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The Oakland County Fugitive Apprehension Team was searching Friday for the parents of Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old Oxford High sophomore charged with first-degree murder of four students and other criminal charges, after county Undersheriff Mike McCabe said the couple had stopped responding to their attorney.
"On Thursday night, we contacted the Oakland County prosecutor to discuss this matter and to advise her that James and Jennifer Crumbley would be turning themselves in to be arraigned," lawyers Shannon Smith and Mariell Lehman told The Detroit News. "Instead of communicating with us, the prosecutor held a press conference to announce charges."...
The unions have an obligation to a safe and sane environment for the work their members do. This is a work place issue and the standards administrations are using are not enough to ensure the safe practice of teaching.
Violence in the work place is a huge problem and there is every reason to believe it is making a come back. For awhile a few years ago work place violence was frequent, then it settled down, but, I think it is going to become more common place.
The permission Trump gave to people to commit violence in the name of their country within it's borders is a real problem, not simply a make believe problem. It is real and people are highly aggitated. It is time for unions to again address safe work environments.
Unions can set their own standards and then expect the employer to comply to be sure violence is put in check.
A Flint man (click here) dressed in a University of Michigan hoodie assaulted police officers with a baton during the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol, according to a federal indictment Thursday.
Justin Jersey, 31, is facing six charges, including assault, civil disorder, breaking into a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct, violent entry and engaging in physical violence, according to a petition filed in federal court in Detroit. The assault charges are the most serious, punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison....
He probably got the baton from the police. There simply is on doubt this was a sincere effort to end the 2020 elections and the peaceful transfer of power. They were there to instill Trump. They expected to be treated as heroes after Trump maintained office.
Pontiac - Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald (click here) said Oxford High School officials should not have allowed a student who allegedly shot 10 classmates and one teacher return to class after holding a meeting with his parents about drawings of blood-soaked bodies and firearms a teacher found in his possession.
McDonald held a Friday, Dec. 3 press conference to announce involuntary manslaughter charges against James Robert Crumbley and Jennifer Lynn Crumbley, saying they hold partial responsibility for a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by their son. The Oakland prosecutor also addressed the frustration of many in Oxford that school officials did not do enough to pick up on warnings that 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley was planning violence....
This is negligence. The student could have been put on suspension until proper referrals were made to Social Workers for the county and get them services. The child was distrubed and it may have been the household environment. He obviously couldn't handle himself in administering violence to others. What was that all about?
It seems to me the shooter had some serious problems and they were glossed over rather than dealt with to resolve them. This is a really bad reflection on the leadership in that school system.
December 2, 2021 By Izzy Martin
Flint - A teenage girl (click here) may be facing 40 years in prison after making threats to shoot up Southwestern Classical Academy in Flint.
Prosecutor John Potbury says the 17-year-old was riding the school bus this morning when she recorded a video on her phone with a rap-style message in which threats of shooting up the school “like Oxford” were made and subsequently posted to social media.
The assistant principal at the school was alerted of the incident and reported it to Flint police....
There is a lot more at stack than another country in NATO, communists are on the move. The illegitmate president of Russia will invade Ukraine because the Ukraine military remains lightweight compared to what it faces with Russia's border.
As soon as Putin sets down the path of war, China will follow with Taiwan and put The West, including Australia in a multi-front war. There is no doubt Putin must be stopped as well as China. It is better if The West take the initiative to push the Russian troops back from the border with Ukraine and bring security to Taiwan. Once the communists commit to multi-front wars, there is no turning back for them. It is defeat The West or Bust.
NATO along with Pacific allies like Japan must begin the push back before it is even needed. For far too long the communists have been taking incremental movement to TEST how far they can go. China is attempting intimidation of The West by testing it's satellite destroyer that also launches what is most probably nuclear missiles from space. It is time to end the renewed Cold War and stop border incursions anywhere and all together.
Border incursions are a real reason for troop movement and confrontation. This is what it is going to take to reverse the four years of Trump pandering to communists and dictators and disloyalty to the USA national security. Defeating border incursions is a whole lot better than all out warfare.
