Around mid-day Saturday A huge green aircraft passed overhead (I'm under the Albany International Airport flight path) and I wondered if perhaps it had something to do with the upcoming POTUS appearance, which I will be covering.Michelle Malkin calls it "heart-shattering" - I find it cruelly ironic that a little 9-year old girl, born on September 11 2001, died at the hands of a nutjob. Christina Taylor Greene was excited about the political process, participated in student government, and went to the Giffords event to learn more about the political process, family members say.
Greene attended Mesa Verde Elementary School. She was the only girl on the CDO baseball team - she loved the sport, as well as horseback riding and swimming.
This makes me think of the movie "Time Cop" which recently aired on local TV. What kind of person might this child have grown up to be? A great political leader? A housewife? An "ordinary working person." Probably any of the above and more. Her death might have changed the future, as it could have been. We'll never know.
The Pima County Sheriff's Office has released the identities of the six people killed in Saturday morning's tragic shooting.
-John Roll, 63, a federal district court judge.
-Gabriel Zimmerman, 30, Giffords' director of community outreach
-Dorwin Stoddard, 76, a pastor at Mountain Ave. Church of Christ.
-Christina Greene, 9, a student at Mesa Verde Elementary
-Dorthy Murray, 76
-Phyllis Scheck, 79
Security will be on many minds this week after the Tucson incident. I lived in Tucson for a short time near the UArizona campus, not too far from Speedway Blvd. I was shocked when I heard the news.
The 22-year-old suspect in the shooting of US Rep Gabrielle Giffords and others at a Tucson grocery is one Jared Loughner (KGUN)
These types of "congressional corner" community meetings are usually low-key and don't warrant big media coverage. They are very popular here in New York state - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand still engages in these types of appearances, which she popularized when she was Congresswoman Gillibrand. It is inconceiveable that some nut would come along and wreak havoc at an event like this. But on second thought - when do bad things always seem to happen? That's right - when we are "off guard," not expecting them.
Coincidentally, on Friday evening, I was discussing the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas with a friend who was writing a paper on unexpected events that befall municipalities, running the gamut from natural disasters to terrorist acts. The idea that something bad would happen in Tucson, of all places, never entered my mind!
What should have been a Congressional Corner "meet and greet" at a supermarket turned very deadly - and sadly, lives were lost.
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2 comments:
Hey Dave! I read the Michelle Malkin piece. The following comment REALLY hit me right in the freakin' heart and soul - this is what happens in America when families are torn apart.
" On January 9th, 2011 at 8:29 am, cheapseat said:
That this sweet 9 yr old was killed by this bastard is simply beyond the pale. He needs to be fried for that alone. The public persons didn’t “deserve” this, but they know this type of insanity exists. The 9 year old was completely innocent and anyone who would shoot a child needs immediate execution.
BTW, last night he was supposedly a military man with service in Afghanistan, but today he turns out to be a fake warrior leftist band member with a bad attitude. Probably brought up in a single parent home by a doting mom."
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