It wasn’t “guns” or “NRA” or any other Leftist meme being trotted out in order to make political points while Parker and Ward‘s bodies are still warm; no, this was a possibly mentally ill person who supped long at the well of victimhood, sustained by the Race-baiting Industrial Complex
In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II.” He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”
“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them.”
It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act.
Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. “Also, I was influenced by Seung–Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin.'”
In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family.”
He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work
He says he has been attacked by black men and white females
He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man“Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….”
“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”
So a hearty FUCK YOU to all the assholes who immediately started shouting “GUN VIOLENCE!!” (looking at you, Gov. Terry McAuliffe). This has little to do with guns and everything to do with the sickness, racism and unbounded self-pity in the shriveled soul of Flanagan/Williams.
I’m glad he’s dead. I hope his body is cremated and his ashes disposed of in a septic tank.
How about spread the ashes on the WHite House Lawn and DOJ from steps?
The video is just dreadful to watch. It is not just dead people it is living people seconds before death that get me.
This was a serious disturbed person. Common sense gun control? Like what? We don’t let disturbed gay black men buy guns?
IF he was mentally ill, it wasn’t just because he supped at the well victimhood, but because he drank the dregs of the cup of grievance too.
And poisoned his soul.
He became what he hated, a black Dylann Roof finding comfort in a warped philosophy.
americans eat too much salad
Amen, Darleen.
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IF he was mentally ill, it wasn’t just because he supped at the well of victimhood, but because he drank the dregs of the cup of grievance too.
I suspect he had paranoid personality disorder, not to be confused with paranoid schizophrenia, which involves actual brain disease and tin-foil hats.
A talking head on TV said he was a “grievance collector.” People like that are often vexatious litigators (as certain parties on the starboard side have found). They are certain that they can tell who has malicious intent toward them (pretty much everyone, turns out), and when they’ve been slighted, they react in a completely over-the-top and maladaptive manner, calling it “protecting themselves.”
I knew one woman who had PPD: she had been raised in a family where the parents waged constant war on each other, frequently using the kids as pawns to screw the other to the wall. Yeah, they stayed together instead of separating. Their arguments were so bad the kids had to call the cops on their own parents.
She seemed totally normal—intelligent, charming, funny—until she suffered a social snub (due to her own behavior)—and she completely flipped out. I tried to stand by her but her actions were so irrational that I couldn’t defend them anymore, despite her insistence that she was just “protecting herself.” (She also had gone off her bipolar meds and was in a manic stage.)
She no doubt sees me as the worst kind of traitor—a selfish little bitch, like all the others—but there was no way to help her see where her own actions had contributed to the situation, no way to get her to take a step back, no way to stand by her without going over the cliff myself.
Kind of like suffering a slight and Google-bombing you enemy’s blog, but that’s none of my business.
The upshot being that whatever he put in his manifesto was incidental to what was actually wrong with him.
Pretext, not root cause.
Also, I got into a big Twitter blowout when someone sniffed that his colleagues knew he was dangerous but “didn’t tell anyone.”
Who was he supposed to tell, I asked. Because if you tell the cops that someone is crazy dangerous, they can’t do anything. They don’t even write it down unless he’s done something to someone.
And even then, that’s all that happens. No registry, no alerts go out, no warnings given to the public.
So she blathers on about notifying “the community” (how do you do that, I ask) and raising awareness so that people can be on alert or some damned thing. Because you don’t have to involve LEOs.
Or get a gun. Simple as that, amirite?
I was arguing that you can’t really criticize crazy people’s associates for “remaining silent” because “saying something” doesn’t do jack to get that person off the street or into treatment or even to increase surveillance on them.
Our system is totally FUBAR when it comes to violent, mentally ill people. Families and friends of crazy-dangerous people wear themselves out with worry trying to get them committed but the system makes it nearly impossible to involuntarily commit.
So your paranoid schizophrenic friend goes off his meds and you see that look in his eye: he’s going to kill someone or die trying, and there’s no reasoning with a violent schizophrenic.
Nor with the cops, who can’t do anything until a crime is committed. Good luck with social services, who will haul away unattended kids at a park in a NY minute but won’t lift a finger to restrain the raving lunatic with a machete until blood is drawn, if then.
But no, on Twitter it was time to blithely beat the CCW drum and talk about developing military-grade situational awareness and “telling someone” if you think they might be dangerous.
So I ask you: how many homicidal maniacs live within striking distance of your home/work, and why haven’t you “reported your suspicions” to the authorities?
> why haven’t you “reported your suspicions” to the authorities? <
the "authorities" might be deranged too?
“americans eat too much salad”
Also salt, Rosemary and Thyme. Plus Parsly and Sage.
Who was he supposed to tell, I asked.
Not to mention that he was fired TWO YEARS AGO.
This isn’t someone who gets walked to the door, goes home, and comes back with a gun. This was planned evil.
>This was planned evil.<
by the gay/black obama coalition. see: fetal baby heads
alot of nut cases shooting various folks at odd times during the baracky clusterfuck. ax major muslim about it?
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“. ax major muslim about it?”
I think this was more a domestic “black lives matter” inspired event.
