The body of a missing 12-year-old whose uncle allegedly planned to force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared was found Wednesday in Randolph, not far from his house.

State Police Director Col. James Baker said Brooke Bennett's body was found about 4:45 p.m. and her family had been notified.

The uncle, Michael Jacques, has been in custody since Sunday on charges of aggravated sexual assault against a different underage girl. He has pleaded not guilty.

Brooke was last seen alive with the uncle, Michael Jacques, at a convenience store a week ago.

"The painful discovery of Brooke's body today is tragic and heartbreaking," Baker said at a news conference.

He called the death "clearly suspicious" but declined to give details before a planned briefing Thursday morning.

But in an affidavit unsealed earlier in U.S. District Court in Burlington, the FBI said an unidentified teenager told investigators she was present on June 25 when Jacques, 42, tricked Brooke into thinking she was going to a party and took her to his Randolph home to be initiated into a sex ring.

The girl said she was led to believe that Brooke would "would have sex with adult males" during the initiation.

After the three got to Jacques' home, the girl said she and Brooke watched television for a while before Jacques told her to leave and took his niece upstairs. The witness, who is 14, said she left the house with her boyfriend and did not see Brooke again.

The 14-year-old said she herself had been having sex with Jacques, 42, since she was 9 as part of the sex ring.

Brooke's former stepfather, Raymond Gagnon, appeared in federal court Wednesday on an obstruction of justice charge in the case. He was denied bail and was held pending another hearing on Monday.

Police say Gagnon, 40, lives in Texas but often visited Vermont. According to the affidavit, he told police he accessed Brooke's MySpace page from a laptop computer at his home in San Antonio after getting login information from Jacques.

Police said they have evidence that postings to the account were altered to make it appear that Brooke had discussed a secret rendevous with someone identified as "Skittlemeup" shortly before she disappeared.

At first, state police called it a MySpace case, believing that Brooke had met with someone she had befriended online and then lied to her family about her plans that day to meet a friend in Randolph and visit a hospitalized relative of that friend.

Now prosecutors say it was Jacques who provided police the story about the meeting and that he and Juvenile 1 picked Brooke up in Randolph and took her to Jacques' home. Jacques also found one of Brooke's shoes near a small lake in Brookfield and planted pieces of her clothing nearby that were later found by police, investigators said.

E-mails in the court documents released Thursday described how Juvenile 1 helped Jacques plant some of the false evidence, prosecutors said. Jacques coached Juvenile 1 on obtaining and preserving semen from her boyfriend to be placed on a pair of Brooke's underwear, to throw investigators off the trail.

Jacques has a history of sex crimes dating to 1985 when he was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl about 100 times. Prosecutors eventually dismissed that case.

In 1993, Jacques was convicted of aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping. An affidavit in the case said Jacques tied up the victim and threatened to kill her while he sexually assaulted her.

He was sentenced to six to 20-years in prison, but he was released early because of the Department of Corrections' "good time" policy in effect at the time.

Brooke's father Jim Bennett and her stepmother Janet said they knew of Jacques' history as a sex offender, but he never saw any signs of trouble when Brooke and her uncle were together at family gatherings.

"That's not something you tell a little girl," Janet Bennett told the Valley News of Lebanon, N.H. "She was just a beautiful little girl."

Jim Bennett said parents needed to keep a close eye on their children, even around family because, "It's not just strangers you've got to watch out for."

WASHINGTON - Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker

Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."

Reynolds, R-N.Y., was told about e-mails sent by Rep. Mark Foley and is now defending himself from Democratic accusations that he did too little. Foley, R-Fla., resigned Friday after ABC News questioned him about the e-mails to a former congressional page and about sexually suggestive instant messages to other pages.

The boy who received the e-mails was 16 in the summer of 2005 when he worked in Congress as a page. After the boy returned to his Louisiana home, the congressman e-mailed him. The teenager thought the messages were inappropriate, particularly one in which Foley asked the teen to send a picture of himself.

Three missing children have been found dead, days after their mother's body was discovered with the fetus cut from her womb, authorities announced late Saturday.

The bodies of the children were found hours after a woman was charged and jailed on $5 million bond in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall, 23, who was seven months pregnant.  Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint the cause of death for three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.

Two of the children were nude, the third wearing only underpants, Hart said. The oldest, 7-year-old DeMond Tunstall, was found in the dryer, the younger two children — 2-year-old Ivan Tunstall-Collins and 1-year-old Jinela Tunstall — in the washer.

Police began a search for Tunstall's two sons, 7 and 2, and 1-year-old daughter, since they found the mother's body last week in a weedy East St. Louis lot.

Authorities continued a desperate search for Tunstall's children after charges against Tiffany Hall, 24, were announced Saturday. The children were last seen with Hall on Monday, three days before she was taken into custody.

LUGOFF, S.C. - A text message sent by a kidnapped 14-year-old to her mother led to her rescue Saturday, when police found her in a hand-dug, booby-trapped bunker.

Elizabeth Shoaf's message also led investigators to name a suspect in her Sept. 6 abduction — police were searching a wooded area where the girl was found for 37-year-old Vinson Filyaw, said Kershaw County Sheriff Steve McCaskill.

Shoaf was found by deputies about a mile from her home in a 15-foot deep hole in the side of a hill that was covered with plywood. The bunker had a hand-dug privy with toilet paper, a camp stove and shelves made with cut branches and canvas.

