{"id":12974,"date":"2019-04-29T17:50:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:29:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T01:29:28","slug":"the-poway-synagogue-shooting-and-the-continuing-rise-of-rightwing-hate-under-trump-bradcast-4292019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12974","title":{"rendered":"The Poway Synagogue Shooting and the Continuing Rise of Rightwing Hate Under Trump: ‘BradCast’ 4\/29\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s Passover shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, just north of San Diego, was only the latest in a rising spate of Rightwing extremist hate crimes — rising even over the past week<\/a> alone! — as discussed on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

We’re joined today by NBC 7 San Diego reporter<\/a> RAMON GALINDO<\/b>, who spent the weekend covering the shooting at Chabad of Poway<\/a>, which took the life of 60-year old Lori Gilbert-Kay and injured three others, including the congregation’s Rabbi, after a 19-year old armed with a military-style assault rifle opened fire during Shabbat services. The alleged shooter, who was arrested while fleeing, is said to have been inspired by both the recent attack on two Muslim mosques in New Zealand, where 50 were killed, and the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh which killed 11 worshipers exactly 6 months ago.<\/p>\n

The shooter at Chabad, who posted a “manifesto” just prior to the attempted massacre, is also said to have been responsible<\/a> for an incident of arson at a nearby Muslim mosque in late March, according to Galindo who broke the story of that fire for NBC San Diego last month. In addition to bringing us up to the latest, including charges<\/a> that have now been filed, Galindo offers insight on a number of the heroes<\/a> in the story who he spoke with over the weekend, including both Gilbert-Kay and Oscar Stewart, an Iraq vet and congregant who reportedly ran toward the shooter to stop him as others were fleeing. It was, in fact, a good guy WITHOUT a gun who appears to have prevented far more carnage, though an armed Border Patrol officer at the service reportedly fired shots at the shooter’s car as he was speeding away. <\/p>\n

We’ve got a lot to unpack on all of this today, with both Galindo and listeners who call in with their own thoughts and reactions to the shooting (including one woman who lives in the neighborhood), the White House response (denying<\/a> Donald Trump’s obvious responsibility in helping to hasten the rise of white supremacists and other rightwing extremists) and even some thoughts on the Obama Administration’s willingness to fold to reactionaries<\/a> on Fox ‘News’ and in the Republican Party by withdrawing his own Dept. of Homeland Security’s dire draft report [PDF]<\/a> on the dangerous rise of lone wolf rightwing domestic terrorism in April of 2009.<\/p>\n

That (shamefully) withdrawn report stated: “DHS has concluded that white supremacist lone wolves pose the most significant domestic terrorist threat because of their low profile and autonomy — separate from any formalized group.”\u009d (No such fury was issued by the right after a similar report on the dangers of leftwing extremism was issued before it. Both reports were begun during the George W. Bush Administration. Moreover, as Daily Beast reported<\/a> earlier this month, the Trump Administration has been disbanding DHS efforts to work with state and local officials on issues of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.)<\/p>\n

We also talk with Galindo about the editorial decision by some in the media to not<\/i> share — or, at least, over use — the suspects name and why neither of us did so today. As noted, there is much<\/i> to discuss on today’s program…<\/p>\n

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Saturday’s Passover shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California, just north of San Diego, was only the latest in a rising spate of Rightwing extremist hate crimes — rising even over the past week alone! — as discussed on today’s BradCast. [Audio link to show follows below.] We’re joined today by NBC 7 San Diego […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,675,299,513,479,477,107,551,771,712,300,972,245,1012],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-democrats","category-dhs","category-donald-trump","category-kpfk","category-national-security","category-nra","category-race","category-religion","category-republicans","category-rod-rosenstein","category-san-diego","category-sarah-huckabee-sanders"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}