Gunman's tattoos lead officials to deem Sikh shooting terrorism

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-domestic-terrorism-20120805,0,6094643.story

Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism, officials said Sunday.

The shootings in Oak Creek, Wis., left seven dead, including the gunman, and three critically wounded. One of the injured was a police officer who was expected to survive.

A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media refused to say whether the gunman was thought to belong to a hate group or some other violent group because the investigation was still unfolding.

[cali]

1. Thanks for the information. That makes sense.

[Junkdrawer]

2. That part of WI is big on Neo Nazis...

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=WI

Posters who visited Storm Front (me? Not on a dare) say they fear it's one of them.

Betcha swastika tattoos were found.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. I went.

I volunteered for SPLC for a while and still have an account there. Yes - there is an undercurrent there that this was "one of them" and will "hurt the cause" of WN.

[gateley]

16. Well it's good they don't think it's an awesome call to arms.

I can't tell you how wonderful I think it is that you volunteered for the SPLC -- one of the greatest organizations ever.

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Some did, and several posts were deleted.

They are covering their ass the same way they did with JT Ready and Richard Poplawski - both members.

I captured Ready's last post made just 2 hours before he killed his family and screen shotted it. Within an hour, it was poofed.



SPLC is a fantastic organization. You have to wade through a LOT of hate, but it really is worth it to expose these nazis.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. You are going to make me go there?

Yup, not just storm front. There are other three groups that immediately pop up in my mind. Another is a white identity church.

(Back in the day did a lot of research into all that...have kept my feet in that...would all but shock me incidentally)

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Local Muslim community has come to the temple to support, and are worried they were the target.

[obamanut2012]

11. I bet they were the target

[Thinkingabout]

4. You will find hate post on some Libertarian and consecrative sites.

Many will give "keep the powder dry" and other comments which would indicate the willingness to perform "suicide" actions. Just as Zimmerman and others has overshot the stand your ground thinking it gives the right to go out and kill at will.

[postulater]

5. "A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak"

Really?

The 'federal official' can't shut up and let the law do its' job?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. These kinds of "leaks" are common

And expected.

[postulater]

18. and unnecessary.

It just adds to the speculation frenzy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. But they happen

And at times they are actually helpful. There is more, at times they are even planned.

No, I am not kidding.

[Skittles]

6. sounds like a teabagging gun nut

[nanabugg]

9. Probably. Otherwise his photo would be plastered all over the news by now. nt

[Mojorabbit]

21. Looks like he was also a military vet. :( nt

[Skittles]

23. lots of gun nuts join the military

I outshot a lot of them

[Cali_Democrat]

22. Yep

[99th_Monkey]

8. Do we ever get to know the nature of these "certain biographical details"?

I'm super-curioius about those certain details.

[kestrel91316]

10. My prediction: Registered Republican; active member of teabagger groups;

member of NRA; posts on FR and other RW fascist forums; has his own racist/anti-islamic web page or FB page; birther.

[matt819]

14. And he probably didn't even realize that they were not Muslims (nt)

[ibegurpard]

15. just speculation on my part...

...wonder if he thought it was a mosque.

[Canuckistanian]

17. I'm betting those weren't tattoos of Gandhi or MLK

Just speculation, of course.