Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Hostage drama drags on after Alabama school bus shooting
The Chicago Tribune ^ | 31 January 2013 | Phil Sears

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alabama; hostage; schoolbus; schoolshooting; shooting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last
To: Yardstick; MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

From the article:

***The Southern Poverty Law Center reported on its Hatewatch blog that a chief investigator with the Dale County Sheriff’s Office identified the gunman as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, although Reuters could not independently verify the gunman’s identity.

Investigator Tim Byrd said Dykes’ friends and neighbors described him as a “survivalist” who did not trust the government, according to the law center blog.

“He was standoffish, didn’t socialize or have any contact with anybody,” Byrd told Hatewatch.

Dykes had not been on the law center’s radar before the shooting and standoff, and there was nothing to suggest he was a member of any hate group, said senior fellow Mark Potok.

“What it looks like is that he’s some kind of anti-government radical and survivalist,” Potok told Reuters. “And exactly what that means, we don’t know.”***

All I can say is that the SPLC is a left-wing organization that admits it doesn’t look at “extreme” left-wing hate groups on its hate watch blog. Plus, I don’t trust Reuters or any of the MSM to not include an agenda or bias in their reports.

I’m not saying that this guy has all his marbles, and isn’t a criminal. I am suggesting that the media will use this situation to further denigrate anyone who doesn’t agree with the liberal mantra of the day, in this case, “anti-government radical and survivalist”. Didn’t they run with the story of Adam Lanza’s mom being a “prepper” based only on the information from one person, a former sister-in-law?


41 posted on 01/31/2013 9:37:57 PM PST by FamiliarFace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: yarddog
The TV thing. ..cannot they 'disengage' his service; his sattelitte; his. . .cable; whatever?

Meantime; given his'government fears'; it is clear, at least; it is Obama's fault.

This is a 'realty horror show'. And can only hope this child; is not totally aware of how bad it is.

42 posted on 01/31/2013 10:24:20 PM PST by cricket (Too many Libs-at-large. They just need a home; somewhere else. . .far away.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Where’s Dirty Harry when you need him?

And I’m not trying to make a joke of the situation. The whole bus thing makes me think of the movie, and how Harry Callahan had to say F* the PC establishment to get the job done.


43 posted on 01/31/2013 11:21:01 PM PST by MacMattico
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Big Horn

The pipe they use to lower the autism drugs and communicate to kidnapper Jimmy Lee Dykes is the key. With it they can put in a microphone that will pick up sleeping sounds. When it is obvious that Dykes is sleeping, they can send in a gas like Sevoflurane to put him in a deeper sleep. Then, they can breach the bunker and rescue the boy.


44 posted on 01/31/2013 11:36:10 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: jonrick46

Enough gas to put him to sleep would kill the boy.


45 posted on 02/01/2013 3:31:34 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: machogirl
Jimmy Lee Dykes
46 posted on 02/01/2013 5:17:03 AM PST by BO Stinkss
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: driftdiver
Enough gas to put him to sleep would kill the boy.

Correct. Believe it or not, but just leaving him alone with 4-5 folks for around-the-clock surveillance would probably be the most appropriate course of action to take. If he comes out, let him move about. Where is he going to go? I guarantee you he has no desire to go anywhere else but his property.

He'll have to do something about water, food, sewage, etc. and will have to come out. He's going to start having some feelings of remorse, if it doesn't already. Sooner or later, he's going to have to let the little boy go outside and will probably decide to just let him go. No need for a entire army there. They really want this guy alive to see what makes him tick, because there are many others just like him.

47 posted on 02/01/2013 5:20:34 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: BO Stinkss

thank you! i couldn’t seem to find it on any article i looked at.


48 posted on 02/01/2013 5:47:32 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: machogirl

You’re welcome. Whenever you need a picture, try google images.


49 posted on 02/01/2013 6:01:27 AM PST by BO Stinkss
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“Anti-Government Views” seems to be the keywords they have decided on in order to “demonstrate he is a “Republican”. They don’t seem to recall that it was the Leftists that really got the whole anti-government ball rolling and that “patriots” like the Una-bomber and others push the movement way to the Left as far as history goes.


50 posted on 02/01/2013 6:01:41 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BO Stinkss

BO does stink.


51 posted on 02/01/2013 6:16:31 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: jeffc

Probably just some SWAT guys. Or FBI HRT. Don’t rely on any reporter to know anything about the military although these days it is hard to tell.


52 posted on 02/01/2013 6:16:35 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Have they considered some kind of gas bomb down that talking tube they have? This is crazy.


53 posted on 02/01/2013 7:01:33 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: driftdiver

Is that really true of all gases?

How about enough to put the boy to sleep and disorient the man?


54 posted on 02/01/2013 7:05:25 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

If this guy is extremely prepared for adverse conditions, he may already have a gas mask with him.


55 posted on 02/01/2013 10:35:39 AM PST by FamiliarFace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: BO Stinkss; machogirl
That is a photo of the bus driver who was killed.

It is not Jimmy Lee Dykes.

56 posted on 02/01/2013 11:38:19 AM PST by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: onemiddleamerican

Hmmm, Jimmy Lee must have a picture somewhere.


57 posted on 02/01/2013 11:49:26 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: driftdiver
If just enough gas was induced to put Dykes in a deeper sleep; that incapacitated him enough that he would be unable to respond to a rescue, that might work. I would also use that time to drop down a surveillance camera to take a look at the inside of the bunker.
58 posted on 02/01/2013 11:59:38 AM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: onemiddleamerican

Sorry, my internets were wrong.


59 posted on 02/01/2013 12:02:58 PM PST by BO Stinkss
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: AUJenn

http://preemptionbroadcast.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-01-19T13_47_07-08_00 Listen to this and consider this as a possibility. I know I do.


60 posted on 02/01/2013 12:08:23 PM PST by rodeo-mamma
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson