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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 11:01 AM Jun 2014

Hatriot Politics Created the Las Vegas Killers

John Avlon

Jerad and Amanda Miller, the Wingnuts whose killing spree left two policemen, a civilian, and themselves dead, were inspired by fright-wing radio hosts and militia movement groups.


The obsessively anti-government Hatriot movement moved from cultivating conspiracy theories to real killing on Sunday in Las Vegas.

The Wingnut Bonnie and Clyde duo, Jerad and Amanda Miller, stormed into CiCi’s Pizza and shot two metro cops, Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, at close range while shouting “This is a revolution!” They flung the Tea Party’s favorite coiled snake Gadsden flag and a swastika on the still-warm corpses and then moved to a nearby Walmart to murder a shopper before turning the guns on themselves.

But the crime scene chronology only tells part of the story—because the Millers’ Massacre had been brewing for a long time, visible online. Their Facebook pages detail a descent into a murderous rage, railing against a tyrannical government and parroting talking points from fright-wing radio hosts such as Alex Jones and militia movement groups such as the Three Percenters while “liking” the pages of conservative activist groups ranging from the Heritage Foundation to FreedomWorks and the NRA. Miller’s profile picture was a skull wearing an American flag bandana against a backdrop of crossed knives over the word “Patriot.”

“There is no greater cause to die for than liberty,” Jerad Miller posted on May 2. “Yes, standing before despots is dangerous and most likely does not end well for you. I know this, my wife knows this. Soon they will come for us, because they don’t like what we think, and what we say. They don’t like the fact that we, simply will not submit to fascist rule.”

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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. As Pew releases their ill-worded poll today trying to suggest Americans love leaving a soldier
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 11:41 AM
Jun 2014

as a prisoner until he dies, here is a poll question for you;

Do you believe the Las Vegas couple who ambushed and killed two cops because they thought the government was coming to get them are domestic terrorists or not?

How many Taliban should we exchange for them if they were captured by the Taliban?

blue neen

(12,308 posts)
3. This:
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 11:45 AM
Jun 2014

"These are the wages of hate: two dead police officers and one innocent civilian, all with young children, sacrificed to fulfill a twisted vision sold by online snake-oil salesmen and professional polarizers. The politics of incitement has a real cost when it comes in contact with armed alarmists who cross the crucial dividing line from being willing to die for a cause and being willing to kill for one."

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
5. Waiting on Fox News to dredge up some acquaintance who will mention how Miller had
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 12:42 PM
Jun 2014

visited a socialist website or such so the RWNJ's can paint these people as crazed leftists. Then the sheep at the MSM will quickly follow suit with the NYT and WaPo probably apologizing to the Wingers for even thinking of associating these two with them.

Initech

(99,915 posts)
6. Sad that those officers had to die because of bullshit coming from conservative snake oil salesmen.
Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:26 PM
Jun 2014

I really wonder why these assholes hate government so much. I really do.

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