Posted on 01/31/2013 6:48:02 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) - A gunman suspected of fatally shooting an Alabama school bus driver before holing up in an underground bunker with a young child is a Vietnam veteran with anti-government views, authorities and an organization that tracks hate groups said on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies were bivouacked near the bunker in Midland City but offered few details about a standoff with the shooter that stretched into its second day on Wednesday.Authorities said driver Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was killed after the gunman boarded a bus ferrying more than 20 children home from school on Tuesday.
The suspect demanded the driver let a student off the bus, Alabama media reported. When Poland refused, the man boarded the bus and shot the driver before taking a 6-year-old kindergarten student and fleeing the scene.
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Yesterday one of the local TV stations reported that a helicopter lit and several soldiers dressed for battle came out. I thought they should not have said that as it could have upset the hostage taker. He supposedly has a TV in the bunker.
Just pump in some sleeping gas. Is it really necessary to call out ATF and DHS?
No, I’d be a mess. I’d probably already be in jail or medicated in protective custody from trying to get to him.
"Soldiers", as in military/army "soldiers", for which it is illegal to use in action on home soil?
Maybe because the media in Sandyhook were complete news whores, fouled up their reporting in virtually every detail, and turned the massacre into circus maximus.
I know what you mean. ABC radio news drives me up a wall. Their reporting is so relentlessly biased, and so sneaky and manipulative. The upside is it’s great for learning what the latest liberal spin on a given issue is going to be.
More than likely the media has been told by the government to suppress this. Every time they excessively report an incident, it gets copied.
But there have always been nutjobs, and there are often more nutjobs is bad economic times than in good times because people are under more stress, so it would be difficult to prove if there has been any "influencing" going on until someone gets an offer and refuses it, as have some Palestinians, by backing out at the last moment and warning Israelis they'd been loaded up with explosives, getting help. That's when the palestinians came up with the cell phone detonator, so the mule can't back out at the last minute.
There was some nut years ago who buried an entire busload of kids. Some real sickos out there...
He already thought of that. Body weight affects time-of-effect and potential toxicity of any drug. Small boy - much less time and lethal in amounts necessary to sedate adult.
Go read about the theater hostage situation in Russia. They pumped in gas which knocked out the terrorists and most of the adults in the building, but it killed some.
Yes I know the posse Comitatus act forbids the U.S. military to act on American home soil. There are probably a few exemptions such as aiding local law enforcement in odd situations where they would need the experience of various military forces.
I know Eisenhower broke the law when he sent in troops to Little Rock but since the media was 100% supporting no one called him on it.
“This is nuts and I’m really contemplating getting the tinfoil out.”
Tinfoil is not wise. It acts like an antenna for the mind-control device that has been planted in your brain.
There's that gadget that uses sound to incapacitate people, such as an advancing infantry force, but would it work in a bunker?
The MSM has executed their designated job very well. Misinform the masses and divert their attention by the pop-culture obsession and trash programming on TV, while the Libs and King Obama set this Country far down the path of ruination and into a third-world cesspool. Liberalism has always been about lowering the standard for everyone rather than the elevation of those living in poverty.
We will end up just like the great Mexico. Wealthy ruling class, and massive poverty with lawless violence. The MSM elites know they won’t be subject to the same cesspool the rest of us will. Ever seen a Communist/Socialist/Marxist/King living in poverty like his serfs?
Anyone seen a picture of the Perp? Most shootings by “Vets”, “Supremacists”, “Survivalists”, are reported non-stop by MSM if it fits their agenda.
They have his name but I can’t find a picture of the murderer.
Interesting.
“Just pump in some sleeping gas.”
Commissioner Gordon: The old sleeping gas trick?
Batman: Precisely!
Just pump in some sleeping gas. Is it really necessary to call out ATF and DHS?
That may be the best chance to save the boy.
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