You said — “No - he was not a ‘joiner’. Your speculation just fans the flames and attempts to make a group (substitute ‘Jew’, ‘Korean’, ‘Muslim’, or ‘NRA Member’ for ‘Neo-Nazi’ and you would wind up making way more people angry) responsible somehow for what appears to be (so far) the act of a deranged individual.”
You’re mistaking the intent of the information. It was not to say that he joined a group. In fact, others on Free Republic are trying to say that he was an agent of some Islamic terrorist group. I don’t think so. And neither do I think he was a member of any of the other groups.
But, not being a member does not mean that he doesn’t take symbols and ideas from various groups and then put them all together, in a mish-mash form — and try to give “justification’ for his actions of killing everyone he can.
As he said — “you made me do it”
And so, in his twisted and whacked out mind, he uses these symbols and these ideas, puts them all together, makes his “manifesto” and then proceeds to kill all those students.
I didn’t say that he was a “member” — but he can very well “be” one (at least in his own mind) as a part of a philosophy or an idea (more like a conglomeration of philosophies, I think).
You can hear “themes” running through the little bit that we’ve heard from him. I would like to get the entire and unedited video, along with the complete “manifesto” and see exactly what he said.
...As he said “You made me do it.”...
I refuse to allow myself any reponsibility in this.
He was a nut. Trying to figure out symbols or ‘messages’ that he left in order to ‘better understand’ his actions is also ‘nuts’.
You cannot try to figure this out - it was insanity, writ large. If you try to ‘make sense’ of it you are wasting time. If you then post your ‘wild theories’ you are just helping him out by bringing him that which should be denied him in death - infamy. His name should be forgotten, his deeds should be a lesson to each of us to maintain vigilance. Anything more than that is more than he deserves.