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California: Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter had “reading material on white supremacy and radical Islam”

Aug 2, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

He railed against “Silicon Valley white twats,” so it’s unlikely that he was a white supremacist, contrary to establishment media claims. But although he had material on jihad, he doesn’t seem to have been a committed Muslim, or a Muslim at all; he is more likely to have been a hate-filled individual with a thirst to do people harm than a committed jihadi.

In any case, it is characteristic of the establishment media to ignore the Islamic material that Legan had and play up the white supremacist material, as you can see in the SFGate’s headline.

“Report: White supremacist materials found in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter’s home<," by Katie Dowd, SFGate, July 31, 2019:

A search of the home of Santino Williams Legan, the man law enforcement says shot and killed three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, has turned up materials on white supremacy and radical Islam, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Federal law enforcement sources told the Chronicle that the makings of “massive attack” were found in the Walker Lake, Nevada rental home where the shooter was staying. Among the items found were a gas mask, “numerous” hard drives, a bulletproof vest and “reading material on white supremacy and radical Islam.”

An Instagram account purportedly belonging to the shooter also referenced white supremacist ideology, recommending “Might is Right” by Ragnar Redbeard.

Written under a pseudonym in the late 1800s, the book is a defense of Anglo-Saxon and male supremacy, and argues that weakness shows moral inferiority. It is also full of anti-Semitic rhetoric….

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  1. Kepha says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 9:12 am

    American radicals have done their best to exorcise the Christian God. Now the demons return to reclaim their former abode.

    • Gart says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 11:22 am

      Idiot

      • kaboooooooooooooom says

        Aug 2, 2019 at 1:56 pm

        Be leery of this practitioner of miscegenation and deception – he married a Chinese while serving as a low-level State Department employee abroad.

        He shills for more of his own wont(s) and has been demonstrably ANTI-white European immigration to the US (Irish in particular) in his screeds on other sites.

        Might be a Soros enabler in the incremental Chinese investment/migration expansion strategy, exploding on the North American west coast – also spreading inland;

        • SF/Portland/Seattle/Vancouver/Calgary/etc.

        Sometimes refers to himself as “Uncle Kepha”.

        Frightening as islam and multi-culturism are, the Chinese have a leg-up in their long-game in NA.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 2, 2019 at 9:10 pm

          The always disturbing kaboooooooooooooom wrote:

          Be leery of this practitioner of miscegenation and deception – he married a Chinese while serving as a low-level State Department employee abroad.
          …………………………..

          “Miscegenation”? What kind of racist nonsense is this?

          More:

          He shills for more of his own wont(s) and has been demonstrably ANTI-white European immigration to the US (Irish in particular) in his screeds on other sites.
          …………………………..

          When has Kepha ever inveigled against white people coming to the US? What tripe. I’ve been reading his posts here since 2006, and have never seen any such thing.

          More:

          Might be a Soros enabler in the incremental Chinese investment/migration expansion strategy, exploding on the North American west coast – also spreading inland;

          • SF/Portland/Seattle/Vancouver/Calgary/etc.
          …………………………..

          Well, this is just ludicrous–Kepha is one of the most conservative posters here.

          More:

          Sometimes refers to himself as “Uncle Kepha”.
          …………………………..

          This is just Kephaa’s referring to himself somewhat tongue-in-cheek as a wise old gentleman. There is nothing sinister about this.

          More:

          Frightening as islam and multi-culturism are, the Chinese have a leg-up in their long-game in NA.
          …………………………..

          Kepha regularly speaks out against Communist China, as the dishonest kaboooooooooooooom well knows.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 9:18 am

    Santino Williams Legan may be flirting with Islam and may be attracted to the ‘license-to-kill’ part of jihad.

    The Leftarded narrative about white people causing most of the evils in the world is vicious and potentially could lead to genocide. This would not displease the Trotskyists among them, for it would give them the opportunity to liquidate out conservative leaders without anyone raising an eyebrow. They had it coming to them … ‘white privilege’, you know, must be stopped.

    Santino Williams Legan is more likely to be a Trotskyist sympathetic towards Antifa which Trotsky apparently founded.

    Santino Williams Legan is merely helping the Leftards to implement the Kalergi Plan of population replacement. The first stage of genocide is to isolate the victims through us-them rhetoric, the second is to label them (‘white privilege’ … neo-Nazis … far-right). Santino Williams Legan is getting ahead of the Leftard plan as a vigilante.

    Leftists do not usually use vigilantism, but vigilantism is a standard and honored part of Islam … Santino Williams Legan is combining Leftard rhetoric and Islamic vigilantism.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 11:42 am

      mortimer,

      I read your post-twice.

      Everything about it seems to fit…

      Excellent analysis, my compliments.

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 2, 2019 at 12:02 pm

        “Leftists do not usually use vigilantism.” Really???

        =================================

        Here is this on origins of great replacement :

        The theory of the great replacement can be traced back to the novel Le Camp des Saints (1973) by Jean Raspail which depicts the collapse of Western culture from an overwhelming “tidal wave” of immigration from the Third World. The novel, along with the theory of Eurabia developed by the Swiss-Israeli writer Bat Ye’or in 2005, set the ground then for Renaud Camus to develop and present his book entitled The Great Replacement in 2012.The idea of replacement, or of white genocide, has used as part of the rhetoric of many far-right movements in the West.

