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.The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America
by Metavirus on 5 April 2009
Crooks and Liars posted new details about the right-wing psychopath who gunned down three police officers in Pittsburgh:

Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we’re starting to learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away.

It appears that what police may be looking at is a budding white supremacist who frequented one of the most popular neo-Nazi websites and harbored an apocalyptic dread of the federal government…

[T]he Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has some corroboration from other sources that indicates he fits this profile:

Richard Andrew “Pop” Poplawski’s ex-girlfriend said he dragged her by the hair and threatened to shoot her.

He slept with a gun under his pillow in a basement room filled with firearms and ammunition, convinced that Jews controlled the media and President Obama was scheming to take away his arsenal, friends and relatives said Saturday.

“He was a violent, abusive man. He dragged me by the hair, pulling me across the floor. I saw him choke his own mother. He was controlling,” said Melissa Gladish, 23, of Verona, his former girlfriend who received a protection from abuse order against him in 2005. She said she had no doubt he would kill someone.

I can’t begin to tell you how frightened this makes me. The radical right wingers that were so prevalent during the Clinton administration went dormant during the Bush years. Now that Obama is in office, and irresponsible sociopaths like Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck and Rep. Michele Bachmann are recklessly stoking the fires of paranoid rightwing victimization, I fear we will face countless tragedies like what just went on in Pittsburgh.

When liberal radicals get upset, they engage in protests and damage property, like the nonsense you saw outside the G-20 summit.

When right wing radicals get upset, they either shoot lots of people and or blow up a building with lots of people in it (see, e.g., the FBI building in Oklahoma City).

As Tim F. at Balloon Juice opines:


How is that “orderly revolution” going, Michelle? How about that laundry soap rebellion, Erick? This is what Glenn Beck’s citizen army looks like. People like Michelle Malkin fantasize about citizens rising up against the (Democratic) state. They stoke their followers’ paranoia with bull**** that, mostly, they know is bull****, for ratings and a shot at political traction. Did they expect the American revolution?

In response to John’s famous Peak Wingnut post I pointed out that political irrelevance will hardly stifle rightwing victimology but feed it like CO2, manure and sunlight. I tend to call the relevant phenomenon ‘toxic victim syndrome’, or TVS. The feeling that one is a powerless victim has a corrosive psychological effect. It exempts self-appointed victims from normal moral standards. It justifies (in one’s own mind) an endless list of behaviors that an ordinary person would never consider.

How many people have to die before the right-wing media acknowledges their complicity in these kinds of attacks and voluntarily dials back their inflammatory rhetoric and incitements to violence?


Sadly, I think it’s going to take a long time for that to happen — and a lot more innocent people are going to die in the interim. I guess this is what “America First” means for the radical right under an Obama presidency.

For the final word, here’s John Cole:

And, of course, when you point out that certain individuals with all their talk about “revolution” and “armed insurrection” are inciting this kind of behavior in unstable people, you will get howls of protest about the 1st Amendment and what not. Sure, crazy people do crazy things. But that doesn’t make it responsible to encourage them, which is what a lot of really foolish people are doing right now for purely political reasons.

Update: One more final word from Andrew Sullivan:

Many of us have worried that the heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces might spill over at some point into violence in the hands of individuals prone to lashing out. We now have what seems to be a clear instance of that and three dead police officers. One wonders whether Fox News or the Second Amendment fanatics will chill it out a little. And then one realizes who we’re talking about.
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2009 shooting of Oakland police officers
Location Oakland, California, USA
Date Saturday, March 21, 2009
1:08 p.m. (PDT)
Target Oakland Police Department officers

Belligerent Lovelle Mixon

Two shootings of Oakland, California police officers took place on Saturday, March 21, 2009, when four officers were killed by a convicted felon wanted on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation. The convicted felon, Lovelle Mixon, initially shot and killed two Oakland police officers during a routine traffic stop, then he killed two more when SWAT team officers attempted to apprehend him two hours later. Mixon staged an ambush of the SWAT officers from his hiding place and was killed in a barrage of gunfire as the officers returned fire in self-defense.[1]

The killings made it one of the worst days for law enforcement in California history. It was the single deadliest attack on California police officers since the Newhall massacre in 1970, when four California Highway Patrol officers were shot and killed by two men in Santa Clarita, California.

