November 29, 2015

Dear in the headlights.



I look at the mugshots of Robert Lewis Dear — those eyes — and I think: mentally ill. A quote from a neighbor: "He was a very weird individual. It's hard to explain, but he had a weird look in his eye most of the time."

Another neighbor: "He complained about everything. He said he worked with the government, and everybody was out to get him, and he knew the secrets of the U.S.A. He said, 'Nobody touch me, because I've got enough information to put the whole U.S. of A in danger.' It was very crazy."

He'd been arrested 9 times, including twice for "personal intrusion" and twice for animal cruelty.

He had 2 homes, "a white trailer 'with a forest-green four-wheeler by the front door and a modest black cross painted on one end'" — photo here — and something in Black Mountain, N.C., that the neighbors said looked like a "moonshine shack" and the Washington Post called a "little yellow wooden hut, with overgrown weeds and no indoor plumbing, banged together" — photo here. In happier circumstances, the media might call a place like this a "tiny house."

Did those undercover Planned Parenthood videos inspire him, push him over the edge? The NYT quotes a law "senior law enforcement official," who's anonymous, because he shouldn't be speaking to the press. He says Dear "said a lot of things" including "no more baby parts." The NYT characterizes Dear's interview with the police as "rambling" and says it was "difficult for the authorities to pinpoint a specific motivation."

87 comments:

Bob Ellison said...

He looks ready for baseball playoffs. The uniform needs cleaning, though.

Danno said...

Looking at both of those tiny houses, do you even think he had internet service?

Anonymous said...

Actions have consequences.

Interesting how the left is so eager to blame the actions of the West for Islamic terrorism, but when baby organ trafficking is just dismissively handwaved away, why, nobody could ever imagine some angry unhinged person boiling over over that!

When it's Jihadis killing cartoonists, the left can see the other side's point of view, of course. When it's anger over the callous disregard for human life and dignity, not so much.

Fascinating.

traditionalguy said...

He must have had access to the internet. Otherwise, no "murdered baby's body parts" videos could have been seen by him since they were not allowed on TV.

His weapon must have been a bolt action hunting rifle. Otherwie we would have been shown photos of has evil Assault Weapon.

This guy was a paranoid mental case.

Anonymous said...

Regarding the 1:29 PM comment. Terrorism, you love it when it suits your agenda and you hate it when it doesn't. Human life doesn't include women seeking a legal health service? Is that was conservatives are all about nowadays?

Fascinating.

Charlie said...

He should have said "Allahu Akbar" so we'd know for certain it wasn't about Islam.

Fernandinande said...

IOW, a nihilistic ideologue.

StephenFearby said...

The bulging eyes, which suggest severe myopia, are like the bulging eyes of another Colorado manic, James Holmes:

http://dianedimond.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/james-holmes-coloradotheater-shooter.jpeg

Come to think of it, Hilary Clinton also appears to have severe myopia. Although clearly not a maniac, Hilary comes with her own kind of baggage.

steve uhr said...

Trailer in the middle of nowhere reminds me of the trailer/meth lab in Breaking Bad

walter said...

Meh..
I want to hear the context of these conversations..especially when cops are leaking bits out to media.

YoungHegelian said...

What the left is trying to do is, right or wrong, create a narrative that this Dear came to town to shoot up a Planned Parenthood clinic. Now, that may turn out to be true, but we honestly don't know that yet. No police official has spoken on the record as of this posting, nor has the transcript of Dear's interrogation been released. But that hasn't done anything to stop the flood of FB posters & the press from cycling the narrative for all it's worth.

This story may turn into another Anders Brevik narrative, where the real reason for Brevik's mass murder has been flushed down the memory hole, & replaced with a more politically convenient narrative. The official narrative is that Brevik was a racist, & murdered for that reason. But, when you look into ample evidence that Brevik left behind, he may not have been fond of immigrants, but who he really hated was social democrats & what they had done to Norwegian culture. Which does much to explain why a man who supposedly hated immigrants killed mostly ethnic Norwegians. Matter of fact, the only immigrants he killed were the ones at the Social Democrat summer camp that he targeted, and they were, like all the other poor souls trapped on that island, targets of opportunity.

