{"id":89931,"date":"2025-09-22T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89931"},"modified":"2025-09-22T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:59:08","slug":"grabbing-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89931","title":{"rendered":"Grabbing Straws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Haha! The FBI says there&#8217;s no evidence that Taylor Robinson was a member of any group! That means the killing of Charlie Kirk was non-political!&#8221;<br \/>So here&#8217;s an incomplete list of politically or socially-with-plenty-of-politics-motivated spree killers, terrorists and assassins who *weren&#8217;t affiliated with any group*:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Wilkes Booth<\/li>\n<li>Charles Guiteau<\/li>\n<li>Leon Czolgosz<\/li>\n<li>Lee Harvey Oswald<\/li>\n<li>Luigi Mangione<\/li>\n<li>Richard Reid<\/li>\n<li>Elias Rodriguez<\/li>\n<li>Nidal Hasan<\/li>\n<li>Ted &#8220;Unibomber&#8221; Kaczinski<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Routh<\/li>\n<li>Dylan Root<\/li>\n<li>Vance Boelter<\/li>\n<li>Payton Gendron<\/li>\n<li>Anibal Hernandez-Santana<\/li>\n<li>Every rioter at the Capitol on January 6<\/li>\n<li>Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik,<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Crooks<\/li>\n<li>Mauricio Garcia<\/li>\n<li>Micah Xavier Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Palmeter<\/li>\n<li>Robert &#8220;Robin&#8221; Westman<\/li>\n<li>Anderson Lee Aldrich<\/li>\n<li>Audrey &#8220;Aiden Williams&#8221; Hale<\/li>\n<li>Omar Mateen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><br \/>And, let&#8217;s be honest, Timothy McVeigh, who *had* been part of a group, of which he and Terry Nichols were pretty much the two remaining members. <br \/>The problem is, it&#8217;s a big country with a lot of people with mental health issues, and when you spend enough time and effort telling unstable people that &#8220;speech is violence&#8221; and that some inscrutable murky sinister evil force is going to &#8220;erase&#8221; you\/destroy democracy\/steal your future\/commit &#8220;genocide&#8221;\/are &#8220;Nazis&#8221; or &#8220;fascists&#8221; &#8211; people against whom we fought a life or death war two generations ago &#8211; eventually someone&#8217;s going to connect the dots and start shooting people.<\/p>\n<p>And if you ARE part of a group whose goal is to destabilize society, having people who *aren&#8217;t* in your group do the dirty work is a feature, not a bug. <\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t believe the hype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Left tries to build a new narrative for the Kirk murder.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,25,63,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-history-and-its-making","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89932,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89931\/revisions\/89932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}