Pittsburgh Cop Killer was pissed Bank Ratejacked his Credit Card 9 to 30%

[RamboLiberal]

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"If people are going to bombard your house, how else are you going to protect yourself?" she said. "The reason he went out and bought that AK-47 is because he knew (President Barack) Obama was going to ban those."

Poplawski bought the gun with a credit card, according to Scott, who said he was upset by a letter last week telling him that the interest rate on the card was going up from 9 percent to 30 percent.

"You bail out the banks, and yet the banks can turn around and say you have a 9 percent interest and it goes up to 30 percent. That's ridiculous," said Scott.

Poplawski already had dark views about the financial system that were seen in his postings on Stormfront.org, an extreme right-wing Web site.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/19109577/detail.html

Not excusing him. The guy was a racist RW nutjob. But how many more will be setoff to commit murder, suicide, robbery etc. by the f*ckers who caused all this in the economic system. This was just one more spark to the explosive of his paranoia.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. The guy was hooked on GOP propaganda.

I don't think the economy was why he ambushed the cops.

I'd like to know what he and his mother discussed prior to him donning the vest. (Or does he always wear it around the house?)

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. The dog urinating in the damn house!

Fight over urinating dog got police to ambush
Cops say gunman had gotten into an argument with his mother

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30056990/

[AlinPA]

11. So was his grandmother.

[Bunny]

2. WTF??? "Granny" is as full of shit as he is.

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Police were called to the house "many times," Scott said. "Her being a single mother, she couldn't hit him."

Scott said there was no tension when she visited the house Friday night. And she believes Poplawski did not know he was shooting a police officer the next morning.

"He snapped, because he's a good kid," Scott said.
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"Her being a single mother, she couldn't hit him"? I can't even begin to figure that out. That's just too strange.

"He's a good kid"??? He was expelled from his high school, thrown out of the Marines, had numerous run-ins with the police, yet he's a "good kid"??? Is she serious?

Shit runs pretty deep in that family, I guess.

[RamboLiberal]

7. She's of the age of a lot of people in this area

Who believe in that old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child".

[dustbunnie]

9. "Her being a single mother, she couldn't hit him"?

From his mug shot he looks like a healthy, big boy. If you're a smallish woman, you may not invoke much fear in the kid who's basically become a man. Physically at least. That's what I'm guessing the grannie meant.

[sufrommich]

4. I wonder what this meant?

"If people are going to bombard your house, how else are you going to protect yourself?". Who was going to bombard their house? It had nothing to do with credit cards,Mom sounds like she's trying to do damage control.

[Bunny]

17. I'll translate for you:

The Negroes are going to flee the city to the suburbs, and will kill you for your bottled water and canned green beans.


I'm familiar with this mindset, I'm sad to say.

[sufrommich]

25. Yuck, thanks for the info. nt

[wackywaggin]

5. Time to prosecute Limpballs and the rest of

the RW nut jobs for inciting riots and violence in their broadcasts, in the killing of police officers and civilians.

:smoke:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Poor baby -

His interest rate on his credit card was raised. What else could he do except murder someone?

While you're killing these people, it's a lovely touch to call your grandmother.

And, what says "I love you, Mom" more than a couple of pit bulls?

Meanwhile, Grandma laments the state of this world for kids.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree. I'll bet her grandson is going to find some really interesting things in his meals in jail.

Or, maybe he won't. Some stuff disappears when you stir it in .......................

[RamboLiberal]

10. Looking at his face on the mug shot - looks like he took a beating

I know they mentioned on the radio the Allegheny County police had to take over from Pittsburgh police guarding him at the hospital. Might be routine since the county runs the jail, but it seemed to be implied in the radio report it was because of the anger of the city police.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. No kidding -

If you hit someone with the heel of your hand, it doesn't leave a noticeable bruise, but inflicts damage and causes great pain. Not necessarily to be done to the face. Ribs are nice.

In my youth, I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives. Picked up some tricks.

If you were a Pittsburgh cop, wouldn't you do everything you could - without getting caught - to hurt that little fucker?

I would.

[RamboLiberal]

16. He might have caught that split lip and swollen cheek

Either in the hospital when he told the cops he wished he killed more of them. Or that they needed to be better armed.

Or in the house when he yelled get that "n" out of my house about a black SWAT officer.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. My guess is

that he fell.

And then the SWAT guys helped him up..................

[DoctorMyEyes]

34. He fell

no doubt about it

[angstlessk]

22. so he pumps extra bullets into a dying cop and we give a crap he is bruised?

I think not!

[RamboLiberal]

27. Personally I wouldn't care - but just like the torture of the Bush Admin

we have to hold those in control whether our law enforcement or military or government to be better than the killers and/or terrorists.

Someone asked one of the police officers why this killer was taken alive and he said something to the effect we have to be better than them.

[angstlessk]

33. him being alive is good enough for me...he was not tortured for evidence

nor did anyone pump bullets into his dying body..beyond that....I have no sympathy for the murdering ass!

[stray cat]

8. No sympathy from me - ever.

[WeDidIt]

13. Stormfront.org

There's the idiot's problem right there.

