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New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites
The Daily Beast ^ | December 15, 2017 | BRANDY ZADROZNY, BEN COLLINS

Posted on 12/16/2017 8:30:58 PM PST by CedarDave

For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters.

In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little yellow house with his parents, about a mile away from the Giant gas station where he worked and from Aztec High School, where he shot and killed two students and then himself last Thursday.

At the murder scene, police found a thumb drive with a note that read, “If things go according to plan, today would be when I die. I go somewhere and gear up, then hold a class hostage and go apeshit, then blow my brains out.”

He wrote “work sucks, school sucks, life sucks. I just want out of this shit.”

“It’s a shame he wasn’t on our radar,” San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen told Fox News last week. “I don’t think he had anything so much as a traffic ticket.”

And yet online, the 21-year-old New Mexico resident lived a prolific life as a white supremacist, pro-Trump meme peddler who was most known for his obsession with school shooters. For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help.

When users saw posts from Atchison, who went by dozens of names like “Adam Lanza” and “Future Mass Shooter” on both larger platforms like YouTube and racist communities like The Daily Stormer, they would often ask how his manifesto was going.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: aztecshooter; banglist; blameamericamedia; fakenews; newmexico; schoolshooter; whydoyouhateamerica
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To: grey_whiskers

“What SSRI prescriptions was he on?”

Unfortunately, psychiatrists, and many psychologists think that the only way to deal with depression and anxiety is to throw drugs at the patient. Psychiatrists don’t even counsel patients anymore. They just adjust drugs and dosages, and have a nurse practitioner or other ‘physician extender’ speak with the patient about their problems and what they’re experiencing. It’s extremely cynical.


21 posted on 12/16/2017 11:23:42 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: CedarDave

All school shooters I know of were lefties. There could be one that slipped under my radar, but I don’t think so. Also most, if not all, were on or getting off of SSRI’s. This crap changes your brain. There are over 30 million taking them. Trying to get off of them is worse than dumping Heroin.


22 posted on 12/16/2017 11:36:09 PM PST by chuckles
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To: All; CedarDave

OK, a “Pro-trump meme peddler, huh”?

Yet everything else in the story points in the other direction.

I’d like to see some certified examples of his pro-Trump meme peddlings.

‘Screen caps or it didn’t happen.’


23 posted on 12/16/2017 11:43:48 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: CedarDave

Too funny. The dailybeast, a far left publication, points out that one person who killed two other was a right winger. The is not a mass casualty shooter or killer; it doesn’t rise to that level but that didn’t stop them from being disingenuous in this hit piece clearly designed to hurt President Trump; not point out this deranged person was a right winger.

Most these crazies are leftists so of course the vile DB will focus on one of the few who lean right.

The true bad guy here (besides the crazy dude) is the Daily Beast.


24 posted on 12/17/2017 1:17:36 AM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Cancer on society)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Weird time machine but, whatever....


25 posted on 12/17/2017 5:21:35 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: CedarDave

Another sick scumbag vetted by the FBI. They have a tremendous failure rate at identifying these people.


26 posted on 12/17/2017 5:27:26 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Sixgun Symphony

You haven’t a clue what you are talking about.


27 posted on 12/17/2017 8:07:13 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to say what truth is.)
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