White supremacists worry Austin antigovernment shooting will harm their reputations
White supremacists on the Stormfront forum are claiming that the Austin man who opened fire on a federal courthouse, a police headquarters, and the Mexican consulate last week is a “false flag” designed to stir up hatred against white Americans, SITE reports…. “I had a feeling [the shooter, Larry Steve McQuilliams] was a white man, and you can be sure the hostile aliens who really control the country are going to use this against US,” wrote “Volodyamyr.”…. According to Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo, McQuilliams demonstrated a “violent anti-everything behavior, anti-government behavior” during his attack. McQuilliams’ Facebook page indicated that he was, in fact, upset at the government — as well as a fan of Ron Paul.
You know things have gone off the rails when the Right-wing crazies disavow those among them who prove just crazy enough to carry out a violent attack against…well, just about anything. When the violent crazies are just too much for their merely unbalanced but otherwise harmless crazies…well, you almost can’t tell the nutjobs from the conspiracy theorists from the violent revolutionaries.
So…tell me again why we can’t have gun control??
Even more amusing is that that the otherwise rational souls at Stormfront are worried about their reputation…as if that ship hasn’t long since sailed. Yep, like being anti-government conspiracy theorists convinced the federal government is out to get them isn’t enough to trash their reputation.
Then again, once a man’s reputation (even if it’s for sheer, unmedicated lunacy) is ruined, what does he have left?