Secretary of State Blinken's initatives MUST be backed by strong military decisions. Throughtout the history of the USA out greatest strength was quiet diplomacy backed by a strong military and it's prowess. The Late Colin Powell had The Powell Doctrine and the Late President Theodore Roosevelt stated, "...walk quietly, but, carry a big stick...". This is who the USA is and always has been.
There is a reason for the USA submarines coming to Australia, there are reasons why the USA left Afghanistan and that was because with communists being emblodened by Trump there is real danger in the world and we cannot afford to be spread too thin. Recently, Israeli leadership stated it felt lonely after the USA left Afghanistan, but, in reality Israel is not looking at the global picture post Trump.
It is time to get real with the communists and push the incursions and troop build ups back behind communist borders.
Swiss President Guy Parmelin, (click here) center, greets President Joe Biden, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the 'Villa la Grange', Wednesday, June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ukraine MUST enlist the support of NATO in it's country now. There can be no delay for Ukraine to become a member of the alliance.
December 1, 2021
By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Alex Marquardt
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (click here) warned Russia to stand down on its efforts todestabilize Ukraineand said there would be "severe consequences" for any Russian military action.
"We don't know whether President Putin has made the decision to invade" Ukraine, Blinken said in remarks at the end of a North Atlantic Treaty Alliance meeting in Latvia. "We do know that he's putting in place the capacity to do so on short order, should he so decide. So despite uncertainty about intention, and timing, we must prepare for all contingencies while working to see to it that Russia reverses course."
Blinken spoke just hours afterRussian President Vladimir Putinsaid in a speech that the "threat" at Russia's western border is growing. In his own remarks, Blinken noted that the world has already seen Moscow significantly increase troops along the border and deploy misinformation to suggest Ukraine is the aggressor....
A lot has changed in USA-Russia relations since September 11, 2001. The undermining of a fledgling democracy in Russia by Putin, the placement of Putin as the new Zcar forever and the return to communism and expansionism by Putin all are failures of his leadership and must be ended in order for a new generation of Russians to flourish in Russia.
There was also a similar news conference with Bush and Putin after September 11, 2001. The return to old Soviet mandates is obvious under Putin and a complete afront to the trust the Russia people once had in him.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): First of all, (click here) I'd like to say that we discussed these issues at length, face-to-face, just the two of us.
Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interest of itself, in the interest of its people, of its citizens.
PUTIN (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): This is our final choice and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before. And the guarantee for this is the choice of the Russian people themselves.
No guarantees from outside cannot be provided. This is impossible. It would be impossible for Russia today. Any kind of turn toward totalitarianism for Russia would be impossible due to the condition of the Russian society....
The day-to-day operations (click here) of most federal agencies are funded on an annual basis by appropriations. When those appropriation bills are not enacted by the start of the fiscal year on October 1, Congress uses a continuing resolution, or “CR,” as a temporary measure to fund government activities for a limited amount of time. Continuing resolutions are temporary “stopgaps,” often employed to avoid a partial government shutdown and to give lawmakers more time to enact appropriations for the full year. However, programs deemed as essential services, such as those related to public safety, often continue to operate even in the absence of a CR.
December 2, 2021 By Clare Foran, Manu Raju, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav
Congress averted a government shutdown (click here)Thursday evening when both chambers voted to pass a stopgap bill to extend funding through mid-February after party leaders brokered a deal to overcome GOP brinkmanship over vaccine mandates.
The final tally in the Senate was 69-28.
Passage of the stopgap bill ahead of a Friday at midnight deadline ended a standoff that had threatened to trigger a shutdown when a small number of Republican senators who object toPresident Joe Biden's vaccine requirements had held out the possibility of holding up a quick vote on the funding bill.
To resolve the impasse, the two parties agreed to hold votes on the stopgap bill as well as a GOP amendment to prohibit the use of federal funding for Covid-19 vaccine mandates, which ultimately failed....
Alec Baldwin is an actor, but, in this case he is also a businessman. He has no choice but to come to the public and put things in perspective. I don't think he talked about the replacement of Ms. Hutchins.
