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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, December 8, 2007 Security ? Amy Forliti "Just think tho I'm gonna be (expletive) famous," he wrote. He was more apologetic in another page The gunman who killed eight people in addressed to his family. a mall shooting "just snapped," he said in a "I'm so sorry for what I've put you handnscrawled suicide note released Friday through I never meant to hurt all of you so that combines love for his friends and family much and I dont blame any one of you for with nothing but contempt for his random disowning me," he wrote. ": victims. "I've just snapped I can't take this mean"I know everyone will remember me as ingless existence anymore I've been a consome sort of monster but please understand stant disappointment and that trend would have only continued." that I just don't want to be a burden on the He added, "I love you mommy. I love you ones that I care for my entire life," Robert Hawkins wrote. "I just want to".' dad," and expressed love for other people. The third page was his will: "I'm giving take a few peices (sic) of (expletive) with ' me." my car back to my mom and my friends can Police released the three-pag- e note Friday have whatever else I leave behind." after The Associated Press made a Freedom Hawkins became a ward of the state and of Information Act request. spent four years in a series of treatment Hawkins left the note at the Bellevue centers, group homes and foster care after house where he lived before going to Omathreatening to kill his stepmother in 2002. ha's Westroads Mall on Wednesday with an The facilities were for youths with substance AK-4He opened fire randomly in the Von abuse, mental or behavioral problems. Maur store, fatally wounding eight people Acquaintances said that Hawkins was a before taking his own life. drug user and had a history of depression. In He apologized to his friends in one page 2005 and 2006, according to court records, of the note, saying, "I've been a peice (sic) of he underwent psychiatric evaluations. About an hour before Wednesday's shoot(expletive) my entire life it seems this is my ings, Hawkins called Debora Maruca-Kovaonly option." a woman who had taken him into her home, He said his friends would be better off without him, and told them to remember the and told her he had written the suicide note, Maruca-Kova- c said. good times they had. inspec- tion, and several guards have been killed while blocking would-b- e suicide bombers from THE ASSOCIATED entry, "Our shopping centers also have the ability to deploy screening stations and bring in armed guards, said Malachy Kavanagh of the New York-base- d International Council of Shopping Centers. "But you're hopeful we never get to that point in this country. We do not want to get to that point." Kavanagh noted that most Americans shop near their homes partaking in what, 3 more so than baseball, is the great national pastime. "It's part of their community, part of their daily life," he said. "They'd be thinking, 'I'm here all the time, and now you want to search me?" It would be an affront to them." Of course, Americans already have been forced to adjust to searches and screenings in numerous situations not just at airports, but when entering courthouses, stadiums, office buildings and schools. Yet who would have expected there to be security meaAmish sures at the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., where a gunman killed five girls last year? It was as simple and innocent as a school could be, with a little bell cupola on the roof and a sign near the blackboard that read, "Visitors Bubble Up Our Day." After the Virginia Tech massacre in April, colleges and unione-roo- versities rethought their entire security plans. Virginia Tech itself modified some classroom Illness his firm had received dozens of calls from local stores since Wednesday inquiring about stepped-u- p security measures. The holiday season is especially challenging for mall security because of the throngs of shoppers, making it difficult for employees and guards to keep track of potentially suspi- Police release suicide note Continued from Al opening their bags for A3 PRESS Continued from A I to get to the bottom of the mystery. "I'm still in shock, I guess," said Susan Kruse, who worked at the plant for 15 years until she got to do her job last February. "But it was very surprising to hear that there was that many other people that have gotten this." Five of the workers including Kruse, who has been told she may never work again have been diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, or QDP, a rare immune disorder that . attacks the nerves and produces tingling, numbness and weakness in the arms and legs, sometimes causing last-in- g damage. New cases of QDP occur at the rate of one or two per 100,000 people each year, according to Dr. P. James B. Dyck of the Mayo Clinic. State health officials said there is no evidence the public is at risk either from those afflicted or from any food leaving the plant, which supplies Hormel Foods Inc. The working theory from two Mayo Clinic neurologists treating the workers: Exposure to pig brain tissue scattered by the compressed air triggered the illnesses. "As we've investigated these patients, we have information that suggests very strongly that the immune system is activated very strongly in a very compelling way," said Dr. Daniel cious people, he said. too-wea- k Nyffeler estimated that, nationwide, only about 5 percent of mall security officers are armed. "We function mostly as a visual deterrent," he said. "Our intent, even with the armed security, is not to apprehend. It's to profile and deter." Andy Miller, an Omaha resident shopping Friday at a mall near Von Maur, doubted that adding more guards or metal detectors would have much impact except possibly to .'' , inconvenience 7. cus- law-abidi- tomers. "That would be a waste of time," Miller said. "He could shoot people out in the parking lot. What difference would it maker c, Ellin Bloch, a Los Angeles-bpsychologist who specializes in traumatic stress, ased suggested that most Ameri- cans would oppose more intrusive security at malls. other theme parks by requirwrestled with a similar dilem"People really want to have ma how to provide