New York Post

AN ONLINE MANIACAL MANIFESTO

- By LAURA ITALIANO

A half hour before the Saturday-morning massacre at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso, a seething, anti-immigrant manifesto appeared on the Web site 4chan and 8chan, and, by evening, investigat­ors were probing if it was posted by shooting suspect Patrick Crucius.

Authoritie­s had yet to confirm if it had been written by Crucius, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen told reporters during an evening press conference.

“Right now we have a manifesto from this individual, that indicates to some degree, it has a nexus to potential hate crime,” Allen said — sounding uncomforta­ble even speaking about the disturbing document.

The manifesto, titled “The Inconvenie­nt Truth,” starts out proclaimin­g the author’s support for the March shootings at two mosques in Christchur­ch, New Zealand.

“This attack,” the author then says, in an apparent reference to his own sick handiwork, “is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

“They are the instigator­s, not me,” he rails.

“I am simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacemen­t brought on by an invasion,” the author wrote.

Three citizens of Mexico were among the dead, and six were among the injured, Mexican officials said Saturday night.

The Walmart is adjacent to the sprawling Cielo Vista Mall, a popular shopping destinatio­n among Mexican tourists.

The manifesto bemoans that “America is rotting from the inside out,” and predicts that “the heavy Hispanic population in Texas will make us a Democrat stronghold.”

It goes on to blame immigratio­n for everything from to the loss of jobs to runaway pollution.

Then the author writes about his weaponry, griping that he’d rather have used something far more powerful.

“Main gun: AK47,” the author states under the heading, “Gear.”

“I realized pretty quickly that this isn’t a great choice since it’s the civilian version of the ak47,” he complains.

“It’s not designed to shoot rounds quickly,” he laments.

“So it overheats massively after about 100 shots fired in quick succession.”

The author goes on to humble-brag about having spent less than a month, not much time at all, preparing for the attack.

“I have do this before I lose my nerve,” he wrote.

“I figured that an underprepa­red attack and a meh manifesto is better than attack and no manifesto.”

He sees his actions as “faultless,” he adds.

And he’s not a racist, he claims. “This isn’t an act of imperialis­m but an act of preservati­on,” he writes of the attack.

“America is full of hypocrites who will blast my actions as the sole result of racism and hatred of other countries, despite the extensive evidence of all the problems these invaders cause and will cause.

Government­s kill millions through “imperialis­tic wars,” he “reasons” — so why shouldn’t he?

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