McCaskill said the girl appeared to be unharmed but was taken to Kershaw County Medical Center for evaluation. Police have not interviewed her, saying they would leave her alone until she's ready to talk.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Unless public health takes urgent measures, one in five children in the United States will be obese by the year 2010, the Institute of Medicine warned in a report.

Currently, one third of American children are obese or at risk of becoming so. The rate of childhood obesity has jumped from 16 percent in 2002, to 17.1 percent in 2004 and will reach 20 percent in four years, the report said.

"The good news is that Americans have begun to recognize that childhood obesity is a serious public health problem, and initiatives to address it are under way," said Jeffrey Koplan, who heads an institute committee on preventing childhood obesity.

The committee has held meetings around the United States, including Kansas, Georgia and California, to review public health actions on the matter and has estimated that progress will be slow and in need of systematic monitoring.

EXPERTS BACK CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE...CDC panel urges it for girls 11 - 12

Atlanta--Preteen girls should be given a new vaccine to prevent the most comon cause of cervical cancer, a panel of experts.

The committee said the vaccine series can be given to girls as young as 9.  "We're trying to provide the vaccine to girls before the onset of sexual activity, said Anney Schuchat, director of the CDS's National Center for Immunization and Respiration Disease.  The vaccine targets four types of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancer and 90% of genital warts.  HPV is the ost common sexually transmitted infection in the USA, infecting 6.2 million each year.

GOD, THIS STRIKES ME AS STRANGE...

GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF HATRED AND FURRY...On a 13 year old Myspace page I noticed.

One prison in California has two children a week born to inmates...total this Nation wide and might have a shocking fact...

IN THE UNITED STATES 36 MILLION LIVE BELOW POVERTY.  1/3 ARE CHILDREN   CNBC NEWS  4/06

EVER TEN SECONDS A CHILD IS ABUSED... Cathy Gibson

1/2 of all Americans have lived in a step family.  1/3 of all families now are step families.

SEXUAL ABUSE OF EXCHANGE STUDENTS IS A BIG PROBLEM    CNN  2006

INHALANTS ON THE RISE...HUFFING THE BAG...a new study reports

EGG-DONOR BUSINESS BOOMS ON CAMPUSES

STUDENTS OFFERED UP TO $35,000 TO SELL EGGS

Classified-ad wesite Craigslist published 150 ads on a typical day.  A Web search for "egg donor" at Google produces dozens of links to advertisers.  As other nations curtail the practice---Canada did so in 2004---the USA is becoming the industry's last bastion... The number of paid odnors is unknown because no one keeps stats in the lightly regulated industry.  Estimates run that 10,000 babies a year are born form donated eggs.

70% of the women with substance abuse were sexually abused as children.    KCET Story  4/60

900,000 children were victims of child abuse last year.   NY City Children Aid Society

CHILDREN PORN IN THE USA IS A $3 BILLION INDUSTRY

Statistics

Approximately one out of four American women have been sexually abused as children, most by someone they knew. "Newer research...indicates that as many as 38% of women are molested in childhood. There are many acknowledged problems with even this research, but the greatest is this: what is not remembered cannot be reported. It is my (Blume's) experience that fewer than half of the women who experience this trauma later remember or identify it as abuse. Therefore, it is not unlikely that more than half of all women are survivors of childhood sexual trauma."

Calif. Autism Rate Doubles in Four Years -Study

By Gina Keating

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Autism cases in California nearly doubled over the past four years to more than 20,000 -- a phenomenon whose cause may be difficult to pinpoint because it is not related to population increases or the way the disorder is diagnosed, a state study said on Tuesday.

The study, conducted by the California Department of Developmental Services, tracked the number of autism cases referred to 21 regional centers where patients and their families receive government-funded services.

Autism is a lifelong neurological disorder that primarily strikes boys, impairing their ability to communicate, interact and emotionally bond with others. Once a rare disorder, autism now is more prevalent than childhood cancer, diabetes and Down syndrome, the study's author, Dr. Ron Huff, said.

FLASHBACK OF SADNESS

Danielle van Dam

                  Danielle was 7 years old when she was killed. She was in second grade at Creekside Elementary
                  School close to her home. She was a Brownie, had recently taken up piano, loved coloring, playing
                  with dolls and drawing. Her favorite colors were pink and purple. She was born in Texas.

David Westerfield

                  Westerfield, 50, a self-employed engineer, lived two doors away from Danielle in a San Diego
                  suburb. In addition to murder and kidnapping, he also faces misdemeanor charges of possessing
                  pictures of minors engaged in sexual conduct.

                  A twice-divorced father of two grown children, has no known criminal record aside from a 1996
                  drunken driving conviction. He is the oldest of three children. When the search for Danielle began
                  Westerfield initially talked to the media and said he had socialized with Brenda van Dam and two of her
                  friends at a bar that night. He said he had a few drinks and danced with Brenda van Dam before  leaving.

                  Within days of Danielle's disappearance, Westerfield became a prisoner in his own home, under constant            scrutiny by the police and media. He became the primary focus of the investigation early on because he was the only
                  neighbor away from home the weekend Danielle vanished.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four children were found dead in the Louisville, Kentucky, apartment of a Somalian immigrant who entered police headquarters on Friday and announced, "I killed my family," police said.

