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Shootings at Canada Parliament

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 22 2014 11:02 AM

Asswipe(s?) with gun(s?) shot up Parliament building in Ottawa this morning and apparenently other downtown sites. Breaking

Edgy MD Oct 22 2014 11:12 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Definitely multiple wipes. Very concerned that returned jihad tourists are totally planning a fifth column attack at this very moment. Counting on them being young, stupid, and likely to out themselves on electronic platforms.

d'Kong76 Oct 22 2014 11:58 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Soldier shot at a war memorial too. Press conference at 2.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 22 2014 12:45 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Same site, same guy (apparently, and apparently deceased). The War Memorial is on Parliament Hill, a CFL-punt away from Parliament proper.

Ashie62 Oct 22 2014 03:16 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Is Obama aware of any of this?

Edgy MD Oct 22 2014 04:31 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

I don't sit in on the daily security briefings anymore, but I would conclude he that he is.

d'Kong76 Oct 22 2014 04:59 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Obama's people tweeted that he read about it here.

cooby Oct 22 2014 06:03 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Lol, KC

MFS62 Oct 23 2014 09:38 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

My Canadian friend's reaction: it is the single most ado about nothing u will ever hear...a soldier was shot by a nutbar....our govt, who wants the country to go to war, has linked it to nothing really but insinuated its related in a vague way to isis....obama immediately send his heartfelt thoughts... canada has reacted like its 9/11.....seriously our networks are block coverage....and we are shutting down all armed forces bases and legislatures country wide (except alberta where they'd just like to be able to shoot terrorists)...they cancelled the leafs/senators game...p.m. steve came on tv (45 mins after we were told he was gonna be on...poor news announcers were stretching on fumes)...steve said nothing in either official language there are only 2 possibilities as i see it: 1. we are fucking over-reacting (and who would think the media and politicians would ever do that?) over one homicide today (in toronto we call that sunday...but because they are black folks not soldiers nobody gives a toss) 2. there is something the govt knows and is not telling us (er, they work for us) i lean towards the former.....lets not link the homicide of the soldier earlier this week just yet...as there is no evidence....calm the fuck down maybe i'm wrong....maybe its political... what we do know is the terrorist who shot the soldier and then broke into the parliament buildings had a shotgun....not an uzi....not an automatic weapon....a fucking shotgun....u know how long it takes to reload a shotgun? another fav is the report there were 50-60 shots fired....yeah, and 90% were from our cops who couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with a shovel///the guy was actually brought down by the seargent at arms of our parliament who just wasn't having any of this shit happening lord, i have never seen canada go so apeshit over something so small that didn't involve hockey in my life! regards Later

A Boy Named Seo Oct 23 2014 09:44 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Under-reacting to a shooting seems worse to me.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 23 2014 09:59 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Yeah, and beyond that Parliament returned to work today so if anyone's exaggerating here...

Edgy MD Oct 23 2014 10:25 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

It's silly to call it "one homicide." JFK's murder was one homicide. But an attack against a symbol and institution of government is a troubling thing, doubly so in an age of international terror strikes. And it behooves those in government to worry if war is upon them and to prepare for further assaults. It's no small part of their job.

metsmarathon Oct 23 2014 10:46 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

it also follows in short order a killing of two canadian soldiers by another purported islamist lone wolf who ran tehm down with his car. never ignore a coincidence. unless you're busy...

d'Kong76 Oct 23 2014 10:51 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

anonymous Canadian wrote: our govt, who wants the country to go to war I should have stopped there. regards

cooby Oct 23 2014 12:44 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Doesn't matter what country it is; bad guys taking guns into government buildings and shooting people is something we all need to be concerned about. No way this is over reacting.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 23 2014 06:01 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

It also probably bears noting that this is the second act of intentional violence against posted Canadian military this week.

batmagadanleadoff Oct 23 2014 07:08 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

