And suddenly, this is an older and - though it doesn't seem possible - an even sadder story.
NY Daily News:
Omar Mateen lived a double life.
The homophobic maniac who murdered 49 people inside Orlando’s gay-friendly nightclub Pulse Sunday morning had been hanging out there for three years — and chatted with men via online dating services like Grindr, said multiple witnesses who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of Mateen’s habits.
Mateen’s family said his bloody rampage was sparked by anti-gay hatred.
But his ex-wife, Sitora Yusufiy, when asked on CNN Monday if he was gay, sat in silence for a few seconds before answering, “I don’t know.”The Guardian:
His former classmate Samuel King, who also worked at the same shopping mall as Mateen after high school, said Mateen had known that he and many of his friends were gay but never expressed any disapproval. “He had to know it, but I never got any sense of homophobia or aggression from him,” he told the Washington Post.
The information adds to a complex and often contradictory picture that is emerging of the gunman and his motivation for the outrage. His father, Seddique Mateen, hours after the shooting said that Mateen had once become incensed when he saw two men kissing in Miami in front of his wife and child.I don't know that any of this will matter much because the narrative has been set for the DumFux News crowd - Radical Islamic Terrorism. So the part about the guy being a closeted gay is secondary.
Except when it comes to a maybe kind of a subtle little kink for the Rabid TheoCons. You've got a Muslim with an assault rifle shooting down a buncha QueerFolk.
Forget about all the social toxicity of the Authoritarian shit and the Daddy Issues and Self-Loathing and the Blame-Shifting, and turning that anger outward to keep from totally imploding, while at the same time taking action that will ensure your own demise.
Let's not think about any of that, and let's be sure we don't even try to keep guns away from the nutty people.
The only thing that matters is that we've got a political trifecta for the Right Radicals - a guy they hate is using a weapon they love to kill other people they hate. It doesn't get any better than that for a modern GOP, where thinking things thru is just not something they wanna encourage.
They don't do anything about it - and they obstruct everything anybody else wants to do about it - because it's working for them. They benefit from the problem politically, and their Crony Contributors profit from both the problem itself and the false solutions they support. USAmerica Inc.
These people have no soul and no honor.
