[Here's first account of a serious biography of our man. Ask urself if his activities are NOT perfect profile of a patsy. And when u ck his "comments" he posted on discussion sites, consider if this isn't classic provocateur-type language. I submit Mr. Page was perfect sort of patsy who was run by Feds as provocateur--offed then at an opportune moment.]
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Revealed: Sikh temple gunman was being monitored by feds before massacre - as 911 call from shooting is released
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Wade Michael Page was suspected of providing funding to domestic terrorist groups
Soldier would rant about 'racial holy war', according to a friend
Would try to enlist neo-Nazis on internet forums to 'take action' for the cause
Implored people to 'stand and fight, don't run'
Recently lost his girlfriend and job
Stepmother said military may have had an impact on his behaviour
Became lead singer in neo-Nazi punk band after leaving military
By Rachel Quigley and Hugo Gye
PUBLISHED: 08:08 EST, 7 August 2012 | UPDATED: 12:22 EST, 7 August 2012
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Federal investigators had 'looked at' Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page on more than one occasion due to his links with right-wing extremists and supremacy groups.
They also suspected he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group but determined there was not enough evidence to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official told the LA Times.
It was unclear when this took place and by which agency.
Meanwhile his former stepmother gave a tearful interview about what she thinks happened to Page, who she described as a 'sweet, precious little boy.'
Laura Page told ABC: 'The last time I saw Wade was at Christmas time 2001 and he was very happy with the military at that point.
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Violence and hate: Wade Michael Page, 41, was a white supremacist skinhead known to the Anti-Defamation League for several years as the leader of End Apathy, a white power music band affiliated with the Hammerskins
Laura Page told ABC: 'I can't imagine what could have gone through his mind for him to do something like this, or anyone to do something like this. You can't be functioning normally obviously. But we'll never know why.'
Early years: Wade Page's former stepmother said he was a sweet and gentle child and she has no idea what would make him do what he did
'Now I greatly question that direction. I don't know if the military was good for him. I don't know. I wish I had some answers. And we're not going to have answers because he's dead.
'I can't imagine what could have gone through his mind for him to do something like this, or anyone to do something like this. You can't be functioning normally obviously. But we'll never know why.'
Ms Page spoke on the same day the frantic 911 call was released from Sunday's shooting, when Page walked into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and opened fire, shooting dead six people and critically injuring three.
The chaos and wide-spread panic is evident throughout the call and correspondence with the dispatcher as people on the scene try to figure out how many shooters there are and the number of victims.
At one stage a man can be heard screaming for an ambulance saying: 'We have an officer down, I need an ambulance, an officer has been shot.'
The officer - Lt Brian Murphy - was shot eight or nine times but was able to kill Page before he could claim any more fatalities.
The 40-year-old gunman played in a number of white supremacist heavy metal bands and posted frequent comments on Internet forums for skinheads.
His comments would repeatedly exhort members to act more decisively to support their cause, saying things like: 'If you are wanting to meet people, get involved and become active.
'Stop hiding behind the computer or making excuses.'
Page pictured right: The band's MySpace page states that End Apathy's 'music is a sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress'
Band members: Wade Michael Page, left, with his band End Apathy gave an interview to a white supremacist website two years ago talking about why he started up the band
Page was known to civil rights groups as a member of two racist skinhead bands – End Apathy and Definite Hate. He was also believed to have been a low-level member of a national white supremacist group called the Hammerskins.
Racist skinhead bands and record labels have been known by law enforcement to raise money for extremist groups in the U.S.
Both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center had tracked Page for several years.
The nonprofit organizations collect publicly available information on hate groups from Web forums, pamphlets and other sources.
But the FBI is prohibited under federal law from collecting information on U.S. citizens not suspected of committing a crime.
In order to open a domestic terrorism investigation, FBI agents must believe a suspect has threatened violence, has broken federal law and is trying to advance a political or social agenda.
Last respects: Members of the Sikh community take part in a candlelight vigil in Brookfield, Wisconsin
Comfort: Amardeep Kaleka ,center, son of Satwant Singh Kaleka, president of the Sikh temple, hugs relatives after the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek
This sets the bar high for opening a domestic terrorism case before someone has made a specific threat of violence or committed a crime.
