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New York Times Suggests GOP is Responsible for Orlando Nightclub Attack
AIM ^ | June 15, 2016 | Don Irvine

Posted on 06/16/2016 8:08:48 AM PDT by detective

The New York Times editorial board tried to lay the blame for the terrorist attack on an Orlando nightclub by an avowed ISIS supporter on Republicans who don’t support gay rights:

“Omar Mateen shattered the tenuous, hard-fought sense of personal safety that many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have begun to feel as the movement for equality has made significant gains in recent years. His bullets and the blood he left behind that early morning were a reminder that in many corners of the country, gay and transgender people are still regarded as sinners and second-class citizens who should be scorned.

While the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear, it is evident that Mr. Mateen was driven by hatred toward gays and lesbians. Hate crimes don’t happen in a vacuum. They occur where bigotry is allowed to fester, where minorities are vilified and where people are scapegoated for political gain. Tragically, this is the state of American politics, driven too often by Republican politicians who see prejudice as something to exploit, not extinguish.”

(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; nyt; orlando
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To: Sasparilla

Nobody really “invents” any religion; it is a thing that is discovered.

History bears out what I am saying. He got played by hell. Hell doesn’t always come looking like hell at the start.


41 posted on 06/16/2016 8:54:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HarleyLady27

We do not need links to Info Wars.


42 posted on 06/16/2016 8:55:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Morpheus2009

Ultimately, the problem was COWARDS.

When we read how the attack went down (this was not a sudden barrage, this was a drawn out affair that lasted three hours) I puzzle and puzzle. WHY DIDN’T THEY TRY TO CHARGE THE SHOOTER? Some may have suffered casualties in such an attempt, but he wouldn’t have had a chance to kill fifty before being overpowered by being jumped on.


43 posted on 06/16/2016 8:57:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

Typical slanted Slimes

1) Mateen was a DEMOCRAT.
2) Radical Islam preaches the MURDER of gays. NOT Republicans.

What a smelly piece of dung.


44 posted on 06/16/2016 8:58:42 AM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: ifinnegan
We do not need links to Info Wars.

I feel qualified to pick and choose what I want to see or hear. Besides:

 photo Stealth_DHS_Spy_Grid_Lee_Ann_McAdoo__INFOWARS_Nightly_News__157090_zps38kckpfu.jpg

45 posted on 06/16/2016 9:00:19 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: NYRepublican72

Somehow Mateen learned all this hate through Catholic churches, etc. That’s what they are thinking.

If something’s stomping around in the living room, don’t look for a mouse before you look for an elephant.


46 posted on 06/16/2016 9:02:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective
Remember: “Never let a good crisis go to waste”
The entire left is in full throttle
47 posted on 06/16/2016 9:03:24 AM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: detective

Yep.

As soon as there were reports this guys was gay I said they would blame it on homophobia.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3439907/posts?page=41#41

“See, now the media can blame it all on homophobia.”

They are transparently predictable.


48 posted on 06/16/2016 9:03:55 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: detective

“while the precise motivation for the rampage remains unclear....”

WTF?

Mateen did everything but hire the Goodyear Blimp to disclose his motivations.

CC


49 posted on 06/16/2016 9:04:45 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: ifinnegan

Well if they want to see “real” homophobia, they shouldn’t look at the people who don’t want to sell them cake inscriptions. They should look at the people who want to push them off of walls or whip them to death.

They ought to start considering THAT, and then they will wish that a handful of people refusing to make them a pseudo-wedding cake was the worst they ever saw in society.


50 posted on 06/16/2016 9:06:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

...Nobody really “invents” any religion; it is a thing that is discovered.....

It is hell from the first page.

This was not discovered. It did not come from reflection or meditation seeking redemption.

As the self proclaimed sole “prophet of Allah, this “religion” was entirely invented in the twisted, insane evil, murderous mind of Mohammed. No external help or guidance except for that provided by Lucifer, the greatest manipulator, liar, and deceiver


51 posted on 06/16/2016 9:06:39 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The left is really unhinged on this. To equate a philosophical and religious discussion about gay marriage and homosexuality to the advocation of murdering gays is a HUGE leap. Especially when the root cause of Mateen’s rage was his hatred toward gays manifested through the religion of peace, where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and gays have been thrown off rooftops.

And yeah... he was a DEMOCRAT.


52 posted on 06/16/2016 9:06:53 AM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: Sasparilla

It was discovered, and the bible talks about it. Why are you being so clueless? The bible speaks of the delight in discovering iniquity.

Maybe you might be reminded of your own rottenness, just as every fallen human is rotten? Could that be why, you want to think of yourself as so virtuous personally?


53 posted on 06/16/2016 9:08:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Lazamataz

Using the Hillary twisted logic regarding Benghazi and an inflammatory video causing Muslims to become unhinged, you might say that the New York Times, Hollywood, US liberal judges, etc. are responsible for Orlando.


54 posted on 06/16/2016 9:17:14 AM PDT by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: detective

Yeah, it is. If we had had something other than treasonous, gutless, castrated, cowardly people running the GOP, we never would have allowed things to come to this end. We would have thrown “Islam is a religion of peace” Jorge Busho out of office. We would have secured and militarized the borders. And we would have a true President. Busho gave us Obammo, and that’s catasrapho.


55 posted on 06/16/2016 9:29:13 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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To: detective

Thank goodness the GOP is against Trump or it’d be his fault.


56 posted on 06/16/2016 10:10:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: ifinnegan

If there are links from DU on here, then info wars is just fine...and there is also Salon on here to....solve that, I maybe I’ll think about info Wars...


57 posted on 06/16/2016 1:46:33 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: HarleyLady27
Skip to comments. The attack in Orlando can and should be laid firmly at the feet of Donald Trump [barf alert] Democrtic Underground [link only] | June 12, 2016 | philosslayer Posted on ‎6‎/‎13‎/‎2016‎ ‎5‎:‎07‎:‎21‎ ‎PM by grundle link only: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027900304
58 posted on 06/16/2016 1:48:46 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: detective

Obama has relocated 10 NEW Syrian ‘refugees’ to the Orlando area SINCE the Slaughter...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/16/441-syrian-refugees-admitted-u-s-since-orlando-attack-dozens-fl/


59 posted on 06/16/2016 1:57:14 PM PDT by GOPJ ("9-in-10 GOP outsiders say 4-in-10 GOP insiderds should STFU". - Freeper RoosterRedux)
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