2012-08-06, 19:55 | Link #22822 |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1748190.html
Lemme see, a mosque burns down. A mosque from Missouri. I can see why the authorities are heavily suspecting that it could have been arson.
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2012-08-06, 20:08 | Link #22824 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
It was a sign of good things before WW II Germany. It still is. The Nazis took the symbol and titled it for their symbol, and ever since WW II, any form of a swastika is seen as a bad thing by many westerners because many westerners think that any swastika has to do with Nazism, which as we know, isn't the case.
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2012-08-06, 20:37 | Link #22825 |
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It annoys me that the righteously politically correct often don't KNOW that the symbol has been a "good thing" for over 5000 years and just because some jackasses borrowed it for a few years, those people get all flustered.
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2012-08-07, 01:44 | Link #22827 | |
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I recall the usual suspects calling out Obama over that report and accused him for oppressing whites, patriots, military personnel, and civil militants. Well... The suspect was on a watch-list of dangerous individual. Reminds us of the "Terrorism rise warning" reports pre-911 that went DEAF on ears of Neocons, doesn't it? They even told him exactly which organization (Al Queda) planned to use what (jet liners) for the act. Let's recall how THAT went. But nooooooo. We had the authorities stalk law-abiding arabs who never had any criminial history or connection to terrorism, yet men we KNEW had dangerous ideas and murderous intent, goes unchecked. And newest report suggests this applies to the Aurora shooting as well. Is it just me that head-desk about all this?
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2012-08-07, 10:26 | Link #22828 |
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The US has been asleep at the wheel with domestic extremist groups... even Timothy McVeigh (who was part of a huge chain of hatemonger "patriots" who egg each other on) they tried to pawn off as a lone wolf. Its a weird loosely connected mob of neo-christo-white-nazi-fruitloops dotting the US. The intertubes give them synergy... and the Tea Party rank and file is the "civil" facade of much of it, funded by libertarian mil/billionaires.
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2012-08-07, 13:55 | Link #22829 | |
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2012-08-07, 14:12 | Link #22830 | |
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The IRA could maintain their popularity as they didn't attack catholic civilians in Northern Ireland, but restricted themselves to British targets, and even then mostly the military and prominent British political figures. Also, Northern Ireland presented a case of severe innequalities and a situation where the catholic populace could no longer trust the authorities due to their perpetual disenfranchisment. "Civil Rights" and their denial by the British government was what created the IRA, not hatred of protestants. The closest analogue to these white supremacists are actually the unionist paramilitaries, who were, in fact, largely driven by hatred of catholics, much as white supremacists are driven by hatred of non-whites. However the unionist paramilitaries never really progressed beyond being armed thugs. No armed insurgency as organized as the IRA will come out of white supremacists in the USA. |
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2012-08-07, 15:11 | Link #22831 |
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Jared Loughner is found to be mentally competent for trial; pleads guilty.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/h...-plea-16949808 Now we just need them to find out that James Holmes is competent enough for trial so he can't plead insanity (I'm guessing that'll be the case with him).
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2012-08-07, 15:18 | Link #22832 | |
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2012-08-07, 15:33 | Link #22833 | |
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2012-08-07, 15:40 | Link #22834 | |
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You talking about the thing from TDKR? Maybe scarecrow can load both of them up with hallucinogenics and make them have bad trips.
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2012-08-07, 18:03 | Link #22835 |
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A possibility, however my guess is that they'd be more likely to take a more Nazi paramilitary path, where the paramilitary force is an overt sign of the parties strength that are brought out at political rallies, and used to achieve certain political goals and agitate by force.
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2012-08-07, 18:12 | Link #22837 | |
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Weapons cache found in home of Ohio man nabbed at "Batman" film
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2012-08-07, 20:03 | Link #22838 | |
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I'm not gonna dispute argue against the life imprisonment, but I think this entire affair should really indicate that the entire mental health system in this country is a complete joke.
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2012-08-07, 20:15 | Link #22839 | |
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But money for social programs? Ridiculous. The solution to this sort of problem is clearly to make sure that everyone has a gun or two. After all, if that happened, it wouldn't matter how many people went on a rampage - they'd be put down on the spot, right?
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2012-08-07, 20:29 | Link #22840 | |
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Now that you point out these things, maybe the same could be said for James Holmes. I really question if he was so mentally ill that he was delusional when he planned his attack (and booby trapping his apartment), but what if he is really delusional from mental illness? If that were the case, that'd be sad and depressing, too. The crime could have never happened if he got the helped he needed, and his well being could be good today.
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