Obama OKs, Expedites Huge $29M Payout to Charleston Victims

[mystery-ak]

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Obama OKs, Expedites Huge $29M Payout to Charleston Victims
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:02 PM

By: Jason Devaney

The Obama administration is fast-tracking a huge payout to the victims of the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting, giving the families of those slain millions more than victims from Sandy Hook, Boston, and other mass murders.

The White House will send $29 million to South Carolina in the wake of the June 17 shooting that left nine people dead in a historic black church, according to a Reuters report. All of the victims were black, and it was called a hate crime in the hours following it.

According to Reuters, a chunk of the $29 million — which was allocated as part of the government's national Crime Victim Assistance Formula Grant program — can help provide services to the families of those killed. Among the dead was Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who also served as a South Carolina state senator.

The $29 million payout is significantly more than what was given to the victims of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting ($2.9 million); the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting ($1.5 million); and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ($8.3 million).

The Department of Justice press release detailing the payout for the Aurora victims read, "The total number of victims of this crime is more than 1,500. This includes the twelve killed, sixty-nine wounded and their families, other people in the theater complex at that time, people evacuated from an apartment complex where explosive devices were discovered, and first responders to the emergency."

The release pertaining to the Sandy Hook shooting makes no mention of the number of victims, but the massacre did result in the death of 20 children and seven adults. The shooter, Adam Lanza, shot and killed himself after the shooting.

Three spectators at the Boston Marathon were killed in the 2013 bombing, and roughly 280 people were injured. A manhunt for the two bombers resulted in the death of one and the arrest of the other just days later. The surviving bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was sentenced to death in May.

The announcement regarding the Sandy Hook payout came a year after the shooting; the Aurora announcement occurred seven months after that shooting; and the Boston payout announcement came nine months after the bombing.

The Reuters story announcing the Charleston payout came just two days after the shooting.

According to InvestmentWatch, the government made other payouts to the Sandy Hook victims following the initial $1.5 million, and the total amount of federal assistance given to them now adds up to $14.3 million — still less than half of what was given to Charleston.

[DCPatriot]

I missed the memo obviously....did any of the Fort Hood massacre victims...compliments of Major Nadal...ever receive 'compensation' like this?   

How about the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech?

[flowers]

Yeah.....did any Fort Hood families  get compensation?

[mountaineer]

The families of hundreds of black murder victims in Chicago and other cities might wonder why they never get any attention from Dem politicos, let alone millions of dollars.

[Bigun]

The families of hundreds of black murder victims in Chicago and other cities might wonder why they never get any attention from Dem politicos, let alone millions of dollars.

How far we have strayed from our founders intentions!

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

James Madison

Source note: Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170 (1794–01-10) [3]. The Annals summarize speeches in the third person, with the actual text of Madison’s quote as follows: “Mr. Madison wished to relieve the sufferers, but was afraid of establishing a dangerous precedent, which might hereafter be perverted to the countenance of purposes very different from those of charity. He acknowledged, for his own part, that he could not undertake to lay his finger on that article in the Federal Constitution which granted a right of Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” The expense in question was for French refugees from the Haitian Revolution.

[Fishrrman]

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At this rate, dem folks is gonna be linin' up relatives they don' like to get assaulted, so's that they can collectz, too!

(This be'un "reparations" by another name...)