"Heckled" Sandy Hook grieving dad is a bad actor

[JackDallas]

Seems this phony piece of shit has no objection to endangering the lives of his fellow citizens with a drunk powered assault vehicle.
I guess in Liberal land it's okay to kill kids when drunk as long as you don't use a gun.

Media outlets, including CNN’s Piers Morgan and the Huffington Post, later ran with the headline that “gun nuts” had “heckled” the grieving father, only to be exposed by Michelle Malkin as having doctored the video. Nonetheless, the modified video of Heslin’s anti-gun statements had spread like wildfire through cyberspace, making Heslin a minor celebrity.

But records show that while he inveighs about the dangers of rifles, the 50-year-old man has serially endangered other Connecticut citizens by driving drunk and without a license.
In 2002, Heslin was charged with drug possession after state police arrested him for driving under the influence and speeding on Route 8 in Connecticut, according to the Connecticut Post. He was also charged with possession of narcotics after an officer found four packets of cocaine in Heslin’s pocket. Charged with driving under the influence, he was held in lieu of $5,750 bond for arraignment.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/heckled-sandy-hook-dad-has-sordid-past/#C0m7rUGmxEy3z4il.99

 

[gabriel]

someone said its okay?? link??

 

[Jen]

That is the sort of person that becomes a hero to the left.
But when someone like that is discovered to be a conservative, the left takes him down like lions on an antelope.
That's just how it is.

 

[gabriel]

so feel free to show us someone on the left that figures this guy is a hero! ill check back with ya later! i know you only post truth as youve told us many times so im sure you have evidence.

 

[JackDallas]

so feel free to show us someone on the left that figures this guy is a hero! ill check back with ya later! i know you only post truth as youve told us many times so im sure you have evidence.

You for one; you love [Unwelcome language removed] like this.

 

[GordonGecko]

The man's son was shot and killed in kindergarten.


Jack....you better PRAY...there's no such thing as Hell.

 

[MaryAnne]

You for one; you love <img src=images/smilies/animated/censored.gif>s like this.

Oh,we know who the [Unwelcome language removed] is,all right! We have to see your filth every day!

 

[Cotton2226]

that is the sort of person that becomes a hero to the left.
But when someone like that is discovered to be a conservative, the left takes him down like lions on an antelope.
That's just how it is.

bullsh!t

 

[Cotton2226]

Seems this phony piece of shit has no objection to endangering the lives of his fellow citizens with a drunk powered assault vehicle.
I guess in Liberal land it's okay to kill kids when drunk as long as you don't use a gun.

BULLSH!t

 

[OldGaffer]

The guy had a DUI, therefore his son deserved to die. Winger logic 101.

 

[connieb]

Really, that is what you got out of Jack's post? Where did he say this?

 

[as seen on tv]

good post. i clearly am not paying enough attention to the media frenzy to continue to pull a ratings bonanza from the newtown tragedy.

you'd think they'd have shifted their focus to the rogue cop now - the guy who is targetting his fellow LA police officers and their kids. There are many angles which can be milked here, not the least of which is . . .

- LA has had an oppressive police force for decades
_ LA has been under one party democractic rule for decades
- All the people this african american cop shot were white or asian
- The mental health profession did another bang up job warning us about a nut who was about to crack
- Homeland security and the FBI have come up empty in their pursuit of lone, deranged killer whose face is everywhere, DNA and fingerprints on file, etc. Are we feeling safer now?

 

[Arkady]

The moment he dared speak out after his son's death, I knew the wingers would be poring over his past, looking for some way to attack him as a person. Then, inevitably, they'd insist that the fact the guy behaved badly in the past in some way makes liberals hypocrites. I can't even begin to imagine how the wingnuts connect those dots, but I'm sane, so I'm coming from a completely different direction than them.

 

[connieb]

Yes, well, its only a matter of time when you get your 15 min of fame, that there will be people waiting to drag you down. It reminds me of Joe the Plumber. He had quite the popular story until everyone realized he owed a substantial amount of back taxes.

