Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Manifesto

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

                   Otto von Clausewitz



The El Paso Shooter was sending a political message, but not with his manifesto. 


His vile message was the murders themselves.


I attach below the Walmart shooter manifesto. It is already being described in excerpts by people attempting to make a point, primarily either that Trump is blameless or that Trump is indirectly to blame by creating created an environment that encouraged the shooter. The manifest echos the comments made by Trump in rallies, tweets, and speeches the terms the shooter used to justify his planned murders: the "Hispanic invasion of Texas" and unwelcome and dangerous "cultural and ethnic replacement" of Americans.

By now readers have heard bits of the manifesto. The shooter says there is a crisis. Democrats are encouraging an Hispanic majority. Inaction is treason. He is morally faultless. Europeans don't have "gun rights needed to repel the millions of invaders that plaque their country." America is on "the brink of destruction."

The shooter describes himself as a patriot and soldier sending a political message. It was to Hispanics: America is a dangerous place. You and your family might get shot by citizen patriots like him. Go away.

As the manifest reads:

     "The Hispanic population is willing to return to their home countries if given the right incentive. An incentive that myself and many other patriotic Americans will provide. This will remove the threat of the Hispanic voting bloc." 

The shooter's message was done with body language, the body of his victims and perhaps eventually his own. An ongoing message of this blog is that body language, and the non verbal elements of emotion revealed in tone, are the primary methods of political communication. Not words. Words are easy and cheap. Teleprompter speeches are window dressing and pro forma alibis. What Trump read Monday was less salient than a dismissive, sarcastic tweet.

"Too bad," Trump tweeted. We get the message--the real message that is in the smirk.

The manifesto is a confused jumble of grandiosity and hopelessness, and I quote it because it is not the message. His physical actions of doing murder were the terrible message  and they are the ones with consequences, the messages that got heard.
   
   1. The intended one, that America was a dangerous place for Hispanic immigrants. He made that point, alas.
   
   2. The unintended but received message to Trump and the GOP, that Trump's racial language and tone are dangerously raw and undisguised, taking away plausible deniability of racism for Trump and his supporters, so he would be best to tone it down. Trump's teleprompter cleanup speech is part of the repair strategy.
  
   3. The unintended but received message that high powered automatic rifles with big magazines get easily into the hands of mentally unstable people and that pressure from the public to do something might be building, and, maybe, some visible action needs to take place, notwithstanding the NRA and gun rights advocates




WALMART SHOOTER MANIFESTO 
Sat Aug 03 2019 22:31:51 ET

The Inconvenient Truth  

About Me 
In general, I support the Christchurch shooter and his manifesto. This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas. They are the instigators, not me. I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion. Some people will think this statement is hypocritical because of the nearly complete ethnic and cultural destruction brought to the Native Americans by our European ancestors, but this just
reinforces my point. The natives didn’t take the invasion of Europeans seriously, and now what’s left is just a shadow of what was. My motives for this attack are not at all personal. Actually the Hispanic community was not my target before I read The Great Replacement. This manifesto will cover the political and economic reasons behind the attack, my gear, my expectations of what response this will generate and my personal motivations and thoughts. 

Political Reasons 
In short, America is rotting from the inside out, and peaceful means to stop this seem to be nearly impossible. The inconvenient truth is that our leaders, both Democrat AND Republican, have been failing us for decades. They are either complacent or involved in one of the biggest betrayals of the American public in our history. The takeover of the United States government by unchecked corporations. 

I could write a ten page essay on all the damage these corporations have caused, but here is what is important. Due to the death of the baby boomers, the increasingly anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right and the ever increasing Hispanic population, America will soon become a one party-state. The Democrat party will own America and they know it. They have already begun the transition by pandering heavily to the Hispanic voting bloc in the 1st Democratic Debate. They intend to use open borders, free healthcare for illegals, citizenship and more to enact a political coup by importing and then legalizing millions of new voters. 

With policies like these, the Hispanic support for Democrats will likely become nearly unanimous in the future. The heavy Hispanic population in Texas will make us a Democrat stronghold. Losing Texas and a few other states with heavy Hispanic population to the Democrats is all it would take for them to win nearly every presidential election. Although the Republican Party is also terrible. Many factions within the Republican Party are pro-corporation. Pro-corporation = pro-immigration. 

