The RoanokeSlant: Smith Mountain Lake Virginia In Mourning And Reflection

The people of SML are shocked and saddened by the wanton killing of Roanoke WDBJ7 employees, Alison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, and the wounding of Vicki Gardner, 62, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Our community has joined in expressing our condolences to the families, friends and coworkers of the victims of this tragedy.

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Personal commentary: This tragedy was ultimately the result of misdirected hostility, failed anger management, faulty employment political correctness and undiagnosed mental illness all accumulating into the ill mind and hostile actions of a mentally dysfunctional young man Vester Lee Flanagan II, aka Brice Williams.
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“Vester Lee Flanagan was a popular teenager, a model for Macy’s department store as a young man, and appeared to be a successful reporter at local television news stations in California and across the American south. But away from the studio lights, his journalism career was troubled, marked by office disputes and legal complaints he filed that alleged racism at newsrooms in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2000 and in Virginia last year.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/vester-lee-flanagan-virginia-tv-news-shooter
Flanagan’s hostility also carried-over into his daily experiences like driving.
Video shows Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan in July road rage incident
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/video-show-vester-lee-flanagan-road-rage-incident-article-1.2338610
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The “faulty employment political correctness” resulted in WDBJ7 management not getting a valid picture of Flanagan’s issues from prior employers but instead they got letters of recommendations.
One can presume that prior employers were intimidated by Flanagan’s prior race and sexual-orientation based complaints to the Federal EEOC and court lawsuits; it was easier and “safer” to just pass him along to the next job.
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This same “faulty employment political correctness” was integral to the Army’s Fort Hood Radical Muslim Terrorist:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/radical-muslim-terrorists-in-us.html
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This same “faulty organizational political correctness” was integral to the Virginia Tech VT massacre:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/03/virginia-tech-shooting-revisited.html
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The inability of the mental health system to handle imminent dangerous situations was highlighted by the Va Delegate Deeds And His Sons Mental Health violence.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/03/deeds-and-mental-health-dilemma.html
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Sadly consistent with these misguided actions are Gov. McAuliffe’s initiatives to remove the question, “have you ever been convicted of a crime” from all Virginia Government job applications.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/04/virginia-hides-criminal-history-from.html
Obama is demanding this same misguided action on ALL job applications.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/04/obama-administration-says-not-to-worry.html
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Perhaps the current Homeland Security motto should be used for all observed disturbing behaviors:
“If you see something, say something”!
Not clear to who and then what they will do and what repercussions and risks will come back to haunt you.
Evil exists and manifests itself through ill, ignorant, and misdirected persons.
What a sad reflection on our people, our society and our country.
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Exum: The role of anger in violent criminal decision-making
M. Lyn Exum Exum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at UNC Charlotte. He conducts research on the role of emotions in criminal decision making.
http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/exum-the-role-of-anger-in-violent-criminal-decision-making/article_61600da5-fc14-5e5f-8e8a-1759666853ca.html
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Franklin County investigators release new information about Wednesday's shooting
http://www.wdbj7.com/news/local/franklin-county-investigators-release-new-information-about-wednesdays-shooting/34977780
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Former co-workers say Vester Flanagan had problems with work, anger, racism
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/08/28/former-co-workers-say-vester-flanagan-had-problems-work-anger-racism/71339660/
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WDBJ shooter's history sheds light on workplace threats
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/wdbj-shooter-s-history-sheds-light-on-workplace-threats/article_5b241617-1f14-590d-a4ff-e5737f15b202.html
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Officials say WDBJ attack was 'well-planned,' 'premeditated'
http://www.roanoke.com/news/crime/officials-say-wdbj-attack-was-well-planned-premeditated/article_6c1e91bd-5842-5547-b358-5d31b681ac08.html
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Two killers: Vester Lee Flanagan and Dylann Roof - More similar than we might think:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423181/vester-lee-flanagan-murders-race-sexual-orientation-guns-evil
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-charleston-church-massacre.html
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