Shooting in New Mexico

City of Albuquerque removes statue of Juan de Oñate

I do not support the taking down of this statue, statues of Columbus, or other statues erected essentially to celebrate the European peopling of the US and the Americas.

The indigenista Children of Zinn consider the white settling of the Americas to be an atrocity and racist crime all by itself, and insist there was a general white genocide of the natives though Indians are far more numerous today than ever in the past.

I don't endorse or in the least accept their view of this history.

All the same, it ought to be illegal to show up at any demonstration with a weapon.

Demonstrators illegally defaced and attempted to tear down a statue in an act of race hatred and a man attempted to stop them with physical intervention.

Shoved to the ground, he took out a gun and shot a demonstrator.

He was then surrounded by armed militia in camos and wearing riot gear.

The man was arrested.

There is some dispute about whether he was a member of the militia, who are being described in the media as vigilantes who showed up armed to prevent the crowd harming or taking down the statue.

The Republican Party continues to exist because white Democrats have no balls.

Republicans, on the other hand, have no brains.

Add Idaho to the list

Of places in America you would never move to.

Rightwing vigilantes on armed patrol after fake rumours of antifa threat

Every day they give us more reasons to abolish the Second Amendment.

Remember that loon who shot up the pizza shop where, per right wing loonies, Hillary and other Democrats were running a child sex ring?

They are all but unimaginably stupid.

She's right.

Sarah Anthony, I mean.

At the very least open carry and most types of firearms ought to be forbidden at the capitol.

Armed black citizens escort Michigan lawmaker to capitol after volatile rightwing protest

Even so, what the gun-nut white Militia types did the other day was inherently threatening and that was the point, the demonstrators meant to be threatening.

So why not a charge of making a terroristic threat or something related, anyway, as some have asked?

And there is such a crime in Michigan as brandishing a firearm, though it's a considerably less serious charge than it seems is needed here.

That open carry even of long guns in the capitol is legal is not a valid objection to either charge, though the contrary notion seems to have been cited by many to justify the politically - and perhaps even physically - cowardly lack of pursuit of prosecution.

Like the neo-nazis and Klansmen in Charlottesville, Trump called these "good people" and urged the governor to "make a deal" with them.

But Trump often gives cover to right wing terrorism, as do his friends at Fox News.

Truth: that it is legal to carry a gun does not make it legal to commit a crime with it.

Armed demonstrations involving blatant intimidation could be punished under existing law, probably everywhere in America.

And ought to be everywhere.

In California they start very young

San Diego synagogue shooting

Authorities increased security Sunday at houses of worship one day after a teen gunman killed one woman and injured a rabbi, a child and another man during Passover celebrations at a San Diego-area synagogue.

. . . .

Accused gunman John T. Earnest, 19, of San Diego, is a nursing student at Cal State University San Marcos who lived about seven miles from the synagogue. 

[San Diego County Sheriff William] Gore said Earnest posted an online “manifesto” in which he criticized Jews and also celebrated the slaying of 50 Muslims at shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.

The attack came exactly six months after 11 people were killed at a Pittsburgh synagogue. 

The manifesto echos common white supremacist themes.

. . . .

The suspect is accused of opening fire with an AR-style rifle at the synagogue shortly after services began Saturday morning. 

[Reportedly, the AR jammed.]

Passover celebrations are among the most important in the Jewish faith.

. . . .

An off-duty Border Patrol agent who was attending services at the synagogue fired at the suspect during the attack, hitting his car. 

The suspect then fled and was arrested without incident about two miles away.

. . . .

Earnest is also being investigated in connection with the arson at a mosque in nearby Escondido last month, officials said. 

In that incident, a fire broke out at 3:15 a.m. on March 24 at Dar-ul-Arqam mosque, also known as the Islamic Center of Escondido.

Update:

Earnest claimed in a manifesto also to have attempted to set fire to the Islamic Center of Escondido (Dar-ul-Arqam Mosque) last month. 

