Shooting Followup

Crooks and Liars found the myspace page of the shooter's "best friend" who's been interviewed a lot today. Interesting reading material on it:

"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."

According to another friend,

"He always said that if someone tried to take his weapons away he would do what his forefathers told him to do and defend himself."

... Mr. Poplawski was opposed to Mr. Obama's election, which he thought would result in the loss of his rights, Mr. Vire said. [...]

Mr. Poplawski told him he bought his guns "because he felt the quality of life was being diminished," Mr. Vire said.

Poplawski's neighbor said in a Fox interview that the violence was brought on by gun paranoia as well. Video included in the link up there.

This isn't the first time mainstream conservative propaganda has killed people. Last July, two people were murdered in a church. According to police interviews of the shooter,

"Adkisson stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he had held these beliefs for about the last ten years."

At his home, they found the following books:

• "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage
• "Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism" by talk show host Sean Hannity
• "The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life" by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly
  

Here's some conservative drum pounding to incite rage over the invisible liberal boogeyman trying to take away our guns, even though there is absolutely no evidence that Democrats are trying to do that. I hope shitbags like Glenn Beck have trouble sleeping at night.