Investigators (click here) are trying to determine the source of live rounds on the set of the film “Rust.” A gun that was supposed to be loaded with dummy rounds was fired by the actor Alec Baldwin, killing a cinematographer. Credit...
December 2, 2021 By Suzy Byrne
Alec Baldwin said (click here) he "didn't pull the trigger" on the prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the Rust set — and assistant director Dave Halls is backing him up.
On Thursday's Good Morning America, Halls's attorney, Lisa Torraco, said her client has maintained "since day one" that Baldwin's finger was "never in the trigger guard" when the gun fired on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set outside Santa Fe. Also, Seth Kenney, who had his PDQ Arm & Prop business in Albuquerque searched by authorities this week, spoke out for the first time.
"The entire time Baldwin had his finger outside the trigger guard — parallel to the barrel," Torraco said of Halls's account of the shooting in which director Joel Souza was also shot. "He told me since day one that he thought it was a misfire."
Torraco said until Baldwin said that he didn't pull the trigger, in a preview clip from his ABC News interview airing Thursday night, "it was really hard to believe. But Dave has told me from the very first day I met him that Alec did not pull that trigger."...
It is not clear what is occurring with Omicron in the USA, but, the world is going to suffer terribly, especially countries where there are far fewer of the people vaccinated. I am concerned about the world's elderly at this point.
President Biden will be the hero to the American people by insisting they all be vaccinated. He is saving lives and this virus could have done at least as much damage to the USA as the original COVID-19 if so many hadn't been vaccinated. Lives are still in the balance and the number of cases of illness, albeit not severe, may still cripple the economy.
December 3, 2021 By Abigail Ng
“Frankly, omicron (click here) will dominate and overwhelm the whole world in three to six months,” Singapore doctor Leong Hoe Nam told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia.”
New vaccines targeting omicron are a “nice idea” but won’t be practical because of the transmissibility of the strain, he said.
Experts don’t know exactly how contagious the highly mutated omicron variant is, but the virus’ spike protein — which binds to human cells — has mutations associated with higher transmission and a decrease in antibody protection....
What is the symbiosis? Money. Money comes into the Federalist Society and money goes out. Where to? The Republicans running for office. It may be the biggest donor next to the Kochs.
So, with Leonard able to influence political choice, he also attracts ambitious men and women that want a permanent paycheck on the USA Supreme Court.
IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MONEY. Either giving it to a power broker or receiving it in one fashion or another.
This is the dynamics at play with the five crackpot judges. They feel they need to LEND their loyalities to Leonard and make his organization the strongest politically for Republicans.
Cozy. Imagine being involved with a supposedly social society organization and be guaranteed a salary of 6 or 7 figures simply by owning the Supreme Court and it's future.
Leonard (click here) is Co-Chairman and former Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society, joining the organization over 25 years ago. Since that time he has been instrumental in helping the organization top 70,000, focusing on the growth of lawyers membership, operations and activities advancing limited, constitutional government. In addition to his work at the Society, Leonard has advised President Trump on judicial selection, assisted with the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Supreme Court selection and confirmation process, and served as a member of the transition team. He also organized the outside coalition efforts in support of the Roberts and Alito U.S. Supreme Court confirmations. Leonard was appointed by President George W. Bush to three terms to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as chairman. He was also a U.S. Delegate to the UN Council and UN Commission on Human Rights during the Bush Administration. Leonard was the recipient of the 2009 Bradley Prize, along with the other founders and directors of the Federalist Society, for his work in advancing freedom and the rule of law. He is the coeditor of Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House, as well as the author of opinion editorials in the New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Leonard holds degrees from Cornell University and Cornell Law School. He presently resides in Northern Virginia, where he and his wife Sally have raised their seven children.
Their so called "strength" in changing direction on Roe v. Wade based in their religious fervor and professional affiliations with the Federalist Society (click here), is based on vocabulary words and not the experience of the American people.
We all know that women seek abortions regardless of it's legality and they fall into the hands of backstreet butchers. Those are the facts regarding the presedent of Roe v. Wade. If the Supreme Court changes direction ON THE SCIENCE that means this is offically a Banana Republic.