But some factions within the Republican Party don’t prioritize corporations over our future.So the Democrats are nearly unanimous with their support of immigration while the Republicans are divided over it. At least with Republicans, the process of mass immigration and citizenship can be greatly reduced.
  
Economic Reasons 
In short, immigration can only be detrimental to the future of America. Continued mmigration will make one of the biggest issues of our time, automation, so much worse. Some sources say that in under two decades, half of American jobs will be lost to it. Of course some people will be retrained, but most will not. So it makes no sense to keep on letting millions of illegal or legal immigrants flood into the United States, and to keep the tens of millions that are already here. Invaders who also have close to the highest birthrate of all ethnicities in America. In the near future, America will have to initiate a basic universal income to prevent widespread poverty and civil unrest as people lose their jobs. Joblessness in itself is a source of civil unrest. The less dependents on a government welfare system, the better. The lower the unemployment rate, the better. Achieving ambitions social projects like universal healthcare and UBI would become far more likely to succeed if 
tens of millions of dependents are removed. 

Even though new migrants do the dirty work, their kids typically don’t. They want to live the American Dream which is why they get college degrees and fill higher-paying skilled positions. This is why corporations lobby for even more illegal immigration even after decades of it happening. They need to keep replenishing the low-skilled labor pool. Even as migrant children flood skilled jobs, Corporations make this worse by lobbying for even more work visas to be issued for skilled foreign workers to come here. 

Recently, the senate under a REPUBLICAN administration has greatly increased the number of foreign workers that will take American jobs. Remember that both Democrats and Republicans support immigration and work visas. Corporations need to keep replenishing the labor pool for both skilled and unskilled jobs to keep wages down. So Automation is a good thing as it will eliminate the need for new migrants to fill unskilled jobs. Jobs that Americans can’t survive on anyway. Automation can and would replace millions of low-skilled jobs if immigrants were deported. This source of competition for skilled labor from immigrants and visa holders around the world has made a very difficult situation even worse for natives as they compete in the skilled job maret. To compete, people have to get better credentials by spending more time in college. It used to be that a high school degree was worth something. Now a bachelor’s degree is what’s recommended to be competitive in the job market. The cost of college degrees has exploded as their value has plummeted. This has led to a generation of indebted, overqualified students filling menial, low paying and unfulfilling jobs. Of course these migrants and their children have contributed to the problem, but are not the sole cause of it. 

The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heaing the destruction of our environment by shamelessly over harvesting resources. This has been a problem for decades. For example, this phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic “The Lorax”. Water sheds around the country, especially in agricultural areas, are being depleted. Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent. Urban sprawl creates inefficient cities which unnecessarily destroys millions of acres of land. We even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just wipe water off our hands. Everything I have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average American isn’t willing to change their lifestyle, even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience. The government is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises since they are owned by corporations. Corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger market for their products. I just want to say that I love the people of this country, but god damn most of y’all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable.  

Gear 
Main gun: AK47 (WASR 10) – I realized pretty quickly that this isn’t a great choice since it’s the civilian version of the ak47. It’s not designed to shoot rounds quickly, so it overheats massively after about 100 shots fired in quick succession. I’ll have to use a heat-resistant glove to get around this.  

8m3 bullet: This bullet, unlike pretty much any other 7.62x39 bullet, actually fragments like a pistol hollow point when shot out of an ak47 at the cost of penetration. Penetration is still reasonable, but not nearly as high as a normal ak47 bullet. The ak47 is definitely a bad choice without this bullet design, and may still be with it. 

Other gun(if I get one): Ar15 – Pretty much any variation of this gun doesn’t heat up nearly as fast as the AK47. The round of this gun isn’t designed to fragment, but instead tumbles inside a target causing lethal wounding. This gun is probably better, but I wanted to explore different options. The ar15 is probably the best gun for military applications but this isn’t a military application.  

