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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 03:23 PM Jul 2015

La. gunman was a Tea Partier who hated Obama, admired Hitler and wanted women to shut up in church



John Russell Houser, of Phenix City, Alabama, posted frequently across a variety of online forums — from political discussions to message boards for Oldsmobile enthusiasts — where he complained about “moral decay” and media brainwashing.

“America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world,” he wrote under the name Rusty Houser in a December 2013 comment on Fellowship of the Minds. “I know next to nothing about Iran, but the little I do know tells me they are far higher morally than this financially failing filth farm.”

The 59-year-old Houser, who told acquaintances that voting was waste of time, was less active on Facebook and Twitter, although he left behind some clues about his beliefs on those social media networks.“If you don’t think the internet is censored, try reading a newspaper from a country that hates liberals the way I do,” reads his second — and last — Twitter post, from June 2013. The first argues that “Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed].”

His Facebook account shows just two likes — the “I hate liberals!” political organization, which uses an avatar that reads “Stand with Rand,” and the Crossroads Irish-American Festival.Posts on his Facebook page reveals an interest in limiting women’s influence over the church, a hatred for American culture, and complaints about liberals “brainwashing” Americans into hating their own country.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louisiana-gunman-was-a-confederate-flag-flying-tea-party-kook-who-hated-obama-and-admired-hitler/
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La. gunman was a Tea Partier who hated Obama, admired Hitler and wanted women to shut up in church (Original Post) octoberlib Jul 2015 OP
Librulls...I wonder what his favorite radio program was BeyondGeography Jul 2015 #1
MSNBC: shooter used to hang a Nazi flag shenmue Jul 2015 #2
whiney loser who blamed every one else for his problems. hollysmom Jul 2015 #3
^^ THIS ^^ FreakinDJ Jul 2015 #4
! City Lights Jul 2015 #9
+1 uponit7771 Jul 2015 #13
He also was charged and convicted of domestic violence. nt sufrommich Jul 2015 #5
agreeing that the guy was a lonely ,depressed and ignorant creep olddots Jul 2015 #6
Sounds like someone Jindal would solicit for votes kydo Jul 2015 #7
Radical "anti-feminist" lapislzi Jul 2015 #8
the minute I heard it was a 59 year old guy without a job in trainwreck, I knew hollysmom Jul 2015 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Jul 2015 #10
“America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world”. "the United States needed a pampango Jul 2015 #12
 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
6. agreeing that the guy was a lonely ,depressed and ignorant creep
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 03:42 PM
Jul 2015

gets us nowhere .If we want this to stop we have to be brave enough to get rid of guns plain and simple ,

kydo

(2,679 posts)
7. Sounds like someone Jindal would solicit for votes
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 03:44 PM
Jul 2015

A radicalized republican.

Too bad one of the heroes in this tragedy was a person Jindal hates, a teacher without a gun.

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
8. Radical "anti-feminist"
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 03:47 PM
Jul 2015
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/gunman-who-killed-two-women-during-trainwreck-aired-radical-anti-feminist-views-on-local-tv/

The very first thing I said this morning when I heard about this incident was that it was no accident that he chose "Trainwreck" as his theater. He was making a very pointed statement about women, and what could and should happen to women who step out of line (sounds like a familiar theme this week, when you can apparently be executed for "DWU*&quot

I feel sick.

*Driving While Uppity

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
11. the minute I heard it was a 59 year old guy without a job in trainwreck, I knew
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 04:37 PM
Jul 2015

Let a guy be a woman for 10 minutes, they wouldn't last, and I didn't even include childbirth in this.
Now I realize it gets mollified with white privilege, but still,
IN the 60's when my accountant sister graduated college, they told her not to expect to get a job other than book keeper. White guys had 5 interviews, black guys had 20 interviews, it took her almost 50 interviews to find a company willing to take achance on a woman accountant, she was paid less, because she was going to leave to have children, even though in the 8 years she worked there, she saw guys come and go. When she did get pregnant, she was no longer allowed to go out to clients, but had to move files in heavy boxes in storage. because, well, you know. She finally started her own practice, just as I finally became a self employed consultant to not have to fight for raises.
I am not saying racism was not as bad and worse, it is even harder in many fields for black women. I was in my first job for 10 months until I found out that they only hired whites and one person I hung out with for months was "passing", and then I got a respectable job. I also ended up working for volvo office for a short time, where I found that the group I was in only seemed to hire blonde Americans, I had a friend who was an Italian descendent, just as qualified who never got the job, you look around the office and think, what is the odds that the only qualified people up for jobs were blonde with blue eyes? They did hire consultants of all races and hair colors, but the majority were blonde, like me.

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pampango

(24,692 posts)
12. “America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world”. "the United States needed a
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 04:54 PM
Jul 2015

right-wing party like Greece’s neo-Nazi “Golden Dawn” faction to restore its greatness." "... had an issue with feminine rights. He was opposed to women having a say in anything.”

Quite a right-wing piece of work, this guy.

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