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More Florida News: Democrats Send in Soros-Connected Lawyer Marc Elias

Posted on | November 10, 2018 | Comments Off on More Florida News: Democrats Send in Soros-Connected Lawyer Marc Elias

It’s not a “conspiracy theory” if there actually is a conspiracy:

What could stand a good airing is the history of “Hillary lawyer” Marc Elias, of Fusion GPS-hiring, dossier-commissioning fame, with working on some of the most contentious recounts in the last 20 years.
Elias leads the delegation of Democratic lawyers “descending on Florida,” to use Rubio’s expression. And vote recounts and voting-rights lawsuits were well known as Elias’s specialty long before he gained notoriety as Hillary’s man at Perkins Coie, the go-between for the Steele dossier in the 2016 presidential campaign.
It’s worth noting at the outset, as always, that Elias’s voting-related activities over the years have benefited from funding by George Soros. . . .
Elias is the house lawyer for the national Democratic Party, a fixture whose specialty is working the mechanics of voting in order to get the big, high-profile Democrats elected to the big, high-profile offices.
In this guise, he has been involved in most of the spectacular recounts in recent memory, starting with the Florida recount of the presidential vote in 2000.
Funny how everytime Mr. Elias shows up so do uncounted ballots — out of thin air.

It’s that Broward County magic, folks. Did I say “magic”? Oh, I meant fraud:

“Earlier today the attorneys for Chelsey Marie Smith released her sworn statement today alleging voter fraud.”



 

Category: Election, Florida

Democrat Election Theft Update

Posted on | November 10, 2018 | Comments Off on Democrat Election Theft Update

First, and most obviously, Florida:

Florida Governor Rick Scott accused the elections supervisor of Palm Beach County of defying court orders to submit “overvoted” and “undervoted” absentee ballots to the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. Meanwhile, Brenda Snipes, the Broward County supervisor of elections, “appeared” to meet a 7 p.m. deadline to turn over to Scott’s campaign an accounting of ballots that were cast in the county along with a breakdown by category.
Scott filed lawsuits in the two heavily Democratic counties Thursday night, accusing Democrats of a coordinated attempt to “steal” elections.
“I will not stand idly by while unethical liberals try to steal an election,” the governor said at a press conference outside the governor’s mansion, accusing Democrats of “rampant fraud” in his race against incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
Friday afternoon, a Florida judge ordered Snipes to allow Republicans to have “immediate” access to requested information about ballots in Broward County.
A Palm Beach circuit court judge also ruled in favor of Scott, granting an injunction ordering Palm Beach County supervisor of elections Susan Bucher to provide the absentee ballots to the canvassing board for a review of the votes before they are counted.
Late Friday evening, the Scott campaign accused Bucher of failing to comply with the order.
“Tonight, Palm Beach County supervisor of elections Susan Bucher announced that she is refusing to comply with a court order to submit overvotes and undervotes to the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board for review under the court-ordered deadline,” said Chris Hartline, a spokesman for the Scott campaign. “Susan Bucher has consistently refused to follow state law and comply with legally required deadlines and regulations. Whether it’s gross incompetence or intentional disregard for the rule of law is irrelevant at this point. Either way, it is embarrassing and unacceptable.”
A lawyer for the Scott campaign told reporters that Snipes had complied with her court order “in some fashion.”

The criminal mayor of Tallahassee has un-conceded:

Democrat Andrew Gillum withdrew his concession to Republican former Rep. Ron DeSantis in the Florida governor’s race on Saturday, hours after the secretary of state announced a recount of their race and two others.
“I am replacing my words of concession with an uncompromised and unapologetic call we count every single vote,” he said with the recount now underway.

Meanwhile, in Arizona:

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema retained a tight lead over Republican opponent Martha McSally in Arizona’s midterm election race to replace Jeff Flake in the U.S. Senate as of late Friday.
Maricopa County, Arizona’s far-and-away highest volume voting county, announced it had completed counting ballots Friday. The results bumped Sinema’s slight lead to one percent. Sinema’s lead only emerged after results of additional ballots counted were released late Thursday, two days after the Tuesday midterm election.
The Arizona Secretary of State reported as of Saturday 201,912 ballots cast at polling places, 629,067 early ballots, 1,714 provisional ballots, and 1,176,891 ballots cast in Maricopa County for a grand total of 2,009,584 total ballots counted.
Despite Sinema’s one percent lead over McSally as of Saturday, McSally led in both early ballot and polling place votes. Sinema’s lead came from Maricopa County and, in very small part, provisional ballots, according to Arizona Secretary of State records.
The controversy over ballot counting is not over as details of Maricopa County recorder Adrian Fontes’ history of public support for Democrats and Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders return to public attention. Several county Republican parties have filed a lawsuit against county recorders and the Secretary of State over the practice of calling voters after the election to verify signatures on mail ballots dropped at polling locations on election day.

