White Man Shoots Up Synagogue of Satan in Pittsburg

[Librarian]

http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8794#post18794

[PastorLindstedt]

A Statement Regarding the Alleged Shooting of jews in Pittsburg by a White Man

A Statement Regarding the Alleged Shooting of jews in Pittsburg by a White Man


http://stumbleinn.net/forum/showthre...025#post436025
http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/mul...1/#post-263855
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8795#post18795
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8795#post18795

I didn't hear about this until around 3:00 pm CDT as I was busy mailing out some legal Motion in my never-ending litigation started by Ol' Niggerlips Esquirrel the Mamzer from Mentor Ohio Bryan Reo until 12:30pm and I was checking my property down the hill. Then I had to feed Roxie and so it wasn't until after 3:00 pm sometime that I heard about this matter.

Looking up the story I figured out that this Robert Bowers was a White Man who simply went all "Lone Tard" on a pack of dirty Spawn of Satan jews in a synogogue of Satan in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He doesn't seem to be connected to any known White Supremacists / Nationalists or Alt-Right fuktards, but rather was on social media consuming what we put out. He did know a "BruceBohn" wh is coonnected to Rabbi Bill/Baal Finck, the murderous jew pig that murdered a Puerto-Rican sneak thief in the Jersey City Jail, fincked out its fellow pigs, went to Club Med in ad-seg, then cum out a "Greek Scholar" and was injected into the See-Eye Dentistry by the jews Eli James and Ol' Niggerlips / SwordBrethren / Bryan Reo.

These "Lone Tards" invariably find ZOGbots to tell them what to do and what to think. They are not "Lone Wolves" as a lone wolf is invariably rabid or fucked up. Rather these "Lone Tards" are under no discipline or guidance and without a plan for getting away or doing anything other than getting killed or surrendering. Lone Tards have no political plans or goals. They are not assassins. They are just desperate tards with no plans for the future. Since they are not under our discipline or authority then we really have no say over what they do -- something we should forthrightly recognize and say.

So like in 2015 when Dylann Storm Roof -- who nobody in the bowel Movement ever heard about beforehand and whose Facebook friends included niggers -- some "Lone Tard" does what "Lone Tards" do and everyone except a few bowel Movement uber-shiessenkopfen-fatten-feeben-fuktard-fuerhers immediately whine about how much they really love niggers and jews, how these Beasts of the Field & Spawn of Satan are "hu-mamzer beans" and a lot of other stupid lying shit.

That is dishonest. I want nothing less than an Apocalypse and the destruction of ZOG/Babylon the Third and Final. One Lone Tard or a million of them gunning down jews, niggers, beaners, gooks, faggots is fine by me. Just don't get caught and lie that you did it because I told you to do so. I didn't. You want to go do something which fucks up ZOG then you don't need to tell me shit. But when you do something I certainly won't be pissing and moaning about how you did something wrong. These evil amimals need to die and if you do so then fine by me. I admire your bravery and acknowledge your desperation. Now get prepared to eat green baloney sandwiches for the rest of your life in a cage until ZOG falls.

The best policy is if you don't know anything about the "Lone Tard" is to say as much. If you do know the "Lone Tard" then the best policy is to shut up and say nothing at all.

Whatever shit you apologize for is the shit you now own and will get to eat forever. So if you don't want to eat kikeshit, don't own a single mouthful.

Never apologize for a White Man going about White Man business of ridding us of our parasites and alien predators.

Having jews and niggers 'think' that every White Man is a potential Dylann Roof or Robert Bowers is a good thing. All jews and niggers hate and fear the White Man. Do away with theyz' fear then you will have to deal with theyz' hate. They don't belong in White Society and the soonest we start running them off before we get around to killing them all off, starting with the regime-criminal traitors the better.

My bravery is caused by the fact that I hate these whigger race-traitors and want to kill them all means that you don't have time or inclination to fear them.

Anyways, the bowel Movement will be under the microscope until the mid-term [s]elections. Time to purge the remaining jews and mongrels amongst us. And let the chips fall where they may.

Remember, White Men don't let whiggers vote Republicuck.

Hail Victory !!!

Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Aryan Nations of Missouri
Write-In Candidate for US Senator from Missouri

[Potok]

A gunman opened fire on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing at least eleven people and wounding others

A gunman opened fire on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing at least eleven people and wounding others


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/...ounding-others
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8803#post18803
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8803#post18803

Pittsburg Piglice keep healthy distance away from alleged jew & pig shooter
Photo Pam Panchak / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP

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Local media reported that Bowers yelled "All Jews must die" as he opened fire with an AR-15.

The shooter, identified by KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh as 46-year-old Robert D. Bowers, went into Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh while Sabbath services were taking place. City officials say Bowers surrendered Saturday and was taken to Mercy Hospital.

Bowers’ social media accounts, including Facebook and a now-deleted account on Gab, an alternate version of Twitter that serves as a haven for racism, are filled with antisemitic comments.

In one, dated two days ago, Bowers posted as "onedingo" that President Donald Trump is a "globalist, not a nationalist."

"There is no #MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation," Bowers wrote.

Bowers’ account on Gab was verified, something you can pay for — via the Stripe payment processor — on that site. A statement from the company said the account was archived and provided to the FBI before being deleted after the shooting. Bowers’ last post seemed to reference his impending attack.

