Colorado Shooting.. Tea Party Member Falsely Accused by Media

[Leanne King]

One must wonder WHY the media would rush to such a judgement. Are they looking for a way to further smear our moment? Are they so controlled by the Liberals and the evil agenda that they are willingly to totally destroy any credibility that they may have left? Are they involved in sending out "False Flags" to create chaos and unrest before the elections?

One must wonder how ABC, A NEWS ORGANIZATION would not accept responsibility for their reporting but try to shift the blame to the "Social Media". What? They do not ensure the integrity of their words anymore?

You decide and be aware of what we face.

Accused by ABC
Breitbart News spoke to James Michael Holmes, the Tea Party member falsely identified this morning by ABC News' Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America as the possible suspect in the mass shooting early this morning at a screening of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. He is a 52-year-old Hispanic conservative who joined the Tea Party after becoming disillusioned with the Republican party.
"It was freaky," said Holmes, describing his reaction when ABC News speculated that he was the culprit who entered a crowded theater and opened fire on dozens of innocent men, women, and children. He disconnected his telephone and says that he is worried about members of his family who might be contacted by the media.
ABC News has since corrected its initial report, but tried to share the blame with "social media" and "members of the public" at first:
An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. Several other local residents with similar names were also contacted via social media by members of the public who mistook them for the suspect.
Now the correction has been updated, with ABC News and Brian Ross taking full responsibility, and apologizing:
An earlier ABC News broadcast report suggested that a Jim Holmes of a Colorado Tea Party organization might be the suspect, but that report was incorrect. ABC News and Brian Ross apologize for the mistake, and for disseminating that information before it was properly vetted.
Holmes reached out to Breitbart News to explain that he is not the suspect initially identified by ABC News, nor is he the James Holmes mentioned in a separate article by Breitbart News.
He is a conservative activist who has worked in law enforcement, and who used to work at the county courthouse in Aurora near the theater where the shootings took place.
He described his recent decision to join the Tea Party Patriots:
I felt a general dissatisfaction with what I guess I like to characterize as the establishment Republicans. I had been to Republican conventions to try to get involved, to see who I could join or get aligned with. I wanted to be effective in changing the outcome for my country. I wouldn't say I was stonewalled, nobody answered me in the Republican Party--not a soul would contact me. I even paid to get involved with the Colorado Hispanic Republicans and nothing happened. The only people that would really be open and honest and invite me to participate were the Tea Party Patriots. I had offers to come to this lecture and that lecture, and offers to come to trainings, so it was something that felt like it was politically active.
Photo credit: Colorado Independent

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[amanda choate]

Ken why can't I own whatever weapons I can afford? That is unconstitutional.

[Lizzie]

Ken, thanks.  I would say there are some times when 911 arrives before anyone is hurt, and often they do keep idiots from shooting one another in situations such as domestic disturbances..  Not in my nature to criticize first responders.. without their response more may have died that night, and many on any night in any city or town..

[amanda choate]

But Ken, why can't I have RPGs. A fighter jet armed with missiles and a bomber loaded with, well, bombs. That would deter those in DC as well as Tally. Even city hall.

[amanda choate]

Ken, Colorado has concealed-carry laws. Wouldn't have mattered, he was armored up. No deterence in this case.

[Roy G Callahan]

Thank you Roma and Tom. I have a whole bunch more I could add but I hope what's there is sufficient. It's obvious a "deficiency" abounds in Public Education; thus the reason for my posting what I did.

[Lizzie]

Ken, hey.. thanks for your insight to my question (I guess everybody missed it with the 'fight' that seems to be going on.. ha!) ..  You are most likely right, but there is still just something that makes me wonder what has happened to the world of entertainment and the American viewer to have something so scary (for lack of a better term) seem so normal.  txs again for your thoughts.

[Roy G Callahan]

Time to get back to some basics. For those who believe in a "living constitution" absent the "Amendment Process, what follows does not apply to you. For all others I suggest you consider the following. You don't have to be a member of the NRA or any other club to understand what follows; all you have to be is "American."

[T]o preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." --Federal Farmer

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic... since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers, and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." --Justice Joseph Story

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." --Cesare Beccaria

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic..." --Justice Joseph Story

“There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failure in the form of granting government more power. So, as government has failed to control crime and violence with the means given it by the Constitution, they seek to give it more power at the expense of the Constitution. But in doing so, in their willingness to give up their arms in the name of safety, they are really giving up their protection from what has always been the chief source of despotism—government. Lord Acton said power corrupts. Surely then, if this is true, the more power we give the government the more corrupt it will become. And if we give it the power to confiscate our arms we also give up the ultimate means to combat that corrupt power. In doing so we can only assure that we will eventually be totally subject to it.” —Ronald Reagan

[amanda choate]

Gladly Ken, because both sides were armed. But then using that argument, how do we argue against Iran getting nukes. It would according to that argument make them safer.

[amanda choate]

Wooohoooo! Gettin' me some nukes. Just as a deterent mind you, not as an offensive weapon. But I ain't afraid to complete a pre-emptive strike. No wonder Iran wants nukes, the Second Amendment.

[Lizzie]

Bob, is this the Kozinski from the 9th Circut?