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DC-Cannon House Bldg on lockdown-MSNBC [Update: gun was plastic]
MSNBC | 10/30/03 | MSNBC

Posted on 10/30/2003 10:38:23 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat

Searching for a lone gunman


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: cannonbldg; halloween; oswald; toygun
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To: Mo1
MSNBC: No charges will be filed..

"Lovely .. Our kids get kicked out of school for a keychain

But these 2 idiots bring a toy gun into a Federal Building and Nothing

What is wrong with this picture"

Sheesh. Well I hope they at least send them the bill for the police etc etc.


441 posted on 10/30/2003 12:33:41 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: I_love_weather
"Fox News Guy Says "Washington DC sometimes attracts deranged people."

LOL. You can say that again!!! Look at the people in our so-called "government."
442 posted on 10/30/2003 12:37:56 PM PST by vikingcelt
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Searching for a lone gunman


443 posted on 10/30/2003 12:50:44 PM PST by slimer ("The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato)
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To: OldFriend
Incompetence kills.

Or, as the (obviously token hire) Children's Welfare commissioner from New Jersey (where the adoptees were starving) says, "UN-competence" kills.

444 posted on 10/30/2003 1:01:54 PM PST by hispanarepublicana (successful, educated unauthentic latina--in Patrick Leahy's eyes, at least)
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To: StriperSniper
Actually I have a very suspicious mind.

It makes me wonder if these 'innocent staffers" playing a "halloween trick" weren't actually DNC staffers used to create a bigger news story than the surging economy?

I bet that Peter, Dan and Tom tonight will devote more time to this 'scare' than to the now booming economy.

Also, see if they dare to compare GWB's tax relief and now economic growth to what Ronnie Reagan did exactly 20 yrs earlier.

The Dems must be reminded of what happened in '84 and what will happen to them in '04.

445 posted on 10/30/2003 1:03:44 PM PST by auzerais (Boycott ALL CBS Affilliates!!!)
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To: SandyInSeattle
Now, kitten, you've apparently never been standing in front of the elevator bank in the federal building at 4:30...

LOL!! That's true!

446 posted on 10/30/2003 1:07:05 PM PST by retrokitten
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To: auzerais
actually DNC staffers used to create a bigger news story than the surging economy?

You know, that does sound like a possiblility. I have to go media blind for a couple hours now so I will have to catch the rerun, but Cavuto at the top of the show mentioned the 'buts' that the media is already put in the stories. He is going to have some guest on to discuss that.

447 posted on 10/30/2003 1:08:43 PM PST by StriperSniper (All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: auzerais
His guest is Jack Welsch on now.
448 posted on 10/30/2003 1:14:57 PM PST by StriperSniper (All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: StriperSniper
Welsch=Welch (former GE CEO)
449 posted on 10/30/2003 1:16:51 PM PST by StriperSniper (All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Major_Risktaker
So if 10 bad guys buy swat gear and move in on a government building do you think they could get in?

Hey, it got guys in and out of a casino in Ocean's Eleven!
450 posted on 10/30/2003 1:22:37 PM PST by beezdotcom
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Since the anti-gun crowd has'nt had much luck lately with violating our second amendment rights,i'm sure they put somebody up to this just like they have with all the other events.
451 posted on 10/30/2003 1:42:46 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: mewzilla
We should take this opportunity to reflect on what went wrong. How could a gun, real or toy, get smuggled passed government security? There's no doubt our security procedures in buildings and airports must be strengthened.

The old set questions just don't cut it anymore, like how many terrorists or plain vanilla gun-toters, foreign or domestic, would incriminate themselves by answering the wrong way questions like: "Did you pack your bags?" and "Did they ever leave your sight?"

Obviously, the right questions and a sufficient number of questions are not being asked.

As luck would have it, the Jesse Jackson School of Advisors for Security and Shakedown Operations stands ready to help, to mix it up, to provide a rhyme in time, to add spice to life. Specifically, JJSASSO recommends that interrogators should be asking, "Is that...

a pistol in your pocket?
a gat in your hat?
a mauser in your trouser?
a skoda on your shoulder?
a sidearm in the right arm?
a smoker for the poker?
a duster for the muster?
a trundle for the rumble?
a barker with a marker?
a browning not for clowning?
an uzi with your doozy?
a heater with the cheater?
a torpedo with libido?
a shooter with the rooter?
a pipe that might be ripe?
an iron for little Byron?
a tube for the dude?
a breech for the teach?
a gun up the bun?
a flintlock with shock?
a tool that'd make you drool?
a blunderbuss without the fuss?
a repeater with the beater?
a widowmaker inside the shaker?
a peacemaker, not a faker?

452 posted on 10/30/2003 2:18:46 PM PST by OESY
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To: mewzilla
I can't wait to find out which Congresscritter these idiot staffers belong to. If that's actually what happened.

I think it is very important that the identities of these two women be made public ASAP.

Because the media hasn't already jumped to immediately identify them, my guess is that they must be DNC staffers, possibly belonging to some important Congressman/woman.

I have said before that I really wouldn't put it past some in the DNC to even 'stage' this kind of 'news event' just to divert the media's attention away from the economy's surging 7.2% growth and recovery.

If any Freeper has heard/read of the actual identities of these two 'pranksters' [and who they 'belong to'], please post &/or email that info.

453 posted on 10/30/2003 2:44:01 PM PST by auzerais (Boycott ALL CBS Affilliates!!!)
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To: enuu
--How do we know there was not a toy gun used as a foil for a real gun?--

My thoughts Exactly!
454 posted on 10/30/2003 2:48:18 PM PST by Joined2Justify (Why do MrBuff's front co's buy our mfgs and shut them down a year later?)
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To: auzerais
Brit Hume just said that the two staffers work for an Illinois Congressman Karl Shimkas(sp?), but I cannot find him in Townhall.com's list of Congressmen.

Anyone from IL want to weigh in on who this is?

I'm thinking he must be a Democrat because Rep MacCarthy was on Buchannan &Press earlier and didn't mention who these staffers belonged to.
I am positive that had these two been Republicans, she would have been sure to accuse Bush somehow.

455 posted on 10/30/2003 3:23:51 PM PST by auzerais (Boycott ALL CBS Affilliates!!!)
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To: auzerais; mewzilla
Shimkus, John (R)515 Cannon.

Congressman Shimkus

Republican. Office on 5th floor of the Cannon building. Isn't that where they found the "suspects"?

456 posted on 10/30/2003 3:40:06 PM PST by Cooter
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To: I_love_weather
Fox News Guy Says "Washington DC sometimes attracts deranged people"

Love; C'mon, why are you spreading rumors. You are not listening.

The quote was, sometimes attracts sane people:>)

457 posted on 10/30/2003 3:48:04 PM PST by biffalobull
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To: Diddle E. Squat
How do you explain the early reports, one of which you offered, that said the perp was a young man who "fled" ("ran," "took off," "escaped") past the inspection area into the building?
458 posted on 10/30/2003 4:14:29 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (There are very few shades of gray.)
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To: hispanarepublicana
Yes, I heard that moron.......and she's got a graduate degree....probably from a NJ college.
459 posted on 10/30/2003 4:24:30 PM PST by OldFriend (DEMS INHABIT A PARALLEL UNIVERSE)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Now that we know what happened.....................The staffer should be cannned on general principles of being too stupid to be working anywhere near the levers-of-power.
460 posted on 10/30/2003 4:26:52 PM PST by DoctorMichael (Thats my story, and I'm sticking to it.)
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