http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/massmurder/ en-us Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:22:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073545/posts Stalin's mass murders were 'entirely rational' says new Russian textbook praising tyrant By Will Stewart Last updated at 1:10 AM on 03rd September 2008 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Ruthless: 20 million died as a result of Stalin's actions Stalin acted ‘entirely rationally’ in executing and imprisoning millions of people in the Gulags, a controversial new Russian teaching manual claims. Fifty-five years after the Soviet dictator died, the latest guide for teachers to promote patriotism among the Russian young said he did what he did to ensure the country’s modernisation. The manual, titled A History of Russia, 1900-1945, will... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073545/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:22:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047596/posts Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. “I had fun,” the man accused of a triple homicide in Scranton said when asked whether he had killed three people. Ten hours after a grizzly discovery at his residence on South Irving Avenue — three people so badly bludgeoned that the manner of death was difficult to determine — Rushing, 25, was taken into custody just after... Citizen's Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2047596/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:53:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043612/posts Several jurors wept Monday as they listened to emotional testimony from those who lost loved ones three years ago because Juan Manuel Alvarez parked his vehicle on railway tracks, triggering the worst train wreck in Metrolink history. The tears flowed from jurors as well as witnesses on the first day of testimony in the penalty phase of Alvarez's trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court. At one point, presiding Judge William R. Pounders told the prosecutors and defense attorneys that he noticed jurors were "having a hard time." "Almost all are crying," Pounders said. He later advised the panel of... The Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043612/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:54:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036974/posts Jurors today convicted Juan Manuel Alvarez of 11 counts of first-degree murder for the deadly Metrolink crash he caused three years ago when he parked his vehicle on railroad tracks. The jury also found the 29-year-old Compton laborer guilty of arson and a special circumstance allegation that makes him eligible for the death penalty. Jurors will now hear testimony to determine whether Alvarez should be put to death for his crimes. Alvarez sat without showing emotion as the guilty verdicts were announced in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. The jury of nine women and three men took less than two... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036974/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:54:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033206/posts LOS ANGELES — Deputy Dist. Atty. John Monaghan told jurors during closing arguments Wednesday that Juan Manuel Alvarez never intended to commit suicide when he drove his SUV onto train tracks at Chevy Chase Drive, having instead perpetrated the 2005 Metrolink train derailment that killed 11 and injured more than 180 passengers as an attention-grabbing stunt. Alvarez is charged with 11 counts of murder with special circumstances and one count each of arson and train wrecking for causing a Jan. 26, 2005, three-train crash when he drove his Jeep Cherokee onto the Metrolink tracks between Glendale and Los Angeles and... Burbank Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033206/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009524/posts Most people have never heard of Operation Frequent Wind, which ended on April 30, 1975, 33 years ago. But every American has seen pictures of it: the Marine helicopters evacuating the last U.S. personnel from the embassy in Saigon, hours before communist tanks rolled into the city. Thousands of desperate Vietnamese gathered at the embassy gate and begged to be taken with them. Others committed suicide. Those scenes are a chilling reminder of what happens when a great power decides to cut and run. Two of the three presidential candidates are proposing to do just that in Iraq. We need... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009524/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 03:40:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980358/posts EMORY - If 16-year-old Erin Caffey wanted to be free of her family, she seems to have received her wish. In the small hours of Saturday morning, her boyfriend, Charlie James Wilkinson, 19, and his friend, Charles Allen Waid, 20, allegedly found Erin's parents sleeping in their bed and shot her mother, 38-year-old Penny Caffey to death and maimed her father, Terry Caffey, 41, who had forbidden Erin to date Wilkinson the night before, according to a sheriff's office report of interviews with the two young men released Monday. Tyler Morning Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980358/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:47:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621576/posts Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara because they remind Cubans of terrible times. The actor accepts that Guevara stands for rebellion and is seen as a hero to many, but he sees the revolutionary as a butcher who killed millions of his countrymen. Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s. Garcia, who left Cuba when he was five, says, "I'd be curious to go around and ask them how much they really... Star Pulse .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621576/posts#comment Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:19:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1963930/posts Cuban immigrant Julio Gonzalez, who was picked up in the Mariel boatlift in 1980, was mad that he lost his job packing lamps and girlfriend, Lydia Feliciano, of 7 years. He wanted to talk to his girlfriend on March 25, 1990, a Sunday. Feliciano worked at the Happyland Club in The Bronx borough of New York. The Happyland Club was ordered to be closed in late 1988 for having no fire exit doors, alarms, and sprinklers. This would prove to be deadly. Since Feliciano rebuffed him and got kicked out by a bouncer, Gonzalez, was upset over this. With revenge... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1963930/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:39:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956167/posts 'They should hang him - my daughter and grandchild died' A white teenage boy told his mother he "snapped" just before he was arrested by police for opening fire on a South African squatter camp, killing a baby, a young boy, and two adults. "Mom, something just snapped inside me," 18-year-old Johan Nel reportedly told his mother Corrie just before he was arrested by South African police for the incident. Nel allegedly shouted the derogatory term "kaffir, kaffir, kaffir" as he began shooting his .303 rifle at the Swartruggens camp, 100 miles west of Johannesburg. His victims included a three-month-old... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956167/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:14:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910186/posts CANDICE Buchan was dancing and having an "awesome time" with friends when a series of bomb blasts ripped through Bali's Sari club, killing both her parents. After being left an orphan at the age of 15, she spoke publicly for the first time today about the death of her mum and dad Gerardine and Stephen in the 2002 Bali bombings. "I still remember being in the Sari Club that night for (a friend's) birthday with a big group of us having an awesome time," Ms Buchan, now 20, told a ceremony at Coogee in Sydney to mark the fifth anniversary... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910186/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:10:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835953/posts BATH — Josephine Cushman Vail will lay red tulips on the grave of her little brother today, as she has nearly every year since 1927. Ralph Cushman, then 7, died 80 years ago today, along with 44 other people in what stood for more than 60 years as the largest mass murder in the United States. Vail, 93, said she could just as easily have died with her brother when a disgruntled school board member dynamited the Bath Consolidated School in the quiet, close-knit community 13 miles northeast of Lansing. Vail, then 13, was excused from taking final exams that... WZZM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835953/posts#comment Fri, 18 May 2007 20:33:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823521/posts During the immediate aftermath of the massacre at Virginia Tech one week ago, the University President, Charles Steger, quickly mobilized a campaign to save his career. Within hours, shock and mourning were quickly replaced with a full-scale public relations stint. Unfortunately, President Steger was not the only one aiming to capitalize from mass murder: bloggers and commentators across the nation began advocating for a change in gun control policy - either fewer restrictions or tighter control. Wounds cannot be healed if they are not felt. The administrators at Virginia Tech played down the destruction for their personal gain and at... The Tufts Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823521/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:18:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823452/posts In response to Mr. Cadorette in the "No More Marxists" section of the Winter 2007 publication, I cannot help but to disagree. The first thing that Mr. Cadorette has to understand is the his personal definition of Marxism is very far from the actual meaning. First of all, Marxism is NOT the same as the Socialism exhibited by the USSR. The economic system attempted by the Soviets after the Bolchevik Revolution of 1914 was not so much Marxism (although it was Karl Marx, who WAS a Russian who is the father of Marxism) as it was Socialism. Furthermore, what the... UMass Amherst Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823452/posts#comment Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:43:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821726/posts Tech gunman shot victims over 100 times By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho fired enough shots to wound his 32 victims more than 100 times before killing himself with a bullet to his head, a medical examiner said Sunday. Dr. William Massello, the assistant medical examiner based in Roanoke, said pathologists have sent blood samples for toxicology testing to determine if Cho was on drugs at the time of his rampage. It could take as long as two weeks to get the results of those tests, he said. Cho was not especially... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821726/posts#comment Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:44:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821481/posts Just before 5am on Monday, April 16, Cho Seung-hui got out of bed and walked to his computer. Perhaps he fiddled with his rambling 1,800-word self-portrait of a killer as the insults and grievances that he had been nursing for years coursed through his head. High on his list were his classmates from Westfield high school, who jeered at him to “go back to China” without bothering to check his nationality. Two of them — who happened to attend Virginia Tech — were going to pay later that day. Then there were the college girls who reported him to the... The Sunday Times (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821481/posts#comment Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:14:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821101/posts The search for the propellant of the killer-madness in Cho Seung-Hui tells us more about disorders in American thought than about those of the murderer. Recall first and foremost that the crime was quickly identified as the “bloodiest shooting attack in American history” done by a single person. We accepted this—but quickly rejected its corollary: namely, that if it was that—the most violent rampage in 231 years of history—then it had some claim to be called unique. In fact it differs in magnitude but not in kind from shootings in which 23 or 19 people were killed. If a man... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821101/posts#comment Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:35:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821082/posts Troubled state of Virginia Tech killer was known in '05 By Shaila Dewan and Marc Santora Wednesday, April 18, 2007 BLACKSBURG, Virginia: Campus authorities were aware 17 months ago of the troubled mental state of the student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday, an imbalance graphically on display in vengeful videos and a manifesto he mailed to NBC News in the time between the two sets of shootings. "You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience," the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, said in one video mailed shortly before the shooting at a... IHT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821082/posts#comment Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819798/posts An Image’s Ties to a Dark Movie | 8:07 PM ET A self-shot photo of Mr. Cho, above, and a still from the Web site of the movie ‘Oldboy.’ (Photos: NBC News, top; Tartan Films) The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004. The poses in the two images are similar, and the plot of the movie, “Oldboy,” seems dark enough to merit at least some further study.... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819798/posts#comment Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:38:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818768/posts So far, 32 people are dead and another 21 wounded in the attack launched by one gunman reportedly armed with two 9mm pistols and extra magazines at the campus of Virginia Tech on 4/16/07. Virginia is one of the many states with “Shall Issue” concealed gun laws, which means that if a citizen who has not been convicted of a felony or domestic violence, and not judged mentally unstable, the law requires they be issued a concealed gun permit upon request. But nobody in range of the gunman, other than late-arriving police, had a gun. To make it even more... Sierra Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818768/posts#comment Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818525/posts Within hours of the massacre of more than 30 people at Virginia Tech University, the president of the university issued his first statement on the evil that had just engulfed the college campus and concluded with this: "We're making plans for a convocation tomorrow at noon in Cassell Coliseum for the university to come together to begin the healing process from this terrible tragedy." In this photo provided by the Collegiate Times, ambulances wait on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., following multiple shootings, Monday, April 16, 2007. At least 30 people have been reported killed. (AP Photo/Collegiate Times)... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818525/posts#comment Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1818413/posts ADMIN MOD: although this was on a blogspot, it is important news. Will you please move it to NEWS/ACTIVISM. Thanks. Dozens massacred in gun free zone. AGAIN! The news is still coming in but another tragedy has taken place on a school campus in the United States at Virginia Technical University. A gunman, in the early morning hours entered a dormitory and started shooting students. Several hours later he returned and walked into a second building and did the same thing. Almost three dozen are dead as a result. I had a horrified fear in the pit of my stomach... FREE STUDENTS BLOGSPOT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1818413/posts#comment Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803325/posts MIAMI A major recall of pet food has grown in scope, with an announcement by two major pet food companies that they will voluntarily call products made under their names by a major private label manufacturer. Dog and cat food products from two more companies, Purina and Hill’s Science Diet, have been added to the list of recalled products made by Menu Foods. The pet food is widely sold throughout North America under 48 different dog-food brands and 40 cat-food labels, including Iams (eyemz), Nutro and Eukanuba. The products are distributed by major retailers like Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway. Two... cbs4.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1803325/posts#comment Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:37:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759310/posts Let us now praise the Iraqi legal system. Scorned by international watchdog organizations and self-credentialed legal minds since its establishment in 2003 as a newly independent institution, it has now done something that the international community’s premier courts have consistently failed to do: punished, in a reasonable timeframe, a mass murderer and delivered justice to his victims. Back in November, it may be recalled, Iraq's High Tribunal judged Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’ites in the city of Dujail. Initial concerns about an interminable appeals process have... Frontpagemag.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759310/posts#comment Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729136/posts A Fatwa on the Truth http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10481 It is one of those uniquely modern Western paradoxes, to wit, that the most courageous Europeans are those forced into hiding. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, the Danish editorial cartoonists -- all are paying the price for freely expressing their opinions and beliefs -- or lack thereof. Add to that exalted list one Robert Redeker. M. Redeker, a high school philosophy professor in suburban Toulouse, is in the bouillabaisse for a commentary he wrote last month for Le Figaro in which he accused Islam of "exalting violence," and christened the Muslim prophet Muhammad a... The Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1729136/posts#comment Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:02:40 GMT