Some readers may quibble with my characterization of the Florida and Arizona vote-count as “election theft,” but what would Democrats say if the situation were reversed? Because here you have Republicans who evidently won on election night having to watch Democrats still “finding” extra votes days afterward. Oh, and in Georgia:

The Democratic Party of Georgia tried purchasing airtime on Friday to run campaign ads on a local Atlanta channel on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Abrams and the Democratic Party attempted to buy a $250,000 advertisement on Atlanta-based WSB-TV in order to promote a gubernatorial runoff despite her Republican challenger, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, winning over 50 percent of the vote. In the state of Georgia, a runoff is only triggered if neither candidate reaches at least half of the total votes. . . .
Abrams’ campaign argued that they believe there will be enough votes to ultimately trigger a runoff.
“The Abrams for Governor campaign has promised the people of Georgia that we will fight to ensure that every vote is counted, and we will uphold that promise,” Abrams’ campaign said in a statement. “We believe that this race will head into a runoff and we are ready to engage with voters about Abram’s bold vision for our state the moment a runoff is declared.”

So expect Georgia Democrats to keep “finding” more votes until they have enough for Abrams to qualify for a runoff. It’s like magic.



 

Category: Election

In The Mailbox: 11.09.18

Posted on | November 9, 2018 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.09.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: GREAT SCOTT – Florida Judge Slaps Down Corrupt Broward County Election Officials
Twitchy: Did Ashton Kutcher Admit To Violating CA Law In Tweet Calling For “Gun Control Now”?
Louder With Crowder: Alexandra Occasional-Cortex Can’t Afford DC Apartment, Wants “Electoral” Fix
According To Hoyt: A Shared Framework
Monster Hunter Nation: Target Rich Environment 2 Cover Reveal!
Vox Popoli: Magic Dirt Fail In Australia

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Thinker: What Truly Caused The Pogrom Of 1938
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five (No) Crime Friday
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For November 9
Da Tech Guy: How Recounts Work For The Left
Don Surber: Trump Will Return Fire On The Democrats
Dustbury: The 2020 Campaign Has Begun
First Street Journal: The Left’s Next Move
The Geller Report: Democrats Trying To Steal FL, AZ, & MO – Feds May Get Involved In Recount, also, Protests Growing Outside Broward County Board Of Elections
Hogewash: Let’s Make A Deal, also, If It Bleeds It Leads
JustOneMinute: Darn That Senate! An Urban Party Lacks Rural Appeal
Legal Insurrection: Teacher Finds Provisional Ballot Box At Broward County School, also, Mob & Vandalism At Tucker Carlson’s Being Investigated As Hate Crime
The PanAm Post: I’m A Journalist, But I Can’t Defend Jim Acosta
Power Line: The Southern Poverty Libel Center, also, Thoughts From The Ammo Line
Shot In The Dark: Berg’s Seventh Law – Ripped From The Headlines
STUMP: Actuarial History…Which Is Not Really History
The Jawa Report: Religion Of One Solution, also, Sandcrawler Rumors – I Hear There Was An Election?
The Political Hat: Japan To Allow Gene Editing In Human Embryos, Could Lead To Catgirls
This Ain’t Hell: Full Of Sound & Fury, Signifying Nothing, also, Latest News Re The VA
Victory Girls: Hanging Chads Again?
Volokh Conspiracy: The National Injunction In DACA II
Weasel Zippers: Trump – “I Will Never Forgive Obama For What He Did To Our Military”, also, Broward County Ballot Shenanigans
Mark Steyn: “We Know Where You Sleep At Night”


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Category: Linkagery

Harvard Hates Heterosexuals (Because the Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved)

Posted on | November 9, 2018 | 1 Comment

 

Becina Ganther is an atheist lesbian Harvard University sophomore who hates God, men and heterosexuality, not necessarily in that order. A few months after her arrival on campus, Ms. Ganther joined the Harvard Crimson, not as a lowly reporter, but as a board member and columnist. Her first column made clear that Ms. Ganther has no interest in males, and her second column was an attack on “heteronormativity.”

