{"id":93374,"date":"2023-06-04T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93374"},"modified":"2023-06-04T09:16:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T14:16:03","slug":"93374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93374","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof: \u2018Nothing wrong with\u2019 murder of Trump supporter from a \u2018moral perspective.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Rhode Island Professor\u00a0Erik Loomis<\/a>\u00a0appeared to defend the murder of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, the member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, during recent social unrest in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Loomis came under scrutiny after he called for NRA executive Wayne LaPierre’s “head on a stick<\/a>” following the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Just weeks later, in January 2013, Loomis\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201cI know the central mission of the Republican Party is to have a membership made up entirely of old rural white people.”<\/p>\n

Now, Loomis is once again under fire after publishing a\u00a0blog post<\/a>\u00a0titled “Why was Michael Reinoehl killed?” Reinoehl is the man\u00a0suspected<\/a>\u00a0of fatally shooting Danielson. Reinoehl was\u00a0killed<\/a>\u00a0as federal authorities tried to arrest him.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael Reinoehl is the guy who killed the fascist in Portland last week. He admitted it and said he was scared the cops would kill him. Well, now the cops have killed him,” Loomis wrote in the September 4 blog post.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am extremely anti-conspiracy theory. But it\u2019s not a conspiracy theory at this point in time to wonder if the cops simply murdered him. The police is [sic] shot through with fascists from stem to stern. They were openly working with the fascists in Portland, as they were in Kenosha which led to dead protestors,” Loomis continued.<\/p>\n

In the comment section of the blog post, one reader challenged Loomis by writing, “Erik, he shot and killed a guy,” referring to Reinoehl.<\/p>\n

Loomis responded by saying, \u201cHe killed a fascist. I see nothing wrong with it, at least from a moral perspective.\u201d He further added that \u201ctactically, that\u2019s a different story. But you could say the same thing about John Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loomis furthered compared Reinoehl to Brown who in the 1800s used violence as a means of fighting slavery.<\/p>\n

One reader then asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s so great about assassinating a rando fascist? And in the absence of a sound affirmative justification, it should be easy to envision the drawbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loomis was quick to reply with, \u201cWhat\u2019s so great about assassinating random slaveholders, said liberals to John Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a separate comment, Loomis wrote, “the problem with violence is that it usually, though not always, is a bad idea. That I agree with.”<\/p>\n

Loomis said in another comment, “Yes, sometimes violence is necessary, say to avoid greater physical harm, i.e. self-defense, or to defeat a literal army of fascists who are trying to kill people. But, ideologically, I think the idea that violence is good if it’s against our political enemies is a core part of fascism, and so the ideological opposition to that idea should be its opposite – that violence as a general rule is bad, unless the specific context of that situation requires a violent response.”<\/p>\n

Loomis made headlines Tuesday for another comment he made on Twitter. In response to MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeting, “Trump is objectively pro-Covid,” Loomis tweeted “yeah, I mean, once Republicans figured out COVID was going to affect people of color and the poor disproportionately, they stopped caring about doing anything about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof: \u2018Nothing wrong with\u2019 murder of Trump supporter from a \u2018moral perspective.\u2019 University of Rhode Island Professor\u00a0Erik Loomis\u00a0appeared to defend the murder of Aaron “Jay” Danielson, the member of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer, during recent social unrest in Portland, Oregon. In 2012, Loomis came under scrutiny after he called for NRA executive Wayne LaPierre’s … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,74,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant","category-the-violence-inherent-in-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93375,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93374\/revisions\/93375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}