A bullet fired in the air struck a participant in the head

[Harveylives]

Bullet Wounds KKK Initiation Participant




By Associated Press

November 24, 2003, 1:31 PM EST


JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. -- A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him, authorities said.

Gregory Allen Freeman, 45, was charged with aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the Saturday night incident that wounded Jeffery S. Murr, 24.

About 10 people, including two children, had gathered for the ceremony. The man who was being initiated was blindfolded, tied with a noose to a tree and shot with paintball guns as Freeman fired a pistol in the air to provide the sound of real gunfire, Sheriff Fred Phillips said.

A bullet struck Murr on the top of the head and exited at the bottom of his skull, authorities said.

Freeman fled the ceremony but was arrested near his home, authorities said. He was released on $7,500 bail.

[Nicola]

Gosh. I really don't know what to say.

Poetic justice?

[Third EYe]

Nicola, you stole what I was gonna say, so I won't say it again.

[B Sharp]

I like the phrase "karmic retribution", but poetic justice works just fine.

[Darth Buddha]

Reckless endangerment, most certainly. I don't know if I see aggravated assault though... but then I'm unfamiliar with Tennesee law.

This sort of thing is far more common in many Muslim companies where firing weapons in the air is a man's prerogative. I can't recall how many news stories I've read about such occurrences..

[Madre Farbot]

I suppose they'll have to start wearing some kind of reinforced traffic cone underneath their pointy ghosty garments!

[Darth Buddha]

Oh, that is VERY good! Plus they'd better stop wearing sheets with ... er ... bodily fluid stains if they MIGHT be going to the hospital!:rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[grinner]

She went away for the holidays
Said she's going to L.A.
But she never got there
She never got there
She never got there, they say

The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me
The KKK took my baby away
They took her away
Away from me

Now I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me
I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me

Ring me, ring me ring me
Up the President
And find out
Where my baby went
Ring me, ring me, ring me
Up the FBI
And find out if
My baby's alive
Yeah, yeah, yeah

o o o o o o
o o o o o o

She went away for the holidays

The KKK took my baby away

They took my girl
They took my baby away

[Darth Buddha]

grinner, is there a tune to go with that?

And an open question to anyone who wishes to take it up...

Is the KKK a cult? I'd argue yes, but I've never discussed that opinion with anyone before. To dangerous a subject in most venues.

[grinner]

That's the Ramones

[Harveylives]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
grinner, is there a tune to go with that?

And an open question to anyone who wishes to take it up...

Is the KKK a cult? I'd argue yes, but I've never discussed that opinion with anyone before. To dangerous a subject in most venues.


I would say yes. They use Jesus, God, and Old testament verses to further their hatemongering. Anybody twisting and shaping God's word to serve their own purpose is a cult in my book.

[Frunium Slip]

Well, you know what they say, ignorance is bliss. At least right up until Just Before the Bullets Fly.

Could have said what goes up must come down, but nah, that was too easy...

And I too like the Kharmic Retribution, doesn't seem to be anything poetic about ignorance, but I can go with the justice...

[grinner]

The KKK is just like The Occidental Pan-Aryan Crusade also known as The Aryan Nation(''Church of Jesus Christ Christian'). Both are cults...

[Nicola]

Well, not really.

Cults generally have a charismatic leader as their founding member. I was trying to think if the KKK qualified but I don't know the group or their history well enough.

The Branch Davidians qualify as a cult, as did the Jim Jones group in Guyana. (Actually, so does Christianity and Islam, but both those groups have been established a long time, and seem to have outgrown the 'cult' definition.)

[Darth Buddha]

I'll burn that tune from my brother's collection over X-mas.

Glad I'm not the only one to consider them a cult. As a non-theist, I'm always a little nervous about making those sorts of observations.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Nicola
Well, not really.

Cults generally have a charismatic leader as their founding member. I was trying to think if the KKK qualified but I don't know the group or their history well enough.

The Branch Davidians qualify as a cult, as did the Jim Jones group in Guyana. (Actually, so does Christianity and Islam, but both those groups have been established a long time, and seem to have outgrown the 'cult' definition.) Not entirely true... Cults are something... be it a person or organization that uses emotional control over someone in order to control them. Have you ever talked to a member of the KKK? Or someone from the Aryan Nation? I have... and they are just like Moonies or Hare Krishnas with regards to 'preaching' their values. I would throw in a few other 'religious organizations' with them as well... But... I am a Christian... and most would think I was calling a pot black.

[Judith]

In Arizona, every New Years and forth of July we have Public Service Announcements on "Don't shoot your guns up into the air, cause bullets you shoot into their air will eventually come down, and sometimes they hit people".

Such is the state that I live in.