enhanced_deficit
06-15-2016, 10:05 PM
Suspected terrorist extremist's ex boyfriends speaks up.
It is unusual coincidence that lately quite a few news stories about "gay extremist terrorists" are making headlines.
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(http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/james-wesley-howells-ex-boyfriend-didnt-surprise-me-all/85836328)James Wesley Howell's ex-boyfriend: 'It didn’t surprise me at all' (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/james-wesley-howells-ex-boyfriend-didnt-surprise-me-all/85836328)
Jill Disis and Michael Anthony Adams, June 15, 2016
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Joseph Greeson, 18, recalls the time he spent with James Wesley Howell, a 20-year-old Indiana man arrested with assault rifles and explosives in Los Angeles on his way to a gay pride event. Michael Anthony Adams / IndyStar
The Indiana man was stopped with assault rifles and explosives Sunday on his way to a gay pride event in Los Angeles.
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(Photo: AP Photo/Nick Ut)
JEFFERSONVILLE — The James Wesley Howell (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/la-pride-arrest-suspect-2016-james-wesley-howell-indiana-omar-mateen-la-pride-gunman-orlando-shootings-pulse-nightclub-james-howell/85822812/) that Jeffersonville knew was a quiet young man best known for walking his black Labrador, Midnight, through the streets of the well-to-do Louisville, Ky., suburb his parents called home.
But 30 minutes away in the small city of Charlestown, friends and a boyfriend told a different story. This Howell, they said, was a troubled and sometimes violent man who had a dangerous relationship with fast cars, big guns and many of the people closest to him.
It remains unclear why the Southern Indiana man was in Santa Monica, Calif., early Sunday, when he was stopped on his way to a gay pride event in Los Angeles. When Howell, 20, was arrested, police said they discovered three assault rifles, high-capacity magazines (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/12/police-man-arrested-california-had-guns-explosives/85795006/) and ammunition in his car, along with a five-gallon bucket filled with explosive chemicals. He remains in jail there on a $500,000 bond. The FBI also is investigating.
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by Jason Page
http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_24/1579466/160615-usnews-orlando-omar-mateen-shirtless-0624_bcc5650ee5465d3ef981ab51b68cbb90.nbcnews-ux-600-700.jpg (http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_24/1579466/160615-usnews-orlando-omar-mateen-shirtless-0624_bcc5650ee5465d3ef981ab51b68cbb90.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg)
Omar Mateen in this undated photo from his Myspace page. MySpace via AFP - Getty Images
"Was Omar Mateen gay?"
The answer to the above question will never be known. But the question being asked is one that again paints the media in a negative light as far as this writer is concerned. Because to ask the question is to show a lack of understanding of sexual discovery and the difficulties that come with it for so many boys, girls, men and women across this country and around the world.
As a teenager, I was what many would consider a typical guy. I dated the captain of the cheerleading team and plenty of other girls throughout my high school years. After high school, I started to experiment with other men Still, I was engaged at 20 (to a woman.) That relationship would eventually end when my fiancé realized who I was before I had even realized it. Even after coming out privately to my family in 2000 and having many relationships of the lengthy and not so lengthy variety, I would have one more relationship with a female in 2009. I was honest with this woman about my sexual orientation, but I decided to give heterosexuality one more shot. That relationship would end after just a few months. The point of this isn't to catalogue my sexual escapades of the past 20 years, it's to make the point that sexuality has many shades of gray.
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/opinion-complexity-sexuality-omar-mateen-n593226
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It is unusual coincidence that lately quite a few news stories about "gay extremist terrorists" are making headlines.
http://winningdemocrats.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/gay-pride-killer.jpg
(http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/james-wesley-howells-ex-boyfriend-didnt-surprise-me-all/85836328)James Wesley Howell's ex-boyfriend: 'It didn’t surprise me at all' (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/james-wesley-howells-ex-boyfriend-didnt-surprise-me-all/85836328)
Jill Disis and Michael Anthony Adams, June 15, 2016
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Joseph Greeson, 18, recalls the time he spent with James Wesley Howell, a 20-year-old Indiana man arrested with assault rifles and explosives in Los Angeles on his way to a gay pride event. Michael Anthony Adams / IndyStar
The Indiana man was stopped with assault rifles and explosives Sunday on his way to a gay pride event in Los Angeles.
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/38a2dff23c6c69bbc2dd3389d3e5d65e53c3cb58/c=0-131-3000-2387&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2016/06/14/INGroup/Indianapolis/636015300479164644-Gay-Pride-Explosives-John.jpg
(Photo: AP Photo/Nick Ut)
JEFFERSONVILLE — The James Wesley Howell (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/13/la-pride-arrest-suspect-2016-james-wesley-howell-indiana-omar-mateen-la-pride-gunman-orlando-shootings-pulse-nightclub-james-howell/85822812/) that Jeffersonville knew was a quiet young man best known for walking his black Labrador, Midnight, through the streets of the well-to-do Louisville, Ky., suburb his parents called home.
But 30 minutes away in the small city of Charlestown, friends and a boyfriend told a different story. This Howell, they said, was a troubled and sometimes violent man who had a dangerous relationship with fast cars, big guns and many of the people closest to him.
It remains unclear why the Southern Indiana man was in Santa Monica, Calif., early Sunday, when he was stopped on his way to a gay pride event in Los Angeles. When Howell, 20, was arrested, police said they discovered three assault rifles, high-capacity magazines (http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/12/police-man-arrested-california-had-guns-explosives/85795006/) and ammunition in his car, along with a five-gallon bucket filled with explosive chemicals. He remains in jail there on a $500,000 bond. The FBI also is investigating.
Related
Commentary: The Intersection of Sexuality, Self Hatred & Terror
by Jason Page
http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_24/1579466/160615-usnews-orlando-omar-mateen-shirtless-0624_bcc5650ee5465d3ef981ab51b68cbb90.nbcnews-ux-600-700.jpg (http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_24/1579466/160615-usnews-orlando-omar-mateen-shirtless-0624_bcc5650ee5465d3ef981ab51b68cbb90.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg)
Omar Mateen in this undated photo from his Myspace page. MySpace via AFP - Getty Images
"Was Omar Mateen gay?"
The answer to the above question will never be known. But the question being asked is one that again paints the media in a negative light as far as this writer is concerned. Because to ask the question is to show a lack of understanding of sexual discovery and the difficulties that come with it for so many boys, girls, men and women across this country and around the world.
As a teenager, I was what many would consider a typical guy. I dated the captain of the cheerleading team and plenty of other girls throughout my high school years. After high school, I started to experiment with other men Still, I was engaged at 20 (to a woman.) That relationship would eventually end when my fiancé realized who I was before I had even realized it. Even after coming out privately to my family in 2000 and having many relationships of the lengthy and not so lengthy variety, I would have one more relationship with a female in 2009. I was honest with this woman about my sexual orientation, but I decided to give heterosexuality one more shot. That relationship would end after just a few months. The point of this isn't to catalogue my sexual escapades of the past 20 years, it's to make the point that sexuality has many shades of gray.
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/opinion-complexity-sexuality-omar-mateen-n593226
Nightclub Gunman Was in BP Oil Spill Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lu-ej4XiH8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lu-ej4XiH8
Virgina Killer Sent "Suicide Note" To ABC, Says Massacre Is "Race War" In Reaction To Charleston (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?481100-Virgina-Killer-Sent-quot-Suicide-Note-quot-To-ABC-Says-Massacre-Is-quot-Race-War-quot-In-Reaction-To-Charlest&)
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