“HIAS likes to bring in invaders that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

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HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is a humanitarian organization that assists refugees fleeing persecution. Bowers’ characterization of refugees as dangerous invaders reflects recent hysteria on the far right and up to the Trump administration surrounding the migrant caravan.

The mention of “optics” references a disagreement that has raged within the white nationalist movement since the "Unite the Right" rally in 2017 about how best to get their message across to the general public. Some extremists called for continued direct action, while others favored a retreat back into online spaces. This suggests the suspect was steeped in the debates of the white nationalist “alt-right.”

Gab, where the suspect was most active online, serves as home base for some of the most hardcore members of the alt-right.


The profile page of Bowers' now-deleted Gab account. Gab serves as home base for some of the most hardcore members of the alt-right.
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The suspect also made numerous antisemitic remarks elsewhere on the platform calling Jews “the children of satan” and fretting about the omnipotence of the fictitious “Zionist Occupied Government” (ZOG). His posts indicate he subscribed to the conspiracy theory that Jewish forces are scheming to dilute the “white race” by importing refugees and immigrants – what torch-bearing “Unite the Right” marchers meant when they chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

The Pittsburgh Department of Public Safety announced midday Saturday that the active shooter was in custody. Police Commander Jason Lando told media outlets there were multiple people killed and told neighbors to shelter in place. Public Safety Commissioner Wendell Hissrich said it was a “horrific crime scene,” and confirmed it will be investigated as a federal hate crime.

The synagogue is in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, a historically Jewish area of Pittsburgh.

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[Hunter Wallace]

Violence Is a Stupid Tactic

Violence Is a Stupid Tactic


http://www.occidentaldissent.com/201...stupid-tactic/
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8804#post18804
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8804#post18804

I’ve addressed this topic many times before.

I didn’t feel the need to address it this time because my position on the issue has never changed. I’m not responding to the Pittsburgh shooting, but to violence as a tactic in general.

Violence is a stupid tactic. It doesn’t work. The same is true of militant aesthetics. It doesn’t work either. As I have said many times before here, we are a tiny, hated minority in this country. Thus, it doesn’t make any sense for us to engage in violence. We are not in a position of strength.
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We saw in Charlottesville and New York City with the Proud Boys and most recently with the RAM arrests that anything that can be construed as violence, even when it is in self defense, will be used as a pretext for censorship and state repression to throttle our movement.

Supposedly, this shooting in Pittsburgh is the most devastating attack ever on Jews in the United States. The effect of the shooting is that it has left Jews in a stronger position than ever. It is already being used as political capital to justify even more censorship. It has only made the problem worse, not better.

Yes, it isn’t fair, but we don’t live in a country where justice is fairness anymore. Look at what happened with Jacob Goodwin, RAM and the Proud Boys. It didn’t matter who started it or whether the violence was justified in self defense. The only thing that mattered was their political affiliations.

Disavowing as a tactic is a separate issue. It doesn’t really work either. These people are going to call us violent Neo-Nazi white supremacists no matter what we do. We’ve already seen that it has already been decided that all of Gab is to blame for Robert Bowers. Jews have always believed in guilt by association and “disavowing” this or that person isn’t going to change anything. Ask Gavin McInnes or Alex Jones or MILO who have been identified as targets on their enemies list.

My take on this remains that it is in our best interest to avoid violence. This is even more true in our present circumstances when censorship and state repression have gone into overdrive.
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[PastorLindstedt]

Neither you nor Greg Johnson nor any of the “intellectual” Alr-Right have any say over “violence” committed by Lone Tards

Neither you nor Greg Johnson nor any of the “intellectual” Alr-Right have any say over “violence” committed by Lone Tards


http://www.occidentaldissent.com/201...omment-3476306
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8805#post18805
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8805#post18805

Brad:

The past few weeks the stock market has been in decline, lead by the tech companies. Social media is going to go the way of the lie-papers but a whole lt faster. When the bubble bursts it will take down a lot of ZOG / Babylon control and we will be put into the same position as in the early days of the Internet with local dialup. Or if ZOG goes all medieval then there will be nothing left for jews and non-whites to eat.

It is likely in fact that there shall be a great Collapse and die-off and eventual decentralization and Ten Thousand Warlords.

Gab might well be down soon. Maybe it will cum back up because it is a Mossad operation out to keep an eye on us all. But Chris_313 has a gablike place to post his nudie pics of whiggress’ and Rabbi Linder has opened up TraitorGlenn Miller News Nutwerk Forum as a virtual colostomy bag even to Mattoid Parrott. Or you could re-open one of your forums to ZOGling whiggeroid muh-dikkery.

Neither you nor Greg Johnson nor any of the “intellectual” Alr-Right have any say over “violence” committed by Lone Tards. You even apologise for it then you own it.

Do you see any path via intellectual Whiggroid MuhDikkkery to begging ZOG to let us have a “Sovereign Racial Nation-State” or “Whigger Zion”? I sure don’t. Like Har-old Covington I see the up-cum-cummin’ end of ZOG by an economic collapse leading to social collapse and the breakup into Ten-Thousand Warlords. I see Strategic Domestic Terrorism founded upon reducing the carrying capacity of the ZOGland to fifty million thus cutting the diseased ZOGling whigger ass-clown herd from 100 million to around 20 million and practically zero non-whites or jews on racial reservations like Long Island.

