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Oregon gunman idolized IRA, Nazis
NY POST ^ | October 1, 2015 | By Joe Tacopino

Posted on 10/02/2015 6:34:28 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Chris Harper-Mercer, the gunman who went on Thursday’s rampage at an Oregon college, idolized the Nazis and the IRA, despised organized religion — and talked of how killing could bring a person fame.

“I have noticed that so many people like [Vester Lee Flanagan] are alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are,” Harper-Mercer wrote in a blog post, referring to the man who in August murdered a reporter and a cameraman on live TV in Virginia, according to CBS News.

“A man who was known by no one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”

He also showed interest in the Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook school shootings, having recently shared documentaries about the massacres with people online.

A profile on an online dating site, Spiritual Passions, shows the 26-year-old Harper-Mercer “doesn’t like organized religion” and identified as a “conservative Republican.”

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Gunman’s Parents React Mercer’s father Ian Mercer, based out of Tarzana, Calif., said that Thursday was a “devastating day,” and that he had been working with authorities on the local and federal levels in the wake of the disaster. “Shocked, shocked is all I can say: Obviously it’s been a devastating day, devastating for me and my family … all I ask is please respect our privacy,” he said. In Oregon, Harte added that she saw a woman she identified as his mother “crying her eyes out” in the wake of the murderous rampage. Mercer’s step-sister Carmen Nesnick said she was stunned upon hearing what he had did, as she knew him as a selfless individual. “All he ever did was put everyone before himself — he wanted everyone to be happy.”

1 posted on 10/02/2015 6:34:28 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Which one of those in that picture is his father?


2 posted on 10/02/2015 6:36:38 AM PDT by cowboyway (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The murderous bastard voted for Obama and Democrats,
and is described by the White Mosque as:
“He was good boy”.


3 posted on 10/02/2015 6:36:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: COUNTrecount

I wonder if he was a citizen?


4 posted on 10/02/2015 6:38:04 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Yes - I am sure that was it.

“conservative Republican.”

5 posted on 10/02/2015 6:38:12 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Diogenesis

How do you know he voted for Obama? Not flaming you...just want source to use for myself.

Nazi = extreme left wing.


6 posted on 10/02/2015 6:40:00 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: COUNTrecount

The guy looks like another happy Son Of Barack.


7 posted on 10/02/2015 6:40:42 AM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, and my grandma.)
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To: COUNTrecount
I am calling for strict gun control laws- we should confiscate every gun from left wing progressives.
8 posted on 10/02/2015 6:42:24 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: COUNTrecount

Satan knows him now too.


9 posted on 10/02/2015 6:44:01 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: COUNTrecount
...“conservative Republican.”

Riiiiiiight!

I'm afraid I don't believe him. He's a Socialist if he's into the Nazi (National Socialist) party.

10 posted on 10/02/2015 6:44:41 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: 2banana
identified as a “conservative Republican.”

Did he ever vote? Did he have to declare a party affiliation?

11 posted on 10/02/2015 6:44:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: COUNTrecount

The “profile” on Spiritual Passions is a fraud. The media is being trolled.

Archive.org doesn’t have a record of the site until about 9:00 PM EDT last night. It then changed FIVE TIMES in the next few hours. It has since changed 3 more times.


12 posted on 10/02/2015 6:44:55 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderators)
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To: COUNTrecount

“A man who was known by no one is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”

Yeah but you are dead so how’s that working for you.


13 posted on 10/02/2015 6:46:36 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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“conservative Republican.”

Right... because support for the Nazis and IRA, along with committing cold-blooded murder of Christians, is a facet of conservatism. I'm SURE no one hacked that account after this incident yesterday.. just sure of it.

14 posted on 10/02/2015 6:48:04 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: cowboyway
In shock: The father of Chris Harper-Mercer, Ian Mercer, who is British, said he was shocked that his son has gone on a murderous rampage

The other picture is of Vester Lee Flanagan, the man who in August murdered a reporter and a cameraman on live TV in Virginia, according to CBS News.

15 posted on 10/02/2015 6:49:07 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Race Baiting...... "It's What's For Breakfast")
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A profile on an online dating site, Spiritual Passions, shows the 26-year-old Harper-Mercer “doesn’t like organized religion” and identified as a “conservative Republican.”


when liberals want to tell you the guy was a “conservative Republican” remind them lining people up then murdering them after they claim they are Christian is something a liberal would do- not a conservative...


16 posted on 10/02/2015 6:50:39 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Any pictures of the mother turn up yet?


17 posted on 10/02/2015 6:52:39 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: ScottinVA

Smells like a really obvious set up for gun grab and conservative crack down.


18 posted on 10/02/2015 6:52:56 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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A profile on an online dating site, Spiritual Passions, shows the 26-year-old Harper-Mercer “doesn’t like organized religion” and identified as a “conservative Republican.”

Lefty forums are just loving this statement...all the X-Files bots; those who chase reports of UFO's...the shooter is Republican..?...he's a conservative..?

I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!

19 posted on 10/02/2015 6:58:35 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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Here is some more of what is being reported about his dating site profile...

Oregon gunman Chris Harper-Mercer lived in Torrance, graduated from Switzer Center
He described himself as “not religious” and listed his groups as “Doesn’t Like Organized Religion,’ “Left-hnd path,” “Magick and Occult,” and “Not Religious but Spiritual.”

That sounds like a conservative republican to me...NOT!!!

20 posted on 10/02/2015 6:58:36 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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