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Breaking: Shooting at Family Research Council office in DC
The Washington Examiner ^ | 8/15/2012 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 08/15/2012 9:09:28 AM PDT by Palmetto Patriot

Two people, including one security guard, were shot at the office of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., this morning.

“The police are investigating this incident,” said FRC President Tony Perkins in a statement on the shooting. “Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and his family.”

The shooter was also reportedly shot, according to a local news report, which notes that the FBI is at the scene.

The Family Research Council is a socially-conservative non-profit that participates in cultural debates about abortion, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.


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To: Pharmboy

Rachel Maddow should be held DIRECTLY responsible for this.
She has been inflaming anti-Christian liberal hate for weeks, now.

That one of her MSNBC-watching nutjobs would do this is simply not that surprising. Or unexpected.


61 posted on 08/15/2012 10:04:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: kcvl

Well, the good news is that liberals are apparently lousy shots. This will matter later, I suspect.


62 posted on 08/15/2012 10:06:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: KansasGirl

Southern Poverty Law Center who has labeled Family Research Council as a “hate group”...

Founded in 1971 by a pair of Alabama lawyers, Morris Dees and Joe Levin, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) quickly built a reputation as America’s leading “civil rights law firm,” suing Southern institutions resistant to desegregation, publicizing hate crimes, and using the media to denounce the perpetrators of those crimes. At the time of SPLC’s founding, Julian Bond, who currently chairs the NAACP, was named the fledgling group’s first President.

According to SPLC, white bigotry aimed at racial and ethnic minorities has not diminished at all in recent decades. The Center states, for instance, “Like most of the southeastern U.S., Georgia has seen an explosion in Hispanic immigration in recent years. … As hate groups exploit the racial tension stemming from the area’s growth, locals have launched violent attacks against immigrant workers.” In May 2006, SPLC characterized the critics of pro-open borders rallies (held in several U.S. cities) as “anti-immigration extremists.”

In 1992, SPLC asserted that some 346 white-supremacist organizations were operating in the United States. Even leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn accused SPLC’s Morris Dees of raising funds by “frightening elderly liberals that the heirs of Adolf Hitler are about to march down Main Street.” Ethical questions about SPLC’s tactics were also raised by Harper’s Magazine, which took issue with the organization’s wont for suing groups for the crimes commited by its indvidual members, “a practice that, however seemingly justified, should give civil libertarians pause.”

In 1996, USA Today called SPLC, with its $68 million in assets, “the nation’s richest civil rights organization.” By the end of fiscal year 2003, SPLC’s endowment totaled $120.6 million. Morris Dees raised eyebrows in the 1990s when he told an interviewer, “I learned everything I know about hustling from the Baptist Church. Spending Sundays on those hard benches listening to the preacher pitch salvation — why, it was like getting a Ph.D. in selling.”

In 1995, Alabama’s Montgomery Advertiser published a series of investigative reports that raised serious questions about SPLC’s finances. In one instance mentioned by the paper, SPLC won a celebrated $7 million settlement after suing a Ku Klux Klan organization in Alabama. The Klan was without assets and the SPLC client received very little from the suit. By contrast, SPLC directors — having garnered $9 million in donations in a two-year fundraising campaign for the trial — afforded themselves salaries of $350,000 for the trial’s duration.

A 1998 survey conducted by the nonpartisan publication National Journal showed that Morris Dees earned tens of thousands of dollars more each year than the officers of 78 other selected advocacy groups, including the heads of such prominent organizations as the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Children’s Defense Fund.

Between 2001 and 2004, SPLC was the recipient of 59 foundation grants totaling $3,326,425.

The donors included:

the Arcus Foundation; the Baltimore Community Foundation; the Cisco Systems Foundation; the Cleveland Foundation, the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation; the Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations; the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan; the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region; Community Foundation (Silicon Valley); the Cushman Family Foundation; the Dibner Fund; the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Edward and Verna Gerbic Family Foundation; the Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust; the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund; the Grove Foundation; the J.M. Kaplan Fund; the J.P Morgan Chase Foundation; the Kaplen Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the Albert Parvin Foundation; the Picower Foundation; the Jay Pritzker Foundation; the Louis and Harold Price Foundation; the Public Welfare Foundation; the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Family Foundation; the Spiegel Foundation; the State Street Foundation; the Steinberg Charitable Trust; and the Vanguard Public Foundation.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6989


63 posted on 08/15/2012 10:06:53 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

The Wapo is to laugh at. Only a few hours after the event, they want to know the type of gun used.

“They also would not say what kind of gun the shooter used or whether the security guard was armed.”

Had to be an AK-747, with a folding SPEC-OPS stock and the 6,000 rd drum clip hidden in his pocket. /sarkov


64 posted on 08/15/2012 10:07:10 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

The media will hardly report on this because it doesn’t fit into their agenda. Liberal whack job goes on shooting spree, yeah you wont be hearing that from the press. I said this already weeks ago, if it looks like Obama will lose in November your going to see much more of this. Leftists wont go down easily, Obama will be willing to burn this country to the ground rather than lose


65 posted on 08/15/2012 10:07:19 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: kcvl

That whole article in HP was a lie. I saw Tony Perkins on TV discussing the whole thing. This is the left’s fault and we should shout it from the rooftops.

