We went over this earlier today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2909007/posts
This doofus PI Bill Warner speculated on his website that we should look into the possibility that Holmes was part of OWS.
Then he posted the same thing on OWS. OWS had a disclaimer that the post was from a contributor to the website and was NOT an official comment from them.
No doubt they checked out Warner and realized he was looking for publicity for his detective agency, whose phone number he posted.
They removed the post. Kind of like happens on FR when something is totally unsubstantiated.
By then, a lot of people assumed OWS was claiming Holmes as a member. They did no such thing.
I can’t believe I am defending OWS, whom I despise, but it does no good to try to link Holmes to them without any evidence at all.
Maybe he is connected. Maybe not. But there is no way of knowing at this time unless he himself admits it or he is on some roster at OWS or some OWS member or friend outs him. I would imagine OWS would dump any listing they have for him.
You’re saying someone stuck his name up on OWS’s website as a hoax?
I would add that asking if he is a “member” of OWS is not a useful approach.
OWS is not some sort of tight organization that issues membership cards.
It is a very loosely-associated movement with a variety of causes and groups and individuals that congregate around the events, ranging from hard-core communists to animal rights nuts to envirowackos to all manner of leeches and bums.
Thank you, and I agree. It also makes us look like paranoid and reactionary.
Thank you, and I agree. It also makes us look like paranoid and reactionary.
“OWS had a disclaimer that the post was from a contributor to the website and was NOT an official comment from them.”
As far as I’m concerned OWS is complicit. They have been SCREAMING for the 99% to, essentially, ‘take out’ the 1% (since people going to a movie at that hour are clearly the 1%), and now they got what they called for. THEY SHOULD BE PROUD. Their revolution has begun. Only 2,999,988 more people to ‘take out’ in their eyes.
(how does it feel, OWS, to be treated like the Tea Party)
You're not, you are defending the truth.
Warner claimed the car had Tennessee plates, we immediately verified on FR from photos that it was Colorado plates and registered to Holmes.
A FReeper even came up with the VIN number.
I wouldn’t believe the page numbers on Warner’s blog.
Let me get this straight.
Am I correct in thinking that this detective found the shooters user I.D. on an OWS forum and assumed he was part of that organization??
I have not said anything to anyone about his alleged connection to OWS because I am in the process of verifying the story. I try to keep what I say on the net as accurate as I possibly can.
I have mixed feelings on OWS. I think they are down on their luck people who are being manipulated by old radicals who are trying to re-live their youth through them. They truly believe that only the rich will have their taxes go up and don’t have the life experience to know that when a politician says “Tax the Rich” they really mean “Tax everybody with a job.” To be bluntly honest a few liberals believe that anyone with a job is rich and not paying their fair share.
Whatever I say about that organization I want it to be the truth.