Ms. Ganther hates heterosexuality so much she fears she doesn’t look “queer enough” and other people might assume she’s straight. In celebrating same-sex marriage, she denounced heterosexual marriage:

Unpacking the institution of marriage reveals its roots in heteronormativity and sexism. The history of marriage includes traditions of women being passed around like property from their fathers to husbands. Even seemingly sweet gestures, like the groom asking the bride’s father for her hand in marriage or the father walking the bride down the aisle while the groom stands alone and independent, all reinforce women’s dependence on men while men remain independent and authoritative. . . .
[T]he marriage traditions that we grew up with and still see today covertly and overtly reinforce strict binary gender norms in heterosexual relationships.

Heterosexuality is wrong, according to Ms. Ganther, and Harvard’s elevation of her to a prominent role at the Crimson amounts to an official endorsement of that worldview. Just try to imagine the furious controversy that would erupt if the Crimson ever published any writer who directly contradicted Ms. Ganther’s anti-heterosexual rants. Under the regime of political correctness in contemporary academia, homosexuals are exempt from criticism, and advocates of homosexuality are granted carte blanche to heap opprobrium on “straights,” who are effectively prohibited from saying anything in their own defense.

However, let us not pretend that this agenda is targeted equally at all heterosexuals, nor more so than feminism equally demonizes all men. It is the heterosexual white male who is the chosen scapegoat of “intersectional” feminism. No one can be allowed to criticize the promiscuity of heterosexual women, for example, because that would be “slut shaming” and “misogyny,” and criticism of minority males is “racist.” Therefore, it is always and only white heterosexual men who are the direct targets of feminist attack; whatever harm might be suffered by anyone else (e.g., black male students “railroaded by campus sexual assault claims”) is merely collateral damage.

It should surprise no one, given the trajectory of “queer feminism” in recent years, that Ms. Ganther’s two most recent columns (“Cis Queers, We Have a Problem,” Oct. 17, and “When Trans Lives Are Under Attack,” Oct. 31) were devoted to advocating transgender ideology. Many feminists have criticized the transgender cult, but they are fighting a losing battle against the logic of their own radical ideology. Having declared war on “binary gender norms,” to employ Ms. Ganther’s phrase, and having stigmatized heterosexuality as inherently oppressive to women, feminists have incentivized the insanity of transgenderism.

Feminism has followed the path of all radical movements since the French Revolution. Attacks on what Russell Kirk called “ordered liberty” are never undertaken by those devoted to mercy and justice. Radicalism appeals to vengeful spirits of selfishness and malicious envy. Just as Jacobin leaders like Robespierre eventually went to the guillotine, and just as Bolsheviks like Leon Trotsky were annihilated by Stalin, so also will many feminists become victims of their own radicalism.

The great irony is that Becina Ganther is majoring in history at Harvard, where apparently these lessons have been forgotten.

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved.



 

Category: Sex Trouble, The Ivy League Is Depraved and Decadent

Google SJWs Can’t Be Appeased

Posted on | November 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Google SJWs Can’t Be Appeased

 

Last week, Google employees walked out after issuing a manifesto of feminist demands (“‘Choose the Form of the Destructor’: #GoogleWalkout and SJW Torpedoes,” Nov. 1) and Google executives are now learning the lesson of Munich. Never appease totalitarians:

On November 1, thousands of Google employees walked out of their offices around the world to protest the handling of sexual misconduct allegations by the company. The organizers released a set of demands, including an end to Forced Arbitration, a commitment to end pay and opportunity inequity, and a publicly disclosed sexual harassment transparency report.
Google responded to the walkout on Thursday, announcing changes to their sexual misconduct reporting and arbitration processes. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that “we try hard to build a workplace that supports our employees and empowers them to do their best work. As CEO, I take this responsibility very seriously and I’m committed to making the changes we need to improve.”
But the organizers of the walkout are not completely satisfied with Google’s response. In a statement posted to Medium, Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O’Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber acknowledged that the company made progress, but not enough. They say that Google still hasn’t addressed many of the core demands of the walkout.

However, the response ignored several of the core demands — like elevating the diversity officer and employee representation on the board — and troublingly erased those focused on racism, discrimination, and the structural inequity built into the modern day Jim Crow class system that separates ‘full time’ employees from contract workers.

