Three People Dead, Four Wounded at Ross Township, PA Meeting … Gun Man Aidentified as 59 Year Old Rockne Newell

Three people have been killed and four were wounded when a gunman opened fire at the Ross Township building in Monroe County, PA at about 7:30 pm. The gunman has been identified as 59 year old Rockne Newell.   The 59 year old man, a self-proclaimed junk collector, has had a long time feud with the township for keeping a junkyard on his property. According to reports, Newell’s property was condemned last Thursday. Two of the people killed were declared dead on the scene. A third died after being taken to a nearby hospital. Rockne Newell was tackled by a local official and shot with his own gun. Newell was then taken to the hospital, treated for his wounds and then released into police custody.

A gunman with a property dispute showed up at a Ross Township, Pa., supervisors’ meeting and opened fire tonight, shooting apparently at random before he was subdued by two attendees, a witness and Monroe County officials said.

Three people were killed in the shooting rampage, and three others were wounded, including the shooter, county officials said. The suspect, who was under arrest tonight, was wounded when he was tackled by one of the township officials at the meeting.

Pennsylvania State Police identified the alleged shooter as Rockne Newell, 59, who they said had long-running property dispute with the town.

His property was condemned Thursday, and he hasn’t been in his home since, according to police. He came to the meeting in a car with Texas license plates, police said.

UPDATE I: Police search the home and property of Rockne Newell.

Monday night state police were seeking a search warrant from a district judge for Newell’s property, according to Trooper First Class Michael Sniscak.

As of 11 p.m., however, there was a delay in returning to his property, authorities said. Fearful that his property might be booby-trapped, police said that they might bring in bomb-sniffing dogs as a precaution.

16 Year Old Matthew Giddings Missing Since 8/2/13 in Keizer, OR (Update: Found Safe)

16 year old Matthew Giddings has been missing since Friday night, August 2, 2013 in Keizer, Oregon. Giddings could be endangered as he suffers from autism and developmental and mood-related disorders. He was last seen walking away from his sister’s home in the area of River Road and Lockhaven Drive North in Keize. Giddings is 16 years old, 5’8″ tall, 180 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. The search continues for the missing teen as Marion County sheriff’s deputies are asking for the public’s help to find missing Matthew Giddings.

Matthew Giddings was last seen walking away from his sister’s home in the area of River Road and Lockhaven Drive North in Keizer. He was reported missing by his father on Friday evening.

He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt that had green neon writing and blue jeans with white tennis shoes and socks.

If anyone has any information regarding Matthew Giddings’ whereabouts, please call 911 or Marion County dispatch at 503-588-5032 and refer to case No. 13-14057

UPDATE I: Good news in the case of missing Matthew Giddings, Teen found Safe!!!

Obama’s Overseas Contingency Operation: Bill Kristol Says … A Year Ago Barack Obama Said Al Qaeda Is On The Run, “And Now We Seem To Be On The Run”

On FOX News Sunday Bill Kristol said what had to be said. Barack Obama has been a failure in the War on Terror … Oh sorry, Overseas Contingency Operation.

Barack Obama played presidential reelection politics during the 2012 Presidential election with the war on terror and boasted that Al-Qaeda was on the run, decimated on on the path to destruction. Now flash-forward to 2013 and nothing could be further from the truth. As stated at Legal Insurrection, how did a “Decimated” al-Qaeda causes U.S. to shut embassies and go on high alert? You can’t blame this one on George W. Bush, although I am sure Obama will find some one to find fault with other than himself and his failed policies.

The most damning comment Kristol made was  ” … year ago the president said Al Qaeda is on the run. And now we seem to be on the run.” And that appears to be the case. Suddenly, after Americans were told that Obama was well on the way to defeating terrorism, we find out quite the contrary. Isn’t it rather peculiar though that in an election year, just one month before the actual election that Benghazi was attacked on September 11, 2012 after months of warnings of terror threats and requests for fortifying the Consulate. However, in a non-election year, after Barack Obama wins 4 more years, he is willing to make unprecedented closings of dozens of Embassies and Consulates acrodd the Middle East and North Africa. Obama could not even see fit to address Benghazi during the 2012 presidential election and went with the lie that it was a result of a video tape.

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From Real Clear Politics:

BILL KRISTOL, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Four years ago President Obama gave a much heralded speech as outreach to the Muslim world. And now, four years later we are closing embassies throughout the Muslim world. The year ago the president said Al Qaeda is on the run. And now we seem to be on the run. I’m not criticizing the decision to close the embassies. That’s probably the right thing to do for the sake of trying to save American lives and others, but it’s a terrible thing. That, you know, just a year ago boasting Al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is dead. And now an unprecedented closure of 22 embassies and the travel alert, which lasts for a month, which incidentally — I’m not sure people understand that State Department hates to do that.

You know, this — this is the highest level of the — the travel advisory they do (inaudible), and the travel alert, every host government dislikes that. It cuts tourism. They are objecting to the ambassadors there, the ambassadors are cabling back to the State Department saying, travel alert, are you sure we have to do that? For the U.S. government and the State Department to issue a travel alert for the next month means the threat is serious.

Decimated Al-Qaeda? Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss … “the Threats are Very Reminiscent of What We saw Pre-9/11.” … “the Most Serious … I’ve Seen in a Number of Years.”

My what a difference an Obama presidential reelection year makes … Wasn’t Al-Qaeda decimated? … At least this time Obama did not blame Embassy closings on a video tape.

As reported by FOX News, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on the Sunday talk show ‘Meet the Press’ that that the threats are “very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11″ and the threats as “the most serious … I’ve seen in a number of years.”

The US State Department has now extended the closings of Embassies across the Middle East and North Africa, , as the terror threat across the region remained high through the final days of Ramadan. So how is it that a decimated Al-Qaeda caused the United States to shut down embassies and go on high alert?

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Capitol Hill lawmakers, including top-ranking members of intelligence committees, on Sunday described the terror threat that closed 22 U.S. embassies and consulates across the Muslim region as the most serious one since before the 9/11 attacks and related to specific act or plot.

If I had plans to travel to certain places in the Middle East, I would probably go ahead and cancel them,” he said.

Rooney’s comments followed Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, telling NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the threats are “very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.”

He also described the threats as “the most serious … I’ve seen in a number of years.”

But wait … Didn’t the Obamamessiah tell us during the 2012 Presidential campaign at stump speech after stump speech that Al-Qaeda was decimated and on the run? Barack Obama tried to portray us as some savior of America and that he had defeated Al-Qaeda. But of course with the Lying King, it was all rhetoric and misrepresentations as to what was really going on in the Middle East and terrorism. Obama told us that Al-Qaeda was on the path to death and yet then Benghazi happened. Obama boasted that Al-Qaeda was on the path to defeat and on the run, yet by the looks of the two dozen US Embassies and Consulates closed, nothing could be further from the truth. Barack Obama, the “Campaigner” in Chief would do and say anything to get reelected no matter what. He knows nothing about leadership, it was about being reelected.

Can we just come out and say the obvious … HE LIED!!!

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