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Amish donate cash to school gunman's widow
MSNBC.Com ^ | September 134 2007 | AP

Posted on 09/14/2007 5:26:53 AM PDT by RDTF

PHILADELPHIA - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said Wednesday.

The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified "contribution" to Marie Roberts, a mother of three.

Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last Oct. 2, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: amish; christians; massacre; shooting
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1 posted on 09/14/2007 5:26:57 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF

Headline more than a tad misleading?


2 posted on 09/14/2007 5:29:33 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: RDTF
A true act of Christian charity and love.
3 posted on 09/14/2007 5:29:45 AM PDT by Hydroshock ("The Constitution should be taken like mountain whiskey -- undiluted and untaxed." - Sam Ervin)
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To: RDTF
Reward a criminal murder’s family!
4 posted on 09/14/2007 5:30:13 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: RDTF

Those wacky Amish...


5 posted on 09/14/2007 5:30:24 AM PDT by gridlock (I do not support Hillary Clinton because I am afraid of strong women)
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To: RDTF

There will be a lot of Amish people in the Kingdom of God..................


6 posted on 09/14/2007 5:30:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: RDTF

I don’t think the widow is getting the entire $4.3 million—just an “unspecified portion” of the larger fund.


7 posted on 09/14/2007 5:31:13 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (You know a liberal has lost the argument when he calls you a Nazi.)
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To: RDTF

Now that’s how Christ intended us to turn the other cheek.


8 posted on 09/14/2007 5:31:26 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Sounds more like they are extending charity to the family abandoned by this evil man. From every account that I’ve seen, the family is blameless in this matter.


9 posted on 09/14/2007 5:31:54 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: ErnBatavia

no - apparently they set up the fund.


10 posted on 09/14/2007 5:32:40 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: RDTF

Must have done a lot of digging in the fields to get 4mil from coffee cans.


11 posted on 09/14/2007 5:33:49 AM PDT by stratboy
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

that makes more sense, a portion of the money overall that was donated to them


12 posted on 09/14/2007 5:34:27 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: RDTF
Hard to grasp a love so absolute ....that forgiveness/compassion is intrinsic.
Only God can sustain a heart so pure & yielding.
13 posted on 09/14/2007 5:35:15 AM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter...President '08)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
The murderer's wife and children had absolutely nothing to do with his actions, yet you would blame them for his evil wrongdoings.

Shame on you.

14 posted on 09/14/2007 5:35:53 AM PDT by Pablo64 (National Alpaca Farm Day is 9-29-07. Visit an alpaca farm near you!)
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To: ErnBatavia

I see what you mean. I asked the mod to remove that part.


15 posted on 09/14/2007 5:36:33 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: Yo-Yo

All believers could learn much from the Amish response to this horrible massacre.


16 posted on 09/14/2007 5:39:58 AM PDT by Right Angler
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To: RDTF
Here's the headline, with the subhead:

Amish donate cash to school gunman’s widow

Unspecified amount given by fund disbursing $4.3 million in contributions

A Mod can fix the headline for you.

17 posted on 09/14/2007 5:40:25 AM PDT by blu (All grammar and punctuation rules are *OFF* for the "24" thread.)
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To: Pablo64
To me this is the same thing as giving money to a suicide bomber’s family!
18 posted on 09/14/2007 5:41:14 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: Guenevere

No wonder the ACLU and the DNC hate Christians!


19 posted on 09/14/2007 5:41:17 AM PDT by Redleg Duke ("All gave some, and some gave all!")
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

I remember feeling that the whole story never came out, I think the widow has info she is not giving up, normal well balanced people don’t just wake up and do things like this.


20 posted on 09/14/2007 5:41:18 AM PDT by bigjackattack
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