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Page 1: The Price of Freedom John D’Esposito, Teaching American History Course.

The Price of Freedom

John D’Esposito, Teaching American History Course

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The Price of FreedomOfficers Murdered by Right Wing Extremists in 2009

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April 4, 2009

Richard A. Poplawski murdered three Pittsburgh, Pa. police officers who responded to a reported domestic violence call at the house he shared with his grandmother and mother

“Pop” and his mother were arguing over who would clean up after his dog urinated on the floor.

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Poplawski Murdered in Cold Blood

He put on ballistic armor and gunned down Officers Paul Sciullo II and Stephen Mayhle as they came to the door

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Poplawski continues… Officer Eric Kelly, on his

way home, stops to check on the two officers who are not responding to radio calls and is picked off by Poplawski’s AK-47 as he exits his car

Kelly calls for assistance and advises that officers are down

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Poplawski continues… Poplawski was

involved in a major shootout with SWAT and police units.

He shot Officer Timothy McManaway in the hand; another officer broke his leg jumping over a fence

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The Aftermath Poplawski was taken

into custody He has been charged

with three counts of homicide, aggravated assault, and a weapons violation

He is facing the death penalty

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Zionists (Jews) control the media Obama was going to outlaw guns The government was controlled by

secret forces (Jews) Troops were coming back from the

Middle East to police the citizens here 30 US states had recently become

independent, but the Jewish media wouldn’t report it

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More Links to Extremists

“Pop” wanted to get life runes tattoos on his calves, which are symbols used by the National Alliance, a violent Neo-Nazi group

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Poplawski and Racist and Extremist Media and Groups

He posted photos of his tattoos on Stormfront.org, a white supremacist web site

He hosted a far-right internet radio show

He began to speak of the “ultimate victory for our people”

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He attacked his former girlfriend, Melissa Gladish, threatened to kill her, and then violated a protective order by going to her workplace to ask her to marry him

He slept with a pistol under his pillow and wore a bulletproof vest to bed

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April 25, 2009

Joshua Cartwright, a Florida National Guardsman, murdered two Okaloosa County deputies at a gun range when they tried to arrest him on domestic violence charges

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Cartwright Murdered:

Deputy Burt LopezDeputy Warren “Skip” York

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The United States Government was conspiring against him

Barrack Obama wanted to take his guns away and to ban guns generally

He was severely disturbed about Obama being elected President

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More About Cartwright He was tasered by

the deputies and came up shooting after the taser released after 5 seconds

He was later killed in a shootout with other officers

The argument with his wife that started this was over a tube of Clearasil that he thought was in her purse, not in the bathroom

They then got into a “brawl” and he assaulted her

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June 10, 200988 year old neo-Nazi James von Brunn walked up to the U.S. Holocaust museum and shot to death security officer Stephen Johns.

Von Brunn was shot and critically wounded by other security officers

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Von Brunn Murdered: Officer Johns worked for

the Wackenhut Security Co., and was a “Washington, DC Special Police Officer”, which allowed him to carry a revolver on duty

The Wackenhut union bargained for ballistic vests for their members, but they don’t have them yet

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“You want my weapons; this is how you’ll get them.”

“The Holocaust is a lie.” “Obama was created by Jews. Obama

does what his Jew owners tell him to do.”

“Jews captured America’s money.” “Jews control the mass media.”

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therefore has no right to be President Hitler did not kill enough Jews He wrote a book “Kill the Best

Gentiles” which states that Jews concocted WWI as a way to stab Germany in the back.

He had been a white supremacist for over 40 years

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In 1981, he attempted to kidnap the Federal Reserve Board with a sawed-off shotgun.

He served 6 years of a 20 year sentence for this offense. He explained that his conviction was more evidence of a Black/Jewish conspiracy

His list of other targets: the White House, the Capitol, the National Cathedral, and the Washington Post

He died in a federal prison in N.C. on Jan. 6, 2010, while awaiting trial for murder