General's Aide Investigated Over His "Howtokillpeople.com" Website

[DeSwiss]

General's aide investigated over his Howtokillpeople.com site
State National Guard puts airman on leave, begins investigation

Contra Costa Times
By Thomas Peele, STAFF WRITER
Article Launched: 08/23/2007 03:32:29 AM PDT

The California National Guard placed on leave the personal assistant to its top general on Wednesday and launched an investigation hours after the Times questioned a Web site he maintains called "Howtokillpeople.com" that advocates mass violence. "I, honestly, would like nothing more than to assist in the wholesale slaughter of every idiot on the face of the planet," Senior Airman Travis Gruber of Sacramento writes on the site. In other postings and in a related blog, Gruber denigrates African-Americans, Jews, Asians, women, gays and people with physical handicaps.

Until Wednesday, Gruber was the personal assistant and driver to Major Gen. William Wade, the Guard's commanding officer. The job gave Gruber access to the state's leaders, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he trashes in a posting that questions the governor's intelligence. Military law forbids soldiers from using "contemptuous words" about civilian leaders. Gruber, who says on the Web site that he's 26, does not identify himself in his postings as a National Guard member, nor does he mention Wade by name, but he refers to his boss as "the big guy." He makes references to a job that allows him occasional access to the governor and others.

Gruber blogged that when once ordered to drive "the big guy" to Oakland earlier this year, he loaded a shotgun with extra shells and filled a pistol "to the brim with hollow-point" bullets because he feared entering the city unarmed. In a separate Web posting, he wrote of a woman who once approached him with a question as he waited for Wade at the state Capitol and that he later regretted not "crushing her windpipe" and slamming his car door into her legs for bothering him. After learning of the Web site Wednesday, the Guard placed Gruber on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation, said Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann, a spokesman.

*snip*

Gruber, in a statement Siepmann issued, said he is "sorry if I have misrepresented or left a black mark on the California Military Department. I was under the impression that I was writing anonymously." In the statement, he said that he does not "condone acts of violence or aggression." He called his sense of humor "dark and distasteful." Despite its name, the Web site contains no instructions on how to kill people. Rather, much of it is dedicated to social commentary, vulgar humor and sex jokes. The site contains several pictures of Gruber holding what appear to be automatic weapons, including one of him pointing a gun at black people in tribal garb.

Read more: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_6692311?source=sb-reddit

Link to: http://www.Howtokillpeople.com

Link to: Google cache of previous webpage: http://search.mywebsearch.com/mywebsearch/GGcached.jhtml?pg=GGmain&ord=0&action=click&searchfor=Howtokillpeople.com&curl=http%3A%2F%2Fhowtokillpeople.com%2F&isDirResults=false&tpr=&cid=KZtain8RR34J&st=bar&ptnrS=ZPmhp001YYUS&ct=GC


*** - If you're a bigot and want an outlet to display your bigotry anonymously on the internets, its probably a good idea not to post your picture on your webpage. He must work for "Military Intelligence."

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Oh Man, this guy got the job I have been dreaming about

Suspended with pay! One of my highest aspirations in life! Right up there with "Professional sun tan getter". Some people have all the luck.

[DeSwiss]

5. "Some people have all the luck....."

Yeah, but he deserves it. He's such a sweet guy. And funny.

I know that whenever I think funny, I think hollow-point bullets and crushed windpipes. Doesn't everybody?

[pingzing58]

2. On paid leave? What more evidence do they need? Just because he didn't electrocute dogs...

[DeSwiss]

7. Well, from the looks of some of the offerings.....

...that he had at his site before they shut him down, I wouldn't be too sure of that. On the otherhand, he strikes as a textbook example of a narcissist. Dogs would take up too much time from his mirror. Its not dark humor, its just dark....

[Up2Late]

3. Looks like the site was shut down by investigators, but thankfully, we still have the Google Cache..

...for anyone interested. (some of the pictures are gone from Flickr, but most of it's still there).

Btw, not only did the guy (and his friends) post pictures of himself, he also posted a Google Map that showed where he lives, where is MOM lives, and the route he takes to get to his Mom's house! :banghead: :spray:

Yeah, you though you were Anonymous.

