[PJ] There might be something strange going on with the Highland Park killer’s parents, and the authorities aren’t yet willing to say exactly what.
It’s a story involving guns, police visits, a mysterious UPS Store mailbox, and a legal system with a "catch-and-release" policy regarding the dangerously mentally ill.
We’ve learned in the last couple of days that the alleged killer was yet another one of those "known wolves" that police were powerless to do anything about. What stands out in this case is what the parents may have done to enable their son.
Before we continue, please understand that I’m not saying the parents did anything in particular to make this young man into a murderer or that they knew he would kill. Parents all have their own blind spots when it comes to our kids.
That’s what makes this a tough column to write. It’s every parent’s darkest fear — the one we try not to talk about: what if it were our kid suspected of mass murder?
CBS Chicago reported Tuesday on two strange incidents but the station hasn’t yet been able to explain either of them.
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there, authorities said Wednesday.
The gunman turned back to Illinois, where he was later arrested, after deciding he was not prepared to pull off a shooting in Wisconsin, Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said at a news conference following a bond hearing.
An Illinois judge ordered the suspect to be held without bail.
Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said in court that the gunman “looked down his sights, aimed” and fired at people across the street, killing seven and wounding more than two dozen. He left the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop.
Federal agents were reviewing Crimo’s online profiles, and a preliminary examination of his internet history indicated that he had researched mass killings and had downloaded multiple photos depicting violent mostly peaceful acts, including a beheading, a law enforcement official said.
The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity.
At a bond hearing, Judge Theodore Potkonjak orders Crimo, who has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, to be held without bail and to appear on July 28 for a preliminary hearing.
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^ It was a S&W Military and Police AR-15. 5.56 mm. Lots of caterwauling about the name. Remember Bushmaster? After Sandy Hook, that name was going to go away? Yeah, right. You can still get. Who cares if you just call it a Plymouth Fury or Christine? It's all marketing.
When are we going to do something about high-powered LGBTQWERTY weirdness? About high-powered drug-fueled nihilism being celebrated instead of discouraged?
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Lake County Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon said in court that the gunman “looked down his sights, aimed” and fired at people across the street, killing seven and wounding more than two dozen. He left the shells of 83 bullets and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop.
I'm no expert but it seems like it might take some time for one lone shooter to fire that many shots and hit that many people. Surely the people were all running for cover after the first few shots. Couldn't they find any cover? How were that many people like so many sitting ducks? Or...did this admittedly deranged young man have an accomplice?
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Crowd on sidewalks. It says nothing about a skilled shooter. Anyone could get those results with high ground and a penned in crowd.
No need to believe the Lon Horiuchi Gun Club was backing him up.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Just asking. Like I said, I'm no expert. Just seems like an amazing number of hits for a whack job of a kid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Kid looks like a Fetal Alcohol Disorder poster child.
No matter what the PJ Media pansy says, I have judged both parents, and find them wanting.
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Mr. Crimo is apparently a middle child, with nothing of interest reported about the two siblings.
#14
The background info looks worse and worse on this for the parents. Of course, the Crumbleys don't look good either.
We allow people to sue companies over defective products. The judicial establishment likes to blame the gun, not the shooter.
Nothing will change until that misplaced focus is corrected...
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Mayor “Civil Discourse” Lightfoot announced that if she gets re-elected there will be a NASCAR street course race in Chicago the next three years. What could go wrong? “The Drive-By Shooting 500, sponsored by Glock, featuring Sniper Corner.”
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by Petr Ogradov
[REGNUM] INTRODUCTION
Russia is conducting a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. Its goal is to protect the Russian minority living in this country from persecution, discrimination, destruction, as well as to ensure the security of the core of the Russian nation in Russia from aggression from the collective West.
After the end of the NMD, the Russian leadership will be forced to reconsider its attitude towards all Russians scattered in the post-Soviet space in order to also protect them. However, the solution of this important managerial task encounters a weak theoretical study of the problem. Russian social scientists give a more or less detailed description of the situation of Russians in the former Soviet republics, but say nothing about the reasons for their persecution, discrimination, extermination, and are not ready to formulate proposals for the eradication of these misanthropic practices.
Partly the cause of theoretical helplessness is the dogmatic approach to the development of the Marxist-Leninist theoretical heritage, partly the timidity in rethinking the theoretical developments of Anglo-Saxon researchers. It does not help the solution of the problem, and the fact that Russian social science is financed at its key points by Western funds, which impose restrictions on the development of research needed by the country's leadership.