Someone did pour gasoline and start a fire, but congregants were on site and put it out. 

He also left graffiti referring to the New Zealand massacre of Muslims in Christchurch.

You think he minds much they were Hindu?

Veteran Rams Hindu Family, thinking they were Muslims

Perhaps he's more disappointed nobody died.

It appears he was willing to hit several people other than his targets in order to hit his targets.

Collateral damage.

An Iraq War veteran, who had spent 5 years in that country, was arraigned Friday.

On Tuesday, he had plowed into 8 people in an intersection in Sunnyvale, California, particularly aiming at a South Asian family who he assumed to be Muslims. 

They weren’t. 

The names indicate that they are Americans of Indian Hindu heritage (a minority in the US of about 1 million people). 

The veteran has been charged with a hate crime and with 8 counts of attempted murder.

Witnesses say that after his crime he acted strangely, saying “Thank God for giving me this opportunity!” and “I love you, Jesus, I love you, Jesus.”

The victims included a 13-year-old girl, Dhriti and her father; her young brother Prakhar, 9, was hurt, but not by the car. 

Dhriti experienced swelling of the brain and bleeding, so that physicians had to take off the side of her skull, and she is fighting for her life in critical condition. 

Others hurt by the car ramming were Marina Reimler, 32; Soeren Reimler, 33; Ping Lu, 51; Rajesh Narayan, 45; Eric Nava, 24; and Miguel, 15.

. . . .

The enraged vet managed to wound Americans of German, Indian, Chinese and Latino heritage in his fruitless search for other Americans to kill, of Muslim heritage.

Social media empower stupidity and hatred and cause violence

Sri Lanka Shut Down Social Media. My First Thought Was ‘Good.’

Subtitle: As a tech journalist, I’m ashamed to admit it. But this is how bad the situation has gotten.

Good, because it could save lives. 

Good, because the companies that run these platforms seem incapable of controlling the powerful global tools they have built. 

Good, because the toxic digital waste of misinformation that floods these platforms has overwhelmed what was once so very good about them. 

And indeed, by Sunday morning so many false reports about the carnage were already circulating online that the Sri Lankan government worried more violence would follow.

It pains me as a journalist, and someone who once believed that a worldwide communications medium would herald more tolerance, to admit this — to say that my first instinct was to turn it all off. 

But it has become clear to me with every incident that the greatest experiment in human interaction in the history of the world continues to fail in ever more dangerous ways.

. . . .

I noted this in my very first column for The Times almost a year ago, when I called social media giants “digital arms dealers of the modern age” who had, by sloppy design, weaponized pretty much everything that could be weaponized.

“They have weaponized civic discourse,” I wrote. 

“And they have weaponized, most of all, politics. Which is why malevolent actors continue to game the platforms and why there’s still no real solution in sight anytime soon, because they were built to work exactly this way.”

. . . .

But while social media had once been credited with helping foster democracy in places like Sri Lanka, it is now blamed for an increase in religious hatred. 

That justification was behind another brief block a year ago, aimed at Facebook, where the Sri Lankan government said posts appeared to have incited anti-Muslim violence.

“The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence,” The Times reported on Sunday.

Spin up violence indeed. 

Just a month ago in New Zealand, a murderous shooter apparently radicalized by social media broadcast his heinous acts on those same platforms. 

Let’s be clear, the hateful killer is to blame, but it is hard to deny that his crime was facilitated by tech.

. . . .

New Zealand, under the suffer-no-foolish-techies leadership of Jacinda Ardern, will be looking hard at imposing penalties on these companies for not controlling the spread of extremist content.

Australia already passed such a law in early April.

Here in the United States, our regulators are much farther behind, still debating whether it is a problem or not.

It is a problem, even if the manifestations of how these platforms get warped vary across the world. 

They are different in ways that make no difference and the same in one crucial way that does. 

Namely, social media has blown the lids off controls that have kept society in check. 

These platforms give voice to everyone, but some of those voices are false or, worse, malevolent, and the companies continue to struggle with how to deal with them.