Not only can this be done, but it is inevitable.

So if cutting the diseased ZOGling whigger herd to a size sustainable by 1890s Amish agriculture down t 10 or 20 million ex-whiggers manageable only by Ten Thousand Warlords. When the Old Kingdom of Egypt fell apart into 40 nomes during their First Intermediate Period of Decline the population which survived actually grew taller because of less taxation. It was the First Warlord of the Middle Kingdom who re-united Upper and Lower Egypt around 2000 BC.

So given that in the on-rushing collapse will be the salvation of the White Race by reducing the ZOGland population from 1/3 billion to 10 or 20 million, why bitch about Robert Bowen killing 11 jews and shooting 4 pigs?

If you are so dead set against murder then maybe you should kick out William “Baal” Finck, the Jersey City jew pig that murdered a Puerto-Rican sneak thief and snitched out its fellow pigs and is suing and being sued by myself and my Aryan Nations Church along with Bryan Reo and Kyle Bristow? Do you really approve of jew pigs murdering nigger-beaners in jail, then snitching and becum-cummin’ a “No Devil” papist-preterist bedevling See-Eye Dentistry as a ZOGbot?

If you are so determined to kick out murderers, then perhaps you should start at the Florida League of the South and the jew ex-pig fincking ZOGbot and kick it out because that is something you can do to show your precious dislike of “Violence as a Tactic”. Robert Bowers is fed-up White Man who cacked 11 kikes and plugged 4 pigs and has not a bit of remorse for doing so. Since he is not a member of the League of the South then he is none of your concern.

In fact, given that I am running for US Senate from Missouri and got my ex-son-in-law Shawn Deines to run as a write-in for 7th District US Congress after getting refused to run on the primary ballot as a Repub, Dimmyctwat or LibberToon, and that White Men don’t let whiggers vote Republicuck, why not a write-in choice for those outsde Missouri?

The Ten-Thousand Warlords Fight Club write-in candidate for any and every position throughout the ZOGland:

Hello. My name is Robert Bowers.

My name is Robert Bowers.

My name is Robert Bowers.

I kill jews and shoot piglice. Seems like the right thing to do.

I am a write-in candidate for _________. I would appreciate your vote.

Can you imagine a bigger jape against ZOG and easier way to tie up voting records for the mid-terms? Every time a wtite-in ballot is in the optical vote-counting machine it gets spit out and has to be tabulated by hand. That will certainly gum up the works !!! And be a massive loss of legitimacy for DimmyZOG & RepublicuckZOG.

I know you don’t agree with me and that you have responsibilities to others. I like the fact that you will get off Gab and back to blogging. I’m not trying to turn your blog into the Robert Bowers fan club any more than the Dylann Storn Roof fan club.

But ths is not June 2015 it is October 2018 and the onrushing tide will make thinkable the previously unthinkable except by a certain few like myself where reality is catching up with rhetoric.

White Men don’t let whiggers vote Republicuck.

Hail Victory !!!

Pastor Martin Luther Dzerzhinsky (Mad Dog the Conquerer) Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Atyan Nations of Missouri
Write-In Candidate for US Senate

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Pastor Lindstedt (@PastorLindstedt)
OCTOBER 28, 2018 AT 8:23 PM

[Greg Johnson]

Understanding the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre

Understanding the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre


https://www.counter-currents.com/201...ogue-massacre/
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8819#post18819
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8819#post18819

[PastorLindstedt]

I think I understand Dylann Roof and Robert Bowers better than you do, and I find no need to apologise for their straighforward violent behavior.

I think I understand Dylann Roof and Robert Bowers better than you do,

and I find no need to apologise for their straighforward violent behavior.

https://www.counter-currents.com/201...omment-1421267
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8780#post18880
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8780#post18880

Dr. Johnson:

As you have pointed out in your History of the Alt-Right and about Dickie Spencer in particular the bowel Movement is de-centralized in which everyone does his own thang. It is a Network of bowel-Movement Chieftains with sundry tards each following their self-chosen leader. Some of them are outed as ZOGbots — like TraitorGlenn Miller — who show up in 2004 on some jewboy’s Virtual Colostomy Bag NNF until sick and about to croak off arrange to go to shoot three mongrels in the parking lot of some Old Kike’s Home then “surrender” as arranged in order to have a show trial as a “White Nationalist.” Paradoxically once jailed since April 2014 this drunken homosexual Lumbee Melungeon has lived longer than when it was free-range ZOGtard because its ailing liver and lungs caught a break from drunkenness and smoking while in jail.

Understanding this latest event means that what must be understood is that unlike TraitorGlenn Miller and James Vonn Brunn, none of these “Lone Tard” shooters are known to the bowel Movement. They literally cum from out of the clear blue sky and then all there is left is looking at theys’ social media accounts for “clues” to what are essentially clueless white kids and grown-ups who are so out on the margins that no one can see that this “loser” got a gun or two and went out shooting with an eye to maximizing the non-white body count. What is un-nerving to ZOG is that there are millions more whiggers on the margins out there with guns and a suicidal fixtion awaiting a triggering event common to the ZOGland. .

I greatly doubt that Robert Bowers ever bothered to read Counter-Currents. Daily $permer no doubt. $tormdrain or Linder’s Virtual Colostomy Bag NNF / TGMNNF as well.

