None of the usual categories seem to apply.
Either an academic or a 'push through'
An unusually quiet and withdrawn guy ... autistic ?
Chooses neuroscience for an advanced study.
in 2006, he's discovered to be ... less than what he purported to be.
Got gov't and school grants to live
Drops out and after becoming a mass murderer, it is discovered he's chock a block full of weird, insurgent/terrorist type influence
Where was Bill Ayers in 2006?
When I click the link I get nothing.
But that could be just me.
What I’ve read so far suggests a quiet ticking bomb. He was totally wrapped in defining who and what he was based on these “achievements”.
Something in his brain might have gone wrong at some point, some kind of mental disorder, and it would appear he had NOTHING within himself or outside himself to fall back on.
I read, or heard, that as soon as he took the oral exam he began ordering ammo and other stuff and dropped out of the program.
He must have thought it didn’t go well, or that he couldn’t go on with the rigors of the program, and to HIM, that meant he needed to start killing people.
It reminds me of people who killed themselves during the stock crash in ‘29 because they had nothing but money. When their finances were wiped out, they jumped off of buildings.
Except for one thing, they killed THEMSELVES, not a bunch of innocent movie goers in a theater.
Setting up that insanity plea.
The media is helping because it fuels arguments for keeping guns out of EVERYONE’S hands (just in case a few of us gun clingers might turn out to be insane).
He is stark raving mad at times.
If you ever see the movie " A Beautiful Mind" you can only begin to maybe scratch the surface to understand. I am always praying for him.
His family must be mortified - church-going people having something like this land at their doorstep.
Reminds me a bit of the after-the-fact profile that was published of the 2007 Virginia Tech student.
When he finally reached a level where those in charge cared more about the quality of his work (or the reputation of their institution), it became obvious to him that, for all his supposed "genius," he wasn't even near the middle of this one program.
I think it's pretty common for bright kids to get to college, coming from a high school where they may have been able to recognize themselves as the "smartest" kid in the class, and find they're just one of many.
And with the recognition that no matter how "smart" you think you are, all that matters is the work you put out, he likely saw people he felt superior to getting better results than he did, and he resented that and felt cheated by the world.
drugs
Brilliant people can have no moral standards or respect for authority. His so-called mental disease did not keep him from getting through school and plotting a mass killing. This killer is a product or our degenerate culture, which treats lack of character as a medical condition.
His mother has been quoted as saying “you have the right person”.
There was a letter to the Houston Chronicle yesterday where a woman had not heard that his mother was taking about her self. The letter writer ranted about people knowing others were unstable and doing nothing about it.
The media could have made her statement clear from the beginning but then that’s not what the media does.
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1>
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9405999/How-the-Dark-Knight-Rises-reveals-Batmans-Conservative-soul.html
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From Breitbart, one day before the shooting...
("Dark Knight" was ANTI-Occupy, PRO-Capitalist)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/07/18/dark-knight-rises-review-batman-bain-ows
Larry Grathwohl:
"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."
The silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload.
"Violence like the massacre that happened in Aurora, Colo., today is a staple of action films, including Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. A similar, now haunting, scene unfurls in "The Dark Knight Rises" when a masked villain leads a violent gang into a packed football stadium and deploys guns and explosives on the unsuspecting crowd.
While there has been no indication as to the motives of James Holmes, the suspected 24-year-old shooter who is now in custody, new evidence suggests that he was inspired by the Batman series of comic books and/or movies.
Law enforcement sources confirmed to ABC News that Holmes said "I am the Joker" when apprehended by authorities. His hair was painted red, the same hair color of Heath Ledger's Joker at one point in 2008's "The Dark Knight."
[snip]
There are more parallels. In Frank Miller's iconic 1986 comic book series, "The Dark Knight Returns," the Joker murders a television studio audience by deploying "smile gas." Holmes began his massacre by setting off smoke bombs throughout the theater.
In the same book, Arnold Crimp, a disturbed man who just lost his job, pulls out a handgun in an adult film theater and kills three people. A scene from the strip shows a news anchor saying, "Three slain in Batman-inspired porn theater shoot-out." ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...
From the website Examiner...
The reports that Aurora movie theater gunman James E. Holmes was a former member of the “Black Bloc” faction of the Occupy movement have caused considerable debate. Yet the most strident denials of this reportage seem to come almost entirely from the political left. More objective sources as well as blogs and web sites on the right seem to assert Holmes was a member of the group.
The “Black Bloc” faction of Occupy has targeted law enforcement in other instances, and three members of the group are facing charges of attempting to kill cops in Chicago. It has become clear the “booby-trapping” of his apartment with trip wires and bombs was intended to kill the most likely next persons to enter that apartment, namely law enforcement. Aurora, Colorado police have state they are angry at knowing they were targeted in this way by the alleged movie theater shooter.
The web site GodLikeProductions.com has done an analysis of the commonly seen picture of Holmes along with two others that are allegedly him also, one from the dating site profile that is believed to have been his that had the line about visiting him in prison soon, and another of a mug shot of an Occupy New York member arrested in October of 2011.
Private Investigator Bill Warren reported on his blog the connection between Holmes and the Occupy movement, and his web site is still reporting that information as a result of his investigation of the issue. As some of the left seem to more stridently deny the connection, it appears more evidence is reported showing that Holmes might well be a member of the Occupy movement or a former member of the group.
“The Dark Knight Rises,” the third and final installment in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, pushes the ideological envelope even further than before. It’s impossible not to feel Nolan’s disgust at Occupy Wall Street a movement the film paints as both incoherent and violent courtesy of a class warfare villain armed with nuclear weaponry.
“The Dark Knight Rises” never mentions the 99 percent or other overt Occupy Wall Street slogans. But Nolan clearly summons the spirit of the ragtag movement with a propensity for violence. Bane’s henchmen literally attack Wall Street, savagely beat the rich and promise the good people of Gotham that “tomorrow, you claim what is rightfully yours.”
http://www.pibillwarner.com/2012/07/occupy-black-bloc-member-james-holmes.html
"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders