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President Clinton said during an interview with CNN. "It's a tragic thing for the city and for the families. The firemen, police, they put their lives on the line a lot but they don't expect to be shot at the scene of a burning house,"
RMNews: First the mass shootings were in fast food restaurants like MacDonalds and Lubys. Then the mass shootings moved into our schools. Now the shootings have taken on an ominous tone. This shooting has forever changed our police, firemen, paramedics and all other people who give their lives each day to keep America safe.
A "shooter" lay in wait... He ambushed the people who had come to help. The police were called on a "domestic" altercation. The fire department was called to put out a fire. When the two agencies arrived, the "shooter" came out of the garage with a shotgun and started shooting. He ambushed and killed the men who were there to help.
The "shooter" was a fireman who had worked the same shift with the firemen who were killed. He did not work at the same firehouse, but he knew the men because they had been on duty at the same hours and had been called to the same fires in the past.
The "shooter" had been on disability leave and had just returned to work.
The "shooter" was black.
In New York City, white police kill black men. In Tennessee a black man "ambushed" and killed police and firemen. Tomorrow, when your local policeman gets a call about a prowler, a bar fight, or an accident, they will remember the Tennessee shooter.
Today, as he spoke to CNN, President Clinton gave the orders for the army of Manchurian Candidates who are living ordinary lives while they are waiting to be "triggered" so they can carry out their programming.
The president is not issuing the "trigger" words, he is telling the "handlers" that it is time to proceed to the next level. Read between the lines and understand what the President is saying in this sentence, "The firemen, police, they put their lives on the line a lot but they don't expect to be shot at the scene of a burning house,"
In NYC, the black community has been saying similar things about Amadou Diallo... "He didn't expect to be shot on his doorstep".
In the past few weeks we have seen the newspapers reporting black on white crimes for the first time. Normally when a white person is raped or murdered, the color of the perpetrator is kept hidden.
But when the car jacker dragged the six year old white boy to death, the media let America know that the man was black.
When the six year old boy shot the six year old girl, the newspapers and media ran pictures of his imprisoned father.... a black man.
When Ronald Taylor opened fire on the white people at the fast food places in Pittsburg, the newspapers reported that not only was he black, but he could be the first black man that is going to be charged with hate crimes.
Now we have a black fireman who appears to have set a trap to lure his colleagues into an ambush.
In the brief comment made to CNN, President Clinton told police and firemen that they can never respond to a distress call again without fearing for their lives.
The man, the media is saying "ambushed" the police and firemen, was black. This fact heightens the fear that white police already have of black men.
From this day forward, when a white policeman or fireman responds to a call in a black neighborhood, the fear of being ambushed will be in the back of his mind. Police are already living in a heightened state of fear. Now that fear will be racheted up to an even higher level.
Will your public servant be able to do his job? Will he be able to save people from burning buildings or murderers, or will he be more intent on staying alive and avoiding another ambush?
President Clinton has only nine months left to get the guns out of the hands of Americans. How many more Manchurian Candidates he is going to loose upon the American people?
If this current "killing spree" doesn't work to make Congress pass laws that will take away our guns, will the president order the "handlers" to aim their "sleeper" assassins at Capitol Hill? This was done once already and two Capitol Hill Policemen were killed. Representative Tom Delay was the target that time. Maybe someone had better point out the President's new plan of attack to him, because his name is probably still at the top of the list.
Only Congress can stop this insanity. Representative Tom Campbell called for President Clinton to be removed by use of the 25th amendment. Maybe Representative Campbell should reintroduce his motion. If he doesn't, blood will keep flowing as long as President Clinton is in office.
President Gore will do nothing to stop the killings. He works for the same masters that Clinton works for. Will George W. stop the manchurian candidates? At least Texas has laws which allow you to carry a concealed weapon. Even if G.W. doesn't stop the Manchurian Candidates... maybe he will pass laws that allow all law abiding and sane Americans to carry concealed weapons. At least then, we would have a fighting chance to defend ourselves and save our lives.
There is far more to the story of the Tennessee Ambush than the public will ever be told. But you can be sure than Congress and law enforcement can read between the lines. They understand that their work environments have just become a thousand times more dangerous.
********** From the London Independent
Memphis gunman kills four
9 March 2000
Firefighters responding to a house fire were ambushed by an off–duty Memphis firefighter who stepped out of the garage and began shooting, authorities said.
Two firefighters and a sheriff's deputy were killed Wednesday, and a woman was found dead in the garage.
The suspected gunman, Fred Williams, was wounded and was undergoing surgery, Police Director Walter E. Crews .
Williams had just returned to work as a firefighter this week after an extended leave on disability, Crews said. The suspect did not work at the same station as the men who were killed, but J.C. Fleming, deputy director of the Fire Department, said they probably knew each other from working the same shift.
"We don't expect this. We're here to fight fires," Fire Chief H.J. Pickett said. "You want to say it's part of the job, but it's not."
Williams did not live in the house, and his relationship to the woman found dead in the garage was unclear, Crews said. Authorities also were uncertain how the woman was killed and whether the fire was set to cover up her death.
Firefighters were called to the home just before 1 p.m. (1800 GMT). When they arrived, witnesses said, a man came out of the garage firing a shotgun and shouting, "Get away! Get away!"
Firefighters Lt. Javier Lerma and Pvt. William Blakemore were killed. Sheriff's Deputy Rupert Peete was shot in his patrol car as he responded to the report of the shooting, authorities said. His car crashed through a fence and ended up next to the house.
Memphis police officers then arrived and tried to get the gunman to put down his weapon. When he refused, "one of our officers got into a gun battle and the suspect was shot," Crews said.
The shootings occurred in a neighborhood of mostly one–story brick houses and well–kept yards at the edge of the city.
Before firefighters arrived, neighbors reported seeing smoke coming from the house and alerted the suspect, but he said everything was fine, according to authorities. Soon after, deputies and firefighters arrived and were ambushed.
"It's a tragic thing for the city and for the families. The firemen, police, they put their lives on the line a lot but they don't expect to be shot at the scene of a burning house," President Clinton said during interview with CNN.
The fire was put out within a couple of hours.
