School Shooter was a Daily Stormer Fan Before the Shuttening When He Lost His Will to Live

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer 
December 16, 2017

RIP

It’s been reported by the Daily Beast that the 21-year-old who shot up a school and killed two Mexicans before killing himself was a Daily Stormer reader.

He committed the act due to depression and alienation.

Daily Beast:

In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little yellow house with his parents, about a mile away from the Giant gas station where he worked and from Aztec High School, where he shot and killed two students and then himself last Thursday.

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When users saw posts from Atchison, who went by dozens of names like “Adam Lanza” and “Future Mass Shooter” on both larger platforms like YouTube and racist communities like The Daily Stormer, they would often ask how his manifesto was going.

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On YouTube, Atchison admitted he posted anonymously on pro-Trump, white-supremacist sites like 4chan’s /pol/ board or The Daily Stormer, but gave up when domain registrars kept shutting down The Daily Stormer’s domain names. He, along with most of The Daily Stormer’s community, said the sites were “shoa’d,” an anti-Semitic slur.

“[I’m] on different youtube channels, anonymous posts on the chans, or my work on ED,” he said. “Formerly DS before it got shoa’d and I’m too lazy to get TOR again.”

I don’t know what he posted as, and it’s not really possible to find out given that huge numbers of our thousands-strong active forum membership was lost after the [anti-Semitic slur] shut the site down.

I haven’t looked into the posts that the Daily Beast is citing as a source for this either, and am well aware that it could simply be made-up to try to smear me.

But let’s run with the idea that he was a member and couldn’t manage to get back on when the site went down. Because this is interesting to me.

Clearly, Atchison was disturbed. If he was not disturbed, he wouldn’t have engaged in a school shooting. As the Daily Beast article recounts, he had a history of being interested in school shooters before he was ever a white nationalist. He had even been visited by the FBI for posting on forums about purchasing weapons for a school shooting.

Before the shooting and the suicide, he left messages about how alone and empty he felt.

And I don’t think it is a jump, if he was someone actively involved in the forum, to suggest that the silencing of our legally protected speech played a role in him eventually going off the deep-end.

What we do here in the Alt-Right is provide young men with a sense of community. Certainly, some of the people who get involved in this community do so because they’ve problems in their life already that they are dealing with – problems which often relate to a lack of a real life community. There is nothing wrong with this. Surely, from the beginning of civilization, churches, bars, clubs and fraternities have been joined by men with problems who are seeking to overcome those problems by finding a place in a community.

Bizarrely, the Daily Beast interviewed the SPLC – the key organization behind the attempt to ban Daily Stormer from the internet – to blame us for the shooting!

Ryan Lenz, who monitors hate groups and extremism for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said Atchison’s pattern is typical of white extremists—even if his years-long archive of school-shooting proclamations might be unprecedented.

“Generally, mass shooters spend a period of time prior to their action steeped in studying previous shooters. They study the aftermath of these individuals. They have a great deal of esteem or respect for others who have done the same,” said Lenz.

“Add in the ideology, in this case these forums—it compounds the severity and the rate of radicalization.”

Lenz said the cocktail of violent rhetoric, mental illness, and economic despair is what leads to “mobilization,” the word experts use for the shift from radicalized online rhetoric to real-life behavior.

“What we’ve found with these ideologies is that they repeatedly lead to violence. There’s a dual line of radicalization happening,” said Lenz. “To steep yourself in Daily Stormer rhetoric and the sites like it is to put yourself in the headspace of where the violence is when not if.”

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“The internet has changed a lot of things. Make it much easier for an alienated, isolated kid to find communities where they feel they belong,” said Lenz. “And it sometimes goes unchecked because of how the alt-right has presented itself: It’s just irony. It’s for the lulz.”

This is like if a man burns down a church and then one of the members of the church loses hope and commits a crime, the church is blamed.

Ryan Lenz, SPLC Jew terrorist

The arrogance is staggering – this belief that the Jews have that they can harm whoever they want, destroy as many lives as they desire with impunity, and if any harm comes from this it is the fault of the goyim victims themselves is difficult to even process. Clearly, they are not self-aware enough to understand what this looks like to an observer, or they would make an effort to conceal it.

Lenz even notes that he had found community, but is unwilling to make the obvious connection to the loss of that community potentially leading to a loss of emotional integrity.

We do not promote violence on this website. We in fact actively discourage it. Not because I care about some dead Mexicans – I don’t and I won’t pretend to – but because I care about our people. There is no reason Atchison needed to die. There was no benefit to his death. And there is no telling what he’d have gone on to do if he had lived.

The Daily Stormer and every other White Nationalist forum that I am aware of discourages violence and encourages community building and self-improvement – all things that would lead to someone with emotional instability being much less likely to engage in a senseless act of violence. When people remove our ability to organize in this peaceful and productive way, they shouldn’t be surprised when some of the lonely and disenfranchised young men involved lash out.

Get Involved

Don’t go down the dark road that Bill went down. Stay sane. Get involved with the movement and make that impotent rage a potent weapon against the kikes that are trying to exterminate us.

The forum is now up and stable, hosted with our friends at thegoyimknow.to. You have to sign up to see it if you don’t already have an account, but the email confirmation should work now. There you can find a community, and you can get involved with the Stormer Book Clubs, which we’ve got big plans for this spring.

We’ve also got a pretty good community going on Gab – you can follow me here and meet up with people. There are lots of chat rooms, lots of good guys to connect with.

Whatever you do, keep your head up and understand this is far from hopeless. We are going to win. If you start to feel depressed, remember that it will get better and don’t do anything stupid. Build a community where you can talk to others – even if it is just online, it can help a lot.

Once you get in with a real life group, you will always have people to fall back on, and you won’t have to worry about the internet going dark and losing all of your friends.

RIP William Edward Atchison