[Bluebear]

4. I suppose he will claim there is a War on CHRISTmas when he sobers up:

Weighing in at about 15 inches long and filled to the brim with an entire 750ml bottle of Vodka the Mighty Dick Shaped Jello Shot not only enhances any party you attend it also loosens the morals of chicks on the verge of pillow fighting, brings together warring factions in far off countries, cures cancer and makes a great conversation piece when the in-laws are over for the holidays. The awkward part of the scenario is the fact that, at the time, I was living with the family of J0b including his three very young daughters and continually skirting the issue of what we were making made the evening adventurous. As the jello solidified into its glorious jiggly self we drank and I got dressed up in my super disco Santa outfit. We called a cab and it was time to make our grande appearance at the Christmas party.

We showed up to the party drunk and ready for frat boy style shennanigans but what we walked into was the world’s most Emo Christmas Party. The entire crowd was split into small groups that were talking quietly as scratchy music played of a tinny-sounding record player. One girl, after eyeing the mighty cock of jello with what i can only assume was lust, told us that we’d be better off drinking red wine and began to espouse the virtues of her drink of choice.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Cvj3QHEh1A4J:howtokillpeople.com/2007/01/29/christmas-ought-five-part-two/+http://howtokillpeople.com/2007/01/29/christmas-ought-five-part-two/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[Up2Late]

10. Oh I love this, it won a Bloggers Choice Award...

howtokillpeople.com | Blogger's Choice Awards
Best Humor Blog > Howtokillpeople.com. A website written by an alcoholic misanthrope with a penchant for derisively running his mouth off with little or no concern for the repercussions.:spray: :rofl:

Hey, who's laughing now? Me, that's who.

[DeSwiss]

12. Well, correct me if I'm wrong Bluebear....

...but I think the boy is dealing with some gender issues. Maybe it was the way he said, "filled to the brim....."

[orleans]

8. what's flickr ?? n/t

[Up2Late]

11. It's a Photo hosting site, like Webshots or that one with the yellow frog.

Man, I can't think of the name of that site right now.

(Edit to add the Flickr link)
<http://www.flickr.com/>

[DeSwiss]

9. How much you want to bet.....

...that he lives in the basement?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[orleans]

6. well, his website is mostly down

he has a little note on the top page, asking for continued support and giving his email address:
"If you would like to contact me for any further information my email address is htkpeeps at gmail.com."

so i went on the waybackmachine
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://howtokillpeople.com

there were still some pages up about ten minutes ago, but now i can't connect to them

oh, here we go. a lovely picture of this asshole is the third cached hit down.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ahowtokillpeople.com

"I was under the impression that I was writing anonymously"
ugh.

[Up2Late]

13. Here's his MySpace Page! It's set to Private, but I wonder if he's...

...dumb enough to still be excepting new MySpace Friends?

I'm going to put in an "Add Request" to find out.:evilgrin:

<http://www.myspace.com/htkpeeps>

[Up2Late]

15. Looks like he's checking his MySpace (his "on line now" indicator is on)...

...but no approval yet for me.

I bet he's approving the "hot babes" first.:kick:

[Up2Late]

14. Wow, I just found another website where he was a "guest" writer...

...and it has a picture of him holding two handguns. Sort of reminds me of the Virginia Tech shooter pictures.

<http://fasterthantheworld.com/profile/your_parents_hate_you.html>

[Bluebear]

16. Something is clinically wrong with him.

And get a load of this:

http://fasterthantheworld.com/2007/04/an_open_letter_to_sheryl_crow.html

[Up2Late]

19. Oh boy, all his claims that his writing is "humor" is really well demonstrated here...

...From his "An Open Letter to Sheryl Crow"

"...Tampons are made of – as far as I can tell – cotton; and cotton is made from, you guessed correctly, little fluffy bunnies. This is of course based on the four and a half seconds of research I did by remembering a song we used to sing when I was a child.

“Here comes Peter Cotton Tail…” Read that again – COTTON. If it weren’t true then it wouldn’t be in a kids song...."

Humor...No, I don't think so, just angry and dumb.:eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

20. Holy shit, this guy is disturbed

He actually thinks cotton for tampons comes from bunnies (Peter Cotton Tail)??

He's a nasty ball of misogynist, coprophilia and extreme ignorance.

And this guy holds an important military position?

Get his ass to Iraq and get him a job defusing IED's.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. What an idiot

He thought he was writing anonymously?

:rofl:

[otherlander]

18. So if you advocate violence against people

you get to be paid money for not working? Who the hell would make such an idio-
Oh. This was the California National Guard's decision? No further questions.