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  • Much ado over a gun dealer

    Gun dealer used by Va. Tech shooter sold supplies, holster to NIU killer:

    A lot of people are making a big deal over the fact that the gun shop that sold a gun to Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui also sold supplies to NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak.

    While it’s a bizarre coincidence I think it’s a non-story.

    While Cho did buy one of his firearms from this online dealer based in Green Bay, Wisconsin Kazmierczak only bought empty magazines and a holster from the dealer. Both Cho and Kazmierczak passed mental health background checks at the time of their purchases. That seems to be the bigger story to me especially for Cho who was court ordered to undergo treatment.

  • Nee’s sentence debated online

    Nee’s expected sentence debated:

    This is an article from the Patriot-Ledger newspaper in Quincy, Mass. which shows that the expected sentence of Joe Nee is being predicted online. It seems that I’m not the only one that thinks Nee will get a slap on the wrist.

    “Nobody ever gets the max when they are that young,” said one comment posted by someone using the screen name Lost Cause. “At the most he will get approximately 2 years, and after good behavior and any time served, he will not spend much time at all in the land of forced love.”

    Speaking of me, I was quoted in the article as well…

    TheTrenchcoat Chronicles is Web site that says it specializes in following school shootings.

    A poster there, using the screen name Trench Reynolds, said people seeking “true justice” should not celebrate just yet.

    “If this is the only charge that Nee is convicted of he probably won’t see that much time,” the poster said. “Personally I’ll be surprised if he even sees the inside of a jail because of his connections.”

    And I still stand behind that.

    I wonder if the Patriot-Ledger used my quote because I was saying what they wanted to.

  • David Nack, child exploiter

    David Nack
    David Nack

    Charges: Man had sex with girl after meeting on MySpace:

    That’s 34-year-old David Nack of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. He’s been charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2005. Wisconsin’s age of consent is 18.

    According to the Wisconsin Dells Police Department, the girl said she met Nack after he replied to her profile on MySpace (an online social networking Web site) and that she drove to meet him Nov. 2, 2005, to have sex. They met at a Walgreens store before going to his downtown Wisconsin Dells apartment, according to a criminal complaint.

    The two smoked marijuana and Nack showed a pornographic movie on a television, the complaint states. Nack took pictures of the girl before they had sex, according to the complaint, and stopped when she began to cry and told him to stop.

    Nack told police the girl changed into a short skirt and let him take pictures of her.

    I don’t know about you but where I come from if a woman says stop and you keep going that’s called rape.

    Nack is being charged with child exploitation, sexual intercourse with a child, child enticement, and delivering marijuana to a minor.

    It’s a little ironic that Nack has on his MySpace “Remember: karma is a bitch and it will come back to later in the game.”

    Nack is looking at 42 years of karma.

  • Bond reduction denied for Thomas White

    Judge denies defense motion to release Thomas White on house arrest or reduced bond:

    We already knew that Thomas White’s request for house arrest had been denied. Now his request for a reduction in his $250K bond has also been denied.

    Judge David Mouton said that due to the seriousness of the crimes in this case, he was overruling the defense requests.

    In October 2006 White brought a MAC-90 to school, fired a round into the ceiling and police say he tried pulling the trigger while the gun was pointed at Memorial Middle School’s principal but the gun jammed.

    Judge Moulton said he won’t rule on a request to have White tutored while in jail until the State Supreme Court rules on it.

    White’s mom seems to blame the court rather than her son for his predicament.

    Norma White said she was “hoping” but not “expecting” a favorable ruling for her son but added afterward: “It is par for the course for everything he has ruled on before.”

    That’s what usually happens when you allow your son to take an illegally owned firearm to school.

  • E.O. Green Junior High shooter has hate crime tacked on to murder charge

    Boy, 14, charged with murder, hate crime:

    The gunman in the E.O. Green Junior High School shooting has been identified as 14-year-old Brandon David McInerney. Since his victim, 15-year-old Lawrence King, has been declared brain-dead and will not survive McInerney is being charged with murder with what the article calls a hate crime enhancement.

    Prosecutors are saying that they do intend to try McInerney as an adult. With the murder charge, he’s looking at 25 to life. The hate crime enhancement would tack on another three years.

    Prosecutors are not saying why the hate crime charges were filed but classmates of King say that he was either gay or a crossdresser.

    Several classmates have said King would wear feminine attire, making him an unpopular figure with other boys at his campus.

    King sometimes came to school wearing makeup and high heels, said eighth-grader Nicholas Cortez, 14.

    Another eighth-grader, Michael Sweeney, said King’s appearance was “freaking the guys out,” the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

    “He would come to school in high-heeled boots, makeup, jewelry and painted nails – the whole thing,” Sweeney told the Times.

