Posted on 06/16/2016 9:18:38 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Update: 52-year-old man arrested after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot in street outside her constituency surgery has been named as Tommy Mair. A brief public data history search reveals that Mair had psychological problems:
Thomas Mair, 46, started volunteering at the park after learning about the opportunity through the Mirfield-based Pathways Day Centre for adults with mental health problems. He said: "I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world. "Many people who suffer from mental illness are socially isolated and disconnected from society, feelings of worthlessness are also common mainly caused by long-term unemployment.
"All these problems are alleviated by doing voluntary work. Getting out of the house and meeting new people is a good thing, but more important in my view is doing physically demanding and useful labour.
"When you have finished there is a feeling of achievement which is emotionally rewarding and psychologically fulfilling.
"For people for whom full-time, paid employment is not possible for a variety of reasons, voluntary work offers a socially positive and therapeutic alternative."
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Update: Responding to unconfirmed allegations the shooter shouted "Britain First!" before the incident, the group Britain First has said:
A single eyewitness also claimed (unconfirmed) that the assailant “apparently” shouted “Britain First” during the attack, but this is pure hearsay at the moment.
A single eyewitness also claimed (unconfirmed) that the assailant “apparently” shouted “Britain First” during the attack, but this is pure hearsay at the moment.
There is LOTS of use of words such as “apparently” and “allegedly”.
That hasn’t stopped the media publishing multiple articles condemning Britain First for somehow being involved.
Britain First obviously is NOT involved and would never encourage behaviour of this sort.
As an MP and and a mother, we pray that Jo Cox makes a full recovery.
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Update: As BBG adds, campaigning was suspended in Britain’s European Union membership referendum after news of the attack, which happened just before 1 p.m., came out.
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Update: Here is a photo of Jo Cox' assailant getting arrested. As SkyNews adds, "West Yorkshire Police said a 52-year-old man was arrested in connection with the attack, which happened near the town's library. Witness Hichem Ben Abdallah said a man "was kicking her as she was lying on the floor." He said that after a bystander intervened, the attacker produced a gun, stepped back and shot her twice."
Yeah, that was a grandstand play by a desperate man.
***For at least the past quarter decade, every single president and all the cabinet members have been globalists.***
Probably for at least half a century.
No, wrong. This is the only eyewitness that matters:
This is from the UK Daily Telegraph, the most right-wing broadsheet in the country.
“
Clarke Rothwell said that, as the man stabbed Mrs Cox, he shouted: “Britain First, Britain First, Britain First.”
He said: “Three times she was shot, the initial time which then she dropped to the floor and two more times.
“The third time he got close proximity he shot her round the head area.”
He added: “In the meantime he was stabbing her as well, he was stabbing her with his knife.”
Mr Rothwell said there was blood everywhere at the scene.
Asked if he thought Ms Cox had intervened in a dispute he said he understood the altercation was “always between the guy carrying the gun and the lady that got shot”.
Mr Rothwell added: “He was stabbing her with a footlong knife multiple times while shouting Britain First, Britain First, Britain First.”
Desperate?
He was playing the part of loser. The elites didn’t realize that selecting Palin as VP might actually allow him to win. Polling for the ticket surged initially. So they had to cut that off at the knees.
It is horrible.
My thoughts are with her family and children.
As for politics.
Well, the Norwegian Brevik committed his mass murder just before elections in Norway.
It certainly gave the left a huge bump.
It’s horrible all around :(
My thoughts too.
And, on further questioning, the man in question turns out to have been blocks away at the time.
Even the Remain MP’s have retracted the ‘britain first’ claim.
Another witness:
Graeme Howard, 38, who lives in nearby Bond Street, told the Guardian he heard the man shout “Britain First” before the shooting and during the arrest.
Police were understood to be talking to at least one witness who claimed to have heard the attacker shout words about the rightwing group, and the motivation for the incident will form part of their inquiry.
“I heard the shot and I ran outside and saw some ladies from the cafe running out with towels,” he said. “There was loads of screaming and shouting and the police officers showed up.
“He was shouting Britain First when he was doing it and being arrested. He was pinned down by two police officers and she was taken away in an ambulance.”
Guardian....
Don't forget the huge overnight money surge after Gov. Palin's convention speech. That infused money at a flow rate McCain's campaign had not seen before or hoped to see. All those small grassroots dollars that scared the crap out of the GOP-e.
see post 123.
Another witness reporting the same thing.
And no cellphone video of it?
Odd that.
There are many billions of dollars (and the promulgation of a whole religious belief system) at stake with the Brexit vote.
Expect shenanigans.
Because no one ever lies.
I wonder if mr. howard is on record anywhere as a remainer...
Or monetarily benefits in some way on britain being in the EU.
Whether he shouted it or not, it’s out there on social media now and will be very hard to undo if untrue.
The fact that her body isn’t even cold yet and the remainers are ALREADY using her death for politics should make you suspicious of the whole thing.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/16/remain-campaigners-rush-blame-brexit/
I am not on the “everything is a false flag” bandwagon.
But this stinks. At the very least, WHO heard him yell “Britian first”? Any recordings? I want to know the name/s of hte person/s who supposedly heard that. And if he did or did not yell it, did anyone inspire him or suggest or otherwise convince him to do this? Who?
Shot? I thought Britain had a gun ban. (sarc)
Wrong and wrong. but nice try.
No try.
Was watching the BBC broadcast when it happened.
Interviewed the guy and turns out he was 2 blocks away at the time.
Interviewer dropped him like a hot rock.
But the remainers are campaigning on her (still warm) dead body now.
Including you I’d wager, from your comments.
Clarke Rothwell and Graeme Howard are your eye- and ear-witnesses. Each told separate newspapers they heard the attacker say those words. The other person quoted was Hicham something or other but he made clear that he was passing along info that he had heard from others, and had not himself heard it first hand. That is the only “retraction” and it wasn’t a retraction, it was just that he was originally misquoted as an eyewitness, when he really came on the scene just after.
The attacker is an insane loner with no connections to anyone other than a handful of people for whom he does a little gardening.
Yes, but that is NOT who was being quoted as an eyewitness.
The actual eyewitnesses have NOT changed their stories and you need to stop lying and saying they have.
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