Showing posts with label South Carolina. Show all posts
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Monday, June 08, 2020

Take Heed on June 17


June 17, 1775.

Lafayette lays the cornerstone at the Bunker Hill Monument
June 17, 1825.


This year is progressing slowly, and unpredictably. That being said, let's see if I can forecast what dates might be noteworthy to watch in June. I'm looking to June 17th, but that in a moment. Let's begin with a brief reminder about the 24th.

First a Word About June 24

Needless to say, June 24 is always special to Forteans and the ufological-aware. I've written extensively on the passings of significant researchers on this date. See "June 24: Ufologists' Deaths," "June 24: A 'Hot' Date in 2015?," "UFO Death on June 24: Former Congressman Mario Biaggi Dies," "UFO-Related Death of June 24, 2018?," and "He Died On June 24, 2019."

On June 24, 1947, the modern era of UFOs began with Kenneth Arnold’s dramatic sighting of “saucers” flying between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams in Washington State. The primary significance of this particular date, St. John’s Day, cannot be diminished within ufology. Let's watch that date again this year.

Remembering June 17ths

More importantly, perhaps, let's look to June 17, in 2020, for what could be a surprising event.

For, a glance back to the past to foresee the future, here is a list of a few June 17th anniversaries, of some note.

On June 17, 1775, American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.

The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. It was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the majority of combat took place on the adjacent hill which later became known as Breed's Hill.

The Bunker Hill Monument is an obelisk that stands 221 feet (67 m) high on Breed's Hill. On June 17, 1825, the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, the cornerstone of the monument was laid by the Marquis de Lafayette and an address delivered by Daniel Webster. There is also a statue of William Prescott showing him calming his men down.

Doctor Joseph Warren attended Harvard and practiced medicine and surgery in Boston. He was a Grand Master of the Freemasons, a member of the Sons of Liberty and the Boston Committee of Correspondence. Dr. Joseph Warren was the President of Massachusetts' Provincial Congress; it is during the retreat from the redoubt that Joseph Warren was killed on June 17, 1775.

On June 17, 1825, the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, the cornerstone of the monument was laid by the Marquis de Lafayette and an address delivered by Daniel Webster. The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge was specifically designed to evoke this monument. There is also a statue of William Prescott showing him calming his men down.

On June 17, 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.

On June 17, 2015, nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.



This event ~ a racially motivated mass killing by a man who identified with Confederate symbolism ~ followed the North-South, black-white underpinnings of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Charleston church shooting (also known as the Charleston church massacre) was a mass shooting on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina, in which nine African Americans were killed during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among those killed was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney; three victims survived. This church is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, and it has long been a center for organizing related to civil rights.


The morning after the attack, police arrested Dylann Storm Roof in Shelby, North Carolina (see the "Shelby Name Game" and more). The 21-year-old white supremacist had attended the Bible study before shooting. He was found to have targeted members of this church because of its history and stature. Roof was found competent to stand trial in federal court, then found guilty.

The "Charleston massacre" will have its 5th anniversary on June 17, 2020, at a time when the George Floyd demonstrations have changed the mentality of America. (For more twilight language insights, see here, here, and here.)

Charles Towns

Bunker and Breed's hills are located in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one of its earliest settlers, named in 1614, in the reign of Charles I of England.

Charleston, South Carolina, was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II of England. Its initial location at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) was abandoned in 1680 for its present site.

Charles Town, South Carolina, played a major role in the slave trade, which laid the foundation for the city's size and wealth, and was dominated by a slavocracy of plantation owners and slave traders. Independent Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company, pioneering the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century. Historians estimate that "nearly half of all Africans brought to America arrived in Charleston," most at Gadsden's Wharf.

The Battle of Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1861 – April 13, 1861.


Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles, the first of which signified the start of the American Civil War. It was one of a number of special forts planned after the War of 1812, combining high walls and heavy masonry, and classified as Third System, as a grade of structural integrity. Work started in 1829, but was incomplete by 1860, when South Carolina seceded from the Union.



Fayette Factor and June 17th

During the George Floyd events, the Fayette Factor appears to have played a heavy hand in some of the aligned incidents, from Floyd's birthplace (Fayetteville, North Carolina) to the peaceful demonstrators being sent to the winds so Trump could walk to his Bible photo op (at and across Lafayette Park, Washington, D. C.). See "George Floyd and the Fayette Factor: Fayetteville to Lafayette Square."

