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Do we need any more proof?

Even Newer Talgania
08-11-2004, 15:29
Do we need any more proof that lefties have gone off the deep end?
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Ground Zero Suicide Driven by Election
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Associated Press

NEW YORK — A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush's re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal (search)'s body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said.

Veal's mother said her son was upset about the result of the presidential election and had driven to New York, Gus Danese, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, told The New York Times in Sunday's editions.

Friends said Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry.

"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the lab, told The Daily News. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic."

Police were investigating how Veal entered the former World Trade Center site, which is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.
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This just shows what I've been saying since Wednesday. When people invest so much of a very strong emotion - in this case, hate - in the outcome of a contest, then when their side loses, unbearable anguish results. Their hate is now literally consuming them.

Was it a protest? Absolutely not. It was nothing more than a childish temper tantrum taken to extremes.
Spiffydom
08-11-2004, 15:37
Uh huh. And if somebody from the right does the exact same thing, he will be called a patriot, or some sort of religious martyr. We can spin this as much as we want, but we can all agree that this statement is an exaggeration:

Do we need any more proof that lefties have gone off the deep end?
Demented Hamsters
08-11-2004, 15:41
Do we need any more proof that lefties have gone off the deep end? Nice to see the Right are showing their concern and are reaching out to everyone. :rolleyes:

BTW, yesterday called. They want their thread back.
Even Newer Talgania
08-11-2004, 15:43
Uh huh. And if somebody from the right does the exact same thing, he will be called a patriot, or some sort of religious martyr. We can spin this as much as we want, but we can all agree that this statement is an exaggeration:

No, we DON'T all agree the statement is an exaggeration. Another example: Al Gore.
JuNii
08-11-2004, 15:47
Left, Right... everyone is wrong. This is just a tragic event. and trying to turn it into an anti/pro Bush argument is just plain sick.
Even Newer Talgania
08-11-2004, 15:47
Nice to see the Right are showing their concern and are reaching out to everyone. :rolleyes:

BTW, yesterday called. They want their thread back.

Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeeeeeeee for having something better to do on a Sunday than hang out here! Someone needs to get a life. ;)
Even Newer Talgania
08-11-2004, 15:48
Left, Right... everyone is wrong. This is just a tragic event. and trying to turn it into an anti/pro Bush argument is just plain sick.
It's not a "pro-Bush" argument; you totally missed my point. Read my OP re: strong emotional investment.
Stephistan
08-11-2004, 15:51
Flamebait.

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