NYPD Officers Attacked with a Hatchet in Queens, Suspect Shot Dead By Jonathan Dienst http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Po ... 11092.html

batmagadanleadoff Oct 23 2014 07:26 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Sources: NYPD Hatchet Attacker May Have Been ISIS Supporter Zale Thompson lived in Queens and says on his Facebook page that he graduated from Columbia University Author: M.L. Nestel Posted: 10/23/14 18:55 EDT Deep Web Reporting By: Amit Weiss The hatchet-wielding man who attacked four NYPD officers earlier today and was then shot dead by police may have had ties to ISIS, sources told Vocativ. Law-enforcement sources we spoke with identified Zale Thompson as the armed man who charged at a group of NYPD uniformed police assembled on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, at around 2 p.m. today. The 32-year-old Muslim, who lived in Queens, struck one of the officers in the back of the head with his hatchet and gashed another on the arm, the police said. After they were provoked, two of the four cops drew their weapons and fired several times, gunning the attacker down; the gunfire struck a 29-year-old woman who happened to be walking by. Her condition was critical, authorities said. Law-enforcement sources said that a look into Thompson’s chatter online revealed he had ties to a radical U.S.-based radical Islamic leader who advocated aggression against the American government. Last month, Thompson, who says on his Facebook page that he graduated from the Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, commented on YouTube: “If you’re looking for ‘perfect’ Muslims who never make any mistakes in their Jihad, then you will be looking in vain! If the Zionists and the Crusaders had never invaded and colonized the Islamic lands after WW1, then there would be no need for Jihad! Which is better, to sit around and do nothing, or to Jihad fisabeelallah!” Thompson’s comment was on a video explaining the idea of creating an Islamic caliphate, or borderless kingdom, which is ISIS’s ultimate aim. Calls to the NYPD and FBI about Thompson and the hatchet attack were not immediately returned. http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/sou ... supporter/

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 24 2014 12:15 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

"Links to ISIS" seem sort of beside the point when the attack is, like, of the crazy-dude-goes-nuts-with-hatchet variety, right? (Also: this is, like, four blocks from my in-laws. YIPE.)

Edgy MD Oct 24 2014 05:48 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

I'm not sure it's beside the point.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Oct 24 2014 07:42 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

That's why I said "sort of." But insofar as it's now part of the crazy-and-angry (demireligious version) mental-violence-fodder mill, yeah, okay, maybe it's relevant. But meaningful, though? Unless you mean to tell me that run-up-to-random-group-of-cops was part of a coordinated effort to test New York's response to hatchet attacks, I mean. Is that what you mean?

Edgy MD Oct 24 2014 08:04 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Coordinated? It depends what you mean by coordinated. I mean, there's definitely coordination among those that inspire such guys. Dozens of unprovoked attacks from those expressing Jihadist sympathies happening in Europe and the US and Canada the last two years has to be looked at broadly, even if we want to look at each single case and simply label it as the lone act of a disturbed mind. I tend to think lousy things happen in the waning years of every two-term presidency. Ideologies have grown tired and the populace has grown uninspired and young and restless and meaningless people get are vulnerable to getting caught up in any revolutionary fervor that comes along.

Madoff's Mets Oct 24 2014 08:13 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

What shocked me is when I heard that this was the 8th gun homicide in Canada in 2014.

metsmarathon Oct 24 2014 08:24 AM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

the three attacks may be largely unrelated, but they are unrelated as two spots of paint on a painting by jackson pollack are unrelated - in different colors and by different means, but each one influenced, albeit inequally, by the actions and desires of the master. isis is waving around its brush of hatred and violence. in some places, the paint is laid down thick and purposefully. in others, drips and splashes and flecks land where they may as the brush waggles above the canvas. but they are all part of a larger picture.

Edgy MD Oct 25 2014 01:19 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

I may be misreading this, but I think the officer who got the worst of the hatchet assault is a cousin of Mets internet character Mark Healey.

Edgy MD Oct 30 2014 12:37 PM Re: Shootings at Canada Parliament

Hatchet victim Kenneth Healey released from hospital.