Posted on 07/21/2012 9:09:14 PM PDT by truthfinder9
My Theory: He was a smart guy. He knew from a young age that something was wrong. He wasn’t as “normal” as other people. He didn’t really fit in so he kept to himself mostly.
His mother and father saw this too but they denied it or hoped he would grow out of it in time. He did great in school and took up Neuroscience to help him figure himself out.
In his early twenties, he began to loose touch with the common reality. This is an age when schizophrenia typically sets in. His delusions gained much more power. The obsessions were too demanding. His performance at school dropped drastically.
He gave up on ever figuring himself out and decided to drop out of the program.
If he was a paranoid schizophrenic, that doesn’t excuse him. He could have asked for help from someone he trusted or someone who loved him. He could have quietly blown out his own brains with the first gun he bought. He was a smart guy.
Instead he followed and embraced his foul delusions. He decided to kill a lot of people. This is the essence of evil. Better that a stone had been tied around his neck and he was cast into the sea.
I get the same gaydar reading from his photo that you do. Maybe his partner left him and he was getting even?
I feel so bad for his father, who was begging on TV yesterday for any information. Just wanted to go through the screen and give him a big hug. Cant imagine having to bury your son, especially on what would have been his 27th birthday
Michelle Malkin posted a link to his facebook page..ALL of his facebook friends are all Korean, either living in the US attending Colorado State University or living in South Korea. If this guy is so smart why would he use his own phone to call in a threat, no one is THAT stupid. Reminds me of what happened with someone who just happened to have George Zimmerman’s old cell phone number, he received so many death threats he had to disconnect the line
He didn’t have friends. That seems a pretty consistent theme. He moved off campus and I suspect he would have shot up campus had not his privileges been removed. He started preparing before his privileges were removed, right after he left the dorm for an apartment and he started the withdrawal process in June. He tanked the winter semester.
From another thread...(Dont tell me this idiot acted alone...KIDS dont have the capacity to create a conspiracy!)
“To: RacerX1128
A father of a girl in the front row, or near the front row, told the media Friday morning she said someone opened the door for him to get in.
Its possible that this guy had help, but since it was so dark inside the theater anything is possible. The theater I go to it gets so dark inside when the trailers start I cant see my hand in front of my face. That is why I always sit in the first row so I wont trip on the stairs if I have to leave for a bathroom or phone call break
he had a friend. at least. that is the one
I was living in the area at the time. I knew a couple of people who were observing the events as they transpired.
A small group of black clad and masked individuals were seen to be wearing what was either padded clothing or body armor, cups, and heavy boots. One of them was een to have taken a shot to groin from a police billy club with no apparent effect. All were seen to have the tell-tale curly-que leads of a single earphone. They were well-coordinated (not bad for anarchists, huh?) in that they did a smash-and-run attack on highly visible establishments lime McDonalds and Starbucks, leaving al lof the other silly fools in animal costumes and body paint to take the brunt of the police response.
Really? Do they think the people in the theater were the 1%
Sure it adds up - He had taken several Vicodin and was stoned out of his gourd.
FOX had some terrific psychiatric analysts on their shows tonight who helped me understand everything that could have been going through the killer’s mind.
Just like the pedophiles when they’re caught in those TV stings, most of them all of a sudden get very compliant and obedient in the face of police and authority figures. These criminals are weak-willed, cowardly people. That’s why both pedophiles and this killer targeted mostly young people who were trapped in a defenseless position. He had no real advantage in fighting the cops and caved into fear.
There is also the possibility that he wanted to get caught. Especially since in his online personal ad, he asked if the women would visit him in jail.
We don’t know what went on in the conversation with cops about the bomb. His plan clearly seemed to be for the music to start at midnight and cause someone to trigger the explosion. My guess is he was bragging to the cops about what they’d find in his apartment, not realizing his plan had failed and no one triggered the bomb in that half hour timespan. He may also have not been targetting cops for whatever reason, and figured if a civilian hadn’t triggered it he didn’t want the cops to do so.
Also, the whole point of this killing spree was for him to get the high of having power and control in a life where he clearly felt he was special enough to deserve more of it than he had. He might have been so drunk on power after the killing spree that he felt arrogant enough to be able to brag about the bombs to the cops and still think they’d fall victim to them.
He also wanted the perceived power that would come from the fame and notoriety he gained from this event. That’s why he targetted the single biggest media event that he had ready access to, the opening screening of what was anticipated to be the biggest movie of the year. This is much less about him being inspired by a movie than it is about him picking the one target that would make the most headlines and capture the public’s imagination. If his plan was to become famous as a killer than trying to associate himself with a very famous movie by imitating its star character and shooting people at a big event for the movie makes perfect sense.
This is less similar to Columbine than it is to someone like Mark David Chapman who targetted John Lennon because he thought he himself was more deserving of the public’s admiration and attention and tried to get it by associating himself with John Lennon in the eyes of the media and history books the only way that he could.
Sounds to me like a quote that could easily have been taken out of context. If they gave details on his address, school, physical description, etc., she could have been basing the positive identification on that. And the "you have the right person" was probably referring to her, i.e., yes, she really is his mother. I don't think she was admitting his guilt, but the parents appear to be intelligent, rational people and might not attempt to deny reality just because they didn't like it.
What friend? Is there an article?
Gads, if anything crazy happened with me, people could say: She didn’t have any friends but one. I have a best friend since 12 years old (crazy azz liberal, too!) and a few acquaintances along the way, nothing more.
I have not yet read he even had one best friend. Just people who knew him in passing.
I'm not so sure he's crazy. And if he's acting nutty in prison, it may just be an act to try to get off on an insanity plea. This is an arrogant loner who didn't think he needed anybody, because he believed he was superior to everybody. But his vision of himself was out of synch with reality where he was desperate enough to post online personal ads to get sex (this is a last resort for men who have no other options), where he couldn't get a job or the job he thought he deserved, and where he may have been having problems in school.
He concluded that the only way to get himself the "respect" he thought he was due was to stage this very elaborate attack at the most high-profile event where he could pull it off, the biggest midnight movie opening perhaps in history, something sure to draw nationwide media coverage. Because he believes other human beings are inferior to him, it makes no difference to him if this plan required other people to die. Proving to the world and himself that he had what it takes to have power and control over other people was worth more to him than whatever personal consequences for him that could come from this.
What we heard before is that the killer was sitting in the theater, left through the emergency exit, and then returned dressed in the combat gear. This witness may be confused and not realized he was watching the same guy the whole time. The cell phone call could have been an alarm on a timer or just fake motioning to make Holmes look more inconspicuous when he was leaving through the emergency exit.
Snips of lyrics from the new Rush album:
The Anarchist, RUSH - Clockwork Angels Album, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3lLcAz4YU
I lack their smiles and diamonds; I lack their happiness and love
I envy them for all those things, I never got my fair share of ....
The things I’ve always been denied
An early promise that somehow died
A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage
....I plan my vengeance on my own - and I was always alone
Oh - They tried to get me
Oh - they’ll never forget me.
you have one friend a liberal... can I be yo friend? prrettie pls?
arg.. rush is rush I lived in the 90’s dammit “RUN TO THE HILLS” “HAMMER OF THE GODS” zep
arg.. rush is rush I lived in the 90’s dammit “RUN TO THE HILLS” “HAMMER OF THE GODS” zep
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