Argh. Yet another fucking
article that uses stupid phrases like "the National Socialist Movement, a group with white-supremacist views" instead of just fucking pointing out that "Nazi" is an abbreviation of "National Socialist". For fuck's sake.
I mean, you know, it's great that you're finally putting the phrase "Neo-Nazi" in headlines about Ready himself (and all it took was for him to murder a house full of people), but referring to the Nazi Movement as "a group with white-supremacist views" is a bit of an understatement. I don't think this is a trivial semantic nitpick here; I think it's okay to describe a Nazi organization using the word "Nazi". I mean, are you worried that you might offend Nazis? Or do you just not know what "Nazi" means?
Hugo Mederos, of Florida, told the Republic that the victims were his former wife, Lisa Mederos, 47, their daughter Amber Mederos, 23, her boyfriend Jim "Jambob" Hiott, 24, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, and Amber’s 16-month-old daughter Lily.
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Morton told the Republic that Ready moved in with Lisa Mederos, but Amber Mederos, her daughter and fiancé had left the family home because Ready was "cruel and controlling."
Morton said Ready had once said of Lily, who was half-Hispanic, “she's 50 percent ugly,” the paper reported. “That's how he described her," she added.
...I'd say something insulting here, but I really don't know how you can even gratuitously insult the guy at this point. "Baby-murdering Nazi" isn't even gratuitous, it's just a statement of fact -- in fact it even DOWNPLAYS how reprehensible a person he was by not mentioning the OTHER three people he murdered.
Really, I mean, you can call this guy a motherfucker and I don't think anyone'll timidly raise a hand and say "Excuse me, but I don't think there's any evidence that he ever actually fucked his mother."
...anyhow. I'd been wondering about the family situation -- whether Lisa's kids were okay with the whole "dating a Nazi" thing. Apparently they were not. I wonder what happened, why they were there that day -- a million damn what-ifs. Wish they hadn't been there.
(Not, of course, to say that Lisa deserved to be murdered either, no matter how questionable her taste in men. But it's even sadder that a family that made a conscious effort to get away from him wound up this way.)
Oh, and just in case your jaw's not already on the floor, you may be wondering how Ready's racist buddies have reacted to the news.
A Facebook page entitled "JT Ready for Sheriff" carried a message from the administrator noting unconfirmed reports that "a cartel assassination squad murdered JT Ready and several of his friends and family this afternoon in Gilbert Arizona," according to Reuters.
I'll be honest: I did not see that coming. I figured they'd be tripping all over themselves trying to distance themselves from him and swear up and down that he was never REALLY one of them. I did not expect they'd go full-on Animal Farm and blame it all on Snowball.