So what we have are white losers on the margins who one day snap and rather than gun down gang-bangers or police who will shoot back they go to some negro church or jew synagogue and they gun down elderly negroes or jews. Do they have any escape plan or view of what to do once the police show up and don’t kill them? No. They get in their cars and flee while identitfied like Dylann Roof then surrender, or like Robert Bowers shoot it out with the police and wound four then “negotiate” a surrender, for a trial on federal hate-crime (as opposed to state) charges. They will sit in the jail while jew public pretenders work on defending them by saying that they were insane. Dylann Roof fired his public pretenders, should have listened to my advice to ask for another year’s delay for being his own lawyer, then not pled guilty to state charges.

Robert Bowers can and should delay his trial by letting his jew public pretenders pose and preen for the next year and a half, then fire them and take another year or so to prepare for trial as his own public pretender, then pull a Giles Corey by refusing to make a plea to federal haet-crimes charges. They want a shoah trial, give them a shoah trial. I’ll be sure to send Bowers a Christmas card like I did Dylann Roof.

What I find amazing is the rush by bowel Movement “leaders” to apologise or explain for Flyover-Country whiggers who are at the end of theys’ ropes and decide to go out shooting and choose the elderly non-white racial enemies in order to rack up a respectable body count. What Dylann Roof and Robert Bowers did and why they did it seems pretty clear to me., I’m certainly not going to join the rush to condemn or bemoan the inevitable. If as I propose that the Mighty Evil Empire is going to collapse in Civil War 2 and be replaced by Ten Thousand Warlords ruling over 10-20 million ex-whiggers surviving in the former ZOGland then far be it for me to whine about the warlords’ pre-collapse revolutionary gun-men literally jumping said gun before The 10K Warlords ratify and legitimize the new governing arrangements.

This alleged shooting took place over two weeks ago. It has been already foreshadowed by other mass shootings by other desperate nuts not affiliated with the bowel Movement.

Gab was taken down by ZOG’s tech corporations for a week. That same week these tech giants led a stock market decline. Now Gab is back but is censoring anyone and everyone who made Gab interesting. The bowel Movement continues as before.

I’ve compared the bowel Movement to pig farming before. Every pig farmer feeds different slop to his particular pigs. You and I can get along because there is no overlap in which pigs eat our own brand of slop in different troughs thousands of miles apart.

My point is that it is violence against non-whites by whites which makes news because if there is an outbreak of white violence then our jew and semitic-whigger masters always expect that it might grow into Civil War 2 if not firmly stamped out. They expect a pogram leading to a Whigger Revolution which will lead to a collapse which means that the non-whites are exterminated or driven out and theys’ own heads are on pikes. And sooner or later this will indeed happen. Things will spiral out of control and there will be a catastrophobic collapse which will take out everything leading to a New Dark Age like has happened numerous times before.

You have far different followers and you feed them far different slop than I feed mine. I think I understand Dylann Roof and Robert Bowers better than you do, and I find no need to apologise for their straighforward violent behavior. Time will tell as to who was more correct.

Hail Victory !!!

Pastor Martin Lindstedt
Church of Jesus Christ Christian / Aryan Nations of Missouri
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Posted November 12, 2018 at 7:11 pm

[She Meercat]

Suspected Squirrel Hill synagogue gunman: 'Jews are the children of Satan'

Suspected Squirrel Hill synagogue gunman: 'Jews are the children of Satan'


https://archive.triblive.com/local/p...dren-of-satan/
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8945#post18945
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8945#post18945

In repeated online posts, Robert D. Bowers shared hateful anti-Semitic writings and called Jews “the children of Satan.”

On Saturday, minutes before authorities said Bowers stormed into a Squirrel Hill synagogue and killed 11 people, he posted one final rant: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

Federal prosecutors charged Bowers, 46, with 29 counts of violence and firearms offenses. Authorities said Bowers had with him an assault rifle and three handguns when he charged into the Tree of Life Congregation.

“The actions that this person took were hateful,” said Bob Jones, FBI Special Agent of the Pittsburgh Field Office.

The charges followed tense hours on Saturday afternoon, when local and federal officials descended on a Baldwin apartment complex where Bowers lived.

Chris Hall, 28, who moved into the McAnulty Acres apartment complex four years ago, said he’s lived on the same floor as Bowers for one and a half to two years. The apartment complex is surrounded by single-family homes in a typically quiet area near the South Baldwin Volunteer Fire Department.

Bowers had told Hall’s fiancée that he was a long-haul trucker, Hall said. He would be in town for several days and then gone for several days.

Mostly, “he kept to himself,” Hall said.

“I just went about my day and he went about his day,” Hall said.

The only notable behavior that stood out to Hall was Bowers’ habit of watching what sounded like the news at odd hours, such as 3 a.m.

Hall and his neighbors learned of Bowers’ connection to the synagogue shooting after officials evacuated their complex for several hours Saturday to search and collect evidence.

“I wish I knew what was going on inside of his head,” Hall said. “I wish there was some type of warning sign. Anything. … I just wish we knew.”

Bowers was injured by gunfire and was being treated at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh’s North Side.

Bowers posted and shared anti-Semitic writings on the social media network Gab.

A profile by the name of Robert Bowers wrote that “Jews are the children of Satan.” That profile was unavailable Saturday.

In a statement , Gab officials said they are “saddened and disgusted.”