It seems to us that the concepts developed by the Anglo-Saxons to solve their own managerial problems can be successfully used to solve the important managerial problem that has arisen. First of all, it is the concept of genocide and ethnocide. This concept was developed in the USA by the Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin as a response to the persecution, discrimination, and then mass extermination of European Jews in the first half of the last century. It formed the basis of many decisions taken by the US leadership regarding Nazi Germany, its allies and satellites.
For the last fifty years, the development of the concept of genocide and ethnocide in the West has been occupied by hundreds of research centers, in which many thousands of scientists work. They provide their customers with recommendations that are of great practical importance. The acquired knowledge is used, among other things, to manage ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet space, to disorient the ruling Russian elites.
Let us apply the concept developed by Lemkin to analyze the position of Russians in Eastern Europe at the present time and compare the results obtained with the position of the Jewish diaspora in Western Europe before and during World War II. The basis for this kind of comparison is that both ethnic groups we have chosen are numerous, highly developed socially, dispersed in many countries and deprived of protection from their state. The Jewish diaspora in the first half of the last century did not have its own state at all, Russians living abroad for three decades after the collapse of the USSR did not receive real protection from their "mother" state - Russia. In view of the multidimensionality and volume of the topic, we will focus only on the ethnocide of these two minorities.
ETHNIC GROUPS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH EACH OTHER
The total society consists of separate ethnic groups - groups of individuals interconnected by common spiritual values and common social practices arising from them. The reproduction of such developed forms of an ethnos as a people and a nation presupposes the use of social institutions. These are churches, schools, universities, libraries, theaters, media.
The main burden in the process of the formation of developed ethnic groups falls on people who act within the framework of social institutions, manage through them the bulk of people - social elites.
Ethnic groups also create institutions of force protection from destructive internal and external influences. For peoples and nations, this is a system of power institutions - the state. The state is run by political elites.
For the production and distribution of material goods, ethnic groups create economic institutions. For peoples and nations, these are manufactories, factories, trading establishments, banks, stock exchanges. They are controlled by economic elites.
Elites, thus, dispose of the main part of the members of the ethnos - the masses. The masses are predominantly engaged in the production and circulation of material goods.
Ethnic groups compete with each other for the possession of the material resources necessary for their existence. With equal strengths of ethnic groups, competition between them is in the nature of an exchange of goods, spiritual values and social practices. The elites who implement this kind of policy can be conditionally defined as "white".
Ethnic groups that gain sufficient strength often attack weaker neighbors in order to profit from their material wealth, to appropriate other people's territories. Between the conflicting parties there are armed clashes - wars.
Winners in wars initially destroyed their ethnic competitors. The policy of physical destruction of a competing ethnic group is called genocide. The elites who pursue this kind of policy can be conditionally designated as "black".
When a certain level of development of productive forces is reached, it becomes profitable not to destroy an ethnic competitor, but to enslave or enslave its members so that they create a surplus product for the conqueror on a permanent basis. Between these two ethnic groups for a long time relations "domination - submission" are established. The elites who pursue this policy can be conditionally defined as "brown".
The ruling "brown" elites seek to consolidate their privileged position in society and therefore pursue a policy of suppression and discrimination of the conquered ethnic group. This policy is called ethnocide. The meaning of ethnocide lies in the destruction of the collective identity of the enslaved ethnic group and depriving it of the ability to organize resistance through this. The result of the policy of ethnocide is the relegation of the enslaved ethnos to the lower rungs of the social ladder or its complete dissolution in the environment of the dominant ethnos. In the first case, the strategy of the separate existence of ethnic groups is carried out - segregation, in the second case - the assimilation of the subordinate ethnic group by the dominant ethnic group. Complete assimilation allows you to increase the number and, accordingly, the strength of the dominant ethnic group,
The ethnos-"lord" is often referred to as the titular ethnos, since it gives the name-title to its state. The enslaved ethnos is often referred to as a minority, although this is not entirely accurate, since the dominant ethnos may be small in number, while the subordinate ethnos may be numerous. For example, the Manchus ruling in the Celestial Empire at the beginning of the 20th century were barely 4 million people, while the Hans controlled by them numbered about 400 million people.
Further in the article, we will use the term "ethnic minority" to refer to an ethnic group that lives in a "foreign" state and is subjected to persecution and discrimination by the titular dominant ethnic group.
