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I’ll be waiting to hear whether this qualifies as the wannabe freedom fighters’ fantasy of armed resistance against the tyrannical government. If not this, then what, exactly?
Name of shooter has been reported as Gavin Eugene Long, 29, from open carry Missouri, a Black man that has been associated with the radical anti-gov’t Sovereign Citizen’s group, which is also known to have its roots in racist and anti-semitic shit. His birthday was today according to one website I went to…so make out of that, what you will.
Bizarre. Just, bizarre.
So few facts. So much speculation.
Stay calm and carry on.
a Black man that has been associated with the radical anti-gov’t Sovereign Citizen’s group,
Well, assuming this info is accurate, this is going to be puzzling for Fox News to handle. On one hand, he’s black, so obviously he’s a radical white-hating Muslim-sympathizing terrorist. On the other, the Sovereign Citizen movement has been overwhelmingly white, rural, racist, and looney-tunes right wing since its inception, so normally he’d receive the same kind of “legitimate grievance at federal government overreach” tongue-bathing solicitude from Sean Hannity that he initially gave to Cliven Bundy.
My guess is that Fox will focus solely on the fact that the perp was black, completely ignore the Sovereign Citizen angle, and blame Obama.
Just sayin’, but it’s not cool to link to articles which are hidden behind a pay-wall without at least mentioning such.
The only New Freedom group that shows up on the web appears to be associated with AA and NA… Is somebody making a big leap here?
TPM:
Read the Journal’s full report…
… if you happen to have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, or you’re willing and can afford to purchase one. If not, tough luck.
Seconded.
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Also uncool - linking to a Murdoch owned property.
And as soon as they run that well dry…they’ll quickly move on…to how great the Rump Convention is for the Party of Reagan. They’ll want to drop this story like a hot potato.
OMG chammy - the comments on that article are very disturbing and 99% are anti-Obama, anti-Hillary, anti-anything not RWNJ.
This is why I hate waiting in lines at the stores - I can’t help looking at those standing around me a wondering which ones are the lunatics who post such vile hate under the veil of anonymity…
HuffPo does that all the time and I hate that. Waste some free access thru some stupid link that goes directly to a paywall site without any warning whatsoever thus using up an article I might not have gone to otherwise.
I can’t help looking at those standing around me a wondering which ones are the lunatics who are preparing my restaurant meal, fixing my plumbing, doing my taxes, performing my pelvic, and teaching my kids.
Sorry, but I couldn’t help it.
Not so much at the grocery store but more with neighbors - people who seem nice in passing but who I would loose all respect for if I found out they were a tRumpanzee.
I’ve now seen three cars with Trump stickers. I usually just shake my head and grimace, but I’ve decided I may start pointing and laughing.
The best medicine.
What seems to me to be another aspect of our racial divide in the country is that the Foxeteers, and others like them don’t seem to want to let individual Muslims or Blacks be just plain whacked up crazy people when crimes like today’s are committed. Some sort of revolutionary or terrorist agenda is always applied implicitly to such individuals. These addled individuals may use current events to give agency to their actions, but are otherwise acting out on their own.
That’s exactly what I do! I know being mercilessly mocked is what gets under Don the Con’s skin more than anything so I’m thinking that might work with the tRumpanzees too!