Mr. Austin Police Chief -- Your Compassion for this White Terrorist is Shamefully Misplaced

Perhaps under the pressure of the climactic end  of this investigation, Austin Deputy Police Chief  Brian Manley misspoke when he characterized the confession of the Austin bomber, Mark Conditt, by saying:

 “He does not at all mention anything about terrorism nor does he mention anything about hate. But instead it is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point.”

Most school shooters and mass murderers in the U.S.  don't go around slaughtering people out of hate, but rather out of a yearning for glory.  What I find most shocking at this point, is not the pattern of white male shooters seeking to gloat over how much carnage they can create in the slaughter of innocent people. It is the refusal of law enforcement, the White House, the society at large to initiate even the merest whisper of a conversation about what soulless rot lies at the core of these individuals and their families and communities that generate such thought and behavioral templates.    

In the midst of this silence, let me offer a hint.  This culture of white nationalism has thus far sustained Donald Trump, the GOP and the NRA. How could they not hate immigrants, who's only wish is to have the opportunity to make a life for themselves in the U.S. Do the aimless Mark Conditt's of the world want to compare their own failures to people who have been given none of the privileges Conditt was born with but failed to use. He could not heal his low self-esteem with explosives just as so many white males in the Trump orbit cannot heal their masculine  insecurities by  stockpiling weapons.  

These unhealed wounds are rotting these males from the inside out. It is this stench of decaying soul-flesh that the students at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have risen up  to shove their generation as far away from as they can get.  I hope they succeed. America's future depends on it.