Myspace Won't Help

I am definitely not a fan of the social networking site, Myspace. You can search the internet everyday and find a negative story about young people's behavior on the site. I remember the difficulty various Attorney General's offices had when they attempted to get Myspace to release the records of convicted pedophiles. That was an uphill battle.

Why would anyone who want to do harm fear posting anything on Myspace? This news article is a prime example of lack of fear to use Myspace as a terrorist playground.

East St. John High School in Reserve will be closed Friday after two anonymous bomb threats and an Internet posting on myspace.com that warns that the school would be set on fire tomorrow.

St. John the Baptist Parish Schools Superintendent Michael Coburn said he ordered the closing as a precautionary measure and is hopeful the culprit will be found soon.

Parents will be notified of the closing using the district's telephone notification system. Students also were told of the day off.
School officials will determine next week how the day will be made up, Coburn said.

Two bomb threats were telephone into the Sheriff's Office emergency 911 system on Monday and Tuesday, officials said. The posting on myspace.com, a popular social networking site among teenagers, was apparently sent on Wednesday.

I do believe that they will be able to trace the bomb threats but trying to get cooperation from Myspace will be a totally different story.

Another Sad Day In New Orleans

This morning the Times Picayune reported the death of the New Orleans police officer who was shot last month.

Detective Thelonious Dukes, 47, died shortly after midnight Friday in University Hospital due to complications from his gunshot wounds, police sources said.

Two gunmen surprised Dukes and his wife around 3 a.m. on Oct. 13 as he worked on his motorcycle in his garage in the 100 block of Kristen Court, off Bullard Avenue.

Dukes was shot in his lower torso and leg, and his wife was shot in her foot.

This makes me sad and I wonder whether New Orleans will ever truly recover. One would think that the devastation, from Hurricane Katrina, would lead people to take stock of their life and realize that nothing in this life is worth killing someone over.