**Note update at the bottom on the real identity of the man in the picture**
This is a bit of an odd one, but I decided it’s better to post it than not:
Link to the pinterest page here
I did a ton of google searching, both using the name cited as well as the details of the event in the caption, and I found nothing. I clicked on the source and it 404’d.
So as far as I can tell the event detailed never happened, and I can find nothing on a “Jebidiah Ashton”, real or fake. I hope I’m not spreading somebody’s puerile defamation campaign, as that IS a real dude in the picture, and it seems pretty clear the crime being alleged never happened.
Still I felt it was more important to show how filled with hatred antis are. They find an image detailing a fantastical story, and rather having a grain of skepticism, or even curiosity at why this isn’t the top of all the local news feeds, given that this would be an even BIGGER story than George Zimmerman.
So yeah, I decided to post it with a reference to the same behavior exhibited in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Just like in the book, Goldstein likely doesn’t really exist, nor Big Brother for that matter, but the antis NEED somebody to hate so badly that they’re willing to create one out of whole cloth.
So if you have any further information on this image, or recognize the guy in it, let me know. Also if it turns out I’m doing more harm than good hosting this image, I’ll take it down.
**UPDATE** Ratus found the original image here Looks like he’s a computer programmer named Donald K. Burleson who’s written a ton of books on stuff I don’t understand, and lives in NC. If anybody has some contact information for him please let me know via email weerdbeard (AT) gmail, or simply forward him my email address, as I’d like to let him know about this libel, and get his personal feelings on it.
**UPDATE 2*** Looks like the initial libel happened in this article.
To them it’s true, even if they know it’s fake.
Here is where the original photo is from this
http://www.travel-golf.org/making_match_grade_ar15_shooting_competitions.htm
and it appears to be of someone named Donald K. Burleson.
Good find! Thanks, Will do an update. Can’t seem to find any contact information so I can personally show this to him and get his approval…
They libeled a guy who authored an O’Reilly book.
Woah.
So… the antis (including what are technically some big names) will happily make meme images from articles published by New World Order Media’s publication the World News Daily Report which they claim is an “American Jewish Zionistnewspaper based in Tel Aviv and dedicated on covering biblical archeology news and other mysteries around the Globe.”
Truthy!
I wonder if they’ll find a way to spin this scoop against gun owners.
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/louisiana-demon-child-burns-down-4th-house-in-a-row/
If this story was ever at the linked “source” it was memory holed within a day.
Because the orignal story is from here:
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/black-cops-severely-injured-by-local-vigilante-after-being-mistaken-for-armed-robbers/
A FAKE news site. 😀
Also, a collage news paper in Utah that also believed it.
http://www.snowcollegenews.com/vigilante-injures-cops/
Here is his web page:
http://dba-oracle.blogspot.com/2010/10/best-trigger-pull-action.html
The picture of the alley where the gunfight took place is from a 2011 story about a serial killer:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355393/Kensington-strangler-Antonio-Rodriguez-sex-dead-victims.html
And you’d think a vigilante wouldn’t use a .22 ? Though with that ridonculous muzzle break he probably has a fast follow up….
I’ve sent you his number and email address.
It looks like he’s pissed off a number of people over the years, and one of them may have submitted that article.
Thanks man, Email sent.