Posted on 04/05/2009 12:16:15 PM PDT by Chet 99
PITTSBURGH, April 4 (UPI) -- Friends said Richard Poplawski, 22, suspected of gunning down three Pittsburgh police officers Saturday, feared President Barack Obama would take his guns.
They also described him as a young man with an interest in politics who liked to party. Edward Perkovic, who said he first met Poplawski in daycare, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette his friend was a "good kid."
Aaron Vires, 23, said he sometimes worked with Poplawski and Perkovic on a radio show they broadcast on the Internet that focused on "politics, girls and life." Vires, who is black, said he and Poplawski had "spirited debates" about Obama but said his friend is not a racist.
Poplawski grew up in Pittsburgh with his mother and grandmother. Friends said his father "was not in the picture."
He was expelled from North Catholic High School and received a dishonorable discharge from the Marines, something friends said he engineered because he wanted to return to his girlfriend. He moved to Florida for a while, working as a glazier there.
But Poplawski appears to have some radical right views, the newspaper said. Perkovic said he had talked about "Zionist propaganda."
I read that “father not in the picture” post. Very interesting!
The only one’s I know of are pat buchannan and the skin heads and neo nazis. These people aren’t really conservatives though. tHey’re more like fringe elements of the libertarian movement.
Didn’t buchannan take over ross perot’s “reform” party? And then run it into the ground?
Yep.
KROP—Kid Raised by Other People
daycare—grandma—not much mothering—no fathering.
EPIC FAIL!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2222471/posts?page=36#36
We had an interesting discussion yesterday about the absence of fathers.
Read Gilbo’s post at #55.
The Democrats rail against Zionist Propaganda every day.
“suspected of gunning down three Pittsburgh police officers Saturday, feared President Barack Obama would take his guns. “
Strange, this is exactly what the ‘friends’ of the Vietnamese guy in New York said.
I’m guessing these “friends” in both cases are fictitious and created by the communist mouthpiece.
let’s just hope that there aren’t 500 stupid jerks marching to support him, with signs just like the perp that killed the 4 Oakland cops.
sounds like he was a “troubled” youth.
i wonder if he was on psychotropic medicine?
just a thought.
A good kid except for murdering people, and having a dishonorable discharge and the part where his mom couldn’t handle him and had to call the police to deal with him...
Idiots.
PUUUUHLEEEEZZZZ!
The MSM is ridiculous with the “left” “right” stuff.....
Based on the limited information I have, this kid was no conservative, libertarian, constitutionalist.. At best from what I can tell is he was a NAZI..
I think we should start framing ourselves from this perspective(see link), otherwise they are going to propagandize us into oblivion.
http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/upvsdown.htm
RIP to the officers.
Pit Bulls are animals and do things on their own.
None of my guns has ever jumped the fence by itself to attack the neighbor. Comparing a firearm to a pit bull is idiotic.
Socialism, Communism, Fascism have killed more babies than all the pit bulls combined.
A LITTLE GUN HISTORY (not mine)
In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own Government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent.
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent.
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent
i hate to say this but the whole framing of this story seems so staged
hes a good kid who happened to kill people only because he had access to guns
hes a conservative who said he would be responsible with guns and now look what he’s done!
therefore we need more rigid gun control for the safety of the children
He bounced a food tray off a DI. He sounds like a PETA member. ...fighting with his ma over the dog’s right to pee in her house. Yeh, good kid there.
to clarify, i don’t mean the story but how it’s ripe to be framed for the media
Uhhh... where did you come away with the idea I was comparing guns to pit bulls? I was comparing this homicidal lunatic, who was described as a “good kid”, to the pit bulls who have been given similar descriptions.
“where did you come away with the idea I was comparing guns to pit bulls? “
Guess I owe you an apology. IMO these stories are being used to drive anit-gun hysteria. There is a very obvious push for banning guns and from stories like this they are also targeting gun owners.
So now anyone who insists on Constitutional rights is a possible murderer.
They did this during the 90’s as well.. tried to blame talk show hosts and mainstream conservatives for OKC Bombing, etc.
I guess we can’t blame Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for all the urban crime. That’d be racist.
"...our Zionist occupied government (ZOG), and a slow painstaking movement towards censorship, mixed bloodlines that will erase national identity (deemed not to be appropriate in todays America, but I assure you, your nationality is something you should be proud of, NOT ERASE), and the way the Zionist media controls everything you see and heard on your televisions and radio's."
DOCUMENTS I RECCOMEND YOU READ BY GOOGLE: "Civil War II" by Tom Chittum "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" "The Turner Diaries" by Dr. William Pierce "Jewish Supremacy" by Dr. David Duke
These weren't just normal people worried about gun rights. These two are certifiable.
Nine times out of ten, someone ranting about "Zionist" this or "Zionist" that is a leftist. The neo-communists and the neo-Nazis both hate Israel.
That is hardly the behavior of a normal man, this is the behavior of someone who has mental problems, no impulse control and, obviously, a tendency to be violent. And yet the media and leftist politicians will spin it like this nut who washed out at boot camp is a typical former Marine, and we have to ban guns so that stressed-out veterans will not commit crimes. I remember how the media kept saying the lie that Timothy McVeigh was a typical veteran, ad nauseum.
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