The Details of the Shooting:
After 29 year old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen saw two men hugging and kissing in front of him and his family, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was outraged, he hated gay people, not because deep down inside he was a gay man himself, and he was worried that he secretly loved dicks, but because of... whatever. Religion, probably. So Omar Mir Seddique Mateen felt the need to do something about those two men kissing, and that's when, on June 12, 2016, early Sunday morning, at 2am EST, so early early this morning, what would amount to a late Saturday night, 29 year old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a G4S Secure Solutions security officer, stormed a gay nightclub named Pulse, in Orlando, Florida, with a Glock pistol and an AR-15 style assault rifle, and possibly another mysterious "device", and murdered 50 people and injured 53 others.
Christopher Hansen was getting a drink at Pulse at about 2 a.m. when he "just saw bodies going down." Christopher Hansen heard gunshots, "just one after another after another." The gunshots went on for so long that the shooting "could have lasted a whole song," Hansen said.
So... that's about 3 minutes, maybe? 10?
Many of the patrons at Pulse, the Orlando nightclub, thought the gunshots were part of the dance music. The loud music and darkness amplified the panic and confusion at Pulse. One person hid in the bathroom by covering herself with the bodies of dead victims to protect herself. Some entertainers hid inside a dressing room when the shooting started, and escaped the building by crawling out when police removed the air conditioning unit.
After a 3 hour siege, at 5am EST, 11 Orlando police officers and three Orange County sheriff's deputies stormed Pulse by crashing into the side of the nightclub with an armored vehicle, and using stun grenades, and they eventually killed 29 year old Omar Mateen, the long time G4S Secure Solutions security officer.
Omar Mateen had about 30 hostages, so they were freed. One officer received a non-lethal shot to his head, and was hospitalized with eye injuries. A Kevlar police helmet saved the life of one police officer.
There were about 300 people were in the club at the time of the shooting.
So far, there's been no accomplices found, so it seems like Omar Mateen was a lone wolf, though there's a fb meme going around saying there's 2 others at-large. It sounds like bullshit. But who knows...
Omar Mateen actually lived in Fort Pierce, Florida, which is about 120-125 miles south of Orlando on Florida's Atlantic coast... so it seems he drove an awfully far distance to kill these 50 folks.
While Omar Mateen was inside Pulse, he called 911, and pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS/ISIL, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and he mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was also heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" while engaging officers in the shootout at Pulse.
It's not clear if Omar Mateen was an ISIS fighter, or if he just claimed after-the-fact that he was an ISIS fighter, who was inspired on his own accord.
The FBI had investigated Omar Mateen in 2013, 3 years ago, when he made "inflammatory comments" to co-workers about having ties to terrorism, and in 2014, 2 years ago, when Omar Mateen was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, a U.S. citizen who blew himself up that year in a suicide bombing in Syria.
Omar Mateen legally bought the two guns, a Glock pistol and the AR-15 style assault long gun/rifle, used in the shooting in the past week. Omar Mateen had active-security-officer-and-firearm-licenses.
Omar Mateen had 2 firearm licenses since September 2011. Omar Mateen had two firearms licenses, 1 was a security officer license and the other was a statewide firearms license, and both were going to expire in September 2017. Omar Mateen had no criminal record in Florida.
Omar Mateen worked for G4S Secure Solutions for nearly 9 years. Omar Mateen worked at G4S Secure Solutions on September 10, 2007.
G4S Secure Solutions is one of the world's largest private security companies in the world, which had provided security in more than 100 countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq. G4S provides security guards, technology and other services, and its customer base span a range of industries including mining, finance and retail.
G4S was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners, who are all former FBI agents. In 2002, The Wackenhut Corporation was acquired for $570 million by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck; Group 4 Falck merged in 2004 to form British company G4S, which is headquartered in London.
G4S provided the security for the Olympics in London in 2012.
G4S has also provided security personnel for the Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection at the US-Mexico border, and helped transport undocumented immigrants from urban areas.
In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect their new business model. The G4S Americas Region headquarters is located at 1395 University Blvd, Jupiter, Florida.
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Some Background Info:
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen's family is from Afghanistan, who immigrated here in the 1980s. Omar Mateen himself, however, was born in New York in 1986. A neighbor said that the young family was so poor that they "didn't have enough money to buy food so the children were getting hungry."
He attended Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida for at least one year.
Got two science degrees from Indian River State College, in Fort Pierce, Florida, which he received in 2006 and 2007.
Omar Mateen was married in Port St. Lucie, Florida in 2009 (or 2007?) to a woman originally from Uzbekistan, but divorced her in July 2011.
Omar Mateen has a 3-year-old son.
The Washington Post spoke to a woman whom they identified as his ex-wife. She described Mateen as unstable. "He beat me," she told the newspaper. "He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn't finished or something like that."
He remarried and his new wife bore him a son.
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Doug Stanhope quote about religion: "You never hear in the news, "Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north."