Law isn't about words, as the Crackpot Conservative judges believe is their right to manipulate. It is about citizens. The law is always about people and primarily it should protect in all its words the rights of innocent citizens. There are laws that are supposed to protect citizens in the practice of business and in protecting their very lives. But, what we know is that there are two sides to every story and that is the beauty of the USA Constitution. It is not absolute in it's authority as demonstrated by the Fifth Amendment and the right to Due Process.
The most dramatic example of "fairness" in law is exactly at the time of sentencing of a murderer. People from past come forward to speak to the crime the murderer committed. Due to that aspect of sentencing the law tempers the punishment to fit the crime.
A good example recently is the attempted coup on January 6, 2021. The people are stating they were asked by the former president to overturn the electoral process to prevent the peaceful change of president. The people of those CRIMES are going before judges and coming away with varying sentences. Some strong and some weak, but, many of those involved in that uprising to benefit Trump were from "normal" backgrounds. The weaker assignment of law to some of the people is due to the fact this is their first unlawful act and confess they did it for the wrong reasons. Basically, they are telling the judges they are sorry for their misconduct and it will never happen again. The judges have no reason to dismiss those pleadings.
But, as to Roe v. Wade.
To begin, a fetus is not a human being or a citizen of the USA until it is born. Fetuses cannot obtain viability until 24 weeks at the earliest. At that point there are some state laws that allow an abortion clinic to bring a viable life into the world and place it on life support to allow a neonatal unit to complete the growth of the fetus. Upto that point, a fetus is not viable and therefore it is the woman's body that has the strongest majority of rights at that point. A woman's body should always come first before a fetus. Always, without exception. There have been some dramatic births of women killed or dead due to accidents and the babies are still born to their families.
No girl grows up thinking there is a potential of dying from childbirth or carry a pregnancy to term because a law is judging them morally according to church doctrine. A girl has dolls to play with thinking this is the happy moment my Mommy had with me. When women become pregnant by MISTAKE that does not mean their lives are changed forever, because, there is no hiding a full term pregnancy and their lives can be adversely effected from that reality alone. If the pregnancy is unwanted then it is the right of the woman to end that pregnancy as it is a medical condition that will have it's way with her, both physically and emotionally. Unwatned pregnancy can have a strong negative impact on a woman's life.
I don't want to hear, but, they can give the baby up for adoption. That happens regularly. Children are abandoned to orphanages until they are adopted, if at all. If that is the choice of a parent to give up their children for their own reasons, that is legal in the USA. But, all to often when women speak about the children they gave up for adoption, they conclude that the "not knowing" is always on their conscience. So, even when children are surrendered for adoption their presence in the world is still felt by the birth parents. It is a rare occassion that a birth parent simply doesn't care about knowing the child at any time in the future. We always hear about child finding their birth parents and it is a cathartic to them. Really? I didn't know the child was wounded.
Roe v. Wade removed the idea that laws could minister moral judgement on women. It allowed a woman to own her life autonomously and even if in a bad marriage whereby she faced or faces abuse on a regular basis.
The American people love pregnant women and love babies when born, there is no reason for a law to judge a woman about her willingness to give birth to a new citizen. A woman has a right to maintain her health and well being from any condition that could alter her happiness and/or her life and lifestyle. It is not easy to go through a pregnancy alone and quite frankly, to solely carry a fetus to full term if 280 days or 40 weeks without a spouse or partner is difficult. There are times, especially with other children already in the family, that life becomes impossible to manage alone.
So, the issue of Roe v. Wade is enormous, including judgements against parents for child support. It is about women and their right to their own bodies. It is about privacy between a woman and her doctor. Ultimately, it is about the burden of an unwanted pregnancy and a woman's happiness. Women are allowed to be happy and have a family and/or career, but, it is their choice and no one else's choice. That is enormous and is the promise of the democratic freedoms guaranteed to all Americans.
There are currently no reasons to review the precedent of Roe v. Wade. It is settled precedent and should remain so.
Women in the USA have great potential that benefits our laws and our economy. Currently, women seeking to be part of government, on the average, enter into that potential ten years behind men simply because they are pregnant and raising a family.
