FL School Board Shooter Posted Suicide Note Railing Against the Rich, Linking to Media Matters

Editor's note: see our full coverage of the shooting, including multiple videos, here.

Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a "last testament" on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.

The chilling Facebook statement, posted under the "About Clay" section, talks about being born poor and how the rich "take turns fleecing us":

My Testament: Some people (the government sponsored media) will say I was evil, a monster (V)… no… I was just born poor in a country where the Wealthy manipulate, use, abuse, and economically enslave 95% of the population. Rich Republicans, Rich Democrats… same-same… rich… they take turns fleecing us… our few dollars… pyramiding the wealth for themselves. The 95%… the us, in US of A, are the neo slaves of the Global South. Our Masters, the Wealthy, do, as they like to us…

In addition to the note, Duke also includes a reference to class warfare:

“There’s class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class that’s making war and we’re winning”

- Warren Buffet

And then issues a call to rise up, which seems to be from a poem titled "The Mask of Anarchy":

Rise like lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number.

Shake your chains to earth like dew.

Which in sleep has fallen on you.

Ye are many – they are few.

Besides the writings, Duke also includes an exhaustive list of links under the quote "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" The page includes a link dedicated to Wikileaks, another to a progressive 9/11 truther site, and even Media Matters:

https://metanoia-films.org/index.php

https://www.theprogressivemind.info/

https://www.axisoflogic.com/

https://carolynbaker.net/

https://www.accountabilitycircle.org/

https://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com

https://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

https://mediamatters.org/

https://www.medialens.org/

https://redpill8.blogspot.com/

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Disinfopedia

https://www.stoplying.ca/

https://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

https://luvsite.org/natsec.html

https://www.wearechange.org/

https://wikileaks.indymedia.org/mirrors.html

A description of the video found online says it "explores the rise of mechanistic philosphy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarhical systems."

Duke apparently has a history of violence. WMBB-TV reveals Duke's past:

Clay Duke has quite a history. This video shows him in court over 10 years ago authorities allege he made threats and even shot out the back tires in a woman’s car. He was released in 2004.

On Wednesday morning, school Superintendent Bill Husfelt, who was shot at by Duke, recounts the ordeal and credits God for stopping the bullet meant to kill him: