cognitive dissident

The right-wing terrorist who killed 2 people during a rampage at a liberal church in Tennessee has received a life sentence for his crimes. His manifesto (4 pages, PDF) reads like an under-educated version of the Unabomber's manifesto--not surprisingly, as they both hail from the same fever swamps of paranoia and hatred.

Lately I've been feeling helpless in our War on Terrorizm. [sic] But I realized I could engage the terrorists allies [sic] here in America. The best allies they've got. The Democrates! [sic] The democrates [sic] 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 [sic] this war for reasons I can not understand. It makes me soooo [sic] mad!

Irony alert! A few sentences later, he writes:

The worst problem America faces today is Liberalism. They have dumbed down education...

It gets better:

Liberals are evil, they embrace the tenets of Karl Marx, they're Marxists, socialist, communists.

Maybe when you're done working out in the prison yard to beef up your punk self, you can visit the prison library to do a little reading. Maybe someday you'll realize that you're full of shit. You might even grow a conscience somewhere along the way.

About the Unitarian-Universalist Church, he writes:

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 Secularizmz. [sic] These sick people aren't Liberals, they're Ultra-Liberals.

Thank you.

This is a collection of sicko's, [sic] weirdo's, [sic] + homo's. [sic]

But at least we understand punctuation.

Those people are absolute Hypocrits. [sic]

And spelling.

They call themselves "Progressive." How is a white woman having a niger [sic] baby progress? How is a man sticking his dick up another man's ass progress? It's an abomination.

Your racism and homophobia are duly noted.

I'm protesting the DNC running such a radical leftist candidate. OSama Hussein OBama, YO Mama. [sic] No experience, no brains, a joke.

No brains? That sounds like the last president.

Dangerous to America. Hell, he looks like Curious George!

Yep, that's the last one all right:

I couldn't get to the generals + high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people.

Would those be the same "chickenshit liberals" who, upon seeing an armed madman storming their church, risked their own lives to end his rampage? Who's the chickenshit in this scenario: the armed conservative doing the ambushing, or the unarmed liberals who stopped him?

I'd like to encourage other 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.

Apparently, murder is an acceptable method of resolving political differences in wingnut world. I wonder: will his cellmates adhere to the same philosophy? Will they appreciate his comments about miscegenation and ass-fucking?

I owe a tip-of-the-hat to Sara at Orcinus, who wrote this about Adkisson's "chickenshit" remark:

The right wing has, as usual, grossly underestimated our courage and our commitment. The members of Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist quickly and effectively disarmed and captured this man within seconds after he opened fire. Adkisson expected fear; what we got was determined resistance. It's why he's still alive today, and why more UUs aren't dead by his hand. The TVUUA congregation should be our enduring example of liberal grace under fire.