Posted on 11/20/2004 1:26:07 PM PST by AppyPappy
Blacksburg social activists listed as missing following suspected arson
The fire's cause had not yet been determined in what police are calling "a very vague crime scene."
By Shay Barnhart 981-3665 The New River Valley Current
PEARISBURG - Giles County sheriff's investigators are looking for two Blacksburg social activists who haven't been seen since Thursday morning, when a cabin in Newport that was home to one of them was destroyed by fire.
Sue Daniels, 44, who lived in the cabin, and her friend, Niklan Jones-Lezama, 40, have been listed in a national database of missing people, said Lt. Willie Lucas of the Giles County Sheriff's Office. Newport firefighters were called to Daniels' cabin on Spruce Run Road outside Newport about 7:20 a.m. Thursday. Firefighters found what turned out to be an animal's remains, probably a stray dog, in the rubble and called investigators, Lucas said.
(Excerpt) Read more at roanoke.com ...
I'm just outside of Christiansburg, and I can't believe I missed this, too.
They are messed up. The whole School of Americas protest group is a bunch of Cuba loving unwashed hippies.
Was it a murder/suicide?
It was in the Current. My wife has met the killer's wife. Poor woman. She has to pay to bury his two-timing carcass.
Yup. He disembowled himself and cut his wrists and throat.
From this link it appears they had a bizarre fetish with death to begin with.
http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=365
Blacksburg is still fairly conservative. The liberal professors keep to themselves. The hippie population has just about disappeared.
Just nuts looking for a squirrel.
Sue Daniels
I lay still as if dead, my clothes soaked in symbolic blood, my face painted white, my head covered with a black shroud. Niklan lay nearby, in the awkward position of the dead...his eyeglasses crooked, his arm folded and leg twisted. A heavy sob escaped my mouth occasionally; Nik cried quietly and almost continually. We listened as beautiful voices called out the names of those murdered, in a never-ending song of sorrow. Though we could not see them, we knew there were thousands of people walking slowly by, grieving deeply. It was November 18, 2001, one of the most powerful and beautiful days of my life-- the 12th anniversary of the massacre of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her 15 year-old daughter, in El Salvador, at the Jesuit university, by soldiers trained at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Ten thousand people, carrying ten thousand crosses, processed in solemn grief by the gates of Fort Benning that day. Written on each cross was the name of a person killed by soldiers trained at the School of the Americas. Most laid their crosses, along with banners, signs, flowers, pictures, and other memorials to the dead, on the huge chain link fence blocking the roadway onto the base. So many crosses were laid on the fence that it soon was a solid wall...but hundreds of thousands more would be needed to represent every victim of this school for civilian warfare.
(...snip)
Is there a link to the Current?
We cancelled our Roanoke Times Subscription. (Sometimes, on Saturday, we "borrow" our neighbor's from their RT box, then put it back. [She knows :-)]
This cabin was in Giles County, wasn't it?
"He disembowled himself and cut his wrists and throat."
That takes guts.
Yes, if I read correctly.
Far beyond the fields of Blacksburg - in a field of rye,
Stands an old deserted outhouse, known as VPI.
Hokie, Hokie, Hokie High;
Tech, Tech - Blacksburg High!
Solar X, Solar Y.
The Hell with Tech - VMI!
Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Sooooweeee!
Interesting story about the Bush election:
We put a green/yellow Bush farm team sign up in front of one of our old red barns, facing our rural highway. After the election, one of the young tree farmers came up to us and said, "I done what you wanted me to do," nodding his head vaguely in the direction of the barn.
"Done what?" I asked.
"Went on yonder up to the school and voted for 'im," he replied.
"Oh!" I was taken aback. Trying to think quickly I asked, "Who else didya vote for?"
"No un," he said looking worried, "jist your guy." Then he added "All-a m'buddies came, too." Then he pulled himself up straight and said, "I may not be smart, like y'all, but I know enough to trust y'all 'cause I know you are the only ones round here that can make any sense of all this."
I was deeply embarrassed (and humbled). We thanked him for voting, but urged him not to follow without verifying in future. My spouse shared the Freerepublic motto of "Trust but verify."
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