It’s not just talk; it’s filling young and impressionable minds with hatred of anyone not in the group. Worse, it’s coming from someone who operates in a position of real power, and whose words and deeds have been ratified by voters. These are extremely dangerous fireworks we’re playing around with here.
I feel good in this case for the SPLC because the article from the Spokesman-Review confirms what they said about him elsewhere.
Kids, now you know why shooting the messenger is an “Ad hominem” fallacy.
You’re blowing things way out of proportion here. They only plan on killing all the males.
With the implication being that they’re going to keep the females alive to be raped.
Point taken. Here’s an article from last year that has his manifesto posted.
He claims that these were only thoughts for a sermon or some nonsense, but he can’t be believed because in this section, lying is perfectly acceptable when Jesus is your trump card and it’s for a good cause.
HurricaneDitka, maybe you saw that Shea and Team Rugged are self-proclaimed Christians and assumed this was liberal bashing of Christian conservatives, but that’s definitely not the case. Consider:
The leaked emails quoted in the Guardian–which I know you distrust–were obtained by the Spokane Spokesman Review, a newspaper with a conservative newspaper in a solidly red part of the state. Conservative Christians are denouncing this guy, too.
The Spokane County sheriff, Ozzie Knezovich, is a staunch Republican:
This guy is not in your camp. Believe me, you don’t want him in your camp.
Because they don’t want just the land they own. They’ll want some lebensraum. They probably feel entitled to all of the United States, which should belong only to Real Americans like them.
nelliebly, I just wanted to circle back to this to complement you on a well-done post. I don’t live in Washington, so I’ll probably never have the opportunity to vote for, or against, Matt Shea, and I had no plans to donate money to him or his opponent, but your post has given me more to think on and mull over than the rest of the posts in this thread combined.
That was all information pulled from the Spokesman Review article linked to in post 13 and brought up several other times.
The local Republicans in Spokane County are now telling Matt Shea to please go now.
So is the Spokane Police Guild:
Even if this nutbag is removed or steps down from his current position, he will be haunting the area forever.
The conservative mayor of Spokane and Spokane Police Chief are also jumping on the “Shea needs to go” bandwagon:
Still some scumbag holdouts, though:
Yeah, Higs? You just know, then? You a buddy of his? Clairvoyant? Delusional POS?
It’s been only in the past couple years all this ugliness has been brought to light, so, the chances of him getting re-elected a seventh time, then?
Um, that’s probably a no.
Meanwhile, probably a safe wager that Russians are following this story (yes, even this one - if it’s in the news, and a powder keg for further political diviseness - hell yes) and thinking - “we got work to do”.
I wish I could believe that is true, but, a lot of crap came out before the last election, including his manifesto. He won that election, which was only 9 months ago, by 16 points. It wasn’t even close. :mad:
Take a gander at the Spokesman Review FB comments associated with these articles. There are too many vocal supporters of this guy. He’s nuttier than squirrel shit and they love him. :smack:
Ah, interesting.
And shitty!
Shawn Vestal explains the issue more clearly than my post:
Spokane Valley loves their local radical Christian warrior. :mad:
Thank you, and I appreciate the comment.
Matt “Christian Jihadist” Shea has finally crossed a line, even for republicans:
Helping plan the armed takeover of a federal facility is finally too much for WA state repubs. What will it take for WA DC repubs to do the same thing?
Does this guy get charged formally you think? It’s my understanding he hasn’t been charged for anything yet?