Jared Lee Loughner is obviously not your typical 22-year-old.
While many Americans busied themselves as they awaited the results of the dramatic Massachusetts senate race to replace recently deceased Ted Kennedy, a far more deadly drama was being played out in rural Appomattox, Virginia. Christopher Speight, a 39-year-old sometimes uniformed security guard was busying himself by killing eight people, to include the four who shared his deceased mother’s house with him.
“When Nidal Hasan’s fellow students complained to the military medical school faculty about his ‘anti-American propaganda,’ a fear of appearing discriminatory against a Muslim student kept these officers from filing a formal written complaint,” thereby allowing him to remain in the military unchallenged for his beliefs, statements and ultimate actions.
Confusion seemed to float above the single wide trailer in rural south eastern Georgia that saw the murder of eight people this past weekend. Police have still not indicated the identity of the killer(s) of the victims, and early reports indicating that this had been the scene of a likely mass murder/suicide now appear to be wrong, as does the cause of death, initially said to be gunshots but now said by witnesses to me blunt force trauma, i.e., the victims were savagely beaten to death.
It’s summer in “the land down under,” but the over 400 wild fires that have swept over the southeast portion of that country are leaving little in their wake to be enjoyed by residents and tourists alike.
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