LILLEY: Aggrieved gunman in Montreal police shooting hated porn the most
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The shooting in Montreal that took the life of a police officer, an innocent civilian, and an aggrieved man from Alberta took place outside the headquarters of one of the world’s most popular pornography websites.
Police have yet to state that Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, was the target, but the address matches and the manifesto left behind by the shooter explicitly states that porn companies were legitimate targets.
Seth Hatfield, an honours student studying for his graduate degree at the University of Lethbridge, left behind a manifesto angry at the world. While he was critical of capitalism, clearly hated Jews and Zionists — calling them legitimate targets, he also had pornography companies on his long list of places it was acceptable to launch attacks.
“Large pornographic industry conferences, the headquarters of international pornography companies, and prominent individuals who are pornographic actors or actresses themselves, and who are very wealthy, and actively promote pornography to the public,” Hatfield wrote.
What he wrote in manifesto
In another part of the manifesto, he wrote that porn companies are as bad as drug dealers.
“Porn companies themselves are just as bad, if not worse than drug dealers are, for the porn company effectively acts as both a drug manufacturer, and a drug dealer, while the ‘drug’ that they proliferate is just as harmful and even more ubiquitous than actual drugs are,” he wrote.
While often going on anti-government screeds, he also called for strict government controls not only pornography but social media and the internet in general.
“Pornography and dating apps should obviously be abolished, and social media should probably be abolished as well, or at the very least it must be heavily altered into a restricted form that works with a harmonious and healthy society,” Hatfield wrote.
He declared that “western governments are merely puppet entities, whose primary function is to preserve bourgeois dominance” while also railing against the Jewish and Zionist influence on the bourgeois elite.
Hatfield also took issue in his manifesto with women, modern relationships, capitalism, plastic surgeons, microplastics, those destroying the environment through the “oil, logging, and agricultural industries,” as well as what he called “fur farmers.”
He encouraged those reading his manifesto to arm themselves and select targets including those on his list such as “Elite politicians and their cronies, both ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’; as well as powerful generals, leading military figures, influential Zionists, and war hawks. The headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism are fair game: IBM, Microsoft, Boeing, etc.”
Not a coherent political philosophy
This manifesto was not a coherent political philosophy, odd coming from a graduate student in philosophy. He seemed to stitch together a great many grievances that he saw as making the modern world, especially the Western world, less than optimal for living a good life, especially for men.
This was not, as some media outlets have tried to claim, a clear manifesto from a violent extremist on the far-right.
At one point he praises the countries of China, Laos, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba for not having a consumerism culture due to their history with communism, at another point he praises China’s swift justice for heinous crimes. He praises communism, Karl Marx, and other prominent far-left figures throughout.
In the end, those asking why a man from Lethbridge drove across the country to open fire on innocent people will only have one answer and even that won’t make sense to most of us.
He didn’t like pornography.