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CBS News: Shooter Identified As Former US Military Member
CBS ^ | 8.6.2012 | CBS

Posted on 08/06/2012 8:45:41 AM PDT by Morgana

Police set up a command center near the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where at least one gunman stormed the mass and opened fire on Aug. 5, 2012 Oak Creek, Wis. (credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images) Filed under News, Syndicated Local Related tags shooting, Sikh Temple, Wade Michael Page, Wisconsin

OAK CREEK, Wis. (CBSDC/AP) — Authorities tell CBS News that the shooter behind the deadly massacre at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin Sunday has been identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page.

Page previously served in the U.S. military, but was no longer on active duty, sources tell CBS News.

CBS News reports that Page enlisted in the Army in April 1992 and was given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998. He was last stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., serving in the psychological operations unit.

The Southern Poverty Law Center told the Associated Press that Page was a musician in white power bands whose lyrics express hate against minorities and ethnic groups.

Mark Potok, spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Monday that Page had been on the white power music scene for more than a decade in bands including Definite Hate and End Apathy.

(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; india; shooter; sikh; sikhtempleshooting; veteran; wademichaelpage; wadepage
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1 posted on 08/06/2012 8:45:50 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

well hell i havent served since 1980 but, if they wanted to taint the military, they could say i was former military. irrelevent but typival of alphabet news.


2 posted on 08/06/2012 8:49:24 AM PDT by bravo whiskey
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To: Morgana

CBSObama and APObama have now fingered the perp.

How soon before ABCDisneyObama links him to the Tea Party?


3 posted on 08/06/2012 8:49:42 AM PDT by Old Sarge (We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
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To: Morgana

But let’s be sure to ignore all of the Crips, Bloods, and Cholos serving or having served.


4 posted on 08/06/2012 8:53:50 AM PDT by GunningForTheBuddha (DC is like a car full of clowns off their meds.)
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To: Morgana
ABC couldn't find a FReeper or TEA Party person named Wade Michael Page? They must be so disappointed.
5 posted on 08/06/2012 8:54:00 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Morgana

_sigh-well, at last the Che bunch have a perp that fits their pet narratives. But somehow I don’t think they’ll be able to work this the way they hope.


6 posted on 08/06/2012 8:55:05 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Morgana
Former Military.

So what?

D.C. Sniper was also former military.

Then he joined the Nation of Islam, changed his surname to Mohammed and started killing innocent people.

7 posted on 08/06/2012 8:55:05 AM PDT by thedrake
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To: Morgana
I bet he ate carrot's in the last 14 years.
8 posted on 08/06/2012 8:55:09 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: Morgana
The perp was a "Psy-op Specialist" Alex Jones's Head is going to 'splode this morning....

He may have to borrow some tape from Glenn Beck

Beck: Have some Tape Comrade Jones!

Alex: Thanks Glenn what do I do with it?

Beck: Wrap it around your head so this doesn't happen...


9 posted on 08/06/2012 8:58:12 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Morgana
...Page enlisted in the Army in April 1992 and was given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998.

Sounds like the army had no use for this clown. I read elsewhere that he was one of these tattooed-from-head-to-foot skinhead creeps.

Good riddance to this scumbag. Prayers for the innocent lives lost and their families.

10 posted on 08/06/2012 8:58:33 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Morgana
The Southern Poverty Law Center told the Associated Press that Page was a musician in white power bands whose lyrics express hate against minorities and ethnic groups.

It should be noted that the Southern Poverty Law Center also thinks that about the majority of country music acts.

11 posted on 08/06/2012 8:58:51 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Mamzelle
_sigh-well, at last the Che bunch have a perp that fits their pet narratives.

Partially. But they also want to pin these acts on political conservatives.

Just because the left maintains the fiction that white power Nazi nutjobs are somehow "conservative" doesn't mean we have to accept their narrative.

12 posted on 08/06/2012 9:02:01 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Morgana

So, he served in the military, and was discharged without good conduct. Also apparently demoted while in the service.

By a curious coincidence, he was a Hawk Missile repairman, who served in Fort Bliss. So was I, and so did I for a while, although he was there long after I was.

NO obvious connection whatever between his military service and this.

Hey, I’ll bet he also went to public school. That’s probably what was REALLY reponsible for twisting his mind. Brainwashing in kindergarten!


13 posted on 08/06/2012 9:06:16 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: dead

That’s a very good point, stated succinctly.


14 posted on 08/06/2012 9:08:28 AM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: Cicero
hope MSM post a pic of his girlfriend...just to see what kind would like all those tattoos...ugh makes me physically ill but then I'm an old lady...
15 posted on 08/06/2012 9:12:53 AM PDT by haircutter
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To: Morgana

Even the lib media knows he’s too far out there to tie him to the tea Party or Republican party. He’s an avowed skinhead neo nazi.

Another bummer for the KOS kooks.


16 posted on 08/06/2012 9:21:21 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: Morgana

17 posted on 08/06/2012 9:22:34 AM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: Morgana

Why don’t they call him what he *is* in the headline - not what he was?? Geeze...a huge portion of the population can be called a “former US Military Member”. The only valid point in this might be that he did not have an honorary discharge.

He *IS* a member of white supremacy groups/KKK/skinheads, etc.
(Even though, consistently, the msm puts these groups in the same bucket as conservatives.)

Once again, they do their best to diss our military.


18 posted on 08/06/2012 9:27:32 AM PDT by babyfreep
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To: Morgana
He was last stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., serving in the psychological operations unit.

Holy crap...he may just be a Manchurian Candidate...run out of DC as part of the under radar gun control agenda.

19 posted on 08/06/2012 9:27:32 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: babyfreep; Morgana
He *IS* a member of...

I suppose since he's dead, in reality...he was....

20 posted on 08/06/2012 9:31:49 AM PDT by babyfreep
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