Newsroom Shooting in Historic U.S. City near Naval Academy, National Capital

Annapolis. Maryland — 

Site of the former Second Continental Congress and temporary national capital of the United States (1783–1784) where General George Washington stood before the new Maryland State House and resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army. Annapolis— site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention that called states to send delegates for the Constitutional Convention scheduled for the following year at Philadelphia.

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ontemporary American leaders and public officials grandstanding and fighting among themselves fail to recognize and heed the cries of a troubled people in a troubled land—

America! America! Sans soul or self control, sans good or brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

Yesterday’s homegrown assassination

In the neighborhood of the United States Naval Academy, the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay, the capital closest to the capital of the United States of America, a shooter attacks members of what used to be called the free press.  

When the shooting was over the editorial page editor, an assistant editor, the community beat reporter, the sports reporter, and sales assistant were dead. Several other employees of the Capital Gazette were injured. The shooting suspect and the newspaper apparently had been engaged in conflict extending back some years. The former is said to have harassed newspaper staff after the newspaper published an article about him. The publisher and editor then consulted attorneys “about filing a restraining order” and contacted county police about the harassment, with no police action taken. The man now accused of the newspaper office shooting had filed a lawsuit (dismissed at court) over the newspaper article he considered defamatory.

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oday’s Baltimore Sun citing charging documents reports

“Years after unsuccessfully suing the newspaper for defamation, (the shooter) blasted through the doors of the newspaper offices Thursday (June 28, 2018) afternoon and hid under a desk where police found him.”

The shooter stands “charged with the killings of (Capital Gazette) “editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen”; “community correspondent Wendi Winters”; “editorial page editor Gerald Fischman”; “sports writer John McNamara”; and “sales assistant Rebecca Smith.”

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n the world today, and for years — in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine, among others; on the United Nations Security Council; inside and on borders of the Americas—U.S. leaders and their partners, militaries and mercenaries are implicated in endless mass slaughter: occupation, provocation, destabilization, displacement, intimidation, violent aggression.  

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ave the crocodile tears and moans! Save the feigned “shock,” and, equally useless, “thoughts and prayers”! Save the staged concern for “mothers and children”!

Sources

Baltimore Sun June 29, 2018 “Capital Gazette shooting suspect barricaded exit doors as part of a pre-planned attack, authorities say” http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ramos-charges-20180629-story.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis,_Maryland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Gazette_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking

Insight Beyond Today’s News, CLB