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> >Good points. My first reaction was there must be more to this than
> >the guy just being vocal about the presidents polices. I didn't look at
> >any more than that first page of twitter to get an idea of what he's
> >spewing. Didn't see anything about policy, just vile name calling and
> >hate. You would hope that a reporter would make some of that evident
> >in the story.....
>
> But that wouldn't sell any newspapers- The Examiner is a bit like
> our Globe, I think. just fewer alien abduction stories.
Must you insult the Globe like that? <g> The Examiner is one of the
shoddiest excuses for an on-line news source I have ever seen. We know
nothing of the SS's side of the story and that's just bad journalism. We
just have Tom's side of the story. Does anyone think if Jared Loughner gave
an interview that he would blame himself for anything?
It's very possible the SS got hold of copies of private email exchanges that
do contain threatening statements. We just don't really know and the
Examiner seems not to care other than to raise same old war cry: "Look what
that bad, bad boy Barack did NOW!!!!!" I doubt Obama even knew of it or any
of the over 400 threats (last time I looked) the Whitehouse receives every
day.
> When you and I agree on someone's 'politics' [or lack of] being nuts--
> the men in the white coats can't be far behind.<g>
Yeah. Who kidnapped the real Trader and replaced him with this sensible
person? (-:
> The shame is- that the guy is likely a good woodworker whose business
> went south for any of a million reasons, and as soon as he started
> blaming someone else instead of trying to correct the problem he
> started alienating customers. . . making his business slide further
> and convincing him that it was someone else's fault.. . . and so on-
My psychologist friend in Oz tells me that hatred of the President (Bush,
Obama, whomever) has a lot to do with people's issues with authority and
their relationship with their father. As people with illnesses like
schizophrenia descend deeper into the disease, they tend to become more and
more resentful of authority figures.
That's why the Pope's got his Pope-mobile. It's not just Presidents, it's
premiers, popes, political leaders and anyone whom a mentally ill person can
fixate on as the cause of their troubles. That often includes groups of
people. In Germany, it was the Jews. In Italy, it's the Roma. In Japan,
it's the Koreans, etc. It America, now, it seems to be Hispanics although
it's been a lot of other groups is the past, from Native American to Italian
to Irish.
So we don't know the mental state of this Tom guy (and maybe the SS *does*
know via PRISM). So no one knows what really triggered the visit from the SS
other than Tom's (likely to be biased) self-reported data about the
incident. It's important to remember in the recent ricin arrests the real
perpetrator went through great lengths to try to make it appear as if
someone else had sent the letters.
--
Bobby G.