This incident brings the total number of Oakland police officers killed in the line of duty since 1867 to 51
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Killer of 4 officers wanted to avoid prisonKiller of 4 was suspect in earlier homicide
March 23, 2009|By Demian Bulwa and Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers


A fourth Oakland police officer was pronounced dead Sunday in the wake of a shooting rampage by a 26-year-old parolee who, according to family members, knew he was a wanted man and did not want to go back to prison.

Motorcycle officer John Hege, 41, was declared brain dead Sunday morning at Highland Hospital in Oakland and remained on life support to preserve his organs for donation.

His death made Saturday's shootings in East Oakland the deadliest attacks on California law enforcement in almost four decades.


http://articles.sfgate.com/200...e-mixon-east-oakland
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Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
[QUOTE]Sez juan:
Cop killers are almost exclusively Repubs...its the whole NRA, DU, 2nd Amendment thing...

[/QUOTE

You, Sir...are a LIAR. And besides that, you can show NO statistics/facts for your ignorant post...but , then again, you can show NO basis for the majority of your posts. Roll Eyes


Prove it wrong. I dare you.
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Sez juan:
Prove it wrong. I dare you.



No proof...or link for you accusation?...Just as I thought...more "passing gas".


"The Modern Liberal knows that he cannot win debates held in a respectful and open environment. When objective facts are “undesirable” they cannot allow an opportunity for those facts to be heard and considered. For this reason the Democrat has no choice but to attempt to render alternative points-of-view as being so beyond the pale that the mere consideration of those views becomes an act of evil in and of itself".
Calling him a 'true hero', mourners hold vigil for suspected Oakland cop killer Lovelle Mixon


Organized by International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement, the march Wednesday evening took participants near a police substation within sight of the two locations where Lovelle Mixon allegedly shot the veteran officers before being slain himself.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...ourners_hold_vi.html



2009 shootings of Oakland police officers From Wikipedia
2009 shooting of Oakland police officers
Location Oakland, California, USA
Date Saturday, March 21, 2009
1:08 p.m. (PDT)
Target Oakland Police Department officers
Attack type Shootout
Weapon(s) SKS, semiautomatic pistol
Death(s) 5 (4 officers, 1 perpetrator)
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Two shootings of Oakland, California police officers took place on Saturday, March 21, 2009, when four officers were killed by a convicted felon wanted on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation. The convicted felon, Lovelle Mixon, initially shot and killed two Oakland police officers during a routine traffic stop, then he killed two more when SWAT team officers attempted to apprehend him two hours later. Mixon staged an ambush of the SWAT officers from his hiding place and was killed in a barrage of gunfire as the officers returned fire in self-defense.[1]
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Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
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Sez Opie:
The NRA certainly bears a certain amount of responsibility for our increasingly lethal society. A measure of meaningful gun control would go a long way.



What meaningful measures / laws do you think would get the job done, and lessen gun violence?


Train and License gun owners and register guns, and legally transfer ownership. Exactly the way vehicle operation and ownership is regulated, no more and no less.
Rock's article is almost 2 years old and nonsense.

As for shootings.

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In just 24 hours, at least 11 cops were shot around the country.

The most recent incident at a fugitive's house in St. Petersburg, Fla., left two officers dead and a U.S. marshal wounded Monday. Hours earlier, an Oregon officer was critically wounded after being shot multiple times during a traffic stop.

Monday's violence followed a bloody Sunday that left an officer in Indianapolis critically wounded during a traffic stop shooting, four officers in Indianapolis wounded after a gunman opened fire in a precinct and two more officers in Washington wounded in a shootout in a Walmart parking lot.

