52-year-old, very much white and Scottish, Thomas Alexander Mayer was the culprit. And if you dig into the case a little bit, it's kind of interesting to reflect on exactly what sort of measures might be put in place that could help avoid something like that ever happening again. You see, Mayer was a big fan of one of the UK's big right-wing terrorists, David Copeland. Copeland was a devotee of Franklin Pierce, the author of the Turner Diaries, and he planted three nail bombs back in 1999, specifically targeting a group of black people, Asians, and a gay pub, respectively. Copeland was associated with the National Alliance, and so was Thomas Mayer, as they were both subscribers of their publication, which, almost too perfectly, is called Free Speech. If there's one thing that is so clear from history, and so forgotten and not talked about enough, it's that the free speech grift has long been a central piece of the neo-Nazi strategy. Seeing what we now see from these right-wing shitheads is painfully predictable. Mayer was also a subscriber to a magazine called S.A. Patriot, which was about the plight of whites in South Africa. He wasn't only a reader, he also wrote the magazine in 1999, saying, quote, I still have faith that the white race will prevail, both in Britain and South Africa. I fear that it's going to be a very long and very bloody struggle. You see, Thomas Mayer was a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist and ethno-nationalist, and while he hated people of other races, his primary focus was on collaborators. From his letter, quote, In my opinion, the greatest enemy of the old apartheid system was not the ANC and the black masses, but the white liberals and traitors. Over time, these racially based feelings of who was a traitor and who was not were shaped by contemporary politics. And his writings reflected who he felt were the traitors in the days just before his attack. The liberals, the left, and the media.