A highly decorated Army soldier who fatally shot himself just before an explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump hotel in Las Vegas left a note saying it was a stunt to serve as “wake up call” for the country’s ills.

Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in notes he left on his cellphone that he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Livelsberger served in the Army since 2006 and deployed twice to Afghanistan.

“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in one letter found by authorities and released Friday.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    This was also terrorism and occurred only shortly after the terrorist attack in New Orleans, and yet somehow it’s the brown Muslim getting all of the attention for being a terrorist.

    Yes, the white guy who lit fireworks off in a Tesla said it wasn’t terrorism, but he also said that it was to send a message (“a wake up call”)–that’s terrorism. He was a right wing extremist terrorist but because he was white and not an Islamist, it’s just glossed over.

    It doesn’t matter that he was a decorated soldier. He was a terrorist who literally wanted non-Republicans to be hunted down and forced out of the government.