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by Diane Dimond on June 17, 2013

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by Diane Dimond on January 14, 2013

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A Bullet Free Sky

by Diane Dimond on December 3, 2012

I want to introduce you to a truly thankful man. His name is Richard Smeraldo of Clearwater, Florida. After you hear his story, I promise, you will never forget it. [caption id="attachment_5832" align="alignleft" width="150"] The Bullet's Path Marks His Face[/caption] Richard, a happy-go-lucky 74, has always loved fireworks so this past July 4th he, his wife and a female friend went to a fireworks show at a nearby community, ironically, called Safety Harbor. There, sitting in an open field among 16,000 others, including children and their families, Smeraldo looked up into the night sky and ooh’ed and ahh’ed with delight. “It happened at a time when the fireworks had paused,” he told me at a recent dinner where we met. “It was right before the big finale. I thought I was hit with a baseball bat or a big rock … it was like something big just hit my nose.” Smeraldo suddenly realized he was, “bleeding all over the place.” And, his friend sitting on the grass in front of him also cried out in pain. She felt as though something had violently poked her in the back. [caption id="attachment_5833" align="alignright" width="150"] Richard Describes Bullet's Path[/caption] That “something”, as it turned out, was a 9 mm bullet. Police believe it had been shot into the night sky by a reckless Independence Day celebrant and that it had ricocheted off Richard and struck his friend. Because a bullet can travel as far as three miles (depending on the caliber) police still have no suspect. Think about the path this stray bullet took! 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Last year, celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Day took the life of Karla Michelle Negron, 15, in Puerto Rico. On that same day in Miami a six year old tourist from Italy was hit by a stray was bullet that punctured his lung. Over the years, intoxicated celebratory shooters in New York City, New Orleans and Orlando have been tracked down and prosecuted on charges ranging from weapons violations to manslaughter. All across the country law enforcement agencies are now gearing up for the anticipated next round of holiday gun madness caused by those who simply don’t think through the consequences of their wildly irresponsible actions. Geez, even a kid can tell you, “What goes up must come down.” [caption id="attachment_5838" align="alignright" width="90"] Imagine a 9 mm Slamming Into Your Head/Face[/caption] After years of senseless maimings and death this stupidity still goes on – even at Christmas time according to reports I’ve read. Isn’t it time to get tough on these people? In some states, randomly firing a gun into the air is automatically considered a felony. Yet, in far too many others it is a mere misdemeanor. In researching this worldwide problem I discovered that in the Republic of Macedonia a person found guilty of firing off a gun during a celebration faces a mandatory prison sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Sounds about right to me. Celebrate the holidays - but lose the guns. home  

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Lessons From Mother Nature in Wake of Hurricane Sandy

by Diane Dimond on November 5, 2012

[caption id="attachment_5757" align="alignleft" width="150"] Super Storm Sandy Smashes the East[/caption] More than 110 people were killed but there was no crime. There were widespread blackouts yet there was no systematic looting. Police departments were run ragged but lawlessness seemed to take a vacation. This column isn't about crime this time. It is about how, in the the face of crisis crime is replaced by an overwhelming sense of fellowship and mutual survival. Thanks to Hurricane Sandy I am writing this not on my usual laptop computer but on a smaller iPad which is cumbersome to operate via candlelight. I had to slowly charge it to life via a cord plugged into my car's cigarette lighter. My family is among the almost five million Americans left without power by this monumental storm. We're told it could be 10 days before our Hudson River village, about 20 miles north of Manhattan will have electricity again. But we are alive and feeling so lucky. [caption id="attachment_5758" align="alignright" width="150"] Breezy Point Neighborhood's Double Whammy[/caption] Not far from us, in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens not only did massive quantities of floodwaters roar in so did a marauding fire that consumed more than 80 buildings leaving hundreds homeless. Firefighters battled neck-high floods, low water pressure and tons of Sandy's sludge for 12 hours to contain the blaze. This neighborhood has already had its share of tragedy. It has always been a close knit place populated by firemen and police officers many of whom lost their lives as first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Just as we saw in the aftermath of September 11th first responders to Sandy's wreckage ran toward the calamity as the rest of us ran away to safety. All up and down the Eastern seaboard brave souls pitched in to help evacuate stranded residents and hospital patients. 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Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton led a protest in Sanford, rx free OXAZEPAM, they had their picture taken with Trayvon’s grief stricken parents and demanded that the city arrest Zimmerman or risk “… going down as the Birmingham and Selma of the 21st century, Is OXAZEPAM addictive, " as Sharpton put it.

The New Black Panther Party said it was mobilizing 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman who has been in hiding since the shooting and is reported to be extremely distraught after several death threats, OXAZEPAM maximum dosage. OXAZEPAM FOR SALE, The Panther Party’s Hashim Nzinga announced on CNN there was a 10 thousand dollar bounty on Zimmerman’s head. Another party member, Online OXAZEPAM without a prescription, Mikhail Muhammad, said of the shooter, “He should be fearful for his life, OXAZEPAM recreational. You can’t keep killing black children.”

Ironic, Order OXAZEPAM online c.o.d, isn't it, that the groups so eager to brand Zimmerman as a vigilante are engaging in similar activity.

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Reverend C.L. Bryant, a onetime NAACP official from Texas said what I was thinking about these self-aggrandizing vigilantes, OXAZEPAM FOR SALE. He called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.” The facts show there is no epidemic of whites killing black children in America. As the conservative Rev, online buy OXAZEPAM without a prescription. Bryant put it, OXAZEPAM brand name, “The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are (other) young black men.”

The bottom line to this case and the media’s coverage of it is this: None of it feels like it is leading us down the path to true justice. It feels like a mob of uninformed, hot-headed people playing to the cameras is leading the way, herbal OXAZEPAM.

A young man is dead and his pitiable parents, instead of being allowed to grieve, are being paraded around by opportunists demanding unattainable instant “justice.” This is not the way our justice system works. It should be slow, deliberate and fair to everyone involved. There are always two sides to every story.

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