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Title: Stephen Paddock: The Most Plausible Theory Of His Motivation
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Published: Oct 7, 2017
Author: Jack Kerwick
Post Date: 2017-10-07 16:46:57 by tpaine
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Stephen Paddock: The Most Plausible Theory Of His Motivation Published on October 3, 2017 in Politics by Jack Kerwick As I write this, there is only a small handful of facts, or alleged facts, that all of the talking heads in Big Media seem to agree upon regarding “the largest mass shooting in American history.” First, 64 year-old Stephen Paddock, a white man and resident of Nevada, appears to have acted alone when he opened fire upon over 22,000 country music concert attendees in Las Vegas. Second, Paddock had a lot of weaponry, guns of various sorts, in the hotel room that he used as a sniper’s nest. Third, Paddock is a relatively wealthy man who enjoyed gambling and may have accrued quite a bit of debt as a consequence of his sinful pleasure. Fourth, the shooter has a girlfriend, Marilou Danley, an Asian woman who, at the present moment, is in Tokyo. Initially, police cleared her of any wrongdoing. According to the latest update, however, they still plan on interrogating her when she returns to the states. Fifth, nearly 60 people are now dead, and over 500 people have been hospitalized. Finally, according to his own brother, Paddock had no political or religious affiliation. As things always go with these sorts of matters, what we think we know now will inevitably change and, in some respects, undoubtedly change dramatically as more information comes to light. So far, though, this is essentially the extent of the propositions on which the Big Media insiders agree. Admittedly, I don’t know anything more at the moment. However, I’m shocked (though not particularly surprised) that no one—namely, no “conservative” commentator—has so much as suggested even the possibility that this historically unprecedented massacre just may be the event in which the violent hatred to which suspected Deplorables have been routinely subjected for over a year-and-a- half has reached its bloody climax. From even before President Trump received his party’s nomination, leftist agitators, mostly fans of Bernie Sanders, began making it a habit to crash Trump’s rallies and assault his supporters. Since this time, literally hundreds of Trump supporters, men, women, and young teenagers—the folks who Hillary Clinton infamously characterized as “deplorables”—have had theirs person and property abused by leftists of different sorts. Antifa (“Anti-fascists”), BLM (Black Lives Matter), and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) are some of the more militant leftist organizations that came to be counted upon to attack indiscriminately, and with a range of weaponry, Trump supporters—i.e. veterans, flag-waving patriots, Republicans, Christians, and anyone and everyone else who is deemed “fascist.” Pepper spray and bear mace; sticks of dynamite and Molotov cocktails; bats, pipes, clubs, and flagpoles; stones, flamethrowers, and bottles; feces and urine —these are among the weapons that have been used against those who have declared their support for “free speech,” Trump, and the American flag. Some far left members of “The Resistance” have indeed shown up to some events armed with guns, although no one, to my knowledge, has yet used these guns on Trump supporters. Of course, as recently as June, a Bernie Sanders admirer and avid MSNBC viewer, James Hodgkinson, in an effort to slaughter as many Republican members of Congress as possible, shot several, including and most notably, Steve Scalise (And shortly before this event, another zealous Sanders fan, Jeremy Christian, who the media tried to depict as a “white supremacist terrorist,” stabbed three men on a Portland, Oregon train, killing two of them). In other words, the last nearly two years have established two things: (a) Violence against anyone and everyone who is suspected of having contributed to the election of President Trump (and the GOP) has been normalized; (b) This political violence has been normalized by those on the far left. It also bears noting that Antifa and the like, in affirming their allegiance to “The Resistance,” affirm their ideological and political affinity with all of those “mainstream” Democrats in Congress and the media who similarly raise the proverbial banner of The Resistance. For that matter, the embarrassment of a former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, also proclaimed her own allegiance to The Resistance some months back, as did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Democrats own the fringes of their party. Now, given the patterns of the last two years (to say nothing of the left’s long history of violence), is not the theory that the Vegas killer was but another committed Resister, determined to, “by any means necessary,” “bash the fash” not eminently plausible? After all, the predominantly white country music fans upon whom Paddock set his sights constitute the collective poster child of the Deplorable, a fact of which leftists, in their ever articulate manner, have spared no occasion to remind us from the moment that word broke of this outrage. Shouldn’t someone in Big Media, specifically, in the so-called “conservative” media, at least raise