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Myrina

(12,296 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:22 AM Nov 2013

Sources: Alleged (LAX) shooter hated government, 'New World Order'

Sorry if I missed this earlier, but I think it bears discussion ... another potential Tea Nutter, IMHO ...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/lax-shootings-suspect/index.html?iref=allsearch

&quot CNN) -- Paul Anthony Ciancia was a newcomer to Los Angeles -- a 23-year-old Catholic school graduate and son of a popular Fraternal Order of Police member back in New Jersey. According to a profile emerging of the suspected gunman, he also harbored anti-government views and fears of an ominous New World Order when he walked into Los Angeles International Airport on Friday.

... The materials included a rant that appeared to refer to the New World Order as well as anti-TSA and anti-government claims, a federal law enforcement official said Saturday. The New World Order is a common conspiracy theory focused on a secretive group of international elites bent on controlling the planet and forming a one-world government ..."


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dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
1. was the shooter a TSA employee at one time
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:25 AM
Nov 2013

I think I remember seeing that someplace

I'm too lazy to look it up

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
2. Couldn't tell from that article, aside from a comment that he had "no run ins" with the TSA ...
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 10:29 AM
Nov 2013

... and that he worked at one time as a mechanic for his dad. Maybe he applied for a job w/ the TSA & got rejected?

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
9. No, it was in the profile of a FB poster who shares the same name
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 02:03 PM
Nov 2013

It was created the day of the shooting. The "I did not do it" status update was posted well after the fact.

There is a second Ciancia in LA. Neither shares the middle name. The alleged gunman has no electronic trace I could find.

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
5. I know .... I saw them discussing it on CNN last night, otherwise I wouldn't have known ...
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 12:13 PM
Nov 2013

.... it's a shush-up-ASAP kind of story, isn't it?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
6. Guess he spent all his time in the weird corners of the internet
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 01:19 PM
Nov 2013

got so deep, he didn't know which way was up...

flamingdem

(39,312 posts)
7. Someone here noted that the teaparty-militia types hate TSA
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 01:41 PM
Nov 2013

because they are union and take away guns. Crazy.

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