Diogenes of Sinope said...

Based on where this guy lived, I'm wondering how he would be aware of the Planned Parenthood videos about "selling baby parts"? There's a rumour he talked about "baby parts". It is my understanding this story was covered on TV and in some newspapers. His residences don't appear to be on the grid. Maybe he was a regular newspaper reader or had internet access on his smartphone?

n.n said...

If the final solution under abortion rites is inspiring, then Planned Parenthood's engagement in cannibalism is evidence of a god-complex.

CatherineM said...

The house and trailer remind me of the Unabomber.

Bob Ellison said...

Really, though, the follicles. He's clearly had a haircut within the last, oh, maybe three months at the most. He probably had his last shave at the same time. Nobody stopped him and said, "not a good look, bruh. clean up, bruh." That seems cruel. He could have been saved, if only people around him cared enough. Maybe there were only deer around him. That could explain things. Deer are pretty stand-offish and shy about criticizing.

jr565 said...

He snapped because of lefty abortion policies. So, based on lefty logic people like him need to be appeared. so stop doing abortions.
Funny, how that logic is proven to be bankrupt when applied to a sacred cow of the left. But really, its the same logic as saying "Foreign policy caused the crazy jiahidst to hate us. WE need to stop doing things that provoke them".
Well, stop doing abortions and cutting up babies and giving the parts away. It might provoke crazy people who live in cabins in the woods to shoot up clinics.

And of course the left will say its discussing the abortions that will cause the crazy person to shoot up the abortion clinic. No, its the abortions themselves. So, if you don't want crazies to shoot up clinics, then stop doing that which will incite them to violence.

OR, maybe you were full of shit to make said arguments in the first place, lefties.

jr565 said...

Georgie wrote:
Regarding the 1:29 PM comment. Terrorism, you love it when it suits your agenda and you hate it when it doesn't. Human life doesn't include women seeking a legal health service? Is that was conservatives are all about nowadays?

Fascinating.

Talk about misunderstanding a point. (though I'm sure you do understand it. You just want to deflect). He wasn't talking about the radicals who would commit violene. He was talking about lefties double standards on radicals who commit violence. Can you grasp the concept?

Curious George said...

"Charlie said...
He should have said "Allahu Akbar" so we'd know for certain it wasn't about Islam."

Ha true.

"Georgie said...
Regarding the 1:29 PM comment. Terrorism, you love it when it suits your agenda and you hate it when it doesn't. Human life doesn't include women seeking a legal health service? Is that was conservatives are all about nowadays?

Fascinating."

Really, you want to equate an act of one clearly mentally disturbed man with Isslamic terror organizations?

Hagar said...

Please explain what connection the guy sitting in his car out in the shopping center parking lot had to Planned Parenthood, when this crazy guy popped up in front of him and shot out his windshield.

Qwinn said...

"Human life doesn't include women seeking a legal health service?"

Abortion isn't a "health service". And it is the antithesis of human life. So. No.

Curious George said...

"Senior Justice Department officials were looking into whether to move forward with a federal case. Along with examining whether Mr. Dear could be charged with a hate crime, officials were exploring whether he may have violated federal laws intended to protect abortion clinics. In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a crime to use physical force against patients and clinic employees."

He already has three capital murder charges coming, what is the point of this other than a bunch of feel good nonsense.

Anonymous said...

"Human life doesn't include women seeking a legal health service?"

Every time I see a prog use 'legal' as a defense, I simply think of the Dred Scott decision and slavery. but hey, those were Democrats too.

And can you please show me where I used the word 'love'? Simply pointing out that actions have consequences means I 'love' it when it happens?

I suppose everyone pointing out that the Muslim 'migrants' flooding Europe is going to increase the crime rate 'love' crime, too.