    Personally, I think all crimes are hate crimes but anything that will keep this little ball of hate behind bars longer is ok with me.

    Now I’m not trying to cast aspersions on the victim or his family. I have nothing against gay people or crossdressers but at 15 and in a public school you would think his parents would have stepped in and stopped him from dressing like that at school. One would have to know that dressing like that would only invite trouble.

  • NIU gunman was off his meds

    NIU gunman stopped taking medication:

    According to this article some corrections to be made. The NIU gunman’s correct name is Stephen Kazmierczak. Not Steven as previously reported. That and five victims of his were killed not six. But onto the main topic of the article.

    It seems that Kazmierczak was off his meds. The article doesn’t state what meds he was on or why he was on them.

    The article also states that he carried the shotgun he used in a guitar case. I guess this delusional assclown thought he was El Mariachi.

    But I’m sure we’ll hear from the anti-medication Luddites.

  • Dane Abdool just panicked, that’s all

    Murder trial hears how girl, 17, was burned to death:

    Previously we’ve seen Dane Abdool try to claim that the burning death of his girlfriend, Amelia Sookdeo, was an accident.

    Yeah, right. I’m sure he bound her in duct tape and doused her in gasoline by accident. He claims he was just trying to scare her.

    However, during his trial, two witnesses claim that Abdool tried to hire them to kill Amelia after she told Abdool she was pregnant.

    Two teenagers testified Thursday that Abdool at one point contacted them about killing Amelia because of the pregnancy. He offered one $400 to do it.

    “I told him he was crazy,” said Julian Pinnock, who was 17 at the time. “I figured he was some spoiled rich kid.”

    The tragedy of all this, prosecutors said, was that Amelia was not pregnant.

    Abdool’s lawyer also claims he ‘panicked’ and left Amelia’s body in a ditch…

    Defense attorneys told jurors that Abdool was there when Amelia died but it was an accident.

    He panicked afterward, leaving her and went to wash his car, said Abdool’s attorney Trish Cashman.

    I’m sure he wasn’t trying to cover anything up by washing his car.

    I really hope the jury isn’t that stupid.

  • Frankie Brewster pleads guilty

    Fourth pleads guilty in Megan Williams case:

    Frankie Brewster has pleaded guilty to the charge of second-degree sexual assault. Brewster is just one of many that were indicted in the kidnap and torture case of Megan Williams.

    Brewster forced Williams to perform oral sex on her.

    Charges of assault during the commission of a felony, kidnapping/holding hostage and conspiracy were dropped in exchange for the plea, Abraham said.

    Brewster is looking at 10 to 25 behind bars.

  • Courtroom skulduggery in Marshfield

    MARSHFIELD STUDENT GUILTY ON ONE CHARGE IN SCHOOL MURDER PLOT:

    Things are rotten in the state of Massachusetts.

    There were some courtroom shenanigans in the conviction of Joe Nee. Originally the judge wanted to convict Nee on all three charges then things got weird…

    Hours earlier, Judge Charles Grabau said that the prosecution had proven its case on all three charges against Nee. But Grabau changed his mind after hearing closing arguments.

    After Grabau announced that he intended to find Nee guilty on all three charges, the 21-year-old’s family members began crying in the courtroom at Plymouth Superior Court. Nee hugged his mother to comfort her.

    But defense attorney Thomas Dreschler interrupted the scene, objecting that the judge had not heard closing arguments. Grabau said there had been a misunderstanding and that he would reconsider his verdict after hearing from both sides.

    Then Grabau only convicted Nee on one of the charges. I doubt Dreschler’s closing argument could have been that powerful to sway the judge into dropping two of the charges.

    In my opinion everyone involved in handling this case from the judge, to the prosecution, to the defense, and especially Nee’s father. head of the Boston police union should be investigated.

  • NIU gunman’s identity confirmed

    Elk Grove man identified as gunman in NIU killings:

    The identity of the NIU gunman has been confirmed that he was, in fact, Steven P. Kazmierczak.

    Some people are saying that it’s ironic that Kazmierczak would commit such a horrific travesty considering he was active in the fields of criminal justice and sociology.

    He co- author a published study on prison policy, entitled “Self-injury in Correctional Settings: ‘Pathology’ of Prisoners or of Prisons?”

    According to that paper, Kazmierczak had study interests in “corrections, political violence, and peace and social justice.” At the time he was also said to be writing a paper about the role of religion in the early formation of U.S. prisons.

    He also served as vice president of NIU’s Academic Criminal Justice Association and was on the board of a college chapter of the American Corrections Association, which studied jailing policy and the justice system, according to related Web sites.

    Personally, I don’t think it’s ironic at all. It sounds like he had a soft spot in his heart for criminals rather than victims. It’s obvious that he didn’t care about victims at all since he made so many of his own.