From: akcs.kennedy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Edward A. Kennedy, Jr.)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: KILLEEN KILLINGS:  I think I have a clue
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:00:02 CDT
Keywords: homosexual harassment

I have been trying to write this thing for over two months now.
I may not state all my ideas as clearly as I would like.  That
is my head-space right now.  Please bear with me.
 
 
JUST THE FACTS, MAM, JUST GIVE ME THE FACTS  (Dragnet TV Show)
 
What happened on October 16, 1991 in Kileen Texas?  
 
George Hennard drove his pickup truck through the window of a 
Luby's Cafeteria in Kileen, TX and began killing people.
 
He fatally wounded 23 others and then killed himself.
 
As I said in an earlier post, there are many clues to why he 
did it.  (CBS chose to ignore those clues when they presented
an entire hour on the subject three weeks later.)
 
I can sort of understand what *might* have been going on in the 
killer's head and therefore it might be useful to post it here.
 
 
AND THE SPECULATION
 
  o  I believe George Hennard was psychologically harassed (in 
      order to drive him crazy.)
 
  o  I belive this harassment made him very, very nervous and 
      very much increased a certain natural tendency he had to 
      be angry at things over which he had no control.
 
  o  I believe he tried to report the harassment to the police 
      and get them to do something about it but without success.
 
  o  I believe that the anger he would have felt over the failure
      of the police to do anything to help, plus anger he *may* have
      felt over one or more other run-ins with the police *could*
      have led him to justify the shooting, in his own mind, either
      as a way of getting even with the police, or as a way of 
      punishing those harassing him, or both.
 
 
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
 
Let me treat those points one at a time.
 
 
First, was he being harassed?
 
    George Hennard complained of harassment.  He filed a complaint 
     charging telephone harassment.  He threated that "something 
     would happen" if people did not stop damaging his property.
 
    (I have had 19 years of harassment.  I know it can happen!)
 
    Hennard worked in the Merchant Marine.  I have heard that over
     95% of the Merchant Marine is homosexual.
 
    (My own harassment began at a company where nearly everybody
     admitted to being either "bi" or "gay".)
 
 
Second, what about his personality and did he show the nervousness?
 
    George Hennard had a tendency to be vindictive.  It is said
     he always wanted to even the score.  He also used to put his
     fists through walls.  I believe that such a person is an 
     ideal candidate for such a harassment.
 
    It was also said that he was quite nervous and wanted to be 
     served first.  I can understand because when such a haras-
     ment is at its height, it can become very, very difficult
     to stand calmly in one spot for any length of time.
 
    (I speak from painful personal experience.)
 
    George Hennard would also run from his house screaming!  There
     is little better indication of his high tension than that. 
 
    Women would be scared of him.  That is common in cases of
     this kind.  The way it works, a woman psychologist explained
     to me, was that I would be having these tremendous fears,
     but blocking them, not fealing them, and they would come out
     subconsciously like that.
 
    (There was a woman in line behind me at a bakery, one day, 
     and I did not know she was there.  I turned around and she 
     jumped back, frightened.  I used that information to examine
     and see what it was that was scaring me and what I could do
     about it.  That was 1976, one of the two very worst years.)
 
 
What Kind of Success Could He Expect When Reporting a Harassment?
 
    Homosexuals can be absolute masters at making life miserable 
     for you!  Just ask Anita Bryant!  ;-)
 
    The way one of these homosexual-terror things works is that 
     they do three or for really major things to you and then 
     hundreds of thousands of little things.  The little things 
     seem to serve as reminders, at least in my case, that they 
     can do the major things almost any time they want to.
 
    If you report some of the little things to the police, they 
     tend to look at you as if to say, "Are you crazy?" but the 
     net effect on the psyche can be absolutely massive!  George 
     Hennard used to run from his house screaming!
 
    So how did the police treat George Hennard, on September 22 
     when he called to report the telephone harassment?  Did they
     mock him as they have mocked me when I reported even more 
     major hate crimes?
 
 
Fourth, What About His State of Mind the Day of the Shooting? 
 
    How could a man begin to justify to himself crimes as henious as 
     those committed by George Hennard?  Let me count the ways.
 
    First out, let me say that he was not whacked out on drugs or
     alcohol.  The autopsy showed that.
 
    Here I begin to guess.  I do think it is an educated guess.
 
    Could he have been just so angry at the police that he was 
     going to show them up?  Perhaps they mocked him.  (Back in 
     the sixties, when a woman was raped by a complete stranger,
     police would ask, "What did you do to lead him on?  Did you
     give him a look?" etc.  Police are not always sensitive to
     citizen's needs.  How did they treat George and how did he
     feel about it?)
 
    Did he know someone who worked at the restaraunt?  Had she or 
     he mocked him?
 
    I do think he planned the attack in his mind.  Could I be wrong
     about that?  I do not think so because he managed to kill 23
     people despite the fact that there were three plain clothes 
     cops in the restaraunt to return fire.
 
    But could he have been in an altered state of consciousness?
     I doubt it but maybe.  I think it almost happened to me.
 
    They had me so bad, in January of 1976, that I determined I 
     would not go to go to sleep again until I had a Primal Scream 
     type of release in group.  It was either that or check myself 
     into the locked ward of a mental hospital!
 
    Twice the night before, I had gotten myself to sleep only to wake 
     within an hour or so.  Both times, when I woke up, I was in state 
     of super rage and agitation!  Each time it took me five or ten 
     minutes to get control of myself and figure out where I was!  I 
     was afraid that the next time I might do some damage.
 
    That afternoon I got the "anger release," as they called it in that 
     group.  Eight people holding me down while I screamed out my rage.
 
    (And the poor, fragile homosexuals are so hurt when Senator Bob 
     Kerrey makes a joke!  They won't forgive him till he sponsors 
     "gay" legislation!  Poor babies!)
 
 
CONCLUSION
 
In Samoa, according to the great anthropolgist, Margaret Mead, when a 
person explodes in violence, or even begins yelling, they ask, "Who 
drove him to it?"  We sometimes like to taunt and tease a person and 
watch him or her get angry.  In Samoa that is a No-No.  In Samoa they 
say, "You knew he had tendency to excessive anger!  Why did you do 
that to him?  It is your fault, not his!"
 
I do not subscribe, entirely, to the Samoan way of thinking, but in
this case I think there is something to it.  I think we need to look
at what was happening to George Hennard during the three or four years
before the shooting.  Look at that and see if it led to the shooting!
 
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It is so ironic I can hardly believe it.  Last night I took a really
short break from working on this article and I turned on the TV for 
about five minutes.
 
It was the "Rescue 911" show and it was dealing with battered women in
Austin, TX.  At 7:43pm they showed them going into the Travis County
Court House and and the voice of the policewoman charged with protecting
these women said:
 
 
    We need to educate people.  Violence does not need to be
    a part of their life, physical, verbal, emotional.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^
 
Hey madam, could you start with the DuPage County cops?   Pleeeeze!
 
Travis County ajoins Bell County on the south and, of course, 
Bell County is where this shooting occurred.
 
-Ed Kennedy
 
 

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