The exact overlapping of the 195th anniversary of General Lafayette giving a speech on June 4, 1825, in what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York, and the incident that would occur in nearby Niagara Square, Buffalo, was noted in "Fayette Factor: Buffalo." Lafayette is figuring into some the strange happenings.

(A gallery of images related to the Battle of Bunker Hill and beyond.)


The Marquis de Lafayette and his assistant James Armistead, who became a spy for America, was also known as James Lafayette.



Lafayette 


Black soldiers were part of the fighting.



The Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.



Joseph Warren


Lafayette

Lafayette laying the cornerstone in 1825




The Fayette Factor of 2020 may be pointing to some kind of event for June 17, 2020.

We'll see.




Thursday, February 08, 2018

Black Lives Matter Activist Assassinated


An important Black Lives Matter activist from Charleston, South Carolina, who gained prominence in the wake of the police shooting of Walter Scott and when he grabbed a Confederate flag from a protester, was shot and killed February 6, 2018, in New Orleans. Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, who went by Muhiyidin d'Baha, 32, was found dead Tuesday morning after being shot in the thigh while riding his bicycle on Bienville Street. Rushed to a local hospital, he later died there of his wounds. No suspects are in custody.

Muhiyidin Elamin Moye/d'Baha made national headlines in February 2017 when he took a flying leap to wrestle a large Confederate battle flag from a protester in South Carolina, and the event was captured on video.






That incident occurred at an event at the College of Charleston, where activist Bree Newsome - known herself for climbing a flagpole to remove a Confederate flag at the statehouse in Columbia, S.C. - was speaking.

Moye/d'Baha was originally from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and moved with his family to South Carolina when he was 13.



Muhyiddin = "reviver of faith or religion."

Elamin = “truthful.”

Moye = Dutch (de Moye): nickname from Middle Dutch moy, moeie, "fine," "handsome," denoting a "well-dressed person or a dandy."

d'Baha = Arabic, "brilliance," "magnificent," "splendor," "glory."


Commentator Anita Ladaprarez notes that "between this death and the extremely suspicious deaths of prominent activists and their relations in St. Louis, it seems very dangerous to be the more camera-eager kind of black activist."

Sunday, February 04, 2018

Cayce Crash





A February 4, 2018 morning crash involving an Amtrak passenger train - the Silver Star Train 91 - and a freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, killed at least two people and injured more than 100. 

The number of the engine of the CSX freight train is 36. The number on the engine of Train 91 is 47.

Here are the main elements of the morning's events.

▪ There were eight crew members and approximately 139 passengers on board.
▪ The two people who were killed were Amtrak employees. They were identified as train engineer Michael Kempf, 54, from Savannah, Ga., and conductor Michael Cella, 36, Orange Park, Fla.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article198332739.html#storylink=cpy
▪ The crash between the Amtrak train and a CSX freight train occurred near Charleston Highway and Pine Ridge Road around 2:35 a.m. Sunday. The lead engine and a few passenger cars derailed.
▪ The Amtrak train appeared to be on the wrong track, when it collided with a freight train that was stationary and on a loading track.
▪ All the passengers have been removed from Amtrak 91, which was operating from New York to Miami.
▪ More than 100 passengers were taken to local hospitals, McMaster said. The Palmetto Health hospital system received 62 patients from the crash. According to Dr. Steve Shelton with Palmetto Health, one patient remains critical and two others are in serious condition. There were 48 patients being cared for at the main Palmetto Health location in Columbia. At least two children were involved in the accident, Shelton said. Sources 1, 2, 3.

The thoughts of the shooting in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017, at the Route 91 Harvest Festival.

Cayce, South Carolina, ia a city in Lexington and Richland counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina, along the Congaree River. The population was 12,528 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Cayce as a name has the meaning "alert, watchful." Cayce is a variant form of Casey (Irish, Gaelic): from the male Gaelic name Cathasaigh.

Casey is a common variation of the Gaelic cathasaigh, meaning "vigilant or watchful."

