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This is what media reported on February 5, 2001:

One William Baker, 66, entered Novistar engine plant in Melrose Park,
Illinois, shot 8 people (4 dead), and then he shot himself.  He worked at
the plant for 40 years, was fired in 1994 for stealing engine parts.  He was
supposed to serve 6 months jail term starting next day.  Media called him
several times convicted felon.  This is all we know.  Does it make sense?
Suppose you were caught stealing, managed to fight the charges for 6 years,
finally got 6 months to serve, which is almost nothing, would you go
shooting a lot of people and yourself?  Of course not.  As usual, the media
is telling us half-truth, which is worse than a lie.

Though he pleaded guilty, I do not believe he really stole something from
the plant.  Had he been a thief, his sentence was very small, there was
really no point to kill other people and himself.  The whole thing makes
sense, if he was framed, fired, then coerced into pleading guilty to
something he did not do.  Imagine a man who lived all his life honestly,
worked at one place for 40 years, and right before retiring and collecting
pension, he was framed, accused of stealing, and denied the pension he was
working for all his life.  In addition, his blood-sucking lawyer has robbed
him of all his life savings, and after the money were gone, so was his
lawyer.  He waited 6 years, hoping that justice would prevail.  It did not.
Tomorrow he is to go to jail, penniless, for something he did not do.  WHAT
WOULD YOU DO IN HIS PLACE?

The second shooting took place several days later.  One Pickett, 38-years
old, took a revolver, came to the White House and started shooting in the
air.  Clearly, he did not want to harm anyone, he wanted to be killed.  He
wrote to Bush, that he worked for the government, was unjustly fired, and
all his attempts to get justice served were in vain.  He wrote to Bush that
his death will be on Bush's hands.  The cop, who wounded him in the knee,
did not want to spare his life, he just did not see the rest of Pickett.

If these two shootings do not make you think hard, I predict many more
shootings like these.

V.I. Fabrikant