On Sunday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival,
an annual summer festival in the quiet city of Gilroy, California,
located about 30 miles south of San Jose. The gunman killed three people, including a six-year-old boy,
and injured at least 12 others. Police said the gunman had been shot
and killed and that authorities suspected he may have had an accomplice,
who was still at large.
Although authorities initially did not reveal the identity of the
shooter, local news station KPIX 5 reported he was a 19-year-old man
named Santino Legan. Police recovered a backpack filled with ammunition at the scene, and they later searched his home and a second location.
Little is currently known about Legan: Though witnesses claim to have
heard him say he was “really angry” while he was opening fire on the
crowd, there’s not much indication as to his potential motive for the shooting.
While his social media platforms appear to have been deleted as of
Monday morning, one post on his alleged Instagram read: “Ayyy garlic
festival time. Come get wasted on overpriced shit.” Another post on the
now-deleted Instagram included a picture of a Smokey the Bear sign
advocating for forest fire prevention, with Legan writing in the
caption: “Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to cater to make
room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?” then
plugging the text Might Is Right by Ragnar Redbeard.
A 19th-century text of unknown authorship (its origins have been attributed to everyone from British author Arthur Desmond to Call of the Wild novelist Jack London), Might Is Right
has long been considered a key text in the white supremacist movement,
says Keegan Hankes, a senior analyst for the Southern Poverty Law
Center’s intelligence project. “It’s widely popular and present among
ethnocentric white nationalists of all levels, from suit-and-tie white
supremacists to neo-Nazis,” Hankes tells Rolling Stone.
The text, which has been banned in multiple countries, essentially
advocates for social Darwinism, or the idea that members of certain
races or ethnicities are inherently better equipped for survival than
others. The author argues that true egalitarianism does not and cannot
exist, and that the “white race” is inherently biologically superior to
other races.
Although the social Darwinist arguments in the text were not
considered all that radical in the 19th century, when the eugenics
movement was at its height, it has since been embraced by everyone from
noted satanist Anton LaVey to Katja Lane, the wife of
white-nationalist-organization The Order founder David Lane, who wrote
the preface for its 1999 reprinting. It is also available on the white
supremacist website Counter-Currents, and the PDF version has become a
staple of white supremacist digital libraries and forums.
“The most important thing [about the text] is this belief in
ethnocentricity and biological determinism that is getting pulled from
the late 19th century to this current day,” says Hankes. “The ideas are
ubiquitous today in white supremacist circles.”
While it’s still unclear whether the shooting was racially motivated,
or if Legan had any other concrete ties to extremist circles, this
would not be the first time that a mass shooter had been influenced by
old-school white supremacist writings. The manifesto of the Christchurch shooter,
for instance — while primarily designed to incite division and troll
its readers — also contained allusions to Oswald Mosley, a 1930s British
fascist known for his Nazi sympathies and xenophobic ideology, and to
the writings of David Lane.
“Unfortunately, this is starting to feel all too common,” says
Hankes. “There’s a tragedy and we look for a connection to white
supremacy, and these are exactly the types of breadcrumbs you might
expect.”
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This perfectly modeled and well-polished life-size statue depicts King Khafra, the builder of the second largest pyramid at Giza.
It was found in a pit in the antechamber of his Valley Temple at Giza. The king is seated on a throne flanked by lion heads. The two sides of the throne are decorated with the sema-tawy, symbol of the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Khafra wears the nemes headdress, surmounted by the uraeus, or royal cobra. He wears the royal pleated kilt. Attached to his chin is an artificial ceremonial sacred beard. He is protected by the god Horus, represented as a falcon, perched at the back of his neck.
This artifact is a masterpiece of workmanship. The sculptor was able to depict the details of the facial features and muscles of the body, in spite of the hardness of the stone.
On this day, 29 May 1830, Louise Michel, Paris Communard, anarchist and French national hero at the time, was born. She led an absolutely fascinating life. Forced to hand herself in following the Paris commune when authorities threatened to murder her mother, she was charged with trying to overthrow the government, encouraging citizens to arm themselves, possession and use of weapons, wearing a military uniform, planning to assassinate hostages and more, and was sentenced to life time deportation to the prison colony of New Caledonia. There she supported the anti-colonial uprising of the indigenous people, and returned when the communards were pardoned nearly 7 years later. She was subsequently jailed repeatedly and survived an assassination attempt when she was shot in the head. This is a full book-length biography of her incredible life: https://libcom.org/history/louise-michel-edith-thomashttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1133995066785642/?type=3
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