these points? Can there be any doubt that had this been a rap concert—an event comprised of tens of thousands of black men, women, and children—that, despite being short on verifiable facts, the very media figures who now refuse to indulge speculation as to the shooter’s motive would have wasted no time in speculating about “racism?” Can we doubt that had the targeted event been a gathering of tens of thousands of Hispanics or Muslims or gays that we would have been treated to endless speculation concerning the likely “racism,” “Islamophobia,” and “homophobia,” respectively, of the shooter? There is nothing objectionable about speculating, as long as the speculation is reasonable, rendered plausible (if not true) by the known facts. Intellectually curious people speculate. Speculation is actually preferable to the incessant repetition of talking points with which Americans are relentlessly bombarded by the media whenever events like this occur. That those in the media now refuse to speculate or, to put it more accurately, that they refuse to advance the most plausible of speculative theories—the shooter, like the 66 year-old James Hodgkinson, who was in his age cohort, was an anti-Republican, anti-Trump zealot—is explained by the likely fact that he shared their animosity toward the same objects. I’ll show my hand now: While I may be proven wrong, I’d bet dollars to donuts that Stephen Paddock was driven by the same homicidal hatred of all things to his right that animated Hodgkinson. Paddock, I find it more credible than not, saw himself as a member of The Resistance
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#1. To: tpaine (#0)
Kinda tame for an InfoWars piece. No crisis actors, no nanothermite or dancing Jews, hardly seems like an InfoWars piece at all.
Info Wars. Wile T. Paine's idea of "experts". SMH.
I doubt whether his political views had anything to do with the shooting. Las Vegas gunman booked Chicago hotel rooms overlooking Lollapalooza: sources Stephen Paddock researched attack locations in Chicago and Boston before settling on Sin City, according to reports published Thursday. The 64-year-old retired accountant went as far as booking two hotel rooms in the Windy City that overlooked the Lollapalooza music festival held in early August. The rooms Paddock secured at the Blackstone Hotel offered a clear view of the outdoor festival, according to the Chicago Tribune. His reservation extended across all four days of the event — which drew hundreds of thousands of people, including former President Obama’s daughters Malia and Sasha. "Benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome—often abbreviated to benzo withdrawal —is the cluster of symptoms that emerge when a person who has taken benzodiazepines, either medically or recreationally, and has developed a physical dependence undergoes dosage reduction or discontinuation. Development of physical dependence and/or addiction and the resulting withdrawal symptoms, some of which may last for years, may result from either drug-seeking behaviors or from taking the medication as prescribed. Benzodiazepine withdrawal is characterized by sleep disturbance, irritability, increased tension and anxiety, panic attacks, hand tremor, sweating, difficulty with concentration, confusion and cognitive difficulty, memory problems, dry retching and nausea, weight loss, palpitations, headache, muscular pain and stiffness, a host of perceptual changes, hallucinations, seizures, psychosis,[1] and suicide[2][3] " Cruz told the Daily News and said in court papers that Paddock liked to get high and sold methamphetamine and marijuana. His behavior is “extremely erratic and unpredictable,” Cruz claimed. Rutroh! Your
Yeah, but that was his flaky brother, not the shooter in Vegas. I think the brother in Florida is yet another brother or half-brother.
Psychotic Apples in the family orchard. The autopsy will tell what sort of worms were growing in there.
It's certainly an open question whether Paddock targeted country-western fans and (supposedly) likely Trump voters. Clearly he did scout these big hotels in a number of cities to try to find his best vantage point for a massacre from high ground. His breaking of the second window so he could shoot at the aviation fuel tanks hasn't been mentioned much. Apparently at least one bullet hit and bounced off and another bullet penetrated the fuel tank but they patched the hole and it's fine now. Paddock apparently believed that one or two shots of a fuel tank is enough to cause an explosion, something that happens a lot more often in movies than it ever does in real life. He may have settled on Vegas and this concert because it was close to his home base and transport of the guns was easier. He probably also thought he would have a better chance at escape in a town he knew so well. No one has turned up anything on exactly how Paddock planned to escape, to fade into the crowds, whatever. That unarmed security guard going past his door really screwed up Paddock's plan. Or maybe he knew that the bump-fire would be so loud and likely to draw attention that he never did plan to escape. The ammonium nitrate in his vehicle wasn't really enough to do much damage. He did have a big bunch of Tannerite as well. No one seems to have any idea what he was planning to do with that but it can be fairly nasty stuff. He brought these things but didn't use them for some reason.