Ethnic groups living outside their state or not having a state at all are often referred to as diasporas or, in Russian, scattering. Diasporas become the first victims of aggressor ethnic groups. In the context of the presented material, the term "diaspora" is used by us as a synonym for the term "ethnic minority".
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Whining that "everything bad I've ever done is now being done to me" is no way to go through life, son...
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Winners.
Suck on it, bitches. No one gives a fuck about Ukraine. Because no one loves a loser, and NATO LOST. The client state is in ruins. It has no GDP. It's lost over 22% of its territory. Its citizens are being annihilated.
It's over, folks. A total unmitigated disaster of the West's own making -- and now every western government has fucked up so completely that they're all fighting for their lives.
The doughty little comedian, the puppet in his khaki T-Shirt, is now demanding that the US and EU pay him $5 billion EVERY MONTH to prop up his government.
$60 billion a year. For the most corrupt government in Europe. The shit-stirrers and kleptocrats who stoked this whole disaster.
That is an unbelievable sum. Even when Ukraine was at peace this amount would have been 1/3 of Ukraine's entire economy. So now Ukraine's government equals 2/3ds of the entire economy? Really?
How much of this $60 billion annual extortion fee will actually end up being funneled through PrivatBank and eventually land in T-short Guy's offshore accounts?
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How much of this $60 billion annual extortion fee will actually end up being funneled through PrivatBank and eventually land in T-short Guy's offshore accounts?
#8
If you are reading or watching Hollyweird the 'Russian Mafia'' are certainly a safe target to make a villain... Most other minorities have defenders that will leap out of the woodwork scream *RAYCISS* or the like.
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[Regnum] At the beginning of October 1919, the threat to Moscow became more and more real, on October 8, A.I. Egorov was appointed to command the Southern Front. He recalled:
"In these days of October 1919, the fate of the proletarian revolution was decided in the vicinity of Orel and Voronezh."
On October 13, the Volunteer Army took Orel. On October 15, the Southern Front once again began to gather forces to prepare a counteroffensive. The situation was so difficult that on October 13 the Central Committee decided to withdraw everything possible from all fronts and direct it against Denikin. Lenin was exceptionally energetic:
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[DonRF] If anything, this is Petersburg, the Smolensk cemetery. These are flowers and a stone near the temple at the site of the first burial of Taras Shevchenko. Not desecrated, not de-Ukrainian and well-groomed empty grave. Taras Shevchenko is a Ukrainian writer of some note.
And this is Donetsk:
Over the past day, Ukrainian bastards fired more than 500 shells on the territory of the DPR. The following artillery systems were used: MLRS "Hurricane" and "Grad", howitzers with a caliber of 155mm, 152mm and 122mm, as well as 120mm mortars. As a result of shelling, 20 civilians were injured, four civilians were killed, among whom was a child.
Yesterday. Today, the shelling resumed in the morning, under the howl of their propagandists "the orcs themselves are damming bambas and burning cotton wool" (quotes). They are having fun. Then the truth, when it arrives again, they will yell "and we are for sho."
We are not them. We do not erase cities into rubble, turning apartments into firing points, and schools and kindergartens into barracks. We don't shoot for the past. We do not shoot peaceful quarters. And I don't know if that's good. As a person, I just do understand that yes, as a Donetsk resident, I think that if there were more misses, then less would fly across the DPR.
The most terrible thing is that these shellings kill morale. When yours are under threat, you want to take her away. At any price. They shoot at her, simply because:
The representative of the Odessa OVA, Sergei Bratchuk, believes that the vast majority of men will pass through the front, as well as many women.
There is an order to kill most Ukrainians. And more Russians. Tightly. And there is a lack of understanding in Moscow that these agreements are useless. For them, both peoples are firewood. For some, in the breeding of ubermens, for some, in the locomotive of their personal well-being.
No need to mock the past. You don't have to become them. You just need to start fighting, to collect men not for a contract, but for mobilization (partial) and destroy the saloreich. We have to save people. Tens of millions of psychopaths hostage soared to the top in 2014. Otherwise, the Russians will also become hostages. Already in the Borderlands.
The more we give in, the more they will kill. Psychos cannot be stopped by bargaining.
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...A tactical draw, but a strategic victory for the US - the Japanese lost one CV, losses to the Japanese carrier aircrews were bad, and that was aggravated by the fact that the IJN's aircrew training couldn't turn out anywhere near the numbers needed fast enough to sustain combat.
That meant that two fleet carriers sat out Midway...and history tells us what happened next.