First abortion will be 14 weeks and then it will be six and then abortion will be outlawed plunging women into prison to obtain their infants. (ie: The then Cheyenne Kupper (a practicing Wiccan) vs New Hanover County DSS) DSS won by threatening to remove all future pregnancies from her should she take the full length of time to fight their power. The babies were harvested and given to a childless couple that was expecting Cheyenne to go to prison for 30 years for human traffiking. The supposed woman being traffiked went to the father's attorney to state there was no traffiking that occured as she was homeless and they gave her shelter and a job helping in the household. Cheyenne wasn't guilty, achieved that status through a plea agreement in order to attempt to be with her children for the rest of her life and ultimately lost all of them because of the threat from New Hanover County DSS. The assistant prosecutor handling the case was running for office and gained notoriety through the arrests.
They absolutely threatened her against the fate of future pregnancies. When a government worker who is responsible for the well being of a woman's children while she is fighting to have them back, tell that woman she will never have custody of children again, there is more than the threat taking place, there is a deep, abiding fear of the "judicial system" that takes over and complete demoralization of a person just experiencing injustice and prison becomes a new reality to the power over her and the faith she has known from when she was a child. This taking of the twin (one boy and one girl) infants was religious bigotry and the desire for employees of a county agency to keep their jobs otherwise lose faith in their ability to place infants with families enrolled in the Foster Parent to Custodial Parent program.
There is systemic government abuse now, just imagine it when the Supreme Court tells a woman what she can do with her body.
December 1, 2021
By Leah Litman, assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School
On Wednesday, (click here) the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the first frontal, explicit challenge to Roe v. Wade in almost 30 years. Roe is the 1973 decision holding that women have a constitutional right to decide to have an abortion before viability, usually around 24 weeks. The last time the court was asked to overrule Roe, in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, it reaffirmed women’s right to decide when and whether they have children....
Very cute, the Supreme Court with the only female justice in history at that point, was the radicalized political court, according to Chief Justice Cruz.
SEN. TED CRUZ: (click here) "Well, listen, unfortunately with the left, when it comes to abortion, they’ve gotten more and more radical. You see that with the questioning of Justice Sotomayor, where she is suggesting that to protect a life is somehow taking a religious view. For most of human history, life has been protected. And if you look at where the court really started to go wrong, the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade started the Supreme Court down this very dangerous road of being deeply, deeply politicized. What the justices said in Roe is, ‘You silly voters, you don’t have a right to make any decisions regulating abortions. It doesn’t matter what you may vote to do, what your citizens vote to do…We nine unelected judges are going t decree the rules for you."
...Women’s health and women’s reproductive health (click here) are high priorities for CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health. Our goal is to improve women’s health from menarche through menopause. CDC/DRH activities focus primarily on research about the following: Contraception (birth control), Depression, Hysterectomy, Female Genital Mutiliation/Cutting, Infertility and Menopause.
December 1, 2021 By Kaitian Collins, Jacqueline Howard and Betsy Klein
Tonight, CNN's Anderson Cooper (click here) and Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta host a global town hall on the Omicron coronavirus variant and Dr. Anthony Fauci will answer viewer questions. Watch live at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.
The United States' first confirmed case of the Omicron coronavirus variant has been identified in California.
In a White House news briefing, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the case was in an individual who traveled from South Africa on November 22 and tested positive for Covid-19 on November 29....
Self quarantine requires about three weeks before the course of the virus is understood. That is the case in the Netherlands and Belgium. It takes time to allow the virus to run its course, so it is better to be cautious. Things are looking good so far with the vaccinated. It probably tempers the effects of the virus.
That is pure speculation and should not enter into any decisions regarding the virus until all the facts are realized.
...Deaths to teenagers 12-19 years (click here) comprise a small fraction of the total deaths occurring each year in the United States. From 1999 to 2006 less than 1 percent (0.68 percent)–or 131,000 deaths–occurred to teenagers 12-19 years. This represents an average of 16,375 deaths per year for this group. Teenage mortality is an important public health issue because the majority of deaths among teenagers are caused by external causes of injury such as accidents, homicide, and suicide. These causes of death are, by definition, preventable....