LYNNDH said...

Georgie, it wasn't necessarily the abortions but the "selling" of harvested organs. A very big difference, at least to me.
Of course, Mr. Obama immediately mentioned "assault weapon", when it was not known what kind of weapon he had. Reading the reports I would agree with above comment it was most likely a bolt action hunting rifle. Mr. Obama can make a quick statement when one of his pet peeves is in the news, but nothing, not a thing, about a 9 yr old boy singled out and shot in the head in his old home town of Chicago. Just to great a double standard.

Rae said...

Although clearly not a maniac, Hilary comes with her own kind of baggage.

Have you ever heard her laugh? :)

madAsHell said...

"He was a very weird individual. It's hard to explain, but he had a weird look in his eye most of the time."

The WaPo is working to conflate him with the Tea Party.

Michael K said...

Trust fund baby, too.

Beldar said...

He's going for "wide-eyed and innocent," the former of which is indubitable and the latter of which is impossible (except for his constitutional presumption of same, pending trial & judgment thereupon).

But also, he's probably not been practicing his squinching.

Roughcoat said...


Nick Nolte and this guy have never been seen in the same place together.

Think about that.

eric said...

It's clear why this guy snapped. He's a conservative Christian who is tired of Planned Parenthood murdering babies.

See what happens when you murder babies? You drive good Christian conservative men to do violence.

Clearly the answer here is, stop murdering babies.

Rusty said...

You're looking to find logic in the behavior of a madman? Best not to draw any conclusions until his motives are made public. I doubt they have much to do with abortion at all and everything to do with being bug nuts crazy.

PB said...

Mug shots are not flattering portraits. Most people aren't shown at their best. You stand against a wall, bright lights are turned on and instructions are barked at you. Making judgments based on these alone are superficial at best and often prejudicial.

walter said...

Just another cookie cutter peeping Tom, animal abusing err..abortion protester.

cubanbob said...

He'd been arrested 9 times, including twice for "personal intrusion" and twice for animal cruelty."

Of course if the police and prosecutors had done their jobs in the first place this bastard would probably be safely in prison and unable to harm anyone on the outside.

Wince said...

Did those undercover Planned Parenthood videos inspire him, push him over the edge?

Didn't Althouse get the revised MSM style guide where "deceptively edited" and "surreptitious" are supposed to proceed any mention of those undercover Planned Parenthood videos that indicate body parts were being sold?

Theranter said...

"But a new report by the New York Times has revealed that Dear was once a happily married family man who lived with his wife and son in South Carolina.Since his 2000 divorce, Dear seems to have declined into a loner who lives in a remote cabin, seeking bondage and sadomasochistic sex online and smoking marijuana. . . . "

I thought this was a spoof from another blog, but it really is in the NYT article.

Theranter said...

Oops, link for blog quoted: http://johnrlott.blogspot.com

Spiros Pappas said...

At least our crazies look crazy. Arab terrorists look like normal kids.

Paddy O said...

crazy eyes and actions don't really say anything about the correctness of the cause or others who are outraged about the issues. We should, of course, always call out crazy wherever it happens and stop crazy people from leading movements.

Etienne said...

This was not a gun crime. This was the failure of the government to protect its citizens from the insane.

Governments protect citizens from criminals. They refuse to protect them from the insane. It's time that changes. It should be a Presidential litmus test.

If the government doesn't do it, the citizens should take matters into their own hands. Germany did it, and they emptied-out the asylums. We need to follow that lead.

Just because they tried to take over the world, has no bearing on the effectiveness of their solving the overcrowding in asylums housing useless people.

Anonymous said...

Since progressives are all about oppression and marginalization, maybe they should start representing the most marginalized class in America: Babies inside wombs.

There is, objectively, no more dangerous place for a kid to be than in the womb in this country.

Especially if they're poor, black babies.

