Human Targets....

Woman sees images of black males as sniper targets; one is her brother http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/16/us/florida-black-male-sniper-targets/

A woman was devastated to see her brother and other black men as targets, NBC6 reports.  National Guardswoman Valerie Deant was devastated to see her brother Woody's image pierced by police sniper bullets, she told NBC6 in an exclusive report.

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Human-Shaped Shooting Targets  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396442/pennsylvania-lawmaker-seeks-ban-human-shaped-shooting-targets-katherine-timpf
Democratic state representative Thaddeus Kirkland,  a Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to ban human-shaped silhouette targets from all civilian shooting ranges in the state because he thinks they encourage violence against actual humans.

Making people faces targets has psychological lasting effects. Don't believe that? What if....

North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/for-north-koreas-kims-its-never-too-soon-to-start-brainwashing/2015/01/15/a23871c6-9a67-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html
"In gym class, there was a wooden target of a human figure with pale skin and a huge nose, with “cunning American wolf” written on it. Lee and her young schoolmates would practice their throwing with a wooden “grenade.”

January 2015 Stop the Madness

The ninth day of the first month of 2015

Julien Beaupé was in a nearby office when masked gunmen attacked the satirical newspaper. Moments later, he entered the newsroom to help emergency medical workers and survivors.

Three terrorists killed; one on the run

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Nigeria: 2,000 feared killed in Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre' http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria

Thai police arrest man for procuring boys for suspected American pedophile  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/thai-police-arrest-man-for-procuring-boys-for-suspected-american-pedophile/ar-AA7XWrp

Florida girl was alive before father threw her from bridge, police say (Little girl afraid of water) http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-girl-alive-before-father-threw-from-bridge-police-say-20150109-story.html

An arrest warrant was issued Friday for Maryland's first female Episcopal bishop after prosecutors found enough evidence to charge her in the death of a Baltimore cyclist two days after Christmas.  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/episcopal-bishop-faces-manslaughter-charges-md-cyclists-death-n283116

AND more.......

2014 Stop the Madness

Remember those less fortunate, especially this time of year

“Let our New Year's resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.” — Goran Persson

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” — Vern McLellan

Daily drumbeat of child homicides gets little notice

Newtown anniversary: Daily drumbeat of child homicides gets little notice

From left to right, from top: Alton and Ashton Perry, Leonard J. Smith Jr., Aaron Vu; Middle: Sebastian Swartz, Tiana Ricks, Mia Lopez; Bottom: Antonio Santiago, Jaiden Dixon, Madison Dolford.

Just in the year since the Newtown school shooting, at least 173 children under age 12 have died from gunshots in the U.S., according to original reporting and research by NBC News. 

Newtown anniversary: The US children shot to death since Sandy Hook massacre Click for a timeline of the 173 deaths.

White Texas Man Elected After Leading Voters to Believe He Was Black

The white Republican ran in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, and the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him, MSNBC reports.  He reportedly mailed campaign fliers to community members that used stock photos of African Americans with messages like, “Please vote for our friend and neighbor, Dave Wilson,” reports show.  In another mailer, Wilson connected his opponent, incumbent Bruce Austin, to Houston’s openly lesbian mayor,

Dave Wilson, who unsuccessfully ran for Houston mayor in 2011, narrowly won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees after pretending to be black in his predominantly African American district, KHOU 11 News reported Friday. Read it all: The Root 

Jailed 56 times for being Black

Earl Sampson, an employee of 207 Quickstop in Miami Gardens, exits the store to take out the garbage. After he walks back inside, he is arrested -- for trespassing.

Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years During this racial profiling,  he’s been searched more than 100 times, arrested and jailed 56 times.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/11/21/3769823/in-miami-gardens-store-video-catches.html#storylink=cpy

Alabama pardons Scottsboro Boys after 82 years

Alabama pardons Scottsboro Boys after 82 years

A Trial Account by Douglas O. Linder  (c) 1999 states,
"No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on the Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931."

PBS.org. American Experience Scottsboro: An American Tragedy