Officials named the gunman, who was shot dead at the scene by police, as Wade Michael Page, a 40 year old US army veteran.
He burst into the Wisconsin Sikh Temple in Milwaukee’s Oak Creek suburb on Sunday morning and opened fire with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, killing six people.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which campaigns against the far right in the US, Page was committed white supremacist and leader of a neo-Nazi rock band called End Apathy.
"End Apathy" was not his only band; he played base guitar for five or six groups in the early 2000s, all of them neo-Nazi. From what I have read, Wade Page was a wanderer who was kicked out of the US Army in the 1990s....his life sounds like it was patterned on Tom Metzger's "Lone Wolf" plan, of being willing to kill for Nazi ideals while being disengaged from the various American hate groups, so his crimes could not be connected to them.
ReplyDeleteMy condolences to the families of the victims.
I might be wrong, but I thought the "Lone Wolf" concept originated in the writings of William Pierce.
ReplyDeleteI presume "base guitar" is an intentional pun....
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