“Shortly after the attack, Gab was alerted to a user profile of the alleged Tree of Life Synagogue shooter,” officials said in the statement. “The account was verified and matched the name of the alleged shooter’s name, which was mentioned on police scanners.”

Gab suspended the account and contacted law enforcement.

Other posts on the account that were saved by other users and posted online show him sharing hateful anti-Semitic writings by other users and opposition to refugees and immigrants entering the United States. On several occasions, he attacked Maryland-based HIAS, a national nonprofit guided by Jewish values that helps refugees.

In response to a HIAS list of communities nationwide having a Shabbat dedicated for refugees Oct. 19 and 20, Bowers posted that he appreciated a “list of friends.” Four such events were scheduled in the Pittsburgh area.

Minutes before the shooting, Bowers allegedly wrote on his Gab page, “HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

HIAS officials expressed devastation in a statement released Saturday.

“This loss is our loss, and our thoughts are with Tree of Life Congregation, our local partner Jewish Family and Community Services (JFCS) of Pittsburgh, the city of Pittsburgh and all those affected by this senseless act of violence,” the statement said. “As we try to process this horrifying tragedy, we pray that the American Jewish community and the country can find healing.”

Earlier Saturday, police spent about 45 minutes interviewing neighbors near a Whitehall house whose address was linked to Bowers, not far from the Baldwin apartment. About 1:30 p.m., a police helicopter circled the Whitehall single-family residence on Fieldcrest Drive.

Neighbor Kathleen McCaffrey, 68, said she recognized a photo of Bowers as a man who frequented the home but she did not believe he lived there. She thought he was a caregiver helping a woman there care for a young man with severe disabilities. She often saw Bowers taking smoke breaks in the yard while the woman was at work, but hasn’t seen him for months.

“He never said, ‘Hi,’ to people or nothing,” McCaffrey said.

McCaffrey said she last saw Bowers at the Whitehall home in late June lighting fireworks as part of a gathering of about a dozen people.

Bowers has no criminal history in Pennsylvania, according to online records.

He pleaded guilty to an April 15, 2015, traffic ticket in Butler County. He was cited in Cranberry for unlawfully operating a vehicle without identification markers, according to court records.

He did not have a political party affiliation on his voter registration.


Renatta Signorini and Natasha Lindstrom are Tribune-Review staff writers. You can contact Renatta at 724-837-5374, rsignorini@tribweb.com or via Twitter @byrenatta. You can
reach Natasha at 412-380-8514, nlindstrom@tribweb.com or via Twitter @NewsNatasha.
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[Meercat #1]

Robert Bowers wanted 'all Jews to die,' authorities say

Robert Bowers wanted 'all Jews to die,' authorities say


https://archive.triblive.com/local/p...thorities-say/
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...8951#post18951
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...8951#post18951

Robert Bowers told a SWAT officer he “wanted all Jews to die,” after he gunned down 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, according to a criminal complaint filed by local authorities.

Wounded and in custody, Bowers told SWAT officer David Blahut that “he wanted all Jews to die,” and that “(Jews) were committing genocide to his people,” authorities wrote in the complaint.

Charges filed by the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office include 11 counts of homicide, six counts of attempted homicide, six counts of aggravated assault and 13 counts of ethnic intimidation. Bowers, 46, also faces 29 federal charges .

Eight men and three women were killed inside the Tree of Life Congregation when Bowers allegedly opened fire just before 10 a.m. A man and woman were critically injured, and four police officers sustained injuries.

The criminal complaint details the gunfight between Bowers and officers both inside and outside the synagogue.

Two officers, who police did not identify, arrived at the synagogue and found Bowers armed with an assault-style rife, according to the complaint. He opened fire on the officers, hitting one in the hand. Police returned fire, and Bowers retreated inside the building. The second officer received facial cuts from flying glass and shrapnel.

SWAT officers broached the building and found 11 dead inside, according to the complaint. SWAT officers and medics carried the two injured civilians outside.

While searching for more victims on the synagogue’s third floor, Bowers opened fire on SWAT officers, hitting two multiple times, according to the complaint. SWAT officers fired back, wounding Bowers, who was taken into custody and transported to the hospital.

Bowers left an online trail of hatred and anti-Semitism across social media. Minutes before he’s alleged to have torn through the Squirrel Hill synagogue, he posted a final rant: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered,” he wrote on the social network Gab. “Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

Megan Guza is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Megan at 412-380-8519, mguza@tribweb.com or via Twitter @meganguzaTrib.

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[Librarian]

Sides agree to extension in synagogue massacre case

Sides agree to extension in synagogue massacre case

Updated: 11:18 AM EDT Aug 12, 2019


https://www.wtae.com/article/hearing...ndant/28674624
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...0172#post20172
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0172#post20172

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Prosecutors and lawyers for the man charged with killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue last year have agreed to a 120-day extension in the case.

The sides met briefly in federal court in Pittsburgh on Monday to review the status of Robert Bowers' prosecution. The defendant wasn't in court.

Authorities say Bowers opened fire with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons during worship services inside Tree of Life synagogue. Bowers allegedly expressed hatred of Jews during the Oct. 27 rampage and later told police that "all these Jews need to die." It was the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.

Prosecutors have not made a final decision on whether to seek the death penalty.

Bowers has pleaded not guilty to hate crimes and other offenses.