"His statement was, 'I killed my family.' The assumption is that he is the father," Louisville Police Lt. Col. Philip Turner said.

Police would not disclose how the four children, the eldest aged 8, were killed. A woman, believed to be the children's mother, was found conscious but with a head injury in the same public housing apartment.

Girl, 4, who is so sad she may need anti-depressants
By PAUL SIMS Nov 2006

A girl of four is being treated for stress and depression after she was refused a place at her local school.

Mollie Murphy became so distraught at being separated from her best friends that she had to see a doctor.

Last night, the youngster's mother spoke of her shock after the GP said he would consider a course of anti-depressants and counselling if Mollie's condition does not improve.

"When he said she had stress and depression at first I thought he must be joking," said 26-year-old hairdresser Victoria Anderson.

Although the number of children suffering from depression remains relatively low, experts claim the rate has dramatically increased in recent years.

According to research by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, as many as 40,000 children and adolescents were prescribed anti-depressants in 2003.

Miss Anderson said her daughter started experiencing problems in September.

Due to a lack of places available at East Herrington Primary, in Sunderland, she was forced to travel to nearby Farringdon school.

Since then she has suffered from bouts of vomiting. She also regularly wets the bed and refuses to go to school at the start of each day.

A Schoolboy hanged himself using his favorite football team scarf after complaining that he was being persecuted on the bus ride home from lessons.

Paul Moran, 13, would sometimes arrive in tears, his hair and clothes covered with food and drink thrown by other pupils, his mother said yesterday.

On one occasion his beloved Liverpool FC bag was ripped and on another he was even thrown down stairs, Carole Moran added.

Finally, after speaking about suicide to friends, the "sensitive and caring" teenager's mother found him suspended from his metal bunk bed with his Liverpool scarf, facing a poster of his favourite team.

In a further tragedy, a girl from the same school, Jenny Sykes, also 13, hanged herself eight months later after apparently becoming depressed over his death.

Detectives investigating the schoolgirl's death took away her computer after fears that she visited suicide chatrooms before killing herself.

37 percent of U.S. births out of wedlock

Ga. Teens Charged in Bomb Incident
ASSOCIATED PRESS November 27, 2006

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Two 14-year-old prep school students accused of taking a homemade bomb to school were arrested Monday, police said.

Their attorneys took them to a detention center, and each was charged with possession of a weapon on school property and reckless conduct. They also face a charge of possession and manufacturing of an explosive device, police said.

One student made the bomb out of firecrackers, gun pellets and metal shavings and gave it to another student Nov. 15, according to a police report. The other student took the bomb home, but took it back to school three days later at the urging of an administrator, the report said.

School officials at Savannah Country Day School kept the bomb for nearly 24 hours before contacting police. Headmaster Tom Bonnell said last week that he should have called police immediately.  Police spokesman Sgt. Mike Wilson said the device was not powerful enough to destroy the building but could have harmed anyone nearby.

Sexual predator epidemic has spread under the cultural rug...skeletons in the very American closet

Nymphet on TV...We watch the teen girls on GIRLS GONE WILD...sex chat rooms on Yahoo and MSN...hotmail baby ASL

The recent report on MSNBC of Pedophiles coming to meet for sexual encounters with children is the just the lid on the

can of worms...It is being reported by CNN that 1 in 5 children that go online will be sexually SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING...so if a priest or your real father or some congressman, or a cop don't rape you...don't worry someone will...

With Americans spending an average of 40 percent of their free time watching television, the
negative effects of excessive TV-watching are taking a toll:

· More than 2,000 studies link TV-violence to real life violence.
· Twelve major medical studies link excessive TV watching to increased obesity.
· By the age of 65, the average American spends nine full years watching TV.

"We have the most sedentary generation of young people in American history…reducing the
amount of television our children watch is one way to encourage more healthful activity," U.S.
Surgeon General David Satcher said.

"When kids are parked in front of the TV, they're not engaged in the activities essential to the
formation of healthy bones and muscles," American Public Health Association executive
director Mohammad Akhter said.

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches three hours and 46 minutes
of TV every day, that's more than 52 days of nonstop TV watching per year.

Unfortunately, some negative statistics show Americans rent more videos on a daily basis, six
million, than the number of books checked out of public libraries, only three million.

The average American child, ages two to 11, watches television 1,197 minutes (almost 20
hours) per week, whereas the same children only spend 38 minutes per week in meaningful
conversation with their parents.

Other discouraging statistics compiled by TV-Free America include:

· Only one in 12 parents require their children to do homework before watching television.
· 25: percentage of teens who can name the city where the U.S. Constitution was written: Philadelphia.
· 75: percentage of teens who know where to find the zip code 90210: Beverly Hills.
· 200,000: number of violent acts the average American child sees on TV by age 18.
· 16,000: number of murders witnessed by children on television by age 18.
· 10: percentage of youth violence directly attributable to TV viewing.
· 73: percentage of Americans who believe TV and movies are responsible for juvenile crime.
· 80: percentage of Hollywood executives who think there is a link between TV violence and real-life violence.
· 91: percentage of children polled who said they felt upset or scared by violence on television.
· 721: percent increase in network news coverage of homicides between 1993 and 1996.
· 41: percent increase in number of violent scenes per hour on 10 major channels from 1992 to 1994.
· 12: number of medical studies since 1985 linking excessive television-watching to increasing rates of obesity.
· 4: percentage of American children, ages six to 11, seriously overweight in 1963.
· 14: percentage of American children, ages six to 11, seriously overweight in 1993.
· 202: number of junk food ads aired during four hours of Saturday morning programming.

