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Jann Scotts Journal: Newtown could happen here
Dec 18th
Posted by Jann Scott in Jann Scotts Journal
Boulder is not immune to crazy acts of violence. It only thinks it is the way Sandy Hook did. Boulder has had a history of extreme acts of violence by very insane people.
In the 1970s A Boulder high girl was raped , shot and murdered as she washed new car at Buckingham park. A 10 year old girl was brutally murdered in her home . She lived a block from JonBenet Ramsey. The crime occurred 25 years before.
In the 1960’s a janitor ravaged and brutally murdered a female CU music student. The crime scene was so bloody and cruel it cannot be discussed here.
In the 1980’s Michael Bell shot 5 people at a gun range in Boulder He killed two. Sid Wells was brutally murdered with a shot gun blast to the head in a dope dealing operation gone bad. Involved was Robert Redford and his daughter. It was a celebrated case.
in the 1990s A Boulder county student held his girl friend Hostage with an AR 15 assault rifle at CSU . He fired rounds all day. A police sniper finally shot and killed him at 200 yards away.
In the 1990s 6 year old JonBenet Ramsey was brutally murdered in Americas most sensational child murder. In the same decade a 19 year old CU female student was abducted off Canyon Blvd and raped by an Asian gang. she was then thrown to the side of the road and left for dead. CU student Susanah chase was brutally raped and murdered at 19th and Spruce as she walked home from a night of Pizza and beer in downtown Boulder.
Also in the 1990’s Amanda McDonald was crushed by her boyfriends SUV as she drunkenly car surfed up flagstaff Mt. Boulder also experienced 3 days of alcohol riots in the 90s where scores of police officers were injured. For two years Boulder endured couch fires, firemen being targeted by Molotov cocktails
In 2010 a man with Aspergers went off at Boulder Stove and Flooring and killed everybody in the store. He shot his employer, his wife and himself in a mass shooting.
In 2011 a gunman shot and killed a star football player on the hill.
In 2012 a drunk young petite college girl wondered into the wrong house on the hill and was shot by a panicked psychiatrist aided by his hysterical wife.
1n 2012 Two students attacked their entire CU class by purposely loading brownies with a potent Marijuana strain sending 5 of them to the hospital and making the entire class sick. Some brush this of as a prank. but it was still an attack on a classroom.
Oh it goes on in Boulder
The level of violence has steadily increased in this city as it has all across the world.
Gun sales are up at the thriving gun store.
Driven by movies, video games, young men are driven to incredible acts of violence and mass shootings all over the world.
from not so safe city
Jann Scott
Boulder, Colorado
Jann Scotts Journal: December 7 1941 71 years later : My dad landed on Omaha Beach on D-day plus 14
Dec 9th
Posted by Jann Scott in Jann Scotts Journal
“President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
I had written about this previously in My Life in Boulder
My Father Joseph M Scott I would be 102 if he were still alive today, but he was there on the beaches of Normandy on June 20th 1944.
“Oh I was in the war alright and I wasn’t in the rear with the gear either. I was right up front in the fighting getting shot at everyday. I was a dog face private first class. They tried to make me a Sargent . I didn’t want any part of it. I was 31 years old, while most of the guys were in there 20’s . I mean, Christ guys my age were Majors and Colonels. When I joined I was president of a company. I had a business, a wife and a family and I wanted to get back to them. So I was mostly concerned with staying alive. Yes, they wanted me to go to Officers Candidate school, but that meant I would have to stay in for another year. I didn’t know if I was going to get out of there alive. A lot of guys I was with were getting killed. Eventually I did get wounded and that was bad enough. I was in hospital for 6 months and it took me a few years to convalesce.
What was it like ? You don’t want to know about that. All you need to know is that a lot of men went there to do a job to rid the world of the scourge and get back home. That’s what we did. There was no glory in it.There was just a lot of pain and suffering that I never want you to see.”
My Dad did join Patton’s 3rd Army on August 1 and was soon wounded in the push across France. He never liked to talk about it, but he was a real war hero. He had ribbons and medals. He qualified expert in the M-1 carbine, M-1 Garand, The BAR, the 38 and the 1911 Colt 45. He was dead shot and everybody wanted to be with him. He did become squad leader and was awarded a battlefield officers commission just before he was wounded. He insisted on turning it down but to no avail. However, he refused to sew on his 2nd LT bar. “Hell no I didn’t want to become an officer. They are the first person the Germans killed.” But the Army forced it on him after all of the officers in his company were killed.
The war had a bad effect on him. He saw a lot of killing. One thing that troubled him were all of the civilians who were wandering, starving and lost. “You are so lucky to live in America”, You never had to live through that. ”
I know I am. We all are. God bless you dad and thanks for your sacrifice.
Jann Scott’s Journal
Boulder, Colorado
In the heart of America
Open Letter to Barack Obama November 1 2012 why do you diss Boulder??
Nov 1st
Posted by Jann Scott in Jann Scotts Journal
I have invited him for a chat with all of my 200,000 viewers on my TV show 22Boom on Comcast channel 22 here in Boulder county. Have I received any form of acknowledgement? No. I have called his campaign. Did they return phone calls ? No.
Over the past year I and we at Jann Scott Live and Boulder Channel 1 have reached out more than 100 times and the result is always nil. So what does that that tell you. It tells me that the Barack Obama campaign that is coming to my city has zero respect for me and my viewers.
When Bill Clinton ran the first time in 1992, the Clinton campaign made sure they responded to our requests. Not the local Democratic Party in Boulder or Denver, but the Clinton campaign headquarters in Washington.
I put a request in to talk with Hillary Clinton on the air on a Sunday night Live and low and behold, her media people made that happens. She showed up. It was a 1/2 hour interview. Three months later Bill Clinton won the election. The Clinton policy was to treat all media requests the same especially if you are visiting their town. That is why Clinton held such high marks here and was easily re-elected and why Barack Obama is fighting for his life. He does not need me a democrat TV talk show host supporter writing this letter.
The Obama campaigns policy is to act like they are better than everyone and to diss me when visiting my town. And make no mistake this is my town and I own prime time TV 7 nights a week in Boulder County.
Well, fine go right ahead. but you’re not in Denver and I ain’t a Denver media whore. if you disrespect me and my TV show you disrespect the entire community of Boulder.. You diss all 200,000 Boulder County viewers who watch and read this. I am asking and they are asking What?? do you think you are better than us?? Do you think you can come to Boulder and talk down to us from on high?? Try again. Do you think a little rally on campus will get you your needed 9 electoral votes.?? CU students don’t vote. My viewership votes and they live in the suburbs of Boulder County and right now I am pissed off at you for not heeding the call. Welcome to the real Boulder.
from a city where Barack Obama lost votes in the last days
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado
call me baby lets talk on TV. 303-447-8531
(ps I predict he nor anyone will call and Obama will lose Colorado and the election because of it.)
pss to be fair Joe Biden didn’t return phone calls either. I did not call Mitt Romney or Ryan but I bet if I did they would have jumped at the chance.) I bet I hear from them as a result of this letter. And I will put them on TV and I bet that they win the election. It’s the old saying. All Election are local. And it’s like that. I really believe Romney came to win and Obama is burned out and came to lose. In Boulder no less.