Salon writer Paul Rosenberg's article, Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to the alt-right, offers clear ties between shooter Ramos and right-wing hate, American white male terrorism.
I would argue that Donald Trump's attacks on journalists and the media unleashed Ramos hate and anger to a level he'd restrained himself from reaching before Trump.
The article documents how Capital Gazette shooter Jarrod Ramos' disturbing Twitter history, shows far-right connections and hints of violence against journalists, going back at least four years, when he resonated with the Charlie Hebdo attacks. But he didn't act, didn't hurt anybody.
That's important, because Trump's #MAGA supporters have been trying to argue that Trump's hate and attacks on the media had nothing to do with the attack. Even mainstream media anchors, like CNN's John King have argued that this was not politically motivated or related to Trump's attacks on journalists.
Rosenberg's article makes it clear that Jarrod Ramos's hate and anger were there for a long time. I would argue that he held them in check until Donald Trump spent 18 months spewing hate, encouraging abuse, even violence towards his critics. Trump's spewings eroded the humanity, the restraints that Ramos had, which prevented him from acting on his rage.
With this new information, Trump supporters must face the fact that it is very reasonable to argue Trump played an essential role in this shooting, changing Ramos from an angry person acting with restraint to become a right-wing terrorist mass shooter.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity scheduled for release May 22, 2019
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.
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