Most of his brains were scrambled or non-intact. Surely you must have seen that suicide photo. It's been floating around and looks pretty authentic when you compare it to other camera angles in the room. And the reporting has been that those leaked photos of the room are authentic.
Well, they have apparently answered one of the questions I've had: where did he shoot? WSJ: Investigators have uncovered video footage from a home-surveillance system that shows Stephen Paddock driving alone to an area on the outskirts of Mesquite, Nev. where locals go for target practice. The footage shows Paddock heading to the area on the Friday before the attack, the official said. A spokeswoman for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department didn’t immediately return a request for comment. In recent years, Paddock split time between a home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Mesquite and hotels in Las Vegas, about a 90-minute drive. His neighbors say they hardly knew him. His home backed up to a golf course, but he wasn’t known there, either. In late 2016, Paddock began buying dozens of weapons that were later found in his homes and at the shooting scene. He bought 33 of his 47 guns since last October, including AR-15-style rifles, authorities say. A dozen high-powered rifles found in his 32nd-floor hotel suite at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino were equipped with “bump stocks,” a modification that allows a semiautomatic rifle to mimic a fully automatic weapon. . . . If that was his regular practice range, then can they find local Mesquite residents who saw him shooting at this informal desert range? It's a town of 18,000 people. There have to be a number of gun guys there, all using that desert range. Someone must have seen him shooting. If he did buy 33 of his 47 guns since last October, that means there are records. So did he buy them at gun shops, a private gun dealer, at gun shows, some combination? It seems like a pertinent detail for the story. He was buying a 2-3 guns a month for almost a year. That's an interesting purchase pattern.
Info Wars. Wile T. Paine's idea of "experts". SMH.
Was Las Vegas Massacre 'Fast And Furious' On Steroids, A Massive Gun Running Scheme Gone Terribly Wrong? Mandalay Bay CEO Donated Money To Groups Tied To Islamic And Domestic Terror Groups. What's 2+2? You need an "expert" to figure that out for ya too Mr. "Conservative"?
* Benzodiazepine * Moaning in bed * Prolonged insomnia? I think Paddock was probably psychotic. Ask Chris Kyle how that works out.
Maybe FOX News got it first. Fox News expose: Israelis had foreknowledge of 9-11. The Five Dancing "Israelis" Arrested On 9-11 The FBI came to the conclusion... that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front. -Forward (A Jewish Magazine) March 15, 2002 "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." Said one of the men, "Our purpose was to document the event." On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good……. Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)" But, if the taxi driver was Jewish and she farted - the Angels would dance in heaven. Have you considered a Lutheran - Klingon angle?
Actually, I have.
Easier and less likelihood of the transport being detected. The reason he didn't attack a rap concert or a "gathering of tens of thousands of Hispanics or Muslims or gays" is that Las Vegas is not the ideal venue for those groups. He took what he was given.
Certainly, it's always easier to argue 'path of least resistance' and Occam's razor. And this guy was a Rainman type, calculating every angle and the statistical likelihood of various outcomes. His brother in FL spoke about this. I'm sure you agree that they are obligated to investigate every angle. He may have had other motives than just picking the easiest and nearest target. I wonder how many hotels are stepping up security, metal detectors. Also, has Vegas seen a wave of cancellations in their bookings in the wake of this shooting due to people fearing a follow-on attack or that that Vegas venues are poorly protected by police. Certainly, that Clark County sheriff is an imbecile with a big big mouth.
Didn't he use his own name to check in?
The initial reports back on Monday mentioned that he used his girlfriend's ID or credit card at the hotel. Perhaps he booked the room online using her card or something. We haven't heard any more details on why they said that initially.
Even then, not the actions of one trying to sneak away. For a guy as meticulous as he was, I can't believe he'd make such a rookie mistake. If his intent was to escape.