I mean, the dude was really quite insane, but he made no attempt to cut off heads. A more civilized maniac than Mo’s bunch,
Not so much Muslim as Obamaslim.
He was going to kill someone to make up for the fact that he’s insanely unhappy.
Any surrounding political rhetoric or grievance theater that he may have attached himself to was window-dressing: 20, 40, 60 years ago he’d have done the same thing but swapped out other pretexts in his manifesto.
Or are we going to blame the Left’s insane rhetoric when a killer uses it but absolve ourselves when some crazy waves a Gadsen flag before shooting up the place?
Sauce for the both geese or no sauce at all.
Now, I’m not saying that the Gadsen flag waving crazy can’t or won’t happen, but it seems to me that people who just want to be left the hell alone are less likely to go looking to cause trouble.
That said, I know that you know what you’re talking about, and that there’s no denying that nobody can say what crazy will fixate upon.
Any surrounding political rhetoric or grievance theater that he may have attached himself to was window-dressing –
There’s that scene in Forest Gump where Jenny’s boyfriend slaps her then starts blaming the Vietnam War …
This is not the race war you are looking for.
OK, sure. The race unpleasantness is just in Fergusen. It’s not like crazy people can be manipulated or anything…
Dude says he wants to start a race war, and that he’s been a powder keg for awhile. Do crazy people say shit like ‘I’ve been a powder keg for awhile’? Sounds like a whole lotta self awareness for a lunatic to me.
Dude says he wants to start a race war, and that he’s been a powder keg for awhile.
Talking about the Charleston shooter? He’d been talking openly about scoping out a venue for a rampage shoot: mall, university.
He lit upon the race war crap only 6 months before the shooting: I’m dead positive he wanted to start a race war because it would raise the body count way higher than a stupid mall shooting.
When a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of violence goes off his meds, you know it: he starts breathing out threats and behaving irrationally. He’ll have that Charlie Manson look in his eye that indicates that it’s gonna end in death and mayhem one way or another.
So when that happens, I’m reliably advised, you can “say something” or maybe just be a better neighbor and tell others to watch out for him. Also, I may have heard of concealed-carry.
Such advice is NOT—I repeat not—analogous to advising a solo hiker to take his cell phone with him into the wilderness area so he can use the GPS or call 911. Pointing out that there’s “no cell coverage out there” (whatever that means) is defeatism. Maybe you can’t get every call to go through but you can get some, and that’s better than nothing.
Cripes, why can’t you handle disagreement? It’s just my opinion that you should take a cell phone on that solo hike. Maybe you need to sleep this off.
I really hate our side sometimes.
The embrace of victimhood is a mental illness. It fuels racism, addiction, conspiracy-theory paranoia, caudillo worship…
We need sensible gun control laws. Like, never let an Obama voter have a gun.
I have experienced the type you speak of di and it is no fun especially when family.
I also know a former co-worker that has “issues” and I have been warning my wife about him for some time, she was also a co-worker of his and more of a social friend. She is a step away more from him these days so I am not too worried.
I was not too sure he was a violent type until he recently flipped out at a neighbor and was arrested. It is his wife and kid I worry about.
Unfortunately, his raising the art in live, on-camera carnage will almost certainly live on after him.
It needn’t…
The film “Natural Born Killers” tried to justify itself by bringing up the role of the media in making killers celebrities but, the message was lost in all the glorified violence in the film.
I was going to use worldstar[redacted].com as a real-life example.
As a better countermeasure, news organizations should stop doing live feeds. Either tape segments or do them in the studio – it also helps with the well-known adage that during any “breaking news” event, they get pretty much everything wrong for the first 24-72 hours in any case…
Are we ready for that honest conversation about hom0sexuality? Asking for a friend.
>Are we ready for that honest conversation about hom0sexuality? <
the narrative™ says no
McGehee
Unfortunately, the Left has been way too eager to shove the films showing the jets flying into the WTC on 9/11 because they are “upsetting” and “offensive” and “may engender hate towards Muslims.” on the same premise that the media knows best for us viewers.
No, I don’t want endless publicity for Flanagan and trying to excuse his evil actions. But I don’t want this disappearing down the memory hole as it is rapidly right now because he is black/gay and no one wants to ban the hate-filled Rainbow Flag.
If I were a fascist, brown shirt nazi I would want to ban that butt ugly rainbow flag.
I’m not though, so flag banning will have to remain the providence of the left.
Is the agenda really the most important thing here?
It’s ironic too, that those demanding the banning of the Rebel flag are proclaiming themselves fascist, brown shirt nazi leftists just as plain as if they were waving a swastika flag while doing it.
Leprechauns, Unicorns, and Norsemen are upset about this whole rainbow flag thing too.
Maybe not the most important, but perhaps it most interesting to talk about.
This I find very interesting:
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/213319/#respond
McGehee
My only agenda is that we citizens need not be “protected” from information by our protectors in media or government.
The tapes are out there. Murderers out to make a name for themselves have been around forever, I dare say long before Jack-the-Ripper decided to taunt the cops.
The other important discussion (which I just put up a new post about) is how do we address the mental issues — and how do we get the law to move away from policies that mask or encourage these issues.