General's aide suspended over Web site

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle/ Associated Press

Aug. 24, 2007, 2:05AM
General's aide suspended over Web site

© 2007 The Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An aide to the California National Guard's top general has been suspended pending an investigation into his connection to a Web site that appeared to advocate mass violence.

The guard placed Senior Airman Travis Gruber, 27, personal assistant to Maj. Gen. William Wade II, on paid administrative leave Wednesday shortly after the Contra Costa Times raised questions about the Web site, Howtokillpeople.com.

Investigators will "look into the content of the Web site and make a determination into whether any of it is a violation of military law and regulations," said guard spokesman Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann.

Despite its name, the Web site does not give instructions on how to kill people. Much of it contained social commentary, vulgar humor, sex jokes and photos of Gruber, including one of him pointing a gun at black people in tribal garb, according to the Times.

The Web site now displays a single page disclaimer stressing that it was intended as an expression of personal opinion and humor.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/5080320.html

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General's aide investigated over his Howtokillpeople.com site
State National Guard puts airman on leave, begins investigation
By Thomas Peele
STAFF WRITER

Article Launched: 08/23/2007 03:32:29 AM PDT


The California National Guard placed on leave the personal assistant to its top general on Wednesday and launched an investigation hours after the Times questioned a Web site he maintains called "Howtokillpeople.com" that advocates mass violence.
"I, honestly, would like nothing more than to assist in the wholesale slaughter of every idiot on the face of the planet," Senior Airman Travis Gruber of Sacramento writes on the site. In other postings and in a related blog, Gruber denigrates African-Americans, Jews, Asians, women, gays and people with physical handicaps.

Until Wednesday, Gruber was the personal assistant and driver to Major Gen. William Wade, the Guard's commanding officer. The job gave Gruber access to the state's leaders, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he trashes in a posting that questions the governor's intelligence. Military law forbids soldiers from using "contemptuous words" about civilian leaders.
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Gruber blogged that when once ordered to drive "the big guy" to Oakland earlier this year, he loaded a shotgun with extra shells and filled a pistol "to the brim with hollow-point" bullets because he feared entering the city unarmed.

More:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_6692311?nclick_check=1

Airman Gruber is the taller of two men interviewed for an unrelated story, on California's being the only state in the country to refuse educational aid to returning soldiers from the Iraq war:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=politics&id=5457600

[Demeter]

1. Simply Amazing

[crikkett]

2. Gruber's a goober.

"Gruber blogged that when once ordered to drive "the big guy" to Oakland earlier this year, he loaded a shotgun with extra shells and filled a pistol 'to the brim with hollow-point' bullets because he feared entering the city unarmed."

I have no use for the man.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Makes a person hope there isn't really anyone out there stupid enough to buy what these creeps say!

Absolutely pathetic attempt to polarize people who are already alienated.

[NYVet]

3. What a waste of space...

bar to reenlistment for this guy??

[bobthedrummer]

4. Just like Nazi humor imo-oh, I 'm sorry we can't use that n word about RW (NAZI) eom

[Robbien]

6. Guard aide suspended for Web posts; Airman discusses 'slaughter,' denigrates minorities on site

Source: By Thomas Peele, STAFF WRITER, Inside Bay Area

The California National Guard placed on leave the personal assistant to its top general on Wednesday and launched an investigation hours after MediaNews questioned a Web site he maintains called "Howtokillpeople.com" that advocates mass violence.

"I, honestly, would like nothing more than to assist in the wholesale slaughter of every idiot on the face of the planet," Senior Airman Travis Gruber of Sacramento writes on the site. In other postings and in a related blog, Gerber denigrates African-Americans, Jews, Asians, women, gays and people with physical handicaps.

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Gruber blogged that when once ordered to drive "the big guy" to Oakland earlier this year, he loaded a shotgun with extra shells and filled a pistol "to the brim with hollow-point" bullets because he feared entering the city unarmed.

In a separate Web posting, he wrote of a woman who once approached him with a question as he waited for Wade at the state Capitol and that he later regretted not "crushing her windpipe" and slamming his car door into her legs for bothering him.

. . . snip

Gruber, in a statement Siepmann issued, said he is "sorry if I have misrepresented or left a black mark on the California Military Department. I was under the impression that I was writing anonymously." In the statement, he said that he does not "condone acts of violence or aggression." He called his sense of humor "dark and distasteful."

Read more: http://origin.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_6707017

[Posteritatis]

7. /b/tards in those kinds of military positions? I am, of course, shocked... (nt)

[karlrschneider]

8. I'm sure he -is- sorry....that he got caught.

:mad: :puke:

[Orsino]

10. "[D]oes not 'condone acts of violence or aggression'."

Unless "condone" means "masturbate to."

[bobthedrummer]

9. .

[bobthedrummer]

11. Reminds me of the historical Freikorp and Sinclair Lewis's fictional "League of Forgotten Men"-kick

[dailykoff]

12. Sounds like a military recruitment ad.

Guess he left out the flags and photos of Junior/