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Archae

(46,262 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:51 PM Dec 2014

Austin Texas shooter was part of a fundy violent racist group...

Just as I figured.

Police: Austin shooter was a ‘homegrown American extremist’

Larry McQuilliams had “let me die” written in marker across his chest when he fired more than 100 rounds in downtown Austin early Friday morning.

McQuilliams, who Austin Police officials called a “homegrown American extremist” with ties to a Christian identity hate group, was shot dead on Friday by a police officer outside the department’s headquarters.

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo told reporters on Monday that officers who searched the gunman’s home found a map with 34 targets, including two churches. McQuilliams had fired bullets into Austin police headquarters, a federal courthouse and the Mexican consulate in downtown Austin on Friday. He also tried to set the Mexican consulate building on fire.

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Police believe McQuilliams associated himself with the Phineas Priesthood, an anti-Semitic, anti-multiculturalism affiliation that opposes biracial relationships, same-sex marriage, taxation and abortion. Authorities found a copy of “Vigilantes of Christendom,” a book linked to the Priesthood, in the rental van McQuilliams used during the attacks. Inside of the book was a handwritten note that “discusses his rank as a priest in his fight against anti-God people,” Acevedo said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/12/01/police-austin-shooter-belonged-to-an-ultra-conservative-christian-hate-group/

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Austin Texas shooter was part of a fundy violent racist group... (Original Post) Archae Dec 2014 OP
Hmmm..... Turbineguy Dec 2014 #1
Religious extremism.... RationalMan Dec 2014 #2
The Phineas Priesthood is some scary, scary shit. nomorenomore08 Dec 2014 #3
I bet had he been a Muslim Politicalboi Dec 2014 #4
If he had been a person of color, the country would have shut down for a couple of weeks. madinmaryland Dec 2014 #5
I always suspected "Renaissance fair" types n/t UTUSN Dec 2014 #6

Turbineguy

(37,212 posts)
1. Hmmm.....
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 07:57 PM
Dec 2014

So what if the cops claim God commanded them to "shoot that fucking clown!"

Who knows, maybe God talks like the Rude Pundit from time to time.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
3. The Phineas Priesthood is some scary, scary shit.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 08:05 PM
Dec 2014

These guys just one day decide to take up arms against anyone they consider "ungodly" - which includes interracial couples and other so-called "race traitors."

madinmaryland

(64,920 posts)
5. If he had been a person of color, the country would have shut down for a couple of weeks.
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 10:15 PM
Dec 2014

Nothing mentioned on the national news. Move along, nothing to see...


Just another responsible gun owner, until he was not.

FUCK THE NRA.

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