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[Librarian]

Government to seek death penalty for accused Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers

Government to seek death penalty for accused Tree of Life gunman Robert Bowers

11 (((people))) were shot and killed at synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood


https://www.wtae.com/article/tree-of...burgh/28819998
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...0243#post20243
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0243#post20243

PITTSBURGH — Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, who is charged with fatally shooting 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a court filing Monday.

The counts are obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, and use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder during and in relation to a crime of violence and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

The government says it will prove that Bowers killed all 11 victims and "intentionally participated in an act, contemplating that the life of a person would be taken and intending that lethal force would be used," according to the document filed Monday.

Read the full document: Notice of intent to seek death penalty for Robert Bowers (PDF)

"Tree of Life * Or L'Simcha does not have a statement on this matter; we have confidence that justice will be served," a congregation spokesman said Monday.

Bowers, 46, has pleaded not guilty, but his defense has expressed interest in a plea deal with a life sentence rather than going to trial.

Earlier this month, both sides agreed to a 120-day extension in the Bowers case.

In July, Attorney General William Barr's office announced that the government would resume federal executions after nearly two decades.

Two of the three Jewish congregations that lost members in the Tree of Life shooting have sent a letter to Barr asking the government not to seek the death penalty for Bowers.

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Accused Tree of Life shooter still seeks plea deal

Accused Tree of Life shooter still seeks plea deal

TORSTEN OVE
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
tove@post-gazette.com


https://www.post-gazette.com/news/cr...s/202010230149
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...1716#post21716
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...1716#post21716

Two years after the Tree of Life massacre, the main question remains: Should the accused shooter, Robert Bowers, be put to death or spend his life in federal prison?

Few doubt he will be convicted. The conviction rate in the federal court system is about 95% and the evidence appears overwhelming.

Punishment is the issue.

The Justice Department wants the death penalty. Mr. Bowers’ legal team, which includes a California anti-death penalty specialist known for representing high-profile clients, wants a plea deal.

There is still no trial date and the case has thus far been marked by accusations from the government that the defense has been trying to drag out the case.

Among various arguments over the months, the defense team has invoked COVID-19 as a reason it hasn’t been able to adhere to various deadlines, with the prosecution at one point asking U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose to enforce a strict timeline.

Most recently, the defense team asked for another extension of the pre-trial motions deadline to Jan. 20, pushing a potential trial date back further.

The lawyers — public defenders Michael Novara, Elisa Long and California lawyer Judy Clarke — say they have been working “diligently” on moving the case forward but need more time to review discovery materials and to have experts examine Mr. Bowers’ mental health.

The lawyers have not yet filed notice that they intend to mount a mental health defense, but a status conference has been set for Nov. 2 to discuss the mental issues.

Prosecutors didn’t object to the Jan. 20 deadline extension. But they asked that all pre-trial motions be filed by that date and said the government “will continue to oppose any unwarranted delays in moving this case to trial.”

Judge Ambrose granted the motion on Friday.

Among various motions to be decided are 15 of them filed Oct. 1 to suppress government evidence seized in searches.

But the judge has already ruled on several weighty issues.

Earlier this month she rejected defense motions to dismiss some of the 63 counts against Mr. Bowers.

The lawyers had asked her to toss counts for violations of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Church Arson Prevention Act.

The hate crimes law pertains to anyone who uses a weapon to injure because of race, color, religion or national origin. The defense team had said that the law should not apply because the Tree of Life victims were Jewish and Jews were never enslaved in the U.S.

Judge Ambrose said that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, authorizes the law.

She said that the Supreme Court has recognized that while the “immediate concern” of the 13th Amendment was African slaves, the amendment applies to “universal freedom” for all people.

The same concept applies to the Church Arson Prevention Act, which pertains to anyone who obstructs, by force or threat, “any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs.”

Judge Ambrose also rejected defense motions to dismiss various gun-related charges against Mr. Bowers.

Perhaps the most noteworthy decision by the judge came in April, when she rejected the defense challenge to the federal death penalty.

Mr. Bowers’ lawyers had argued that it violates the Constitution. They said the death penalty is unreliable, imposed arbitrarily and marked by racial disparity against minorities. They also said that the delays between sentence and execution subject inmates to solitary confinement for decades in violation of the Constitution.

Judge Ambrose said the lawyers raise important issues but said she was still “unpersuaded” by the argument.

The defense had said the death penalty is unreliable because an innocent person might be executed. They also argued that jurors qualified to decide a death-penalty case are more likely to convict.

The judge said federal case law holds that the death penalty does not violate the Constitution based on the “mere possibility” that an innocent might be condemned and said the Supreme Court has rejected claims that death-qualified jurors are more prone to convict.

Judge Ambrose also rejected the idea that the death penalty is arbitrary because it is rarely imposed. She said that fact does not make it unconstitutional.

The judge said the defense argument that the death penalty is marked by bias against men and people accused of killing white women “lacks merit.” In addition, she said Mr. Bowers isn’t arguing that race or gender of the victims was a consideration in the Justice Department’s decision to seek death.

She also rejected the defense argument that long delays make the death penalty unconstitutional.

“Delays sought by a defendant to ensure a fair trial do not support a constitutional challenge,” she wrote. “Likewise, the potential for solitary confinement does not support a constitutional challenge.”

The defense also had said “evolving standards of decency” have rendered the death penalty “cruel and unusual punishment,” but the judge rejected that argument, too.

