Guest Voice: News Writer analyzes Jim David Atkisson's terrorist manifesto

I'd like everyone to meet News Writer, a journalist with an excellent blog Stop the Press. With an inside track to last summer's terrorist attack at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Tennessee, News Writer draws some chilling conclusions about hate speech, incitement to violence, and the role of right-wing media.

To Whom it May Concern
by News Writer

Jim David Atkisson's manifesto:

I guess you’re wondering why I did this. Well, let me explain in detail.

Over the years I’ve had some good jobs, but I always got laid off. Now I’m 58 years old & I can’t get a decent job. I’m told I’m ‘overqualified,’ which is a code word for ‘too damned old.’ Like I’m expected to age gracefully into poverty. No thanks! I’m done!

I’ve always wondered why I was put on the earth. For years I thought I was put here to die as cannon fodder in VietNam but somehow cheated the devil out of it. Lately I’ve been feeling helpess in our war on Terrorizm. But I realized I could engage the terrorists allies here in America. The best allies they’ve got

The Democrats! The democrats have done everything they can do to tie our hands in this War on Terror. They’re all a bunch of traitors. They want America to loose this war for reasons I can not understand. It makes me soooo mad!

In a parallel train of thought: It saddens me to think back on all the bad things that Liberalism has done to this country. The worst problem America faces today is Liberalism. They have dumbed down education. They have defined deviancy down. Liberals have attacked every major institution that made America great. From the Boy Scouts to the military, from education to Religion. The major news outlets have become the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. Liberals are evil, they embrace the tenets of Karl Marx, they’re Marxist, socialist, communists.

The Unitarian Universalist Church

Don’t let the word church mislead you. This isn’t a church, it’s a cult. They don’t even believe in God. They worship the God of Secularizm. These sick people aren’t Liberals, they’re Ultra-Liberals. This is a collection of sicko’s, weirdo’s, & homo’s. The UU church is the fountainhead, the veritable wellspring of anti-American organizations like Moveon.org, Code Pink, and other un-American groups.

These people are absolute Hypocrits. They embrace every pervert that comes down the pike, but if they find out your a conservative, they absolutely hate you.

I know. I experienced it.

I can’t for the life of me understand why these people would embrace Marxism like they do.

I’d like someone to do an expose on this church, it’s a den of un-American Vipers.

They call themselves ‘Progressive.’ How is a white woman having a niger baby progress? How is a man sticking his dick up another man’s ass progress?

It’s an abomination.

It takes a warped mind to hate America.

It makes me so angry. I can’t live with it anymore!

The environmental nuts have to be stopped.

Know This If Nothing Else

I. This was a hate crime:

I hate the damn left-wing liberals. There is a vast left-wing conspiracy in this country & these liberals are working together to attack every decent & honorable institution in the nation, trying to turn this country into a communist state. Shame on them.

II. This was a Political Protest:

I’m protesting the liberal Supreme Court Justices for give the terrorists at GITMO constitutional rights. I’m protesting the major News outlets, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS for being the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. It’s criminal what they’re getting away with. They’re traitors! They must be stopped!

I’m protesting the DNC running such a radical leftist candidate, Osama Hussein OBama, yo Mama. No experience, no brains, a joke. Dangerous to America. Hell, he looks like Curious George!

III. This was a symbolic killing.

Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg’s book. I’d like to kill everyone in the Mainstream Media. But I knew these people were inaccessible to me. I couldn’t get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chicken shit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It’s the only way we can rid America of this cancer, this pestilence.

In Conclusion:

No one gets out of this world alive so I’ve chosen to skip the bad years of poverty. I know my life is going downhill fast from here. The future looks bleak. I’m sick & tired of being sick & tired. I’m absolutely fed up.

So I thought I’d do something good for this Country. Kill Democrats til the cops kill me.

If decent patriotic Americans could vote 3 times in every election we couldn’t stem this tide of liberalism that’s destroying America.

Liberals are a pest like termites. Millions of them. Each little bite contributes to the downfall of this great nation. The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is kill them in the streets. Kill them where they gather.

I’d like to encourage like-minded people to do what I’ve done. If life ain’t worth living anymore, don’t just kill yourself, do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals.

Tell the cop that killed me that I said, ‘Thanks, I needed that.’

I have no next of kin, no living relatives. If you would take my sorry carcass to the body farm or donate it to science, or just throw me in the Tennessee River.

Sincerely

Jim David Atkisson

On July 28, 2008, after he wrote that, Jim David Atkisson went to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church near Knoxville, where a children’s performance was taking place. He shot seven people, killing two. But instead of being killed by police, the East Tennesseans at the church took him down themselves, without weapons. They did break his arm. but they took him down, got the children out of the hall and called police.

On Monday, Jim David Adkisson pleaded guilty to the murders of Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger and was sentenced to life in prison.

Yesterday, I spoke briefly with one of the four people who were in critical condition after the shooting. She told me she is doing much better than anyone thought, considering she took five bullets to the head. But she can see, speak, walk, and do nearly everything she could do before.

But she is angry, angry because the local newspaper chose to focus on Adkisson’s manifesto — it was released yesterday — instead of on the healing that has taken place in the church.

I can understand that. But I also think it’s important that we read Jim David Atkisson’s words very carefully and taken them to heart. Because I’m angry too.

Jim David Atkisson didn’t just get up one day and decide gee, I’m having a bad day. Think I’ll go kill me some liberals. He didn’t just suddenly decide the liberals at the TVUUC were his enemies. He was told repeatedly, for years, that they were his enemies. That all liberals are his enemies. That all Democrats are his enemies. That they are traitors. That they are unpatriotic. That they hate America. That they are socialists. That they are allies of terrorists.

That they don’t deserve a place at any table.

Now, where would he have an idea like that?

Limbaugh. Malkin. Goldberg. Coulter. Savage. Hannity. O’Reilly. Not to mention Bush. Cheney. McConnell. Kyl. Cornyn. Cantor. Boehner.

Actually, there’s far too many to name here.

Right wing radio talkers incited a man to commit an act of terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, aided and abetted by the previous administration and Republicans in Congress.

It’s no wonder they’re terrified the Fairness Doctrine may return (although Barack Obama has said he doesn’t support that).

But if I were them, I’d be much more worried about what might happen if the Obama administration decides to crack down hard on terrorism and those who fuel its flames.

Inciting acts of terrorism sounds like a valid crime to me.

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