How much more marginalized and oppressed can a human get, than being told they have no right to life because it would be a burden on someone who merely happened to be born before them?

Talk about oppression. Why do progs hate poor black babies so much? Just because they're unfortunate enough to be born poor, they should have their right to life unilaterally forfeit? Unpersoned? As if they never existed, that no wrong was committed?

Abortion is 'pro-choice' in a similar fashion to how armed robbery is 'pro-choice' for the robber. The 'right to a health procedure' requires the abolition of rights for the victim.

Wait, I'm terribly sorry. I have just been reliably informed that it is 'legal'. Nevermind. Morality issues solved!

Etienne said...

Qwinn said...Abortion isn't a "health service".

You are politically correct, but not medically.

Anything having to do with the uterus is a health service. Even the removal of a uterus.

Are you saying a hysterectomy is an affront to all religions? Because it is not an organ that determines health, or requires service during ones life?

Are you eyes the same as the mug shot?

Are you armed?

Are you insane?

Paco Wové said...

"Terrorism, you love it"

Who, exactly, is lovin' this?

Titus said...

I thought the cop looked and Boston and sure enough he was from Melrose-sad.

Boston guys have a look.

The killer was a total pube-white, fat, no college education, old, unattractive and southern.

He handed out anti-Obama fliers in his "hood" to the "neighbors".

Hello?

jr565 said...

Georgie,
Rememberr what John Kerry himself said about the difference between the attack on france and the attack on Charlie Hebdo?
"“In the last days, obviously, that has been particularly put to the test. There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that. There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of — not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they’re really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorize people. It was to attack everything that we do stand for. That’s not an exaggeration.”

The left has been playing this card since the war on terror started. They attack us because of our policies. We are to blame for their terrorism because of something WE did. There is no legitimacy maybe, but we at least understand where they are coming from, as per the lefty.

Well, why would you not hold that same argument when it came to abortion? Its our policies that are causing people who would target abortion clinics to kill people. They're really angry because of this or that. Therefore, if you support the policy that would cause a crazy person to target PP you are complicit in his violence. because he wouldn't have attacked them if YOU hadn't supported abortion policies.
You, in effect, wound him up.

I don't agree with this argument. I'm merely stating that this is the lefts argument.
It was also the argument to indict the NRA and repubs every time there is a shooting. And I'm sure the left will move on to it, when its determined that this guy was a crack pot who may not have even been targeting PP for any coherent reason. Then it will be about guns and how the NRA is complicit.

Please crawl back under your rock. I'm awfully sick of lefties getting angry when their own logic is used against them and they find it offense. Gee, do you think so?

David said...

Huffpo commenters also seem convinced it's Christian Terrorism. The talking point seems well established.

Lewis Wetzel said...

"Did those undercover Planned Parenthood videos inspire him, push him over the edge?"
Wrong question.
"Did what was shown in those undercover Planned Parenthood videos inspire him, push him over the edge?"

MarKT said...

The elephant in the room is mental health.

Since deinstitutionalization none of the great intentions have been realized. Millions of mentally ill go without treatment, because who's to judge? I'm okay; You're Okay. Do your own thing! It's your thing, do what you want to do!

Anonymous said...

Eric @2:52 PM. "Good Christian men", exactly this sort of nuttery. So we can declare him a Christian extremist. Thanks, I suspected as much.

walter said...

Well..maybe a full toxicology report is in order.

So..."actions have consequences!"..pot legalizers ;)

Anonymous said...

JR656,
Your reasoning is terribly askew. You are basically saying that if women engage in their own legal healthcare and people publicly advocate for them to do so safely, they are inciting violence against themselves from right wing nut bags. That is messed up.

Anonymous said...

In a nutshell, so to speak.

Anonymous said...

Here is one of this Christian extremist's victims, one of the three murdered. A stay at home married mom of two accompanying a friend to Planned Parenthood.

Rusty said...

And M Tumble. You can lay that directly at the feet of the ACLU.

Anonymous said...

