12-18-2012, 10:11 AM
Quote:His high school classmates took little notice of Mr. Lanza, but school officials did. Newtown school officials assigned a permanent psychologist to Mr. Lanza in his freshman year of high school in 2007, and flagged him to the school's security chief when he was still in middle school, a former school official said. "He was very withdrawn and meek," said Mr. Novia, who left the district in 2008. He said Mr. Lanza "was one of those freshmen coming in very much in need of watching."
Mr. Novia said it wasn't unusual for school officials to meet about troubled students, but Mr. Lanza's problems were more severe than most. He said he told the school's three security staffers who reported to him to carefully monitor Mr. Lanza, concerning "where he was, who he was with, and what he was doing."
One of the criticisms of pre-911 intelligence is that although various agencies had some of the info on the hijackers they did not share across agency lines. This looks like a similar situation. In fact, it looks like somebody saw this mental case coming down Broadway and made what should have been a really nice catch.
Both the middle school and the high school had this guy pegged. But did anybody give WestConn a heads up? The guy had been to the grade school just the day before. They obviously didn't consider him a threat or potential problem either. It looks like the middle school was sharing loony tune info with the high school, so clearly they weren't keeping all the info strictly internal. Shouldn't the government college and the highly vulnerable government grade school have been in the loop?
Knowing he was under scrutiny by the high school, nut boy couldn't go there and cause trouble. He probably feared that if he tried anything at the grownups' school (WestConn) one of the big people might catch him. Somebody like Dot Stasny might have sat on him and suffocated him between her thighs. Same thing at a mall or similar public place. Only an unprotected grade school full of kids too small to fight back would be an acceptable target for a scrawny dork.
So if government agents considered Lanza dangerous enough to be "carefully monitored" at a high school, shouldn't all the other taxpaying citizens and their kids be allowed in on the news too?