In October, before the walkout, the New York Times released a report outlining how Google protected Andy Rubin and paid him $90 million in the handling of a sexual misconduct investigation involving him and his subsequent departure from the company. The investigation added to the already long lists of complaints employees had with Google.
“We demand a truly equitable culture, and Google leadership can achieve this by putting employee representation on the board and giving full rights and protections to contract workers, our most vulnerable workers, many of whom are Black and Brown women,” said Stephanie Parker. “And they all have the same root cause, which is a concentration of power and a lack of accountability at the top.”

Nothing the (male) executives of Google can do will satisfy the company’s Social Justice Warriors, whose totalitarian ideology defines males — yes, all males — as oppressors who must be destroyed. The specific grievances cited by SJWs are just a means to an end for the walkout organizers, whose real aim is the dismissal of the company’s management, and their replacement by an all-female management team.

Some men are still deluded enough to believe feminists want “equality,” so that male executives at Google may imagine that if women were 50% of the company’s management, this would satisfy those demanding an end to “structural inequity.” But in fact, as Google will learn, the number of male managers acceptable to feminists is zero.

Feminism’s demands to men can be summarized quite succinctly:

  1. Give us money;
  2. Shut up;
    and
  3. Go away.

Notice the resemblance to your typical divorce? That’s not a coincidence.

A major cause of declining marriage rates is that divorce has been weaponized by feminists. Any man who walks down the aisle is entering into a blackmail arrangement. From the moment he says “I do,” the husband is subject to a species of extortion, and any children that may result from his marriage become hostages in a negotiation where failure to comply with his wife’s demands will be met with a threat of divorce. The court system has become so blatantly biased against husbands and fathers that men are quite routinely driven to suicide after divorce (there are more than 3,000 such cases in the United States annually). And this is analogous to what’s happening now at Google. Feminists staged a walkout and issued a list of demands. The CEO sought to appease them, only to discover they cannot be appeased. They don’t want Sundar Pichai to make Google better; they want a divorce from Sundar Pichai.

Feminism is not about “equality,” it’s about power, and feminism’s power is entirely destructive in nature. The whole point of the #MeToo movement was to destroy the careers of powerful men, so that these men could be replaced by women. It’s a zero-sum-game mentality and, in point of fact, it has been remarkably successful. Consider the consequences of #MeToo accusations at Vice Media: Shane Smith created a $5.7 billion multimedia company, but in the wake of a New York Times exposé of the “toxic bro culture” at Vice, Smith handed off the CEO job to former A&E boss Nancy Dubuc. This is part of an observable trend of women executives advancing to top jobs in the wake of #MeToo scandals. Before taking the Vice CEO job, Dubuc “had been in the running for the top role at Amazon Studios, also in need of a culture fix following the departure of Roy Price over a sexual harassment allegation, that job went to NBC Entertainment president Jennifer Salke.”

The men who run Google and other Silicon Valley giants will discover that feminists are not interested in any “reform” agenda. This isn’t something that changes to workplace policy can fix. Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It, and the targets of destruction — men like @SundarPichai — had better wake up.



 

Category: Sex Trouble

Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.08.18

Posted on | November 9, 2018 | Comments Off on Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.08.18