TV-Free America is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization encouraging Americans to
voluntarily and dramatically reduce the amount of television they watch in order to promote
richer, healthier and more connected lives, families and communities.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation,  the years between 1985 and 1995 saw a
249 percent increase  in gun-related murders committed by juveniles. (By the year 1992, when
murder became the second leading  cause of death among males 15-24 in the United States,
three-quarters of the killings already involved guns.)  Indeed, for black and white older adolescents,
firearm murders are the most rapidly increasing cause of death.

After review of hundreds of research findings,
three major national studies have concluded
that heavy exposure to televised violence
is one of the significant causes of violence
in society:
    The Surgeon Generals Commission Report (1972).
        The National Institute of Mental Health Ten-Year Follow-up (1982).
        The report of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on
        Television in Society (1992).
 

Causes of Death in Schools
Of all the deaths that have occurred in American schools since 1992, 77% have resulted from shootings
The number of deaths by various causes in public shootings, 1992 through April 1999, including deaths
from the Littleton, Colo., massacre in April 1999.  Reported by The National School Safety Center.

“In some areas of the country, it is now more likely for a black male between 15 and
25 to die from homicide than it was for a United States soldier to be killed on a tour
of duty in Vietnam. ” New York Times, December 7, 1990.
 
 

Suicides...add this to the fire

Guns used in suicides have a very high "completion rate" -- 78% of such attempts
are fatal.[Source: Annest JL,  Mercy JA, Gibson DR, Ryan GW. National estimates
of nonfatal firearm­related injuries: beyond the tip of the iceberg. JAMA 1995

This is one of the saddest and horrible affects/effects that our ignoring our children and
youth all these years has befallen upon our culture...when a youth takes their own life,
humanity is that much less human.

A suicide is a death that is caused by a self-inflicted, intentional action or behavior. Across all
age groups in the United States, firearms consistently account for nearly 60% of all suicide
deaths. It is the method of CHOICE.

Each year in the United States, thousands of teenagers commit suicide.  Again, over the
past two decades automobile accidents kill most of the nations adolecents.  It has been re-
ported that over a million kids are in auto wrecks in a years time.  I honestly believe that
tens of thousands of the kids killed and badly hurt in automobile accidents are suicide
attempts.  Consciously and on the robotic unconscious level...there are many forms of
behavior that suicide can hide.

Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for 15-to-24 years olds,  & the 6th leading
cause of death for 5-to-14 years olds.  This fact alone brings tears to my already red eyes.   Between
1950 and 1992,  suicide among adolescents and young adults has nearly tripled, according to the CDC.
From 1980 to 1992, suicide among American teens 15-to-19 years old rose 28.3%. During that same
period the suicide rate for children 10-to-14 has grown 120%. These statistics are scary, but the worst
part of it is what these numbers don't tell. The numbers we have are based on SUCCESSFUL suicides.
The scary thought is that only 7 to 10 percent of attempters die by suicide. That means that to get an
adequate picture of who tries to commit suicide.....you have to multiply the numbers by at least 10.
That means that there are more people that attempt suicide between the ages of 5-to-14 then are killed
by the top ten causes of death. To put it simply....it is an epidemic......We NEED to start paying attention
to the problems that are causing our youth to behave in such sad sad ways.  This is what I know for sure.

So...while I am working on this page after the Columbine tragedy this yet another
tragedy comes to my heart reading this in USA TODAY.  My fellow Americans...this
is happening in the United States of America...not China or Russia.  We know what
is going on and if you look back just years ago in some of the research below you
see that we have had the stories and the "research" to know a terrible trend has
begun, and that as a Nation, a culture and a country we should stop as humans,
congressmen, parents and presidents and do something to stem the tide...

Murder tops the causes of death among infants

When an infant dies of an injury, murder is the most common cause, says the first large-scale
study of injury deaths in the first year of life.  "We were very surprised when we first looked at
the numbers to see this (murder) happening so much in infants," says Mary Overpeck, a
researcher at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...after murder,
which accounted for 23% of the deaths, the leading causes were suffocation, 18%; car
accidents, 15%; fires 9%; drowning, 7%; choking on food, 7%; choking on objects, 6%;
other unintentional injuries, 11%; and injuries of   undetermined intent, 4%.
USA TODAY  5/5/99
 

Study results to date show that there were 173 incidents between 7/1/94
and June 30, 1998. The majority of these incidents were homicides and
involved the use of firearms. The total number of events has decreased
steadily since the 1992-1993 school year. However, the total number of
multiple victim events appears to have increased. During the past 3 school
years, August 1995 through June 1998, there were an average of  5 multiple
victims events per year. This is compared to an average of one multiple
victim event per year in the three years from August 1992 through July
1995. Thus, while the total number of events of school associated violent
deaths have decreased, the total number of multiple-victim events appears
to have increased. Data collection ended with the completion of the 1997-
1998 academic year.

Over the 5-year period from 1992 to 1996, teachers were victims of 1,581,000
nonfatal crimes at school, including 962,000 thefts and 619,000 violent
crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault) (Indicator 9).
This translates into about 316,000 nonfatal crimes per year over this time
period.
 

CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), is a school-based survey
designed to produce nationally representative sample of risk behaviors
among students in grades 9-12.

In 1997, law enforcement agencies made an estimated 2.8 million
arrests of persons under the age of 18

The 1997 YRBS reported that:

    8.3% of high school students carried a weapon (e.g., gun, knife, or club)
    during the 30 days preceding the survey, down from 26.1% in 199
    5.9% of high school students carried a gun during the 30 days preceding
    the study.  8.5% of high school students carried a weapon on school property
    during the 30 days preceding the survey 7.4% of high school students were
    threatened or injured with a weapon on school property during the 12 months
    preceding the survey.

Other facts from the 1997 YRBS report included:

    Nationwide, 4% of students had missed 1 or more days of school during
    the 30 days preceding the survey because they had felt unsafe at school
    or when traveling to or from school.

    The prevalence of weapon carrying on school property on 1 or more of
    the 30 days preceding the survey was 8.5% nationwide. Overall, male
    students (12.5%) were significantly more likely than female students
    (3.7%) to have carried a weapon on school property.

    Nationwide, the prevalence of students who had been threatened or
    injured with a weapon on school property one or more times during the
    12 months preceding the survey was 7.4%. Overall, male students
    (10.2%) were significantly more likely than female students (4%) to have
    been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property.

    Nationwide, 14.8% of students had been in a physical fight on school
    property one or more times during the 12 months preceding the survey.
    Overall, male students (20%) were significantly more likely than female
    students (8.6%) to have been in a physical fight on school property. This
    significant difference was identified for white and Hispanic students and
    all grade subgroups.

    Approximately one third (32.9%) of students nationwide had property
    (car, clothing, or books) stolen or deliberately damaged on school
    property one or more times during the 12 months preceding the survey.

Over 108,700 juveniles were in detention, correctional, or shelter facilities on
February 15, 1995.  (Ojjpd) People you must realize that this is on one day....
and you can bet your life on it that if you add numbers like this every day year
after year...you have

In 1996, one-fifth of all juveniles were living below the poverty level, 27% above
the 1977 level but 8% below the 1992 level.   (OJJPD) 69.5 million Americans –
or more than one in four – were under the age of 18 in 1997.

Over 108,700 juveniles were in detention, correctional, or shelter facilities on
February 15, 1995. the average length of stay for juveniles released from
custody in 1994 varied by facility type and custody status ranging from a few
days to several months.

In 1995 courts with juvenile jurisdiction disposed more than 1.7 million
delinquency cases.

I ask again where is all this lottery money going...tax the guns  Mr. Heston and give some of the money the
arms merchants are selling out of their pursuit to make the all mighty buck...the same guys that are
manufacturing the guns that our kids are taking to school, shooting each other with, shooting themselves
and their parents with, the same guns that the gangs are shooting up the streets and neighborhoods with in
cities across this entire nation are the same guys that are selling guns to the various countries that are in
war like  Kosovo, the guns...What reminds me of Gore Vadal's  Hollywood?

The gun owners stick up their hands and say it is not the guns, or our Second Amendment Right that the
forefathers gave us, of course never imagining that the kids would be blowing the heads off of their parents,
their peers, teachers and cops in the street, and corner grocery store clerks away with simi automatic rifles.
Hey Charlton Moses did you carry a gun to Denver? The school says it is not our fault we had no idea,
besides we do not have the funds needed to teach much less control the ills of society that come to school
each day called students. Our youth are a mess, and we put more money into football gear than we do the
counselors to help them.   Irony that it was the jocks that they were after.  We need to look at the sports
win win win thing.

The little boy says with a quivering lip...trying not to break down and "be like a man"...when he tells the new
camera how he saw his his friend Mat laying on the floor in the school library, smoking from the side where
they had shot him.  Some tough swat team guy breaks down crying saying, "You feel like your stomach is
grabbing you and your heart is at your feet...there were bodies laying all over the floor.  It was a mess."
Another Swat team member on the scene says, "I feel like I am empty living in a fog.  When I saw that first
dead girl laying there I saw my daughters face in hers."

 

National Threat Assessment Center Secret Service Safe School Initiative from their website in Jan of 2006 In 2002, the U.S. Secret Service completed the Safe School Initiative, a study of school shootings and other school-based attacks that was conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education. The study examined school shootings in the United States as far back as 1974, through the end of the school year in 2000, analyzing a total of 37 incidents involving 41 student attackers. The study involved extensive review of police records, school records, court documents, and other source materials, and included interviews with 10 school shooters. The focus of the study was on developing information about the school shooters's pre-attack behaviors and communications. The goal was to identify information about a school shooting that may be identifiable or noticeable before the shooting occurs, to help inform efforts to prevent school-based attacks. SEE MORE FROM THEIR WEBSITE...http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac_ssi.shtml

After review of hundreds of research findings,
three major national studies have concluded
that heavy exposure to televised violence
is one of the significant causes of violence
in society:
    The Surgeon Generals Commission Report (1972).
        The National Institute of Mental Health Ten-Year Follow-up (1982).
        The report of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on
        Television in Society (1992).

Col. David Grossman ...The Psychology of Killing  talked of simulated murder.  How they use
simulate the cops, swats teams etc. in these simulators.  Your are learning to do it and live it...
it give you the practice in this virtual world simulated...These tools are used in the military and
police departments  to help them overcome the fear to kill.  To make killing inour soldiers a
conditioned response...ding!!!!  There goes the bell again..

