Seven years after the fact, the official story is that there’s no known motive behind the Las Vegas mass shooting. Nothing, nada, no idea. At least, that’s the official line. The same goes for would-be Trump assassin Dylan Crooks. It’s all a mystery – and that’s the way it’s likely to stay, it seems, if the investigation follows the script.
It was only the merest accident of leaking her ‘manifesto’ that brought to light that transgender school shooter Audrey ‘Aiden’ Hale was motivated by unhinged hatred of Christians. Had authorities had their way, though, Hale’s motives would have remained sealed behind a court ordered wall of silence for eternity.
That’s certainly what’s happened with the ‘manifesto’ of Christchurch mass shooter, Brenton Tarrant. It’s illegal for New Zealanders to possess Tarrant’s rambling diatribe and make up their own minds what his motives might have been. Kiwis just have to trust the government.
No doubt, if the authorities and their media lickspittles get their way, second would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh’s past and motives will be similarly obscured. Already the fix is setting in: while the Guardian bravely trying to maintain the ‘no known motive’ line, other mainstream media outlets are hard pushing the narrative that ‘his frustration with the US policy on the Russia-Ukraine war’ is all we need to know.
Is it, though?
USA Today says Routh has a “complex history,” which is code for “the man was foaming at the mouth for leftist causes.”
The fix is already setting in: when I posted a comment listing the contents of Routh’s Twitter bio to a major media outlet, the comment was banished. Well awake to how authorities will play this game, independent media are heading them off at the pass. Not The Bee has helpfully compiled what has been uncovered so far.
Routh’s Twitter bio (his account has since been suspended) allegedly read:
LGBT #ACAB Proud dad. Proud LGBTQ+ member. Proud Dem. Don’t follow if you’re a maga! Anti-Nazi. Anti-Fascist. Anti-Racist.
It included flag icons of Ukraine, Palestine, Rainbow and Trans.
Of course, screenshots can be faked, but it is at least certain that Routh had a bee in his bonnet about both Ukraine and Palestine.
It wasn’t always thus, though.
According to Fox News, Routh spent the majority of his life in North Carolina, where he owned a company called United Roofing […]
At one point, Routh had a seemingly normal family in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a wife (Lora), son (Oran) and daughter (Sara).
He even won an award for helping local police with an investigation.
But at some point, things went off the rails.
In 2002, Routh suddenly began accumulating a lengthy rap sheet of everything from stolen goods to hit-and-run. Most startling, though, were a number of weapons charges, including ‘possessing a weapon of mass destruction’. This relates to a standoff with police where he was armed with a machine gun. Yet, he only received probation.
Following his police standoff with the machine gun, Routh and his wife Lora divorced in 2003. In 2018, he moved to Hawaii to start a construction business addressing homelessness.
A pickup truck outside his residence was photographed sporting a Biden-Harris campaign bumper sticker.
Routh had also become a red-hot Bernie bro. He voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but only in a fit of pique at Hillary Clinton for dudding Bernie Sanders. He later wrote of his regret at doing so, with these ominous words:
“You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment... no one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection.
He supported Sanders again in 2020, and donated small sums to ActBlue, a major Democratic campaign fund, at least 19 times. By 2024 he was parroting the Democrat talking-point that ‘DEMOCRACY is on the ballot’, and that Trump was a modern-day Hitler.
His son Oran Routh apparently shares dear old Dad’s TDS:
He said his father hates Trump as ‘every reasonable person does.’
‘I don't like Trump either,’ the son added.
But he said his dad is not a violent person and couldn’t believe his father would target the president.
No, not at all a violent person… just ignore the machine-gun thing.
Routh was, it is true, violently passionate about Ukraine. He became one of many ‘international volunteers’ in the war, although the ‘not a violent person’ alarmed fellow American nurse Chelsea Walsh. Walsh put Routh at the top of a list of ‘Overall Predatory Behavior (or anti-social traits)’. She also reported her concerns to the FBI and Interpol. Neither followed up, she says.
But Routh was also coming to the attention of mainstream media. He featured in a promotional video for the neo-Nazi Azov battalion, and was interviewed by both Newsweek and the New York Times. The Times at least seems to have sniffed something off about Routh.
In March 2023, Routh was named in a New York Times article titled “Stolen Valor: The US Volunteers in Ukraine Who Lie, Waste and Bicker” […] The article discusses “volunteers” that are using the war in Ukraine for their own profit.
The article cites Routh as trying to recruit former Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine, including illegally smuggling people from Pakistan and Iran.
Routh also attacked former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, and ‘the Jews’ for supposedly stealing ‘Palestine’. He also passionately supported BLM.
All of this points to a disturbed man who drank much of the Democrat Kool-Aid about “saving democracy” that has been pushed on the American public in regards to the war in Ukraine and the 2024 election.
But, hey, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes. Trust the Feds and the mainstream media.
After all, why wouldn’t you?