In the early days of the internet, there was a lot of talk of how this was a good thing, getting rid of those gatekeepers. 

Well, they are gone now, and that means we need to have a global discussion involving all parties on how to handle the resulting disaster, well beyond adding more moderators or better algorithms.

Did reporting the news cause news to happen?

Not long ago, the Times reported on the activities of this rabble.

In a post at the time I questioned whether they could be legal.

F.B.I. Arrests Leader of Right-Wing Militia That Detained Migrants in New Mexico

Proving that though the Republican Party has been thoroughly Trumpified the federal government has not.

Not even the Justice Department just handed over by Trump to Trump-loyalist Barr.

And yet, it was not for those activities that the fellow was pinched.

And you have to wonder whether Trump will pardon him.

Or order the FBI to release him and drop their charges.

The F.B.I. on Saturday arrested the leader of a right-wing militia that was detaining migrant families at gunpoint near the border in southern New Mexico, as the group faced  a torrent of criticism for its tactics.

Hector Balderas, New Mexico’s attorney general, said federal agents had arrested the leader, Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who had been operating under the alias Johnny Horton Jr. Mr. Balderas said in a statement that Mr. Hopkins was arrested on charges of firearms possession by a felon.

“This is a dangerous felon who should not have weapons around children and families,” Mr. Balderas said. 

“Today’s arrest by the F.B.I. indicates clearly that the rule of law should be in the hands of trained law enforcement officials, not armed vigilantes.”

The firearms charge against Mr. Hopkins is relatively minor. 

But it is likely the start of a deeper investigation into his activities and those of the militia, and opens the way for the authorities to bring more serious charges like kidnapping and impersonating a police officer or an employee of the United States.

Mr. Hopkins’s arrest comes as tensions rise over ultraconservative paramilitary groups operating along the southwestern border. 

Professed militias have a long history of targeting immigrants from Latin America, tracing back to the Ku Klux Klan’s creation of its own border patrol in the 1970s.

. . . .

The organization led by Mr. Hopkins, the United Constitutional Patriots, recently uploaded videos of armed members detaining children and their parents in a stretch of the New Mexico desert near El Paso, before handing the migrants over to the Border Patrol.

Political leaders in New Mexico, a state largely controlled by Democrats, responded with fury. 

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that any mistreatment of asylum seekers on the border was “unacceptable.” 

The state’s two Democratic senators, Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, said in a statement that the actions of vigilante groups “cannot be tolerated.”

The American Civil Liberties Union denounced the militia’s actions in a letter on Thursday, saying the actions amounted to kidnapping by “racist and armed vigilantes.”

Still, such denunciations were far from unanimous in the state. 

A prominent New Mexico Republican, Gavin Clarkson, a former Trump administration official who is now running for United States Senate, met with masked members of the group in March and praised their efforts, according to a video of the encounter uploaded to Facebook.

That's a Trumpist.

But Mr. Clarkson said on Twitter on Saturday that he condemned militia activities. “Masked militiamen are the antithesis of what a free republic looks like,” he said.

. . . .

Mr. Hopkins, whose residence is in Flora Vista in northwest New Mexico, had already come under the scrutiny of groups tracking right-wing militias around the United States. 

He was convicted in 2006 for impersonating an officer and for felony firearm possession, according to The Daily Beast.

John J. Kless, terrorist and right wing Jihader

Florida Man Charged in Racist Threats Against Cory Booker and Rashida Tlaib

Federal officials charged a Florida man on Friday with leaving threatening phone messages laced with racist slurs at the offices of Senator Cory Booker and two House members, including Representative Rashida Tlaib.

The man, John J. Kless, 49, made three phone calls within 30 minutes, starting at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, according to court records. 

Mr. Kless, of Tamarac, Fla., about 15 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale, was charged with interstate transmission of threats, according to court papers.

In the first call, to the office of Representative Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat who is running for president, Mr. Kless said that “the day you come after our guns” would be the day “you’ll be dead,” court papers said.