The guys that made the game Mortal Combat says, hey its just a game. Just because the military, cops and
swat teams use the same simulated games and many times this game itself has no relativity here.  (Hey guys,
call me late  to dinner, but don't call me stupid.)   The guys at Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, MTV, Warner  Brothers say,
"Hey this  stuff don't affect/effect younger children and youth when they see the mindless repetition of guns, sex,
violence,  drugs over and over for more than two decades on the boob tube and at the big silver screen.  Hey,
and what about art and my God given talents says Marlyn Manson...who also says I didn't do it, it is just art and
rock n' roll  man. The Grunge movement say hey man...we ain't  preaching that violent stuff...what?  Oh, this tattoo
of a  swastaca on my neck?  Hitler, wasn't he a World War hero?  Yes,  these are army boots and military fatigues
I am wearing with my spiked hair and 10 pounds of chains around my neck... and metal stuck through my lip, noes,
ear, belly button and places I won't say right now, cause my parents might be watching TV.

Acting the dumbest of all was the principal and the superintendent and school officials.  I think Alfred E. Newman
for president, what do you say boys?  Or, maybe Wavey Gravey will run "Nobody" again for president.    And I ask
you guys, did you ever wonder where all the lottery money is going.  Why do I remember something about schools
and children when the system ran that game down our collective throats.  And how much is the Littleton school
system spending on administration.  Check out the disparity in the budge for administration and actual programs
that are designed to give teenagers some help and balance in these kids troubled lives.

Remember this is the 100th Monkey.  And didn't a guy named Pavlov have a dog that liked bells...Rebellion...
Rebell...The swat team said all the blood and the eire feeling of the bells and the fire alarms going off in the
building rang of the disaster. Our school bells ring their toll, while the church bells are silent in the schools.
ACLU and somebody ran Jesus and God out years ago.  Hey,  ask B.F. Skinner about monkey see, monkey do.
Speaking of monkeys on our back...I am reminded of the three that had their hands over their eyes, ears, and
mouth.  Well this is what our kids see us as when they need help or answers to what is real and what is not.
They are not just monkeying around, they are holding on to the dear survival of their mind set...for the world
around them is going ape raping mad...like some monkey bite in the jungle of Africa where a behavioral  type
virus begins to spread aAids sets in and babys begin to die from some viral strain in the culture.

Oh, God.  Dear God...what have we done to the youth that is our culture.  Sad vulnerable little boys and they
take on the dark side of our culture.
 

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN  IN THE UNITED STATES
from:   www.now.org/The NationalOrganizationforWomen

MURDER . Every day four women die in this country as a result of domestic violence, the euphemism for murders and
assaults by husbands and boyfriends. That's approximately 1,400 women a year, according to the FBI. The number of
women who have been murdered by their intimate partners is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

BATTERING . Although only 572,000 reports of assault by intimates are officially reported to federal officials each year,
the most conservative estimates indicate two to four million women of all races and classes are battered each year. At
least 170,000 of those violent incidents are serious enough to require hospitalization, emergency room care or a doctor's
attention.

SEXUAL ASSAULT . Every year approximately 132,000 women report that they have been victims of rape or attempted rape,
and more than half of them knew their attackers. It's estimated that two to six times that many women are raped, but do not
report it. Every year 1.2 million women are forcibly raped by their current or former male partners, some more than once.

THE TARGETS . Women are 10 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate. Young women, women who are
separated, divorced or single, low- income women and African-American women are disproportionately victims of assault and
rape. Domestic violence rates are five times higher among families below poverty levels, and severe spouse abuse is twice as
likely to be committed by unemployed men as by those working full time. Violent attacks on lesbians and gay men have
become two to three times more common than they were prior to 1988.

IMPACT ON CHILDREN . Violent juvenile offenders are four times more likely to have grown up in homes where they saw
violence. Children who have witnessed violence at home are also five times more likely to commit or suffer violence when
they become adults.

According to the latest Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) statistics, juveniles are responsible
for 34% of all pipe bombings in the nation.  Instructions for making pipe bombs are widely available on the
Internet, at book stores, at libraries and at gun shows.  From 1993 through 1997, there were 3,578 pipe
bombings nation wide, according to ATF stats.  In addition, Juveniles have stolen a total of 780 ds of high
explosives, such as dynamite, in the past two years. "The magnitude of this is incomprehensible to me," said
Jeff Roehm, an investigator with the ATF who has 22 years experience.  " have two high-school age daughters.
I woke up a couple times last night in cold sweats, literally."

I could not help but wonder why the swat team seemed so reluctant to go in...it is all so hard to imagine the
dilemma that those trained men had to go through...but, who is the world is trained for anything like this...who
could know?  Who could judge?  Just  because they are trained Swat teams and are trained cops does not
mean they know how to deal with a tragedy such  as this.  You can see that these tough men will never be the
same.   Men that are trained to kill and be tough and strong,  were seen on the news with tears in their eyes
after the event.  They all seemed to be not so tough up against the situation that existed at Columbine High in
Colorado that tragic day.

Death as an award to them

Social outcasts

Neo-Natzi Germany  punk, march pits, black, steel and chains.  Warner Brothers and
a Matrix of trench coat crime and gangster type 2000 kid violence...

