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In reply to the discussion: Henry Hamilton, Key West resident distraught over election results, kills himself [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)We had a Beckhead up here who went around the bend and started threatening people over their votes for the ACA. It was obscene, really.
Finally he was arrested. He thought that blocking his caller ID would make his threats, made over and over, anonymous. But anyone who knows anything about telecommunication knows there is no such thing.
To verify that it was really him and that he was a threat, as he said he was armed was going to shoot the elected offcials, their spouses, kids and grandchildren, an undercover trooper went to visit. As they chatted, he ascertained that he made the calls, was armed, etc.
In coverage later, his sister related that she and him used to listen to Glenn Beck every day. She had become very fearful, began to stock up food, gold and supplies for the coming collapse, martial law, police state, etc. She was so scared she could hardly think.
She decided to turn off Beck. After a few days out of the conservative entertainment fake news and analysis bubble, she realized she'd been conned out of a lot of money. She begged him to turn it off and think again.
He refused. He thought Obama was going to take away his Social Security and Medicare. So now, he has fulfilled part of his prophecy. Prison inmates don't get SS, and can only get Medicare if they pay their premiums.
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/259/~/social-security-benefits-while-in-prison
I attribute this insanity to media consolidation into the hands of the worst groups possible to control the means of mass communication. Beck, Rush and others, are the modern day version of Joseph Goebbels, JMHO.