Last night, a small, dedicated group of Kossacks helped me do some research into Richard Poplawski, the man who killed three Pittsburgh policemen and wounded others after they respond to a call about, of all things, a fight over where Poplawski's dog had peed. One of the facts about Poplawski which struck me and began this search was that Poplawski and his friends, Eddie Perkovic and Aaron Vire (both often quoted in news reports on the incident) had a short-lived internet radio talk show about politics. With all the talk about the right wing's increasingly violent rhetoric, here is what we've come up with so far. Again, I want to thank fellow Kossacks Bush Bites, cosette, jaywillie, Ray in TX, and fcvaguy--without your help and research last night, I would not have much of anything to report. I am going to try to reorganize everything we've found, and if I fail to give credit where it's due, I apologize in advance.
Without further ado, let me summarize what we've found so far, and where that disturbing diary title comes from:
Part 1: "The Eddie and PO Show"
The goal of yesterday's search was to find clips of Richard Poplawski and Edward Perkovic's politics show, which, thanks to jaywillie and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we know was called "Eddie and PO," and was on a site called www.pirateradio.com. I have since found two promotional videos for this show on Eddie Perkovic's myspace page.
The first video is what inspired this diary's title.
ON THE RISE RADIO
This promo piece features such lines as
I would rape a male out of...out of power and dominance and violence. And I would rape a male not out of, 'cause I'm, I'm straight, I'm straight as an arrow. [...] I'd rather be the raper than the rapee. Grab a carrot, and then just ram a carrot in their ass.
And I'll stop there, because, believe it or not, it actually gets worse, and I'd like you all to remain sane. As for who is speaking, I originally wasn't sure, but thanks to the video interview with Eddie Perkovic that David Waldman has provided us with, I'm fairly certain (and feel free to debate this) that it's Poplawski speaking. Thoughts?
The second video is less disturbing, but still less-than-pleasant viewing, and is rated three straitjackets out of five for sexism, mild anti-semitism, discussions of gravity bongs and prostitutes, and general asshattery by both Poplawski and Perkovic.
OFFICIAL Eddie and P.O. Show SPOT!
What I take away the most from this is that Edward Perkovic is no innocent bystander to his friend's madness, as he is often portrayed in the news articles that have come out so far.
We are still looking for clips from the actual show. If any Kossacks are familiar with the pirateradio.com site, I'd appreciate your help in navigating it. (See update below for more)
Also, it looks like the first of these promo videos was uploaded to vidslib.com in May, 2008. No sign of any other videos by that user, so far as I can tell.
Part 2: Other finds on MySpace:
I have Kossacks Bush Bites and cosette to thank for much of this section, as they provided a lot of what is here. We'll start with Poplawski, who, thanks to this site, we were able to get a good start. Finding Poplawski on MySpace has been somewhat scattershot. The site I just linked to suspected his account might have been "richp". While richp is a friend of Perkovic's on MySpace, his picture doesn't look like Poplawski's, and richp says he's from Montana. While this could have been Poplawski's doing on purpose, it could just be somebody else named Rich P. Hard to tell.
UPDATE: And, yet again, fcvaguy comes through with some excellent detective work. From the comments:
Much back and forth as to whether this is the real Poplawski. The picture is obviously not him and he says he lives in Montana.
But, if you look at this myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com...
This guy Alex says he's from Pittsburgh (now lives in Chicago) and he went to North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh (same school as Poplawski). And low and behold, guess who shows up on his friends page - Richp - who posted a video which has since been deleted.
No doubt, richp is Richard Poplawski.
fcvaguy also points us to the link to a p0p633 on photobucket (Again, p0p633 is the name he used on Stormfront and YouTube). Fire up your wayback machines! http://i9.photobucket.com/...
Another possible MySpace link to Poplawski has been the (now deleted, but caches available here) account named "Richard Andrew". This account features the photo of Poplawski circulating around the media. This account also features the disturbing "Deep Survey" that Poplawski allegedly filled out. I say "allegedly" because, as web surfers found the account and posted angry comments on the site, somebody using the account posted back, claiming it wasn't them. Could be a case of mistaken identity, but it's looking more and more like somebody (a commenter suggests Perkovic) got onto Poplawski's site and posed as him.
