GUILTY OK - Colleen Hufford, 54, decapitated, coworker injured, Moore, 24 Sept 2014

[Kimberlyd125]

I agree it was terrorism.
He had Jihad stuff on his Facebook.
He used a technique that is in the spotlight right now being used by terrorists.

JMO

 

[wfgodot]

Daily Mail, tabloiding things up (per usual):

FIRST PICTURE: Smiling grandmother beheaded by Muslim convert in the Oklahoma food factory where both worked

• Colleen Hufford, 54, killed last Thursday in apparent ISIS-style beheading
• Grandmother's family and friends have set up a tribute page on Facebook
• Post reads: 'She was beautiful soul who will be remembered for her smile'
• Alton Nolen allegedly beheaded Ms Hufford before stabbing Traci Johnson
• Mr Nolen was shot and thus stopped by the company CEO, Mark Vaughan
• In 2013 Colleen Hufford lost her Moore, Oklahoma, home to an EF5 tornado

Story at the link, lots of pics

 

[wfgodot]

Oklahoma beheading: Moore suspect confessed, attempted second beheading (Daily Oklahoman)

• Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said it is “highly likely” prosecutors will seek the death penalty

 

[Oblio]

Does anybody else find it odd that Oklahoma, of all states, doesn't have laws specific to terrorism?

 

[Charlie09]

Does anybody else find it odd that Oklahoma, of all states, doesn't have laws specific to terrorism?

But..they do about murder, why do they need something else?

 

[SouthAussie]

I think some terrorism laws enable preventative measures. Some of our terrorism laws say that it is an offense to ….

- commit a terrorist act
- plan or prepare for a terrorist act
- finance terrorism or a terrorist
- provide or receive training connected with terrorist acts
- possess things connected with terrorist acts, or
- collect or make documents likely to facilitate terrorist acts

Suspected terrorists can be ‘preventatively’ detained for up to 14 days, and they can be detained for questioning for up to 24 hours.

Also they can be subject to a court-ordered control order for up to 12 months, which can stop them from …
- being in certain areas or leaving Australia
- communicating or associating with certain people
- owning or using certain articles
- carrying out certain activities, including work
- accessing certain forms of technology, including the internet.

And may require them to :
- remain in premises between certain times of each day
- wear a tracking device
- report to someone at a certain time and place
- allow themselves to be photographed.

Of course, they are entitled to a lawyer and all other humane treatment as well.

http://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecuri...cuments/Australias counter terrorism laws.pdf

 

[wfgodot]

Oklahoma beheading: DA to seek death penalty (Daily Oklahoman)

NORMAN — Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn said Wednesday he will seek the death penalty in a beheading case.

Mashburn said he met with the family of the beheading victim Wednesday morning. He said the relatives felt the death penalty was appropriate.
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the rest at link above

 

[wfgodot]

Oklahoma defendant accused of beheading wanted to be called “Muhammad,” police reported. (Daily Oklahoman)

The murder defendant accused of a beheading at a Moore food processing plant had become “increasingly violent, disrespectful and aggressive” at work and wanted to be called “Muhammad,” police reported in requests for search warrants.
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the rest at link above

 

[Oblio]

But..they do about murder, why do they need something else?

Technically, I guess it doesn't make a whole lot of difference, but considering that OKC had one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in history, it strikes me as odd they wouldn't have any terrorism specific laws.

 

[wfgodot]

Does anybody else find it odd that Oklahoma, of all states, doesn't have laws specific to terrorism?

Actually, they* do, it would seem, see below for a reference to it; a bit of googling may produce, I think, the act itself. (Snippet below is in re: the hapless ex-nursing home employee arrested for possibly an ill-timed "joke" -- link to WS thread below at bottom):

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State’s law
Oklahoma’s anti-terrorism act specifically prohibits joking about an act of terrorism against a population.

Prosecutors allege (Jacob) Muriithi violated the act because he intended to cause “the population of Christians in Oklahoma County” and Garrett personally to experience a disruption of personal security, fear and anxiety.
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http://newsok.com/fired-oklahoma-ci...r-charged-with-terrorism-hoax/article/5347848

* Having lived there a total of 15 years -- including that infamously sad day in 1995 when the Murrah Building was bombed and 168 died -- I almost wrote "we" above, and not "they"; in fact, I heard of this despicable deed during a pit stop at a Dunkin' Doughnuts "back East" in ritzy Connecticut someplace, an experience of cognitive dissonance so extreme and so abrupt my hair literally stood on end whilst lazing there sipping latte, and watching CNN. "Poor Oklahoma," I thought. (And then, "And poor all of us" -- the choice of pronoun is essentially meaningless when discussing an encompassing national act, isn't it. Horror effectively binds a people together, a lesson the nation learned on 9.11, one that we Okies had encountered earlier -- on 19 April 1995.)

And WS thread re: quoted material above: OK - Beheading threat legit, or inopportune joking around?.

 

[wfgodot]

And pity poor Moore -- last time it made national news was 2013, when an EF5 tornado hit and killed 24.

Moore adversity: Tragedies continue to put Oklahoma city in national spotlight (Sunday Oklahoman)
• Deadly tornadoes and a horrifying workplace attack don’t define our community, Moore mayor says.

In many ways, the public reaction to the Sept. 25 workplace attack at Vaughan Foods felt familiar to Mayor Glenn Lewis.
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Following the deadly tornado that devastated Moore on May 20, 2013, Lewis was interviewed on camera 499 times.
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There have been other tragedies, too. The untimely death of a Norman man who was handcuffed by police in February in the parking lot of the Warren Theatre, a glamorous and highly visible retailer. A massive tornado in May 1999 that left 36 Oklahomans dead and tracked a near-identical path to the one 14 years later.

