The headline has hit lows in taste i have yet to probe...

this is disappointing, Jon.

While the headline by no means represents the lowest in taste I have ever probed (whatever that means); its easy to see it is going to touch sensitivities and become the focus of comments.

Maybe you should quickly erase the headline while no one is looking...sort of like a week-end news dump. Otherwise it will detract from the funniness of the story. And it is a funny story.

(I don't mean here to make light of other's sensitivities. I just avoid taking offense where none was intended.)

>> "Society for National Existence," or SANE.

How do you get SANE from "society for national existence" ?

You don't!

It's actually Society of Americans for National Existence!

Hate to break the news to you Jon, but you're a long way from mastering the reciprocal of the convergent redirection from the rise to being into the collapse of self back to the present.

Sorry.

I am writing a new book called “I Found Flying Saucers in Saddam’s Garage” and the vast conspiracy of blue, green and gray space aliens who abducted Elvis Presley and pickled his body in a large mason jar. In my book I will reveal the growing threat of the Loch Ness monster who threatens the safety of the entire universe in all its lurid detail. Also you will find an account of how leprechauns are controlling the foreign policy of our government via hypnotism and ESP.

You can always tell someone is a fucking cockhead when they're chanting about human rights. Human beings suck! No SANE being is in favor of rights for them.

i like SANE's style - they've taken the best of Ku Klux Klanism and Movement Conservatism and smoothed them together into a delicious new concoction. it's what i imagine nietzsche would have believed had he really been a national socialist and had he had large chunks of his brain removed. bravo!

She should have quoted Dr. Bronner.

Wow, I didn't realize so many conservatives were Scientologists!

Jonathan, you always find the absolute best wingnuts. This time you've set the bar so high that I don't think it can be topped. The elan of this guy is inspiring, in that fortify your house and stock up the arsenal way. I think he should be the op ed page editor for the Washington Post -- they need him there -- and with his mapping skills, I think he could easily qualify for gig at, say, the American Enterprise Institute.

Rob Payne -

It's not a mason jar. It's a Mason jar. There's the Masonic connection! Didn't you just know it?

Is no one seeing the fault of associating Cho Seong Hui, a hard-luck immigrant who felt the American Dream die on him and made his cause the outlet of his pent-up anger and frustration a world he could not understand, with these wingnuts, who are otherwise comfortably middle-class people who sit idly and rally behind causes because of their vanity and sloth?

Sorry, but as an Asian here I wish to make it clear that the racism, ostracism and frustration that shaped Cho are the very things that SANE runs on. Cho wouldn't care shit about WMD in Iraq anyway, because the same establishment that talks about the WMD in Iraq is the same one that is promoting the racial insensitivity that made his life miserable, the same establishment that caused his family to work as hard as they did for the life they wanted, and the same establishment that prostitutes itself to gun lobbies so that he can attain the firearms he needed to take revenge that easily.

This is a level of racial and cultural insensitivity I have yet to behold on a site like this. I suppose everyone has blind spots, but please now that I have brought it up, turn an eye on them.

I think Cho's actions were driven almost entirely by his mental illness. Frustrated by the American dream --yeah. Most people don't respond by gunning down 31 innocents, including an heroic Holocaust survivor. Unable to understand the world. Yeah, because of his mental illness.

Many acts of suicide terrorism are the acts of sane people who have wrongly concluded that this is a legitimate response to their (often very real) grievances. Members of their culture may split on whether they approve or disapprove of the method, but even those who disapprove often say they understand the rage that drove the act. That's not the case here. Cho was mentally ill. He needed psychiatric help.

Those are all fair points, En Ming Hee. I hadn't seen the title of this post in the light of them.

Jonathan, a more apt comparison to Gaubatz would be the Unabomber, whose screed was every bit as nutty. Even then, he is somewhat more sympathetic, being genuinely driven 'round the bend, whereas Gaubatz and his ilk only suffer from a sense of entitlement.

Aaron,

Thanks for the correction, yes I completely forgot about the Masonic plot to destroy all pumpkins before next Halloween. Between the Masons and the Rotary clubs we don’t stand a chance!

OK, amidst all the craziness of the excerpt, this is a small thing, but: tell me they don't really refer to the men of the nation "experiencing" one big collective "Rise to Being," which women, children and slaves inherently can't experience.

Holy national hard-on -- you don't need Sigmund Freud to analyze that. I got'cher growing "Single Concept" right heah, buddy!

The problem with En Ming Hee's assertions about Cho's acts stemming from racial discrimination is that most people of Asian background don't commit mass murder. Most people who have committed mass murder, in the US anyway, are white.

Cho was a mentally ill individual.

The problem with En Ming Hee's assertions about Cho's acts stemming from racial discrimination is that most people of Asian background don't commit mass murder. Most people who have committed mass murder, in the US anyway, were white.

Cho was a mentally ill individual.