Patriot/Barber Kills Himself in front of City Council After Vote
Another working-class American takes his own life because he can't secure a loan from America's leeching-class (bankers).
Tennessee — A barber with strong ties to the military community pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head at a City Council meeting after his request for a rezoning measure was rejected.Ronald "Bo" Ward sought the rezoning to increase the property value of his home, allowing him to secure a loan to offset debt he incurred when he expanded his barber shop.
After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.
"Ya'll have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before killing himself with a small handgun.
Fire and police officials attending the meeting immediately ushered the audience of about 50 into the hallway, where several people were sobbing.
At least one police officer is always on duty during council meetings, officials said. However, visitors are not required to go through a metal detector or any other screening.
"When a gun gets whipped out like that, someone is going to get shot, but I didn't know who," Councilman Bill Summers said. "You could've been right next to him, and I don't think you could have stopped that."
Mayor Johnny Piper said Thursday's council meeting would be the last held in that room.
Ward was well known for supporting soldiers from the nearby Fort Campbell Army post and was once recognized by its former commander, Gen. David Petraeus. His barber shop was often visited by media reporting on the local economic impact of thousands of soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division being deployed to Iraq.
"He treated soldiers like his own children," said George Heath, a longtime patron of Bo's Barber Shop and the Fort Campbell public affairs officer.
"If a soldier came in and said he needed a haircut but didn't have any money, Bo would cut his hair and tell him to pay him when he could."
In 2004, former Fort Campbell base commander Gen. David Petraeus, said Ward a postcard during the division's first deployment to Iraq, thanking him for keeping his shop open during the deployment and "giving haircuts to children of our families."
The current commander of the 101st, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, said Ward was well known by soldiers from generals to privates.
"When a soldier got their hair cut by Bo, you got more than just a haircut — you got a story, a pat on the back, and words of encouragement from a patriotic citizen who genuinely cared about soldiers," he said.
So, here he is, a kind, hard-working, red-blooded American, who is sympathetic and compassionate to his fellow countrymen and he can't get a simple loan - a few bloody fucking digits on a banking leech's accounting ledger - in a country that claims to be "protecting" our freedoms.
How many Americans must end their lives in desperation before we learn to point our guns in the right direction???
It's economic hardship because of Bush/Cheney administration in fiscal irresponsibility and abuse of power as well as financial service industry's greed and corrupted influence on the Congress like the bankruptcy reform that make it even harder for financially struggling (not irresponsible in spending FRN $ like drunks) Americans to recover. Very ironic America is the world's largest debtor nation and yet it keeps abusing like an insane shopaholic with hundreds of pre-approved credit cards.
They put the interests for the powerful few ahead of the average, tax-paying (despite the fraud of the still-unratified 16th Amendment) and hard-working American citizens.
Maybe a mass-scale economic collapse will deliver the hurt to the avaricious fucks. I sure hope they don't benefit from this but lose and jump out the windows like after stock crash preceding the Great Depression in the late 20's.
I hope average Americans will wake up and find they've being had that piss them enough to break the corrupt banking and financial service conglomerates into pieces.
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