[Michelle Malkin comments on an anti-war assembly in a Seattle high school and the evil perpetrated by John Evander Couey against Jessica Lunsford in Florida.]
SEATTLE ANTI-WAR SCHOOL SPECTACLE UPDATE
By Michelle Malkin · March 21, 2005 04:32 PM
You remember the West Seattle High School anti-war student assembly we blogged about last week. Sound Politics has a follow-up, posting a firsthand account of the appalling event from Maj. Terry Thomas, USMC, who sent a letter to the Seattle School Board. Here's an excerpt:
Upon entering the theater at 12:30 PM, approximately 15 minutes prior to the event, I was taken aback by what I witnessed. As I stood there in my Marine Corps Dress Blue uniform, there before me stood numerous kids running around in sloppily dressed and ill-fitted helmets and military fatigues with utter disrespect for the symbols and uniforms of the U.S. military. The walls were covered in camouflaged netting and the stage was covered with approximately twenty white, life-sized cut-out patterns in the shape of dead women and children, all of which were splattered in red-paint to depict human blood. Onstage, children were kneeling and weeping while dressed in ill-fitted Arabic headdress with white-faced masks similarly covered in red paint to depict human blood. At a podium, children were reading a monologue of how U.S. troops were killing civilians and shooting at women and children. Moreover, several grown adults were standing on stage in bright orange jump-suits, with black bags on and off their heads, some bound and tied, and some banging symbols and gongs in a crude depiction of what I believe were their efforts to depict victims of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse episode.
Within the auditorium, numerous adults appeared to have been supervising this behavior and children were literally running amok. What is going on in your classrooms and auditoriums? Who supervised this program? Who are these grown adults dressed as prisoners and performing such the attics on the stage of our public schools? Since when has it become Seattle School Board policy to take an official anti-troops position and declare returning combat veterans from Iraq such as myself as killers of innocent women and children as if this war were some sick sport. As an Iraq war veteran I am outraged by what I witnessed going on at West Seattle High School!
Read the whole thing, and don't forget to use the e-mail addresses of the Seattle School Board members listed at the end of the letter.
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THE SICKOS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
By Michelle Malkin · March 21, 2005 11:33 AM
New, horrid details are being reported on the Jessica Lunsford kidnapping/murder.
Suspect John Evander Couey was a registered sex offender who lived across from Lunsford's home.
Here is an online guide that provides links to every available state sex offender registry. Use it.
***Update: Couple of readers and bloggers remind me that Couey was visiting his sister-in-law, whose home was not the registered address for Couey. Noted.
Also, the online guide I linked to does not have current info on California's new database. It's here. (Hat tip to reader Doug Mason.)
New Jersey's, also not listed, is here.
The South Carolina link is broken. Here's a good one.
Pennsylvania's is here.
More: Ohio, Missouri
Update II: Jason Smith of Generation Why dug up Couey's criminal history...
Apparently John Evander Couey is nowhere to be found on Florida's Sex Offender Registry website. A search of PublicData.com reveals his convictions and the address in Homosassa, FL (listed as Marie Dixon's address) where he was released as an "inactive offender" on May 6, 1997. Other tidbits from his rapsheet include:
* Burglary/Forced Entry - residence - July 30, 1977 - sentenced to 10 years
* Burglary/Forced Entry - residence - July 31, 1977 - adjudication withheld
* Burglary - February 28, 1981 - sentenced to 7 years
* Lewd/Lascivious conduct with child under 16 - April 8, 1991 - sentenced to 5 years
* Forgery - April 9, 1995 - adjudication withheld
* Hot checks - February 22, 2001 - sentence unknown
This says alot about our system. A man can harm a child in the most disgusting way and get a sentence less than he would if he broke into a house. It also shows a spotty history of parole/probation supervision:
Supervision start date: Supervision end date:
* December 7, 1977 - January 19, 1978
* July 22, 1980 - July 21, 1982 - during this time he committed his 3rd burglary
* July 16, 1993 - April 5, 1996 - during this time he committed forgery
* May 6, 1997 - December 7, 1998
* April 24, 2001 - April 23, 2003
Update III: Here's Couey's Florida sex offender registry entry. (via Jason Smith)
Others blogging...
Chris Short on a sex offender in his family's neighborhood.
Random Musings of a Mom asks: "Why does Martha Stewart have to wear a monitoring bracelet on her ankle and pond scum, human debris like John Evander Couey (the confessed child killer -- a convicted sex offender -- in Homosassa, Fla.) did NOT?"
The Palmetto Pundit says the story hit too close to home.
Lorie Byrd writes about the sicko in her neighborhood.
Urban Grounds wonders about the wealthy sickos in Austin, Tx.
Update IV: Couey charged with capital murder.
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