About nine minutes later, in a voice mail message to the office of Ms. Tlaib, Democrat of Michigan, he began with, “Hey, Taliban.” 

Mr. Kless, referring to Representative Ilhan Omar, the freshman Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, then said, “Tell your Taliban friend” to stay silent about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, court records said.

. . . .

Mr. Kless said in the voice mail to Ms. Tlaib’s office that “this ain’t Trump’s fault,” court records said, adding, “It’s all your people’s fault.”

Mr. Kless said that “the day when the bell tolls” and “this country comes to a war, there will be no more threats,” court records said. 

He also said, “There’s people like me out there, millions and millions of us, who hate you” for the 2001 attacks.

Mr. Kless’s arrest came after a 55-year-old New York man was charged this month with threatening Ms. Omar. 

Federal agents charged that man, Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., after he reportedly called her office, described her as “a terrorist” and promised, in an expletive-laden threat, to “put a bullet in her skull.”

In the message left at Mr. Booker’s office on Tuesday, Mr. Kless referred to the senator, a Democrat from New Jersey who is running for president, as a “disgrace.”

“Don’t you worry, you government officials will be in the graves” where they belong, he said, according to court records.

. . . .

Mr. Kless was involved in making harassing calls to Ms. Pelosi’s office in Washington in February, according to court papers. 

It was not immediately clear what actions, if any, were taken by law enforcement in that case.

“This early 2019 case included voice messages by Kless concerning taking away his guns, abortion, illegal immigration and Muslims in Congress,” Agent Evans wrote.

Marlene Fernandez-Karavetsos, special counsel to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, said one gun was seized from a backpack of Mr. Kless’s and others from a gun safe at his home. 

Ammunition was also recovered. Information about the kinds of weapons was not immediately available.

United States Magistrate Judge Barry S. Seltzer ordered Friday that bond be set at $25,000. 

They are really going after Ilhan Omar. And Trump is lower than dog shit.

The entire Republican Party is lower than dog shit.

They are painting a target on her back.

Ilhan Omar defended by Democrats after Trump uses 9/11 video in attack

President Dogshit's tweet

[CAIR was not founded after 9/11 but in the 1990s, by the way.

And that "some people did something" was odd, though the point she was making was valid.]

And Pelosi seems to have a problem with her.

Up to now I have resisted use of "Islamophobia" since the term has been all too often used to deflect and stigmatize legitimate and fair criticism of Islam, Islamism, or Jihadi ideology, as "anti-Semitism" is frequently abused to deflect and stigmatize criticism of Israel or Zionism, and was recently abused in exactly that way by Trump, numerous Republicans, and some Democrats, against Congresswoman Omar.

But the lies and accusations and almost constant abuse of this young woman are incitements to hatred of her because she is a Muslim, because she is not white, because she is not a Christian, and because she speaks up in defense of Islam and of Muslims.

These incitements are acts of hatred aimed at inciting hatred.

Acts of Islamophobia aimed at incitement of Islamophobia.

[Update. She is rather an annoying person, I'll give you that. Doesn't make her a terrorist, traitor, Islamist, secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood, or enemy of us fine white Christian folks.]

Democrats including leading candidates for the presidential nomination have fiercely condemned Donald Trump and other Republicans’ efforts to smear the Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, while urging other party leaders to do the same.

Attacks labeling one of two Muslim women in Congress as unpatriotic are “dangerous” and risk “inciting violence”, prominent progressives said on Friday, after Trump shared a video attacking Omar that included graphic footage of the 9/11 terror attacks.

. . . .

Just last week, a Trump supporter in New York was charged with threatening to kill Omar. On Friday, Trump escalated attacks on Omar, tweeting “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!” with a video edited to suggest Omar was dismissive of the September 11 attacks.

The video used part of a speech last month to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which Omar discussed the problem of Islamophobia, describing “the discomfort of being a second-class citizen”. After September 11, she said, advocates “recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties”.