"It's not a fluke," Richard Roberts, a spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations, told MSNBC.com. "There's a perception among officers in the field that there’s a war on cops going on."

Florida officers Tom Baitinger and Jeffrey Yaslowitz were killed Monday when agents tried to arrest 39-year-old Hydra Lacy Jr. on an aggravated battery charge. Police believe Lacy opened fire on the agents, also injuring an U.S. marshal.

Lacy, who was found dead at home following an hour-long standoff, had a long and violent criminal record including a sexual battery conviction.

In Oregon, a gunman is still on the loose after shooting officer Steven Dodds, 45, during a traffic stop Monday. Police say the gunman, driving a 1984 Dodge truck, led police on a chase after the shooting and fired several shots at officers but missed, before being stopped by spike strips and escaping on foot into a wooded area. He is described as armed and extremely dangerous.

Indianapolis Police Chief Paul Ciesielski says he believes 60-year-old Thomas Hardy is the man who shot officer David Moore twice in the face and in his chest and leg during a traffic stop Sunday, critically wounding Moore.

The Indiana Department of Correction says Hardy had a criminal history dating back to at least 1984, when he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on a burglary conviction. He was released on parole in 1990, but has been in and out of prison since then on various charges, including seven sentences for theft, one for cocaine possession and one for misdemeanor battery.

Detectives in Port Orchard, Wash., are investigating why a man ran from deputies and then opened fire in a Walmart parking lot Sunday, sparking a shootout that left him and the woman he apparently was with dead and two officers wounded.

The Kitsap County Sheriff's deputies were answering a call about a suspicious person at the store. When they located the man and tried talking to him he ran, then opened fire as the officers followed.

Both men were hit and unable to return gunfire, but a female officer arriving on the scene shot and killed the gunman, sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson said. Authorities said it wasn't immediately known who shot the woman, who died later at a Tacoma hospital.

And in Detroit, 38-year-old Lamar D. Moore was fatally shot after opening fire at a police station, wounding the precinct commander, two sergeants and an officer the day before a family spokesman said his brother was to be sentenced in a double-homicide case.


Please tell me their political leanings Juan.
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Originally posted by JuanHunt:
quote:
Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
[QUOTE]Sez juan:
Cop killers are almost exclusively Repubs...its the whole NRA, DU, 2nd Amendment thing...

[/QUOTE

You, Sir...are a LIAR. And besides that, you can show NO statistics/facts for your ignorant post...but , then again, you can show NO basis for the majority of your posts. Roll Eyes


Prove it wrong. I dare you.


NO YOU PROVE your so-called point!

How about this guy, Casey Brezik, who thought he was slashing the throat of the governor of Missouri? Well, so much for the protection of making firearms illegal passing more restrictive laws, Yet, I digress. The point is this specimen is obviously a fan of Ernesto "CHE" Guevara and an anti-capitalist leftist tool, Casy Brezik on FaceBook, so peddle your lies elsewhere.
quote:
Originally posted by JuanHunt:
quote:
Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
[QUOTE]Sez juan:
Cop killers are almost exclusively Repubs...its the whole NRA, DU, 2nd Amendment thing...

[/QUOTE

You, Sir...are a LIAR. And besides that, you can show NO statistics/facts for your ignorant post...but , then again, you can show NO basis for the majority of your posts. Roll Eyes


Prove it wrong. I dare you.


Old dog juan hunt is using a sophist trick. He made an unsubstantiated statement. Then, dared you prove him wrong. Anyone studying logic and reason knows you can't prove a negative statement, like that. The burden of proof lies with juan. He must prove that cop killers are almost exclusively republican. Of course, he can't!
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Originally posted by Opie Cunningham:
The NRA certainly bears a certain amount of responsibility for our increasingly lethal society. A measure of meaningful gun control would go a long way.


Nonsense! Studies show that gun control cities have higher crime rates!

http://www.jrsa.org/events/con...Stephen_Haas-gun.pdf

Well know study shows the presence of firearms prevent about 2.5 million crimes annually.

http://www.rense.com/general76/univ.htm

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