{"id":31334,"date":"2012-08-06T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31334"},"modified":"2012-08-06T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T17:08:53","slug":"wade-michael-page-the-sikh-temple-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31334","title":{"rendered":"Wade Michael Page; the Sikh temple shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC News<\/a> is reporting that he’s a veteran and served from 1992 to 1998, I guess we’ll have to wait to see if he was honorably discharged or not. Judging by the years, I have to guess that he was, but obviously, his status as a veteran should have nothing to do with what he did. No more than him being a 40-year-old bald white man with tattoos is an indicator of his propensity to shoot up a temple full of the most peaceful and tolerant people on the face of the Earth (you might disagree with that…but that’s your right). Some of the martyrs Sikhs revere were killed for defending the rights of other people to worship, not necessarily as Sikhs.<\/p>\n

Yeah, if Page killed those people for anything, it was for their appearance not for anything they’ve done – kind of the definition of a racially-motivated crime. <\/p>\n

The Blaze<\/a> reports; <\/p>\n

Prior to Page\u2019s identification, ABC News was already reporting that the man behind the attack was potentially a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201c and a \u201dskinhead.\u201d The suspect\u2019s landlord also told the Greendale Patch that she believes the man had \u201cjust broken up with his girlfriend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I guess 40-year-old white, bald men with tattoos should be reporting their relationship status to gun dealers when they purchase weapons. To their credit, Mark Potock and the SPLC crowd<\/a> hasn’t “gone there” yet with the whole veteran thing, yet. <\/p>\n

ADDED: <\/strong>Aunty Brat sends us a link to breathless BBC<\/a> which leads their story with the fact that he was a veteran;<\/p>\n

Wade Michael Page reportedly served in the US Army between April 1992 and October 1998, ending his career at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p>\n

A federal official told the Associated Press news agency that Page was discharged after being reduced in rank from sergeant to specialist, although the official did not give a reason for the demotion.<\/p>\n

Police said on Sunday they were treating the attack as an act of domestic terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it was terrorism, but just like the recruiting station shooting in Little Rock was, the shooting at Fort Hood, the Times Square bomber, and the little prick who wanted to blow up a bridge in Ohio. The difference is that the feds are actually calling this one terrorism.<\/p>\n

The news conference has been moved up to 11 AM Eastern. So we wait.<\/p>\n

ADDED MORE:<\/strong> Marginally related, our friends at The Duffel Blog<\/a> who make up stuff that’s too close to reality to doubt couldn’t help but write a fictional account of the media’s scramble to pin the murder on the military;<\/p>\n

Right now, I\u2019m working on pulling up his military records,\u201d said Davis Smith, a reporter with the New York Times. \u201cI already pulled up something that said he fired a pistol and a rifle in Army basic training. Law enforcement says he used a pistol in the shooting, so it\u2019s quite obvious that the military created this monster.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because it’s satire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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