Perhaps the HP should be shut down.


66 posted on 08/15/2012 10:08:14 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: cuban leaf

Lifenews reported that the attacker was a man posing as an intern.

Lifenews also reported FRC staff member Anna Maria Hoffman posted on Twitter, “Our security guard Leo got shot in the arm. Please keep him in your prayers.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/shooting-injures-1-at-family-research-council/


67 posted on 08/15/2012 10:09:24 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Covenantor

http://twitter.com/AM_Hoffman

Anna Maria Hoffman@AM_Hoffman

There was a shooting today in the lobby of @FRCdc, where I intern. Coworkers + I are safe. Plz keep Leo, our security guard, in ur prayers.


68 posted on 08/15/2012 10:12:29 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: wastedyears

that is hysterical!


69 posted on 08/15/2012 10:12:53 AM PDT by xzins (Vote Goode Not Evil: The lesser of 2 evils is still evil!)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Daily KOS linked to a blogger that said that FRC spent $25,000 lobbying to strike down a bill that died in the house. I think the blogger was full of “obama”

Chick-Fil-A story is about so much more than just ‘marriage’ and ‘speech’
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/01/1115751/-What-really-makes-the-gays-mad-about-Chick-fil-A

Daily KOS references this blog as the source of the Family research council’s lobbying against H.RES.1064 in 2010.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/christian-love-family-research-council.html
CHRISTIAN LOVE: Family Research Council Lobbied Congress Against Resolution Denouncing Uganda’s Kill Gays Bill
According to the FRC’s official lobbying report for the first quarter of 2010, they paid two of their henchmen $25,000 to lobby Congress against approving a resolution denouncing Uganda’s plan to execute homosexuals. Below are three screencaps of the 20-page Family Research Council lobbying report supplied to me by Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News.


Now why would Duncan Osborn at Gay City News not have written an article about this? Aren’t they a news outlet? Why did the blogger misspell his name Osbourne? What does the Family Research Council gain spending money to lobby to see that this bill doesn’t get passed?

No results on the Gay City News website
http://gaycitynews.com/?x=0&y=0&s=Family+research+council+Uganda

Try searching the archives for “Family research council Uganda”
http://gaycitynews.com/old-archives/

More archive searches @ Gay City News
You searched for: H.RES.1064
Sorry, we were unable to locate document(s) pertaining to your request.
You searched for: S.RES.409
Sorry, we were unable to locate document(s) pertaining to your request.

Could the blogger being quoted all over the web happen to have just made this story up?


70 posted on 08/15/2012 10:17:16 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: tcrlaf

Yep...many on the left express unbridled hate for Christians and are never called on it. Rachel Maddow is their prom queen.


71 posted on 08/15/2012 10:18:41 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Palmetto Patriot
This is the first shot of the Second American Civil War.

I am not joking.

72 posted on 08/15/2012 10:25:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I love the Universe, and it loves me.)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Gateway Pundit has some more:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/08/far-left-activist-goes-on-shooting-rampage-at-conservative-family-research-council-video/


73 posted on 08/15/2012 10:26:38 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
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To: JudyinCanada
Seems the left and the muslims have a lot in common.

Yeah...united to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand.

74 posted on 08/15/2012 10:28:11 AM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: xzins

Geesh, I did it again. Sorry for the misspelling. Should have been “Amish”. Bet most of you figured that out, but does not excuse my laziness.


75 posted on 08/15/2012 10:28:42 AM PDT by animal172 (Go Paul Ryan. Chew 'em up and spit 'em out.)
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To: MaxMax; All
Obama loves him them Black Panthers!

They are as gentle and nice as his buddies The Muslim Brotherhood:

New Black Panthers to RNC: Our 'Feet Will Be On Your Motherf***ing Necks'

Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:16:55 PM · by Beaten Valve · 193 replies
Breitbart ^ | August 14, 2012 | Breitbart.com
Michelle Williams, New Black Panther Chief of Staff, threatens the upcoming RNC convention.

76 posted on 08/15/2012 10:30:38 AM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: cuban leaf
This will matter later, I suspect.

My guess is that they'd favor goon squads armed with axes, machetes and hammers.

Killing a person at extremely close range with a hand swung weapon is the method for the insane filled with hatred and rage.

77 posted on 08/15/2012 10:30:54 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Palmetto Patriot; mickie
This ought to wake the evangelicals and the Bible Belters out of their comas. When states like the Carolinas are considered election "toss-up" states, something is rotten in Denmark.

Leni

78 posted on 08/15/2012 10:32:42 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Tex-Con-Man

When will the Southern Poverty Law Center list the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “hate group”.


+11nty billion!


79 posted on 08/15/2012 10:34:43 AM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Pharmboy; All

Nothing says “Tolerance!” and “Equality!” like shooting those that disagree with you, doncha think?


80 posted on 08/15/2012 10:36:31 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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