Zimmerman Ticking Time Bomb and References to Sandy Hook Casually Cross Florida Police Chief’s E-Mail Gossip

(AP Photo Jessica Hill)

George Zimmerman, NRA Wayne LaPierre’s “Good Man With A Gun” seen as Potential “Good Man With A Gun” at another Sandy Hook????

Only in A-Merica Folks! Is Florida really part of A-Merica?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/13/george-zimmerman-florida-police-chief?commentpage=1

Steve Bracknell is the chief of the Lake Mary police department, which is investigating Zimmerman, 29, for allegedly threatening his estranged wife, Shellie, and his father-in-law with a gun on Monday. 

In an email exchange with a Lake Mary resident critical of the department's initial decision not to arrest or charge Zimmerman, Bracknell appears to agree with the writer's description of Zimmerman, acquitted in July of murdering Martin, an unarmed black teenager, as "a ticking time bomb". 

"Zimmerman is a Sandy Hook, Aurora waiting to happen," the resident, Santiago Rodriguez, told Bracknell in his first email, seeking an explanation for why Lake Mary officers did not charge Zimmerman. 

"Your reference to Sandy Hook … I agree," Bracknell replied. 

At the end of a follow-up email urging Bracknell not to "give up" on the investigation, Rodriguez wrote: "Sooner or later another mother and father is going to be on CNN lashing out against the system due to this man snapping." 

Bracknel replied: "As for your final thoughts, again, on a personal note, I agree."

Pope Francis attacks Blogs as the Source of False Media Stories by way of his Archbishop in Westminster?

Some of the traditional Catholic blogs I read in Britain have sent a fine barrage of words back at the Archbishop in Westminster for his fine fair thee well homily in his Mass for Pope Francis on April 10.

Aside from the standard boilerplate homily came the demand for silence and obedience and a slap at gossip in blogs being the source of media stories.

Whether the gossip or media stories have any truth or weight seems beside the point. Archbishop Nichols seems to be talking for Francis?

I have already stated one way or the other that Francis with his shady past and direct knowledge of crimes against humanity in Argentina’s Dirty War made him the perfect candidate for pope to protect Benedict and his crew of crony criminals still lurking around the Vatican, hiding from international justice.

I have to wonder if Nichols talks for Francis or Nichols is thin skinned and afraid of the same fate as his neighbor to the north, Cardinal O’Brien in Scotland?

http://rcdow.org.uk/archbishop/homilies/diocese-of-westminster-mass-for-pope-francis/

Pope Francis understands this in practical terms. He has already identified two kinds of behaviour that destroy love in the Church. They are complaining and gossiping. He is a practical man. He knows that we live in a society in which complaining and gossip is a standard fare. They sell newspapers and attract us to blogs because we love to hear complaints and to read gossip.

But Pope Francis is clear: they should have no place in the Church.

…  

Don't get into this game of a life of complaints.' Then, in another memorable phrase, he added that some ‘stew their lives in the juice of their own complaining.' 

 And gossip, too, he says, is a betrayal of Jesus. For when we gossip we see the lives of other people as merchandise, something to be exchanged for our own advantage. He said: 'I don't know why, but there is a dark joy in gossiping. Sometimes we begin by saying nice things about another, but then we slip into gossip, making the object of our chatter merchandise to be bartered. Let us ask forgiveness because when we do this to a friend, we do it to Jesus because Jesus is in this friend.' 

 We, as Catholics, are always ready to profess our love for the Lord. But now Pope Francis is calling us to show that love in down-to-earth ways. How wonderful it would be if our Church was known to be a place that was free of the sound of complaining and the whisper of gossip!

. 

Truth - Kindness - Necessity - Missing Ingredients in the Present State of Public (non) Civility

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/13/824661/-Is-it-true-Is-it-kind-Is-it-necessary-

My best friend when I was small was a Friend. Her parents were birthright Quakers active in prison reform and nuclear disarmament. As a child I saw the homelier side of Quaker practice - the silent meetings, the delicious treats at the annual bazaar and an early introduction to the three-fold sieve.

THE THREE SIEVES 

A LITTLE boy one day ran indoors from school and called out eagerly: "Oh, mother, what do you think of Tom Jones? I have just heard that ——" 

"Wait a minute, my boy. Have you put what you have heard through the three sieves before you tell it to me?" 

"Sieves, mother! What do you mean?" 

"Well, the first sieve is called Truth. Is it true?" 

"Well, I don't really know, but Bob Brown said that Charlie told him that Tom ——" 

"That's very roundabout. What about the second sieve — Kindness. Is it kind?" 

"Kind! No, I can't say it is kind." 

"Now the third sieve — Necessity. Will it go through that? Must you tell this tale?" 

"No, mother, I need not repeat it." 

"Well, then, my boy, if it is not necessary, not kind, and perhaps not true, let the story die."

.