More strange and/or foul reactions
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@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/11/26/palestinian-students-vermont-shooting/
The story:
Police in Vermont are investigating the possibility of a “hate-motivated” crime in the shooting Saturday evening of three Palestinian college students in downtown Burlington, Vt.
Burlington police on Sunday said that a “white male with a handgun” approached the three students as they walked through downtown and, “without speaking,” shot the three men at least four times before fleeing on foot.The ADC also said the students were wearing kaffiyehs, the traditional Arab scarf associated with Palestinians, when they were attacked.
“We have reason to believe that the shooting was motivated by the three victims being Arab,” the ADC statement said.
Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad said in a statement Sunday that police are investigating the possibility that the attack was “hate motivated.”
Nope: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-greatest-islamophobia-hoax-in-america-exposed/
He was a Hamas supporter:
On December 6, Seven Days, a local news outlet known for breaking stories about local politics, revealed that Eaton had tweeted, “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”
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Any speculation as to motive?
It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Any speculation as to motive?
Deep in the article they speculate that it might just have been a random thing done by someone deranged.
Speculate...
OTOH, that holds at least as much water as "Islamophobia" for which there is zero evidence.
There was never a single shred of evidence that the men had been targeted. And the only basis for this claim that was ever cited was that two of the men were wearing ‘keffiyehs’ and speaking English and Arabic when they were shot. This entirely circumstantial information was amplified with feverish claims and rushed statements by elected officials, prosecutors and police.
The reality that has emerged is that Eaton was mentally unstable, left-leaning, opposed to America and supportive of Islamic terrorists. He was neither Jewish nor pro-Israel.
He had actually publicly stated his support for Hamas.
Eaton could not have known that the three Muslim men were going to walk past the house where he was living and it’s implausible that he would have had the time to plan such an attack.
The Muslim men were walking down the middle of a small narrow residential street with no street lights at night and Eaton would not have had enough time to realize the men passing by were Muslims, grab a gun, run out and shoot them. That’s even assuming that he had spent the whole evening by the window watching for incoming Muslims in an 87% white Vermont city.
Most likely, Eaton, suffering from an episode, stumbled out and opened fire.
Shooting four rounds at three men suggests this was not a planned mass shooting. He might have just as easily shot at anybody on the street or at nobody except the voices in his head. According to his mother and an ex-girlfriend, he had a history of violence and mental illness.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in More strange and/or foul reactions:
Stunning and brave:
(so, basically, they skipped lunch?)
Yeah, but they had bagels and lox for breakfast beforehand…
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Intermittent fasting went from trendy to heroic just like that.
It’s always something.
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His complaint about the Times doesn’t make any sense. They staged a large operation in Rafah as a diversion for the rescue. Of course it would have been horrible for those civilians involved.
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Lotta continued to shout while other demonstrators stood in place and held signs such as “Where’s Snyder’s moral outrage over US backed genocide in GAZA?” and “Hitler killed 6 million Jews and Stalin saved 1.6 million Jews.”
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It’s always something.
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She would be wonderful to have a calm rational debate with.
