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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:12 PM
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AP, other news outlets omit killer’s racist diary rants
George Sodini, the man who took the lives of four women, and then his own, at a Pittsburgh-area fitness club Wednesday, leaves behind a long history of right-wing anti-government militancy.

In political rants on the Internet, going back to the early days of the Web, Sodini showed a consistently anti-government attitude. As first reported by Greg Mitchell at his Huffington Post blog, in the mid-1990s Sodini posted to a newsgroup titled misc.activism.militia, where right-wing libertarians and survivalists compared notes on the state of politics, and made plans for upending the “socialist” policies of the Clinton White House. Sodini appeared to support a violent overthrow of the US government in order to return the country to its “Constitutional order.”

“I am convinced that more drastic action is required to bring the country back to the Constitutional order that it was 200 years ago,” Sodini wrote at the newsgroup. “I don’t think any group of political leaders will achieve this for us.”

But Sodini wasn’t exactly advocating militant revolution. As he saw it, a violent overthrow of the US government would “cause the investors holding the $4.8 trillion of US public debt debt to panic. If a portion of them decide to sell their dollars and buy something more stable such as yen, mark, gold etc.”

Sodini also posted to other newsgroups, such as one discussing the Clinton Whitewater affair, where he boasted of buying “Stop Socialism Impeach Clinton” bumper stickers from ads in the National Review.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/05/ap-omit-killers-racist-diary-rants/
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:15 PM
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1. Recommend
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:16 PM
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2. But...but...but.... he wasn't a wingnut! (So we've been told...)
...
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:18 PM
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3. No Suprise
anybody?
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:27 PM
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4. Thanks. This crap is an epidemic and there needs to be pushback.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:29 PM
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5. Such whitewashing is standard, unfortunately. But this seems to be more of a...
"horny angry man" attack than anything.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:29 PM
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6. Q: What's the difference between George Sodini and any number of lonely, angry men?
A: A dufflebag full of guns.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 03:41 PM
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7. I'm betting they dig more up on this jerk on the web
in next 24-48 hours.
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