happens again."
And the Wisconsin lawmaker said Rice's case differed from that of Attorney General Eric Holder, whom he has previously called on to resign. Ryan said that unlike the Justice Department's botched "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking program, the administration response to the violent protests in the Middle East had not been thoroughly investigated.
Democrats have defended Rice from Republican calls for her resignation.
“I’m deeply disturbed by efforts to find the politics instead of finding the facts in this debate,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a written statement. “I’m particularly troubled by calls for Ambassador Rice’s resignation. She is a remarkable public servant for whom the liberation of the Libyan people has been a personal issue and a public mission. She’s an enormously capable person who has represented us at the United Nations with strength and character.”
Democrats have defended Rice from Republican calls for her resignation.
“I’m deeply disturbed by efforts to find the politics instead of finding the facts in this debate,” Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a written statement. “I’m particularly troubled by calls for Ambassador Rice’s resignation. She is a remarkable public servant for whom the liberation of the Libyan people has been a personal issue and a public mission. She’s an enormously capable person who has represented us at the United Nations with strength and character.”
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