        Journalist Marc Weitzmann credits René Binet, a Trotskyite militant who abandoned communism in the 1940s to join the Waffen SS, and who later became active in French far-right politics, as an important influence on the theory. According to Weitzmann, “it was Binet, not Camus, who first came up with ‘the great replacement’ formula in the early 1960s.” Historian Nicolas Lebourg argues that Camus’s theory parallels older antisemitic conspiracy theories which posited the existence of a Jewish plot to destroy Europe through miscegenation. Lebourg suggest that Camus’s contribution was to replace the antisemitic elements with themes of a clash of civilizations between Muslims and Europeans.

        [wikipedia]

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 10:31 am

    The fact that a search of Legan’s apartment turned up a letter from “Virginia to Santino” seems important to me. Just as in the case of the Las Vegas shooter, I suspect there is a woman who knows more about this than she is willing to tell. I think the guy was both angry and despondent and let those emotions lead him into a very dark and evil place.

    • Eric Jones says

      Aug 3, 2019 at 2:24 am

      Is Legan a product of mind control like Sirhan Sirhan?

      Eric

  4. PRCS says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 11:47 am

    The SF Gate article’s author must be terribly confused to learn that the killer was reading both ‘White Supremacist’ and ‘radical Islam material [whatever the Hell that means].

    Oh, what to think. Oh, how to spin this.

  5. RCCA says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    The Garlic Festival shooter had gone to a private high school for three years and then transferred to a public school for his senior year, but no one really got to know him there. I’m sure there was a reason for all that and that someone must have known him in the private school. But so far no one is talking. The Head Master is refusing to answer any questions, citing student privacy rules.
    The media has been focused on the white supremacism narrative, as you would expect of the leftist oriented press.

  6. PaleBunnyInfidel says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 2:48 pm

    Typical leftist news media, creating false narratives by using out of context ‘technical truths’ and misleading headlines.
    I had some ‘Nation of Islam’ literature at my apartment once. I found it on the bus. Since NOI members won’t pass any of it out to ‘whitey’ when they walk around in predominantly black areas, in the street handing the pamphlets to people through their car windows & to those waiting for the bus. I absolutely don’t support them!
    Having literature does in no way mean you endorse the publisher. I also have some Jehovah’s witness pamphlets left on my front door it doesn’t I want to be one.

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    has turned up materials on white supremacy and radical Islam

    I’m going to go on a limb here and say that white supremacists aren’t exactly fond of islam…

  8. lebel says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    “He railed against “Silicon Valley white twats,” so it’s unlikely that he was a white supremacist, ”

    He is talking about leftists and race traitors. Everyone knows that that area is leftist liberal and pro-immigration etc. You know this already of course.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 9:30 pm

      Sure–every white supremacist hates white people…

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 3, 2019 at 2:40 am

        I know that I do.
        And I’m not even sure I’m white or supreme.
        But if logic no longer matters…then….

        Way to go, there, lebel.

        Thanks for straightening lebel out on this, GI.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 3, 2019 at 11:00 pm

          🙂

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Aug 3, 2019 at 12:11 pm

      Could be the guy hated everybody. That’s why he shot indiscriminately into the crowd. And it could be he hated himself most of all.

  9. No Fear says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 7:32 pm

    If I got to the Garlic Festival and they had sold out of garlic bread….I would be so angry.

  10. Jabroni says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    I don’t understand how you people believe in these obviously false and illogical ideologies.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 9:00 pm

    California: Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter had “reading material on white supremacy and radical Islam”
    …………………….

    I live not far from Gilroy, and had wondered if this appalling attack had links to Jihad.

  12. Eric Jones says

    Aug 3, 2019 at 2:11 am

    We know the history: That Islamist in the middle east favored the rise of Hitler. That Ford, Bush, Lindburgh, Grupp and Theyssen supported the rise of Hitler. We all must learn to treat others the way we want to be treated.

    Eric

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 3, 2019 at 2:52 am

      Krupp family, a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, is famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition and other armaments ….and coffee makers.

  13. CTTV15@Hotmail.com says

    Aug 3, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    You (WE) convinced him, and schooled him over time, to believe that LIFE has no meaning (Roe V, Wade), nor any value, and he learned his lessons well, and then WE express surprise that he has committed such an atrocity? WHY are WE surprised?

    ..And, we are still doing it.. ..Thanks Governor Cuomo, and Governor Northam..and all the rest of YOU..

    Please give me a break..

  14. Chand says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 3:10 am

    Ha ha! So he might have been a closet Jihadi??!!

    What nonsense!

    Many people have literature on jihad in their computers probably.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 4, 2019 at 10:47 pm

      People here do not admire Jihad.

  15. Chand says

    Aug 4, 2019 at 3:20 am

    What next? The El Paso shooter was a jihadi killer too? Any Koran in his house?

    Patrick Crusius might have converted………………..

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