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Pittsburgh Suspect said a 'good kid' who wanted guns
UPI ^

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."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: copkiller; leo; pittsburgh; poplawski
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They don’t give out dishonorable discharges like parking tickets.

The vast majority of people who get them richly deserve them.


41 posted on 04/05/2009 2:03:46 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Chet 99
There is a certain small element of the far right that likes to rant and rave about Zionists - theyre just not welcome on this forum.

They are the neo-Nazis and they have much in common with the authoritarian/totalitarian/Islamist left. They have nothing in common with conservatives or libertarians.

And sure, the neo-Nazis want to keep their guns, so what? They just don't want their Jewish, black or anti-fascist neighbors to own guns. The neo-Nazis want to disarm the people just like the socialists and neo-communists want to.

42 posted on 04/05/2009 2:04:03 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: saquin
Poplawski apparently had posted on the white supremacist site "Stormfront"...

That clinches it. He was a neo-Nazi punk. It is ironic how the leftists, who are statists, will use this to call conservatives and libertarians Nazis, when the Nazis were also statists.

43 posted on 04/05/2009 2:19:35 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Palladin; Canticle_of_Deborah
KROP—Kid Raised by Other People...

but I thought it took a village ??? /projectile vomit

and also please note that his 'black' friend [who obviously voted for hussein] said he wasnt racist...cept for the 'zionist propaganda' part i guess...

44 posted on 04/05/2009 3:04:41 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 ("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: saquin

Anytime you see “ZOG”, you are dealing with a goofball.
Skinheads are the type of morons who blame the Jews because they lost their job as a Walmart Greeter.


45 posted on 04/05/2009 3:37:47 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( If this be treason, then lets make the best of it.)
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To: Chet 99
Perkovic said he had talked about "Zionist propaganda."

They had this Perkovic kid on a local radio show today, and he said he never heard the shooter say anything about Jews. He either lied yesterday when he said it on TV, or he was lying today when he said the opposite on the radio.

Either way, this kid has no credibility but he sure does seem to be working hard to get his moment in the media.

46 posted on 04/05/2009 5:34:25 PM PDT by Ditto
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