First of all, the terrorist act in El Paso is horrific. I cannot begin to know the pain that the families and friends of the slain and injured are feeling. I searched the Internet for information to try and understand what has happened, and I may have found some information about it.
A few bits of information and rumors about the terrorist act has been posted at the KnowYourMeme.com website, including what is allegedly the El Paso terrorist’s manifesto. The main article at KnowYourMeme.com is entitled, “2019 El Paso Walmart Shooting” and it includes some alleged photographs of the shooter, and a link to his alleged manifesto. I am including it in this diary for any persons who want to try to gain some understanding of this horrible tragedy, and for persons interested in seeing what may have motivated this.
Update: Police are reasonably confident that the manifesto belongs to the shooter. From the NBCNews.com article entitled, “Investigators 'reasonably confident' Texas suspect left anti-immigrant screed, tipped off before attack”
Investigators are examining a screed believed to have been posted online by the suspect in Saturday's fatal shooting at a Texas shopping mall an hour before the attack, senior law enforcement officials say.
Investigators are “reasonably confident” that the suspect, identified by police as Patrick Wood Crusius, 21, of Texas, posted the diatribe on the extremist online forum 8chan before the shooting.
Terrorism experts warn that nothing should be taken at face value in the propaganda material left behind by hate crime suspects, which aim to provide fodder for social media pickup and mainstream media coverage.
One can go directly to a JPEG photo of his alleged manifesto
by clicking HERE. I tried embedding it, but it came in too small. It is 4 pages long. Click on the link once to go the picture of the manifesto, and then click on the picture to enlarge it so that you can read it.
Assuming that the above is indeed the terrorist’s manifesto, it seems that he was motived by Xenophobic, Anti-immigrant, and White Nationalist writings including a conspiracy theory known as “The Great Replacement” From Wikipedia:
The Great Replacement (French: grand remplacement), also known as replacement theory,[1] is a white nationalist right-wing conspiracy theory[2][3] which states that, with the complicity of "replacist" elites, the white French population—as well as white European population in Europe at large—is being progressively replaced with non-European peoples, specifically Arab, Berber, and Sub-Saharan African Muslim populations from Africa and the Middle East, through mass migration and demographic growth.[4][2]
The theory was the basis of Renaud Camus's 2011 book The Great Replacement (French: Le Grand Remplacement). It specifically associated the presence of Muslims in France with potential danger and destruction of French culture and civilisation.
This event only underscores how much we need to get the malignant narcissist, pathological liar, evil criminal out of the Oval Office.