Here is the other civilian murder victim, Army veteran and father of two who served a tour in Iraq.

chickelit said...

Georgie said...
In a nutshell, so to speak.

Again, I'd be much more interested in what Carly Fiorina has to say about the shootings than your unhinged Facebook rants.

Big Mike said...

I think Dear looks like Jack Nicholson when Jack is thoroughly drunk.

walter said...

Ok..cookie cutter peeping Tom, animal abusing, pot smoking sado-masochistic/bondage seeking..CHRISTIAN EXTREMIST.
That just all goes together so neatly.

Gahrie said...

Your reasoning is terribly askew.

We know. He based it on Leftist "reasoning".


You are basically saying that if women engage in their own legal healthcare and people publicly advocate for them to do so safely, they are inciting violence against themselves from right wing nut bags. That is messed up.

Almost as messed up as saying that the West incited Islamic terrorism. Which is the point dummy.

Will said...

Well, Dear is clearly not insane if he is lucid enough to see what a disaster Obama's policies are and pass out anti-Obama fliers to voters.

This political activism makes Dear sound more like a lobbyist or a community organizer. On the other hand, community organizers are often known to fraternize with terrorists. Just ask Obama.

Sure his RV and cabin make him look a little out of the mainstream. But since when is that a disqualifier? Did he get a sweet land deal from a known felon to buy part of his land under market value?

Even if he was eating those doves he hunted it's not like he was eating dog.

It sounds like Dear was trying to meet up with the local Choom Gang for recreational drug use. That does not seem to be a disqualifier.

Dear was somewhat religious. But did he sit in Rev Wright's pews for 20 years? He doesn't sound quite that religious.

I do notice that Dear didn't seem to seal all his personal records, and the media is thus able to vet him… Some loners are known to seal all their records to hide their background and be peevish with co-workers and unable to form alliances to get anything done. Sound familiar?

jaliranchr said...

He moved to Colorado a year ago. He lives in Hartsel. For those who do not know, Hartsel is in the real South Park. Yeah, I can see the show working on a draft episode already.

His RV on his barren property has no water, electricity, nor a satellite dish. Hmmm, no TV or internet. Yet, he was driven to this by all the hateful rhetoric? Even driving 20 miles to nearby Fairplay to use the library computers, he would have had limited access to the internet. Even if he had electricity, there would have to be a satellite dish because the mountains block the over-air broadcast of TV. But, I guess they don't realize there are logistical obstacles that really exist that would discredit the handy narrative.

garage mahal said...

Sure looks like a Republican.

Dr Weevil said...

Georgie:
You call the killer a "Christian extremist". Care to tell us what denomination he belonged to, what church he attended, and how often? What evidence do you have that he was a practicing Christian? Or are you just making stuff up? Because I don't know any Christian denomination that preaches murder, not even murder of those they consider sinners. Do you?

Lewis Wetzel said...

Georgie said...
JR656,
Your reasoning is terribly askew. You are basically saying

You can stop at the word 'saying'. This is where the point where the lefty admits that he is erecting a strawman.

Bob Loblaw said...

This political activism makes Dear sound more like a lobbyist or a community organizer. On the other hand, community organizers are often known to fraternize with terrorists.

Indeed. He probably knows a guy "in the neighborhood" who's destined for the oval office.

Laslo Spatula said...

I'm surprised that no one has noticed how much his Mug Shots are reminiscent of Nick Nolte a few years back.

I am Laslo.

Mark said...

jr, who 24 hours ago was telling us how Dear identified as a woman.

He and Georgie are a match made in heaven.

eric said...

Blogger Georgie said...
JR656,
Your reasoning is terribly askew. You are basically saying that if women engage in their own legal healthcare and people publicly advocate for them to do so safely, they are inciting violence against themselves from right wing nut bags. That is messed up.


I wouldn't say right wing nutbags. I'd say from Christian Republican conservatives who also may or may not associate with the Tea Party. This is probably about 20% or more of our society.

