Hmm. An article claims that Dylann Roof got $4 million in donations, from a group calling itself “Citizens for White Rights.”
Only thing is, the news story doesn’t bother to link to any of its sources, adds an incorrect apostrophe to “citizens”, and only shows an image they say they were sent by this mysterious and ungoogleable organization that purports to show online transactions, so who knows, maybe it’s all a fake. I hope. In fact, the only source for this story anywhere on the web is this “newswatch33” site, which looks a little dicey.
I’d like to see a little more verification before I believe any of this story.
The domain name is “do not link”. I think that’s a clue.
No, I put it behind a “donotlink” site so that I wouldn’t be giving them any google-fu.
Ahh OK. I didn’t know that.
Oddly enough the organization is based in Nigeria…
I doubt he could raise that much money but it certainly would be no surprise if a Roof legal defense fund brought in quite a few bucks. It would take some nerve though.
And indeed, via Brayton, a KKK group is doing a recruiting drive based on support for Roof.
““We in the Loyal White Knights of the KKK would like to say hail victory to … Dylan S. Roof who decided to do what the Bible told him,” a man chirps in the recording. “An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. They [black people] have spilled our blood too long. It’s about time someone spilled theirs.”
You are less cynical than I.
When I heard his bail was set at $1 million, I thought, “I bet he has that inside a week.” Or at least the percentage he would need to get the rest from a bailbondsman (though, granted, it’s possible no local bbman would put up the bond).
When he didn’t put up bond, I kind of wondered if he figures he’s safer in prison. (Whether he would be in peril outside of prison I don’t know, but I’m sure he thinks he would be. He thought that even before he murdered nine people.)
But maybe the racist goons who would back him with verbal support are unwilling to put their money where their mouths are, to which I say, good.
frog,
The million dollar bond is for the gun charge only. There’s no bond for the murder charges, so he’s not going free anytime soon. (On my iPhone so I’m not going to try to link, but I googled “Dylann Roof bond ” and found an NPR article.)
It’s the support groups on Facebook that make me cringe. Haven’t followed any of them up, since I first saw them popping up via twitter.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if someone out there is trying to raise some money for him.
Ick, my grandma shares links from this site a lot. There are harmless articles interspersed with a lot of race-baiting bullshit. I can only figure that it’s a pseudo-news site with a business model based on harvesting ad revenue from Facebook shares.
backupbob @11
That comet must be moving very slowly if it’s going to take two weeks to complete the impact.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 did that; took more than a week for all the main bits to impact, because it had been torn apart.
So it’s not 100% bullshit, just almost 100%.
Googling that resulted in snopes addressing the issue:
Newswatch28 is alive. They don’t seem to have any new stories though. Shame. The Onion went pay per view.
@numerobis #14
Mind you, the reason Shoemaker-Levy broke up was because Jupiter tends to have strong tidal forces that work like that on comets, our Earth isn’t likely to do that.
Unless we send out Bruce Willis or whoever with a nuke.