Belleville suspect in congressional shooting belongs to anti-GOP groups
By Dana Rieck
June 14, 2017 8:03 AM

The shooter who fired at congressmen and aides during practice for a baseball game Wednesday morning is from Belleville.

The shooter is James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, who belongs to a number of anti-Republican groups, including one called “Terminate the Republican Party.”

Hodgkinson, 66, owns a home-inspection business. Hodgkinson was a licensed home inspector from 1994 to 1997, when his license expired, according records from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. He also held a license from 2003 to 2016, but it was not renewed.

Two days ago, Hodgkinson posted an angry tweet about President Donald Trump on Facebook.

“I Want to Say Mr. President, for being an ass hole you are Truly the Biggest Ass Hole We Have Ever Had in the Oval Office,” he wrote on Facebook.

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Hodgkinson is a member of a number of anti-Republican groups on Facebook, including one called “Terminate the Republican Party.”

▪ “The Road to Hell is Paved with Republicans”

▪ “Donald Trump is not my President”

▪ “President Bernie Sanders”

▪ “Illinois Berners United to Resist Trump”

▪ “Boycott the Republican Party”

▪ “Expose Republican Fraud”

▪ “Terminate the Republican Party”

Hodgkinson took a Democratic ballot in the primary election in 2016.

In 2012, Hodgkinson took part in a protest outside the downtown Belleville post office. He said he was part of a “99%” team drawing attention to the amount of money and political power the top 1 percent of Americans acquired.

Hodgkinson has a varied arrest record in St. Clair County, for offenses such as failing to obtain electrical permits, damaging a motor vehicle, resisting a peace officer, eluding police, criminal damage to property, driving under the influence and assorted traffic offenses.

Realtor Charlene Brennan with Strano & Associates in Belleville, Ill, used Hodgkinson from time to time for home inspections.

“He used to be in construction or the building trades, and then he went into home inspections. He had been doing home inspections for several years,” she said.

There was nothing about Hodgkinson that would have pointed to Wednesday’s events.

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Just announced shootr died fro his injuries.

Lawmaker Steve Scalise injured in GOP baseball shooting; suspect James T. Hodgkinson dies after shootout

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...m=.e86a96b4c4e2

Next up on the MSM I expect pity for the shooter who no doubt is some kind of victim.

If you want to see the absolute depravity of progressives /leftists read this web page:

Left-Wing Twitter Celebrates Shooting of Rep. Scalise
'That KKK fucker deserved it'
Jun 14, 2017

No sooner did news break that a gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) were left-wing Twitter users celebrating the attack — in which two Capitol Police were also shot, as well as a congressional staffer, and possibly more.

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https://news.grabien.com/story-left-wing...ing-rep-scalise

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Next up on the MSM I expect pity for the shooter who no doubt is some kind of victim.

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The Left has been building their case for months now. It will be ruled self-defense. This article is from January.....
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The GOP Is Trying to Kill You

By Kate Aronoff, January 6, 2017

With Donald Trump at the helm, Republicans are readying to unleash holy hell through public policies.

The Purge movies revolve around a relatively simple premise: A shady regime—comprised almost entirely of wealthy white men—has come to power in a not-too-distant United States. Their hallmark policy is the titular purge, said to foster low crime rates and widespread prosperity via an annual night of cathartic bloodletting. At least that’s their side of the story. The way the purge actually works is that the wealthy—those who can afford to hire private militias—hunt down the poor for sport. Those in dire poverty, often communities of color, are most vulnerable. The middle classes, which can afford weapons, help pick off the poor or shutter up their apartments, praying that hired guns don’t come knocking down the door. The winners are the regime, and the ranks of the ultra-wealthy from which it emerged. The losers? Everyone else.

This is now the operating logic of the Republican Party, emboldened with more power than it has held since 1928—and we all know how well that went. Of course, the GOP has not called for an actual purge. But Republicans have been hard at work trying to kill all sorts of people for decades through their public policies. And Democrats have often been willing participants, as Bill Clinton was when he pushed through welfare reform and a crime bill that devastated African-American communities. Barack Obama’s hands aren’t clean either, what with his expansion of the war on terror.

So yes, politics have been deadly for some time. But the Republicans—with Donald Trump at the helm—are about to start playing the most dangerous game en masse. The 17 people Trump has tapped for his Cabinet or for posts with Cabinet rank are, together, more wealthy than the poorest 43 million American households combined. If the U.S. government has ever been poised to look like The Purge series’ ruling New Founding Fathers of America, it’s now. And if you don’t have the benefit of being in this country’s top income brackets, the leadership wants you dead.

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/19781/th...ing-to-kill-you

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