In ancient times, O'Casey came from the gaelic, O'Cathasaigh word meaning "watchful or vigilant in war" + "grandson or descendant." The O'Caseys were descendants of the O'Carrolls, the Princes of Ely. The Princes of Ely were in turn descended from the Kings of Munster.

The town was incorporated in 1914 and named for local businessman William J. Cayce.
The modern City of Cayce was born out of the coming of the railroads in the 19th Century. At that time the area was known as Cayce Crossing, named for Uncle Billy Cayce, a prominent citizen. In 1914, when the city was formed, the name Cayce was chosen for the town to honor “Uncle Billy.”

Also, in 1914, the Cayce family built a new home in Cayce and moved there to be closer to the center of the town’s activities and the Cayce family’s general store. (Their second home still stands on Holland Avenue.) By 1930, the population of Cayce was around 3,000.

By 1941, the small town of Cayce had become predominantly a railroad town. The railroads made a substantial contribution to the city with the number of local citizens it employed and the payroll it generated for many years. Both the Southern and the Seaboard Railroads handled passengers and mail to and from Cayce and beyond At that time, the railroad, lumberyard, quarry and fertilizer plant were the principal places of employment. Source.

William J. Cayce, Sr., affectionately known as “Uncle Billie,” was born July 29, 1864. He built a general store in his early 20’s and operated the store for nearly 50 years. The store was located in the heart of “old” Cayce, near the Seaboard Railroad. Uncle Billie built his own railroad siding to obtain merchandise for his store, and trainmen often referred to the store as Cayce’s Crossing. The City of Cayce was chartered in 1914, and is named in honor of Uncle Billie Cayce.

Three or four generations removed, we find William Cayce in the family tree of Edgar Cayce.

Free association of the name "Cayce" would naturally bring us to the individual Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945), who was an American Christian mystic who answered questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis, and future events while claiming to be in a trance. A biographer gave him the nickname, "The Sleeping Prophet." A nonprofit organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment, was founded to facilitate the study of Cayce's work.

Edgar Cayce was born on March 18, 1877, near Beverly, south of Hopkinsville, Kentucky (site of the later, 1955 sightings of "little people" at Kelly, important in flying saucer lore). Edgar was one of six children of farmers Carrie and Leslie B. Cayce. As a child he played with the "little folk" and was alleged to have seen his deceased grandfather. Some consider Edgar Cayce the true founder and a principal source of the most characteristic beliefs of the New Age movement.

The Red Dirt Report editor Andrew W. Griffin began the morning with the comment: "Pay attention to names, numbers and circumstances in Cayce, South Carolina train crash today. Train theme weighing heavily on my mind of late."

The Cayce crash followed quickly in the wake of the Crozet crash.

On February 4, 1977, a Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.

What else should we expect on this date?





1974



On this date, February 4, 2018, the number one focus of most media and Americans is Super Bowl LII (52). Should we watch the actions of the two teams' players wearing the numbers 91?





Friday, September 02, 2016

Phantom Clowns: Spartanburg



There has been a new Phantom Clown sighting, in a new location. This time it was in Spartanburg, South Carolina.



There has been another clown sighting. This time in Spartanburg.
Police responded to a suspicious person call last night [August 31, 2016] around 10:25 at Canaan Pointe Apartments.
The caller said the person was dressed as a clown and was standing in her backyard.
She said she took a picture of the clown and he ran away.
Police say the photo was too dark to make out an image.
Police weren’t able to find the clown.
They say they will continue to follow up on this incident and encourage anyone that may have seen a suspicious person in the area to contact them.
This is the first sighting in Spartanburg. There have been 4 more in Greenville. Source.

Other recent sightings have been in Greenville, South Carolina (noted on above map) and in Columbus, Ohio.

Thanks to Enki King for the latest news tip. 
Thanks to Andy Finkle, once again, for the new illustration, at top. 

Monday, August 29, 2016

Phantom Clowns in Greenville: Four Sightings



This is a sketch of one of the Phantom Clowns of Greenville by artist Andy Finkle. As fate would have it, Finkle lives a mere 15 minutes from the location of the eyewitness accounts. Spooky gets spookier when it is close to home! (Art courtesy of Andy Finkle ©2016.)


