by beksbks 11 Replies latest social current
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"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Knoxville Police Chief
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/28/church.shooting/index.html
I know an XJW poster from this board who attends that church. I haven't talked with her in a while, I don't even know where her number is, but I hope and pray she is OK.
weird headline. Let's see, on the one hand, you have frustration over a job search, something most everyone has experienced, and on the other, you have "hatred of liberals". Yeah, let's go with "angry over job search".
I bet the guy just loves Sean Hannity.
I bet you're right Six. I only followed this story at all, because I knew as soon as I read that it was a Universalist Unitarian church that this was the motive.
Sicko.
From the CNN.com article:
Owen said Adkisson apparently acted alone and chose the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because of recent publicity about activities there that Adkisson considered liberal.
Owen said police found Adkisson's letter in his vehicle, and that Adkisson signed it but did not address it to anyone. The letter specifically expressed hatred for gay people, Owen said.
The case is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.
Rick Lambert, the FBI agent in charge of the bureau's Knoxville office, said authorities will consider whether to bring federal charges. "Any time someone uses force to obstruct another person in the free exercise of their religious beliefs, that is a violation of federal civil rights statutes," he said.
The church, on its Web site, describes itself as a community that has worked for social change -- including desegregation, women's rights and gay rights -- since the 1950s.
"[Adkisson] indicated also in that letter that he expected to be there shooting people until the police arrived and he fully expected to be killed by the responding police," Owen said.
Investigators found 76 shotgun shells in the church, Owen said. The gunman had shot three rounds from a 12-gauge shotgun that was brought into the church hidden in a guitar case.
One of the victims, Linda Kraeger, 61, died at a hospital several hours after the shooting, Knoxville municipal spokesman Randall Kenner said.
Also killed was Greg McKendry, a 60-year-old usher and board member at the church, police said earlier in the day.
Five others were hospitalized in either critical or serious condition, police said.
I have a big dislike for people who hate equality.
Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.
Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/church-shootin... /
All the best of the hate mongers. Only Rush is missing.
Quotes from the mans letter
According to the News-Sentinel, Knoxville police department investigator Steve Still wrote in the search warrant that Jim David Adkisson, the man who was arrested in the rampage, went to the church "because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets."
Adkisson, who had served in the military, said "that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement he would then target those that had voted them in office," the search warrant states. Among the items seized from Adkisson's house were three books: "The O'Reilly Factor," by television commentator Bill O'Reilly; "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder," by radio personality Michael Savage; and "Let Freedom Ring," by political pundit Sean Hannity.
One of the most frustrating aspects of this to me, is that Liberals are advocates of Unions, and workers. If this man had not chosen to be essentially brainwashed by these hatemongers, he might have found some help and support within the very group he chose to attack.
Apparently, this hater lost it too. I wonder what he reads.
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/14/163242/1.ashx
BTS
Probably the newspaper.
