From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2011-01-09 18:05:43
Attachments : www.dailymail.co.uk/… I wonder how much of that story is really true. How was this found out? Click here to print The nine-year-old girl born on 9/11, the federal judge, and the aide who was about to be married: The victims of the Safeway massacre By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 4:40 PM on 9th January 2011 Christina Taylor Green was nine years old, born on September 11, 2001. Her devastated father John Green said: She was born on a day of tragedy and she died in tragedy. Christina already had a bright political future. She had just been elected to the student council at her elementary school – a post that would be added to her ballet and basketball extracurriculars – and her family were unable to hide their pride. Hearing of her victory, a kindly neighbour asked if Christina wanted to tag along to a political event that she thought the young girl would enjoy. Scroll down for Roxanna Green’s statement today Young victim: Nine-year-old victim Christina Taylor Green with her mother Roxanna Green. Christina had been invited to the political event by a neighbour because of the girl’s interest in politics It was a sunny Arizona Saturday morning, and Christina was about to meet a woman she would have looked up to – a powerful, beautiful role model, a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives. The little girl must have felt on top of the world. She never suspected that it would be the last day of her life. For the event that Christina was invited to was none other than the Tucson, Arizona rally hosted by Gabrielle Giffords yesterday – the same event where a madman with a semi-automatic and a grudge against humanity sprayed bullets into a trapped crowd who had no way of escape. Victim: Federal judge John Roll, who died in yesterday’s shooting Witnesses estimated that there were roughly 25 people in the parking lot outside a Safeway supermarket in Tucson yesterday. Due to the way the event was laid out, one told CNN, there was little room for escape once the gunman started firing. Eighteen of them were shot, six killed – including little Christina. ‘How do you prepare for something like this?’ her uncle, Greg Segalini, asked reporters outside his niece’s house. ‘My little niece got killed. Took one on the chest and she is dead,’ he told The Arizona Republic. ‘She was real special and sweet,’ he said. Christina was the youngest and the most vulnerable of the victims of the Arizona gunman yesterday. But the powerful were cut down by his bullets too. Federal Judge John Roll, appointed to the bench by former President George Bush in 1991, was also killed in Arizona yesterday. An aide to Mrs Giffords, Gabe Zimmerman, was also killed. The 30-year-old was due to be married this year. The other victims include Dorwin Stoddard, 76, Dorthy Murray, 76, and Phyllis Scheck, 79. Little is known about the other victims as yet – but Judge Roll’s life is well-documented. He won wide acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court’s strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. ‘I have never met a more sincere … fair minded, brilliant federal judge or any judge for that matter in my whole life,’ Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said. Every second counts: A victim is rushed to a medical helicopter in the aftermath of the shooting yesterday Dupnik emotionally recounted Roll’s final morning. A typical Saturday: a trip to church, then to the store and most likely a plan to go home to help with chores. But before heading home, he apparently stopped to visit briefly with Giffords at an event she was holding for constituents. ‘Unfortunately, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,’ Dupnik said. Mark Kimball, a Giffords aide who was at the shooting scene at a shopping centre, told The Associated Press that he believed the judge, who lived in the area, had simply gone to the supermarket where the shooting occurred to shop. Kimball said Mrs Giffords had worked with the judge in the past to line up funding to build a new courthouse in Yuma. Named chief judge for Arizona in 2006, Roll pushed for more judges placed on the court’s bench as border violence has swelled the district’s caseload. Unbearable: A woman covers her mouth in horror as another victim is evacuated from the Safeway shooting ‘Judge Roll was a widely respected jurist, a strong and able leader of his court, and a kind, courteous and sincere gentleman,’ said Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal circuit that includes Arizona. ‘He worked tirelessly to improve the delivery of justice to the people of Arizona.’ Republican Sen. John McCain said he recommended Roll for federal appointment. ‘Words are inadequate to express such a profound loss to his family, friends, state and country, but it is appropriate to note that a man of great qualities and character was struck down today,’ Mr McCain said. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in Washington that the killing of Roll was a terrible loss for the judiciary. Race against time: One of the victims from the shooting is rushed to a medical helicopter yesterday Roll received death threats in 2009 after he denied a southern Arizona rancher’s motions to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of illegal immigrants who alleged that the rancher detained, assault and threatened them, the Arizona Republic reported. ‘It was unnerving and invasive … by its nature it has to be,’ Roll told the Phoenix newspaper in a mid-2009 interview. He said he followed the advice of the Marshals Service to not press charges against four men identified as threatening him. As a federal judge, Roll handled a wide variety of cases. Vigil: Holding candles, people gather outside University Medical Center where many of the Arizona shooting victims – including Gabrielle Giffords – were taken last night Peace: A picture of Mrs Giffords is surrounded by candles at the vigil last night He ruled in 2009 that federal wildlife officials used incorrect criteria when deciding against designating critical habitat and develop endangered jaguars. In the 1990s, he was among several federal judges who ruled that a federal gun law’s requirement for a records check by local authorities violates the Constitution. Roll was a Pennsylvania native who got his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons, and five grandchildren. ‘SHE HAD A BULLET HOLE TO THE CHEST. THEY TRIED TO SAVE HER BUT SHE JUST COULDN’T MAKE IT’ ‘Beautiful beautiful angel’: Roxanna Green spoke about her nine-year-old Christina The mother of the youngest victim in the Arizona massacre has told of her heartbreak at losing her ‘beautiful princess’. Roxanna Green said the death of nine-year-old Christina Green left her ‘devastated’. Fighting back tears she said: ‘I just can’t put it into words, there’s nothing I can possibly…I can’t express the devastation and hurt of how we were so robbed of our beautiful beautiful princess. ‘She was a beautiful girl and so intelligent and her light shines on all of us today and forever, and I just have it in my heart that my angel is with my grandmother and my mum in heaven.’ Christina had just been elected student counsel in third grade had gone to the fateful meeting because she wanted to learn more about government. Mrs Green told FOX News: ‘She was very interested in government, in her community, in how she could help. It was going to be a learning experience. Mrs Green learned of the tragedy when a friend’s husband called and told her to go to the hospital where her daughter was being treated. It was there she was told the awful news. ‘She had a bullet hole to the chest. They tried to save her but she just couldn’t make it. It was really really bad. I saw her right after that,’ she said. Mrs Green revealed that her daughter had just celebrated her first family communion when she was killed. ‘I can hold onto the wonderful nine, beautiful years that I had with my daughter. She was very bright and she was an amazing girl,’ she said. ‘I’m so proud of her. I’m still proud of her today. I know that she’s going to do great things in heaven. She’s my angel. ‘ Mrs Green added that her daughter was proud of the fact that she was born on 9/11 and was patriotic, often leaving the house wearing red, white and blue. ‘It was very special to her. She would tell people she was born on a holiday. She would always try to the see the positive in it. She said it was a holiday because it gave hope and everyone came together.’ Mrs Green said she did not want to say on air what she wanted to happen to the man suspected of carrying out the mass murder. ‘I want for my little girl, for everybody that’s involved…I want there to be change, I want there to be awareness of the sick people out there and it has to stop right now…I just hope we can learn from this and make changes so it never happens again,’ she said. People: George Bush, John McCain, Gabrielle Giffords, Clarence Dupnik, John Green Places: Washington Are you interested in what’s really going on in the world, behind the facade? Then…www.checktheevidence… happened on 9/11?www.drjudywood.com/
