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18-YEAR-OLD ARRESTED IN PLOT TO BOMB SC HIGH SCHOOL
While fearless leaders like Sen. Scott Talley were off saving the world from evil strippers, our wonderful education superintendent Jim Rex was leading our children to a 47 percent high school graduation rate, and our police officers were abusing submissive suspects, 18-year-old Ryan Schallenberger was plotting to blow up Chesterfield High School, a day after the nine year anniversary of the horrible attack on Columbine High School in Colorado and two days after the 13th anniversary of the terrible Oklahoma City bombing.
Thankfully, he was arrested before that could happen. But were it not for his parents calling police Saturday after 10 pounds of ammonium nitrate were delivered to their home, Schallenberger would have probably been successful.
“He seemed to hate the world. He hated people different from him — the rich boys with good-looking girlfriends,” said the town’s police chief, Randall Lear.
Schallenberger was one of the top students at the high school of about 580 students and had not caused any serious problems before his arrest, principal Scott Radkin said.
The school’s Web site lists Schallenberger as a member of the 2007 academic bowl squad. He won an academic award from Newberry College in the last school year.
The teen was in the Chesterfield County jail Sunday night, charged with possessing materials to make bombs, the police chief said. A bond hearing was scheduled for Monday. Other than the bomb-making material, no other weapons were found at his home, Lear said. [AP]
Now obviously it’s not Talley’s fault, or Rex’s fault, or the SC Highway Patrol’s fault that this kid tried to commit an unthinkable act, but it reinforces the fact that a great many of the folks we elect to run this state are turning a blind eye to real problems that plague this state.
That has to change.
Oh, and to any national media reading this: Chesterfield High School is definitely not in Columbia. Neither is Chesterfield. There are about five other cities that are closer to Chesterfield than Columbia.
And they say we are the ones that have trouble reading maps.
I am thankful the parents reported their suspicions and that law enforcement heard their pleas for help….
You see, I have been reporting a crime for three years now that affects every single citizen of this state…… no one is interested. No one responds. And I am serious when I say this particular crime could affect every single citizen of this state.
I don’t understand how an election changes a person from a normal rational human into someone who just doesn’t get it anymore but power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts.
In the state of South Carolina, the good ole boys are alive and well and fully corrupted.
Again, thanks to Law Enforcement for listening to the parents.
The silver lining to our state’s high drop-out rate is that if something happens at a high school in South Carolina, there are dozens, if not hundreds, who would otherwise been in harm’s way. Instead, they are safely tucked away in a local McDonalds, garbage truck, chain gang, or in a trailer park, eagerly awaiting the birth of their third yung-un, where no act of mass violence can harm them.