Some highlights from this deep survey I mentioned yesterday include:
- Favorite cuss word:you fuckin nigger. cocksuckin cunt-of-a-whore. christ!
- Who is probably talking a load of crap about you right now?lol, if anybody is up at odd hours of the night talking shit about me...theyre NUTS!
- What serial killer do you find most disturbing?anybody that fucks with little kids. thats ill. or grubs on thier victims, or chills with them/ mutilates them/ has sex with them after theyre dead. c'mon now.
- Do you believe that your first love never dies?shyttttt, shes lucky i didnt kill that brod myself. hahahalol seriously though, for me personally, once the clouded delusion of love passed and i got a rational look at things, i realized my first love was absolutely the most unintelligent, most immature, wrong ass brod for me to ever try to care for. period. the end.
- Do you hate anybody?yeah, i hate ed Rendell this week. i hate Tampa Fans.
- How many people do you trust fully?nobody. take "fully" out of this question and the number jumps to about 6, family aside.
I had a theory about yet another potential MySpace identity for Poplowski, under the name "tutu," but I'm less and less sure of it. The only reason I think so is because of this post on Perkovic's MySpace:
Nov 25 2008 1:43 AM
hello im just on here to say hi and see how you doing and i am happy 4 u and your girls with the babby news im sure that you two will treat that babby ggod and take care of him or her to be a opened minded child good luck with everthing
tutu
aka rich
There's a picture immediately following this I'm having trouble linking too--the back of somebody's head, with a pattern shaved into close-cut hair. Could be Poplawski, but hard to tell, and really, who has 3 MySpace accounts?
Now, onto Edward Perkovic, who is far more vocal. For instance, he states on his site:
DON'T LET THEM MAKE YOU AFFRAID! IF PEOPLE TOOK THE TIME TO LOOK AND SEE THESE AS TRUTHS IT WOULD CREATE MAJOR UPHEAVAL! Before I get into my profile, I must point out the dangers of the ADL's stranglehold on youtube(a place that used to gear itself toward the freedom of expression) , our Zionist occupied government (ZOG), and a slow painstaking movement towards censorship, mixed bloodlines that will erase national identity (deemed not to be appropriate in todays America, but I assure you, your nationality is something you should be proud of, NOT ERASE), and the way the Zionist media controls everything you see and heard on your televisions and radio's. BEFORE YOU GET TAKEN ON A HELLRIDE, PLEASE NOTE THAT ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTI-SEMITISM!!
Here's a quote from a Zionist...
Ariel Sharon: "We control America" "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001.
DOCUMENTS I RECCOMEND YOU READ BY GOOGLE: "Civil War II" by Tom Chittum "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" "The Turner Diaries" by Dr. William Pierce "Jewish Supremacy" by Dr. David Duke It Has Even Been Documented In The Communist Manifesto: ""We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. "By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. "In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavour to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negros. "We will aid the Negros to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." Statement by Israel Cohen, in his book, "A Racial Programme for the Twentieth Century," 1912, which is also in the Congressional Record, Vol. 103, p. 8559, June 7th, 1957"
Another way we can verify that this is our Edward Perkovic (as if the above wasn't enough) is that he links to a picture of Aaron Vire, who has also been interviewed about Poplawski, and apparently helped with the Eddie and PO Show. (Hat tip to cosette for this find)
On a side note, after cosette's success, I went through all of the pictures Perkovic posted on his site. No sign of Poplawski, but I did find that he apparently snuck onto the former site of the World Trade Center during a trip to New York. He takes this picture, with the caption:
underground WTC 2 stories past a blocked unauthorised entrance
One last fact to note: I didn't notice this myself, but Kossack Ray in TX suggests that, in one case, Perkovic put April 19th as his birthday. April 19th, of course, is the day of the Oklahoma City bombing and, Ray in TX tells me, a big important day for these sorts of people. Freaky coincidence or indication of something more? If anyone can find out, I'd appreciate it. This brings us to...
Part 3: Stormfront
This is the section I've seen the least of myself, so credit immediately goes to cosette and fcvaguy for venturing into white supremacist central so the rest of us don't have to. As this wasn't my work, I'll link to the comments from the researchers themselves (And folks, if you would like to add something to this, let me know, or post a diary yourselves and I'll link to it here).
