A bank theft gone wrong headline doesn't get as many clicks as much as a Planned Parenthood attack with multiple deaths.
Am I not up to date? My understanding was that he only entered PP, and that the bank's only confirmed relevance was its proximity and the fact that people fled to it. So far the only people I've seen insisting on the bank narrative have been the pro-life crowd and FoxNews (a complete coincidence, no doubt).
Okay, but he was never at the bank according to everything we know as of now, why would you assume it was a bank theft gone wrong?
The racist leftist liberal lynch mob that's putting third wave barista flyers on mojomans doorstep. THREAT ACKNOWLEDGED. SECURE PREMISES.
They just don't make bank robbers like they used to. "Wait... Where's the teller? Where am I?" "Planned Parenthood." "D'oh!"
"I heard you guys profit from fetuses, so I'll just shoot you instead and collect the cash in your veins (???)." I find the bank theory implausible. But time will tell, I suppose.
Ha'aretz chimes in on America's sympathy for terrorists: After Planned Parenthood Attack, No Calls to Close Churches or Register Evangelicals GOP presidential candidates incited against reproductive health group before Paris terror provided a more lucrative target. Up until a month ago, Republicans had stepped up their ongoing holy war against Planned Parenthood. After the publication of doctored tapes alleging that the organization had been merchandizing fetal tissue and organs, Mike Huckabee compared it to heroin dealers; Ted Cruz said it was a criminal enterprise; and Carly Fiorina gave graphic descriptions of flailing embryos callously harvested for organs. Less than two months ago the GOP’s Congressional caucus deemed the defunding of Planned Parenthood important enough to shut down the federal government altogether: this was one of the main impetuses for John Boehner’s resignation as Speaker of the House. Small wonder, then, that in the 24 hours after Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs was turned into a war zone by 57-year-old Richard Lewis Dear – who killed 3 people, including a policeman – the Republican presidential candidates have maintained a deafening silence, with the exception of Cruz, who expressed sympathy for the victims. Unlike the seemingly endless stream of demands and condemnations that followed the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, no one has suggested that churches in which Planned Parenthood are routinely depicted as the devil’s spawn be closed; no one has demanded that Evangelicals who believe performers of abortions are committing crimes against humanity should be issued with special identity cards; and no one has called for arresting or deporting the inciters who exploit such incidents to whip up hate (and garner more votes). Instead, Republicans are fervently praying that the police investigation reveal that Dear is insane or that his choice of Planned Parenthood as a venue for his 6-hour long gun battle with the police was mere coincidence. The last thing GOP candidates need right now is for the rash assaults on Planned Parenthood to come back at them like boomerangs, or, even worse, for the political momentum that has shifted in their favor since the Paris attacks to suddenly stall. In the aftermath of Islamic State’s onslaught in the French capital, the GOP has succeeded in shifting the public focus away from the ideological fanaticism and the bizarre presidential candidates that seem to have taken over the party and towards President Obama’s perceived weakness in the war against ISIS and the promotion of the fear and loathing that many Americans feel towards Muslims in general and American Muslims in particular. Planned Parenthood, after all, has been the target of violence and arson and even murder since its inception almost a century ago, much more so since right-wing conservatives promoted the organization to public enemy number one in recent years. And even though 26 Americans have been killed since 9/11 in terror incidents linked to Muslims in America, 48 have died at the hands of right-wing terrorists: The FBI consistently warns that home-grown right-wing terror is a danger no less clear and present than jihad-inspired assaults. And never mind the horrendous statistics of gun-related violence that consistently shock the world, including the fact that since 1968, more people have been killed by guns in the U.S. than those who have died in all of its wars combined. Nonetheless, no one is under any illusion that anything is about to change: The U.S. is far from being the only nation in the world in which inciting against foreigners, especially if they are Arab and Muslim, is more worthwhile for politicians than lecturing citizens on how they must change themselves in order to face the challenges to their societies. Americans are also willfully blind to the obvious connection between their intolerably high rates of death by gunfire and the incredible ease of acquiring weapons and ammunitions. If nothing happened after 12 people were shot down in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado in July 2012 or after 27 people, mostly young children, were slaughtered in Newtown in December of that year or after nine African-Americans were targeted in a church in Charleston in June, 2015 or another nine were killed in a college in Oregon less than two months ago – it certainly won’t happen after an incident in which “only” three people are killed. Especially when the venue for the bloodshed is a place that supposedly respectable political leaders have described as a hellish altar in which embryos are routinely tortured and sacrificed by godless liberals. First and foremost among those who seem to have lost hope is Obama, who has made no less than 15 public pronouncements in the wake of deadly shooting sprees since he took office seven and a half years ago. After each carnage he has asserted that things can’t go on like this, after each atrocity he has prodded Congress to toughen gun laws and after each massacre his anger and frustration are harsher and clearer than before. Perhaps this is one of the reasons – in addition to the Thanksgiving holiday – that Obama made do with a statement but no public appearance this time around. “This is not normal,” he said, but it was in a tone of resignation, not defiance.
When the target of terrorism is Planned Parenthood and those who support their cause, there is silence from the GOP establishment. So I guess the GOP base is just like moderate Muslims!!!! Except moderate muslims at least condemn those who commit terrorism. GOP fail!
To my knowledge it hasn't been established that was even what happened first of all and secondly if that turns out to be the case you can bet that pretty much everyone will speak out against it. I give you credit for effort, but ultimately this is a fail.
So if he was targeting the Planned Parenthood clinic for political/religious reasons, then why didn't he go after the PP staff and the people who perform abortions there, as one would expect if that was his motive? There was in fact nobody on staff at PP that was injured or killed by this guy. Sorry if the actual facts do not conform to the contrived narrative that you folks are prematurely promoting, yet again. How many times do you have to embarrass yourselves like this before you learn?
MojoMan still holding out hope this guy isn't a right wing nutjob. Hopes are fading though. ebbie Downer:
I don't know, MojoMan, most of us don't have experience with this sort of thing. Please explain to us how he was supposed to have done it.
So when he entered the PP facility instead of the bank next door, he mistook a women's clinic for a bank? Occam's Razor suggests that he targeted PP and wanted to keep the staff as hostages(and he successfully did for a while) instead of mistaking a clinic for a bank.
Hopes fading... fading... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/colorado-springs-planned-parenthood-shooting.html?_r=0 In his new home in the Rocky Mountains, neighbors said they did not know him well. Zigmond Post, who lives about a half-mile from Mr. Dear, said he had only met him a few times, but said once his dogs had gotten loose on Mr. Dear’s property. When he went to fetch them, Mr. Dear handed him a few political pamphlets strongly critical of President Obama. He said the pamphlets were strictly political, and did not have any anti-abortion messages or racist overtones. “He gave us these pamphlets and said, ‘Hey, if you ever want to talk about this stuff, look this over,’ ” Mr. Post said in a telephone interview. “I think we threw them into the campfire that night.”
Also, what bank robber doesn't attempt to cover his face? Bank robberies entail selfish motivation thus a robber will act in self interest which means he would at the very least cover his face so cctv would't easily identify him.
Don't worry. You wont hear an outcry by liberals to register all evangelical Christians and we won't make up stories of Christians celebrating in the streets of New Jersey after the attack. We are just more rational.
I'm sure there will eventually be a drug to treat religious fanaticism and an industry for treatment. The copy for the TV spot writes itself: Millions of Americans hear voices every day. Act before they do.
