I bet the BTK Serial killer suspect is a Republican ...

[John_Shadows_1]

... take a look:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/03/btk.killings.ap/index.html

He's from Kansas, he's a church leader, I bet he's a pious right-wing nut job in public, hiding a real dark side, there.

Anybody know for sure he's GOP?

[The Great Escape]

1. Apparently He Is

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3195785

[John_Shadows_1]

3. thanks for the feedback...

.... yeah, he's prayin' on the outside, but thinkin' about killin' on the inside - kinda like Somebody we know. Like, in the White House...

[bluedog]

BTK

BTK = BIBLE THUMPING KILLER......................



For now, Rader remains president of Christ Lutheran Church Council, although he will eventually have to relinquish some church leadership positions, Clark said.

snip

Rader can receive benefits he has accrued, said city attorney Tom Powell, although it's unclear how much vacation time, sick leave and retirement savings Rader has available. Park City hired Rader on May 10, 1991, and he was earning $16.20 an hour.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=4&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_re_us/btk_killings

(oh my god, he still is getting all the benefits....only in America and only for a republican murderer)

[mhr]

2. And I Wonder Why We Want The Democratic Party To Move Right?

This man is just one more example of Fundamentalist Family Values in action.

As the old saying goes:

When you lie down with the dogs, you get up with fleas.

[slackmaster]

4. I see this kind of question posted on RW boards occasionally

Except it's more like "Is so-and-so nutjob or criminal a Democrat?"

I'd be more interested to know what kind or what color of car the guy drives. Then we can use that fact to demonize everyone who drives a similar vehicle through guilt by association.

[Fridays Child]

6. There may or may not be a better correlation between behavior and...

...political ideology than there is between behavior and car color. It would be interesting to know if FBI profilers have ever picked up a party affiliation trend among serial killers.

[John_Shadows_1]

7. Ted Bundy was a Republican...

... he worked on a gubernatorial campaign up in Washington, and got busted for "dirty tricks" in the 70's. The GOP candidate had to ask him to leave the campaign.

Then when they were about to give him the juice, he made these tapes with some right-wing religious guy saying that porn made him do it - so the death penalty definitely worked in this case.

[slackmaster]

8. Well, John Wayne Gacy was a very active Democrat

The sword cuts both ways.

It may cut one way more than the other, I really cannot say. But it seems to me a non-productive line of discussion.

Republicans probably like beer as much as Democrats do. It really doesn't mean much.

[oasis]

5. Freepers know that he is one of theirs. "If it walks like a duck, etc."

Yet they will only claim a relationship with the killer in the White House.

[Sporadicus]

9. So Far, the Only Major Figure the 'Pugs Can Hang on Us

Is John Wayne Gacy, but he's from Chicago; everybody's a Democrat, right?

[slackmaster]

15. Does anyone know about David Berkowitz?

New York City.

Jewish.

Working class background.

Any bets?

Sentient beings who dwell in vitreous domiciles are ill advised to hurl lithoid objects.

Some Republicans are bad, some Democrats are bad.

I think most of us can agree that CLOWNS are bad.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

10. Could be because serial killers

don't want to stand out in their communities. Being a republican makes them look like everyone else in their communities. Being conservative denotes rigidity in a variety of ways, including in behavior and moral attitudes. This way, a serial killer does not give himself away.

If a serial killer identifies himself as a democrat, he looks more out of place within his environment. Remember that serial killers tend to be very involved in their local communities. Of course, there are some serial killers who were not republicans, but they too were democrats because where they lived the democrats were a great majority and, thusly, they would not stand out.

Serial killers think of themselves as smarter than the rest of the population. However, they are faced with a dilemma: if they reveal their perceived intelligence, they will be easily caught. Since they enjoy playing games with law enforcement (to show how smart they are), they tend to fly below the radar and not do anything so outlandish in their normal lives that would easily give them away. That is why many of them also have families and "normal" lives and jobs.

[John_Shadows_1]

13. But you do see how you could extend this type of ....

.... subterfuge to other nefarious activity? The right-wing shill who wants to be a congressman so he can do big deals for his corporate buddies, then leave office to work for the same companies he helped in public life, puts on the robes and poses as Mr. Pious Right. Meanwhile, he's meeting money guys on the golf course, drinking martinis, and in a few cases (Henry Hyde, Newt Gingrich, the guy from Michigan who got shot down for Speaker of House when he said he'd had an affair), taking a mistress, too.

And look at Limbaugh and his divorces and drug problem, or Bill Bennet and the high-stakes gambling (America's favorite moralist), etc. The Republicans do the same thing when they put on the moral face - it's a cover for something more sinister.

[vpigrad]

11. Repulicans always are.

Oops, I mean serial killers always are.

[indigonation]

12. Good Freudian Slip, and I agree

I put Karl Rove and Tom Delay on THAT level of disgusting. I doubt it would suprise anyone if they too had closet lives.

[Nomad559]

14. 73 percent of serial killers vote Republican

Is this true?
It was quoted In the movie The Life of David Gale

[slackmaster]

16. I think most serial killers are too busy killing people to vote at all

Finding new victims, getting rid of bodies, covering your tracks, maintaining a cover life so nobody suspects you.

It's a very demanding hobby.

[applegrove]

17. More interesting is that according to this past month's Psychology

today, sociopaths solve all emotional problems like a math problem. If you know a sociopath and have seen them as they age it is scary (and quite confusing) the lack of wrinkles (emotional ones).

So when you look at BTK and see those little overused 'thinking' wrinkles on his forehead between the eyebrows... and then you look at the wrinkle pattern on 'senior white house staff' members... it is the same. Lack of emotional laugh or cry lines. A whole lot of math problem wrinkles. :shrug: Don't know really ... I'm just saying that those wrinkles are also 'pattern' to look into too!