FL School Board Shooter Posted Suicide Note Railing Against the Rich, Linking to Media Matters

the blaze ^ | December 15, 2010 at 8:50am | Jonathon M. Seidl

[BenLurkin]

Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.

The chilling Facebook statement, posted under the “About Clay” section, talks about being born poor and how the rich “take turns fleecing us”:

My Testament: Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…

In addition to the note, Duke also includes a reference to class warfare:

“There’s class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class that’s making war and we’re winning” - Warren Buffet

And then issues a call to rise up, which seems to be from a poem titled “The Mask of Anarchy”:

Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth like dew. Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many – they are few.

[Wizdum]

Where is your limit on 'low-risk'?

I don't have one. There are places I feel safer than most, but in this day and age, with what else is going on around us, there are not many I would consider 'low-risk'. Especially when you have (city, state, school, etc) officials open to public demonstrations.

[Vaquero]

exactly...weapon free zones are only weapon free for law abiding citizens...it is a govt mandated death sentence for good people who are prevented from defending themselves.

[driftdiver]

Pensecola would be low risk in my mind. Low but not zero. The population there is relatively small town. The highest risk part is the tourist areas.

Low as compared to a larger city like Detroit.

[Wizdum]

If you have decided to train and obtain your CCW, you should have made these decisions beforehand. Remember, not only your life, but others may depend on what you do when the time comes. There won't be time to call 911 or get SWAT to show up, you might have to make that decision and fast.

If you have been to that edge, you know what you can do, and how efficiently you can do it. That's the difference between good people going home and bad people going to the morgue.

U.S. Marine Corps Rules:

1. Be courteous to everyone, friendly to no one.
2. Decide to be aggressive enough, quickly enough.
3. Have a plan.
4. Have a back-up plan, because the first one probably won't work.
5. Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
6. Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun whose caliber does not start with a "4."
7. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
8. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral & diagonal preferred.)
9. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
10. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
11. Always cheat; always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
13. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating your intention to shoot.

[driftdiver]

Well I do happen to have a plan for you. :)

[upsdriver]

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to think the constant class warfare waged by the Democrats caused this man to go berserk.

[UCANSEE2]

The guard should probably have started shooting as soon as the gun came out. Perhaps he wasn’t in the room.

The guard came into the room BECAUSE he heard the first gunshot fired. I watched it on TV (one of the few times I have watched TV lately, other than football games).

[driftdiver]

That makes sense now. Apparently the guard is taking this hard despite him having saved lives.

Suicide is a tragedy but forcing others to do it for you is chicken SH$#@#

[Callahan]

I grabbed this screenshot of the DU reaction for posterity. Naturally some of them are sympathetic: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c94rsu1f

[Ptarmigan]

He is a hard core fan of “V for Vendatta”. He also has a criminal record.

http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/School_Board_Shooter_said_to_Have_Been_Suffering_Bi-Polar_Disorder_111968424.html

[UCANSEE2]

Suicide is a tragedy but forcing others to do it for you is chicken SH$#@#

I don't think the man was capable of dealing with the challenges of life in a rational way.