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Finally released from acute care after two weeks in the hospital & nursing home, and damned glad to be back. Not like John Wick, though. Sincere and heartfelt thanks to all who sent money and/or prayers.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #432
EBL: AG Sessions Resigns, also, Mass Shooting In Thousand Oaks, CA
Twitchy: Marc Caputo Shares More Evidence Of Broward County Ballot Shenanigans And It’s “Suspicious As Sh!t”
Louder With Crowder: Rebuttal To Vox’s “Republicans Breaking Politics” Stupidity, also, Patricia Heaton Has No Patience For Liberals’ New “Blame White Women” Thing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Sharp Edition, also, It’s A Red Wave, Boys, A Glorious Red Wave
American Power: America’s Weimar Moment, also, Angry East German Men Fueling The Far Right
American Thinker: The Midterms – A Wakeup Call For The GOP, also, Midterm Silver Linings
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News and Animal’s Daily Californication News
BattleSwarm: Morning After 2018 Election Update, also, More 2018 Election Analysis
Camp Of The Saints: On The Aftermath Of A GOP Victory
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, The Space Force – Amrica’s Bolivian Navy
Da Tech Guy: Not Your Maker’s Mark, also, Five Reasons Why The GOP Lost The House
Don Surber: Press Silent About Mob Attacking Tucker Carlson’s Wife & Kids, also, Back To Trumping The Press
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, And Noone Won Brownie Points
First Street Journal: The Death Of The Red State Democrat
Fred On Everything: Let’s Have A War With Russia! (I’d Rather Be Ruled by Autistic Hamsters)
The Geller Report: Brazil – We Won’t Yield To Muslim Pressure, Embassy Moving To Jerusalem, also, Muslims Shout Down Vigil For Jewish Massacre Victims In London
Hogewash: Coming Attractions, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: How The Democrats Can Win The White House In 2020 – And Why They Won’t, also, What If They Gave A Mass Protest & Nobody Came?
Legal Insurrection: Rubio Takes Broward County To Task Over Ballot Counting Delay, also, Latest AZ Ballot Counts Show Sinema With Slim Lead Over McSally
Michelle Malkin: Yes, Unvetted Caravans Of Illegals Threaten Public Health
The PanAm Post: If War Comes To Venezuela, Who Would Back The Maduro Regime? also, How Colombia Benefits From The Venezuelan Exodus
Power Line: The Minnesota Disaster, also, A Country Gone Half-Mad
Shot In The Dark: Sick, also, Life In A One-Party Town
STUMP: Divestment & ESG Follies, also, Taxing Tuesday
The Jawa Report: Meanwhile In Ohio, also, Caption Contest – Off Whitey Edition
The Political Hat: The Real Rape Culture, also, Suburban Shift – 2018 Election Aftermath & Postmortem
This Ain’t Hell: Two Florida Women Arrested For Stealing Vietnam Vet’s Service Dog, also, Kavanaugh Report’s Biggest Bombshells
Victory Girls: Max Boot Throws A Hissy Fit Because Republicans Didn’t Vote Democrat, also, Cruz Sends O’Rourke Home On His Skateboard
Volokh Conspiracy: Three Steps Forward For Marijuana Legalization, also, “Forget The Blue Wave & Behold The Purple Puddle”
Weasel Zippers: Journalist On Acela Hears Top Dem Laying Plans To Impeach Kavanaugh, also, Rick Scott Files Bombshell Lawsuit Accusing Democrat Election Officials Of Trying To “Steal The Election”
Megan McArdle: How Many Vegans Does It Take To Screw Up A Meal? also, Both Democrats & Republicans Are Losing The Culture War
Mark Steyn: Rationalizing Our Surrender, also, The Morning After


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Category: Linkagery

Like a Bad Flashback: Florida Democrats Are Trying to Steal Another Election

Posted on | November 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Like a Bad Flashback: Florida Democrats Are Trying to Steal Another Election

Remember Bush v. Gore in 2000? Remember how Democrats in Broward and Palm Beach County “found” extra votes for Gore during the recount? Well, they’re back to their typical election-stealing tricks:

Andrew Gillum may retract his concession in the Florida governor’s race.
Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, conceded the race in a speech on Tuesday, after polls showed him down one percentage point to Republican Ron DeSantis, a former congressman who is close to President Donald Trump.
But DeSantis’s vote margin dwindled on Wednesday as absentee and provisional ballots continued to be counted.
Gillum trailed DeSantis by 43,000 votes on Thursday. According to the Orlando Sentinel, that is just 0.02 percentage points from the threshold that will trigger a machine recount.
Florida’s Senate battle is even closer than the gubernatorial race. Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, leads incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson by 22,000 votes in that contest.

And, yes, the usual suspects are involved:

Broward and Palm Beach County elections officials were still counting votes on Thursday, and statewide recounts appeared coming for three big elections: governor, U.S. Senate and state agriculture commissioner.
Meanwhile, questions continued about why more than 24,000 people voted for governor but not for Senate in Broward. . . .
At the Broward elections office, vote counting continued. Workers counted 22,000 ballots Wednesday, continuing late into the night. In total, more than 695,700 Broward ballots were counted by 1 a.m. Thursday.
But county election officials weren’t done.
Broward Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes said workers in her office counted ballots until 2:30 a.m. Thursday. They were given a few hours off to get some rest before resuming the counting.
With close margins in the U.S. Senate, agricultural commissioner, and governor races, large numbers of uncounted ballots in Democratic-heavy Broward and Palm Beach Counties could make a difference in whether those races lead to a recount. . . .
Snipes said the volume of mail ballots is the reason the count has taken so long. She said all the remaining mail-in ballots have been opened and are waiting to be processed through the tabulating machines.
She didn’t know how much longer it would take. “If I give a number, and I have not counted out myself, then I’m guesstimating,” Snipes said. . . .
Cynthia Busch, chairwoman of the Broward Democratic Party, said Thursday people are frustrated. “People are like, ‘How come Dr. Snipes isn’t done?’” Busch said, “Everyone needs to be patient.” . . .

