/dev/null Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 http://nation.foxnews.com/family-research-council/2012/08/15/wounded-family-research-council-headquarters-shooting Has ABC News investigated if this guy has links to OWS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Certainly not. This is simply a poor soul so tortured by the knowledge that other people don't share his strident views, that he's having trouble coping with coexisting with them. Although he probably holds out faint hope that their views will evolve - much like a famous white black President have recently - well, time is too short frankly. He was forced to do something. You can't actually blame him for that. It's how he feels. He is after all a victim of their hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drinkTHEkoolaid Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 He is a liberal so everyone knows he has good intentions and is not capable of hate. His party is the party of tolerance and diversity....unless you disagree with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thoughts on the Family Research Council Shooting One of the most troubling aspects of contemporary public life is the frequency with which violent episodes take on a political coloration. We have, actually, very little political violence in this country–almost none. But we have a lot of people who try to make political hay out of violence. {snip} Today a public school teacher named Floyd Corkins II walked into the Washington, D.C. office of the Family Research Council, armed with a recently-purchased 9 mm pistol. He was stopped by the guard; news reports don’t clearly explain why. Perhaps he had already drawn his gun, or perhaps he just looked suspicious. Some reports say he was carrying a Chick-Fil-A bag. He shot the guard, who wrestled him to the ground. Along the way, Corkins made observations about the political positions of the FRC, and, when the guard pointed a gun at him–it is not clear, to me anyway, whether the guard was armed or he took Corkins’s gun away from him–Corkins begged him not to shoot, saying something to the effect that it was nothing personal, he just had a problem with the FRC’s politics. Today’s attack differed from some of its predecessors, like Loughner’s and James Holmes’s, in two important respects. First, Corkins was much less effective. He killed no one, and wounded only one individual, not too seriously. So today’s shooting is, legitimately, a lesser news story. For this reason, I think some of my fellow conservatives have gone overboard in complaining that various news outlets (e.g., CNN) have failed to cover the story adequately. Second, while the facts are barely becoming known, it already seems obvious that Corkins’s attack, unlike Loughner’s and Holmes’s, was political. There seems to be no doubt that he wanted to shoot up the Family Research Council because he disagrees with the FRC’s position on gay marriage. It is also reasonable to suspect–although presumably more will be known about this in due course–that he was influenced by the many left-wing and gay activist organizations that labeled the FRC a “hate group.” So: is it premature to suggest that liberals should stop screaming that everyone who disagrees with them is a “hater”? This approach is, frankly, childish. People disagree about virtually every issue of public policy; gay marriage is one of hundreds such issues. Disagreeing with a liberal does not make you a “hater,” and liberals should quit trying to bully the rest of us. Of course, denouncing proponents of traditional marriage as “haters” isn’t the only instance of over-the-top liberal rhetoric; on the contrary, hysteria is their stock in trade. Thus, we see Barack Obama claiming that Mitt Romney causes cancer, and Joe Biden asserting bizarrely that Republicans want to put someone–African-Americans, I guess, by a process of elimination–”back in chains.” Liberals should take a deep breath and re-think how they talk about public policy issues. If they are looking for haters, it would seem that the mirror is a good place to start. http://www.powerline...il-shooting.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 It's funny how people with those silly coexist bumper stickers have such a hard time coexisting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 "Hate and Chains!" Brought to you by Obama-Biden 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1billsfan Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 This story makes Biden's "they're gonna put y'all back in chains" comments to a predominantly black audience all the more incendiary. Obama lying and covering for Biden's purposeful racially charged hate speech is sadly predictable at this point. They had better hope and pray there are no black on white hate crimes in VA, because the Romney campaign could very well be within their right to connect the Obama/Biden ticket's hate speech as partially to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 According to Leonard Pitts, this is the opposite of domestic terrorism: http://thesouthern.com/news/opinion/editorial/pitts/homegrown-terrorism-needs-honest-accounting/article_d2e93114-e733-11e1-8cd4-001a4bcf887a.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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