‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’
‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’
Dude stockpiled guns and threatened multiple elected officials, and died in a shootout with the FBI. It's not like he was blowing off steam at the bowling alley FFS
It's no less of a tragedy. Given how far he was able to descend into his persecution fantasy, there were clearly few choices when it came to addressing the concern when he started going right off the deep end.
There are a lot of people who would like you to think that disinformation is harmless; that if you buy into bullshit that it's your own fault; and that the 'people that matter' know the truth.
This man bought into the fire hose of shit that is continuously, endlessly spewing a mixture of exaggerations, half truths and outright lies. He took it all very seriously, and he paid with his life.
Ask yourself, do you think this man was one of the 'people who matter' to his family? It sounds like some of them agree with, and listened to him and the fire hose.
This is a fucking tragedy. This man is a casualty of the fight for democracy, and it is a damn fight when people are getting shot for it. Not because he bought into some bullshit; but because he was fed a line of shit by people he trusted. His political party.
This has got to stop, and I think that it surely will.
Let's hope it doesn't have to be at the expense of another man's life.
Another husband, father, grandfather, uncle or brother. Or worse, whole families.
I do not question any of that. My point is, the republican party has been stirring this pot a long time, and as long as the money keeps pouring, they cant be arsed, as the brits say.
It's got to be stopped at the source. We're already at the point that guys are like this everywhere. One stands in the foyer of the Kroger just about every afternoon 3 blocks from my house.
Wearing a ball cap with a thin blue line flag, armed to the teeth, in a flag-wrapped t-shirt, glaring at anyone who walks by with a smile their face.
His body language, the sidearm he's wearing, his clothes - it all screams that if you're aren't mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, you must be a fuckin' democrat.
That is a feature of the republican party. If it isn't addressed soon, some sort of war will be the only way it gets addressed.
I support the action taken by the FBI here, and I certainly support their use of deadly force on someone who pointed a gun at them. But having lived through the past several years, I'd really like to see a bodycam video which shows this.
Not interested in seeing the man get shot, just want to see a video of him pointing a gun at them. I also acknowledge that I think the FBI seems to have a better record of not lying about their use of force than random police do.
But, I'm still going with (believably) alleged to have pointed a gun at them for now.
“Though his statements were intemperate at times, he has never, and would never, commit any act of violence against another human being over a political or philosophical disagreement,” the statement read.
Cognitive dissonance. He literally committed an act of violence against another human by shooting at FBI agents. Their whole damn family is fucking stupid and I'm glad the piece of shit is dead.
This is exactly how they want you to feel, because it will sensitize you to the violence, you eventually move beyond the mere vocal, and they'll have the war the want, because you and everyone like you will do the same thing. You're far from alone in this thinking, so they are winning on fronts that we dont acknowledge, at least not 'in the clear'.
How the hell did this headline get past the editor??
This sounds like the FBI shot the man's family after he threatened Biden, saying he's frustrated.
It's hard to put much stock in their interpretation of the facts when their attention to detail never graced the headline even for a minute...
FRUSTRATED?!!! This choad was living his best life but was p!seed that others were living theirs as well. Couldn’t deal that the world revolves around the sun not HIM. Took too many redpills and got gobsmacked by Agents who didn’t emphasize with his version of the world. Keyboard muscles are no match for real ones, mate
I am not eager to rush out into the street and 'cull' my idiot countrymen, just because they're idiots. Some of them are my family, some are my neighbors.
Before you suggest I get the fuck away from them, I largely have. It does not do anything to help the problem, it just gets the problem out of my face.
What freedom and rights have been affected, exactly? Is this just "immigrants and LGBT people exist" nonsense, where it's claimed that not doing negative things to such groups is somehow an attack on white straight men?
Covid is effectively over for these people though and the US never even went proper lockdown at all, unlike most of the rest of the world. How do they politicize Covid at this point?
Yeah, can't argue about guns. Despite conservatives being the ones with the greater amount of gun restriction legislation and such, especially under Trump, they will still claim the opposite every time.
these right wing morons have had their brains eroded so goddamned far by right wing radio and TV, they are hopeless.. they are literally going to Hell, like their dead moron cousin..
”Craig loved this country with all his heart. He saw it as a God-inspired and God-blessed land of liberty. He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens wrought by what he, and many others in this nation, observed to be a corrupt and overreaching government.”
This quote isn’t attributed in the article, and it comes after a statement by the FBI and before a paragraph introducing the family’s quote, so I think it’s fair to say that this paragraph should be after that family paragraph.
So…does anyone remember who said that if you find someone in therapy that you know the rest of the family needs it as well? Or something about how individual issues are much better understood within the context of a family.
I am under no delusions the guy was anything but a vicious piece of crap; I'm just pointing out that there are a lot of people like this, and this guy will be a martyr to them, and the tragedy of dead fucking Americans will grow with every body that hits the floor.
I'm not suggesting the GOP or their views are to be somehow socially redeemed, but if you're fine with everything being escalated to a shootout, I think its probably already too late anyway.
This guy is just a dumbass to everybody. He was killed by a gun fetish, he couldn't resist a shootout when the FBI came.
His only legacy is spending his life collecting a bunch of guns to give to the FBI.
Actual truth: He was frustrated, because people around him didn't want to be around him, because his personality was terrible and he smelled like boiled onions.
After hearing stuff like this it always makes me reaffirm that Rush Limbaugh was one of the most dangerous, deplorable people to have the unfortunate opportunity to have a platform. Truly one of the most pernicious people to ever speak into a microphone. I don't know if this is a bit of a non-sequitur, but I feel like this guy would've been a staunch listener.
How can the desire to make the world justify lead to wanting to shoot people with a gun? I think there is something wrong with some system that connects between that thought and action.