The events at Sandy Hook were tragic. I am sure this man's grief is real, and devastating. But, I never bought into the whole "heckling" issue either. I listened to the whole tape several times, and I would not define the comments from the peanut gallery as heckling.

If you open yourself up to speak or to make yourself a representative in some way for others, you better expect that people are going to be digging in your closets for any skeletons. Its really, why I believe we have such crappy people in politics. NOT that it is right, or I agree with it. These events are a decade old. I did some pretty stupid stuff when I was 25 and I don't think I would like people to churn it up to just to smear me either, but its also why I wouldn't necessarily be publically commenting about something. It is like the Sandra Fluke incident. The comments about here were disgusting, tasteless and WAY OTT. But, if you want to make yourself some sort of spokesperson, you are opening yourself up to ridicule.

connie

 

[MaryAnne]

The moment he dared speak out after his son's death, I knew the wingers would be poring over his past, looking for some way to attack him as a person. Then, inevitably, they'd insist that the fact the guy behaved badly in the past in some way makes liberals hypocrites. I can't even begin to imagine how the wingnuts connect those dots, but I'm sane, so I'm coming from a completely different direction than them.

Think it might be a good idea to check the past of some of the posters,here.Arkady? I am not sure any of us would come off liliy white,but some worse than others!

Did you get snowed in?

 

[Arkady]

Think it might be a good idea to check the past of some of the posters,here.Arkady? I am not sure any of us would come off liliy white,but some worse than others!

Did you get snowed in?

We got a little over two feet, but it wasn't bad. By the time the governor's travel ban was lifted, I was dug out.

 

[Arkady]

good post. i clearly am not paying enough attention to the media frenzy to continue to pull a ratings bonanza from the newtown tragedy.

you'd think they'd have shifted their focus to the rogue cop now - the guy who is targetting his fellow LA police officers and their kids. There are many angles which can be milked here, not the least of which is . . .

- LA has had an oppressive police force for decades
_ LA has been under one party democractic rule for decades
- All the people this african american cop shot were white or asian
- The mental health profession did another bang up job warning us about a nut who was about to crack
- Homeland security and the FBI have come up empty in their pursuit of lone, deranged killer whose face is everywhere, DNA and fingerprints on file, etc. Are we feeling safer now?

An important angle on it is how effective guns are as an offensive rather than defensive weapon. Even armed and trained cops are basically sitting ducks for a crazy gunman who takes them unaware. That's a big part of why gun control turns out to be so effective in lowering homicide rates. Since guns aren't terribly good at making a person safer against a gunman, measures that reduce overall gun ownership don't wind up reducing defensive uses of guns anywhere close to as much as they wind up reducing offensive uses of guns, and so homicide rates are lowered.

 

[Bo-4]

You believe anything you read from Malkin or WorldNut ... seriously Jack.

First of all, the video wasn't altered in the slightest. Most of us watched the two version and not ONE of you could point out a difference. Anchor Baby Malkin was full of crap.

Secondly, i Googled Neil Heslin DUI cocaine possession. Three results: WorldNut, this post on PJ and a RW blog quoting WorldNut.

Stop repeating stuff that idiots make up.

Thanks

 

[GordonGecko]

The man's 6 year old son was slaughtered in a kindergarten by a gun nut......


so naturally the Gun Right HAVE to smear him and denegrate his grief. Guns are their God now.

 

[jammer]

Well let's start with the fact that the incident took place 10 years ago, four years before his son was born. maybe the birth of a child made him see the error of his ways.
Second, apparently he wasn't convicted because having that much cocaine in your possession in Connecticut is a prison term of 10 to 15 years.
Third, what does his actions from 10 years ago have to do with the fact that his six year old son was murdered?

Jacko, I truly hope you never lose a child or a grandchild to some madman, but if you ever do, I honestly hope people are knider to you than you have been to this poor man.