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To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/9/2011 5:43:12 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Is the murder rampage at Fort Hood by the allah akbar killer "a clear reflection" of anything, GST?

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/9/2011 5:55:16 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Man arrested for Eric Cantor death threat By JAKE SHERMAN \| 3/29/10 politico.com Federal authorities have arrested a Philadelphia man and charged him with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his family. Federal authorities have arrested a Philadelphia man and charged him with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and his family. Norman Leboon will be charged with two federal counts: threatening to kill a member of Congress and interfering with his federal duties, and posting video online containing such threats. He is scheduled to appear in federal district court in Philadelphia on Monday afternoon. The arrest is the most serious in a string of threats of violence against lawmakers in wake of the divisive health care vote. In a video posted on YouTube, Leboon said Cantor was a "liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy [expletive] pig." He also seemed to refer to a bullet found in Cantor’s office last week and said it will be placed in his head. Richmond Police had originally discounted the bullet as a stray. It is unclear whether the FBI will expand the investigation into the Richmond bullet. Leboon’s video also makes reference to Cantor’s Judaism – Cantor last week said he has received anti-Semitic threats in the past. “Remember Eric at our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given,” according to a transcript of the video in the affidavit. “…You’re an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer’s abomination.” Google, the owner of YouTube, provided the FBI with the IP address of the person who submitted the video and found it to be in Philadelphia. Police had a warrant to arrest Leboon on separate charges of terroristic threats with intent to terrorize another, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. Leboon was arrested March 27 and told the FBI that he used his cell phone video camera to make the video. He also admitted, according to the affidavit, that he had made more than 2,000 threatening videos. He told the FBI, according to the affidavit, that he is the “son of the god of Enoch” and further said Cantor is “pure evil” and will be dead. Leboon does not appear to be particularly politically active, but he does appear to have donated to President Barack Obama. On back-to-back days in June 2008, a man who called himself “Norman Leboon Sr” from Philadelphia gave $255 and $250 to Obama for America.

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/9/2011 6:41:47 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Arizona Shootings: 'It Was a Colossal Failure of Journalism' By Robert Stacy McCain on 1.9.11 spectator.org That quote, from a commenter at my personal blog, described the effort of several news organizations to fabricate a connection between Jared Loughner's murderous rampage and the Tea Party and/or Sarah Palin. Less than four hours transpired between the time the shootings occurred in the parking lot of a Tucson grocery store and the time the Associated Press identified 22-year-old Loughner as the suspect. The first AP bulletin to identify him misspelled his name "Laughner," and another couple of hours passed while reporters, bloggers and amateur newshounds corrected the spelling and began to assemble enough background on Loughner to get some idea of what inspired this crime. Jared Loughner is crazy. That simple four-word sentence adequately summarizes Loughner's apparent motives. However, in the five or six hours between the shooting -- in which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was among a dozen people wounded, and six people including a federal judge were killed -- some reporters apparently felt obligated to fill the information void with reporting that fed into a frenzy of political speculation. Yes, it is a fact that Giffords was one of the Democrats on a "target" list of incumbents whom Sarah Palin opposed in the recent mid-term election. Yes, it is a fact that the election between Giffords and Republican Jesse Kelly was hotly contested, with Giffords winning by fewer than 4,000 votes. Yes, it is a fact that Kelly was supported by the Tea Party movement. Yes, it is a fact that immigration is a major political issue in Arizona. All of those facts that were fed into online reports and TV news coverage were indisputably true. And all of those facts, it seems, were irrelevant to Loughner's bloody crime. There is no evidence that Loughner was a Sarah Palin fan. There is no evidence that he was associated with the Tea Party or that he was concerned with immigration. Instead, there is a steadily growing heap of evidence that Jared Loughner was suffering from a mental illness, quite possibly paranoid schizophrenia. One of Loughner's classmates in high school and community college, Caitie Parker, voided much of the baseless media speculation with a few Twitter messages Saturday afternoon. Parker, herself a liberal, said Loughner was "a really good friend," whom she described as having been "left wing," "a political radical" and "quite liberal" when she knew him, although she lost touch with him after 2007 when he "became very reclusive." Loughner was a "loner" and a "pot head," Parker said in a Twitter colloquy with Anthony De Rosa of Reuters. There was clear evidence that Loughner's mental condition was deteriorating. "He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," said one student who had attended a pre-algebra class at Pima Community College with Loughner. In mid-December, Loughner wrote on his MySpace page, "I don't feel good: I'm ready to kill a police officer!" In his recent online activity -- including a series of YouTube video texts transcribed by conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston -- Loughner unloaded paranoid gibberish about brainwashing and "mind control." Loughner listed Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto among his favorite books. At one point in his ravings, apparently in reference to the "In God We Trust" motto on U.S. currency, he exclaimed: "No! I won't trust in God!" None of this lines up with the early reporting on the Tucson shooting which heavily implied that Gabrielle Giffords and 17 others were shot because of political activity of Palin and the Tea Party. And yet none of the news organizations that fed that frenzy of speculation has apologized for their irresponsible reporting.

