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Did the NYT Supply Information Vital to the Assassination Attempt on House Republicans?
Gun Watch ^ | 16 June, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 06/16/2017 6:59:35 AM PDT by marktwain



A poster on freerepublic.com had this to say about the information.

 I’ll bet he left his home and wife back in IL right after he read that article. The timeline fits. The problem for an assassin is finding a low-security high-probability venue to attack. Parking a white van in DC and living in it while waiting to shoot somebody in a motorcade was near zero odds. A baseball practice field in suburban Alexandria with a YMCA for showers and Wi-Fi was PERFECT.
This would explain why Hodgkinson had to ask whether the people practicing at the ball field were Democrats or Republicans.  The NYTs Article does not say.  It only says "members of Congress".

The military considers control of this sort of information to be part of operational security.  You do not give it out, because it could be critical information that your adversary could use against you.

The NYT had/has no legal obligation to keep this information from the public eye. In the Civil War/War between the States, both sides obtained critical information from newspapers. Both sides made good use of that information to gain success on the battlefield.

The particularly nasty relationship in this case is that the New York Times has been using extreme rhetoric to describe Republicans for months. Some would say for years.

Here are some examples from a short compilation at the Federalist:
2. "Trump has used a toxic mix of bullying and bluster, xenophobia and nationalism, misogyny and racism, to appeal to the darker nature of the Republican Party and secure his place as the unlikeliest presidential nominee in recent American history." — Blow, May 9.

3. "[Speaker of the House Paul Ryan's endorsement of Trump] puts political positions first and character and morality second. Sure Trump's a scoundrel, but he might agree with our tax proposal. Sure, he is a racist, but he might like our position on the defense budget." — Conservative columnist David Brooks, June 10.

4. "Yeah, frankly, I would say that." — Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof when asked by CNN's Don Lemon whether he thought Trump was "racist," June 8.

5. "As many have noted, it's remarkable how shocked — shocked! — that [the Republican] establishment has been at the success of Donald Trump's racist, xenophobic campaign." — Liberal economist and columnist Paul Krugman, Feb. 26

The NYT has attempted to blame Republicans and gun laws for the attack on Republican Congressmen playing baseball.

They should be looking a bit closer to home, and consider their own contribution.

©2017 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.

Gun Watch


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; congress; hodgkinson; nyt
The New York Times is busy blaming Sarah Palin. They should look in a mirror.
1 posted on 06/16/2017 6:59:36 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia#Parks_and_recreation

“Alexandria has a distributed park system with approximately 950 acres (3.8 km2) spread across 70 major parks ...”


2 posted on 06/16/2017 7:05:04 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: marktwain
The particularly nasty relationship in this case is that the New York Times has been using extreme rhetoric to describe Republicans for months.

By bringing out every mentally effective guy with a gun there is no doubt the New York Times should be brought before the court for inciting violence and insurrection.

It is a NYT business decision, not a freedom of the press issue they hide behind. After all, violence sells newspapers.

3 posted on 06/16/2017 7:10:40 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Democrats are suffering Soros psychosis.)
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To: FewsOrange

Only three baseball parks.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Alexandria+Baseball+parks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=Alexandria+parks+baseball+fields

Someone willing to do more google-fu could narrow it down more, I bet. Took me 2 minutes.


4 posted on 06/16/2017 7:12:43 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: marktwain

What the NYT does in trying to deflect this current left wing crime to an old lie about Palin is right out of Goebbels playbook. It’s as if there is a Goebbels University somewhere in NYC and all NYT employees are graduates.


5 posted on 06/16/2017 7:14:23 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: marktwain

I saw an interview with someone who said that the shooter had been hanging out in the nearby YMCA for some time. He was clearly motivated by a media that is whipping up hysteria against Trump but his being at the ball park could have been happenstance.

One thing for sure, it was a miracle he didn’t kill someone.


6 posted on 06/16/2017 7:20:13 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: marktwain
The Federal Bureau of Mattering will get right on it
but will be blocked from mattering unless and until
they give the 'password'.


7 posted on 06/16/2017 7:22:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: marktwain

they KNOW they have blood on their hands and they are blaming Sarah to try and distract away from it!!!!


8 posted on 06/16/2017 7:23:36 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: marktwain

Yes.


9 posted on 06/16/2017 7:32:10 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: marktwain

Just like announcing in every news story the prep school Barron Trump will append. Now security will have to be beefed up for him and his classmates.


10 posted on 06/16/2017 7:33:23 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: marktwain

The problems is that the NYT is publishing fake/exaggerated/biased “news” with a result of convincing people that assassination of Rs is best for the country.

And even worse for Trump. The media has much of the country convinced that Trump MUST be removed from office (and will be once the next investigation finds the evidence which certainly exists). If/when all investigations conclude that he did nothing wrong, the media will almost certainly write that investigators “could not find evidence” and “could not prove Trump’s crimes”. Mueller will likely use the terms the media likes rather than “did nothing wrong”.

And the deranged nutcases who believe Trump MUST BE REMOVED based on what they’ve been hearing from the media to that point are likely to decide to do it themselves. Too much of the media isn’t even acknowledging the possibility that Trump did nothing wrong or that the country can survive with Trump as president. Months or years of that reporting will result in people deciding that citizens must do it themselves since investigators didn’t. We don’t know if they will succeed or even try, but we do know the reasons they will give since those reasons are published in the NYT daily.


11 posted on 06/16/2017 7:46:08 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Starboard

Yet...


12 posted on 06/16/2017 8:30:48 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: marktwain

Bttt.

5.56mm


13 posted on 06/16/2017 8:34:43 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: marktwain

It now appears he left IL for his “tax reform mission” (sic, LOL) before April 12. I have not seen a firm date on when he started hanging around the ballpark.

It’s critical to learn when, how and from what source or person he learned about the ballpark.

If somebody told him, online or in person, then that person, wittingly or unwittingly, aimed the assassin at the Republicans.


14 posted on 06/16/2017 8:58:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Just heard on What Really Happened that the stiff had a “Republican Only List” that’s not being disclosed until those on it are informed for safety reasons.


15 posted on 06/16/2017 3:40:28 PM PDT by bayouranger (Those who are anti-islam are a National Security Threat.- J.Brennan (Fmr) CIA Dir. Feb10)
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To: Travis McGee

If they have his laptop they know who he was comunicating with.

SS1


16 posted on 06/16/2017 4:01:56 PM PDT by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport illegal aliens. Americans demand those jobs back! MAGA!)
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To: Travis McGee

Around 40mns in..

http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/06/16/boiler-room-ep-113-cnn-is-isis/

Some dem staffers sent “pizzas”(pedo sympathizer dark-humor?) to The Hon.Scalise’s office, instead of flowers or wrapped fish.

Classy.


17 posted on 06/17/2017 7:48:46 AM PDT by bayouranger (Those who are anti-islam are a National Security Threat.- J.Brennan (Fmr) CIA Dir. Feb10)
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