Several recent news articles have suggested that Americans are “asleep at the switch.” For too long, the writers suggest, we have dismissed the actions of mass shooters as lone wolfs, mentally-ill loners.
While some of the personality traits may be correct, the perpetrators of mass violence, according to research, have association with networks that have deep roots, under the radar of most Americans, to bring down the government of the USA. The goal...to achieve a white, non-Jewish ethnostate. According to one supremacist, “If your race is under threat, to save it, any action is moral that is useful to that end.”
The bloc of people dedicated to white power believe and argue that violence is the only possible strategy to achieve its political ends. Since white culture is being systematically destroyed, they believe, mass murder and terror will eventually cause societal and governmental collapse, and is therefore morally justified. In the meantime, they believe they need to convince Americans that violence against non-whites is desirable or not something worth opposing.
According to the research of the Southern Poverty Law Center that tracks Hate groups, accelerationists were galvanized by the El Paso Wal-Mart attack, instantly encouraging through their internet networks more general instant terror attacks...a goal of one-a-day of ordinary people, as well as targeted public figures. Terror mass murderers are granted “sainthood” in this network, that eulogizes them and the manifestos they publish to encourage “copy-cat attacks.”
There are 1,020 hate groups in the USA, 21 in Maryland, with membership increasing rapidly. For example, after El Paso, a site/group led by a white supremacist (who was also a previously unsuccessful candidate for Congress in Wisconsin), increased from a start-up in May of 68 members to 1,600 according to SPLC research Hatewatch—a barometer of the level of hate activity in the country.
Yet the lone wolf myth prevails, as we are led by elected leaders to believe that video games and mental health problems are the causes and effects.
Hate is a human emotion. From time to time we all feel disgust or aversion toward life circumstances we find intolerable. But most of us do not convert this emotion into a moral justification to scorn others we describe as subhuman (don’t we all put our pants on the same way?) or describe acts of violence against innocent people going about daily routines who love and care for their friends and family as morally right.
Yet the lone wolf myth is encouraged and the trail of mental health and causation as video games leads us away from the reality that there is in fact an organized network of people worldwide dedicated to the use of violence, to foster fear and governmental collapse. In America, we have access to assault weapons that can be stock piled legally or illegally through the black market.
To quote again, “if your race is under threat, to save it, any action is moral that is useful.”
As long as there are “saints” that glorify the creation of terror, there may be more such action yet to come. After all, philosopher Machiavelli, 600 hundred years ago described what he deemed immoral behavior and the killing of innocents as effective in politics; the notion that “the ends justify the means.” With such belief in the moral underpinning of violence, is it reasonable to assume gun control will stop the assaults of the described “lone wolfs?” Or is civil action/war with stock-piled weapons yet to come?