If Mr. Bowers is found guilty and executed, he will the first person from this district ever put to death in the federal execution chamber in Indiana.

Three other men from the Western District of Pennsylvania faced the death penalty but all ended up in prison. One was released.

Joseph Minerd blew up a house in Connellsville in 1999 to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend because she refused to get an abortion. Her 3-year-old daughter also died in the blast. A federal court jury convicted Minerd but spared him the death penalty in 2002. Now 65, Minerd is serving life at FCI Berlin in New Hampshire.

Lawrence Skiba of White Oak hired a hitman from Chicago to kill a McKeesport used-car dealer in 2000 so he could collect on a life insurance policy. He pleaded guilty and cooperated against the hitman. Now 67, Skiba was released from prison in 2019, according to prison records.

Jelani Solomon of Beaver Falls ordered the 2004 contract killing of a witness against him on the eve of his drug trial. A jury convicted him but spared him the death penalty. Now 41, he is serving life at FCI McKean in McKean County, Pa.

Torsten Ove: tove@post-gazette.com

First Published October 25, 2020, 5:30am

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Pittsburgh officer returns to work 2 years after Tree of Life shooting

Pittsburgh officer returns to work 2 years after Tree of Life shooting

PAUL GUGGENHEIMER | Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 10:18 a.m.


https://triblive.com/local/pittsburg...life-shooting/
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http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...1851#post21851

It was a long road back from the Tree of Life shooting, but Pittsburgh Police SWAT Officer Timothy Matson is on the job once again.

Matson returned to work Monday, according to a social media post. He return comes nearly two years after he suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the October 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill. Eleven people from three congregations died in the shooting, and seven people were wounded.

Tree of Life displayed a photo of a smiling Matson on Facebook Monday with the words: “We can never thank you enough for your service and we are so pleased to see you back on the job!”

Matson was one of the officers who rushed into the synagogue to try and stop the shooter, Robert Bowers. Matson is credited with saving lives as a result of his efforts. He was shot along with another Pittsburgh officer, Anthony Burke, as they and other members of the SWAT team entered the synagogue to clear the building and search for those who were wounded and other survivors, along with the gunman.

Six weeks later, while he remained the only injured victim hospitalized, Matson’s name was one of those offered up for prayer during a combined Hanukkah service with members of the Tree of Life congregation at Rodef Shalom.

Two months after that, while still recovering from his injuries, Matson was one of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s guests at the State of the Union address.

“In October 2018, Tim responded to the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds and saved countless lives in that heinous, anti-Semitic attack,” the White House said in its announcement.

Matson has been an officer with the Pittsburgh police since 2005. He joined the department’s SWAT team in 2016.

While he was in the hospital, Matson’s fellow officers praised his positive attitude and marveled at his ability to laugh and joke with them.

“Tim said from day one that he would be back. He’s worked extremely hard over the last two years to make this a reality and we couldn’t be prouder or more thankful to Tim and all who stood by his side during this incredible journey,” said Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert. “If anyone was going to do this, after everything he’s been through, I knew Tim could.”

Other officers injured in the Tree of Life attack were Daniel Mead, who was shot in the hand, and Michael Smidga, who was wounded by shrapnel that hit his face. Two other officers, John Persin and Tyler Pashel, suffered hearing and knee injuries respectively.

“Officer Matson is a model of selflessness and dedication to others, and a great example of the public service police officers and other city employees provide to Pittsburgh residents every day,” Mayor Bill Peduto said.

Matson could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Paul Guggenheimer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Paul at 724-226-7706 or pguggenheimer@triblive.com.

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Accused Tree of Life shooter’s request to drop some charges is denied by federal judge

Accused Tree of Life shooter’s request to drop some charges is denied by federal judge

LAUREN LEE, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 15, 2020, 10:33pm


https://www.post-gazette.com/news/cr...s/202010150196
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...1893#post21893
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...1893#post21893

A federal judge denied a request Thursday to drop specific charges against Robert Bowers, the man who is accused of killing 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018.

Mr. Bowers’ defense motioned to dismiss charges filed against him for violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Church Arson Act, arguing that both acts allegedly “infringe on a general police power reserved to the states by the Constitution.”

In response, U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose detailed her opinion in a 20-page document, stating the defendant’s argument ignores the dual-sovereign concept, where federal laws “often criminalize conduct that falls within traditional areas of state law.”

The Hate Crimes Prevention Act states that anyone who “willfully causes bodily injury to any person, or through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person [shall be subject to punishment].”

Judge Ambrose said that the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution — which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude — authorizes this act.

Judge Ambrose also dismissed Mr. Bowers’ request to drop charges against him under the Church Arson Act, which states that anyone who “intentionally obstructs, by force or threat of force, including by threat of force against religious real property, any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs, or attempts to do so” shall be punished.

Judge Ambrose on Friday denied additional attempts by Bowers' lawyers to get the gun charges against him dismissed.

Mr. Bowers' lawyers had filed a motion to dismiss counts 23-33, 38 and 39, and 52 to 63, all related to the use of a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.

The lawyers argued that the crimes as filed under federal statutes are not qualifying crimes of violence, that one of the statutes is too vague, that two of the charges violate double jeopardy and other claims.

The judge rejected all of the arguments and the case will proceed to trial.

