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digby: Another right-wing terrorist manifesto refers to Donald Trump
https://digbysblog.net/2020/02/another-right-wing-terrorist-mentions-donald-trump/?fbclid=IwAR1V2vgHk8u8jf-MJIzIJMj8-kxEJ-KZcHbNu9vOMoJmDPGeC-ul_NIjd-MAnother right-wing terrorist manifesto refers to Donald Trump
Published by digby on February 21, 2020
He killed a bunch of people:
A 43-year-old German who posted a manifesto calling for the “complete extermination” of many “races or cultures in our midst” shot and killed nine people of foreign background, most of them Turkish, in an attack on a hookah bar and other sites in a Frankfurt suburb, authorities said Thursday.
He was later found dead at his home along with his mother, and authorities said they were treating the rampage as an act of domestic terrorism.
The bloodshed came amid growing concerns about far-right violence in Germany and stepped-up efforts from authorities to crack down on it, including last week’s detention of a dozen men on suspicion they were planning attacks against politicians and minorities.
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In the video, the speaker warned Americans that “your country is under control of invisible secret societies.” In a slow and deliberate voice in accented English, he said there are “deep underground military bases” in which “they abuse, torture and kill little children.”
He made no reference to the far-right QAnon movement in the U.S., but the message was similar to the fringe group’s central, baseless belief that President Donald Trump is under attack from “deep state” enemies and that satanists and cannibals are running a child sex trafficking ring.
In his manifesto, the gunman made one reference to Trump, writing: “I doubt that Donald Trump knowingly implements my recommendations.” He suggested that “mind control” might be at work.
He was later found dead at his home along with his mother, and authorities said they were treating the rampage as an act of domestic terrorism.
The bloodshed came amid growing concerns about far-right violence in Germany and stepped-up efforts from authorities to crack down on it, including last week’s detention of a dozen men on suspicion they were planning attacks against politicians and minorities.
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In the video, the speaker warned Americans that “your country is under control of invisible secret societies.” In a slow and deliberate voice in accented English, he said there are “deep underground military bases” in which “they abuse, torture and kill little children.”
He made no reference to the far-right QAnon movement in the U.S., but the message was similar to the fringe group’s central, baseless belief that President Donald Trump is under attack from “deep state” enemies and that satanists and cannibals are running a child sex trafficking ring.
In his manifesto, the gunman made one reference to Trump, writing: “I doubt that Donald Trump knowingly implements my recommendations.” He suggested that “mind control” might be at work.
With all that’s going on, I don’t know if people are even aware this happened. It’s just another mass killing by a far-right loon, inspired by internet wingnuts.
What this guy meant by “mind-control” being at work is unknown, but the mere fact that he thought the president wasn’t “knowingly” implementing his recommendations says it all. Let’s just say this nut believed he and Trump were on the same wavelength. And he wasn’t wrong.
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