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A recent story in a Las Vegas newspaper ("Shooters in Metro ambush that left five dead spoke of white supremacy and a desire to kill police", Las Vegas Review-Journal 6/8/2014) now has 15,793 comments. Reading through a small sample of them, I wasn't surprised by the usual teabugger vs. libturd name-calling.

And I expected a smattering of various sorts of conspiracy theories. But I wasn't expecting the sheer volume of (hundreds and hundreds of) comments insisting that this event was a "false flag" or "psyops" hoax. For example:

4 corporations own the entire MSM

Wake up you dumb sheep

These supposed false flag shootings are becoming more sloppy and nonsensical with each hoax

This is another HOAX patriots…..Another Homeland Security DRILL. Send these Jokers back to Hollywood……..Wellaware1 (dot) com 

this is beginning to look like another contrived, scripted, government run false flag to shape the national gun control debate the direction of gun confiscation to remove self defense from law abiding gun owners.

These false flag shootings are getting REALLY OLD…One right after another, they are DETERMINED to take your guns away america, and then, you will be crushed!

This looks like another false flag operation, just like the stupid shooting in Kansas. These people all have FBI handlers.

when they jump and every time they jump on a story have allot of infor and target a people ..IT IS A FALSE FLAG SET UP BY THIS.. criminal enterprise.. in power

This reeks of false flag.

False flag psyop to distract the masses and pin blame on any and all political opponents

Yet another staged shooting with mind-controlled assets. This tactic is getting very old…

They are drugging the water so people can't think logically and sniff out these false flag operations of Obamas.

False flag op. Zerobama wants his race war.

I smell a false flag. This is just too convient and well timed.

This sounds like a government black ops project.

Bergdahl is a psy-op. This shooting is a psy-op. Sandy Hook was questionable at best. "We are in an info-war and we are losing that war"-Hillary Clinton.

This sounds like a psy-op to demonize the tea party and the right in general! You might see more of this and I would be willing to bet this is a left wing op. Some time in the future we may see a really big event, "like OK City" that will be the excuse to come for our weapons and crush us.

While some of the false-flag/psyops commenters seem to think that the whole incident was staged or perhaps just invented by the lying media, others think that some sort of mind-control was involved, e.g.

One comment that I can't now locate blamed radio waves, specifically those associated with the TETRA project, which the commenter seemed to think is some kind of United Nations mind-control plot responsible for a wave of mental illness among Iraq and Afghanistan vets.

A few commenters accepted the reality of the shootings but felt that the perpetrators didn't go far enough:

Why do White Supremist always shoot white cops? Go shoot black folk like they been killing Whites for god's sake! Or, shuck a libtard or two. Dam…

Its a good start but what we really need is more Tim McVeighs……you filthy, aids ridden, liberal scumbag

It was not surprising to see  a few thousand Obama-hating posts, and a certain amount of unadorned racism:

You black people need to learn how to shoot. Every time you kill one of your homies you wound six people and put them on disability. You're obsessed with hanging onto your package while holding your gun sideways over your head and firing away while hopping from foot to foot, yelling mufuggah, mufuggah. That's no way to shoot.

Hey, is that your daddy in your avatar? Sure look like a dumb azz jig that did your moms….

 But what surprised me the most was the number and intensity of anti-semitic comments, e.g.

The tea bags are controlled opposition funded by jew billionaires. It's basically a way to keep disenfranchised Whites from forming legitimate opposition to a regime that intends to wipe them out in several generations.

America is zionist-occupied territory. The German National Socialist party – an insufficiently radical nationalist opposition to jewish Bolshevism – has not existed since 1945.

When the establishment in the US attacks its critics as "Nazis", it does not mean they are "Nazis" themselves. The "establishment" is genocidal jews and those in their employ.

The jews own or control most of the media. They account for 80% of the political donations to Democrats and 50% of the political contributions to Republicans. They account for the last three heads of the Federal Reserve Bank. It goes on and on and is documented on web-sites like Who Controls America.

Hitler was "right wing" and he killed far fewer people than Obongo. As the revisionists have so thoroughly exposed, there was never a "genocide" of jews under National Socialist Germany.

Look up the income tax rate under Hitler (13.7% at the highest) and compare it to the income tax rates of all the zionist-occupied countries of the West today.

It's amazing the things you can accomplish with the jew parasite taken off your back.

Why are you anonymous hook-nosed parasites claiming that the shooters held pro-White political views?

They killed police. The police are not behind the Third World invasion – they merely have to deal with the aftermath. The jews are though.

Jews are Caucasian but they aren't white. In that breakdown they would be Semitic.

The best thing about Al Sharpton is that he incites so much hatred he gets Jews murdered!

and the jews freeking hate whites more than anything in the universe

Jewlibfalseflag, blameongoy, disarmgoy, exterminategoy, moschiach comes, eat matzoh/drinkmanischevitz/dancehavanagilah

Who taught you..? another Bolshevik Jew teacher In School"? Please…….! 

A "White Supremacist" is a Goy who won't die quietly. "Extermination of the Gentiles is the sacrifice of the Jews." "Find the best of the Gentiles, then kill him." Zohar II 43a Talmud and there's dozens more quotes just like these…

White supremacists? Isn't this what j3w media always says when they don't have anything real to report?

And besides, if the Founders of the United States of America were here  today, the j3w media would most definitely call them WHITE SUPREMACISTS.

Why? Because they created a nation for whites, and whites alone!

The anti-semites disagree about fascism– some are for it, some are against it, as in this exchange:

X: You don't see this oligarchy for its fascism? The government already DOES favor corporate elitism without representing the people. Obama signing the Monsanto protection act last year is the most stark example of this. And these anti-gun bigots STILL believe they have our best interests at heart! Like a religion.

Y: Google "monsanto zionist" for interesting results.

Nearly everyone on the Internet knows that jews are out to destroy the White gene pool.

It's only consistent with their tribe's tendencies to want to produce GMOs that destroy the entire echo-system was we know it.

Trying to scapegoat people who fought back against jews 80 years ago for what jews are doing today seems absurd beyond belief.

X: You can criticize corporations and not lose your job or ability to make a living.

Try criticizing jews or other non-Whites on account of their group tendencies and see where that gets you.

Y: I'm not denying that there's a blacklisting of people with antipathy for zionists. I'm just saying that calling this government "fascist" IS apropos.

X: "Fascism" is more or less a political curse word. It's what people all over the political spectrum call their political opponents when they want to marginalize them. It's really not that descriptive. It sometimes means corporatism but it mostly means those "evil bad people."

Our political system is zionism and social marxism.

I'm tempted to express some sympathy for this comment:

the number one threat to america is the internet. people sit on sites like this all day making snide comments instead of starting new businesses, making good art, visiting with friends and family, drinking beers with neighbors at the local pub. our founding fathers didn't sit around trolling on the internet, they read poetry and chopped wood, drank whiskey, built houses. the future looks bleak.

But I won't.

Instead, how about collecting a large sample of newspaper comments threads, as a basis for various sorts of socio-political sentiment analysis? Commenters are obviously a highly biased sample of the population; and even so, most comments are relatively moderate; but variation in space, time, and topic might still be interesting, as it is in other biased samples like Twitter.