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Old 11-05-2009, 03:55 PM
 
Location: The Woods
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what are you watching? I haven't heard that.
Was listening to the radio, and chatting with someone who is married to a soldier out there, who had left base about a half hour before the shooting.
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:56 PM
 
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I'm with you! I am sick of this liberal PC [MOD CUT/profanity] that is going to get a lot of people killed! I can only hope and pray that conservatives mobilize and push all these lilly livered whining PC left wingers out of every office they hold so we ca recliam some sanity in this country!
"Who's crazy now"?

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Old 11-05-2009, 03:56 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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I bet his conspirators also were of the same background.
Could we please keep the race-based hate speech away from this?

One of my best friends is a Jordanian national with an Arabic name...who is a Christian, who served in the Air Force and who worked on New Orleans' recovery as an Engineer with FEMA.

Being racist against Muslims is just as bad as being racist against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or Whites.
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:56 PM
 
Location: The Great State of Texas, Finally!
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I'm just waiting for the "Blame it on Bush" bomb to drop. I guaranty you some stupid mainstream media hack will sprew that.
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:58 PM
 
Location: The D-M-V area
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Could we please keep the race-based hate speech away from this?

One of my best friends is a Jordanian national with an Arabic name...who is a Christian, who served in the Air Force and who worked on New Orleans' recovery as an Engineer with FEMA.

Being racist against Muslims is just as bad as being racist against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or Whites.
#1. Arabic isn't a race and none of my points are about a so-called "race".

#2. It is what it is, and when it all comes out in the wash you'll know that he was a disillusioned recent convert to islam who conspired with other brainwashed war weary troops to attack their military brothers.

#3. Islam is a religion, Muslim is a follower of Islam and NOT a so-called "race". And I don't follow organized religions because of the brainwashing dogma that takes over weaker minds as evidenced by this heinous shooting.
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:58 PM
 
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
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Could we please keep the race-based hate speech away from this?

One of my best friends is a Jordanian national with an Arabic name...who is a Christian, who served in the Air Force and who worked on New Orleans' recovery as an Engineer with FEMA.

Being racist against Muslims is just as bad as being racist against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or Whites.
Muslim is not a race, it's a religion. Get your facts straight.
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Old 11-05-2009, 03:59 PM
 
Location: The Great State of Texas, Finally!
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What I've heard chatting with someone who lives out there is he had recently converted to islam. He was already a solder when he converted.
And a news source (I can't recall which right now) said that one of the gunmen was spewing a bunch of Anti-Jewish, anti-American policy comments before opening fire.
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Old 11-05-2009, 04:01 PM
 
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I'm with you! I am sick of this liberal PC [MOD CUT/profanity] that is going to get a lot of people killed! I can only hope and pray that conservatives mobilize and push all these lilly livered whining PC left wingers out of every office they hold so we ca recliam some sanity in this country!
And what does "being PC" have to do with this shooting?? Should we just lock up every single minority or non-christian in this country? Or "send em back to where they came?" Give me a break....

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Old 11-05-2009, 04:01 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Absolutely.

If it was John Smith I wouldn't immediately think he's a closeted radical islamist.

The fact that the bozo had accomplices means they were conspiring.
So you're prejudiced against names that don't sound white?

Yeah, that sounds about right...


Does Timothy McVeigh sound like the name of a Terrorist to you? That's a former American soldier who went nuts and who murdered over 150 people, including women and children.

How about Eric Robert Rudolph?

How about Charles Manson?
John Wayne Gacy?
Ted Bundy?

Those names don't invoke fear in you because they don't include "hussein", "Muhammad", "abdul" or something else Islamic sounding...

This is a horrible thing to happen and it disgusts me that you'll try to infuse your racial prejudices into this thread.
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Old 11-05-2009, 04:01 PM
 
Location: The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile, AL
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Could we please keep the race-based hate speech away from this?

One of my best friends is a Jordanian national with an Arabic name...who is a Christian, who served in the Air Force and who worked on New Orleans' recovery as an Engineer with FEMA.

Being racist against Muslims is just as bad as being racist against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians or Whites.
Thank you, pug. LOOK, and I normally don't SHOUT, some of us KNOW PEOPLE who are stationed at Ft. Hood. I literally have known two soldiers there since they were babies--I used to baby sit them. Have no idea if they are among the victims. PLEASE, in the name of all decency, give it a rest for a little. Maybe a couple of hours?
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