This will be a test of which is more lethal, either it’s fragmentation or tumbling.  I didn’t spend much time at all preparing for this attack. Maybe a month, probably less. I have do this  before I lose my nerve. I figured that an under-prepared attack and a meh manifesto is better than no attack and no manifesto 

Reaction 
Statistically, millions of migrants have returned to their home countries to reunite with the family they lost contact with when they moved to America. They come here as economic immigrants, not for asylum reasons. This is an encouraging sign that the Hispanic population is willing to return to their home countries if given the right incentive. An incentive that myself and many other patriotic Americans will provide. This will remove the threat of the Hispanic voting bloc which will make up for the loss of millions of baby boomers. This will also make the elites that run corporations realize that it’s not in their interest to continue piss off Americans. Corporate America doesn’t need to be destroyed, but just shown that they are on the wrong side of history. That if they don’t bend, they will break.  

Personal Reasons and Thoughts 
My whole life I have been preparing for a future that currently doesn’t exist. The job of my dreams will likely be automated. Hispanics will take control of the local and state government of my beloved Texas, changing policy to better suit their needs. They will turn Texas into an instrument of a political coup which will hasten the destruction of our country. The environment is getting worse by the year. If you take nothing else from this document, remember this: INACTION IS A CHOICE. I can no longer bear the shame of inaction knowing that our founding fathers have endowed me with the rights needed to save our country from the brink destruction. Our European comrades don’t have the gun rights needed to repel the millions of invaders that plaque their country. They have no choice but to sit by and watch their countries burn. America can only be destroyed from the inside-out. If our country falls, it will be the fault of traitors. This is why I see my actions as faultless. Because this isn’t an act of imperialism but an act of preservation. America is full of hypocrites who will blast my actions as the sole result of racism and hatred of other countries, despite the extensive evidence of all the problems these invaders cause and will cause. 

People who are hypocrites because they support imperialistic wars that have caused the loss of tens of thousands of American lives and untold numbers of civilian lives. The argument that mass murder is okay when it is state sanctioned is absurd. Our government has killed a whole lot more people for a whole lot less. Even if other non-immigrant targets would have a greater impact, I can’t bring myself to kill my fellow Americans. Even the Americans that seem hell-bent on destroying our country. Even if they are shameless race mixers, massive polluters, haters of our collective values, etc. One day they will see error of their ways. Either when American patriots fail to reform our country and it collapses or when we save it. But they will see the error of their ways. I promise y’all that. 

I am against race mixing because it destroys genetic diversity and creates identity problems. Also because it’s completely unnecessary and selfish. 2nd and 3rd generation Hispanics form interracial unions at much higher rates than average. Yet another reason to send them back. Cultural and racial diversity is largely temporary. Cultural diversity diminishes as stronger and/or more appealing cultures overtake weaker and/or undesirable ones. Racial diversity will disappear as either race mixing or genocide will take place. But the idea o deporting or murdering all non-white Americans is horrific. Many have been here at least as  long as the whites, and have done as much to build our country. The best solution to this for now would be to divide America into a confederacy of territories with at least 1 territory for each race. This physical separation would nearly eliminate race mixing and improve social unity by grantin each race self-determination within their respective territory(s).  

My death is likely inevitable. If I’m not killed by the police, then I’ll probably be gunned down by one of the invaders. Capture in this case if far worse than dying during the shooting because I’ll get the death penalty anyway. Worse still is that I would live knowing that my family despises me. This is why I’m not going to surrender even if I run out of ammo. If I’m captured, it will be because I was subdued somehow.  Remember: it is not cowardly to pick low hanging fruit. AKA Don’t attack heavily guarded areas to fulfill your super soldier COD fantasy. Attack low security targets. Even though you might out gun a security guard or police man, they likely beat you in armor, training and numbers. Do not throw away your life  on an unnecessarily dangerous target. If a target seems too hot, live to fight another day. My ideology has not changed for several years. My opinions on automation, immigration, and the rest predate Trump and his campaign for president. I putting this here because some people will blame the President or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case. I know that the media will probably call me a white supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric. The media is infamous for fake news. Their reaction to this attack will likely just confirm that. 

Many people think that the fight for America is already lost. They couldn’t be more wrong. This is just the beginning of the fight for America and Europe. 

I am honored to head the fight to reclaim my country from destruction. 

