From: akcs.kennedy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Edward A. Kennedy, Jr.)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: CBS  *LIES*  vs.  Kileen motives
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:00:03 CDT

What happened on October 16, 1991 in Kileen Texas?  
 
George Hennard drove his pickup truck through the window 
of a Luby's Caffeteria restaraunt and began killing people.
 
What happened three weeks later, on November 6, 1991?   
 
CBS presented an entire hour on the killings ("48 Hours").  
In it they asked why the killings happened.  In fact, they 
spent fifteen minutes, an entire quarter of the program 
asking why.  Well that isquite true.  They gave you the 
impression that they were asking why.  They really just 
showed lots of footage of local policemen and said that 
they were asking why.
 
 
THE LIE
 
There are traditionally two ways you can lie.  You can lie
by telling a falsehood, of course, but you can also lie by
pretending to tell the whole truth while leaving out higly
significant portions of the story so that a wrong impression
is gotten.  It is in the latter manner that I have been 
catching CBS in its lies.
 
There were many hints as to the killer's state of mind, that
day in Luby's Caffeteria.  He shouted, "This is what Bell 
County has done to me!" when he started shooting and later
kept telling the people to consider whether it was worth it.
 
It appears he was being harassed.  On September 22, he called 
the police to report harassing phone calls.  On another oc-
casion he told Mary Mead, a convience store owner, "I want 
you to tell everybody that if they don't quit messing around 
my house, something is going to happen!"
 
In June, four months before the shootings, George Hennard 
sent a letter to a pair of sisters living across the street 
from him asking them to someday laugh in the faces "of all 
these mostly white, treacherous female vipers from two towns 
who tried to destroy me and my family."  Just the day before 
the shooting, he became very, very agitated at Anita Hill 
while watching television.
 
The entire, hour-long "48 Hours" show did not make any mention 
of any of these factors, and it seems to me that the "48 Hours"
staff and crew has been instructed by the anti-gun owners of 
CBS to make it look like the existance of handguns is the only 
cause of the terrible shooting and that there are no possible 
contributing factors!
 
 
THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING THE TRUTH
 
What did Bell County do to him?  Was he referring to the Bell
County Police by any chance?
 
We already know that police are not always the kindest and
gentlest of citizens.  We know that they sometimes beat other
citizens and that they sometimes mock them, sometimes even
after beating them.  What kind of reception did George 
Henard get, three months before the shooting, when he tried
to report the harassing phone calls that he was getting?
Did he report the vandalism to his property, and if so, what
was the result?
 
Having the local police investigate the shooting in Killeen
is akin, in my mind, to having Oliver North investigate the
Iran-Contra Affair or having Richard Milhouse Nixon investi-
gate the Watergate Break-in.
 
And CBS, in refusing to mention any of these other factors 
makes me wonder if they are trying to help the police cover 
up mistakes made in dealing with George Hennard before this
shooting started!
 
Sorry, but those are my thoughts in the matter.  Flames to 
the thread, of course or to:
 
        akcs.kennedy@vpnet.chi.il.us    or
        akcs.kennedy@ddsw1.mcs.com
 
(Adulation also accepted, of course.  <grin> )
 
-Ed