John Lennon sang a song called "Imagine", where he asked his listeners to imagine there's no countries, or religion, and for us all to live in peace.
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Westboro Baptist Church tweeted that: "God hates fags. God sent the shooter. God hates murderer Omar Mateen. Omar Mateen & slain fags are in hell. REPENT!"
I reminded of fundamentalist Christian Kim Davis as being a strong opponent of gay marriage as is our Governor, Matt Bevin. In 2004, the majority of Ky voters, which we actually have low turnout rates, so, like the majority of the 30% who voted, maybe 16% or so of the population... but still, that's a bunch of voting KYians who think homosexuality is a sin, and will be condemned by god, and burn in hell after they die.
Mark Twain said: "The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
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Trump says he's vindicated by calling for a ban on Muslims after the San Bernardino attacks, which saw 14 people get killed.
Trump said: “If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore, because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen -- and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can't afford to be politically correct anymore.”
Bernie Sanders said that ISIS must be destroyed. Hillary said it was a massacre.
Donald Trump ripped President Obama and Hillary Clinton for avoiding the term “radical Islam” in doing so, and went so far as to say that Obama should “step down” for not using the term, and that Clinton should “get out of this race” if she won’t either.
A radical is a person who wants to fundamentally change things. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders are radicals.
I prefer the term: fundamentalist jihadists. Jihad is a religious war, and I can't stand fundamentalists of any religion.
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The attack is the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in United States history, the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since September 11, 2001.
But it's not the worst massacre ever, however.
-The body count of 50 dead bodies in the Orlando shooting was more than the Sandy Hook shooting, where 26 were killed, and more than Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 were killed.
-Donald Harvey, from Boonesville, Owsley County, Kentucky killed 87 people, but that was over several years, when he worked as a nurse, killing his patients, but making it look like they died of natural causes.
-At the 1810 great Cherokee Children massacre of Yahoo Falls, over 100 old men, women, and children were killed, but no specific details of exact body counts are given.
-1890 shooting at Wounded Knee left 150 to 300 Lakota people killed.
-And of course, there was over 1 million killed in Iraq.
If you have to use violence in support of your idea, then your idea isn't worth a scrap of frog shit.
I'll end this off with a quote by John F. Kennedy.
“What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children . . . not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.’’
After 29 year old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen saw two men hugging and kissing in front of him and his family, Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was outraged, he hated gay people, not because deep down inside he was a gay man himself, and he was worried that he secretly loved dicks, but because of... whatever. Religion, probably. So Omar Mir Seddique Mateen felt the need to do something about those two men kissing, and that's when, on June 12, 2016, early Sunday morning, at 2am EST, so early early this morning, what would amount to a late Saturday night, 29 year old Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, a G4S Secure Solutions security officer, stormed a gay nightclub named Pulse, in Orlando, Florida, with a Glock pistol and an AR-15 style assault rifle, and possibly another mysterious "device", and murdered 50 people and injured 53 others.
Christopher Hansen was getting a drink at Pulse at about 2 a.m. when he "just saw bodies going down." Christopher Hansen heard gunshots, "just one after another after another." The gunshots went on for so long that the shooting "could have lasted a whole song," Hansen said.
So... that's about 3 minutes, maybe? 10?
Many of the patrons at Pulse, the Orlando nightclub, thought the gunshots were part of the dance music. The loud music and darkness amplified the panic and confusion at Pulse. One person hid in the bathroom by covering herself with the bodies of dead victims to protect herself. Some entertainers hid inside a dressing room when the shooting started, and escaped the building by crawling out when police removed the air conditioning unit.
After a 3 hour siege, at 5am EST, 11 Orlando police officers and three Orange County sheriff's deputies stormed Pulse by crashing into the side of the nightclub with an armored vehicle, and using stun grenades, and they eventually killed 29 year old Omar Mateen, the long time G4S Secure Solutions security officer.
Omar Mateen had about 30 hostages, so they were freed. One officer received a non-lethal shot to his head, and was hospitalized with eye injuries. A Kevlar police helmet saved the life of one police officer.
There were about 300 people were in the club at the time of the shooting.
So far, there's been no accomplices found, so it seems like Omar Mateen was a lone wolf, though there's a fb meme going around saying there's 2 others at-large. It sounds like bullshit. But who knows...
Omar Mateen actually lived in Fort Pierce, Florida, which is about 120-125 miles south of Orlando on Florida's Atlantic coast... so it seems he drove an awfully far distance to kill these 50 folks.
While Omar Mateen was inside Pulse, he called 911, and pledged allegiance to the leader of ISIS/ISIL, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and he mentioned the Boston Marathon bombers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was also heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" while engaging officers in the shootout at Pulse.
It's not clear if Omar Mateen was an ISIS fighter, or if he just claimed after-the-fact that he was an ISIS fighter, who was inspired on his own accord.