security ing visitors to pass through a feeling of some freedom," that doesn't dampen the spirit metal detectors. she said. "We have an illusion of fun that visitors are seeking. The Omaha massacre, carthat we're safe, and we have to ried out by a troubled . Walt Disney World, for retain that illusion, just for the was the deadliest mall sake of survival." example, keeps tabs on guests with officers in plainclothes Bloch's sentiment was shooting on record in the U.S. In February, five people were and uniform, along with a echoed by Josh Husk, whose killed at a mall in Salt Lake sophisticated video surveil- grandmother, Janet Jorgensen, lance system. The park began who was was among these killed on City by an shot dead by police. checking bags and backpacks Wednesday. after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorReed Nyffeler, director of "You can't live in fear," he ist attacks, but as yet it has not sales and marketing at Omaha-base- d said. "You have to live every followed the path of numerous Signal 88 Security, said day like it's your last." doors so they can be locked from inside. - But most schools focused on implementing or improving emergency notification systems, not limiting access to public buildings, said Alison Kiss, program director of the group Security on Campus. The general sentiment, she said, is that college campuses need to be open places, even if that means imperfect security. America's theme parks have City Hall Obama Celebrities sellingpolitics Continued from A 1 Continued from Al Local schools would not drop their $60 an hour fee to use their building. Jeni Dunn, the troop leader who dealt with the city in 2005, has since left the troop but said on Friday that the city's decision harms the community. "That is so aggravating," she said upon hearing the council's decision. "I wouldn't care except that there is absolutely nothing out here and the school and the city and the (LDS) Church are very difficult to work with. I think we should all be more accommodating. We are a small community and we all need to help each other. It's very frustrating." Hendrickson and Kinghorn said the policy is necessary because the city cannot legally define what is a good use of the building it can only allow everyone who asks to use the building, no matter what they plan to do in it, or they can allow no one. To protect city property, they have decided to allow no one. Hendrickson said the policy was a direct result of the controversial news conference, saying that without the new policy, "how do I stop someone else as a candidate from doing the same thing?" Lifferth said as a sitting council member he should be able to hold news conferences and other meetings in the building. , Councilman David Blackburn disagreed. "If we open the door, it is not a crack, it is a floodgate for whatever else would be suggested," he said. Kinghorn said the policy does not apply to city property. different. "There are few people out there who have her kind of star power," Presidential candidates, especially the Democratic have been using celebrities to campaign for them in South Carolina. Here are some celebrities who have visited South Carolina. Bass said. HILLARY CLINTON Kathleen Turner, Former President Bill Clinton. actress. Represented Edwards at a Democratic event in Spartanburg. Obama's campaign hopes to rally Visited three times this year. Winfrey's women supporters and Maya Angelou, poet, actress. bring others into his fold who don't Made media appearances care about politics. ordinarily Clinton. supporting Kim Swartz thinks the Oprah fan strategy will work. Victoria Rowell, actress, "The "She'll be able to sway a percentYoung & the Restless." Visited age of voters," said Swartz, who will Columbia on Clinton's behalf. attend Sunday's rally. "Particularly those who aren't paying attention to JOHN EDWARDS politics. And she'll encourage a lot of Danny Glover, actor, S.C. native people to get out and vote who don't most famous for his roles in "Ley iv. usually vote." thal Weapon" movie franchise. But Swartz said women like herself Toured the Upstate with Edwards who are paying attention to politics . and is starring in a radio commer-- ; won't be swayed to base their vote on ciat endorsing him. anything other than the issues. ; Harry Belafonte, actor, singer, "I'm leaning toward Mitt Rom-neyactivist. Toured the Lowcountry Swartz said, noting the only wftrt Edwards this week. Democrat she would be aptio vote for would be Winfrey herself. "She empowers women. She mo- - i tivates us and lets us believe that we" potentially could decide the race, pocan overcome all obstacles;" Swartz litical analysts have said. . said. "She is definitely a symbol of Polling shows Obama's message is achievement." resonating more with male African-America- n The female vote is a key bloc for j voters in the state, who f Obama and all other candidates, favor him over the other candidates. But Obama continues to struggle Women are expected to cast more? than half the votes in January's with Sen. Hillary.Clinton to be the n women favorite of female voters. primary. ' Lachance. Compressed air could turn some brain matter into a mist that could be inhaled by workers, said Mike Doyle, a microbiologist who heads the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety. Or the workers may have come into contact with something dangerous and then touched their noses or mouths, he Oscar-nominate- d said. Scientists have yet to figure out if there is something in the brain matter that could be causing the symptoms. "The hard part will be iden- BARACK OBAMA Oprah Winfrey, talk show host, media mogul. Will appear with Obama in three early primary tifying the causative agent and associating that with the animal, showing that the animal carries it," Doyle said. Minnesota Health Department spokesman Doug Schul-t- z said the agency is looking into the theory but has not ruled out other causes. Kruse said the company has harvested pork brains on and off for years, depending on demand, but it's not known why workers began getting sick recently. Quality Pork has not said what it does with the pork brains. Sold fresh and in cans, pork brains are fried and eaten in sandwiches or gravy in some parts of the country. 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