Re: Pittsburgh shooter subscribed to the same wackadoodle conspiracies that we see promoted everyday by Beck, Hannity, Rush, Liddy -- and right here on alt.politics

On Apr 6, 8:29 am, Dave Heil <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names wrote:

"Pittsburgh shooter subscribed to the same wackadoodle conspiracies
that we see promoted everyday by Beck, Hannity, Rush, Liddy -- and right
here  on alt.politics"

There's your dishonest subject line.  Defend it if you can.  The article
says nothing of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or Gordon Liddy.

One can find far out political views from across the spectrum here in
alt.politics.  Witness the posts of Patriot Games, Gandalf Grey or your own.

Even the fact that the gunman dropped out of high school wouldn't
preclude his attempts to read or write newsgroup postings.

Dave Heil



http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09095/960750-53.stm

The unemployed twenty-two year old man who killed three Pittsburgh
police officers and wounded two others in a four-hour shootout on
Saturday morning had been heavily influenced by extremist conspiracy
theories prior to the incident.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Richard Poplawski was
"convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would
eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military
to enslave the citizenry. ... He appeared to share a belief that the
government was controlled from unseen forces, that troops were being
shipped home from the Mideast to police the citizenry here, and that
Jews secretly ran the country."

Some of Poplawski's beliefs are fairly commonplace among
conservatives. For example, fears that the Obama administration
intends to somehow ban gun ownership have recently become a staple on
such relatively mainstream outlets as Glenn Beck's program on Fox
News.

However, many of his ideas appear to have come from more obscure
sources. Poplawski's best friend, Edward Perkovic, told the Post-
Gazette, "He was really into politics and really into the First and
Second amendment. ... We recently discovered that 30 states had
declared sovereignty. One of his concerns was why were these major
events in America not being reported to the public."

Perkovic was apparently referring to the so-called "sovereign state
movement," promoted by the Tenth Amendment Center, which presents
secession as a reasonable response to federal gun laws and the power
of the Federal Reserve and has recently encouraged legislators in a
number of states to introduce resolutions reaffirming states rights.

The Post-Gazette also mentions the conspiracy theory website
PrisonPlanet, run by radio talk show host Alex Jones, as a source for
some of Poplawski's more off-the-wall notions.

Last fall, that site ran an article, "U.S. Troops In Homeland 'Crowd
Control' Patrols From October 1st," which claimed that "U.S. troops
returning from duty in Iraq will be carrying out homeland patrols in
America from October 1st in complete violation of Posse Comitatus for
the purposes of helping with 'civil unrest and crowd control' – which
could include dealing with unruly Americans after a complete economic
collapse."

Poplawski had also posted pictures of himself at Stormfront, a white
supremacist website whose slogan is "white pride worldwide." The
discussion of the shootings at Stormfront, which began with
speculations that the gunman would turn out to be "some non-white" or
"a jew," then turned to suspicions that the recent rash of shootings
is a "setup" to push through gun control legislation, has become oddly
muted since the revelation that Poplawski appears to be one of theirs.- Hide quoted text -

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Are you purposely dense or have your DXpeditions kept you out of the
US for so long you are not aware of the vast rightwing lie machine
that spews crap 24/7???

The article did not have to mention Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush
Limbaugh, Gordon Liddy, Michelle "I Am NOt A Loon" Bachmann, or Fox
Noise -- we know where the Pittsburgh gunman got his wackadoodle ideas
about the "Zionist government," about the military policing our
streets, and about Obama confiscating guns.

You really need to pay attention.
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