Dem Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot In AZ (Update 4pm EST - Giffords Alive, Surgeons Optimistic)

tcrlaf | 1-8-11 | Fox News

[tcrlaf]

Shot at point blank range in the head, in Tuscon

[Gator113]

From listening to Fox, it sounds like Gabrielle Giffords has died.

Also, another 6 or so shooting victims have died.

[seekthetruth]

Giffords was just on FoxNews yesterday explaining her more conservative votes during the lameduck session, and described herself as a Blue Dog Democrat.

Yes, since you said that I recall seeing her on FOX yesterday.

Prayers up. How terrible and I pray that all will be OK.

[ETL]

I think we all know who the MSM will blame for this.

And they'll likely be dead wrong again...

Infamous left-wing terrorists, murderers, serial killers and political assassins

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Joe Stack (IRS plane crasher) sums up his “manifesto” with this, a popular Karl Marx quote and a stab at Capitalism...

“The communist creed:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed:
From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”

-Joe Stack (1956-2010)
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Full text here: (CNN PDF file)
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"The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville [Amy Bishop] was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe.

The report broke the day after it was learned that Bishop fatally shot her brother in Braintree in 1986. ..."

http://www.necn.com/02/14/10/Amy-Bishop-at-time-of-1993-mail-bomb-inv/landing.html?blockID=180453&feedID=4215
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"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."--Boston Herald, February 15, 2010

'Oddball' portrait of Amy Bishop emerges:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0

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From SFGate.com:

Unabomber essay urges attacks on 'techno-industrial system'
July 27, 2002 | By Dan Eggen, Dominic Gates, Washington Post

In an article published this spring by Green Anarchy, a radical environmental newsletter, [unabomber Ted] Kaczynski calls on revolutionaries to "eliminate the entire techno-industrial system" by "hitting where it hurts" and disparages the activities of most radicals as "pointless."

http://articles.sfgate.com/2002-07-27/news/17554242_1_contention-that-modern-society-radical-environmental-newsletter-kaczynski-kaczynski-s-views

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From the Wall Street Journal
NOVEMBER 24, 2007

Oswald was a dedicated communist who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 out of disgust with American capitalism. After becoming disillusioned with Soviet life, he returned to the U.S. in 1962. In early 1963, he bought a scoped rifle through the mail and soon used it to fire a shot (which missed) at retired general Edwin Walker, the head of the John Birch Society in Dallas. In the summer of 1963, Oswald was active in street demonstrations in support of Castro. In September 1963, he visited the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City seeking a travel visa that would allow him to travel to Cuba.

Oswald was among the radicals of the time who saw Third World revolutionaries like Castro as the wave of the communist future. He was well aware of Kennedy's efforts to overthrow Castro's regime. As a Senate investigative committee suggested in 1975, Oswald shot Kennedy to interrupt his administration's plans to assassinate Castro or to overthrow his regime in Cuba.

Ignoring Oswald's communist links, journalists and political leaders quickly claimed the president was a martyr to civil rights. Earl Warren said that Kennedy had "suffered martyrdom as a result of the hatred and bitterness that has been injected into the life of our nation by bigots." Martin Luther King said the assassination had to be viewed against the backdrop of violence against civil rights marchers in the South. James Reston wrote in the New York Times that "something in the nation itself, some strain of madness and violence, had destroyed the highest symbol of law and order."

The consensus opinion was that Kennedy was a victim of hate and bigotry, a casualty of his support for civil rights. The Cold War and Kennedy's ongoing feud with Castro were rarely mentioned as factors behind the assassination. The reasons? Mrs. Kennedy wanted her husband remembered as a modern-day Abraham Lincoln. Lyndon Johnson feared complicating relations with the Soviet Union. Liberals feared a replay of the McCarthy period, when the Wisconsin senator inflamed public opinion about fears of domestic communism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586848318702756.html

[eyedigress]

Multiple fatalities, including Giffords. This was a lefty nut.
My prayers to her family and of all the families involved. She had a strong moral bearing according to her record. The FBI needs to release this motive in order for it to be stopped immediately.

[MileHi]

This is one of those times it would be nice if FR worked

No doubt!

[Species8472]

Revenge killing for the 13 year old recently shot by the Boarder Patrol?

[shoedog]

Rueters says she has died, horrible!!

[shhrubbery!]

Looks like she was a very strong pro-abort and anti-gun, but supported SB1070 and getting the NG on the border.

Joe, I was in the midst of writing a similar reply to your post (above) on an earlier thread that got pulled - this is what I was writing:

You may be right, but oddly Fox News is just reporting that Giffords is "pro-life" and "pro-Second Amendment." The reporter who said that is, I believe, Rick Folbaum. Could be wrong of course.

Now I'm seeing a bunch of tweets blaming Sarah Palin already! All using the same language, blaming Palin's "infamous target map."

Hey as long as the leftoids are speculating, I will too:

1. This is close to the border. Could it be Mexican gang violence?
2. How about a disgruntled constituent?
3. A disgruntled former boyfriend?
4. A Palestinian, Al Qaeda "lone wolf" or neo-Nazi? One of the tweets claims Giffords is Jewish. Remember, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin is a Palestinian. And JFK's assassin was a communist.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

R.I.P., Miss Giffords. I hope the gunman ends up swinging from a rope.

PING!

[John W]

Amen. Jim, please get FR fixed. Someone is going to really need it some day and its failing.

[shhrubbery!]

Looks like she was a very strong pro-abort and anti-gun, but supported SB1070 and getting the NG on the border.

Joe, I was in the midst of writing a similar reply to your post (above) on an earlier thread that got pulled - this is what I was writing:

You may be right, but oddly Fox News is just reporting that Giffords is "pro-life" and "pro-Second Amendment." The reporter who said that is, I believe, Rick Folbaum. Could be wrong of course.

Now I'm seeing a bunch of tweets blaming Sarah Palin already! All using the same language, blaming Palin's "infamous target map."

Hey as long as the leftoids are speculating, I will too:

1. This is close to the border. Could it be Mexican gang violence?
2. How about a disgruntled constituent?
3. A disgruntled former boyfriend?
4. A Palestinian, Al Qaeda "lone wolf" or neo-Nazi? One of the tweets claims Giffords is Jewish. Remember, Robert F. Kennedy's assassin is a Palestinian. And JFK's assassin was a communist.

[yield 2 the right]

FOX NEWS Channel: Gabrielle Giffords has died.
Prayers, one of the worst days since 9/11.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The age suggests Mexican banger all the way.

No matter who it turns out to be, this is really, really bad.

[Mad Dawgg]

Prediction: If Ariz Gov is Republican and has to appoint someone to replace her The Dems will scream and throw a fit unless she appoints a Democrat to replace her! (We will even here how the Repubs had a hand in this...)

[yield 2 the right]

Twitter should be avoided.
Some really nasty tweets.....

[Jemian]

My condolences to her friends and family and to the friends and family of all the victims. May God comfort them. Prayers up!

[LostInBayport]

Bret Baier has said Rep. Giffords has passed, too.

May God be with her family, the other victims...and all of us.

[P.O.E.]

Shooter described as late teen early 20’s.

Strange how They can tell age by just looking, but can't tell ethnicity?

[fatima]

It’s hell trying to post.Congresswoman dead and 6 others.God rest their souls.