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Related: About this forumVirginia man kills family and himself over fear Obama would be re-elected
A Virginia man allegedly killed himself and his family earlier this week in part because he was upset by the thought of President Barack Obama being re-elected.
He felt that our God-given rights were being taken away, a family friend identified as Maggie L. told The Daily Mail. He didnt like where the country was going.
The friend said Albert Peterson, a defense contractor, had a history of paranoia and was also affected by a favorite uncles recent suicide. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that Peterson, his wife Kathleen and their two sons, Matthew and Christopher, were found dead in their home.
According to The Mail, authorities believe Peterson shot his wife and the children before turning the gun on himself. Maggie told the newspaper that his family had a history of mental illness; his father killed himself when Peterson was young, and the death of his mother five years ago, she said, nearly drove him to suicide before Kathleen saved him.
But more recently, Maggie said, Peterson was behaving erratically, sending paranoid political emails daily to family and friends.
They were very well off people and they saved a lot of money, she said about the Petersons. He couldnt understand how the government could be so irresponsible and he thought it would be on the backs of his boys.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/28/virginia-man-kills-family-and-himself-over-fear-obama-would-be-re-elected/
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)Yeah, they know who they are.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)atreides1
(16,084 posts)David__77
(23,434 posts)I don't see much comparison.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Jim Jones: Founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, which is best known for the November 18, 1978 mass suicide of 909 Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana along with the killings of five other people at a nearby airstrip. Over 200 children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of whom were forcibly made to ingest cyanide by the elite Temple members.
And all you can say is: Jim Jones was no right-winger? Like, what? Never mind the insanity, what was his political position? Seriously? You care about the political views of a suicidal nut case?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
David__77
(23,434 posts)But they happened not to be right-wing at all. At least not in my opinion. He followed an ideology of "revolutionary suicide."
Warpy
(111,305 posts)and we do diddly squat about getting crazy people help in this country.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)He didn't arrive at "Obama's ruining the country" all on his own. He knew that because the news entertainment industry has shouted it at him for four years.
It's not true, never was true, and more people are going to die because their beliefs, as programmed by the people who wish to steal the last of what they have, do not comport with reality.
rsweets
(307 posts)Looks like convinced at least one person they were right.
congrats
zbdent
(35,392 posts)that's how the crowd you named sleep at night and brush off ANY hint of their "involvement" in things like this ...
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Paranoid Schizophrenia, fueled by fear and hate. I just don't get it.
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Along with increased gun sales. The right is going to become unhinged when they lose.
The Republicans are the weapons of self-destruction.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)I think many will come unglued.
America has some serious mental health issues.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)At least it will stop them from inbreeding.
qwlauren35
(6,148 posts)If they were going to freak out, they would have done so 4 years ago. Nothing has changed for them, no new revelations have come. He hasn't restored us to 0% unemployment, so some people are unhappy with him. And frankly, not having a job sucks. But otherwise, it's just 4 more years of what they already have. It's not as if things are really going to get any worse.
Wait, I take the back. We have gotten more involved with the Middle East, and that seems to scare people, even though for months we were "treated to" a phenomenal record of dead al-Qaeda leaders. Some people are convinced that Obama will "sell us to the Muslim Brotherhood" even though our military in the Middle East are killing Muslims on a daily basis.
People believe what they want to, but I don't think most will go ape-shit over 4 more years of Obama.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I hope I am wrong. There are a lot of crazy people with guns who are paranoid. You just never know what to expect.
TheFarseer
(9,323 posts)I've been told listening to him makes you think death is preferable to Obamerica.
Not to downplay a tragedy but odd that he didn't think his vote was needed urgently in a swing state.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)The sad thing is that with a cottage industry devoted to pushing the most extreme right wing conspiracy theories about President Obama being a Muslim Socialist who was born in some foreign country, it is not too surprising that someone who is a bit unhinged would begin to accept the propaganda as truth.
sakabatou
(42,165 posts)Shitty Mitty
(138 posts)The mentally ill are treated like lepers and unless you live in a mega-city like NY or LA, you can forget about finding REAL help concerning mental health problems.
Duct Tape
(196 posts)I blame this on the RW hate speech, hate radio, and hate tv that we're all overexposed to.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Blue Yorker
(436 posts)Poor man.
aaaaaa5a
(4,667 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Guns, the path to freedumb.