“We’ve learned to cope with a lot of adversity,” Lewis said. “We continue to be strong and keep going.”
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[newone]

Oklahoma defendant accused of beheading wanted to be called “Muhammad,” police reported. (Daily Oklahoman)


the rest at link above

from your link:

"“Nolen also had recently converted to the Islam religion and was attempting to convince other employees to convert to the religion. Witnesses also had overheard Nolen stating that he did not like and beat Caucasians."

will this be tried as a ''hate'' crime??

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-murder-d...led-muhammad-police-reported./article/5347678

 

[SouthAussie]

"AP Flushes Much of What Is Known About Okla. Beheading Down the Memory Hole

It's disconcerting, and occasionally infuriating, to watch facts originally reported in some national stories disappear or get sanitized in later versions. What the Associated Press has been doing to its more recent reports on the September 25 beheading of Colleen Hufford in Moore, Oklahoma has moved firmly into the infuriating stage."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-bl...heading-down-memory-hole#sthash.G7vNpzfb.dpuf

 

[Elley Mae]

"AP Flushes Much of What Is Known About Okla. Beheading Down the Memory Hole

It's disconcerting, and occasionally infuriating, to watch facts originally reported in some national stories disappear or get sanitized in later versions. What the Associated Press has been doing to its more recent reports on the September 25 beheading of Colleen Hufford in Moore, Oklahoma has moved firmly into the infuriating stage."

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-bl...heading-down-memory-hole#sthash.G7vNpzfb.dpuf

Un F-ing believable, I just went looking for news on this and I am hard pressed to find it. I swear I just don't know what is going on but FACTS are FACTS we had a terrorist on United States soil commit an act of TERROR whether the USA likes it or not. Anyhoo I found this and reading it is what made me go look for the us beheading. Reading the head line below you would think that such a thing did not happen here reading this.

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Canada attack raises "lone wolf" worries in U.S.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-th...-officials-worried-about-homegrown-terrorism/

So the guy at the packing plant that was trying to convert the other employees and starting preaching muslim got fired, went to the office and beheaded a female employee and CBS pretends or forgets that it happened or that it was just a muslim convert that happened to get fired and this was just his way of dealing with it.

 

[newone]

Un F-ing believable, I just went looking for news on this and I am hard pressed to find it. I swear I just don't know what is going on but FACTS are FACTS we had a terrorist on United States soil commit an act of TERROR whether the USA likes it or not. Anyhoo I found this and reading it is what made me go look for the us beheading. Reading the head line below you would think that such a thing did not happen here reading this.

...............................................

Canada attack raises "lone wolf" worries in U.S.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-th...-officials-worried-about-homegrown-terrorism/

So the guy at the packing plant that was trying to convert the other employees and starting preaching muslim got fired, went to the office and beheaded a female employee and CBS pretends or forgets that it happened or that it was just a muslim convert that happened to get fired and this was just his way of dealing with it.

Silence is deafening......

A Woman is beheaded .... this is NOT ok!

I hope her family is pursuing wrongful death lawsuit

 

[OkieGranny]

Reserve deputy, victim speak for first time since Vaughan Foods attack, video at link.

http://www.koco.com/news/reserve-de...for-stopping-attack-at-vaughan-foods/30135346

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Food plant worker who beheaded his coworker has ASKED for the death penalty, psychologist says

Alton Nolen, 30, is charged with beheading a colleague with an 8-inch serrated kitchen knife in suburban Oklahoma City in September 2014

A psychologist testified Monday that Nolen wants to be executed

Also said he is not helping his attorneys prepare a case

Nolen also allegedly tried to decapitate victim's co-worker Traci Johnson, 43, but she survived

The Muslim convert was shot by the owner of the food processing plant


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-beheading-wants-execution.html#ixzz3pj9Qmh3b
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[YESorNO]

Alton Nolen, Oklahoma Beheading Suspect, Competent to Stand Trial: Judge (with clip)

"...The Cleveland County judge's decision comes after a psychologist testified this week that Nolen is intellectually impaired and is unwilling to cooperate with his attorneys because he wants to be executed..."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...g-suspect-competent-stand-trial-judge-n453111

 

[0101ABA]

Judge refuses to accept guilty plea from Oklahoma man accused in co-worker's beheading

Alton Nolen was arraigned in a Cleveland County courtroom Thursday for the September 2014 attack.

Nolen attempted to plead guilty to the murder charge on Thursday.

However, the judge said she wouldn’t accept his plea because his attorneys and the district attorney had not struck a deal.

His next court date is now set for May 20.

http://kfor.com/2016/02/11/arraignment-set-for-oklahoma-man-accused-in-co-workers-beheading/

 

[sonjay]

And in other OK beheading news:

Oklahoma experiences its fourth decapitation in 16 months

Investigators say Nolen beheaded 54-year-old Colleen Hufford before attacking another employee.
...
Less than five months later, a 21-year-old Stillwater man was arrested and charged after allegedly trying to decapitate a friend. Isaiah Marin is facing charges after he allegedly used “a long knife or sword” to kill 19-year-old Jacob Crockett.
...
Earlier this week, Oklahoma City officers were called to a gruesome scene at a home daycare.

They discovered the bodies of 78-year-old James Earl Reed and 59-year-old Sharon Reed inside the home.

According to officials with the Oklahoma City Police Department, the victims had been shot and decapitated.

Sharon Reed’s grandson, Quinton Laster, was arrested in connection to the crime.

Article snipped for brevity. More at the source:
http://kfor.com/2016/02/11/oklahoma-experiences-its-fourth-decapitation-in-16-months/