enhanced_deficit
02-24-2018, 10:29 PM
Heard surprising claims about Parkland school kids shooter being trained by NRA/US Army and US Army using video games to recruit school kids on DN news report. Have not seen this in other MSM covergae, so not sure if confirmed reports. Another linked news video claimed video games are used to recruit 13+ year old middle/high school kids.
More importantly, if mental fitness/age resquirements for JROTC and other military programs are made more restrictive, how will that impact recruitment for freedom operations in place like Iraq, Afghan, Syria etc?
In quick lookup, did not see any MSM print report on such claims, came across this IPA article that seems to make similar claims:
Are Mass Shootings in U.S. Blowback from its Perpetual Wars?
February 15, 2018
http://www.accuracy.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Florida-Sun-Sentinel-reports-that-NikolasCruz-_was-wearing-a-wine-colored-ROTC-polo-shirt-black-pants-and-black-boots-when-he-was-taken-into-custody._-300x300.jpg (https://twitter.com/JoshCohenRadio/status/963930997858471936)
Coleen Rowley — a former FBI special agent who exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures and was named one of TIME magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002 — writes on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/coleen.rowley/posts/10213471743682064?pnref=story): “It looks like this latest Florida school shooter besides having a number of psychological problems was in JROTC. Most reporters are not mentioning the connection between mass shooters and military training/service. Research shows a significant correlation. I’ve been saying for years now that the steep increase in mass shootings in the U.S. can be traced to blowback from the extreme ‘war is the answer’ militarism (all over social media, Hollywood, violent video games, etc.) used to sustain and promote U.S.-NATO-Israel’s perpetual war.”
Rowley criticized media coverage that “lauded the ‘great show of force’ (showing dozens of police running into the school when the shooter had already escaped). And again TV anchors asked the ridiculous question about ‘motive’ as if it’s a detective mystery when that term really has zero relevance to vulnerable people turning into senseless violent copycats just shooting up public places because they have come to think that’s the American way of solving problems and becoming heroes.”
See Rowley’s piece “Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One (https://www.laprogressive.com/perpetual-war-recipe/),” which states: “Given our somnolent acceptance of the notion that this unprecedented state of perpetual war is somehow protecting our safety, it’s ironic that military service is emerging as significantly correlated with, if not a cause of, America’s dramatic increase in mass shootings and other domestic terror-type killings.(PTSD-related murders overall also remain uncounted.) Researchers studying recent lists of mass shooters find veterans are over twice as likely to be mass shooters. Post-combat related ‘copycat’ homicidal violence might be a direct externality of training and then assigning young people to commit murder overseas.”PAT ELDER, [currently in Florida, five miles from Parkland, Florida], pelder at studentprivacy.org, @studentprivacy (https://twitter.com/studentprivacy)
Author of the recently released book Military Recruiting in the United States (http://www.counter-recruit.org/), Elder is director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy (http://www.studentprivacy.org/), an organization that confronts militarism in the schools. He notes that the alleged shooter was “in the JROTC program as early as 9th grade. They practice shooting in the cafeteria. He was apprehended wearing his JROTC shirt.”
http://www.accuracy.org/release/are-mass-shootings-in-u-s-blowback-from-its-perpetual-wars/
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180216184252-04-nikolas-cruz-school-shooter-obsessed-race-violence-guns-large-169.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4c5QvW86E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4c5QvW86E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvMZHrjfC_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvMZHrjfC_c
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By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker February 19
The White House was under siege.
Domestic abuse allegations against a senior aide were ignored, pointing to a potential high-level coverup. Two Cabinet secretaries were caught charging taxpayers for luxury travel. A Playboy centerfold alleged an extramarital affair with the president. And the special counsel’s Russia investigation was intensifying. The tumult was so intense that there was fervent speculation that President Trump might fire his chief of staff.
But a gun massacre at a Florida high school last Wednesday, which left 17 dead, seemed to shift the media glare away from the Trump scandals and gave embattled aides an opportunity to re*focus on handling a crisis not of their own making. While the White House mourned the loss of life in Parkland, Fla., some aides privately acknowledged that the tragedy offered a breather from the political storm.
A tentative plan for White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly to address the news media from the briefing room Wednesday — where he would have faced intense scrutiny over his role in the mishandling of the domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter — was scuttled.
One White House official said the shooting forced the White House to focus on critical and serious issues — like consoling the victims and trying to heal the nation — rather than getting bogged down in what they view as more trivial West Wing drama.
1:42 Wray vs. the White House on Porter
The White House's claims of not knowing about domestic violence allegations against Rob Porter were challenged by FBI Director Christopher Wray's timeline. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”
The official likened the brief political calm to the aftermath of the October shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds more injured. That tragedy united White House aides and the country in their shared mourning for the victims and their families.
