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The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America
Library Grape —
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 ...
Nobody Could Have Predicted (Part MMDCCLXVII)
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda —
... 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.
That's from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Fox News coverage of the incident seems to be the only thing currently on YouTube, and you can watch it here and here.
The Emerging Portrait of Richard Poplawski: A White-Supremacist Radical ...
Clean. Up. Your. Side.
Comments from Left Field —
... The suspect is Richard Poplawski, and he’s left a trail of his political beliefs on the Internet. Over on Crooks and Liars, Daivd Neiwart uncovered the fact that Poplawski posted at least one message on the white supremacist website Stormfront, talking about his racist tattoos. ...
The emerging portrait of Richard Poplawski: a white-supremacist radical
Orcinus —
... joined Florida-based Stormfront, which has long been a clearinghouse Web site for far-right groups. He posted photographs of his tattoo, an eagle spread across his chest. "I was considering gettin' life runes on the outside of my calfs," he wrote. Life runes are a common symbol among white supremacists, notably followers of The National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group linked to an array of violent organizations. More as we learn it. Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... of equity capital. Perhaps he fears what would happen if large bank holding companies were to default on their bonds, which are held by insurance companies and other institutional investors. But that is a problem that needs to be tackled head-on, not by propping up failing banks. Richard Moe: Preserving a building is the ultimate act of recycling. Michael Kinsley: There's life after the NY Times. Dave Neiwert: It appears that what police may be looking at is a budding ...
No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers -- but it is time to stand up to them
Orcinus —
... that there was a direct connection between the irresponsible fearmongering in which they've been indulging since Barack Obama was elected and Saturday's tragedy in Pittsburgh. ...
"Difference isn't a threat"
Daily Kos —
... that there was a direct connection between the irresponsible fearmongering in which they've been indulging since Barack Obama was elected and Saturday's tragedy in Pittsburgh. ...
Glenn Beck blames CrooksandLiars and Kos for pointing out his role in the Pittsburgh shootings
Crooks and Liars —
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(Jed Lewison has the video too and writes: Beck: Daily Kos, C&L blame me for cop killer. Because it’s all about him, right? How self-absorbed can one man possibly be?)
As soon as we posted information about the Pittsburgh execution of three police officers and did a little digging into the type of person Poplawski is, I knew the right wingers would immediately cry fowl and say we're trying to ...
Okay, Seriously,
Shakesville —
... While wingnuts like Michelle Malkin are enjoying playing victim and whining that the left is "blaming them" for recent tragedies such as the Pittsburgh shootings, this type of hysterical, eliminationist crap obviously is fanning the flames. This is completely irresponsible, and feeding violent, reactionary paranoia. It's time the Republicans realized the real-world implications of these goddamn lies and stepped forward to condemn Bachmann and others that are doing nothing but creating more fear and violence. ...
As their power spirals downward, the Right's rhetoric gets nuttier and nastier
Crooks and Liars —
... that no one's trying to silence anyone -- we're simply exercizing our own rights of free speech. Unless, of course, you consider "pointing out your idiocy/lunacy/amorality" is the same thing as "silencing you". Nonetheless, this hasn't prevented such right-wing outbursts of anger, directed at liberal bloggers generally for having the audacity to suggest that right-wing rhetoric might have played a role in ...
Poplawski's neo-Nazi activism included posting Glenn Beck video, but media talk about dog pee
Orcinus —
... An astonishing thing seems to have happened to the case of Richard Poplawski and the three dead Pittsburgh policemen: It's been turned into a story about dog pee -- and not about the fact that Poplawski was fueled by a toxic mix of white-supremacist/conspiracy-theorist paranoia and mainstream-media fearmongering, including from the likes of ...
Right-wing fearmongering about guns reaching a fever pitch
Orcinus —
... by essentially loosing the moorings of their followers from reality by promulgating a toxic brew of conspiracy theories, right-wing historical revisionism, and a bevy of false "facts" and claims against government officials and liberals generally. Chief among these, of course, was the belief that Bill Clinton and the New World Order were coming to take their guns away -- which, of course, he never did, though he did manage to pass an assault-weapons ban. So when we point out the toxic effects of the revival of this kind of irresponsible rhetoric, it's ...
Book review: Dave Neiwert's "The Eliminationists"
Daily Kos —
... by a white-supremacist radical, an understanding of the right-wing extremists now deeply embedded in the modern conservative movement is more important than ever. ...
Josh Horwitz: Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... ." Perkovic also commented that Poplawski carried out the shooting because "if anyone tried to take his firearms, he was gonna' stand by what his forefathers told him to do." Like the central character in ...
The Administration May Have Changed, But the NRA Is Still In Power
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... A white supremacist in Pittsburgh, PA killed three more officers. Is this the "well-armed militia" that our Constitution assured and envisioned as needing weapons? Does the NRA, which has fought to make guns available to everyone including these extremist killers, believe that? Who knows. It hardly matters whether the gun lobby is unprincipled or irrational. They'll use ...
Nazis in the U.S. military: SPLC will ask Congress for action
Orcinus —
... feels like only yesterday that every right-wing talker on the planet -- from Michael Savage to Greta Van Susteren -- was denouncing the Department of Homeland Security for supposedly "smearing our veterans" by issuing a bulletin for law-enforcement officers warning that right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis intended to recruit members of the military and returning veterans. Well, we've already seen just how prescient the bulletin actually was -- after Richard Poplawski, Scott Roeder, and James Von Brunn all proved its point. ...
