You said — “Well, this theory has precisely as much merit and supporting evidence as the Islamic theory.”
Well, there’s a subtle difference that you’re not picking up here.
Going to those threads about the Islamic terrorist connection, people were (and probably still are) saying that this guy was something like an infiltrator or an agent for some Islamic terrorist group. In fact, I remember reading a few comments where people were saying that this guy was simply staging a “decoy” type of thing with the shooting of the girl in order to *distract* the authorities — so — it would not look like an “Islamic terrorist” operation. They were saying that he was *that sly* and *that smart* — to be able to side-track the authorities into believing it was simply a domestic disturbance — and that he was actually trying to get the authorities to think he was so ticked off that he went beserk.
But, this was *all a cover* for the *real operation* of the Islamic terrorist group that he was working with.
I’m telling you about the “Islamic” angle that I read here on Free Republic. That’s not my idea; that’s the idea of a bunch of other FReepers that I read on the threads.
Now, I said that was totally a bunch of baloney and that there was no evidence that he was a member of that kind of group. In fact, I said it was more clear that he was a real *nutso* and mentally disturbed.
And so, it’s the same with this. He’s not a “member” of a Neo-Nazi group. He’s not operating under some kind of “operation” that they sent him out on. Nope. It’s just like the Islamic angle — that’s a bunch of baloney.
BUT — what he is doing — is he is picking symbols and has been gathering “hate literature” for a long time. He’s been harboring up these hate feeling for a long time and gathering up (in his twisted mind) all these Neo-Nazi symbols (whatever caught his fancy) and anything else that would give him some justification (to the “public” at least). He was already *justified* in his own mind — but he felt the need to justify himself to the public — so they *would know* — what *they had done to him*.
And so, just like he had an “imaginary girlfriend” (his dorm-mates said that), he also was (in his own mind) a Neo-Nazi (living in his own constructed fantasy world) — not one in “real life” — but one in his own mind, a twisted and sick mind.
However, his mind was so sick and so twisted and so irrational, with his thought processes — that he could not even hold a *coherent theory* or philosophy. So, what you really hear from him — in his “manifesto” — is a “mish-mash” of different idealogies, none of it holding together and none of it making any sense.
So, if anyone says, was he an Islamic terrorists, was he a Neo-Nazi, was he a communist (someone said that), was he a Marxist (another person said that), or was he some other philosophy... well, I’ve got the answer, the one answer that fits him...
Cho was all of the above, and, none of the above...
Regards,
Star Traveler