UPDATED - Beck: Houston airport shooting a ‘set up’ of NRA like ‘burning of the Reichstag’

[DonViejo]

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Conservative radio host Glenn Beck responded to a shooting at Houston’s largest airport on Thursday by suggesting that it had been a plot to “set up” gun owners like the the burning of German’s parliament — or Reichstag — in 1933, which Nazis exploited as a pretext to suspend constitutional rights.

According to CBS News, a man named Carnell Moore fired a pistol into the ceiling of Terminal B at Bush International Airport and was shot by a federal agent. At the same time, Carnell also shot himself. A fully-loaded, black Smith & Wesson AR-15 was found in a suitcase next to where he was sitting.

Messages on social media indicated that Carnell had planned a mass shooting, but a suicide note found on the body suggested that he changed his mind.

But because the shooting happened as members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) were arriving in Houston for its annual convention, Beck saw a conspiracy behind Carnell’s actions.

“The idea that this is happening at the airport with the NRA is too much to believe,” Beck told a studio audience in Houston. “If I were a journalist — let me correct that — if I were an honest journalist, I would be looking for these connections. Look for the connections of who this man is and any connection he might have to the uber-Left.”

“I believe this man could fall into the category of somebody who has lost his job, is depressed, etc., etc. Somebody comes in off to the side, winds him up, says, ‘Oh, you should make a statement, you should make a statement.’ I believe that’s probably — I shouldn’t say that — I believe it is a very good chance that is what happened.”

But Beck speculated that the man realized that “that’s not who I am” and decided not to go through with the mass killing.

“If I were an honest journalist, I’d find out where these guns came from — were they purchased or were they illegal?” he continued. “If there were illegal, oh, I can guarantee you, this is a set up. Someone knows history. I do.”

“At least I know enough history to know about the burning of the Reichstag…. These are the conditions that we, as Americans, now face.”

Although exact details are not clear, the Reichstag burned because of arson on February 27, 1933, allowing the Nazis and the German Nationalist People’s Party to issue emergency degrees suspending the freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and other constitutional rights.

“Justified on the false premise that the Communists were planning an uprising to overthrow the state, the Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications,” the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum website states. “Although the Communists had not, in fact, developed any plans for an uprising, the impact of propaganda and terror on existing fears of a Communist takeover convinced many Germans that Hitler’s decisive action had saved the nation from ‘Bolshevism.’”

Beck is schedule to be the featured speaker at the NRA’s Stand and Fight Rally on Saturday in Houston.

Watch this video from The Blaze, uploaded May 2, 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/03/beck-houston-airport-shooting-a-set-up-of-nra-like-burning-of-the-reichstag/

Full article posted with permission

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Update:

Police: Houston airport gunman intent on suicide

BY MICHAEL GRACZYK

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston police say it appears a man was bent on suicide, or what’s known as suicide by cop, when he opened fire inside a busy Houston airport terminal.

Investigators say 29-year-old Carnell Marcus Moore of Beaumont shot himself in the head with a 40-caliber pistol Thursday afternoon after shooting into the ceiling at a Bush Intercontinental Airport terminal. A homeland security agent in the terminal also shot and wounded him when Moore refused to drop his weapon.

Authorities said Friday that Moore had an AR-15 rifle with ammunition in a bag he was carrying. From a suicide note he left behind, they believe he was not planning to hurt others. No one else was injured.

Moore had no criminal record. It’s not immediately known where he obtained his weapons.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/03/police_houston_airport_gunman_intent_on_suicide/

[marmar]

1. BecKKK was borderline for a while.........

....... then he crossed the border.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Beck is the last rat on his own sinking ship.

He will say anything at this point.

[warrior1]

3. nothing but a snake oil salesman

problem that when there's a vacuum, something has got to replace it.

Do his listeners have such a void in their life that this is what they want it filled with?

[LeftinOH]

4. "If I were an honest journalist", he says. He is neither. n/t

[Newest Reality]

5. I swear,

Beck needs a cape and we could then call him Disnifoman -- an influential member of the Conflaticons who are the sensational souper [sic] heroes who may be a conspiracy in themselves once they figure out, (or tell someone) who's side of what they are on.

He really does a great job of assuring that anything that is not mainstream can be chucked into the territory that he, Limbaugh, Jones, et al, have created.

These folks seem to be pretending to reveal something, and there is much to be investigated and revealed, but they do it in such a way that it has polarizing effect for people who want to process it in black-and-white. That means either being totally skeptical, (in a conceptual condom) of what might even sound to be outside the party-lines of sanctioned thinking, or you are prone to buying a crafted package of half-truths disguised a insightful revelations.

Half-truths and sensationalism seem to be a useful way to manage the complexity of how the system works in its complex and multifaceted levels of hierarchy and precision persuasion.

[d_r]

6. “If I were an honest journalist,"

well there you go.

[gordianot]

7. Beck understands how you feel when you have lost your job and are depressed. Pure Projection

[sigmasix]

8. what a suprise beck addressing the NRA

It makes perfect sense that the NRA hired Beck to speak at them; beck hates America with every fiber of his paranoid racist body and NRA members hate America with the passion of a pedophile for his victim. Terrorist organizations often turn to violent, hate filled demogogues for advice and morale building. And the NRA has a lot more work in front of it to complete thier aim of the destruction of America- Beck and his paranoia could be just the thing to empower Anti-American NRA members towards the murder of thier fellow Americans. We've been watching the news of all the babies being killed around America by the irresponsible actions of the NRA and it's conspiracy theory monger members. Watch- some gungeoneer will whine about how unfair the truth is and want to delete this response. The gun fetish crowd really hate it when people hold them responsible for the actions and teachings of thier own domestic terror organization. Most NRA members are cowards, racists or pedophiles- the proof is in thier actions and statements.