Richard Poplowski, American Terrorist, Killed Three Peace Officers

[johnfunk]

This is what terrorists do:

3 officers killed in Pittsburgh shooting
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh police say a man wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire on officers during a domestic disturbance call, killing three of them.

Police chief Nate Harper says the motive for Saturday's shooting isn't clear. Friends say the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and that he feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

The three dead officers are Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo III. Kelly had been on the force for 14 years and the other two only two years each. Another officer was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.

Terrorism. There's no other word for it. This is American terrorism, being fomented by the Axis of Beck-Savage-NewsMax-Coulter-WingNutDaily-FOX.

The demagogues that are driving terrorists such as Richard Poplowski to acts of violence against first responders and peace officers have blood on their hands and must be held to account.

[LBJDemocrat]

1. Glen Beck has blood on his hands

Someone needs to take these Hutu Radio monsters off the air NOW.

[JanMichael]

4. I thought it was the Tutsis that did the radio shit that created th massacres?

Of course I could Google this but...

[LBJDemocrat]

10. Nope

The Tutsis did eventually do some massacring of their own, particularly in the Congo; but the Hutus effectively pioneered the explicit call to genocide through the radio.

[JanMichael]

11. No probs. Just a failed memory. nt

[MrPerson]

23. I don't think he's on radio in Pittsburgh anymore.

[NightWatcher]

2. not a terrorist, but a criminal, a spree killer. Stop trying to feed the War on Terror Beast

[LBJDemocrat]

5. It was politically motivated

Political murder = terrorism.

[DoctorMyEyes]

15. I'm with you on that

He was apparently making a political stand with his guns while wearing his own bullet proof vest. I wouldn't have made the "terrorism" connection myself, but I think you summed it up simply.

[johnfunk]

32. Dressed for Bircher jihad

No other way to put it.

[mix]

3. politically motivated violence, cheered by the right-wing media=terrorism n/t

[tigereye]

6. likely a VERY troubled and violent man, but not a terrorist.

Although the RW blow-hards with their ridiculous palaver probably didn't help.

[annabanana]

9. What about McVeigh?. . . . .

Do you consider him a terrorist? I do.

[tigereye]

12. that was a bit different than a domestic-type incident

I'm betting this man had some mental health problems....


McVeigh, yes, probably a terrorist, who seemed to think that level of violence would save his country. That was even scarier.

[johnfunk]

24. Very troubled + violent + politics = TERRORIST

Osama bin Laden

Timothy McVeigh

Eric Robert Rudolph

Richard Poplowski

"Nuff said.

[lunatica]

7. Kill people so no one will ban your gun?!

What kind of logic is that?!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

18. RIGHT MEDIA EXTREMIST ARE KILLING AMERICANS NOW

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Hansel]

28. He's just trying to prove his point that Obama wants to take his guns.

How better to do that than to kill 3 police officers? Now the government has taken his guns. Permanently.

:shrug:

Or he's just a violent out-of-control illogical cold blooded killer.

[cali]

8. no, he wasn't a terrorist.

it's unlikely that there was a political motive. Yes, he was apparently fearful that his guns would be taken away, but the guy was just another sicko. He wasn't trying to terrify any given group. It's silly to label him as a terrorist.

[burning rain]

16. Killing law enforcement is something numerous political extremists advocate.

Certainly worth investigating as a motive here.

[cali]

21. fine. investigate it, but please, some common sense wouldn't be amiss

here. We all know that the shootings happened pursuant to a domestic violence call. Now really, how does that sound like a terrorist attack. And we also know the guy was kicked out of Marine Corps bootcamp because he was mentally ill.

[Ian David]

13. See also: Unitarian Church Shooting is Terrorism

Unitarian Church Shooting is Terrorism
Posted July 28, 2008 | 01:29 PM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-lauria/unitarian-church-shooting_b_115392.html


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[WorseBeforeBetter]

19. ...

[malaise]

14. Good post

It may make a few of the racist Sheriffs who share similar views rethink their position. It will be right wing nuts killing them not progressives.

Fuck Rush, Hanity, Beck, Savage and the rest of them. They are not entertainment - they spew nothing but hate and the confused,lonely and mentally ill eat up that crap. Fuck the NRA as well.

[smoogatz]

22. Dollars to donuts the guy was a freeper.

There's a LOT of this "better arm ourselves because Obama wants to take our guns" hysteria over there; I really haven't encountered it anywhere else.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

17. This absolutely disgusts me.

I have to give credit to my local NC news -- they reported that that sick fuck was afraid Obama would take his precious guns away. Can't say the same for the network news I watched this evening.

I'm thinking Obama should speak up about this in his customary calm, clear manner. The themes of fear, hate media, the economy, and community service immediately come to mind.

[zeemike]

25. It is really not up to Obama to speak up

It is our responsibility and that of the handlers of hanity, rush and the rest to tell them to cool it.
Obama saying it will have little effect on the nut cases out there.

[mix]

20. Such acts of terrorism are the result of years of anti-government rhetoric from the Reich-wing

We should be surprised they do not happen more often, given the hate preached by conservatives.

We should not fear calling such acts terrorism.

[tularetom]

26. OK so he was afraid Obama would take his guns away

So to stop that from happening he shoots three cops?

And that was going to stop Obama from taking his guns away how?

Am I missing something here?

[islandmkl]

27. i shoot my wife in a moment of emotional stress: i'm a killer...

i put on a bullet-proof vest, arm myself heavily, and start shooting people...i'm a fucking terrorist, by any definition...

what, i have to have some arab headdress on to qualify??

on edit: what the fuck do politics have to do with the act itself?...oh, you want to know WHY he did it??

[starroute]

29. He may have been following fantasies out of The Turner Diaries

One of the other threads on this, at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x438507, quotes his friend's MySpace pace as recommending The Turner Diaries along with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other racist works.

I just googled up a good Kos diary from a month ago on the subject:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/1/15303/06680/506/700217

Eric Holders comments and the usual no-cosponsor gun control bills (HR-45) have got gun buyers lined up out the door of gun shops. There's lots of factors at work here - the local gun shop owner told me the stimulus bill included gun confiscation and state mandated euthanasia. But people were emptying Wal-mart a couple months ago anticipating that broke state governments will be releasing prisoners and the bad economy will increase property crime.

But Holder also plays into the elaborate fantasies of white supremacists as described in the infamous racist novel The Turner Diaries. It inspired Tim McVeigh's truck bombing, and it ends with a plane being crashed into the Pentagon. . . .

If you read the Turner Diaries on-line, you'll see many familiar themes that are part of the GOP mainstream. "White guilt" explains pretty much everything that does not suit white supremacists. Immigrants are to blame for pretty much everything.

And anyone that takes the Turner Diaries seriously would see the current economic crisis as very similar to the events in the book that let the white supremacists take over. They are out there cheering on Rush Limbaugh when he says "I want Obama to fail!" Like the Nazis, they see economic collapse as the key to taking over. In The Turner Diaries, they wage a national campaign of terrorism and sabotage that paralyzes the population and civil authorities while they infiltrate the armed forces. They blow up roads, power plants, ports, bridges, and isolate areas where they can take over.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

30. I can't believe you want to arrest his former employer.

[Djinn]

31. peace officers?