The mayor of Oak Creek told CNN on Sunday that he was unaware of any signs that Page had been casing the temple in advance of the shooting.
'This happens a lot where somebody will come to your attention and you do a preliminary investigation of the guy’s activities and nothing pans out,' said Bob Blitzer, a retired FBI agent who was the domestic counterterrorism chief for the FBI from 1996 to 1998.
Blitzer led the investigation into Timothy J. McVeigh after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people, including 19 children.
'Some private groups collect a lot of information, but they can,' Blitzer said. 'Law enforcement can’t.'
Detectives cautioned they might never know for sure. But the picture of Page that began to develop on Monday — found in dark corners of the Internet, in records from a dodgy Army career and throughout a life lived on the margins — suggested he was a white supremacist who wanted to see his beliefs advanced with action.
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He described himself as a member of the 'Hammerskins Nation', a skinhead group rooted in Texas that has branches in Australia and Canada, according to the SITE Monitoring Service, a Maryland-based private intelligence firm that searches the Internet for extremist activity.
Between March 2010 and the middle of this year, Page posted 250 messages on one skinhead site and appeared eager to recruit others.
In March 2011, he advertised for a 'family-friendly' barbecue in North Carolina, imploring others to attend.
In November, Page challenged a poster who indicated he would leave the United States if Herman Cain was elected president.
'Stand and fight, don't run,' he implored.
Watched: Page was said to have been 'looked at' by an unknown federal agency because of his links to right wing extremists groups
Home: Page moved recently to a duplex in the 3700 block of E. Holmes in Cudahy which was cordoned off for a time on Sunday night as officials investigated inside, and residents were evacuated from their homes
In an April message, Page said: 'Passive submission is indirect support to the oppressors. Stand up for yourself and live the 14 words,' a reference to a common white supremacists mantra - 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White Children'.
'Passive submission is indirect support to the oppressors. Stand up for yourself and live the 14 words'Wade Michael Page
The bald, heavily-tattooed bassist trained in psychological warfare at Fort Bragg before he was demoted and discharged more than a decade ago.
After leaving the military, he became active in the obscure underworld of white supremacist music, playing in bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy.
Still, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards cautioned on Monday that investigators might never know for certain what motivated the attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee.
So far, no hate-filled manifesto has emerged, nor any angry blog or ranting Facebook entries.
'We have a lot of information to decipher, to put it all together before we can positively tell you what that motive is — if we can determine that,' Edwards said.
Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama, described Page as a 'frustrated neo-Nazi' whose bands' sinister-sounding names seemed to 'reflect what he went out and actually did'.
Their lyrics talked about genocide against Jews and other minorities.
Prayers: Wisconsin Sikhs attend a memorial for victims of the shooting on Monday evening
Crowd: The Sikh community has responded forcefully to the brutal mass killing in Oak Creek
Participation: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is fitted with a head covering at a Sikh temple in Brookfield
It also emerged yesterday that Page was kicked out of the U.S. Army for drunkenness, and even while he was in the military, he harboured white supremacist views.
He would also rant about a 'racial holy war', according to an old friend of his from the time.
Christopher Robillard, another former soldier, told CNN that Page was his 'closest friend' in the military, but that even then he had troubling political beliefs.
The future killer was 'a very kind, very smart individual' who 'loved his friends', according to Mr Robillard, who added that Page was 'one of those guys with a soft spot'.
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But Mr Robillard said that his friend was 'involved with white supremacy,' and continued: 'He would talk about the racial holy war, like he wanted it to come.
'But to me, he didn't seem like the type of person to go out and hurt people.
'I never pictured him as someone who would do anything. I thought maybe he was just saying it for attention.'
After Page was discharged from the Army in 1998 for turning up drunk at parade, he apparently moved to Denver, where he 'was basically living on the streets'.
During this difficult time, according to Mr Robillard, Page became more involved in the supremacist movement, joining his first racist band - but the group kicked him out after his girlfriend left him for a bandmate.
