The man who murdered eleven people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last Saturday pleaded not guilty to those crimes. Robert Bowers, anti-Semite, owner of twenty-one guns, made no secret of his hatred of Jews. Referring to them in online posts as the "enemy of white people," he also called immigrants "invaders," a notion that should tie in with President Trump's hysterical overreaction (propagandized by Fox News Channel) to the thousands of Central Americans walking north, seeking asylum in the United States. In Bowers' view, however, Trump "is a globalist, not a nationalist. There is no #MAGA [Make America Great Again--Trump's 2016 campaign slogan] as long as there is a [Jewish] infestation."
"Jews are the children of Satan," Bowers wrote. He is clearly a man who, like too many people, believes his opinions are also facts, something he has in common with Donald Trump, who, as far as I can tell, doesn't hate or love Jews, but will use or not use them according to his own purposes, much like most American politicians.
Bowers' final message before committing the massacre reads, "I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in."
His use of the word optics in relation to the act of spraying bullets at unarmed peaceful worshippers minding their own business indicates Bowers' pushed-to-the-edge (by his own psyche?) feeling that it was finally time to make a statement, to be a White Hero, willing to sacrifice his life, or at least his freedom, for an overwhelmed and victimized population of Honkies. God knows, if you do some serious research, you'll find that White people, especially White men, are the most abused and victimized people in human history. Wealthy White men, like Donald Trump, are mistreated and scorned, just because they're rich and White.
It's weird how the dominant White race can't summon the power to overwhelm its darker-skinned enemies. You'd think that such a powerful mega-race would be able to control such weaker examples of humanity. Bowers, like all assholes with guns going against unarmed "opponents," believes in his own bravery. How many Israeli snipers killing and wounding thousands of Palestinian protestors last summer enjoyed doing that? If you believe you're snuffing out vermin (note Bowers' use of the word infestation), it might tickle sadistic impulses. I can't accept that the Israeli snipers shot all those Palestinians because they admire Palestinians.
Trump, like many Presidents of the past, kills people by remote control or through the giving of orders. Civilian casualties these days don't get tallied in any definitive way. For one thing, the U.S. military kills so many people, has been doing so for many decades, it's not possible to get accurate counts. Defense Department warlocks and generals don't care about the human damage they cause. Destructiveness of weapons and weapon systems is studied, improved upon for future uses. Anti-personnel sound weapons, tried out first in the 1989 invasion of Panama, are now employed against U.S. citizens, including at the 2016 Democratic Convention to drown out protestors while controversial warmongering speakers, like Leon Panetta, were at the podium.
Robert Bowers missed his time and place. In 1933 he would've made an effective Brownshirt in Nazi Germany, a low-ranking member, but capable at the task of abusing Jews, homosexuals, political opponents of the government, and doing property damage. A state-backed vandal.
According to reports from Pittsburgh, Bowers was a loner. He had more guns than any one person needs. His fantasies, apparently, dwelt on extermination of vast numbers of people. Survivors of his outrageous, stupid, and vicious act will remember him, but he'll be forgotten by the American people in a few weeks or less. The continuous pornography of the ratings driven news media cycle will pave over Bowers' extended middle finger at "optics," bringing new outrages, violent or at least troubling, as well as news corporations' constant obsession with mediocre men and women running this country, while innocent people die in the industrial killing machine drama of the War on Terror, which could be called the War of Terror States Hoodwinking People Into Believing They're Fighting Terrorism.
Vic Neptune
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