It's like drawing cartoons of Mohammed.

We don't want to rile up the "jihadists" do we? So, don't draw cartoons of Mohammed, or else. Right?

In the same way, don't slaughter babies.

Anonymous said...

Just one day before the shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs that took the lives of three innocent people, Ted Cruz had boasted about nabbing an endorsement from the anti-choice extremist who made the misleading videos leading to more attacks on the clinic and who has also called for women who undergo abortions, as well as their providers, to be murdered.

“Today, Presidential candidate Ted Cruz secured the endorsement of leading pro-life activist Troy Newman – a driving force in the recent effort to expose Planned Parenthood’s alleged sale of baby parts in a series of undercover videos,” the statement read. “Newman is the President of Operation Rescue, one of the most prominent pro-life Christian activist organizations in the nation. He also serves as a Board Member for a number of pro-life groups including the Center for Medical Progress. In addition, Troy is the author of several books, including Refocusing the Pro-Life Movement for Victory and Abortion Free.”

David said...

"The killer was a total pube-white, fat, no college education, old, unattractive and southern."

Citadel graduate from one story I saw. Also an art dealer of some kind.

n.n said...

The final solution under abortion rites and progress through clinical cannibalism by Planned Parenthood should raise concerns about the consequences of a significant number of people in our society choosing to debase human life and place women's lives and fertility at increased risk of suffering unnatural mortality and corruption.

Objectively, one-child policy poses less of a threat to society and humanity than selective-child policy, because while the former is enacted and enforced by a minority central regime, the latter reflects a psychosis or degeneration of a larger population.

Fabi said...

Glad that this new voice from the left is so willing to call Dear a 'Christian extremist' without any actual proof.

The Godfather said...

Georgie refers to "the anti-choice extremist who made the misleading videos leading to more attacks on the clinic and who has also called for women who undergo abortions, as well as their providers, to be murdered."

"anti-choice" means pro-life. No big deal.

"extremist" I guess means Georgie disagrees with him, but doesn't provide any useful information.

"misleading videos" seems to be incorrect, according to what I've read, but if Georgie says they are incorrect, he/she should say what is misleading about them.

"has also called for women who undergo abortions, as well as their providers, to be murdered." That's a serious charge. A citation or link to where Newman made such a call ought to be provided.

narciso said...

his father was a citadel graduate, not the same thing, Daleiden, was the activist behind CMP, who went into 'the belly of the beast'

rcommal said...

Better that we should focus on taking care of mentally ill people, really taking care of them, as opposed to other sorts of stuff on which we focus and about which also we are entirely careless.

Lewis Wetzel said...

I understand the desire of the left to believe that there is a 'Christianist' terrorist threat that is equal (or greater) than the Islamist teerorist threat, but it just ain't so. Even if you compare crazy Robert Dear with crazy Nidal Hasan, the per capita number of crazy muslims who go on religion inspired murder sprees is far greater than the number Christians who go on religion inspired murder sprees.
If you read Leftist publications, they continuously magnify the threat of Christian/white supremacist murder sprees while diminishing the Islamist nature of what are murder sprees inspired by Islam. As ignorant about religion as they are, they insist that people who shout 'Alahu akbar!' as they murder should not be assumed to be claiming religious justification for their slaughter.

walter said...

Yeah well..we all know folks who do a lot of reps, are presumably good looking..but contribute nothing of substance.

cubanbob said...

Georgie said...

JR656,
Your reasoning is terribly askew. You are basically saying that if women engage in their own legal healthcare and people publicly advocate for them to do so safely, they are inciting violence against themselves from right wing nut bags. That is messed up.
11/29/15, 5:34 PM "

Infanticide is healthcare? The things one learns on this blog.

jr565 said...

