By the time John Kalisz hit his mid 30's his life seemed destined for an ugly ending. A teen runaway and alcoholic, he had rack up a dozen arrests for getting drunk and raising hell. He spent time on the streets. Then his life took a turn for the better. In 1990 he got sober.
He talked of helping others thru AA. He started a roofing business.
After such a remarkable recovery and years of sobriety, what happened starting in 2008 is almost impossible to fathom.
John Kalisz is accused of a shooting rampage that left three dead and two others seriously injured.
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By December 2008, Kalisz had started to lose his tenuous grip on his new life. He was picked up on a weapons charge in Connecticut, and police there say that John Kalisz made bizarre claims about government conspiracies. He admitted telling a family member that he would shoot people before submitting to a "new world order."
And on Jan. 14, authorities day he went on a shooting rampage, killing three people---including his own sister and a law enforcement officer---and seriously injuring two others.
On Christmas eve that year, police in Plainville, a small suburb southeast of Hartford, issued an alert saying Kalisz might be carrying weapons and that he told a sister he was planning a "shooting rampage."
Three days later police pulled him over in Farmington. Officers found knives and fireworks, enough to take him into custody.
In an holding cell three days later Kalisz told police he believed that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, was building concentration camps and making millions of coffins. A "new world order" was coming and he was stockpiling money and food. He admitted telling a sister that he would rather "take other people out" than go to a FEMA concentration camp and that he had stashed guns at another sister's home near Brooksville Florida near where is was now living.
If there is a hell I hope Glen Beck will burn in it along with the other so-called "christian" hate inciters and GOP enablers. How many other ticking timebombs are out there listening to Faux "news" network hatching paranoid violent actions to Beck's and company's conpiracy lies and misinformation?
What kind of society do these people want?