James Holmes, the suspect of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado jailed in the Arapahoe Detention Center remains irrational and is becoming even more so according to an inmate released recently.
“He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards…He’s spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.”
Holmes remains in his “murderous Joker persona” according to a jailhouse worker. “Let’s just say he hasn’t shown any remorse… He thinks he’s acting in a movie.”
Other recent inmates describe Holmes’ first night in jail where prisoners were chanting “kid killer”.
“All the inmates were talking about killing him…Everyone was looking for an opportunity. It’s all they could talk about…”.
After the tragic shooting in Denver, Colorado, where 12 people were killed during the Premier of the latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, Warner Brothers decided to cancel the Paris Premier of the film.
The Premier in Paris was to be a star-studdied event, with director Christopher Nolan in attendance as well as cast members from the movie: Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine .
Warner Brothers issued a statement saying they are “deeply saddened” by what has happened.
Friday’s selling spree wiped out any gains made in July for both the Dow and the Nasdaq.
Investors are taken by fear and worry over the European financial position according to Frank Fantozzi, president and senior adviser at Planned Financial Services.
Mitch Hamilton is a pastor of the Mississippi Avenue Baptist Church. The church is located near the theater of the shooting that killed 12 and wounded dozens during the midnight screening of Batman.
He is not sure if any of his church members are among the dead.
Other clergy across the city of Aurora are struggling to respond to the tragedy.
“It’s impossible to be prepared for actions that reek of such evil… It’s not as if any of us have answers… Evil is in our midst…” said Rabbi Richard Rheins of Temple Sinai in the city of Denver, Colorado.
Another Rabbi, Joe Black from Temple Emanuel understands that his congregation will be looking for answers. “I’ve been a rabbi for 25 years, and I know that I don’t have any answers. And if anybody says they do, I’m concerned,”
It turns out that Jessica Ghawi, aka Jessica Redfield who was killed at the Batman movie premiere in Aurora, had just escaped a Toronto mall shooting on June 2, 2012.
Her experience was documented in her blog. Her entries describe the sense/feelings that she had before the shooting occurred.
“This empty, almost sickening feeling won’t go away…I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm’s way. It’s hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting.
According to Republican Louie Gohmert of Texas, the shootings that occurred in Aurora, Colorado are the result of “ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs”.
The Heritage Foundation’s show, Istook Live interviewed Gohmert and asked him why he believes these acts take place. Gohmert indicated that the Christian values in this country have weakened. “Some of us happen to believe that when our founders talked about guarding our virtue and freedom, that that was important…People say … where was God in all of this?”
Gohmert goes on to say “It does make me wonder, with all those people in the theater, was there nobody that was carrying a gun that could have stopped this guy more quickly?”
“People were running everywhere, running on top of me, like kicking me, jumping over me. And there were bodies on the ground… I froze up. I was scared. I honestly thought I was going to die.” recalled Christopher Ramos at the midnight premiere of Batman.
“The image in our heads is stuck in there. I still have the ticket right here and honestly, I’m never going to forget this night at all. Because it was the first time I saw something that was real. Like a real-life nightmare that was there, not dreaming of,”
“I’m with coworkers and we’re on the floor praying to God we don’t get shot, and the gunshots continue on and on, and when the sound finally stopped, we started to get up and people were just bleeding,” according to another theatergoer.
Eyewitnesses report that Holmes entered the packed cinema, during the midnight premiere of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises”, and threw smoke grenades into the crowd, before opening fire, with four guns. He was wearing a gas mask and body armor.
He appears to have shot at random, killing 12 and leaving 38 wounded; Holmes shot men, women and children. His youngest victim was a 4 month old baby.
One of those killed was 24 year old sports journalist Jessica Ghawi, she had survived another mass shooting last month in Toronto, Canada.
Holmes was then arrested at his car, which he had parked at the rear of the cinema. When arrested he told police, “I’m the Joker.”
The Joker is Batman’s arch enemy in the comic book series. Holmes had painted his hair red. His mask and body armour also resembled the villain, Bane, in the film “The Dark Knight Rises”. Some eyewitnesses said when they first saw him, they thought he had come dressed as Bane – as many other movie goers had dressed up in Batman costumes for the Premiere.
Investigators are working on the theory that Holmes was acting out scenes from the Batman comics in his attack.
When FBI later raided his home they found it booby trapped, and stacked with high explosives.
It has emerged that James Holmes was a neuroscience student, who dropped out of university last month, giving no reason for doing so. He had no previous convictions, and is not believed to be affiliated to any terrorist group.
Colorado is no stranger to mass shootings. The Columbine High School shootings took place less than 30 miles away 13 years ago, when 13 people lost their lives.
Among those killed in Aurora, Colorado was a hockey writer Jessica Ghawi, aka Jessica Redfield.
The tragedy hits close to home for those in the hockey business. She was involved with the website Busted Coverage, an intern at 104.3 FM a Denver radio station and also with the You Can Play Project.
“The thing that stood out to me most about Jessica was how sharp-witted she was, and funny at that,” per Sporting News NHL (National Hockey League) writer Jesse Spector speaking with People Magazine. “It’s what made following her on Twitter so much fun. She was amazingly enthusiastic about hockey, journalism and life in general.”
Hours after the Batman shooting in Aurora, Colorado, politicians started pushing for gun control.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about” these shootings, in a demand to both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
Piers Morgan with CNN “America has got to do something about its gun laws. Now is the time,”
“Perhaps the more fundamental question that needs to be asked as to why America keeps experiencing mass shootings, when as recently as twenty years ago they were few and far between?” Asks Paul Joseph Watson, editor and writer for prisonplanet.com
If you ask me this then maybe I will do this… what do you think about that!?
In response to being asked by a reporter if Nancy Pelosi would release her own tax return even though recently she had been “adamant” in having Mitt Romney release his tax return.
For more on current government threats see this article on the FDA threat to whistleblowers, that is those who are exposing corruption.
See also this article on the ATF for the same threat to whistleblowers who also would even attempt to think about exposing corruption.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors could be trying to legislate that “…everybody must get high”.
If you actually inside city hall, its okay to smoke medical pot. Likewise if you are on the street at a fair, festival or any other outdoor event that occurs on city property. What is not okay is smoking anything else.
Eric Mar, San Francisco Supervisor sponsored this proposal which is being considered in the city.
Obama’s campaign to get re-elected is accusing Mitt Romney of “launching a false attack” and in doing so, placing an image of untruthfulness or falseness over Romney.
However, according to the official White House transcript, Romney is correct in his statements.
Romney’s ad states “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” This matches the White House transcript, dated July 13, 2012 from Obama’s speech in Roanoke, Virginia.
Andrew Moore and his “pro-life walker” partner were praying the Rosary as they were walking route U.S 40 near Stilesville, in Hendricks County Indiana as they were approached from behind by a vehicle that ended up killing Moore.
The group had already walked from San Francisco and only had 600 miles to go before arriving at Washington, D.C.
Police indicate that it was simply an accident. There were no signs of alcohol or vehicular loss of control.
Moore was an A student, helped the homeless and had been on a mission trip to Mexico, helping the poor to build homes.