[Luciferous]

14. Sounds like the whole family is nuts

but I do think with the current economy we will continue to see stuff like this...

[cali]

15. What wasn't he angry about? This was a guy who'd been

simmering in rage for years. Something, sometime, was gonna set him off.

[ColbertWatcher]

24. Good point. n/t

[annarbor]

18. Sadly....

but those cops may have had their interest rates pumped to 30% too. The credit card industry is pillaging and no one is exempt. No reason to go on a killing rampage. What in the hell did those three dead cops have to do with raising interest rates? Not a damned thing! That idiot just wanted to kill someone, and unfortunately those three knocked on his door.


Ann Arbor-

[RoyGBiv]

19. That's just one thing ...

... in a HUGE list of things this idiot was angry about.

[tularetom]

21. So why didn't he shoot a banker?

It wouldn't be OK but he'd get more sympathy than for shooting 3 cops.

[NNN0LHI]

23. He used a credit card to by his AK-47?

WTF?

[noiretextatique]

26. there is a special place in hell for all these rampage terrorists

who claim fear of losing their guns made them go out an shoot people :grr:

[depakid]

28. If this in any way helps to get Congress and the Obama admistration to deal with these crooks

then at least some small positive thing has come out of all this.

[RamboLiberal]

29. ADL: Richard Poplawski: The Making of a Lone Wolf

It was almost a year later, in October 2007, that Poplawski created a second Stormfront account, using the screen name "RichP." This time, Poplawski felt more comfortable sharing his feelings with the other white supremacists on Stormfront. Ascribing his racist beliefs to his "solid upbringing" by his mother, Poplawski stated that "Negroes especially have disgusting facial features. The fat nosed flaring nostril look is putrid. Nappy hair makes me want to gag." He followed these comments with insults against Hispanics, Asians, and Arabs. However, after a burst of racist posting, Poplawski went silent. It would be a year before he posted again on Stormfront.

Poplawski's last collection of posts on Stormfront, from November 2008 through March 2009, are more disturbing, as they indicate an increasing desire to be confrontational. Rather than "retreat peaceably into the hills," Poplawski urged his fellow white supremacists in November 2008 to achieve "ultimate victory for our people" by "taking back our nation." Stating that he believed they were running out of time, he noted that "a revolutionary is always regarded as a nutcase at first, their ideas dismissed as fantasy." In another posting that month, he said that he would probably be "ramping up the activism" in the near future.

Following the Super Bowl victory of the Pittsburgh Steelers in early February 2009, Poplawski used the celebrations that occurred in Pittsburgh as an opportunity to "survey police procedure in an unrestful environment," and reported the results of his reconnaissance to fellow Stormfronters. "It was just creepy seeing busses put into action by authorities, as if they were ready to transport busloads of Steeler fans to 645 FEMA drive if necessary."

This last comment was a reference to popular right-wing conspiracy theories about Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-constructed prisons and concentration camps for U.S. citizens. Such conspiracy theories had long been staples of the militia movement, but received a reinvigorating shot in the arm following the election of Barack Obama as president. Almost overnight, right-wing conspiracists across the country revived all of their 1990s militia conspiracy theories about the "New World Order," planned gun confiscations, and government plots against the citizenry. Once more, wild speculations about SHTF ("s--t hits the fan") and TEOTWAKI ("the end of the world as we know it") scenarios became rampant.

Poplawski bought into the SHTF/TEOTWAKI conspiracy theories hook, line and sinker, even posting a link to Stormfront of a YouTube video featuring talk show host Glenn Beck talking about FEMA camps with Congressman Ron Paul. When the city of Pittsburgh got a Homeland Security grant to add surveillance cameras to protect downtown bridges, Poplawski told Stormfronters that it was "ramping up the police state." He said, too, that he gave warnings to grocery store customers he encountered (but only if they were white) to stock up on canned goods and other long-lasting foods.

http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supremacy/poplawski+report.htm?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_the_News

And Glenn Beck tonight was saying don't blame him for the Pittsburgh cop killer!

[AnnieBW]

30. The office manager at my shrink's office graduated HS with one of those cops

She and I talked about that shooting today. She felt that it was because of lack of mental health care. I feel that it's because people who need mental health care are sitting at home listening to Beck and Limpballs.

[RamboLiberal]

32. Confirmation he listened to Beck

Poplawski bought into the SHTF/TEOTWAKI conspiracy theories hook, line and sinker, even posting a link to Stormfront of a YouTube video featuring talk show host Glenn Beck talking about FEMA camps with Congressman Ron Paul. When the city of Pittsburgh got a Homeland Security grant to add surveillance cameras to protect downtown bridges, Poplawski told Stormfronters that it was "ramping up the police state." He said, too, that he gave warnings to grocery store customers he encountered (but only if they were white) to stock up on canned goods and other long-lasting foods.

http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supremacy/poplawski+report.htm?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_the_News

And you might want to clue her in to this book coming out in a few weeks. The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right by david neiwert http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/

[Iggo]

31. This guy was eventually gonna kill someone for something.

It was gun control! No, wait! It was the Jews! No, wait! It was credit cards!