“But as we all know, sadly, when the coverage dies down a little bit, we’ll be back through the chaos,” the official said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ff7_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-the-weary-white-house-florida-shooting-offered-a-reprieve-from-scandals/2018/02/19/04293442-158a-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html)
More importantly, if mental fitness/age resquirements for JROTC and other military programs are made more restrictive, how will that impact recruitment for freedom operations in place like Iraq, Afghan, Syria etc?
In quick lookup, did not see any MSM print report on such claims, came across this IPA article that seems to make similar claims:
Are Mass Shootings in U.S. Blowback from its Perpetual Wars?
February 15, 2018
http://www.accuracy.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Florida-Sun-Sentinel-reports-that-NikolasCruz-_was-wearing-a-wine-colored-ROTC-polo-shirt-black-pants-and-black-boots-when-he-was-taken-into-custody._-300x300.jpg (https://twitter.com/JoshCohenRadio/status/963930997858471936)
Coleen Rowley — a former FBI special agent who exposed some of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures and was named one of TIME magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002 — writes on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/coleen.rowley/posts/10213471743682064?pnref=story): “It looks like this latest Florida school shooter besides having a number of psychological problems was in JROTC. Most reporters are not mentioning the connection between mass shooters and military training/service. Research shows a significant correlation. I’ve been saying for years now that the steep increase in mass shootings in the U.S. can be traced to blowback from the extreme ‘war is the answer’ militarism (all over social media, Hollywood, violent video games, etc.) used to sustain and promote U.S.-NATO-Israel’s perpetual war.”
Rowley criticized media coverage that “lauded the ‘great show of force’ (showing dozens of police running into the school when the shooter had already escaped). And again TV anchors asked the ridiculous question about ‘motive’ as if it’s a detective mystery when that term really has zero relevance to vulnerable people turning into senseless violent copycats just shooting up public places because they have come to think that’s the American way of solving problems and becoming heroes.”
See Rowley’s piece “Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One (https://www.laprogressive.com/perpetual-war-recipe/),” which states: “Given our somnolent acceptance of the notion that this unprecedented state of perpetual war is somehow protecting our safety, it’s ironic that military service is emerging as significantly correlated with, if not a cause of, America’s dramatic increase in mass shootings and other domestic terror-type killings.(PTSD-related murders overall also remain uncounted.) Researchers studying recent lists of mass shooters find veterans are over twice as likely to be mass shooters. Post-combat related ‘copycat’ homicidal violence might be a direct externality of training and then assigning young people to commit murder overseas.”PAT ELDER, [currently in Florida, five miles from Parkland, Florida], pelder at studentprivacy.org, @studentprivacy (https://twitter.com/studentprivacy)
Author of the recently released book Military Recruiting in the United States (http://www.counter-recruit.org/), Elder is director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy (http://www.studentprivacy.org/), an organization that confronts militarism in the schools. He notes that the alleged shooter was “in the JROTC program as early as 9th grade. They practice shooting in the cafeteria. He was apprehended wearing his JROTC shirt.”
http://www.accuracy.org/release/are-mass-shootings-in-u-s-blowback-from-its-perpetual-wars/
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180216184252-04-nikolas-cruz-school-shooter-obsessed-race-violence-guns-large-169.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4c5QvW86E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4c5QvW86E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvMZHrjfC_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvMZHrjfC_c
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For the weary White House, Florida shooting offered a ‘reprieve’ from scandals
By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker February 19
The White House was under siege.
Domestic abuse allegations against a senior aide were ignored, pointing to a potential high-level coverup. Two Cabinet secretaries were caught charging taxpayers for luxury travel. A Playboy centerfold alleged an extramarital affair with the president. And the special counsel’s Russia investigation was intensifying. The tumult was so intense that there was fervent speculation that President Trump might fire his chief of staff.
But a gun massacre at a Florida high school last Wednesday, which left 17 dead, seemed to shift the media glare away from the Trump scandals and gave embattled aides an opportunity to re*focus on handling a crisis not of their own making. While the White House mourned the loss of life in Parkland, Fla., some aides privately acknowledged that the tragedy offered a breather from the political storm.
A tentative plan for White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly to address the news media from the briefing room Wednesday — where he would have faced intense scrutiny over his role in the mishandling of the domestic abuse allegations against former staff secretary Rob Porter — was scuttled.
One White House official said the shooting forced the White House to focus on critical and serious issues — like consoling the victims and trying to heal the nation — rather than getting bogged down in what they view as more trivial West Wing drama.
1:42 Wray vs. the White House on Porter
The White House's claims of not knowing about domestic violence allegations against Rob Porter were challenged by FBI Director Christopher Wray's timeline. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said the White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”
The official likened the brief political calm to the aftermath of the October shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds more injured. That tragedy united White House aides and the country in their shared mourning for the victims and their families.
“But as we all know, sadly, when the coverage dies down a little bit, we’ll be back through the chaos,” the official said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ff7_story.html (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-the-weary-white-house-florida-shooting-offered-a-reprieve-from-scandals/2018/02/19/04293442-158a-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html)