Not more than 24 hours goes by and you find a dozen stories about
horror, tradgedy, depravity and murder in america.

And some lame-ass goon "Big Al" craws out of the woodwork to post a
year-old shocking story about a Canadian cop that smuggles cheese. Is
that really the best you can do "Big Al" ? How lame is that.

Here's today's story about life and times in the USA, where your right
to bear arms just keeps on taking away your life and liberty - one
law-abiding citizen at a time, while your gov't rapes you in the ass on
a daily basis by monitoring all your electronic communications, and the
IRS is the new KGB.

And Scott Salberg - pay attention here.

It's only a matter of time before you pull a stunt like this in
Florida. You and Fuaed must be friends...

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Police kill La. bank hostage taker; 2 hostages shot, 1 dies.

ST. JOSEPH, La. (AP) — A man who authorities said was mentally unstable
and believed a device had been implanted in his head shot two hostages,
killing one, at a rural Louisiana bank before state police shot and
killed him.

The hours-long standoff began around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when a gunman —
identified by police as 20-year-old Fuaed (FOO-od) Abdo Ahmed — took two
women and a man captive at Tensas State Bank branch in St. Joseph, which
sits near Louisiana's border with Mississippi.

During hostage negotiations, authorities were able to get Ahmed on the
phone with a friend in Alaska, Louisiana State Police superintendent
Col. Mike Edmonson said. That was crucial in convincing Ahmed to
eventually release a female hostage.

Ahmed had written a letter "detailing exactly what he was going to do,"
Edmonson said.

"He was mad at people that he said were mean to him," he said. "He had
voices in his head."

Edmonson said the man grew increasingly erratic as negotiations went on,
sometimes hanging up on police. One of his demands to authorities was
that they get the device out of his head, Edmonson said.

Eventually, Ahmed told negotiators he was going to kill the two
remaining hostages. Edmonson said state police entered the building just
before midnight Tuesday.

That's when Ahmed shot the two hostages and then police shot and killed
him, Edmonson said. Edmonson said both hostages were shot in the upper
body. The second hostage who was shot was taken to a hospital in
critical condition, but Edmonson said he did not have any other
information on them.

The hostages were both shot with a handgun, but Edmonson said Ahmed was
also armed with a rifle. He also had a duffel bag containing items he
was going to use to torture the hostages.

"His intent was to inflict pain and kill these individuals," Edmunson
said.

But Edmonson said there was no indication Ahmed had any history with the
hostages, who were bank employees, and authorities did not know why he
picked the bank. The bank sits across the street from a service station
owned by Ahmed's family.

"These were good, God-fearing people," he said of the hostages.

Edmonson said Ahmed's parents were from Yemen, but he was a U.S. citizen
and there was no indication that he had a political or religious motive.

On a Facebook page under Ahmed's name that was set up in the spring,
Ahmed describes himself as a native of Fresno, Calif. On the page, he is
seen in photos smiling and wearing a baseball cap backward, and with
friends.

Ahmed discusses philosophy of life from the Tao Te Ching, a 6th century
BC Chinese text, and is a fan of comedian Jerry Seinfield, rapper Eminem
and Islam. He makes no specific references to political or religious
extremism.

But recent posts show a darker side.

In a post on Sunday, he displays a cartoon strip that focuses on an
apparent hostage situation. In it, a gunman points a pistol at a
hostage. "I'll release the hostage if you give me a sandwich!" says the
gunman in the strip.

Negotiators in the next frame then talk about the demand, with one
asking "How close is the nearest deli?" ''Three blocks," the second man
replies.

"Okay, you can kill the hostage," one negotiator calls back to the
hostage-taker.

Ahmed's final post, made Tuesday just hours before the hostage standoff
began, is of a photo of a man with a sword attacking a tank. Under the
photo is a quote from the novel "If This Goes On," a 1940
science-fiction novel by Robert Heinlein that speculates on life in a
futuristic American theocratic Christian society.

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