Re: Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease
- From: chatnoir <wolfbat359a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:48:17 -0700
On Jul 3, 10:24 pm, Jean Smith <goterm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One
at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians,
philosophers and theologians to the White House to join him in the search.
Over sodas and sparkling water, he asks his questions: What is the nature
of good and evil in the post-Sept. 11 world? What lessons does history have
for a president facing the turmoil I'm facing? How will history judge what
we've done? Why does the rest of the world seem to hate America? Or is it
just me they hate?
...
http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W6RH029F5B2F4BCCA11E631588C6F0
Perhaps the light is coming on regarding his evil doings.
The society Bush has created - The "I have mine type of society - the
heck with everyone else"!
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20070703/468b1b40_3ca6_1552620070704413813817
Kan. Shoppers Step Over Stabbing Victim
By ROXANA HEGEMAN (Associated Press Writer)
July 04, 2007 3:45 AM EDTFrom Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. - As stabbing victim LaShanda Calloway lay dying on the
floor of a convenience store, five shoppers, including one who stopped
to take a picture of her with a cell phone, stepped over the woman,
police said.
The June 23 situation, captured on the store's surveillance video, got
scant news coverage until a columnist for The Wichita Eagle disclosed
the existence of the video and its contents Tuesday.
Police have refused to release the video, saying it is part of their
investigation.
"It was tragic to watch," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said
Tuesday. "The fact that people were more interested in taking a
picture with a cell phone and shopping for snacks rather than helping
this innocent young woman is, frankly, revolting."
The woman was stabbed during an altercation that was not part of a
robbery, Bassham said. It took about two minutes for someone to call
911, he said.
Calloway, 27, died later at a hospital.
Two suspects have been arrested. A 19-year-old woman was charged with
first-degree murder. Another suspect who turned himself in had not
been charged as of Tuesday, the Sedgwick County prosecutor's office
said.
The district attorney's office will have to decide whether any of the
shoppers could be charged, Bassham said.
It was uncertain what law, if any, would be applicable. A state
statute for failure to render aid refers only to victims of a car
accident.
Eagle columnist Mark McCormick told The Associated Press he learned
about the video when he called Wichita Police Chief Norman Williams to
inquire about a phone call he had received from a reader complaining
about a Police Department policy that requires emergency medical
personnel to wait until police secure a crime scene before rendering
aid. McCormick said Williams then unloaded on him about the shoppers
in the stabbing case.
"This is just appalling," Williams told the newspaper. "I could
continue shopping and not render aid and then take time out to take a
picture? That's crazy. What happened to our respect for life?"
.
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