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NPR: Maj. Hasan 'Freaked Out' Other Doctors at Walter Reed

Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm PST

This NPR segment from Morning Edition reveals that alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave a lecture to other doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center that “really freaked them out:” Officials Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together. The guy was apparently giving off all kinds of warning signs. [Video] ...

Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed

Fort Hood Updates

Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:48 am PST

There are unconfirmed reports that Major Malik Nadal Hasan was shouting “Allah Akbar” during his alleged shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. CBS Video President Obama made a statement today, urging people not to jump to conclusions. We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution ...

Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas

Mass Shooting in Florida

Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:50 am PST

At least 8 people have been shot in the Gateway Center office building in Orlando, Florida. Not many details available yet…

Crime, Shooting, Orlando, Florida

Fort Hood Shooter Identified As a Major

Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:36 pm PST

ABC News reports an identity for the Fort Hood shooter. The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. [Video] UPDATE at 11/5/09 3:08:42 pm: More information from CBS News: CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper reports that Hasan, 39, is a licensed ...

Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas

Breaking: Shooting at Fort Hood Army Post

Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:35 pm PST

There’s been a shooting incident at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, with up to 7 people dead and at least 12 wounded (this CBS 4 article says 20 wounded): Reports: Multiple Soldiers Shot At Ft. Hood In Texas. FORT HOOD, Texas (CBS) ― Multiple soldiers were shot ...

Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas

Anti-Abortion Extremists' Auction Goes Online (Briefly)

Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:21 am PST

Last Wednesday we noted a report that eBay had rejected an auction by a radical anti-abortion group to raise money for alleged murderer Scott Roeder: EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction. According to TPM, however, the auction did go online for a brief time before being pulled down. ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Ebay

EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction

Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:38 am PDT

The Kansas City Star’s Judy L. Thomas reports that eBay has rejected an auction by anti-abortion extremists intended to raise money for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller. The auction would have included items such as an Army of God manual, a “cookbook” compiled by a woman ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God

Anti-Abortion Activists Sell Extremist Items to Defend Scott Roeder

Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:18 am PDT

The more extreme anti-choice activists give themselves permission to do almost anything in the name of God. The latest example — an eBay auction of memorabilia from the violent fringe: Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case. An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God

Dan Riehl: Murdered Census Worker Had Teh Ghey

Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:09 pm PDT

Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls. What a pathetic, sick little human ...

Right Wing, Idiocy, Kentucky, Census, Crime, Homophobia

Inspector Dan Has a New Theory

Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:23 am PDT

Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World ...

Right Wing, Idiocy, Kentucky, Census, Crime

Dan Riehl Calls Murdered Census Worker a 'Child Predator'

Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:30 am PDT

Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is speculating that Bill Sparkman, the census worker found murdered in Kentucky, was a child predator. Yes, really. His evidence? He don’t got to show you no steenking evidence! All he knows is that the murder wasn’t committed by anyone on his side — ...

Right Wing, Idiocy, Kentucky, Census, Crime

Anti-Abortion Activists: Tiller's Church 'Brought Damnation On Themselves'

Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:23 pm PDT

They encouraged and applauded his murder, but anti-choice fanatics aren’t finished with Dr. George Tiller yet. Now the leader of the domestic terrorist group calling itself the “Army of God” has sent a letter to the church Tiller attended, telling pastors that they “brought damnation on themselves.” A Virginia ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue, Rev. Donald Spitz, Army of God

Onion: Little Boy Heroically Shoots Burglar

Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm PDT

Some Onion parodies of the news media are more savage than others. This one is brutal. [Video]

Onion, Humor, Crime, Video

Update: Murdered Census Worker Found Naked, Bound with Duct Tape

Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:49 pm PDT

This pretty much rules out the “suicide” hypothesis: Hanged Census Worker Found Naked, Bound. BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered ...

Crime, Census, Murder, Kentucky

Report: Census Worker Found Hanged with 'Fed' Scrawled on Body

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 9:45 pm PDT

There’s not enough information yet to say for sure what was behind this killing, so let’s not jump to conclusions. But the description of the circumstances and the timing (around the time of the Washington DC tea party) raises a strong suspicion that anti-government sentiment may have been the motivation: ...

Crime, Census, Murder

Anti-Abortion Lawyer Plans to Argue Justifiable Homicide

Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:50 pm PDT

Suspected murderer Scott Roeder is apparently now enlisting the aid of a fanatical anti-abortion lawyer who plans to argue that it’s OK to gun down doctors like George Tiller: Justifiable homicide defense eyed in Roeder’s case. Attorney Michael Hirsh is known for trying to use this same insane strategy in ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue

Hate Radio Host Claims He Was Paid by the FBI

Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:46 pm PDT

White supremacist radio host/blogger Hal Turner, recently arrested for urging readers of his blog to kill Chicago judges, says (through his lawyer) that he was a paid informant for the FBI. Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors ...

Hal Turner, Extremism, Radio, Paleocon, White supremacism, FBI, Crime

Standoff in LA

Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:31 pm PDT

Going on right now in Los Angeles, a man who allegedly threatened Barack Obama led police on a wild car chase, ending in a standoff outside the Federal Building in Westwood. WESTWOOD — A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway ...

Obama Derangement Syndrome, Crime, Threats, Right Wing, Barack Obama

Was Scott Roeder Part of a Conspiracy?

Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:05 pm PDT

Federal investigators are reportedly looking into the possibility that the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller, Scott Roeder, may have had help. WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 10 (UPI) — A federal investigation is underway to determine if more than one person was involved in abortion doctor George Tiller’s death, Kansas ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Operation Rescue

Israeli Police Recommend Indictment of Lieberman

Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:54 am PDT

Far right Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is probably going to be indicted on bribery and fraud charges: Israeli Police Recommend Indictment of Foreign Minister. JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 — Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness ...

Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, Crime, Bribery

NYT: The Story Behind Dr. Tiller's Murder

Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:13 pm PDT

The Sunday edition of the New York Times has a very good, in-depth piece by David Barstow on Dr. George Tiller, and the history of fanaticism, threats, media provocation, and violence leading up to his murder: An Abortion Battle, Fought to the Death. Long ago, he had accepted the ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Operation Rescue

Top Evangelist Preacher Convicted of Pedophilia

Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:03 am PDT

Evangelist Tony Alamo, owner of a multi-million dollar “church” that sold elaborate clothing to celebrities such as Michael Jackson, has been convicted of a series of disgusting crimes involving sex with girls as young as 9 years old. Five women testified at his trial that Alamo transported them across state ...

Crime, Arkansas, Tony Alamo, Evangelism, Child Abuse

Bizarre Crime Story of the Day

Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:37 pm PDT

The latest outbreak of bad craziness involves three mayors and five rabbis, in a huge corruption and money laundering ring: Mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus, Five Rabbis Arrested. July 23 (Bloomberg) — The mayors of Hoboken, Ridgefield and Secaucus, New Jersey, and five rabbis were among 44 people charged by ...

Crime, New Jersey, Corruption

Dr. Tiller's Murderer Still Advocating Via the US Mail

Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:37 pm PDT

According to ABC News, Scott Roeder (the fanatic suspected in the murder of Dr. George Tiller), has been using snail mail from his jail cell to stay in touch with the extremist anti-abortion network: Abortion Doc Murder Suspect Advocates Via Mail. A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas ...

George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Right Wing, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God

Madoff Gets 150 Years

Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:22 am PDT

Wall Street scoundrel Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for perpetrating one of the biggest financial frauds in history. NEW YORK – Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to ...

Economy, Finance, Business, Fraud, Crime, Bernie Madoff

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