Rightwing politicians focused on the line “some people did something” and suggested Omar was dismissing the gravity of 9/11.

Republicans falsely claim Ilhan Omar denied 9/11 attackers were terrorists

These lies are incitements to violence, and who can seriously say the perps don't know or intend that?

Google stochastic terrorism.

A Republican congressman has spread false allegations that the US representative Ilhan Omar denied the September 11 hijackers were terrorists, as part of a new wave of abuse directed at her by some conservatives.

Representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas shared a tweet falsely reporting that Omar had said she “does not consider [September 11] a terrorist attack on the USA by terrorists”, while accusing the Minnesota congresswoman of playing down the attack.

Crenshaw was responding to a short video clip of a speech given by Omar in California last month, when she complained that all Muslims suffered the consequences of the actions by a small group of them on 11 September 2001, when al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four passenger jets and flew them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building outside Washington, while one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Crenshaw was joined by Ronna McDaniel, the Republican party chairwoman, who claimed Omar had shown she was “anti-American”, and the Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, who questioned Omar’s loyalty to the US during a broadcast on Wednesday morning.

Omar described the attacks against her as “dangerous incitement” and urged colleagues to condemn them. 

She said: “My love and commitment to our country and that of my colleagues should never be in question. We are ALL Americans!”

Trump under fire over Islamophobia after man threatens to kill Ilhan Omar

Subtitle: Ocasio-Cortez also makes direct link between controversial remarks by Fox News’s Jeanine Pirro and threat against Omar

Donald Trump and Fox News are coming under fire for contributing to a climate of Islamophobia, following the arrest of a supporter of the president who threatened to kill Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota who was one of the first Muslim women elected to the US Congress.

Ilhan Omar: man arrested after he made death threat – then left contact details

Patrick Carlineo, from Addison, New York, was arrested on Friday and charged with making a threatening phone call to Omar’s office. 

According to the FBI, Carlineo told a staff member: “Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist. I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull.”

Though Fox News was not mentioned in the complaint against Carlineo, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a direct link between controversial remarks made by the network’s presenter Jeanine Pirro and the threat against Omar.

Last month Pirro attacked Omar’s wearing of the hijab, asking if it was indicative of “her adherence to sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States constitution”.

. . . .

Last month, in the wake of the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 50 people, Omar accused Trump of whipping up the hatred that lay behind such violence. 

She said Trump was a president who “publicly says Islam hates us, who fuels hate against Muslims, who thinks it is OK to speak about a faith and a whole community in a way that is dehumanizing, vilifying”.

The Somali American Muslim who represents Minnesota’s fifth congressional district is one of a group of dynamic Democratic women swept into Congress in November’s midterm elections. 

As an outspoken critic of the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians, she has become a lightning rod for rightwing claims of antisemitism.

She was particularly heavily rounded upon after she highlighted the lobbying work of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Aipac, which she implied paid US politicians to take a pro-Israeli position.

Ah, the cradle of Nazism

Hitler was born an Austrian.

Link between Christchurch attacker, Identitarian Movement: Austria's Kurz

Hansjoerg Bacher, spokesman for prosecutors in Graz, said Martin Sellner, head of the Identitarian Movement - which says it wants to preserve Europe’s identity - received 1,500 euros ($1,690) in early 2018 from a donor with the same name as the man charged with murder following the Christchurch attack.

“We can now confirm that there was financial support and so a link between the New Zealand attacker and the Identitarian Movement in Austria,” Kurz said.

Sellner published a video on YouTube in which he said he had received a donation from the man and that police had raided his house over the possible links to the Christchurch attacker.

In it, he said: “I’m not a member of a terrorist organization. I have nothing to do with this man, other than that I passively received a donation from him.”

The simmering cauldron of hate

Charlottesville schools close over 'ethnic cleansing' threat

Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, remain closed as authorities investigate a racist threat that was posted online.

News outlets report that the system’s nine schools were closed Thursday and Friday out of precaution after authorities told school officials of the threat on Wednesday.

