Austin bomber had list of future targets and made a 25-minute 'confession' video

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/LA Times

Conditt took classes at Austin Community College from 2010 to 2012 and was home-schooled, according to college officials and social media posts from his mother, who said he graduated high school in 2013.

"He's thinking of taking some time to figure out what he wants to do ... maybe a mission trip," said a Facebook post by Danene Conditt announcing his graduation, which included a photo of Mark Conditt.

In an old blog under Mark Conditt's name, started apparently as part of a community college class assignment, the author wrote in 2012 that he was conservative but "not that politically inclined." He wrote posts opposing abortion, favoring the death penalty and arguing that gay marriage should be illegal.

"I view myself as a conservative, but I don't think I have enough information to defend my stance as well as it should be defended," read the blog's biography page. "The reasons I am taking this class is because I want to understand the US government, and I hope that it will help me clarify my stance, and then defend it."


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The bomber left a confession and some more information about his motives.

[dalton99a]

1. "the outcry of a very challenged young man" dealing with problems in his personal life

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-austin-bombings-suspect-20180321-story.html

Conditt didn't appear to be motivated by terrorism or hate, but the confession investigators found on his cellphone was "the outcry of a very challenged young man" dealing with problems in his personal life, said Austin Police Chief Brian Manley.

[TomCADem]

2. Updated Link To Your Story...

...it seems to be more up to date.

[RussBLib]

5. I keep hearing he had "problems in his personal life"

Well, duh!!! Anyone that plants bombs and sends them to people has a problem in his personal life!!!

But like what? Did his dog get run over? Girl jilted him for a black dude? Did God not answer his prayers? What pushes you so far over the edge you start killing people?

[maxrandb]

12. Does anyone doubt for a fucking second

that if this scumbag were named Muhammad, or was a person of color, THE LA TIMES WOULD NOT DESCRIBE HIM AS "A VERY CHALLENGED YOUNG MAN DEALING WITH PROBLEMS IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE?????

The racism, bigotry and "bias" is staring us right in the face in this case, and yet...crickets from the media.

Fuck this country all to hell!

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. This was his home

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[NBachers]

4. If I don't work, I don't have money to live on. Conditt didn't work. Where'd he get his money?

[BigmanPigman]

6. The article say he bought a house so he must have had some

money from someone or something to be able to do that. This is from the article, "Conditt, who had two younger sisters, moved away from home in recent years and bought a house but returned to visit, Reeb said.".

[NBachers]

7. Yeah, I saw that. This makes me even more curious about where his money came from, if he hadn't

worked for a year. Maybe his parents supported him, or maybe he got room-mates to help pay the bills.

[BigmanPigman]

8. That's what I believe too.

[Princess Turandot]

9. He had 2 roommates..

Some of the articles mention them, as they were interviewed by the police.

[csziggy]

13. One of the other articles said he bought the lot with his father

And his father helped him build the house. But to me, that looks like the classic old Southern house and does not look recently built. Maybe his father helped him with improvements to the house?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. He was a home schooled conservative christian.

"Texas has no authority over home schooling," said a spokesperson for the Texas Education Agency.

I thought christianity was a "religion of peace".



(Note: the RW is always tarring muslims with sarcastic or acid comments regarding islam as a religion of peace.)

[knightmaar]

11. He went to school to defend his biases

"The reasons I am taking this class is because I want to understand the US government, and I hope that it will help me clarify my stance, and then defend it."

He wasn't there to learn anything except how to argue better in favour of notions he refused to question.

Pretty standard, really, for a religious, conservative person.