Binghamton shooting predictably brings out the bigots

The tragic shooting in Binghamton, N.Y., yesterday left 14 dead, including the gunman, and dozens, perhaps hundreds of other lives altered forever. Sadly, though, it also gave the crazed wingnuts another reason to rant.

Looking at the extensive online coverage of the incident from the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, I was disgusted to read comments from one local citizen person who calls herself "Nemesys." She is truly a disturbed and sick individual, as these comments* attest:

When your life is seconds away from ending - help is only minutes away. Gun restriction laws are EVIL. "Diversity" and gun grabs created THIS mess.

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He probably was despondent over a loss of "honor" (shame) if he was laid off. Asians are shame-based. He would percieve himself as an utter failure, in HIS culture. The picking-yourself up/moving forward is a White cultural more.

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[responding to a comment about the language barrier] Well - this is a huge issue for emergency personnel, all over the Nation. The Tower of Babel social engineering is a DISASTER. "Diversity" is a nightmare.

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Thousands of Americans are out of work. Why are these "employers" (slavers) bringing in all this dangerous, unstable, unassimable foriegn "help"? The dislocation makes the immigrant worse, and adds to the utter destruction of the USA.

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Vigilantism is much more effective in controlling crime, then your type of totalitarian hatred. You WANT people to be sitting ducks, just ripe for the mowing down. You are evil.

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There are plenty of examples of well-trained, armed citizens DROPPING shooters. Just ordinary people. Responsible gun owners practice shooting. So when some foreign born nutjob throws a lead-filled tantrum, it's really good to have actual American shootists around.

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I am condemning a truly racist Racial faction seizing power, and shutting down the First Amendment. No-one is more arrogantly racist than a Jew.

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...they hail from a DISTINCT Racial Supremacist ethnic group. The group that owns Wall St. The group that literally owns the "Fed". And they are NOT White. They pass as White - but they are NOT White. They tend to be "dual" citizens, with loyalty to another Nation.

Who am I referring to? Think fast.

...It's Jews. They've been kicked out of 109 Nations, over a perios of 200 years. They play nice, at first. That's how they get their cloven foot in the door.**

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Just think. If [the victims] had stayed in their own countries, they might very well have lived to see the sunset. Terrible sad, really.

Nemesys' profile picture is very small and you can't see much detail, but it's obviously a young woman outdoors aiming a rifle into the sky. Lovely. (This counters the very reasonable supposition that these comments were written by CNN's anti-immigration troll Lou Dobbs.)

Hate speech always seems to rise to the surface when something like this happens, especially on the Internet when writing such drivel from the safety of Mommy's basement. Whether it's Binghamton, Virginia Tech, or the Beltway sniper case, if a non-white shooter is involved, it comes down to bigotry. They certainly weren't spewing their racist hate after Columbine, or the recent shootings in southern Alabama ...

The bottom line is that this incident, like all those before it, is a senseless tragedy. And these tragedies are compounded by the thoughtless racists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis who find empowerment in them.

UPDATE (9:51 am 4/5/09): PatchyFog makes an excellent point in Comments: I assumed that "Nemesys" was from Binghamton ("local citizen," "deranged cretin in Binghamton"), and I shouldn't have done so. She could be from anywhere, thanks to the anonymity of the Internet. I apologize.

I've changed the "local citizen" reference above as well as the title of the post. Thanks to PatchyFog for bringing that unwarranted leap of logic to my attention.

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* Links are to articles from which each comment, and the ones that follow without links, are taken.

** Edited for clarity, drawn from two different comments.