It's absolutely the reason he chose a country shit kicker event. Won't find no Shitlary or Commie Sanders voters in that crowd... no filthy urban zoo animal Black Lies Matters knee-grows... or ANIFA anarchist scumbags. Plenty of video of this shitbag at ANTI TRUMP RALLIES... but of course MSM and liberal Deckard will repeatedly propagate the "no political ties" horse shit. I'm the infidel... Allah warned you about. كافر المسلح
I think there are contradictions in these descriptions of him. And yet they might all be correct. A meticulous planner. A guy who picked his video poker machines by mental calculation of the odds of a payoff. A guy who creeped out the other high-rollers by staring at them (or their machines). An antisocial type. An extreme germophobe or allergy nut, so allergyphobic that he got those big hotels to agree to only clean his room with water and nothing else, not even vinegar. He had an gun stockpile of a dozen guns until a year ago and he tripled that to 47 guns in the last year. He had night terrors, moaning and yelling OMG according to his GF. He had a privacy fetish, keeping all his windows closed/covered, put up a solid privacy fence around his Mesquite house until the neighbors made him take it down. So he was a planner but maybe one who felt he was running out of time. Or that he lacked the nerve to carry out the big massacre he fantasized about. He also made no real use of his video camera setup or did enough to restrict access to his floor to give him more time to shoot and/or escape. He had the ammonium nitrate and a quantity of Tannerite but had no real plan to use them. I think he planned something bigger but he didn't carry through. Some use of explosives, possibly to help cover his escape. There's something about these descriptions that made me think he thought he was running out of time or running out of nerve or both. And that pushed him ahead to launch this attack without making use of explosives or a plan for escape.
He did scout hotels in other cities overlooking big events like that Lollapalooza in Chicago. Well, I saw him at one wearing a pink pussy hat. Anyway, everyone thinks that was him and his GF. Certainly, they're dead ringers for them if that isn't them at that protest.
Probably not: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3591357/posts?page=204#204
Unless the Niburutians altered those earlobe photos to fool us.
#2. To: Tooconservative, Tpaine (#1)
Kinda tame for an InfoWars piece. No crisis actors, no nanothermite or dancing Jews, hardly seems like an InfoWars piece at all.
#3. To: tpaine (#0)
After all, the predominantly white country music fans upon whom Paddock set his sights constitute the collective poster child of the Deplorable, a fact of which leftists, in their ever articulate manner, have spared no occasion to remind us from the moment that word broke of this outrage.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#4. To: Deckard (#3)
http s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzodiazepine_withdrawal_syndromeMilage Self-Medicated Autopsy Results May Vary!
#5. To: VxH (#4)
#6. To: Tooconservative (#5)
(Edited)
Yeah, but that was his flaky brother, not the shooter in Vegas.
#7. To: Deckard, VxH (#3)
#8. To: VxH (#6)
The autopsy will tell what sort of worms were growing in there.
#9. To: VxH, tpaine, Deckard (#6)
. . .
#10. To: VxH, Y'ALL (#2)
Tooconservative, Kinda tame for an InfoWars piece. No crisis actors, no nanothermite or dancing Jews, hardly seems like an InfoWars piece at all.
#11. To: Tooconservative (#9)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#12. To: tpaine (#10)
#13. To: Tooconservative (#7)
Paddock apparently believed
#14. To: Tooconservative (#1)
Kinda tame for an InfoWars piece. No...dancing Jews...
--US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report (that was later erased from the Fox News website) on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Two of the "Five Dancing Israelis"
According to ABCNEWS sources, Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal — and after 71 days, the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported back home. While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS' questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home.
But how did they know there was going to BE an "event"?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#15. To: Tooconservative (#1)
or dancing Jews
#16. To: VxH (#15)
Have you considered a Lutheran - Klingon angle?
#17. To: Tooconservative (#7)
He may have settled on Vegas and this concert because it was close to his home base and transport of the guns was easier.
#18. To: misterwhite (#17)
(Edited)
#19. To: Tooconservative (#7)
He probably also thought he would have a better chance at escape in a town he knew so well.
#20. To: misterwhite (#19)
Didn't he use his own name to check in?
#21. To: Tooconservative (#20)
mentioned that he used his girlfriend's ID or credit card at the hotel.
#22. To: Tooconservative (#7)
(Edited)
It's certainly an open question whether Paddock targeted country-western fans and (supposedly) likely Trump voters.
#23. To: misterwhite (#21)
If his intent was to escape.
#24. To: GrandIsland (#22)
It's absolutely the reason he chose a country shit kicker event.
Plenty of video of this shitbag at ANTI TRUMP RALLIES...
#25. To: Tooconservative (#24)
Well, I saw him at one wearing a pink pussy hat.
#26. To: VxH (#25)
Probably not:
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