You’ve got to have dreams, don’t you? Most of us dream of doing something good with our lives, achieving something of significance. Apparently, however, ?something of significance? is more subjective than one might think. It turns out, for 73-year-old F. Glenn Miller Jr., ?something of significance? amounts to killing, or at least, attacking Jews.
Last April, white supremacist Miller did just that. He killed three people outside a Jewish Community Center and a retirement center in Overland Park, Kansas, none of which ended up being Jewish.
Hey, no one said achieving your dreams was going to be easy.
Recently, Miller has opened up about his killing spree, explaining a bit of his motives for the heinous, bigoted crime. According to The Kansas City Star, this charming racist facing capital murder charges was under the impression he was dying due to an emphysema diagnosis he received last March, a month before the murders.
Miller stated in one of several phone interviews with The Star:
?I was convinced I was dying then? I wanted to make damned sure I killed some Jews or attacked the Jews before I died.?
No doubt, something we’ve all got on our bucket lists, eh? Order the casket, get your will and testament in order, kill the Jews, pass away. That’s how Americans go off into that great, wide Christian heaven, isn’t it? The more Jews you kill, the closer you get to God. Everyone’s always aiming for that VIP box, I know? I know.
Miller’s victims were a 69-year-old physician, William Corporon, Corporon’s 14-year-old grandson Reat Underwood, and 53-year-old Terri LaManno. Again, none of which were Jewish, so no gilded points for Miller, there. Looks like he’ll be sitting in that great pearly dug-out in the sky shuffling his feet and sucking chaw.
The deranged killer too cowardly to face death without bringing a few people along with him is a fairly well-known white supremacist who has also gone by the name of Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. in the past. Miller/Cross Jr. was a leader of the white power party in North Carolina at one time, running for ? shudder ? numerous political offices, including both governor and the U.S. Senate. That should give you some indication of the potential quality of candidates currently making up the U.S. government. After all, a country founded on racism and genocide is likely still a country operating through racism and genocide, no?
At another point in the phone interviews with The Star, Jr. said:
?Because of what I did, Jews feel less secure.?
?Less secure?? Really? Was committing multiple murders the only way Jr. could think of making ?Jews feel less secure?? Couldn’t he have just as well insulted their fashion sense, or their cooking? Couldn’t he have simply come up with sneaking bacon into their pickle brine? Surely there are other ways to make Jewish folks feel ?less secure? than murder. After all, they are just people like the rest of us. What makes anyone feel less secure? Okay, sure, being murdered could make me feel less secure; I guess Miller’s got me there. That’s never a good feeling, always wondering if you’re alive or going to live, but it’s an awfully ugly, messy way to go, and it ruined his own life in the process. From the sounds of it, I guess, though, Miller’s life wasn’t worth much anyway. It seems even he knows that.
Jr. went on:
?Every Jew in the world knows my name now and what I did. As for these ? white people who are accomplices of the Jews, who attend their meetings and contribute to their fundraising efforts and who empower the Jews, they are my enemy too. A lot of white people who associate with Jews, go to Jewish events and support them know that they’re not safe either, thanks to me.?
I guess he forgets he’s allegedly dying and currently behind bars. Obviously Jr. is not a golfer.
Miller did say he had one regret, though ? killing that young 14-year-old white boy.
Oh, Miller? Even if he was an ?accomplice? of the Jews? How touching. I guess Jr.’s got a soft spot after all.
When asked to make a statement regarding young Underwood, Miller stated:
?Not now.?
Perhaps he was a little choked up. How endearing.
When selecting his victims for that fateful day last April, Miller said that he’d been scoping out Jewish centers around the Kansas City area online. He also believed, either rightfully so or due to a grand sense of paranoia, that he was being heavily monitored as he did so, thanks to his criminal history.
Miller described some of his paranoid behavior in that time in his attempts to throw the shadowy authorities off his trail:
?I even Googled Islamic community centers, Hispanic community centers, Baptist community centers, just to throw them off. I didn’t drive my truck because I was convinced it was being monitored by satellite by the cops. That’s the reason I took my wife’s car.?
I’m guessing he took the tinfoil hat off for those drives, too. He would have been too easy to spot by satellite, and it always messed up reception from his favorite hickabilly radio station, WKKK.
Miller strapped on his pretend military beret several times in the week prior to the killings as he surveyed the Community Center, stating:
?I reconnoitered the damned place.?
Let’s see if we can get Jr. to spell that, shall we?
Chillingly, however ? all jokes aside ? Miller claimed he’d approached the community center for the first time about six days before the shootings. He was unarmed and simply checking to see whether he would be stopped entering the building. He stated:
?I parked right in front of it and drove around. If the feds had been monitoring me, they’d have stopped me right then because they were afraid I was going to kill somebody.?
The deliberate, methodical planning of that detail really puts into perspective the ugliness of the killings, as it shows that Miller is not crazy. He’s really just a sick racist murdering bastard. He is not a sick, racist murdering bastard who got cut off in traffic by someone taken for being Jewish and then shoots them dead in a fury of racist, melanin-deficient rage. No, this was a temperament he lived with, happy, sad, angry and glad. It was something he planned, cool-headed with an ugly prejudice.
Miller told The Star he’d chosen April 13 as the designated day because the community center he was targeting was organizing to host a talent competition that day similar to ?American Idol?. He said:
?And according to the flier that I read, it says young Jews from all over will be participating.?
Old Miller must have been dancing in his Klan robe reading that. He must have figured, get ?em while they’re hot! But he almost didn’t go through with it that day; he thought there weren’t enough people to kill after all. He was hoping for ?maybe six or eight? and there weren’t enough ?to satisfy [his] quota.? But hell, you can’t get all cocked and loaded without shooting off a few rounds, can you? You can almost hear Miller grumbling to himself in his vehicle, ?Well hell, I’m here and ready to go, let’s just do this thing.?
And he did. Miller killed three people that day, like a f*cking idiot. Three people lost their lives because America can’t get its racism under control, and Miller’s just one of countless examples. And there will be more, oh yes. We’re a far cry from taking care of racism in this country. There’s a reason the Klan is threatening to kill peaceful protestors in Ferguson, MO on Monday and the local police don’t have the tact to tell the Klan to stay home, that they don’t want their support, that the Klan showing support for the local police is only going to cause more turmoil and violence in the community. America can’t even find its safety anymore. We’ve been cocked from the beginning.
After the smoke cleared, those three dear people were dead, many others had barely escaped the bullets whizzing by their heads, and one woman was mercifully released from execution simply because she’d told Miller she wasn’t Jewish, despite, evidently being an ?accomplice? of the Jews. Miller then called 911 with a fistful of Wild Turkey in the other hand from a parking lot nearby.
Mulling over his ?great deed,? his ?something of significance,? thinking of the end and the sirens approaching, Miller told The Star:
?I have never felt such exhilaration.? Finally, I’d done something.?
You sure did, Miller. You showed us all the power of ignorance, the grip hate can put on one’s life, and how the rest of us can come together in a time of tragedy, Jews and gentiles, and love one another.
May peace rest forever on the lives lost to the actions of this wretched man.
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H/T: rawstory.com / (Featured image courtesy of kansascity.com)
Dylan Hock is a poet, novelist, professor and social activist. He is published in a number of little magazines and has an essay on the muzzling of Ezra Pound included in the anthology ?Star Power: The Impact of Branded Celebrity?. Currently, he also writes and edits for If You Only News, Addicting Info, Green Action News, and Take 10. Follow him on Ello, Google+, LinkedIn, RebelMouse and Goodreads. Hire him for freelance writing and editing work on Elance.
