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Six killed, including children, in Memphis shooting (Three others wounded).
CNN.com ^ | 3/3/08 | cnn

Posted on 03/03/2008 9:50:13 PM PST by dragnet2

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To: wastedyears

Me too bro! There’s a pattern and a tempo building towards the election. It’s been that way in other years too only not as obvious and insistent.


21 posted on 03/03/2008 11:31:25 PM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Refusing to calm down since the Waco massacre.)
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To: Eighth Square

~This country is dying

So sadly fact


22 posted on 03/03/2008 11:40:05 PM PST by JustPiper (If you do not stand behind our Troops~ Then you need to stand in FRONT of our Troops)
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To: Slip18

I didn’t see any details about the suspect or victims other than gender.


23 posted on 03/04/2008 3:02:59 AM PST by sneakers (STILL supporting Duncan Hunter! Proudly!)
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To: dragnet2
"You're suggesting the news not cover mass murders?

Well, have you seen what passes for coverage on some of these local channels in LA or New York?

I stumbled onto one such story in New York where the reporter dug and dug until he could get a money shot of a relative breaking down. The story centered around him calling all sorts of relatives till one agreed to talk on camera and the reporter asked leading question after leading question till he got the Uncle upset and he broke.

IIRC the kid who got shot had fled from a scene where he attempted to mug/rob someone he was shot by a police officer. The reporter kept asking if the uncle thought it was fair that the kid was shot by a police officer while running away.

The morale of the story: most of these so called murder stories on the news are just a way for the News Shows to grab headlines and get people to watch, they will go through all kinds of bull crap making it all as big and bloody as they can and highlight relatives of the person shot and try and get emotional outbursts and such. Very little reporting of facts its all gorey, and tantalizing glitz!

Like the song sez:

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

Don Henley nailed that one, no doubt!

24 posted on 03/04/2008 3:18:57 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: wastedyears
but I’m thinking there’s a conspiracy going on in the last 12-16 months...

Aside from the ever progressing ongoing NWO conspiracy; the completion of which we are now witnessing from it's very brink....? That conspiracy? The actual truth as I understand it is that oddly enough, shootings like these seem to rise in numbers and intensity during years that coincide with major election cycles. There has to be a connection and it's probably lunar in nature, rather than purely political. Meaning the psychos seem to sense that their cohorts in politics are "awakening" so they join them in stirring the pot so to speak.

25 posted on 03/04/2008 3:19:21 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier
"The actual truth as I understand it is that oddly enough, shootings like these seem to rise in numbers and intensity during years that coincide with major election cycles."

Honestly I don't think its a conspiracy as much as it is a reaction to events by the media.

If you've ever dealt with any media source that reports news there is always an underlying current in any such group to "tie events together" either through actual links or by grouping events into packages and such.

So for instance Barrack "Yo Momma" Obama makes a speech about crime the news paper will cover it and either link it to crime stats and a few crime stories or just place it on the same page as some. Now the people responsible for assembling the paper have a surplus of stories each day/week to print, so they will package stories that complement or link to each other. Same on News shows.

So I think its more a reaction to the politics of the moment. Of course I am sure some are manipulating those stories to make certain candidates look good but.

In all I think the formula is simple, During an election year more politicians talk about Crime, the Economy, Taxes etc. so More Stories are printed and broadcast about such things in way of packaging these News Vehicles to be more cohesive and orderly.

26 posted on 03/04/2008 3:31:43 AM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: dragnet2

“We just don’t know the motive or cause of death,”

Huhh??? Mass shooting but we don’t know the cause of death?


27 posted on 03/04/2008 3:46:16 AM PST by heckler (wiskey for my men, beer for my horses, rifles for sister sarah)
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To: heckler

Just no respect for human life. People care more about animals than other humans.


28 posted on 03/04/2008 4:56:34 AM PST by Cheryllynn
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To: sneakers; Slip18
I didn’t see any details about the suspect or victims other than gender

And that's why you can say with about 95% probability that they're black. The media code of omerta when it comes to identifying the race when blacks are, or are most likely are, the criminals.

29 posted on 03/04/2008 5:01:59 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

YOU:

And that’s why you can say with about 95% probability that they’re black. The media code of omerta when it comes to identifying the race when blacks are, or are most likely are, the criminals.

ME: Boy, aint that the truth....we have that spin in pittsburgh news on almost a daily basis.


30 posted on 03/04/2008 5:44:05 AM PST by raygunfan
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To: AlexW

I used to work in Whitehaven, just off Elvis Presley Blvd. The name surely doesn’t fit now. Very dangerous from there all the way to the river.


31 posted on 03/04/2008 5:53:16 AM PST by freebird5850
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To: Mad Dawgg
Honestly I don't think its a conspiracy as much as it is a reaction to events by the media.

Definitely not a conspiracy. I tend to agree with you about the propensity of the media to use current events to sway the direction of politics and public opinion, but I also think that there is validity to the theory that crimes grow more severe and heinous in election years. That's probably something psychological on the part of the perpetrators who understand a raised level of sensitivity on the part of media. It seems like they feed off each other. Great and sick minds think alike? Well, maybe.

32 posted on 03/04/2008 6:14:45 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: raygunfan
Last week the radio reported that 5 men were convicted of murder and racketeering in a drug trial. Oddly ehough no names were mentioned, so I immediately thought hispanics. I looked it up and I was 80% right
Nahmias said that according to evidence during a six-week trial, Daniel Villenas-Reyes, 36, Marco Antonio Cordero, 33, Sammy Duque, 34, and Juan Duque, 31, all of Cedartown, and Houston Shane Rosser, 36, of Centre, Ala., were all convicted of conspiring to engage in a racketeering enterprise from March 2000 and December 2006.
4 Hispanics (no doubt hard working citizens who came here to make a better life for themselves or the anchor babies thereof) and one redneck.
33 posted on 03/04/2008 6:15:40 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: pandoraou812

BTTT


34 posted on 03/04/2008 6:24:52 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: dragnet2
These types of incidents are clearly occurring at increasing frequency.

Or, just being reported with greater regularity.

35 posted on 03/04/2008 7:29:48 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: SoldierDad

These types of incidents are clearly occurring at increasing frequency.

=+=+=

Or, just being reported with greater regularity.

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I think it is a bunch of both.


36 posted on 03/04/2008 8:03:38 AM PST by fproy2222
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To: Eighth Square

Yes, this country is dying!!


37 posted on 03/04/2008 8:06:58 AM PST by pollywog
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To: SoldierDad
These types of incidents are clearly occurring at increasing frequency.

Or, just being reported with greater regularity.

Then you must be suggesting mass murder events were not reported about in the past. If in fact you're suggesting this, I would be confident in saying that is not the case.

38 posted on 03/04/2008 8:11:48 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: from occupied ga

Agree...The media goes out of their way to protect minorities, illegal aliens etc. Just as they go out of their way to portray white people on television as helpless bumbling uncool morons and racist. But this is expected from the entertainment/media types. Many of them are illegal drug users and very liberal/socialist minded...Others are afraid to speak their mind and risk careers.


39 posted on 03/04/2008 8:27:37 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: AlexW

Same way here in Oakland.
I know people here at FR mock the whole “self esteem”movement as New Age nonsense and in a way it is.However,blacks in generel have very low self esteem and thus all too often are ready to kill someone who looks like them at the slightest pretext(”you disrespected me,nigga”)
Very tragic.


40 posted on 03/04/2008 8:37:16 AM PST by Riverman94610
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