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Just what party did the Oregon shooter officially belong to? You might be surprised
LiveLeak ^ | Oct-2-2015 | Abby Normal

Posted on 10/02/2015 2:02:27 PM PDT by Stalwart

Chris Harper-Mercer, the Oregon mass shooter claimed to be conservative on an online profile. Pictured with a common 10/22 rifle that most Americans have owned at some point in their lives, the rush to label him was immediate, even before the public was privy to his real name.

A search of his official voting preference shows he registered as a "Independent Party" voter though.

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Daily Mail insists he was a conservative Republican, but the LiveLeaker posted a screengrab showing Mercer was registered with Oregon's Independent Party.
1 posted on 10/02/2015 2:02:27 PM PDT by Stalwart
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To: Stalwart

The only people who will believe he was conservative are people who want to believe it.


2 posted on 10/02/2015 2:03:56 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Stalwart

All the misinformation regarding this guy, even after 6 hours officials and the media had to scour his background, is proof that the delay in reporting was so the media & government could cobble together a fictitious profile more amenable to the left wing narrative.


3 posted on 10/02/2015 2:06:42 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: lacrew

Exactly. Besides the logic issue, there is the potentially altered website issue, and the “dating websites can ALWAYS be trusted to contain truthful statements, /s” issue, as well as the actual “Independent Party” registration.

To believe he was conservative is to WANT to believe it.


4 posted on 10/02/2015 2:07:51 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: lacrew

I want to see ... over and over again .... the eye-witness reports he asked people their religion and if they said, “Christian”, they were shot in the head


5 posted on 10/02/2015 2:21:47 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

It was a little get even time for the Oregon guys that stopped the mass shooting in France.
One of the guys went to college in Roseburg. (Um-Quaw)


6 posted on 10/02/2015 2:22:53 PM PDT by Darroll
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To: Stalwart

What is the Independent Party?


7 posted on 10/02/2015 2:25:26 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: knarf

I thought that “allegation” had already been dismissed by the ever vigilant ‘urninalist” in the msm as merely “hear say” and there were not facts to prove he did any of that. They wouldn’t dare lie or obsfucate would they?


8 posted on 10/02/2015 2:26:23 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

The left so desperately needs a conservative mass murderer, to dispel the truth of the matter which is that every one of them in the past was far left wing.

That doesn’t stop the left and our mass media from jumping the gun, so to speak, and mis identify just about every one of those past mass murders as far right...

When the truth emerges I think if he is left wing, that some very substantial conclusions can be drawn. The left should not be armed. It is a matter of projection that they want to disarm us all, in they know they cannot be trusted. But also the left is evil. The far left in the 20th century put to death 100 million innocent civilians in their own countries. Evil is what drives them, and deceives us.
Lets call it what it is.


9 posted on 10/02/2015 2:27:22 PM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: Darroll

Have they determined if the train hero was a direct target? He was in LA practicing for “Dancing With The Stars” when the shooting happened. He would have been at the college if not for that.


10 posted on 10/02/2015 2:29:14 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Stalwart

The Independent Party website:

http://www.indparty.com/

Note their agenda.

And there is this from Wikipedia:

In 2008, “The IPO ran eight of its own candidates and cross-nominated four major party candidates in the 2008 election, including Democrats Jeff Merkley and Ben Westlund”

In 2010, “The IPO became the first political party in the United States to conduct a binding statewide Primary Election entirely over the internet.[20] 86 candidates participated in the election. Former Governor John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, won the party’s nomination in a three-person race.”

Yeah, sounds really conservative to me.


11 posted on 10/02/2015 2:33:52 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Darroll

Isn’t that interesting?


12 posted on 10/02/2015 2:34:30 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

PFL


13 posted on 10/02/2015 2:36:23 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to repeal and replace the GOP)
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To: TBP

http://www.indparty.com/

Oregon has closed primaries, too.

http://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/voteinor.aspx#politicalparties


14 posted on 10/02/2015 2:41:03 PM PDT by Stalwart
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To: TBP

Sounds something on the order of the Non-Partisan League, or NPL. They were socialists trying to mask themselves as not biased, often tied directly to the dem party at election time.

That Oregon outfit is just a different name, same game.


15 posted on 10/02/2015 2:51:42 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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To: skeeter

“conservative Republican”.

Who among us would use that label ?

Most say they are ‘conservative’ and vote Republican. Only the media thinks conservative Republican is a party.


16 posted on 10/02/2015 2:53:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Darroll

I didn’t know that ... got a link ?


17 posted on 10/02/2015 3:03:27 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Stalwart
A conservative who executes Christians? I don't think so.
This guy was a jihadist wannabe.
18 posted on 10/02/2015 3:06:56 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: Stalwart

I have no idea if this is true, but I will post the gist of a few comments that I saw on a thread last night. FWIW:

Some posters were suggesting that this guy had an account on a dating site. The account had a description of him as a “conservative Republican”, but one poster noted that the shooter’s account had been subjected to some changes after he had already been killed. Someone suggested that hackers from 4chan were responsible for the changes.


19 posted on 10/02/2015 3:15:26 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: TBP

http://indparty.com/platform

I can’t say it’s necessarily liberal.

Apparently they have enough registered voters to be a “major” party - but no office holders in the U.S. Congress, the state legislature, or the state row offices.


20 posted on 10/02/2015 3:23:21 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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