Lauren Lee: llee@post-gazette.com; @lauren_llee.
First Published October 15, 2020, 10:33pm

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Accused Tree of Life shooter still seeks plea deal

Accused Tree of Life shooter still seeks plea deal

TORSTEN OVE
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, tove@post-gazette.com



https://www.post-gazette.com/news/cr...s/202010230149
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...1933#post21933
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...1933#post21933

Two years after the Tree of Life massacre, the main question remains: Should the accused shooter, Robert Bowers, be put to death or spend his life in federal prison?

Few doubt he will be convicted. The conviction rate in the federal court system is about 95% and the evidence appears overwhelming.

Punishment is the issue.

The Justice Department wants the death penalty. Mr. Bowers’ legal team, which includes a California anti-death penalty specialist known for representing high-profile clients, wants a plea deal.

There is still no trial date and the case has thus far been marked by accusations from the government that the defense has been trying to drag out the case.

Among various arguments over the months, the defense team has invoked COVID-19 as a reason it hasn’t been able to adhere to various deadlines, with the prosecution at one point asking U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose to enforce a strict timeline.

Most recently, the defense team asked for another extension of the pre-trial motions deadline to Jan. 20, pushing a potential trial date back further.

The lawyers — public defenders Michael Novara, Elisa Long and California lawyer Judy Clarke — say they have been working “diligently” on moving the case forward but need more time to review discovery materials and to have experts examine Mr. Bowers’ mental health.

The lawyers have not yet filed notice that they intend to mount a mental health defense, but a status conference has been set for Nov. 2 to discuss the mental issues.

Prosecutors didn’t object to the Jan. 20 deadline extension. But they asked that all pre-trial motions be filed by that date and said the government “will continue to oppose any unwarranted delays in moving this case to trial.”

Judge Ambrose granted the motion on Friday.

Among various motions to be decided are 15 of them filed Oct. 1 to suppress government evidence seized in searches.

But the judge has already ruled on several weighty issues.

Earlier this month she rejected defense motions to dismiss some of the 63 counts against Mr. Bowers.

The lawyers had asked her to toss counts for violations of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Church Arson Prevention Act.

The hate crimes law pertains to anyone who uses a weapon to injure because of race, color, religion or national origin. The defense team had said that the law should not apply because the Tree of Life victims were Jewish and Jews were never enslaved in the U.S.

Judge Ambrose said that the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, authorizes the law.

She said that the Supreme Court has recognized that while the “immediate concern” of the 13th Amendment was African slaves, the amendment applies to “universal freedom” for all people.

The same concept applies to the Church Arson Prevention Act, which pertains to anyone who obstructs, by force or threat, “any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs.”

Judge Ambrose also rejected defense motions to dismiss various gun-related charges against Mr. Bowers.

Perhaps the most noteworthy decision by the judge came in April, when she rejected the defense challenge to the federal death penalty.

Mr. Bowers’ lawyers had argued that it violates the Constitution. They said the death penalty is unreliable, imposed arbitrarily and marked by racial disparity against minorities. They also said that the delays between sentence and execution subject inmates to solitary confinement for decades in violation of the Constitution.

Judge Ambrose said the lawyers raise important issues but said she was still “unpersuaded” by the argument.

The defense had said the death penalty is unreliable because an innocent person might be executed. They also argued that jurors qualified to decide a death-penalty case are more likely to convict.

The judge said federal case law holds that the death penalty does not violate the Constitution based on the “mere possibility” that an innocent might be condemned and said the Supreme Court has rejected claims that death-qualified jurors are more prone to convict.

Judge Ambrose also rejected the idea that the death penalty is arbitrary because it is rarely imposed. She said that fact does not make it unconstitutional.

The judge said the defense argument that the death penalty is marked by bias against men and people accused of killing white women “lacks merit.” In addition, she said Mr. Bowers isn’t arguing that race or gender of the victims was a consideration in the Justice Department’s decision to seek death.

She also rejected the defense argument that long delays make the death penalty unconstitutional.

“Delays sought by a defendant to ensure a fair trial do not support a constitutional challenge,” she wrote. “Likewise, the potential for solitary confinement does not support a constitutional challenge.”

The defense also had said “evolving standards of decency” have rendered the death penalty “cruel and unusual punishment,” but the judge rejected that argument, too.

If Mr. Bowers is found guilty and executed, he will the first person from this district ever put to death in the federal execution chamber in Indiana.

Three other men from the Western District of Pennsylvania faced the death penalty but all ended up in prison. One was released.

Joseph Minerd blew up a house in Connellsville in 1999 to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend because she refused to get an abortion. Her 3-year-old daughter also died in the blast. A federal court jury convicted Minerd but spared him the death penalty in 2002. Now 65, Minerd is serving life at FCI Berlin in New Hampshire.

Lawrence Skiba of White Oak hired a hitman from Chicago to kill a McKeesport used-car dealer in 2000 so he could collect on a life insurance policy. He pleaded guilty and cooperated against the hitman. Now 67, Skiba was released from prison in 2019, according to prison records.

Jelani Solomon of Beaver Falls ordered the 2004 contract killing of a witness against him on the eve of his drug trial. A jury convicted him but spared him the death penalty. Now 41, he is serving life at FCI McKean in McKean County, Pa.

Torsten Ove: tove@post-gazette.com

First Published October 25, 2020, 5:30am
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