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In 1981, I coined the phrase "Phantom Clowns" to describe the brightly colored costumed individuals, seemingly escapees from a circus, wearing exaggerated makeup and driving vans, who attempted to kidnap children. I first devoted an article about Phantom Clowns in Fate Magazine, during the early 1980s, and then expanded my thoughts on these reports in 1983's first edition of Mysterious America.

The 1983 edition of Mysterious America was published by Faber & Faber.

In that book, I detail the United States of America's wave of shadowy 1981 sightings of clowns in vans who appeared to have tried to kidnap children, from Boston to Kansas City. It was years after I wrote about Phantom Clowns that Stephen King's IT was published, putting to rest that King's novel inspired the original Phantom Clown accounts.

The chicken and the egg. King's Pennywise in IT came after I coined 
the phrase "Phantom Clowns" based on the 1981 wave.


The encounters began in May of 1981, in Boston, Brookline, and other Massachusetts communities. By the end of the month, the local newspapers in Kansas City were publishing warnings about "Killer Clowns," said to be after children at bus stops there.

I coined the term "Phantom Clowns" to describe them because they were (are) seen but never caught.

Sightings would come and go, and Phantom Clown encounters would continue. There has been a long history of Phantom Clown sightings since then, but 2008 seems significant because it was period of presidential campaigning.

In 2008 reports coming from Chicago were tied to a Wicker Park, which has a symbolic name linked to New York City's Son of Sam killings of 1976-1977. In letters to the media, the "Son of Sam" serial killer signed himself as "The Wicked King Wicker" and allegedly shoot a Wicker Street German shepherd.

In the October 2008 Illinois incidents, a man wearing clown make-up and a wig was using balloons in an attempt to lure children into his vehicle on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. Police issued an alert about a week after a man with a similar description was spotted on the West Side. No one was every apprehended.

During the election year of 2012, the clown phenomenon revealed itself via the Joker copycats. On July 20, 2012, the Dark Knight Shooting: 12 Dead, 58 Injured occurred. It happened in Colorado, at Aurora, forever broadcasting "Red Dawn" into our awareness. Theater goer killer James Holmes had a Bane mouth mask that covered a Joker facial makeup underneath.
Even a James Holmes/Aurora Joker mask was marketed for Halloween 2012, briefly. It was seen to be in bad taste, but in many ways, it was a clown mask.

Fast forward to 2016, and here we are in another presidential election year.  The times have not been lost on a bit of online humor appearing in this year.


And now new Phantom Clown reports are in evidence.

But it wasn't a Phantom Clown (yet) that started appearing in Green Bay, Wisconsin, early in August. A mysterious clown that seemingly came out of someone’s warped sense of humor was spotted in Green Bay, according to photographs making the rounds of the social media. A Facebook page called “Gags – The Green Bay Clown” claimed the first sighting happened August 1, 2016, at 2:00 a.m. (h/t New Day).

More recently the media headlines out of South Carolina tell of "clowns trying to lure kids into the woods."

The actual woods, allegedly, according to CNN.

“There [have] been several [conversations] and a lot of complaints to the office regarding a clown or a person dressed in clown clothing talking to children or trying to lure children into the woods,” read a letter sent by the property management company which owns the Fleetwood Manor apartments in Greenville, South Carolina.



News reports have been specific about the details of the encounters. Greenville County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Master Deputy Drew Pinciaro told BuzzFeed News that deputies received a call complaining about clowns being spotted in the woods behind the apartments on August 20, 2016. The caller did not want to leave their name, he said.
But one woman did file a report with the sheriff’s office on Aug. 21 [2016], explaining that two days earlier her son told her he had “seen clowns in the woods whispering and making strange noises,” read an incident report sent to BuzzFeed News with the woman’s name redacted.
The woman then went to investigate herself and “observed several clowns in the woods flashing green laser lights [who] then ran away into the woods.”
Donna and James Arnold, residents of Fleetwood Manor said it was their two sons, aged 10 and 13, who were involved. The kids said, "Mama, there’s clowns out there in the woods and they’re trying to get us to come out there. Some had chains, some had knives, and some were holding out money, saying, ‘Come here, we’ve got candy for you.'"

But the parents report their sons wouldn’t go.

