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Shooting Suspect hated liberals, frustrated about job search
Live Leak via CNN ^ | July 29, 2008 | not specified

Posted on 07/29/2008 7:09:08 PM PDT by RDTF

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Knoxville church Sunday was motivated by frustration over being unable to obtain a job and hatred for the liberal movement, police said Monday.

Authorities recovered a four-page letter in which the suspect, Jim Adkisson, described his feelings and motives, police said.

Adkisson, 58, of Powell, Tennessee, has been charged with one count of first-degree murder in the shootings at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

The gunman killed two adults and wounded seven others before being overpowered by congregants, authorities said.

The case is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.

Sterling Owen IV told reporters on Monday.

Authorities also discovered a letter from the state government telling Adkisson he was having his food stamps reduced or eliminated, police said.

"He did express that frustration, that the liberal movement was getting more jobs," Owen said. "And he felt like he was being kept out of the loop because of his age."

Adkisson's resume indicates he had worked in mechanical engineering, police said.

Owen said Adkisson apparently acted alone and chose the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because of recent publicity about activities there that Adkisson considered liberal.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: churchshooting; knoxville
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1 posted on 07/29/2008 7:09:08 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: RDTF
He did express that frustration, that the liberal movement was getting more jobs

Someone who speaks authentic media gibberish; translation please?

2 posted on 07/29/2008 7:13:04 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great (until it happens to YOU)...)
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To: RDTF

Thanks a lot, jerk, for giving the liberals a nice broad brush with which to paint all conservatives.

What a stinking idiot.

Maybe this will convince even the liberals that there should be a death penalty.


3 posted on 07/29/2008 7:13:11 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: RDTF

What the hell is a Unitarian Universalist Church? That sounds like something a handful of warmed-over flatliners dreamed up after hitting the bong once too often. What are its tenets? Its dogma?


4 posted on 07/29/2008 7:15:23 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six
A lot of gays, very liberal, very “loose” theology many ways up the mountain and I'm gonna Love every body. White Rev Wright church.
5 posted on 07/29/2008 7:17:58 PM PDT by carcraft (The Obamalator, sold on TV, very expensive,doesn't work , is a cheap copy of the original Caterlator)
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To: Westbrook
“...Thanks a lot, jerk, for giving the liberals a nice broad brush with which to paint all conservatives....”

There is nothing there, the Liberals cant paint a brush over anything.......

I once read somewhere that

Jeffrey Dahmer is a registered Democrat

nothing there ???

6 posted on 07/29/2008 7:17:59 PM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush (Today, July 16th I no longer donate money for Israel)
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To: ought-six
From their About Us page.

Unitarian Universalism is a liberal religion with Jewish-Christian roots. It has no creed. It affirms the worth of human beings, advocates freedom of belief and the search for advancing truth, and tries to provide a warm, open, supportive community for people who believe that ethical living is the supreme witness of religion.

They say it themselves. They believe in the Great Nothing.

7 posted on 07/29/2008 7:20:11 PM PDT by A message
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To: ought-six
What the hell is a Unitarian Universalist Church?
Here's a clue: Its' $hrillarys' "Church of Choice".
8 posted on 07/29/2008 7:20:55 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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To: A message

Essentially, a Humanist cult.


9 posted on 07/29/2008 7:21:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Westbrook

Yeah, this reminds me of those liberal professors who referred to Stalin as a conservative. This guy should have waited for the Dalai Obama’s imminent coronation. Had he waited until November he would have had a job at McDonald’s making $50.00 an hour with full medical benefits.


10 posted on 07/29/2008 7:21:34 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: RDTF

bkmark


11 posted on 07/29/2008 7:22:42 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: RDTF
"He did express that frustration, that the liberal movement was getting more jobs," Owen said. "And he felt like he was being kept out of the loop because of his age." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

OMG! Gun control is the only answer.

I wonder how much editorial liberty was used in skewing the context of this "remark."

The MSM is so NOT RIGHT.

What about the fact that he did not have enough money to eat, or to buy his meds???

12 posted on 07/29/2008 7:23:14 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: ought-six
Think it might be one of those religions where the members drink symbolic blood and eat symbolic flesh?
14 posted on 07/29/2008 7:26:23 PM PDT by KDD ( it's not what people don't know that make them ignorant it's what they know that ain't so.)
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To: RDTF

“that the liberal movement was getting more jobs”

huh?


15 posted on 07/29/2008 7:29:31 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: RDTF

I understand the entire innocent until proven guilty thing but when everyone knows who did it is there any reason why he is called a “suspect”. There is no suspicion about it, the only question is what is the punishment.


16 posted on 07/29/2008 7:33:23 PM PDT by Domandred (McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
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To: A message; All
They believe in the Great Nothing.

Au contraire: They believe in themselves, and by logical extension, the Grand Arbitrer of human interactions, The State.  Hence, polytheism, and in a single stroke, a profound affront (borne of great joy) to all of Western Man's millennial sacrifices and struggles.

17 posted on 07/29/2008 7:39:28 PM PDT by Harrius Magnus (LIBERALS: We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.)
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To: Domandred

If the suspect were a Muslim he’d be a hero! A martyr to boot!


18 posted on 07/29/2008 7:42:18 PM PDT by Squat (Deport the illegals now! Turn Home Depot's into the prisons to hold the illegals!.)
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To: KDD
Think it might be one of those religions where the members drink symbolic blood and eat symbolic flesh?

The UCC has Cristian roots but is not a Christian Church.

How long have you been waiting to use that one?

19 posted on 07/29/2008 7:42:40 PM PDT by magslinger (Infidel, American type, quantity one (1) each.)
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To: ScreamingFist

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20 posted on 07/29/2008 7:42:42 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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