Pediatricans as individuals and in their professional organizations need to address the growing problem with violence against our children. Onine chat rooms and their influence need to be addressed in a real and measurable way. White Supremacists/Nationalists are required to attend school up to the age of 16.
Violence in schools needs to be an annual school class that all parents MUST attend or have social workers visit the house. Parents and teachers as well as administrators need to know the signs of depression and aggression that is inappropriate. The concept of "cliques" or "posses" need to be discussed and put into place the idea that social exclusivity is not a healthy interaction for any child or teen. When teens isolate into groups of any kind there is always the issue of belonging and who does not belong.
The issue of gun violence in particular should be discussed ad nauseum with parents and educators. There are signs about this stuff and it cannot be ignored. Any inkling at all of any type of gun appreciation by a young student that is not allowed to purchase one, and can only have one for hunting with supervision of a parent needs to be called out and guidance councilors informed of the danger such ideology places within the school setting.
Art should be appropriate for the age group.
Students stuggling with their studies MUST be considered in danger of failure as an adult. I know there are plenty of examples otherwise, but, for any school to allow failure to go on unchecked the problems simply continue to mount. Even a grocery clerk needs to count change.
Social isolation of any kind is a warning sign that social work needs to get involved and evaluate the home environment and the students failure to be socially engaged.
A school can set up all sorts of magnatometers, security guards, etc., but, the warning signs are available to all to see and should be addressed before they result in tragedy on or off school grounds. This violence in the USA with guns flowing like water is an outrage and the professional organizations must bring about dialogues about this to end such hideous laws allowing this danger in our country.
The ages from 15 to 18 are an exciting time of life. But these years can be challenging for teens and their parents. Emotions can change quickly as teens learn to deal with school, their friends, and adult expectations. Teenself-esteemis affected by success in school, sports, and friendships. Teens tend to compare themselves with others, and they might form false ideas about their body image. The influence of TV, magazines, and the Internet can add to a teen's poor body image.
For parents, the teen years are a time to get to know their teenager. While teens are maturing, they still need a parent's love and guidance. Most do just fine as they face the challenges of being a teen. But it is still important for teens to have good support from their parents so that they can get through these years with as few problems as possible.
There are four basic areas of teenage development:
Physical development. Most teens enter puberty by age 15. Girls go through a time of rapid growth right before their first menstrual period. And by age 15, girls are near their adult height. Boys usually continue to grow taller and gain weight through their teen years.
Cognitive development. As they mature, teens are more able to think about and understand abstract ideas such as morality. They also begin to understand other people better. Even though they have a certain amount of empathy and can understand that others have different ideas, they often strongly believe that their own ideas are the most true.
Emotional and social development. Much of teens' emotional and social growth is about finding their place in the world. They are trying to figure out "Who am I?" and "How do I fit in?" So it is normal for their emotions to change from day to day.
Sensory and motor development. Boys continue to get stronger and more agile even after puberty. Girls tend to level out. Getting plenty of exercise helps improve strength and coordination in boys and girls.
Hasn't the shooter declared self defense yet for those nasty other kids trying to take his gun away from him and stating they were going to end his life?
So, do tell, how proud is a parent that has a child sitting in prison for the rest of his natural life after killing and maiming his peers? Real accomplishment in life, yes? Don't have to worry about college costs or paying off the head coach to secure a scholarship.
December 1, 2021 By Scott Atkinson, Mitch Smith and Neal E. Boudette
Oxford Charter Township - Students at Oxford High School (click here) in suburban Detroit rushed for cover and barricaded classroom doors with chairs when they heard the first gunshots on Tuesday afternoon. Within five minutes, the authorities said, a 15-year-old sophomore at the school had shot 11 people, killing three of his fellow students and leaving others with critical injuries.
The authorities identified the dead as Hana St. Juliana, 14; Madisyn Baldwin, 17; and Tate Myre, 16, who died in a sheriff’s squad car while on the way to a hospital. The injured students ranged in age from 14 to 17, officials said, including three who were in critical condition and another who was in serious condition. The only adult who was shot, a 47-year-old teacher, had been discharged from a hospital.
