Some people make a killing in music, some musicians just flat out kill people. Most people who play music are the ones who like to promote peace and understanding, but not this one guy. He used his music for hatred While the facts are all being sorted out, but the Sunday shooting in Wisconsin at a Sikh Temple where at least 7 people have lost their lives--including the gunman, now we learning something interesting;
Per Gawker
Wade Michael Page, the 40-year-old Army veteran who allegedly killed seven on Sunday at a Sikh Temple in suburban Milwaukee, was a member of white-power hardcore band End Apathy, according to The Southern Poverty Law Center. Some biographical details match: Page was born in Colorado and was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina; in an interview with the band's label, the Wade Page of End Apathy says that he's lived in North Carolina and Colorado.
Per the NYT
Page is the leader of a racist white-power band.”They said Mr. Wade played guitar and sang vocals for a band started in 2005 called End Apathy.“This guy was in the thick of the white supremacist music scene and, in fact, played with some of the best known racist bands in the country,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the center. “The music that comes from these bands is incredibly violent and it talks about murdering Jews, black people, gay people and a whole host of other enemies. It is music that could not be sold over the counter around the country.
There goes that argument that musicians are artists as artists are supposed to be fragile and delicate, this man if true was a monster. I wonder what kind of music he was into and I also wonder since he has a 9/11 tattoo if he thought he was gunning down those poor Sikhs thinking they were Muslims.
Fear and Outrage in Wisconsin After 6 Killed at Sikh Temple; Gunman ID'd as White Supremacist Vet
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