WASHINGTON--President Clinton today invited representatives of the entertainment, Internet, and gun industries
to a May 10 White House summit to debate ways to cut youth violence after the Colorado school massacre.  "As
we  have united in grief, now we should unite in action," Clinton said, cautioning, however, that "we should
recognize the simple truth that there is no simple, single answer."    Clinton said he wants to invite to his national
strategy session representatives from the movie industry and the Internet, government and religious leaders,
those who produce explosives and weapons, and police force leaders.

The objective is to create a national grassroots campaign against youth violence on the scale of past efforts to,
for example, fight drunk driving.  "If citizens, parents, and children alike, working together in their communities,
can reduce teen pregnancy, reduce drunk driving, make seat belt use nearly universal--then working together we
can protect our children," Clinton said. is a natural place where many of them will break.  That treadmill they are
on is running pretty fast.

I am very mad at my culture for the blood that our children bath in...Colarado and the streets of L.A.  The kids at
Waco and the kids in the nursery in the Oklahoma building, the children in Kosovo, the kids in the sweat shops
and factories around the world working for dimes, the runaway and homeless children and the kids in the streets
of Rio and New York.  I pray for all the hundreds of thousands of kids who have attempted and contemplated
suicide.  I pray for the millions that have been and are now locked in adult jails, detention centers, foster homes,
single parent families.

The news the day of the carnage at the High School in Colorado went from the blood and guns of that story to the
blood and buildings burning in Belgrade after the NATO attacks.  Thought then I could probable flip over to Fox
and see some of their typical afternoon blow up violence that they program each afternoon for your children...
America is violent and we are obsessed with violence.  We are a wash in violence on TV in the movies and in
the home.  The shocking stats on the number of homicides of women being caused by their husbands and lovers,
child abuse a major killer of children, the top three killers of our youth are auto accidents, suicide and homicide.
Hitlers's birthday on 4/20...same month anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, 5th anniversary of the end of
the Waco tragedy...earlier school shootings in Jonesboro, Ark, West Pauduca, Ky, Springfield, ore, Fayetteville,
Tenn., Edinboro, Pa and Pearl, Miss.  Juvenile crime on the rise.

THEY ARE IMMERSED...      IMMERSION-TYPE MEDIA, SUCH AS VIDEO GAMES AND COMPUTER OR
INTERNET GAMES... YOU WIN BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT YOU KILL.
 

The homes are not safe

The schools are not safe

The streets are not safe

Television  filled with violence

News is all violent...if it bleeds it leads

Movies are full of violence

Video games filled with violence

Music filled with violence

Nearly all of the 200 most popular movies rented in 1996 and 1997
included the appearance of alcohol, tobacco or illegal drugs, a
Stanford University researchers found.

And on and on and on...

THE PROBLEM

Thousands of scientific studies and case studies have shown the powerful influence that the
entertainment media has on people's cognitive development and behavior, especially children,
teenagers and young people, who represent the biggest audience. In fact, by the time they are
17-years-old, children will have spent at least 40,000 hours watching movies, videos and TV
programs, playing video games, listening to music, and reading popular books and news
stories, but only 11,000 hours in school, 2,000 hours with their parents, and 800 hours in church
if they regularly attend! That's about 2,353 hours of media consumption per year for the average
child. Of those 2,353 hours each year, our current figures indicate that up to 20 percent of them,
or about 471 hours, will feature a solid, strong or very strong moral worldview, and up to 7
percent, or about 165 hours, will feature a solid, strong or very strong redemptive or Christian
worldview.

In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States agreed with four top medical groups, the
American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as
well as countless psychological experts, that violence in the mass media is contributing to
increasing violent behavior among children.1 Not only that, but many scientific studies from
other sources, such as education professor Diane Levin, author of REMOTE CONTROL
CHILDHOOD? COMBATING THE HAZARDS OF MEDIA CULTURE, 2 and psychologists like
Dr. Victor Cline, Dr. Stanley Rachman, and Dr. W. Marshall, 3 have found that viewing sexual
images in the media has led to increased sexual activity among children and teenagers and
increased deviant behavior, including rape. Furthermore, a recent Dartmouth Medical School
study of New England middle-school students, reported by the National Cancer Institute, found
that viewing drug use in movies and TV programs leads
THE SOLUTION - MEDIA WISDOM
By Dr. Ted Baehr and Dr. Tom Snyder
Special to ASSIST News Service

A USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll taken Wednesday, the day after the Colorado high school shootings, shows
79% believe the incident indicates "there is something seriously wrong in the country today."  Only 17% called
it "an isolated incident."  The poll also shows that the easy availability of guns, lax or inattentive parents, and
violent media come in for the lion's share of the blame The poll shows a growing sense of public worry for their
own children's safety in school:  More than  half (55%) of parents with children in school fear for their safety, up
form 37% a year ago.  Only 24% feared for their children  in 1977.  The poll shows 49% believe violent media
are a contributing factor, and 52% say "stricter regulation" of the content  of movies and TV would help stem the
problem.

It seemed interesting to me that Klebold had a black BMW. Been to the prom.
Lived is a very very nice house.  Military father. Hey  this was not some poor
deprived outcast that he was being painted to be...something is wrong with
this picture.

CNN makes Headline News statement on the possibility that television and movie violence create a social
atmosphere that makes such horrors possible...stating usually, news media prefer to ignore this old story...
as in the case of tobacco, the health hazards of violent television were recognized by experts and even by
government agencies long before public awareness began to build.

