Knoxville Church Shooter "I wanted to kill liberals"
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:17 am
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/feb/0 ... ate-crime/
"This was a hate crime," Adkisson wrote in a four-page "manifesto" he had left inside his truck and intended to serve as a suicide letter.
Adkisson, 58, wrote that he wanted to kill the "generals" of the liberal movement, citing Democrats in Congress, and Supreme Court justices.
But he said he couldn't get to those in power so he opted instead to attack liberalism's "foot soldiers," specifically citing the members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
The letter has been kept under wraps since the July 27 shooting that killed two people and wounded six others.
However, the News Sentinel obtained a copy today minutes before Adkisson pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of life without parole.
"This was a symbolic killing," Adkisson wrote. "Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I knew these people were inaccessible to me.
"I couldn't get to the generals and high-ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chicken (expletive) liberals that vote in these traitorous people."
The grandfather-turned-killer devotes one page of his manifesto to the church itself, where he once attended with his now ex-wife.
"I'd like someone to do an expose on this church," he wrote. "It's a den of un-American vipers.'
"This was a hate crime," Adkisson wrote in a four-page "manifesto" he had left inside his truck and intended to serve as a suicide letter.
Adkisson, 58, wrote that he wanted to kill the "generals" of the liberal movement, citing Democrats in Congress, and Supreme Court justices.
But he said he couldn't get to those in power so he opted instead to attack liberalism's "foot soldiers," specifically citing the members of the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.
The letter has been kept under wraps since the July 27 shooting that killed two people and wounded six others.
However, the News Sentinel obtained a copy today minutes before Adkisson pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of life without parole.
"This was a symbolic killing," Adkisson wrote. "Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate and House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I knew these people were inaccessible to me.
"I couldn't get to the generals and high-ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chicken (expletive) liberals that vote in these traitorous people."
The grandfather-turned-killer devotes one page of his manifesto to the church itself, where he once attended with his now ex-wife.
"I'd like someone to do an expose on this church," he wrote. "It's a den of un-American vipers.'
at T-man...so ONLY you are allowed to blame things?