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Meanwhile, Hillary and Josh Earnest are already using it to push gun control.

Virginia murderer's manifesto: Angry about Charleston, says he was bullied for being gay and black



We haven't been all over this story all day because we didn't figure you needed one more conservative news site presuming to give you up-to-the-minute updates. But we're shaken like everyone else by the murders of Adam Ward and Alison Parker on live television this morning in Virginia. And we're now learning more about the motives and the twisted mind of Vester Flanagan, who died this afternoon of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Flanagan had worked for a year as a reporter at WDBJ - the very same station that was broadcasting the live interview he invaded with gunfire early this morning.
Last night, Flanagan (who went by the on-air name Bryce Williams) faxed a 23-page manifesto to ABC. He also took to Twitter after the shooting today, not only posting his own video of the murders (which Twitter promptly and quite rightly removed) but also making some claims about his victims. Parker, he alleged, made "racist comments" that prompted him to make a complaint to the EEOC. Ward, he alleged, complained to the station's HR department about him after working with him only one day. Not that we should take any of this seriously, but that's what's on the record. In his manifesto to ABC, he cites the recent church shooting in Charleston as one source of his rage, but also blames his former station colleagues for bullying him because he was black and gay. This is a twisted mess:
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…” It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act. Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, and calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. “Also, I was influenced by Seung–Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin’. In an often rambling letter to the authorities, and family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Williams calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family”.

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--He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work. --He says he has been attacked by black men and white females. --He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man “Yes, it will sound like I am angry...I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace....” “The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily...I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”.
Yeah, well, he went boom all right. The station fired him about a year ago and doesn't go into detail, at least not yet, as to why. One can only imagine. If we were the New York Times and the victim was Gabby Giffords . . . never mind. We're not, and they're not, so we won't. Which is not to say no politics has entered into this. Both the White House and Hillary Clinton have already jerked their knees and turned the shooting into a pretext to start a new gun-control push. Shameless as ever, Hillary jumped right into it: As for the White House, did you really expect anything less? They didn't even wait until the bodies were cold:
The White House on Wednesday redoubled its call for tougher gun laws in the wake of a shooting that killed two television journalists in Virginia This is another example of gun violence that is becoming all too common in communities large and small all across the United States,” Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters on Wednesday. Earnest said there are “common sense” steps Congress can take to reduce gun violence in America without infringing on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
I'll let you decide if politics is the solution to this problem, or if politics contributed to it.


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