From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   >>>Presumably because the allegedly possible would-be assassin is   
   >>>defunct, and therefore on-topic.   
      
   >>Both AR-15-wielder Thomas Matthew Crooks (apparently a political   
   >>conservative   
      
   >Yeah, no.   
      
   >>who registered as a Republican   
      
   >In a closed-primary state, where registering as the opposite party to   
   >one's natural affiliation is common.   
      
   Thanks for that. There is no factual basis, just pulled from your own   
   imagination, but there's for it anyway.   
      
   Last I looked, we still have secret ballot in this   
   country so you couldn't possibly know why he registered Republican.   
      
   I don't know about Pennsylvania, but there are states that require party   
   registration to vote in that party's primary.   
      
   Party registration has nothing to do with voting in the general   
   election. He voted one time, in 2022 in a general election. I got that   
   from Fox News.   
      
   He didn't register Republican in order to vote in the Pennsylvania   
   primary. You got that wrong. Gaming party registration to screw up the   
   opposite party's primary is common in Pennsylvania? That's your accusation   
   without factual basis.   
      
   CNN sez his father is a registered Libertarian and his mother a   
   Democratic. Did his parents inspire him to commit political violence?   
   Clearly you can tell based on their party registrations.   
      
   Let's stop buying into the nonsense that anyone's propensity for   
   committing an act of political violence or terror can be predicted from   
   party registration or voting. If you object to this accusation against   
   those favoring gun rights, then you yourself don't get to do it against   
   anyone you perceive to be a "far left" radical. You personally don't   
   truly support raising the level of civility based on what you've written   
   here.   
      
   >>after briefly affiliating with a more liberal group that celebrated   
   >>Biden's inauguration)   
      
   >Which was a far-left "progressive" group.   
      
   More libel from you. The group promotes voter registration and turnout.   
   What the hell is "far left" about that? To anyone who isn't trying to   
   spread lies and innuendo, that's an ordinary political activity. There's   
   nothing radical about it.   
      
   Louis Epstein got it right, you got it wrong. According to their   
   statement, they sent out an email message promoting watching Biden's   
   innauguration. In response, he contributed $15. Nothing "far left"   
   radical about taht. He was 17, so that's BEFORE he registered   
   Republican. The group said it dropped his email address from mailing   
   lists so it sounds like the address wasn't maintained.   
      
   It's weird that they reported such a small contribution as that's below   
   the reporting threshold in federal law.   
      
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