Georgie wrote|:
"JR656,
Your reasoning is terribly askew. You are basically saying that if women engage in their own legal healthcare and people publicly advocate for them to do so safely, they are inciting violence against themselves from right wing nut bags. That is messed up."
NO, that is the lefts argument. I'm just using the same logic against abortion. Do you think it still holds water?
The argument is the terrorists commit acts of terror because of our policies. Or they attack Charlie Hebdo because we incited them.
Well, by the same logic, one million abortions a year incited this whack job to Commit murder.
You can either buy or not buy the argument. If you don't, I don't want to hear it when it comes to terrorism. or sarah palin inciting violence beciase she has cross hairs on voting districts thst republicans need to target.
You guys keep pulling out the argument, it is unseemly and demagogic.

jr565 said...

Marc wrote:
"jr, who 24 hours ago was telling us how Dear identified as a woman.

He and Georgie are a match made in heaven.
"

NO, I did not identify him as a woman. I was commenting on the fact thst Instapundit linked to voting records that showed he was listed as a woman. Thst was simply a fact. I allowed for the fact thst it might be a typo, and thst the 24 hour rule applied. But according to records he was listed as a woman.
Men can identify as women in this day and age. Caitlyn Jenner is a man who identifies as a woman. This man could similarly have identified as a woman. And there was evidence suggesting it was a possibility. But I never said it was a certainty.

Lewis Wetzel said...

Blogger The Godfather said...
Georgie refers to "the anti-choice extremist who made the misleading videos leading to more attacks on the clinic and who has also called for women who undergo abortions, as well as their providers, to be murdered."

Perhaps "georgie" is referring to this:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-planned-parenthood-activist-troy-newmans-terrifying-woman-shaming-apocalyptic-manifesto
Even the folks down at rightwingwatch don't go as far as georgie.
Georgie must be one o'them 'extremists.'

Bob Loblaw said...

Glad that this new voice from the left is so willing to call Dear a 'Christian extremist' without any actual proof.

Meh. There are no new voices on the left. These are just echoes from 1917.

damikesc said...

How are videos misleading when the ENTIRE unedited video is online?

Note: NBC won't put unedited video in its site...

holdfast said...

Has everyone forgotten about the FRC shooter? He was a genuine left-wing activist who was inspired by the SPLC's hate-filled rhetoric, and decided to murder people who held unpopular opinions with which he disagreed. In the wake of that shooting, did the MSM call one LGBT activists to disavow him? Were his crimes laid at the feet of the SPLC? Of the DNC?

No? Then all the lefties can now shut the hell up about this nutbar murderer.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/24/frc-shooter-i-targeted-them-because-splc-list-said-they-were-anti-gay/

Lewis Wetzel said...

I've been to the SPLC website. It's clearly a fundraising organization that targets liberal Jews on the East and West coast.

walter said...

And he sure liked chicken..

" An FBI affidavit quotes 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins II of Herndon telling the guard, “I don’t like your politics” as he pulled a 9mm Sig Sauer pistol from a backpack he had carried with him on Metrorail from East Falls Church.

D.C. police said that Corkins shot the guard, Leonardo R. Johnson, 46, once in the arm and that Johnson, though wounded, helped subdue the suspect and wrestle the gun from him in the building’s lobby on G Street NW.

In his bag, court documents say, police found 50 rounds of ammunition and 15 sandwiches from Chick-fil-A, which combined with the suspect’s statement added a political dimension to the shooting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/mother-of-security-guard-shot-in-dc-happy-to-hear-him-called-hero/2012/08/16/531ed060-e7a1-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html

walter said...

Thinking about how his ex didn't see this coming and how he had custody of his son post divorce (a bit unusual) and wanted to reunite, sure seems like he had some mental health decline to wind up how he was living, behaving.

The Godfather said...

@Terry: Thanks for the link. Assuming the article acurately describes the contents of Newman's book, I'd certainly call him an anti-abortion extremist. I'd also call those PP folks on the videos pro-abortion extremists. And the latter are worse, in the sense that they actually participate in killing human beings, whereas Terry (so far as I know) only advocates the execution of abortionists.