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/9/2011 6:48:59 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 306849

Michael Enright, the guy who knifed the cabbie in New York for being Muslim, was a leftie. Jared Loughner, yesterday's shooter, has been described as a leftie. The only violence I know of a tea party rally was the beating of Kenneth Gladney by union thugs for selling American flags. and don't forget James Lee the 'environmental' leftie who took over the Discovery Channel building last September.

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/9/2011 11:39:39 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 306849

>>The murder rampage in Arizona is a clear reflection of the political climate in America<< economics plays a huge role. the american empire is collapsing. this will stress citizens and those with mental issues will be the least likely to manage this stress.

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/10/2011 7:43:20 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Over the top, melodramatic. "-- a country full of hate, violence, ignorance, weapons and -- yes -- insanity" The evidence seems to be that the shooter was a very troubled kid. In a country with our population, it is statistically inevitable that someone who is deranged will commit these kinds of acts every so often. I'd like to think that it is, but gun control is not the solution. Mexico might have the strictest gun control laws on the planet. This has not kept murder by gunshot down. People will get guns and use them as they see fit regardless of laws. Unfortunately, not all owners will go quail or deer hunting. The reason for the fact that the level of political discourse has gone down is that we feel helpless, powerless to affect an outcome in any significant way, particularly as our politicians are regularly bought and sold to the highest bidder. But to suggest that a more strident level of discussion somehow leads to murder on the part of a nutjob is a stretch. The solution, if this is correct, would tampen down free speech, not something I want to do. This incident has probably put radical pols out of business. I cannot imagine that Palin, who is a venal and ignorant woman, has much of a future now. These people are idiosyncratic, e.g., the guy who killed John Lennon. Having them around is simply a fact of modern life. Identifying them and somehow preventing them from doing something awful is probably a much better tactic than getting rid of guns. The political implications of this are scary. Although the guy seems to have very oddly formed beliefs (I am not sure if his orientation was left or right, not that it matters), each side will now stupidly claim that he was a member of the opposition's base. We will simply see more of the same, times two, thanks to this guy.

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/10/2011 7:56:25 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 306849

Ted Rall's Anti-American Manifesto: amazon.com Interview: verumserum.com Ted Rall Book Excerpt: Let’s Kill Some Christians and Tea Partiers h/t d[..]b

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/10/2011 12:18:29 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I'll call BS on that argument. This shooter was completely whacked. He was thrown out of his local community college for being a danger to his math class(read up on it today). His teacher and fellow students called it in emails saying things like, "this guy will be shooting someone someday". You can make an argument that a fruit lop like he is shouldn't be allowed to own a gun. But this clown sounds like he didn't even know what a political party is. I do agree that SI is revealing how effective the massive lies fomented by both political parties are at brainwashing individuals to the point that they can no longer reason. We have entered the stage called menopolitics. The truth is that we should expect violence in a country that makes its living manufacturing and exporting it. "We're #1!"

To: GST who wrote (303078)	1/10/2011 1:20:42 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

This shooter is a mirror on the Culture of Arizona, that being of the hate and madness and anger that grips that state, and much of america. The fact is evident he was a lone looney, but he was at one and a part of the madness all around him. So, as i see it, that this lunatic was just an indication of where we are as a country. There was PLENTY of vile rhetoric of hate he was listening too , and it was that that fueled him to act. So i see the fact of his being a angry beyond the fringe loner only, as i repeat, a measure of the sickness all around him. So both you and Broken Clock are Correct.