Superintendent Rosa Atkins told families that the threat was “racially charged” and the school system does not tolerate hate or racism.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a person claiming to be a student at Charlottesville high school, one of the region’s largest schools, warned white students to stay at home so they could shoot dead non-white students in an act of “ethnic cleansing”.

Didn't something say it was an AR15?

A civilian version of the M16, it's just the sort of thing people think of when they say "assault rifle", though from what I have read he did not modify it to fire fully automatically.

Seems he did somehow obtain illegal high capacity magazines.

So, ban assault rifles or such magazines or both.

No real need to ban all semi-automatic rifles, let alone pistols.

(Australia bans semi-automatic rifles or magazines with a capacity more than 5 rounds. Or maybe it's 10. Wikipedia sources differ.)

Anyway, he didn't just use that one gun.

Reportedly, he also used a lever action rifle and two shotguns.

Want to ban them, too?

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern urged to act quickly to ban semi-automatic weapons

This could be right.

Or not.

Gun control advocate Professor Simon Chapman said a similar attack could only occur in Australia if the perpetrator was able to obtain “totally illegal weapons bought off an illegal market.”

“You can only speculate about why this person decided to go over to New Zealand to do what he did, but it is possibly because it was much easier for him to purchase the means to do it,” Chapman said.

Meanwhile, in the madhouse that is the USA.

There's a book

The Great Replacement by Renaud Camus.

Conspiracy theory.

White genocide conspiracy theory.

Odd that none of these articles mentions Pat Buchanan's work to popularize these ideas.

Stochastic terrorism

It seems most sites offering to define the term agree with this definition.

Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.

That makes ISIS, Trump, and others who intentionally incite violence stochastic terrorists.

And, yes, I just said the Duce's incitements are intentional and so, of course, literally criminal.

A high crime or maybe a misdemeanor?

Anyway, Juan Cole seems to be thinking differently of the expression.

New Zealand: Is Trumpism now replacing ISIL as a major Cause of Stochastic Terrorism?

One of the tactics of the so-called “Islamic State group” or ISIL had been to put out calls on the internet and social media for people to engage in random acts of violence.

. . . .

Some have called this random, one-off violence, which is almost impossible to forestall, “stochastic” terrorism. 

This makes Trump and the others inciters and the actual killers the perpetrators of stochastic terrorism.

And maybe Susie Madrak sees it that way, too, though she is not explicit about the incitement being intentional.

Maybe she doesn't think it is?

It's refreshing when cable news people do their job, and it's sad that I have to say that. 

But CNN's New Day did an excellent job this morning, discussing the connection between Trump's violent rhetoric and resulting violence -- stochastic terrorism. 

(I wish they'd start using the term.)

Last night, I read the Christchurch shooter's 30+ page manifesto. 

He cited Trump and anti-Muslim right-wing extremist Candace Owens. 

He said he hoped this would cause American liberals to abolish the 2nd Amendment, and cause a "civil war in the U.S. 

There is no doubt that radicalized individuals around the world are looking to Trump for inspiration. 

So we watch as the Republicans protect this man, and we will remember.

Australian senator blames the victims

Fraser Anning blames NZ attacks on 'Muslim immigration'

Senator Fraser Anning has faced criticism from across the political spectrum for his comments on Friday's mosque attacks in New Zealand

As the death toll rose to 49, the Queensland senator said the "real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place".

"Whilst this kind of violent vigilantism can never be justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence," he said in a statement.

White nationalist terrorism in New Zealand

New Zealand Shooting Live Updates: 49 Are Dead After 2 Mosques Are Hit

Forty-nine people were killed in shootings at two mosques in central Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, in a terrorist attack that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described as “an extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence.”

4 people in custody, one charged with murder.

They were unknown to NZ and Aussie police.

Reporters on CNN are saying they watched some or all of the 17 minute video made by the killer, a video of his killing spree, posted on social media.

Why?

Before the shooting, someone appearing to be the gunman posted links to a white-nationalist manifesto on Twitter and 8chan, an online forum known for extremist right-wing discussions. 

