Jeb Bush Doesn't Know if This Man is a Racist

    This is the Right wing theme. Terrible thing but we don''t know what could cause the senseless violence but we don't want to know either. We're not going to try. Jeb isn't sure if Dylan Roof was motivated by racism:

      "The latest from South Carolina:"

    

The gunman charged with killing nine people in an African American church was unrepentant during a confession to police, even after almost backing out of what he called his “mission” because church members were so nice to him, according to law enforcement officials and others briefed on the investigation.

Dylann Roof not only confessed to causing the Wednesday night carnage in Charleston, but said he wanted his actions known, said the law enforcement officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is unfolding. They said Roof espoused strong anti-black views when questioned by officers.

But the 21-year-old also told police he had briefly reconsidered his plan during the time he spent quietly watching a Bible study group before opening fire, two people briefed on the investigation said. Roof “said he “almost didn’t go through with it because they were so nice to him” one of the people said, before concluding: “I had to complete my mission.”

    "How about we start asking how he was “radicalized” and who had an influence over him, like we do with non-white terrorists?"

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/06/19/happy-hour-roundup-629/

      Trouble is he didn't seem so radical in a state that still recognizes the Confederate flag, thinks that guns are the answer to problems, and has  draconian voter id laws to keep down minority voting. 

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/jeb-bush-doesnt-know-if-charleston.html

     The fact of Right wing terrorism is very hard for the Right to even concede that it exists. 

     "When a mass shooting happens, people naturally wonder about the motivation. What we know so far is that Roof made overtly racist remarks to his friends; boasted a Facebook profile picture that showed him wearing the flags of white supremacist African states; and allegedly told one of the victims, "You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go." It seems a safe bet that racism was a likely motive in the Charleston shooting."

      http://theweek.com/articles/561546/lessons-charleston-real-threat-america-rightwing-terrorism

      I got to agree with Jeb: any attempt at trying to divine Roof's soul is shear speculation. What you do have to say is that not everyone who plans this kind of mass shooting is easy to identify before hand but Roof couldn't be more transparent. What his confession to the police tells you is that he never made any effort at all to lie. So you wish that his friends that are telling us now of his wild comments might have told someone beforehand. 

      On terrorism, the Right only wants to discuss Islamic terrorism. Yet:

      "Since 9/11, an average of nine American Muslims per year have been involved in an average of six terrorism-related plots against targets in the United States. Most were disrupted, but the 20 plots that were carried out accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 and a half years."

       "In contrast, right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study by Arie Perliger, a professor at the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. The toll has increased since the study was released in 2012."

    The sad truth is everything that we're hearing from the Right suggests that this problem is going to go on. Consider:

    1. The Right isn't sure if this was racially motivated despite all Roof's on the record comments. 

    2. It objects to it even being called terrorism. 

    3. Decries any mention of the part that guns plays in all these violent mass shootings as politicization. 

   

     Yet what is politicization but trying to solve the problem? To not politicize it or claim not to is basically politicizing it in a libertarian way that is based on not even trying to solve the problem.

    

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/06/what-happened-in-charleston-yesterday.html

    Any talk about you can't help it if some people are evil or mentally ill is just a copout. 

 http://www.salon.com/2015/06/18/its_not_about_mental_illness_the_big_lie_that_always_follows_mass_shootings_by_white_males/

    

     As President Obama says, is there any reason to think we have more mental illness in America than other similarly advanced countries?

     It's only used when the killers are white males. About the only attempt at figuring out what happened on the Right is the absurd suggestion that Roof was a secular liberal who hates Christians. Basically there is no interest on the Right to solve the problem. When they say it's a terrible thing but certain individuals are just evil or mentally ill and there' nothing we can do other than further weaken gun laws to the point that every man, woman, and child in the country is packing heat, what they're saying is they think the status quo is working. You know another mass murder every couple of months isn't wholly dysfunctional. 

    It goes back to what Morgan Freeman suggested on science fiction show 'Through the Wormhole'-which is really worth a watch I should say. He suggested that maybe liberals and conservatives have radically differntly structured brains. The response to Charleston is one more piece of evidence that this may well be so. 

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/05/do-liberals-and-conservatives-have.html