Mr Robillard began to lose touch with his fellow veteran, and could not understand the increasing violence of Page's political views.
'I asked him why he was aligning himself with this stuff,' he said. 'He really didn't answer. He would duck it.'
Page bought a brick ranch house outside Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 2007 with help from a Veterans Administration mortgage.
But on Monday the home was boarded up with knee-high weeds in the yard. A notice taped to the front indicated the home was in foreclosure and had been sold to a bank in January.
Page's former stepmother said she was devastated to learn of the bloodshed.
'He was a precious little boy, and that's what my mind keeps going back to,' said Laura Page, of Denver, who was divorced from Page's father around 2001.
Gunman: Former solider Wade Michael Page is said to be a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band called End Apathy
Suburban Milwaukee police had no contact with Page before Sunday, and his record gave no indication he was capable of such intense violence.
The FBI was leading the investigation because the shooting was considered domestic terrorism. The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved.
Page entered the temple as several dozen people prepared for Sunday services. He opened fire without saying a word.
The president of the temple died defending the house of worship he founded.
Satwant Singh Kaleka, 65, managed to find a simple butter knife in the temple and attempted to stab the gunman before being shot twice, his son said Monday.
Amardeep Singh Kaleka said FBI agents hugged him, shook his hand and told him his father was a hero.
'Whatever time he spent in that struggle gave the women time to get cover' in the kitchen, Kaleka said.
Federal officials said the gun used in the attack had been legally purchased. Page had been licensed to own weapons since at least 2008, when he paid $5 each for five pistol-purchase permits in North Carolina.
The six dead ranged in age from 39 to 84 years old. Three people were critically wounded, including a police officer.
Online records show Page had a brief criminal history in other states, including pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief after a 1994 arrest in El Paso, Texas, for getting drunk and kicking holes in the wall of a bar. He received six months' probation.
Page also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Colorado in 1999 but never completed a sentence that included alcohol treatment, records show.
He was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving again in 2010 in North Carolina after running his car off the side of a highway. The case was dropped a year later for lack of evidence, according to court records.
The band's MySpace page says their music is a 'sad commentary on our sick society and the problems that prevent true progress'. Song titles include Self Destruct and Submission
Page's mother Laura Lynn told the MailOnline that she has had no contact with her son since she and his father Jesse Alvin Page divorced.
She said: 'He was such a precious little boy, that's all I can say, he was a very fun-loving, typical little boy. He was just a very soft spoken, gentle young man.'
Asked if the army had changed her son, she said: 'I have no idea I had not been in contact with him that much. Actually in the last 12 years I have not been in contact with him at all since his dad and I divorced.
'I just found out this morning when another newspaper called me. Of course I'm devastated.
'My heart goes out to all the people who lost their loved ones, that's all I can say, I am so sorry.'
Wade Michael Page was kicked out of the army in 1998 after serving six years, first as a missile system repairman at Fort Bliss in Texas and then at Fort Bragg where he was in Psychological Operations.
Victim: The president of the temple, Satwant Kaleka, was shot by the gunman as he tried to tackle him to the floor with a knife
Loss: Mohan Singh Khatra, who lost his uncle Subeg Singh Khatra, 84, right, in the Wisonsin Sikh temple shootings, speaks to the media outside the Sikh Cultural Society in the Queens borough of New York
Hero: Lieutenant Brian Murphy shot dead Wade Michael Page at the Sikh temple, despite himself being shot eight or nine times. He is currently recovering in hospital
He was given a less-than-honorable discharge from the army in October 1998 following a 'pattern of misconduct' including being drunk on duty and going AWOL sources said.
He had been demoted from sergeant to specialist during his service and was deemed ineligible for re-enlistment.
While in the Army, Wade - originally from Colorado - served as a sergeant, and later as a specialist based in Ft Bliss in Texas and at Ft Bragg in North Carolina.
According to the Examiner, Page was an E4 psychological operations specialist.
He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Good Conduct award, the National Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and Parachutist Badge.
The Anti-Defamation League had been tracking Wade since 2000 when he first appeared on the white supremacist music scene.
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