Gene wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:36:47 -0500, "H the K (I post with a Mac)"
wrote:

jps wrote:
SEATTLE -- The man who opened fire inside the Jewish Federation in
Seattle was found guilty Monday morning in his second trial.

After deliberating for three days following the end of the trial last
week, a King County jury found Naveed Haq guilty of murder, five
counts of attempted murder, unlawful imprisonment
and malicious harassment.

Haq, 34, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the July 2006
shootings, in which Pam Waechter, the federation's 58-year-old
campaign director, was killed. Five employees - Cheryl Stumbo, Carol
Goldman, Dayna Klein, Christina Rexroad and Layla Bush - were wounded.

Haq's first trial ended last year with jurors deadlocked on whether he
was legally insane during the shooting spree on July 28, 2006.

In the second trial, jurors had to decide whether Haq should be
convicted and go to prison - or found not guilty by reason of insanity
and go to a mental hospital.

This time, prosecutors reduced the number of charges and a judge
allowed them to play recordings of Naveed Haq's phone conversations
with his mother while he was in jail.

In one conversation, he is heard to say, "Whatever, mom - I did it
purposefully." His mother says, "No, no, no, no." Haq says, "No, mom,
I did it by purpose. You'd be proud of me. Now I'm going to heaven."

Haq drove from his eastern Washington home to Seattle the day of the
attack and forced a teenage girl at gunpoint to let him into the
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Once in the second-floor office,
he opened fire, shooting some people in their cubicles, some in the
hall and one, Pamela Waechter, fatally as she fled down a stairwell.

Prosecutors acknowledged Haq's history of mental illness, but focused
his opening statement on Haq's preparations in an effort to show that
his mind was clear that day.

Haq made several trips to gun stores in the weeks prior to the attack,
wrote two documents on his father's computer criticizing Israel and
U.S. policy in the Middle East and used MapQuest to find directions to
the center from his family's home in Pasco, 180 miles east of Seattle.

On his way to the Jewish center, he pulled off Interstate 5 and
test-fired his gun, prosecutors said, and when pulled over for driving
down a bus-only street in rush hour, he seemed normal to a police
officer.

In a recorded phone conversation after the shooting, Raz said, Haq
told his mother, "I did a very good thing. I did it for a good
reason."
Does it surprise you that mentally unstable people can buy a gun?
Hell, I can not only buy guns, but I have a carry permit.

Me, too.....

I'm beginning to think it would make more sense to have a three day
cooling off period and Federal licensure for all people that want to
post to rec.boats.....

I think we should ban anyone who is certifiably insane.

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And now...back to flajim and others who are so obsessed with me, they
use my handle here.

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:16:18 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:11:21 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:


LOL! That pic of Blaggie. I can't tell if he's rolling his eyes, or if
he's disgusted that he didn't use enough VO5 to control that mop of
his.

VO5 was good stuff, a lot better than Brylcream or Vitalis.
But Rod don't need it. He's a natural. Blessed.

--Vic

That made me laugh. He may have hair but you've got the intellect and
wit. He's 40 grit sandpaper to your 400.

On Dec 16, 7:39*am, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:11:21 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:



On Dec 15, 5:56*pm, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:47:24 -0600, Vic Smith

wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:32 -0800, jps wrote:

NRA execs should be strung up by the balls, right next to the ****ing
assholes who scammed every American of their savings so they could
walk away with millions in bonuses.

They're the same kind of scum.

You got that right, and I think we actually are fans of the same guy.

Guns:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-152770891.html
"Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich built a reputation in Congress as a
gun-control advocate, a standing that's followed him to the governor's
office where his actions have won him the applause of leading
gun-control groups."

Wall Street:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aFq5WUR.AuXg
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said the state
will suspend business with Bank of America Corp. until the lender
restores credit to the shuttered Republic Windows & Doors company in
Chicago where workers are staging a sit-in.

See? *You had him all wrong.
Welcome aboard.

--Vic

Yep......http://tinyurl.com/y9dd8qc
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enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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LOL! That pic of Blaggie. I can't tell if he's rolling his eyes, or if
he's disgusted that he didn't use enough VO5 to control that mop of
his.

I like this one, Gene:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/s...h-arrest-anniv...

I am amazed at his energy and resiliency, but psychologically, I put
him in the same box with Charles Manson.
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Same box? or same cell?

?;^ )

On Dec 16, 8:26*pm, Gene wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:20:42 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

Same box? or same cell?

Hmmmmm..... good point.

Personally, I'd like to see a LOT more solitary confinement. I know it
is borderline cruel and unusual punishment, but allowing the perps to
use correctional facilities as criminal universities is cruel and
unusual punishment for the rest of us.... and we didn't do anything
wrong.....
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Gene, I like that. You ought to use that as an avocation for victims
rights!