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Oregon Shooting: Umpqua Gunman Chris Harper Mercer — What We Know [He left a note.]
NBC, AP ^
| Oct 2, 2015
| Cassandra Vinograd, Pete Williams, Andrew Blankstein, Tom Winter, Alastair Jamieson, Courtney Kube
Posted on 10/02/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by familyop
The heavily armed gunman who slaughtered nine people at an Oregon college left a hate-filled note at the scene of his rampage and "felt the world was against him," law enforcement officials confirmed Friday.
Two officials familiar with the contents of the note say 26-year-old Christopher Harper Mercer, who was killed in a firefight Thursday with police at Umpqua Community College, wrote that he would be "welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: devil; evil; hell; murder; note; oregon; umpqua
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To: 100American
Probably...
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:39:37 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: familyop
His father is British? Then, his mother is a Black American?
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:40:15 PM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Norm Lenhart
"
Well thats sorta standard for Bible thumping christian conservatives isnt it? Oh wait. It isnt."
Yeah, a few readers are missing that from the article excerpt above this thread. He "wrote" in his note, "that he would be
'welcomed in Hell and embraced by the devil.'"
Oregon gunman Chris Harper-Mercer lived in Torrance, graduated from Switzer Center (Special School) Daily Bulletin ^ | 10/01/15, 7:33 PM PDT | Larry Altman, Nick Green
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He described himself as 'not religious' and listed his groups as 'Doesnt Like Organized Religion,' 'Left-hand path,' 'Magick and Occult,' and 'Not Religious but Spiritual.'"
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:40:51 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
Maybe when he says he’s a conservative republican, maybe he was referring to the Irish Republican Army? He seemed to really like that group.
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I’ve heard his dad is/was British but his dad most certainly has an Irish accent.
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:43:52 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: lastchance
Yes, J.J. Vicari was not in the room with the murderer and victims. He was in another room. Only the account relayed by a granddaughter of one of the victims is mentioned there. But there was also a direct witness (a second witness) who said that Harper-Mercer asked the victims about their religion (other reports).
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:45:13 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: Ramius
I did hear one reference to an AR, but it must not have been true, otherwise the MSM would be hammering that issue, much like “Bushmaster” became a new media buzzword after Sandy Hook.
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:45:14 PM PDT
by
allblues
(God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
To: lastchance
Well, I’m also on the West Coast, and I did not hear the shooter say anything.
In fact I never even heard him shoot.
This is a put-up frame of this poor man (oops, gender aggression).
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:47:54 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
To: ROCKLOBSTER
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:50:45 PM PDT
by
basalt
(r)
To: familyop
Heavily armed and a firefight....... version 8.1 ?
Isn’t there an app yet where we can force polidiot and presstitute socialist liars to shut they’re friggin yaps ?
Hope yer well familyop !
Stay Safe !
30
posted on
10/02/2015 4:51:10 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: familyop
Earlier reports, citing a survivor's account as told to relatives, said that Harper Mercer asked people whether they were Christian before firing. But J.J. Vicari,
who was in the classroom next to the where the attack occurred, said he never heard the gunman ask about religion and never even heard the gunman's voice.
The MSM is so bad.
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:52:13 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Norm Lenhart
Re.
comment #23 on Harper-Mercer's religion,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-hand_path_and_right-hand_path#Left-Hand_Path
Wikipedia (October 2, 2015)
Left-Hand Path
The historian Dave Evans studied self-professed followers of the Left-Hand Path in the early 21st century, making several observations about their practices:
They often reject societal convention and the status quo, which some suggest is in a search for spiritual freedom. As a part of this, LHP followers embrace magical techniques that would traditionally be viewed as taboo, for instance using sex magic or embracing Satanic imagery.[1]:197 As Mogg Morgan wrote, the "breaking of taboos makes magic more potent and can lead to reintegration and liberation, [for example] the eating of meat in a vegetarian community can have the same liberating effect as anal intercourse in a sexually inhibited straight society."[5]
They often question religious or moral dogma, instead adhering to forms of personal anarchism.[1]:198 They often embrace sexuality and incorporate it into magical ritual.[1]:205
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:54:05 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: familyop
"He was a good boy. A victim."
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:55:03 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
To: familyop
Earlier reports, citing a survivor's account as told to relatives, said that Harper Mercer asked people whether they were Christian before firing. But J.J. Vicari, who was in the classroom next to the where the attack occurred, said he never heard the gunman ask about religion and never even heard the gunman's voice.If J.J. Vicari wasn't in the room and heard nothing, why the hell does JJ's lack of anything to contribute merit inclusion in the article?
To: Ramius
I haven’t seen anything, but am wondering if he might have used something in the five-seven variety like the Ft. Hood psycho.
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posted on
10/02/2015 4:59:23 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Squantos
"Heavily armed and a firefight....... version 8.1 ?
Isnt there an app yet where we can force polidiot and presstitute socialist liars to shut theyre friggin yaps ?"
Yep. Publish the truth with quotations and references. Wiser folks will see it and consider it. If that doesn't do it, just let 'em go and get ourselves ready for another rise and fall of fascism.
"Hope yer well familyop !"
Thanks! Doing much better and trying to get some work done and get in shape for the coming winter. Hope you're doing well, too!
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posted on
10/02/2015 5:00:14 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: lastchance
But the media instead of taking the word of someone in the same room will go with this guys account of what he did not hear.That's to establish in the mind of those so motivated the fallacy that he did NOT say what he clearly said.
To: Irenic
“Ive heard his dad is/was British but his dad most certainly has an Irish accent.”
I heard the dad on the radio, he sounded Island (Caribbean) to me. But I could be wrong.
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posted on
10/02/2015 5:00:38 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
To: Irenic
Self admission and confusion about when they took what etc.
Typical of all the shooters...
Zombies, no recall of the crime
Yes it was deliberate as a way to change the subject and let Bam try to be Daddy
Things are spiraling fast, the storyline is falling on deaf ears even with the deliberate effort to give Trump as little face time as possible...
Watch and See...
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posted on
10/02/2015 5:00:56 PM PDT
by
100American
(Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
To: papertyger
Yep. You can’t have a “White supremacist anti government NAZI (skinhead is coming up soon) Republican who shoots Christians.
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posted on
10/02/2015 5:04:20 PM PDT
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
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