We all knew he was batshit crazy but we may just have scratched the surface when it comes to understanding the beast that is Dylann Roof.

We saw Friday that he wore a jacket adorned with the old South African and Rhodesian (now Zimbabwe) flags, not on the day of the killing but in photos found on his Facebook page. Now a website has been discovered, registered under his name on 9 February and then masked to hide the name the next day, and it paints a picture of an incredibly disturbed young man. Here’s the New York Times:

The site shows a stash of 60 photographs, many of them of Mr. Roof at Confederate heritage sites or slavery museums, and includes a nearly 2,500-word manifesto in which the author criticized blacks as being inferior while lamenting the cowardice of white flight…

“We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

Both the Charleston Police Department and the FBI are aware of the website (lastrhodesian.com) and are seeking to verify its authenticity, although those who know him are convinced he is the man behind it. Below are some of the lowlights from the website:

The icon for the browser tab on Mr. Roof’s website is an Othala rune, an ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis that remains common among neo-Nazi groups…

The website’s links contain several passages of long racist rants, in which he said Hispanics are enemies, and “Negroes” have lower I.Q.s and low impulse control. The manifesto praises segregation and says the author’s reading of “hundreds” of slave narratives indicates that almost all slaves gave positive accounts of their lives.

I find it amazing that anyone this deluded is able to string more than a few sentences together, and quite how none of his friends saw fit to alert someone to ramblings such as these is nothing short of criminal.

[source:newyorktimes]