(“Everyone be patient while we steal this here election!”)

Of the Broward ballots already counted, more than 24,000 people voted for a governor candidate but didn’t vote for a Senate candidate, according to county results Thursday morning.
More than 690,000 people voted for governor in Broward in Tuesday’s election, while more than 665,000 voters cast ballots for Senate, preliminary county election results show. . . .
For the midterms, Broward’s discrepancy among the number of votes wasn’t just in the Senate and governor races.
More people in Broward voted for the state’s commissioner of agriculture, chief financial officer and attorney general positions than they did for the Senate, according to the preliminary county results.

My theory? Thousands of Broward County voters are retarded. There’s more scientific evidence for my theory than there is for global warming.

Streiff at Red State notes Marco Rubio is crying foul.

A recount! Questionable ballots in Broward County! Swarms of Democrat lawyers descending on Florida! Damn, it’s 2000 all over again!



 

Category: Uncategorized

Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28

Posted on | November 8, 2018 | Comments Off on Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28

Breaking news:

The gunman who killed 12 people in a mass shooting at a bar holding a country night for students has been named as 29 year-old ex-Marine David Ian Long. Long, who went by his middle name, drove his mom’s car to Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California in the early hours of Thursday, where he shot a doorman and cashier before opening fire inside the bar room. Police raided the heavily-tattooed killer’s home Thursday morning, with neighbors describing him as a veteran who suffered from PTSD.

No information about the shooter’s motive is known yet.

UPDATE 10:30 a.m. ET: The sheriff just briefed the press:

“We are still working to identify the victims. We have identified the suspect. Ian David Long, [date of birth] March 27, 1990. 28-years-old and several contacts with him over the years. One of which was a traffic collision.
“Deputies were called to his house in April and he was somewhat irate, acting irrationally, they called out our crisis team and cleared him. He was left at the scene, last April.
“Officers are now seeking a warrant to search the property.
“He used a Glock 21 45 caliber handgun. Designed to hold 10 rounds. This weapon did have an extended magazine. We do not know how many rounds were in the weapon or how many it could hold.
“He shot the security guard, appears he turned to the right and shot several other security and other employees before opening fire inside the nightclub.
“We have no idea what the motive is. He was a veteran, he was in the US Marine Corps. Deputies thought he might be suffering with PTSD.
“We believe he shot himself. He was found inside an office, adjacent to the entrance. There is no indication that he targeted employees.”

While we still have nothing specific about the gunman’s motives, it seems clear that mental illness may have been a factor.

 

UPDATE 12:30 p.m. ET: Long’s background has become a focus:

The Marine Corps said that Long served in the military from August 4, 2008 through March 2, 2013 and earned the rank of corporal, according to journalist Cassie Carlisle.
Ian Long was a machine gunner who received numerous awards, including a Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon X2, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and NATO Medal – ISAF Afghanistan.
He was deployed to Afghanistan on November 16, 2010 through June 14, 2011. . . .
There were mental health troubles apparent in the shooter’s background that emerged on the radar of authorities last spring.
The sheriff said that there were “several contacts” with Ian Long over the years. In April, an incident occurred in which Ian David Long was described by a neighbor as screaming and banging on the walls in the home where he lived, NBC reported. The neighbor called 911 thinking that Long was violent and possibly trying to hurt himself. . . .
Although mental health professionals evaluated him, they did not take him into custody, the sheriff revealed in a news conference. . . .
The sheriff said those specialists “met with him, talked to him, cleared him. They didn’t feel he was qualified to be taken” into custody. “He was left at that scene last April.” He added, “The mental health experts cleared him that day.” . . .
Despite the disturbing April incident, his neighbor told NBC News that Long was a Dodgers baseball fan and had girlfriends over the years.
Long lived with his mother, according to multiple news reports.

The possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder as a factor may explain what happened, but it may be as simple as a young man frustrated by his personal problems. Having entered the Marines at age 18 and served more than four years before getting out of the service, Long may have had trouble adjusting to civilian life. Whatever the motive, it does not appear to be political, and thus this act was not terrorism, per se.

PREVIOUSLY: #Borderline Massacre: 12 Killed, Gunman Dead at Country Music Bar in California.

 

Category: Crime
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