The 8chan post included a link to what appeared to be the gunman’s Facebook page, where he said he would also broadcast live video of the attack.

The Twitter posts showed weapons covered in the names of past military generals and men who have recently carried out mass shootings.

In his manifesto, he identified himself as a 28-year-old man born in Australia and listed his white nationalist heroes.

Writing that he had purposely used guns to stir discord in the United States over the Second Amendment’s provision on the right to bear arms, he also declared himself a fascist. 

“For once, the person that will be called a fascist, is an actual fascist,” he wrote.

Bozo, Breitbart, and white nationalist terrorists.

Heard just now on CNN, Steve Bannon at Breitbart urges people to read "Camp of the Saints", as Pat Buchanan used often to do.

I once tried to read it but I could not get through it.

A racist nightmare dripping with hate.

Why did the Duce not speak out a lot sooner and more helpfully about Lt. Hasson?

The Duce did not hold a press conference on the matter or bring it up before journos or tweet about it, but when asked late today by a journo he tersely said it was terrible and he was due for a "final briefing" on the matter later today.

He did not say more than two or three sentences and did not express relief the man had been caught before he could act.

When asked whether his own language might have encouraged an atmosphere in which such loonies plan such things he rejected the idea and insisted his language was just fine.

Right now on MSNBC Michael Steele, former chair of the RNC, is saying the president did not come out to say the right thing right away because Bozo was not pleased to see law enforcement nail him.

And somebody else is pointing out no Republican leader has said a word about the Coast Guard terrorist.

A case of the loonies

U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant allegedly plotted mass terror attack targeting Democrats, journalists

A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and self-identified white nationalist has been arrested after allegedly plotting a massive domestic terrorist attack targeting several Democratic politicians and prominent media personalities.

Christopher Paul Hasson stockpiled weapons and maintained a hit list of people he wanted to kill, according to court documents shared with Global News by Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, who first noted the case.

FBI agents found 15 firearms and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his basement apartment in Silver Spring, Md.

Hasson’s alleged hit list appeared to name an array of high-profile Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and 2020 presidential contenders Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Cory Booker, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

It also appeared to include CNN anchors Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo as well as MSNBC anchors Joe Scarborough and Ari Melber.

“The defendant intends to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” read a motion for detention filed in the U.S. District Court in Maryland. 

“[He] is a domestic terrorist, bent on committing acts dangerous to human life that are intended to affect governmental conduct.”

Who's got your back? Not Bozo. Not really.

Every extremist murder in 2018 was linked to right-wing terrorism

Every extremist murder in the U.S. in 2018 was linked to right-wing extremism, according to an alarming new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

The annual report found that at least 50 people were killed by extremists in 2018, marking a 35 percent increase from 2017. 

This makes 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.

All 50 murders were committed by people with ties to at least one right-wing extremist movement, making right-wing extremists responsible for more killings in 2018 than any year since 1995, when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City.

. . . .

Even in the face of a mountain of evidence showing that right-wing extremists pose the greatest danger to the homeland, Trump and members of his administration still point to Islamic extremism and illegal immigration as the primary domestic terror threats in America.

When one immigrant commits a crime, Trump uses them as an example to demonize all immigrants, but when white supremacists commit violent crimes en masse, Trump ignores it completely — or even worse, shuts down programs to prevent the violence and redirects resources to focus on threats other than white supremacist terrorism.

And now, the same racism and anti-immigrant fervor that are fueling Trump’s ongoing demands for a border wall to keep people out are blinding him to the greatest threat — the one that’s already here.

A martyr or a passerby?

Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally

Looks like the former, but it's not entirely clear, yet.

Might have been collateral damage, like the victims of Muslim car and truck attacks in Europe.

Update.

Not a passerby.

A participant.

Mother Of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: ‘I’m Proud Of What She Did’

Heather Heyer ‘Murdered While Protesting Against Hate’ In Charlottesville, Friends Say