The FBI had investigated Omar Mateen in 2013, 3 years ago, when he made "inflammatory comments" to co-workers about having ties to terrorism, and in 2014, 2 years ago, when Omar Mateen was linked to Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, a U.S. citizen who blew himself up that year in a suicide bombing in Syria.
Omar Mateen legally bought the two guns, a Glock pistol and the AR-15 style assault long gun/rifle, used in the shooting in the past week. Omar Mateen had active-security-officer-and-firearm-licenses.
Omar Mateen had 2 firearm licenses since September 2011. Omar Mateen had two firearms licenses, 1 was a security officer license and the other was a statewide firearms license, and both were going to expire in September 2017. Omar Mateen had no criminal record in Florida.
Omar Mateen worked for G4S Secure Solutions for nearly 9 years. Omar Mateen worked at G4S Secure Solutions on September 10, 2007.
G4S Secure Solutions is one of the world's largest private security companies in the world, which had provided security in more than 100 countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq. G4S provides security guards, technology and other services, and its customer base span a range of industries including mining, finance and retail.
G4S was founded as The Wackenhut Corporation in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners, who are all former FBI agents. In 2002, The Wackenhut Corporation was acquired for $570 million by Danish corporation Group 4 Falck; Group 4 Falck merged in 2004 to form British company G4S, which is headquartered in London.
G4S provided the security for the Olympics in London in 2012.
G4S has also provided security personnel for the Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection at the US-Mexico border, and helped transport undocumented immigrants from urban areas.
In 2010, G4S Wackenhut changed its name to G4S Secure Solutions (USA) to reflect their new business model. The G4S Americas Region headquarters is located at 1395 University Blvd, Jupiter, Florida.
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Some Background Info:
Omar Mir Seddique Mateen's family is from Afghanistan, who immigrated here in the 1980s. Omar Mateen himself, however, was born in New York in 1986. A neighbor said that the young family was so poor that they "didn't have enough money to buy food so the children were getting hungry."
He attended Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida for at least one year.
Got two science degrees from Indian River State College, in Fort Pierce, Florida, which he received in 2006 and 2007.
Omar Mateen was married in Port St. Lucie, Florida in 2009 (or 2007?) to a woman originally from Uzbekistan, but divorced her in July 2011.
Omar Mateen has a 3-year-old son.
The Washington Post spoke to a woman whom they identified as his ex-wife. She described Mateen as unstable. "He beat me," she told the newspaper. "He would just come home and start beating me up because the laundry wasn't finished or something like that."
He remarried and his new wife bore him a son.
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Doug Stanhope quote about religion: "You never hear in the news, "Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north."
John Lennon sang a song called "Imagine", where he asked his listeners to imagine there's no countries, or religion, and for us all to live in peace.
xx
Westboro Baptist Church tweeted that: "God hates fags. God sent the shooter. God hates murderer Omar Mateen. Omar Mateen & slain fags are in hell. REPENT!"
I reminded of fundamentalist Christian Kim Davis as being a strong opponent of gay marriage as is our Governor, Matt Bevin. In 2004, the majority of Ky voters, which we actually have low turnout rates, so, like the majority of the 30% who voted, maybe 16% or so of the population... but still, that's a bunch of voting KYians who think homosexuality is a sin, and will be condemned by god, and burn in hell after they die.
Mark Twain said: "The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
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Trump says he's vindicated by calling for a ban on Muslims after the San Bernardino attacks, which saw 14 people get killed.
Trump said: “If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore, because our leaders are weak, I said this was going to happen -- and it is only going to get worse. I am trying to save lives and prevent the next terrorist attack. We can't afford to be politically correct anymore.”
Bernie Sanders said that ISIS must be destroyed. Hillary said it was a massacre.
Donald Trump ripped President Obama and Hillary Clinton for avoiding the term “radical Islam” in doing so, and went so far as to say that Obama should “step down” for not using the term, and that Clinton should “get out of this race” if she won’t either.
A radical is a person who wants to fundamentally change things. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders are radicals.
I prefer the term: fundamentalist jihadists. Jihad is a religious war, and I can't stand fundamentalists of any religion.
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The attack is the deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter in United States history, the deadliest incident of violence against LGBT people in U.S. history, and the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since September 11, 2001.
But it's not the worst massacre ever, however.
-The body count of 50 dead bodies in the Orlando shooting was more than the Sandy Hook shooting, where 26 were killed, and more than Virginia Tech shooting, where 32 were killed.
-Donald Harvey, from Boonesville, Owsley County, Kentucky killed 87 people, but that was over several years, when he worked as a nurse, killing his patients, but making it look like they died of natural causes.
-At the 1810 great Cherokee Children massacre of Yahoo Falls, over 100 old men, women, and children were killed, but no specific details of exact body counts are given.
-1890 shooting at Wounded Knee left 150 to 300 Lakota people killed.
-And of course, there was over 1 million killed in Iraq.
If you have to use violence in support of your idea, then your idea isn't worth a scrap of frog shit.
I'll end this off with a quote by John F. Kennedy.
“What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children . . . not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.’’
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