8 comments:

Rick Millward said...

It's not a manifesto, it's a rant. Don't dignify it by calling something that it is not.

Aside from the horrific content and twisted logic, I find it interesting that Trump is mentioned although not by name, presumably because the writer was concerned with being considered a follower and didn't want to share any credit for what he clearly thinks is "patriotic". By doing this I think it's clear that while these intentions do predate Trump's candidacy, the rhetoric from the White House, (think about that!) was an encouragement and a trigger.

Either Trump and the Republicans either don't realize how volatile this constituency is, despite repeated warnings from the FBI and others...or does, and considers it a political advantage.

It also seems to me that the availability of military grade weapons to civilians is tacit approval for anti-social attitudes. Having the firepower available clearly is an incentive.

Art Baden said...

My thoughts and prayers are with Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Rupert Murdoch, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch Brothers and the Republican Party that they will see that the man they and Vladimir Putin installed in the White House, and support and enable today, is evil, dangerous, traitorous, and must be stopped.

Thad Guyer said...

Mass murder makes for some compelling 2020 Democratic talking points. The open borders hand raising and the candidates’ law be damned on display in Debate 1 — which the author specifically cites — shows lawlessness begets lawlessness. So Democrats share the death toll with Trump, that seems fair enough. No? Yet you expect to get shot in Baltimore or Chicago but not at Walmart (except maybe on Black Friday), and even that is politically fraught. We are lucky he left a manifesto because it frames the narratives, fundraisers and talking points almost as well as Twitter spats over violent Congressional districts the week prior. Without manifestos these macacres would seem pointless and political opportunism often too tenuous. Angel moms grieve on stage. Politics these days really is murder.

Carolyn Shaw said...

Peter, thank you for posting this. It is very difficult to read, but this, especially, made my heart sink (maybe because I spent the last 30 years teaching college students): “Personal Reasons and Thoughts
My whole life I have been preparing for a future that currently doesn’t exist.“
I heard this growing sentiment often during the last decade of my career. How many more disenfranchised and disappointed young men are willing to sacrifice their lives because their lives are, to them, a disappointment, and they are looking to blame. Even in today’s post-feminist world, young men still get the message that they will need to be the economic engine of the family.
Of course, it’s far more complicated...

Carolyn Shaw said...

*edit: and take other, innocent lives with them.

Peter C said...

When you provide the weapons to carry out these shootings, rifles that can fire 100 rounds in just a few seconds, at some point the people who allow these weapons to be sold to anyone who wants one should be accountable. Congress won't because of NRA money. In my opinion, the NRA is the most dangerous organization in the country. They provide the weapons with no impunity. The GOP is responsible. They are the ones holding up all legislation limiting these guns.

Bill Clinton put a ban on these types of weapons. George Bush II removed the ban. That removal killed a lot of innocent people. The El Paso guy couldn't decide which rifle would do the most damage...the AK47 or AR15. So, he used them both because both were easy to get. I wonder what his conclusion was.

It only took 30 seconds in Toledo, oops I mean Dayton, to wipe out all those people. Those weapons work. That's why the military uses them. That's why they were invented.

The answer is to remove them from society. There's no need. I was in a gun shop one time with my son just looking around. I was looking for an old M1 rifle to show him that it was the rifle I used to train on way back when I was in the Army. On the shelf right in front of the store was a .50 caliber machine gun on sale for the low price of $7500. You could shoot down an airplane with one of those. The bullet can go through a car engine. How much damage could someone do with one of those? Yet, they would sell it to anyone with the money. I thought that was crazy.

Here's a possible solution: The Democrats and the GOP get together and come up with a plan to rid these mass killing type weapons from civilian use. Make the vote 100-0. That way the NRA cannot target anyone in particular for removal. Tell the NRA to keep their money. Show some guts. Is that possible?


Anonymous said...

Democrats need to lecture angry, disillusioned, struggling, disappointed young white men about their 'white privilege' some more, call them oppressors.

That'll help.

Anonymous said...

Some background:

http://theconversation.com/from-across-the-globe-to-el-paso-changes-in-the-language-of-the-far-right-explain-its-current-violence-121468