"I thought my child was seeing things," resident Donna Arnold told CNN affiliate WHNS. "And then the next day I had about 30 kids come up to me and say, 'Did you see the clown in the woods?'"

This story is far from over.

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Right I was. 

Monday night, August 29, 2016, deputies in South Carolina increased patrols after getting new reports of people dressed as clowns trying to lure children into the woods.

At 8:20 pm on August 29th, a family from Emerald Commons apartments, living about 20 minutes from the first site of the initial reports, said a child saw a man wearing a clown mask in woods near the complex. Deputies said there was a third report of someone dressed as a clown about 10:00 p.m. at Shemwood Apartments. A 12-year-old told deputies that two clowns were in the backyard area, according to the Associated Press.

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Greenville Police received a call from a concerned parent at 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, August 31, 2016, about another clown sighting. Source.

The caller said their daughter was walking home from Hughes Academy when she saw a clown in the woods.

They said it happened between Pleasant Valley and Hughes Middle School.

Police said they searched the area and didn’t find anything. They say they are stepping up patrols.

This is the fourth sighting.






Many, many people contacted me with news of this newest Phantom Clown story. Thanks especially to Andy Finkle, Robin Swope, SJ Riedhead, Enki King, Burt Gummerfan, Ben Redford, Charles Crowley (h/t on reminding about Wicker Park), and everyone I forgot.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

There's A Storm Coming: Dylann Storm Roof




Dylann Storm Roof is the alleged killer of nine people on the evening of June 17, 2015, at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He was captured the morning after the attack in Shelby, North Carolina, at a traffic stop on Route 74.

Dylann Storm Roof? Is that his real (birth) name?

"There's a storm coming...," of course, from The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Colorado's Aurora, "red dawn," and James Holmes come to mind.

There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us. - The Dark Knight Rises

What more does the moniker tell us? The simple explanations run in these directions.

Dylan: This is a Welsh name linked to the Celtic word for "sea." Also, it can be read as "Sea God" = Neptune, Poseidon. And there we go with the Trident, again.

Giant Neptune and his Trident on Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Storm: An occurrence of bad weather in which there is a lot of rain, snow, and often strong winds.

Roof
This unusual and interesting name derives ultimately from the Old Germanic personal name "Hrodwulf", which is composed of the elements "hrod", meaning "renown" and "wulf", wolf. In Old Norse the contracted form was "Hrolfr", in Old Danish and Old Swedish "Rolf", and these personal names reached England first through their popularity with Scandinavian settlers before the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Normans thereafter introduced their own form of the name, generally found as "Rou" or "Roul" and often Latinized as "Rollo". There are more than twenty variants of the modern surname, ranging from "Rolf", "Rolfe", "Rolph" and "Roalfe" to "Rofe", "Roff", "Roffe", "Roof", "Rulf" and "Rule". Source.
But the middle and surname, Storm Roof, suggests a neo-Nazi bent.

T. Peter Park has noted, via an email communique:
"Storm Roof" sounds like an attempted Anglicization of "Sturmruf," German for "Storm-Call." It recalls the original Nazi storm-troopers, the S.A. or "Sturmabteilung" ("Storm-Section"), and also the American white supremacist and neo-Nazi website "StormFront," as well as the line from the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me!" from Cabaret, "But gather together to greet the storm--Tomorrow belongs to me!" All this, I suspect, suggests that "Dylan Storm Roof" (whatever his real name might turn out to be) is something more than just one more run-of-the-mill garden-variety Southern racist, but rather is "into" the far-right "hard stuff."

The Sturmabteilung symbol


Dylann Storm Roof appeared to hold some decidedly racist beliefs, and subscribed to displaying symbols reinforcing these stances. In a Facebook photo, Roof is seen frowning at the camera wearing a jacket with two flags: one representing Rhodesia and the other apartheid South Africa. Both were countries with white minority rule. (Rhodesia was in the country now known as Zimbabwe. After an international campaign against apartheid, South Africa began dismantling their policies in 1990.)

See more from Andrew W. Griffin, in this vein, here, "Roof Shooter: Alleged gunman in Charleston massacre nostalgic for apartheid era?"






