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| 2005-03-23 | |
| (CNSNews.com) - The teenager who went on a shooting rampage at a Minnesota high school Monday, killing ten people including himself, apparently had links to a neo-Nazi website that promotes environmental extremism and eco-terrorism. Despite those connections, don't expect the establishment media to make it an issue, said a spokesman for a free market think tank. "A real Nazi killer commits horrible acts, and much to the media's disappointment, he's linked to green groups. Not convenient, not gonna go down that path," Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Cybercast News Service Tuesday. "The national press corps now faces a moral dilemma, as they see it either consciously or subconsciously, given this killer's apparent connection to and the Nazis' inarguable praise for green groups, even the so-called 'establishment' gangs at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and Environmental Defense," Horner said. Police say Jeff Weise, who was either 16 or 17 years old, went on the alleged killing spree at the Red Lake Indian Reservation high school, although his motives may never be known. But they say Weise may have posted messages on a neo-Nazi website, where he referred to himself as the "Angel of Death" and "a Native American from the Red Lake 'Indian' Reservation." Weise also reportedly praised Adolf Hitler. The website, run by the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, has a "Nationalist Link Directory" that lists a series of fringe environmental groups, including Earth Liberation Front, which is described on the site as "the leading domestic terrorist group." The neo-Nazi website also links to articles referring to humans as a "cancer digesting the Earth" and stating that the "maximum sustainable population of the Earth is about 1 billion people." Other articles deal with "Deep ecology" and "Green Anarchy." The extremist group Earth First is also cited, as are mainstream environmental groups such as Environmental Defense, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the online publication Grist Magazine. Horner predicted that if the teenage shooter were in any way linked to conservative groups, the establishment media would have aggressively jumped on the connections. "Things would have been so simple, and the gloves would be off immediately, were the shooter to have instead been found blogging on, say, a conservative political website linking to and praising the NRA (National Rifle Association) and anti-abortion groups," Horner said. "Instead, despite the obvious issues, the killing spree now is likely destined for light news coverage instead of the frenzy of a competition for cover stories, serial reportage and in-depth worrying over troubling connections," Horner explained.
Kendra Howe, managing editor of Grist magazine, declined to comment when contacted by Cybercast News Service . Calls to Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council seeking comment for this article were not returned by press time. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 AC - good catch - I was watching the media go nuts tonight in spasmodic frustration, after all, the media-repressing authorities (and killer) are Ethnic minorities: American Indians on a recognized reservation... hee hee about the media, sad to the bone about this shitheads' victims |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-23 10:11:30 PM |
| #8 I noticed with great approval that the Chippewa tribal leadership has caged the media-beasts, confining them to a tiny "designated media area" forbidding taping or questions elsewhere on the reservation. It might be fun to go by and poke sticks at them through the fence. (There really is a fence around the media cage, I shit you not). Unfortunately, the media-beasts may use this as an excuse for their oddly subdued coverage of the massacre, lame though that would be. The restriction would only apply to on-site harrassment of residents and would not of course explain the lack of non-stop commentary and studio reporting of the kind we saw after Columbine. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-03-23 10:04:18 PM |
| #7 You called? The plan continues apace. We are herding all the cockroaches into the same ideological corner, where they can be conveniently flattened by the boot heel of unfolding events. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-03-23 9:38:21 PM |
| #6 Not as surprising as one might think. The Nazi movement was founded on pastoral principles, opposed smoking on medical grounds, and was more enviromentally friendly than it's despicable and evil actions might suggest. In many ways (just examine the name) the NAZIs were very much the product of a "random political movement generator", adopting whichever policies seemed expedient or neglected by other parties. |
| Posted by: Chinese Elmomoger1853 2005-03-23 3:28:54 PM |
| #5 Paging Atomic Conspiracy! Proof positive of the Grand Unified MoonBat Theory! Neo-Nazi Green Party. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-23 2:59:34 PM |
| #4 both look to the extermination of the "wrong kind of people" - i.e.: other than them |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-23 1:13:29 PM |
| #3 apparently had links to a neo-Nazi website that promotes environmental extremism and eco-terrorism. Eric Hoffer was right about that - extreme left and extreme right aren't polar opposites, but rather are on the same point of a circle. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-03-23 12:59:30 PM |
| #2 "Libertarian National Socialist Green Party" Sounds like output from a random political movement generator. Weirdest bunch of kooks I'd ever heard of. Makes a DU look like a bunch of Rotarians. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-03-23 12:08:07 PM |
| #1 the online publication Grist Magazine Grist? Isn't that the one that started the lie about Watt? As for the reason for low coverage -- it happened too far from comfortable hotels and good restaurants to attract reporters. I don't think the reporters would have considered the kid's political views any deeper than the word "Nazi", and in their ignorance they'd come up with some way to tie him to the Republicans if they did. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-23 11:11:35 AM |