[Breitbart] Harvard University professor Kenneth Rogoff warned of the possibility of a recession in the United States and predicted that the Federal Reserve is unlikely to secure a "soft landing" for the economy during a Wednesday appearance on the Fox Business Network.
A transcript is as follows:
MARIA BARTIROMO: I’m wondering if the sell-off in the price of oil has to do with these expectations that we’re seeing in this sharp slowdown in the macro. If you believe things will slow real fast and pretty significantly, you’ll believe oil prices will come down, right? Or is it a different scenario because of the supply and demand dynamics of not a lot of supply of oil and gas from here in America?
KENNETH ROGOFF: First off, Europe is in worse shape than we are. They have the energy problem, dependent on Russia and facing the costs of the war much more. That’s also part of the global oil story. Maybe China isn’t picking up as fast as some reports are saying. The oil is a globally determined price. But the United States still has a very high level of inflation and a very strong job market. I feel from strong conviction is the Fed’s not going to get its wish of a soft landing and I’m betting they’re going to blank, but I don’t think they’re going to be able to bring inflation down to target in the next year or year and a half and not have a pretty big recession.
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The future can dramatically change with new administration. I hope the big guy gets in. He has the ability to orchestrate a massive recovery. It would be historic.
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The indication that some people are starting to show that they think they may need their credibility later is a hopeful sign that maybe there will be a "later..."
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[AndMagazine] One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
About a week ago the government of the Netherlands announced it was declaring war on the nation’s farmers. In order to reduce what it considers nitrogen pollution the government has adopted a policy of drastically reducing herds, forcing many farmers out of business and cutting back on meat, pork, poultry, and dairy products for human consumption. The government wants to eliminate one-third of Holland’s 50,000 farms by 2030.
Are they mad?? The world is facing famine as it is, between Russia invading the Ukraine and the drought in the Middle East, not to mention reduced production in the rest of the world because of the China-controlled fertilizer shortage, and the Netherlands government wants to shut down farms?
In response, all hell has broken loose.
Dutch farmers have blocked supermarkets, food distribution centers, and roads in protests this week. Supermarket shelves are bare throughout the Netherlands as food distribution has been brought to a standstill. Wednesday morning, farmers are expected to demonstrate at the Groningen Airport Elde, according to Dutch media. The farmers have been joined now by Dutch fishermen who are blockading ports in solidarity.
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Funny thing - I have not seen squat on this in almost any MSM. I don't consume that much, but one would think this is newsworthy considering how much the Dutch actually export in terms of agricultural goods.
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I don’t have cable. All I see on network news is J6 and global warming. Nothing about the Dutch.
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The Dutch police fired “warning shots” at tractors the protesters were driving according to DerWelte https://www.dw.com/en/dutch-farmers-protests-over-emission-cuts-resume-after-police-fire-shots/a-62381532
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Last night protesters gathered outside the home of the minister for nitrogen policy, Christianne van der Wal, for the third time in a week. The group dumped a lorryload of manure on the minister’s doorstep and attacked a police car that was parked in the road.
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Was on a bus tour in Holland a few weeks ago, and the tour guide said the Dutch were the most efficient farmers in earth, with some figures to back it up.
For a little country, with big cities, there was a LOT of farmland!
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"How much effluent can you safely dump into the North Sea?" By 'effluent' we mean nitrates, phosphates and the like from fertilizers and animal / human excreta. Before you get Red Tides and the like...
The farmers want to farm and the Greens want all human effects to disappear returning the world to a utopian 'pre-human paradise. The Nomenklatura seem to feel they can always 'just import it' -- exporting the problems and Dutch jobs to the Third World. Sound familiar?
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I have meetings most mornings with coworkers over there in the Netherlands and not a single one of them has mentioned anything. I assume a massive divide between the bike riding city-based technocrats and the farmers.
I also wonder with all the bad news that has happened in the last few years if most have just tuned out, deciding to be blissfully unaware rather than go nuts with what is happening.
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Gouda cheese from Holland is good. Aged of course. Hope they get this figured out before I can't find it on the store shelves anymore. Last time I looked I couldn't find it.
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"Are they mad?? "
No, they are green. Though that may be the same thing these days.
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More from Slenter Panda4300’s Deutsche Welle link:
The government has appointed an intermediary to lead talks between farmers' organizations and officials drawing up pollution reduction measures.
However, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has ruled out negotiating with farmers responsible for radical protests.
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[AndMagazine] One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
