TYT: Virginia Shooter’s Manifesto Called For Race War

[WhoIsNumberNone]

The murderer who killed news reporters on live TV faxed his manifesto into ABC News before he committed suicide. He cast himself as a victim and talked about a race war. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"This afternoon, after handing over the entire document to law enforcement, ABC News released portions of what has been called Flanagan’s manifesto. In the excerpts, it is evident that Flanagan sought the notoriety of past mass shooters, positively citing Virginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho as an inspiration and suggesting he was motivated by this summer’s shooting of a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina…”*

Read more here: http://www.salon.com/2015/08/26/alleged_manifesto_from_virginia_tv_journalists_killer_cites_charleston_church_massacre/

[jtuck004]

1. Interesting. That's what T. McVeigh tried when he killed 168 people in Oklahoma City.

Interesting similarities, but I bet they wouldn't have agreed at all.

[randys1]

2. If you are constantly under fire; financially, physically, spiritually,

someone eventually is going to react.

If it is clear there is a race war AGAINST YOU and people who look like you and it has been going on for 200 years, maybe, just maybe, one day, somebody is going to react.

THere is a real and deadly race war being waged against POC and a real and deadly religious war being waged against GAYS and a real and deadly war being waged against Women, all by the same group


There is NO excuse for what this guy did, just like there is NO excuse for what happened to Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, etc etc etc.

There is no excuse for systematic oppression of Black people, everywhere in America, in 2016.

There is no excuse for an entire political party who's agenda is to harm Gay people and Women and Black people.

[ancianita]

3. Suicides get no respect. Instead, they're useful tools. Sure he's also a murderer. But victim storie

s are just as informative. But let's study criminals instead of studying how to keep reporters safer on the beat.

Sucka journalism gets three things done for the three-letter corporate oligarchy:

1. It tells stories -- fills airwaves, Internet space, meets deadlines --about "bad" Americans, including "manifestos;"
2. It promotes law enforcement as helpful suppliers of "background" on criminals;
3. It promotes a national culture of fear -- along with so many other fears -- of white men with guns.

Even if this entire story is true, fucking Salon is just stooping to tabloid coverage of "bad America" that lowers its original news quality. It's not just this story. It's their tendency.

The original intent of journalism was to get into the halls of power -- Wall St., state and US capitols, Intelligence agencies and Military bases -- and let The People know what's going on of national interest. It wasn't to spread crime stories about Americans suffering as if those are a national character flaw.

Salon's approach to news is such that I'm a click away from dropping them as a source.

"Scuse the bitching. I'm kinda taking a different spin with what randys1 said.

[secondvariety]

4. Fuck him

and his manifesto.