White Supremacist preacher kills two cops after traffic stop

White Supremacist preacher kills two cops after traffic stop
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFwg9V4RcA&feature=player_embedded

Police killers identified as activists on mission to spread anti-government message

* By Zack McMillin, Marc Perrusquia
* Posted May 21, 2010 at 10:38 a.m. , updated May 21, 2010 at 11:57 p.m.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/21/relatives-id-west-memphis-suspects/

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West Memphis police officers killed by right wing extremists
by HOGvol
Sun May 23, 2010 at 07:27:41 AM PDT

I know that the news of these killings is a few days old, but I wanted to wait until the suspects were identified before I mentioned anything about the motivations of the perpetrators. I must admit that I am a little surprised that even several days after this event there does not seem to be a lot of media coverage of it. You can read about it here.

So, following a traffic stop, a bible thumping, anti-government, AK-47 wielding wingnut named Jerry Kane and his son manage to kill two police officers and wound two other officers without any major blowback to the Republican party, Tea Party, and/or other (media) people who indirectly promote aggressive anti-government activities. I mean, hasn't the message that has been coming from the Republican fringe for months been that violence against the government can be justified?

Here are a couple of quotes from this guy from his YouTube videos found on his website:



much more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/23/869117/-West-Memphis-police-officers-killed-by-right-wing-extremists

And I believe that the media, by its silence, is contributing to this mentality.

Time is long overdue for a grand national awakening.

"They've got rights, they were only protecting their own, they were misunderstood, big gummint wants to take their ----- away," blah, blah, blah.

Absolutlely sickening.

with three degrees of separation from somebody who once worked on a campaign for Obama, the "possible connection" would dominate this week's news cycles.

Four police officers were shot in a diner and two days later, Maurice Clemmons, the man thought to have pulled the trigger was shot and killed after a traffic stop. It was near constant coverage at the time here in Portland, Oregon. It got some national attention because Clemmons turned out to be an ex con granted clemency during Mike Huckabee's tenure as Governor of Arkansas. The list of articles on the first Google page included CNN and MSNBC.

The other thing I thought interesting here is about the more recent arrests of the group from the Midwest. I'm recalling some mention of a plan to shoot cops, and then shoot more at the funerals for those cops. If I'm recalling correctly, I would think this should see at least some air time, but...

It's likely best to have low expectations when it comes to these gullible gophers keeping the gates.

is being screwed down ever more tightly. It is time for a sea-change here in the USA.

5/23/10 Kane’s frustration began at the local government level
SPRINGFIELD — Jerry Kane’s journey of extremism that ended in a shootout with Memphis police started in Springfield.

Kane, 45, has been traveling the country in recent years with his two dogs and 16-year-old son, Joseph Kane, giving seminars promising to reveal secrets to help foreclosed property owners stay in their homes.

Kane and his son were pulled over Thursday by two West Memphis, Ark., police officers Thursday, May 20, while traveling on Interstate 40.

The details of what happened are still being pieced together, but in the end the two police officers were shot to death and Jerry and Joseph Kane were surrounded to a local shopping center where they died in a fusillade of bullets from local law enforcement.

That Kane died while proselytizing against the evils of the mortgage industry and encouraging people to reject government control over their lives is a shocking evolution for people who knew him growing up in Springfield.

A 1982 graduate of South High School, Kane tried to become a part of the government as soon as he was old enough to vote, running for a seat on the Springfield city commission in 1983.

“I remember him at school as a nice young man,” said Roger Baker, who was mayor at the time and assistant principal of South when Kane was a student there.

But by the mid-1980s, Kane seemed to be straddling a line between wanting to participate in the traditional society and battling against it.

“Every time I’ve gone in the city building for anything at all,” he said in a 1985 interview “I’d always get upset by the bureaucrats. It’s a job and they get paid and I guess that’s the way they look at it. When it comes to where your hands are tied, they just won’t untie them.”

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/crime/kanes-frustration-began-at-the-local-government-level-722641.html

5/23/10 ‘Lies,’ baby’s death pushed Kane
Police shooter’s anti-government sentiment grew deeper, more disturbed over time.

SPRINGFIELD — As a young man, Jerry Kane wanted to change government.

The extreme views against public officials that he would hold years later were not yet solidified.

But there were hints.

Born in Columbus, Kane moved to Springfield in 1975 and was a 1982 graduate of South High School.

He ran for city commission three times, the first time when he was 18 in 1983.

He was already looking askance at society, he told a recent audience of his radio podcast.

“The reason I look at things so differently is because when I was a child, I came home from school one day (and) my dad told me that something they had told me at school that day was a lie,” he said in a podcast posted online May 6 through the hosting service for his website.

“After he’d gone on about it for a while really angry, I asked him why would my teachers lie to me and — I hate to say this — but he turned into a coward at that moment. It was like he saw he had just opened up a great big can of worms and was trying to shove the worms back inside the can. He kept saying, ‘Never mind, forget it.’ ”

Kane said he wouldn’t let go of the idea that teachers could lie to their students.

“I kept pushing him the rest of the night. I did take one thing from the conversation and that is they’re lying to you. So ever since then all I’ve done is try to find out what the lie is. ...”

Kane’s first run for commission ended in ignominy when he had to drop out after being charged with stealing beer from a railroad boxcar parked downtown.

Roger Baker, the former mayor of Springfield and assistant principal of South High School when Kane was a student there, said, “I was totally amazed when I found out he’d done something illegal (back then).”

During his time at South, Baker doesn’t remember anything else that stood out about young Kane.

“I thought he was stretching to run for the city commission,” Baker said. “As I recall, he was one of those kids who never did anything spectacular, but everybody knew him.”

During his second failed attempt at a city commission seat in 1985, 20-year-old Kane said he had just received his real estate license and was working with a local company.

His last bid for city commission was in 1991, where his petitions to get on the ballot fell short by a single signature.


lots more...
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/crime/lies-babys-death-pushed-kane-722614.html

The rest is just detail....

And get well to the wounded officers.

Can the city of West Memphis file a claim against the killers' estates? Hopefully the families of the dead officers will.