White racist [Robert Gene Baker III] hunted after sniper attacks [in Maryland]

UK Independent ^ | 6 OCT. 2002 | Andrew Gumbel

[caa26]

According to a WBAL TV in Baltimore special report Robert Baker has been cleared as a suspect.

[Gumption]

Whoever it is, it has to be an angry white male with racist militia ties who hates our wonderful government. I'll even bet the SOB smokes.

You may be right on all counts! - Now what part of that bothers you?

According to your average gray matter deficient leftist, that would include Rush Limbaugh listeners, FReepers, and any person who has walked onto the grounds at Bob Jones University.

[HairOfTheDog]

According to your average gray matter deficient leftist, that would include Rush Limbaugh listeners, FReepers, and any person who has walked onto the grounds at Bob Jones University.

Then I guess it is our job to look different.... So different that we don't feel like we could be confused with this guy. Most people out there can tell the difference, honestly.

[ConservativeLawyer]

He has been cleared in this matter. See this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/763772/posts?page=22

[pray4liberty]

Well, whoever he is, he's crazy, but not so crazy that he knew where to go to find his victims--in gun-control Maryland.

I have predicted privately that terrorism of this sort would start in the gun-control states first.

[Gumption]

Then I guess it is our job to look different.... So different that we don't feel like we could be confused with this guy.

Sarcasm?

[Joe Hadenuf]

i heard a putative chief of police plead that the shooter surrender and "stop the madness..oooo oooo

When I first heard the police chief speak at a news conference a day or so ago I didn't know he was the chief, I thought he was just one of the rank and file, when I heard he was the chief of police, I was totally stunned.

This man is way over his head, out of his league.....

[FreedomFriend]

It's good that they won't use this against the "evil, right wing".

Thanks for the update.

[Godebert]

"Then I guess it is our job to look different.... So different that we don't feel like we could be confused with this guy. Most people out there can tell the difference, honestly."

Our job to look different? Who the heck do you think you are? I'll look any way I dang please, missy.

[ConservativeLawyer]

You're welcome.

BTW: its my understanding they are holding him on an unrelated arrest warrant out of Florida for auto theft.

[HairOfTheDog]

Wasn't really sarcasm... no. But maybe not well put either. I am talking about selling our image. Some were freaking out that if this guy turned out to be a "white supremacist militia dude" it would look bad for us. If that is true, then don't you think we should be more worried about distancing ourselves from "white supremacist militia dudes"? That is what I meant. We keep blaming muslims for not outing their freaky fringe. Well, I think we should express more willingness to do the same. We go a little too into "self-protection mode" when this stuff happens, and not enough into "law and order posse mode". Our roots were in law and order once.

In other words.... if we think the media thinks owning guns is a freaky fringe thing to do, then it is our job to change that. No one else is gonna do it for us. The other side has polished their message for mass consumption, we should do the same.

[IsItTimeYet]

Where are the attempts to help correct the media on what the proper terms for describing the weapons are? - They don't know, so tell them. We need to be helpful is all

but what happens to your premise if they DO know, but instead prefer to continue their demonization of the gun and any white person who owns one?

They misrepresent this information and ham up the damning mischaracterizations because it reflects their ideology onto the masses. playing nice will not change their tactics, it just gives them someone to laugh at along the way.

[HairOfTheDog]

Can I can call you sonny? No one has called me missy since I was about nine.

[HairOfTheDog]

Who, the media? They don't know a rifle from a shotgun.... Their feet haven't left pavement since youth camp. They have never been in the same room as a gun.

[IsItTimeYet]

I don't think being hyper-sentive if this guy might be a right wing militia dude will win any votes to our side.

It's not about winning votes, it's about being completely fed up with this offensive mischaracterization...

You're sentiment is understandable and your suggestions are sound, in a different context. Forgive my lapse into metaphor, but you're arguing about the proper way to boil the egg with people who are just trying to get the egg off their faces....and I'm one of them.

This crap from the media really gets under your skin after a while.

[FreedomFriend]

The media is not going to change, and they'll LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE, LIE regardless what anyone does. They have an agenda, and so do many people within the US GOVERNMENT. Ever heard of the Government-Media Complex. These tyrannical "thugs" will stop at nothing to destroy our rights, and they'll demonize anyone who gets in their way. Thus, that's why the "angry white male" is a target. Without the white male, let's be honest, this country would already be in the crapper, for there isn't another segment of the population that is as patriotic and constitutionalist as the white male.

[HairOfTheDog]

I know it is frustrating, but it is always about winning votes. Either we do, or they do.

[IsItTimeYet]

Am I to assume the all the victims were of persons of color?

At least two of the victims were in a racially mixed marriage. It's hard to tell about the others, but I do think there is a criterion for selection of targets. I don't think these triggers are pulled at random. Although, I don't have enough information to probe further, this scenario ( gunning down racially mixed couples in parking lots from a vehicle ) is depicted in a book by the late William Pierce (sp?) in some detail. This might just be spurious correlation on my part though, so I'm not going to play profiler and pretend this theory is valid.

[ninenot]

Furthermore, what in hell is a "high intensity" bullet? Is that like a high intensity lightbulb? High intensity novel? Or is it just really, really dense lead??