“I was just kind of sitting there shaking,” said Dale Schmalenberg, 16, who said he was in calculus class when his teacher heard a gunshot and locked down the classroom. “I didn’t really know how to respond.”
The rampage at Oxford High School, north of Detroit in Oakland County, was the deadliest shooting on school property this year, according to Education Week, which tracks such shootings and has reported 28 of them in 2021....
This one wasn't a mass shooting so it doesn't make headlines.
Police said their investigation revealed the shooting was gang-related after boys accused of shooting said they were armed at the school in fear they would be jumped during a fight with rival gang members.
Four other boys were named in arrest affidavits but have not been charged with crimes, even though they, too, were implicated in the court documents. Police declined to answer questions about the investigation, referring queries to the district attorney’s office.
Facing four counts of attempted first-degree murder and multiple other charges are Larry Renee Jefferson, Dalen Lenale Brewer and Diego Flores. Another boy, wounded while riding inside the truck, was not charged....
It must be a badge of honor these days to be arrested for murder as a teenager. If they organize their friends they can have a real revolution going in the shadows of Harris and Klebold.
November 30, 2021
By Mark Segraves, News4 Reporter and Andrea Swalec
The 15-year-old, whose name was not released, is accused in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in October on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
The Accomack County Sheriff’s Office announced the 15-year-old’s arrest, Shore Daily News reported.
Nicholas Kyle Joseph died Oct. 14 after he was shot multiple times in a vehicle the previous afternoon in Onancock, Virginia, the news outlet reported.
The 15-year-old and a 17-year-old are each charged with first- and second-degree murder and use of a firearm while committing a robbery.
The 15-year-old was a new student at Eastern High and enrolled in early November, weeks after the killing, sources told News4.
The arrest at the Northeast D.C. school occurred the same day an 18-year-old student was found to have a “ghost gun,” in an unrelated case....
The emergency issue along the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia was addressed and their proposed policy aligns more closely with the USA policy regarding immigration. The people coming to the border of the European Union from communist countries must have reasons for a safe haven and not simply because they decided to come to live in a different country.
The proposed regulations will now go before the EU legislators for a vote to pass into law. Also as part of the measure, the emergency land will be expanded if the votes uphold the proposal. Land expansion will provide a more secure stance of the region and minimize the spread of disease as well.
There are Americans within the borders of the USA that are estranged from their democracy. This is a purposeful estangement to benefit a disgraced former president.
There have always been differences between political parties in the USA, but, this is different. This is an extremist wing of a once trusted Republican Party. The new estrangement of Americans is sustained by the promise of a majority of Republicans in 2022 and then re-election of the disgraced president in 2024. This estangement isn't even based in disappointed politics, it is based in violence.
It is getting scary and this estrangement force likes that idea of "being scared." "Where is your gun?", because, the political figures engaged in this estrangement believes strongly there needs to be a civil war that ends the USA Constitution. The estranging force is racism and has been engaged in larger and growing measure since the election of 2000 that lead to the ultimate defeat of "The Voting Rights Act of 1965." Now, today, after the Supreme Court declaring money as a citizen our democracy is hanging in the balance. If on January 6th the gallows at the US Capitol had no other meaning, it certainly symbolized the desire of the crowd to hang the USA Constitution an kill it to its very roots.
The picture above says it all. The democracy was assaulted on January 6th by the very Americans that are estranged from the democracy for the purpose of obtaining the power of this government and economy. The USA has enormous power and that is what is at stake come 2022 and 2024. The people involved in this estrangement exercise are very guilty of turning against this USA Constitution.
Americans are being lead in the wrong direction by very powerful people. They are lead to believe if they stub their toe on the way to pay their taxes it is the government's fault and there should be insurrection and revolt. That is not a matter of choice, although they believe it is. There will be no revolt of the USA Constitution. I mean give me a break. Even the Christmas decorations are hated. This is an assault against the dignity of the people of this country and it is a crime against the US Constitution.
