Il calendario delle “fucilazioni di massa” negli Stati Uniti dopo la strage di Columbine

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di Aviva Shen

Venerdì mattina, 27 persone sono state uccise nella scuola elementare Sandy Hook  a Newtown, Connecticut. Secondo le fonti, 18 di queste vittime erano bambini. Questa è la seconda sparatoria di massa negli Stati Uniti in questa settimana, dopo che un uomo armato martedì ha aperto il fuoco in un centro commerciale in Oregon , uccidendo 2 persone. ABC News riporta che ci sono stati 31 sparatorie nelle scuole degli Stati Uniti dopo Columbine (1999), quando furono uccise 13 persone.

Il tasso di persone uccise da armi da fuoco negli Stati Uniti è 19,5 volte superiore a quello riscontrato nelle nazioni simili  in tutto il mondo. Negli ultimi 30 anni dal 1982, l’America ha pianto almeno 61 omicidi di massa. Di seguito è riportato un calendario di fucilazioni di massa negli Stati Uniti dopo la strage di Columbine:

December 11, 2012. On Tuesday, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts killed 2 people and himself with a stolen rifle in Clackamas Town Center, Oregon. His motive is unknown.

September 27, 2012. Five were shot to death by 36-year-old Andrew Engeldinger at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, MN. Three others were wounded. Engeldinger went on a rampage after losing his job, ultimately killing himself.

August 5, 2012. Six Sikh temple members were killed when 40-year-old US Army veteran Wade Michael Page opened fire in a gurdara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Four others were injured, and Page killed himself.

July 20, 2012. During the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, CO, 24-year-old James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58. Holmes was arrested outside the theater.

May 29, 2012. Ian Stawicki opened fire on Cafe Racer Espresso in Seattle, WA, killing 5 and himself after a citywide manhunt.

April 6, 2012. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, shot 5 black men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in racially motivated shooting spree. Three died.

April 2, 2012. A former student, 43-year-old One L. Goh killed 7 people at Oikos University, a Korean Christian college in Oakland, CA. The shooting was the sixth-deadliest school massacre in the US and the deadliest attack on a school since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre.

October 14, 2011. Eight people died in a shooting at Salon Meritage hair salon in Seal Beach, CA. The gunman, 41-year-old Scott Evans Dekraai, killed six women and two men dead, while just one woman survived. It was Orange County’s deadliest mass killing.

September 6, 2011. Eduardo Sencion, 32, entered an IHOP restaurant in Carson City, NV and shot 12 people. Five died, including three National Guard members.

January 8, 2011. Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head when 22-year-old Jared Loughner opened fire on an event she was holding at a Safeway market in Tucson, AZ. Six people died, including Arizona District Court Chief Judge John Roll, one of Giffords’ staffers, and a 9-year-old girl. 19 total were shot. Loughner has been sentenced to seven life terms plus 140 years, without parole.

August 3, 2010. Omar S. Thornton, 34, gunned down Hartford Beer Distributor in Manchester, CT after getting caught stealing beer. Nine were killed, including Thornton, and two were injured.

November 5, 2009. Forty-three people were shot by Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan at the Fort Hood army base in Texas. Hasan reportedly yelled “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, killing 13 and wounding 29 others.

April 3, 2009. Jiverly Wong, 41, opened fire at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York before committing suicide. He killed 13 people and wounded 4.

March 29, 2009. Eight people died in a shooting at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, NC. The gunman, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, was targeting his estranged wife who worked at the home and survived. Stewart was sentenced to life in prison.

February 14, 2008. Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing 6 and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. It was the fifth-deadliest university shooting in US history.

February 7, 2008. Six people died and two were injured in a shooting spree at the City Hall in Kirkwood, Missouri. The gunman, Charles Lee Thornton, opened fire during a public meeting after being denied construction contracts he believed he deserved. Thornton was killed by police.

December 5, 2007. A 19-year-old boy, Robert Hawkins, shot up a department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha, NE. Hawkins killed 9 people and wounded 4 before killing himself. The semi-automatic rifle he used was stolen from his stepfather’s house.

April 16, 2007. Virginia Tech became the site of the deadliest school shooting in US history when a student, Seung-Hui Choi, gunned down 56 people. Thirty-two people died in the massacre.

February 12, 2007. In Salt Lake City’s Trolley Square Mall, 5 people were shot to death and 4 others were wounded by 18-year-old gunman Sulejman Talović. One of the victims was a 16-year-old boy.

October 2, 2006. An Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, PA was gunned down by 32-year-old Charles Carl Roberts, Roberts separated the boys from the girls, binding and shooting the girls. 5 young girls died, while 6 were injured. Roberts committed suicide afterward.

March 25, 2006. Seven died and 2 were injured by 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff in a shooting spree through Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA. The massacre was the worst killing in Seattle since 1983.

March 21, 2005. Teenager Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend before opening fire on Red Lake Senior High School, killing 9 people on campus and injuring 5. Weise killed himself.

March 12, 2005. A Living Church of God meeting was gunned down by 44-year-old church member Terry Michael Ratzmann at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, WI. Ratzmann was thought to have had religious motivations, and killed himself after executing the pastor, the pastor’s 16-year-old son, and 7 others. Four were wounded.

July 8, 2003. Doug Williams, a Lockheed Martin employee, shot up his plant in Meridian, MI in a racially-motivated rampage. He shot 14 people, most of them African American, and killed 7.

September 15, 1999. Larry Gene Ashbrook opened fire on a Christian rock concert and teen prayer rally at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, TX. He killed 7 people and wounded 7 others, almost all teenagers. Ashbrook committed suicide.

July 29, 1999. Mark Orrin Barton, 44, murdered his wife and two children with a hammer before shooting up two Atlanta day trading firms. Barton, a day trader, was believed to be motivated by huge monetary losses. He killed 12 including his family and injured 13 before killing himself.

April 20, 1999. In the deadliest high school shooting in US history, teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold shot up Columbine High School in Littleton, CO. They killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. They killed themselves after the massacre.

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Fonte:  ThinkProgress Justice

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Stefano Cucchi… (Erri de Luca, scrittore)

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“Il potere dichiara che il giovane arrestato di nome Gesù figlio di Giuseppe è morto perché aveva le mani bucate e i piedi pure, considerato che faceva il falegname e maneggiando chiodi si procurava spesso degli incidenti sul lavoro. Perché parlava in pubblico e per vizio si dissetava con l´aceto, perché perdeva al gioco e i suoi vestiti finivano divisi tra i vincenti a fine di partita. I colpi riportati sopra il corpo non dipendono da flagellazioni, ma da caduta riportata mentre saliva il monte Golgota appesantito da attrezzatura non idonea e la ferita al petto non proviene da lancia in dotazione alla gendarmeria, ma da tentativo di suicidio, che infine il detenuto è deceduto perché ostinatamente aveva smesso di respirare malgrado l’ambiente ben ventilato. Più morte naturale di così toccherà solo a tal Stefano Cucchi quasi coetaneo del su menzionato.”

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(Erri de Luca, scrittore)

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L’economia nel 2013? Male come nel 2012!

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di  Stefano Porcari

Il bollettino mensile della Banca Centrale Europea non lascia margini all’ottimismo né alle “luci in fondo al tunnel” che ha visto solo Monti. E’ ormai evidente che nell’Eurozona le ricette imposte sono peggiori della malattia.

L’attività economica nell’Eurozona dovrebbe restare debole anche nell’ultimo trimestre del 2012 e proseguire così nel 2013. Lo afferma il bollettino mensile della Banca Centrale Europea reso noto oggi. Le analisi, spiega la Bce, ”continuano a segnalare la persistente debolezza dell’attività economica nell’ultimo trimestre dell’anno, benchè più di recente alcuni indicatori si siano stabilizzati su livelli contenuti e il clima di fiducia nei mercati finanziari sia migliorato ulteriormente”. Secondo il bollettino della Bce ”sul breve periodo la debolezza dell’attività dovrebbe protrarsi nel prossimo anno, di riflesso all’impatto avverso sulla spesa interna esercitato dal basso grado di fiducia di consumatori e investitori e dalla moderata domanda esterna”. In pratica le esportazioni non sono in grado di sopperire al crollo dei consumi e degli investimenti sul mercato interno dei paesi aderenti all’Eurozona.

L’economia ”dovrebbe iniziare a recuperare gradualmente nel prosieguo del 2013” a fronte ”del rafforzamento della domanda mondiale e della trasmissione all’economia dell’orientamento accomodante della politica monetaria della BCE e del netto miglioramento della fiducia sui mercati finanziari”. In particolare, la Bce prevede un tasso di variazione annuo del Pil in termini reali compreso fra il -0,6 e il -0,4 per cento nel 2012 (-0,4%/-0,2% la precedente stima) e fra il -0,9 e lo +0,3 nel 2013 (da -0,4%/+1,4%).

Per il 2014 la previsione poi è di una crescita tra +0,2 e +2,2. Secondo la Bce, ”vi sono rischi al ribasso per le prospettive economiche dell’area dell’euro connessi in prevalenza alle incertezze sulla risoluzione delle questioni del debito sovrano e della governance nell’area dell’euro, ai problemi geopolitici e alle decisioni di politica di bilancio negli Stati Uniti”. Fattori che ”potrebbero ripercuotersi sul clima di fiducia per un periodo piu’ lungo di quanto ipotizzato al momento e ritardare ancora la ripresa degli investimenti privati, dell’occupazione e dei consumi”. Dunque la luce in fondo al tunnel divinata da Monti l’ha vista solo lui, il che porrebbe dei seri problemi sia sulla credibilità della sua leadership che sulle sue capacità divinatorie. Difficile credere che sia tutta colpa della rientrata in campo di Berlusconi. La realtà – anche secondo le previsioni della Bce – ci dice che le condizioni di vita lavoratori, disoccupati e famiglie dei paesi aderenti all’area dell’euro sono destinate al peggio, a meno che qualcuno non rovesci il tavolo e metta in campo misure del tutto in controtendenza, inclusa la rimessa in discussione dell’adesione ai trattati europei e della stessa adesione all’euro.

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Fonte: Contropiano.org

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