In 1972, there was a report by a surgeon general's committee:  "Television and Growing Up: The Impact of
Televised Violence." By 1976, the case was so obvious that the American Medical Association's House of
Delegates passed this resolution:  "The House declares TV violence threatens the health and welfare of young
Americans..."

Denial...

Ten years later, just as the first U.S. generation raised on television reached the vulnerable, crime-committing
years, the homicide rate began a steep climb.  After 15 years, it had doubled.  Canada had the same ex-
perience, as did other countries like Africa where TV was brought to the populations.

"Industry spokespersons have made innumbeable protestations of good intent," said Brandon Centerwall who
did the above research..."but nothing has happened.  In over 20 years of monitoring television levels of violence,
there has been no downward movement."..

CNN's Philip Meyer in article BELIEVE IT: TV Violence stalks streets of Littleton--your hometown.

Scott Poland of Houston, a nationally recognized expert on school psychology, has testified before Congress
twice in the last two years. He believes Washington missed an opportunity in the wake of school shootings in
Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oregon...."We went back to sleep,"  Poland said.  "It saddens me to say
that...We must do things differently."

Some said they chose Tuesday because it was April 20, noting that it is Hitler's birth date and the some kids
refer to "420" as some kind of marijuana designation.  In Los Angeles, California 420 is the number attached
to a marijuana charge in Los Angeles for anybody's information.

LA Times....."Teachers, for their part, often feel squeezed between parents who abrogate their duties and
school systems that demand high test scores.  If the parents and the teachers can't fill the need for affiliation
and guidance that teenagers by nature require, then gangs and cliques--"Trench Coat Mafia" or other wise--
are happy to step in.  Outsiders who once were geeky loners now can band together."

David Elkind, author of "All Grown Up and No Place to Go." says, "Once, not long ago, families were geared
toward protecting children: providing them with guidance and direction, and with recreation geared to their
developmental levels. But in the aftermath of the 1960s, where every other kind of social convention was
attacked from within, a false sense of family egalitarianism took over...At the turn of the century, we had the
development of pediatrics.  Now we have the veneration of geriatrics,  "Elkind said.  "Now the needs of children
and adolescents are placed below the needs of adults. We have taken a lot away from kids, particularly from
adolescents. We used to see them as immature, in need of adult guidance.  Now we see them a sophisticated,
ready for anything.

"It's really horrifying," said Arnett, a visiting professor at the Univ. of Maryland.  "Some of it I think (music) is really
poisonous. Youth culture has existed for hundreds of years, but it is hard for me to think of anything before the
last 20 years that was oriented towards such violence."

To John Cole, a professor of psychology at Duke University, the penchant for violence is the most alarming trait
in today's youth culture. "We haven't had this previously in our culture."  he said, "where kids or teenagers bring
guns to schools and start shooting indiscriminately."

Look at the stats on the numbers of children that have been raised by just their mothers over the past three
decades. Especially the past two where the stats exceed some 10 to 15 million children living with just their
mothers.  Then add foster homes, adult jails, dent ion centers.

The little TV Robots were going to go on and crash a plane into New York.
Folks...think about it!

Four 8th graders were arrest in Wimberly, Texas days after Colorado, for a plot to
blow up the school.  Wimberly, Texas?  This town is smaller and more laid back than
Littleton, CO ever thought about being...It is a litttle hide-away paradise in the Texas
Hill Country out side of Austin, Texas...the deadly little I saw it on TV robots are going
be be going off like little candles in the wind all over the nation for the next few years...

Five bombs thrown at a High School in Philadelphia

Threats in Dallas...

The little boy says with a quivering lip...trying not to break down and "be like a man"...when he tells the new
camera how he saw his his friend Mat laying on the floor in the school library, smoking from the side where they
had shot him.  Some tough swat team guy breaks down crying saying, "You feel like your stomach is grabbing
you and your heart is at your feet...there were bodies laying all over the floor.  It was a mess."  Another Swat
team member on the scene says, "I feel like I am empty living in a fog.  When I saw that first dead girl laying
there I saw my daughters face in hers."

Col. David Grossman ...The Psychology of Killing  talked of simulated murder.  That they simulate
the cops, swats teams etc. in these simulators.  Your are learning to do it and live it...it give you the
practice in this virtual world  simulated...Talks about the  video games that kids use being exactly
like the simulated murder games for professional killers. These tools are used in military and police
to help them overcome the fear to kill.  To make killing in our soldiers a conditioned response...
ding!!!!  There goes the bell again!

And now we meet in the town halls, in the capitols and at our schools to see what can we do...NOW at this
late hour when we have to use military controls and swat teams to deal with our children.  The bell rings
its toll...
 

Searches
Suggestion Boxes in the schools to turn in your school mates
Uniforms
Lock lockers
Metal detectors
No trench coats or baggy clothes
No book bags or packs
Security cameras
More security
Close off most entrances
Phones in rooms
Get school to work on plans with local police
Secure science labs where chemicals are found
On the more mothering and nurturing side.
More counselors
More PTA involvement
Problem-solving
Stress management
Assertiveness
Anger control
Impulse control
Medicated straight jackets

WE ARE MAD IN OUR OWN JUNGLE...

LIKE THE CUCKOO BIRD...

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