First, fcvaguy:
Poplawski on Stormfront (2+ / 0-)
On one of the myspace pages in your diary, he mentions his IM is p0p633. Google that, and up pops a link to stormfront and a page on tattoos. He posts two .jpg images of his tattoos. You can't open them without a UID and I don't want to create one there. My bet is one of them is of an eagle because one of links he says he has a tattoo of an eagle.
Nothing on the youtube account (0+ / 0-)
just some comments here and there.
Apparently, the Stormfronters figured out he was a member of their site and it appears Stormfront has done a mass delete of any discussion of it. If he had comments there, I'm sure they're all long gone:
http://www.stormfront.org/...
Cosette's findings now, we'll begin with her recent link to The Raw Story's collection of events, including this key paragraph:
Poplawski had also posted pictures of himself at Stormfront, a white supremacist website whose slogan is "white pride worldwide." The discussion of the shootings at Stormfront, which began with speculations that the gunman would turn out to be "some non-white" or "a jew," then turned to suspicions that the recent rash of shootings is a "setup" to push through gun control legislation, has become oddly muted since the revelation that Poplawski appears to be one of theirs.
cosette also bravely ventured to Stormfront, and reported back:
Took a look myself and didn't see anything. (1+ / 0-)
For chuckles I also checked out 'GLP' on the google for God Like Productions...
And, one of my faves...Plains Radio.
(Too frinkin' funny, but Ed Hale of Plains Radio have just kicked one of the big Obama 'birthers'(those that don't believe Barack was born in Hawaii) to the curb.
If anyone wants to hit the Wayback machine and see if they can't dig up anything more, fcvaguy reports that Poplawski had Stormfront and YouTube accounts both with the username "p0p633." Please comment if you find anything and I will add it to this section.
Part 4: StumbleUpon, and hints of a future standoff.
It is an odd new world we live in, with all of these social networks that can provide so much information on anyone. I've found both Richard Poplawski's StumpleUpon site and what might be Eddie Perkovic's. The latter is not terribly interesting, however, as I mentioned in my previous post on this subject, there are a number of links on Poplawski's that, in hindsight, at least, are rather telling. Shamelessly cribbed from my previous post, here they are:
*An article on stocking an emergency food pantry. Perhaps he'd been planning a standoff for a while?
*An article titled "10 Extremely Useful Websites to Stop Big Brother From Snooping On You".
An article titled "Judge returns man's permit to carry a concealed weapon" (the article is no longer archived)
*How to Reprogram Your Self-Conscious Mind to Become a Self-Confidence Machine
*Overcoming Self-Discouragement
*A number of psychology-related sites
*A website that collected and reposted suicide notes. Perhaps these inspired Poplawski's last-minute phone calls to loved ones?
It's scary looking at this collection of sites we know he was interested in--it's indicative that the events of April 4th were not entirely unprovoked.
That, for the most part, is what I've found. Feel free to check my previous post for more, though I warn you, it's less than organized as I quickly threw information together as the commenters and I found it. I'm still looking for clips from the show, to find out just where Poplawski's head was, and maybe just maybe to shame the right wing into seeing what it's produced (or, more likely, letting more of the world see this). Please see this as a collaborative effort, not just me telling you all the facts. Let's crowdsource this and see what we can find. And if you have already posted other findings, please let me know below so I can read them and link to them.
Also, I still haven't heard if there is any concerted effort to help the families of the fallen police officers. If anyone could let me know if such a thing has been organized, please let me know. Thanks.
Update: In looking into finding the Eddie and PO Show on Pirate Radio, I present the Wayback Machine page for their page of popular shows. No sign of the Eddie and PO show there during the two dates after the August 31, 2007 posting of the promos shown above, and I'll keep looking, but I doubt that this sort of show ever became that popular. If you have any leads/discoveries, post them to the comments and I'll add them to the diary.
*11:14 EST: So far, I've checked all of 2007 for this site, which I realize I think I misread, it lists all of the shows broadcast on that day, not just the most popular ones. No Eddie and PO show in 2007. Haven't checked any other years yet. Will likely work backwards from the end of 2006 if someone wants to start on the other end and meet me halfway.