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CNN:  FBI was warned about alleged shooter nearly 5 months ago, tipster says

CNBC:  The FBI said it had received information about the suspect, but did not follow its protocols for looking into the matter.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott 

has called for the resignation of FBI Director Christopher Wray.

(My gosh why is it, these days, they've all got either that smirk, or them crazy eyes...?)

--------------------------------------  What I read this morning said this:

A guy in Mississippi
named Ben Bennight
has a You Tube channel.

Five months ago, Mr. Bennight read a Comment on his channel that spooked him.
The Comment said, "Im going to be a professional school shooter."
The post had the name Nikolas Cruz.

Bennight contacted the FBI.

Wed., Feb. 14, school shooting, Parkland, Florida
Today, Nikolas Cruz confessed to police.

Jan. 5, 2018 F.B.I. received another tip that said Nikolas Cruz was acting aggressive and dangerous.

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So altogether it sounds like it was two tips the F.B.I. received and did not follow up on:

1) Sept. 2017, the You Tuber who received the Comment, and
2) Jan. 2018 tip from someone close to Mr. Cruz.

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TIP-LINES
and "SEE-SOMETHING-SAY-SOMETHING"

     When we consider Tip-Lines and the civic responsibility to "Say Something" if we "See Something," various shadings of Doing-What's-Right vs. What-Really-Happens come into our minds.


     With Tip-Lines, it's a situation where a person is missing, or a crime was committed and authorities want people who might know something to contact them.  The problem with Tip-Lines becomes:  they get 80 billion calls from freaks who are attracted to the drama, and no good information whatsoever.  

Or maybe 80 billion "SillyCalls" and one that has important information.


     But do they have the manpower to wade through all the Useless, to get to the Important?  (One theory I've definitely formed in my mind is, Don't Pester The Police With Stupid Stuff.  Leave 'em alone, they have actual work to do...)

     In the movie Gone Girl, a detective portrayed by actress Kim Dickens 

says, "I usually ignore tip-line calls..."  When I watched the film I thought, Oh, so that's how that works; why have the tip-line in the first place...?

     With See-something-say-something, it isn't the Drama-Addicts, instead it's the Sociopaths who want to cause trouble to other people by "siccing" the authorities on them.  

     I once found myself in an involuntary (but, it turned out, informative) conversation with a young lady who told me Child Protection Service people investigated her and so she called CPS later and reported the young mother who had reported her....  Really?  I "got the picture"...Yikes.  Back and forth it would go.  (How long?  Forever?  Eighteen years, until their respective children are grown up?  This is how people live??)  

And meanwhile the Perris, California freak shows who chained their children and starved them -- no one reported them - !?!

     It sounds like only Non-stuff gets reported, and Real stuff does not get reported and -- [expletive deleted*-!##%] -- Evil Always Wins!  Honestly, why get up in the morning?  Un - freaking - believable...

Maybe life is a brick wall.

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