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So the media is saying that the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter was reading far right stuff on 8ch. That makes me wonder if the shooter was a shill on 8ch.

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Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting

Source: Daily Beast

The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival in Northern California on Sunday posted about a far-right book on Instagram moments before the attack. 

Law enforcement have reportedly identified Santino William Legan, 19, as the shooter who opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening. Police said Legan dodged security at the festival’s entrance by cutting through a fence to gain entry. Once inside, witnesses said he sprayed gunfire on the crowd with a rifle before police killed him. 

Shortly before the shooting around 6 p.m., Legan posted a picture from the festival on his now-deleted Instagram account reviewed by The Daily Beast. “Ayyy garlic festival time,” he wrote. “Come get wasted on overpriced shit.” 

Soon after, he posted a picture with a caption that told followers to read a 19th-century, proto-fascist book. The book, which is repeatedly recommended alongside works by Hitler and other fasicsts on forums like 8chan, is full of anti-Semitic, sexist and white supremacist ideology. The book glorifies “Aryan” men, condemns inter-marriage between races and defends violence based on bogus eugenicist tropes.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-suspect-santiago-legan-posted-about-far-right-book-moments-before-shooting/?via=twitter_page 

 

 

80 posted on 07/29/2019 1:00:21 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Suspect Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting

Y'know, I remember when Jim Jones, who ran around with Harvey Milk and was loved in the San Francisco area. He was a total hippie-commune commie. After he killed all his followers and himself, when the movie came out, he was cast as being a right winger.

89 posted on 07/29/2019 1:06:53 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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Hmm, I just read Laura Loomer and she said sources said that he was Italian and Iranian. His grandfather was Iranian... but why would the news wants us to know that??

Daily Beast is talking out their bums lol.

https://lauraloomer.us/2019/07/29/breaking-gilroy-shooter-identified-as-iranian-america-with-islamic-imagery-on-instagram/#.XT9UauhKjIU

Petey


99 posted on 07/29/2019 1:19:37 PM PDT by peteypupperdoo (Petey Pupperdoo)
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There are reports that he is Iranian-American FWIW


129 posted on 07/29/2019 1:59:57 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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a 19th-century, proto-fascist book. The book, which is repeatedly recommended alongside works by Hitler and other fasicsts on forums like 8chan, is full of anti-Semitic, sexist and white supremacist ideology.

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Fascism is to the LEFT on the political spectrum.

Do NOT rely on the go ogle definition.

From Merriam-Webster.com

fascism ~

1 : a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

I am very tired of people usurping words/symbols and twisting, contradicting the meanings. Perhaps I am getting old...


190 posted on 07/29/2019 3:36:40 PM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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I’ve heard the reports on the radio today say he “bought the rifle legally in Nevada”, which is bullshit because if he purchased it at a dealer there they would DROS it back through a California dealer, or it was straw purchased and transferred to him (illegal), or it was a private transaction in which case he’d be in violation of CA law (which I personally think is crap law) bringing it back. Bottom line though is he did not “legally” acquire jack out of state and bring it here...


289 posted on 07/29/2019 8:07:56 PM PDT by Axenolith (WWG1WGA!)
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