Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Massacre of Sikhs in Wisconsin 2012

Barely two weeks after a massacre in Colorado during the screening of a Batman film comes yet another mass killing in Wisconsin. Six sikh worshippers at a local Gurudwara were shot dead and many other injured by Wade Michael Page. A report in yesterday's CNN (web version) points out that Page was a member of an extreme right wing punk group and mentions the possibility of links with white supremacist groups. The same report also quotes a friend and ex-army buddy of Page as saying:

"the attacker talked about "racial holy war" when they served together in the 1990s. Christopher Robillard of Oregon, who said he lost contact with Page more than a decade ago, added that when Page would rant, "it would be about mostly any non-white person."

Incredibly enough, the same report in which Page is featured posing proudly against a Nazi Swastika symbol also point out that according to the investigators, no "motive" for the killings has yet been established. Predictably Mitt Romney described the killings as "senseless". It is unlikely that gun control will figure in any of the presidential debates. 

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