The church Roof allegedly attacked is one of the United States' oldest black churches. The senior pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator, was among the nine people killed. In the immediate aftermath, police sought a white male, later identified as Dylann Storm Roof.




Select past June 17ths:

1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 – Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Vienna, Virginia.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: One thousand five hundred Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

As noted, June 17 is the anniversary of when the Statue of Liberty came to the USA. "Liberty" is a goddess named for and representing the concept Liberty has existed in many cultures, including classical examples dating from the Roman Empire to those representing national symbols such as the American Columbia and its Statue of Liberty. Columbia has appeared before in mass shooting. One of the most obvious, of course, being Columbine, the name of the high school and today associated with the name of the massacre that happened there (Littleton, Colorado) on April 20, 1999. On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

Now, we find that Dylann Storm Roof has his quota of Columbia-linked names in his unfolding story:
In February 2015, [Dylann Roof] attracted attention at the Columbiana Centre, a shopping mall, when, dressed all in black, he asked store employees "out of the ordinary questions" such as how many people were working and what time they would be leaving, according to a police report.
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Roof’s current address is listed in public records as being in this rural speck of a town southeast of Columbia with an overwhelmingly black population.
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From school records, Mr. Roof appears to have moved back and forth as a child between Richland County, which includes Columbia and Eastover, and nearby Lexington County to the west. He attended ninth grade twice: at White Knoll High School in Lexington in the 2008-9 school year and, the next school year, at White Knoll until February 2010, when he transferred to Dreher High School in Columbia.
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Ms. Scott, who is black, said she was “scared to death” after hearing news reports that Mr. Roof wanted to kill black people. “My concern is that he’s saying he’s out to kill black people,” she said, unaware that he had been arrested. “We’re the closest ones to him.”
She added that her grandmother had called her Thursday morning and told her: “Get out of that bed. That boy was from Garners Ferry,” the name of the street where she and Mr. Roof lived. Source.



Roof was apprehended about 11 a.m. on June 18, 2015, after a motorist spotted his black Hyundai Elantra, which displays an apartheid “Confederate States of America” license plate on the front bumper, while driving near Shelby, North Carolina.


In an odd twist, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, June 18, 2015, that Texas could refuse to offer specialty Confederate flag license plates that had been requested by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
[Debbie] Dills, driving from her home in south Gastonia into work, first spotted [Dylann] Roof on U.S. 74 near Sparrow Springs Road in Gastonia [North Carolina].

“She called me when she was at the exit for Kings Mountain on Highway 74,” [her boss Todd] Frady said. “I called Shane Davis, then he called Shelby PD.”
According to Dills and Frady, Shelby Police Department had officers near the Shelby Ingles location on U.S. 74/West Dixon Boulevard and Polkville Road. Just 20 short minutes after Dills’ initial call to her boss, Shelby police pulled Roof over near Plato Lee Road.
After initially spotting Roof's car in south Gastonia, she said she followed Roof’s car to the Kings Mountain exit on Bypass 74, then exited to head to work at the florist shop. Something didn’t feel right to her, so she made a quick right turn onto Kings Street and headed back to the bypass and traveled west to attempt to catch up to Roof to provide more details.
She caught up with Roof’s Hyundai, again, near the Wal-Mart in Shelby and continued to follow him, while she stayed on the phone with Frady. She saw Shelby police begin to follow Roof at the Ingles on U.S. 74 and Polkville Road. She stayed behind, then knowing the situation was under control, she made a U-turn at Cleveland Funeral Services, but seemed to still want to see the process all the way through.
When she U-turned, again, she saw flashing blue lights and Shelby Police officers lining the side of West Dixon Boulevard with Roof pulled over and apprehended. Source.

All of this happened near and/or in Shelby.



Shelby, North Carolina?

Perhaps the late James Shelby Downard, Synchromysticism's Godfather, is having a little nod about that twilight language sidetrip?

And the names of the victims?

All of the victims were black, six women and three men. Eight died at the scene, while the ninth, Daniel Simmons, died in the hospital. They were all killed by gunshots fired at close range. A five-year-old child played death to stay alive. One other person was wounded, but survived. Three survived, in total. The fatalities were identified as:
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, 54, a Bible study member, public library employee and sister of former North Carolina State Senator Malcom Graham
Susie Jackson, 87, a Bible study member
Ethel Lee Lance, 70, a 30-year church sexton
Depayne Middleton, 49, a Bible study member
Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, church pastor and South Carolina State Senator
Myra Thompson, 59, a Bible study member
Tywanza Sanders, 26, a Bible study member and 2014 college graduate from Allen University
Daniel Simmons, 74, a reverend at the church
Sharonda Singleton, 45, a reverend at the church and track coach for Goose Creek High School


Why would Roof pick the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church?

There is no doubt that if you wanted to hit at the heart of the black church in America, the location to attack would be "Mother Emanuel." Hillary Clinton was there shortly before the shootings. Jef Bush was scheduled to visit, but cancelled after the killings.


The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is located at 110 Calhoun Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

"Mother Emanuel" A.M.E. Church History
The history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church reflects the development of religious institutions for African Americans in Charleston. Dating back to the fall of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Allen founded the Free African Society, adhering to the Doctrines of Methodism established by John Wesley. In 1816, black members of Charleston's Methodist Episcopal church withdrew over disputed burial ground, and under the leadership of Morris Brown. The Rev. Morris Brown organized a church of persons of color and sought to have it affiliated with Allen's church. Three churches arose under the Free African Society and were named the "Bethel Circuit". One of the Circuit churches was located in the suburbs of Ansonborough, Hampstead, and Cow Alley, now known as Philadelphia Alley in the French Quarters of Charleston. Emanuel's congregation grew out of the Hampstead Church, located at Reid and Hanover Streets.
In 1822 the church was investigated for its involvement with a planned slave revolt. Denmark Vesey, one of the church's founders, organized a major slave uprising in Charleston. Vesey was raised in slavery in the Virgin Islands among newly imported Africans. He was the personal servant of slavetrader Captain Joseph Vesey, who settled in Charleston in 1783. Beginning in December 1821, Vesey began to organize a slave rebellion, but authorities were informed of the plot before it could take place. The plot created mass hysteria throughout the Carolinas and the South. Brown, suspected but never convicted of knowledge of the plot, went north to Philadelphia where he eventually became the second bishop of the AME denomination.
During the Vesey controversy, the AME church was burned. Worship services continued after the church was rebuilt until 1834 when all black churches were outlawed. The congregation continued the tradition of the African church by worshipping underground until 1865 when it was formally reorganized, and the name Emanuel was adopted, meaning "God with us". The wooden two-story church that was built on the present site in 1872 was destroyed by the devastating earthquake of August 31, 1886. The present edifice was completed in 1891 under the pastorate of the Rev. L. Ruffin Nichols. The magnificent brick structure with encircling marble panels was restored, redecorated and stuccoed during the years of 1949-51 under the leadership of the Rev. Frank R. Veal. The bodies of the Rev. Nichols and his wife were exhumed and entomed in the base of the steeple so that they may forever be with the Emanuel that they helped to nurture. Source.

It is worthy of noting that Jim Brandon, an associate of James Shelby Downard, began writing me several months ago about the high frequency of people with the name Nichols (and related crypto-Nick forms) showing up as a significant name in some of these sync events.

Brandon wrote me in 2012, that he "wanted to add...to the Names of Power list – Nicholas and permutations (from Old Nick and Santa Claus up)...."

So, in the news of the last two days, here it develops that the Mother Emanuel serves as an actual tomb for the deceased Reverend Nichols and his wife.

Brandon and I were also talking about places to watch, and on November 14, 2014, he penned this:
Charleston, the war sparking point at pentagonal Ft Sumter, we also of course know as the starting place of the Scottish Rite, being on latitude 33 degrees.
The War Between the States, the Civil War, began in Charleston, lest we forget in the midst of all this wall-to-wall coverage of Dylann Roof. The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, of Albert Pike note, began there too.

Very War Between The States: Roommate Dalton Tyler quoted Dylann Storm Roof. “He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler told ABC News. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”

Very Charlie Manson (Aquarius on television): Dylann Roof confessed to authorities to shooting and killing nine people this week at a historically black Charleston, South Carolina, church, two law enforcement officials said. One of the officials said that Roof, who is white, told investigators that he wanted to start a race war, reported CNN.







And more to come on another day....

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