3/03/2009
Reader Says He Knew Dannie Roy Baker
This was posted by to the comments section by Igor, from Slovakia, in reference to Dannie R. Baker. I haven't verified this story, so take it for what it is.(Baker) used to be my landlord for two summers (2003 and 2005) while I was there as a WAT (Ed. note: Work and Travel) student so I dare to say that I know him quite well.
In general, Dannie has been a mentally ill person for a long time (it's not important for how long). His health has been deteriorating dramatically since 2003 I would say. While in 2003 he was still quite OK although I have seen dramatic mood swings and outbursts of agression mainly against weaker persons, usually girls in his house who were also WAT students.
But it was much worse in 2005. Dannie was taking a lot of medications and sometimes he was absolutely out of his mind. He became more and more convinced that he has a direct contact with God in his third form of Holy Spirit.
For some weird reason he had to find a scapegoat for his miserable life so he blamed my brother for erasing his "important emails". It was an absurdity and I tried to convince him that he would never do such a thing, there was no rational reason. But Dannie just made me speechless when he told me that "Holy Spirit told him that John (my brother) was the Evil in his house and he was the one who deleted his mailbox". I couldn't object to that. It was an irrational realm of on absolutely insane man. After this event my brother rather left his house...
So, here I am offering you a brief picture of Dannie R. Baker (used to call him Dannie R. Boy), a self-proclaimed preacher who wrote a passionate book about his personal journey of perfection before God which ended with shooting 2 innocent people.
And I am not even talking about his dreams to marry some young Russian women.
Dannie is a sick and pitiful man.
UPDATE:
Igor added this about Baker in two follow-up comments.I remember the situations when Dannie lacked his medications. He was a very nervous person, channeling his aggression usually against his birds which he bred in dozens. I think he was trying to substitute the medications with proper drugs. I am not sure but I think mostly with marijuana.
I want to emphasize that Dannie was just an insane man. However, I would never expect him to kill someone. I would not consider him as an anti-imigrant radical or some xenophobic extremist.
His life is just a miserable story of a man who never really had a woman and never really worked. He has suffered enormously from an inferiority complex and feeling of absolute uselesness.
Although it might sound absurd to you, I think his killing was a desperate act of a man who wanted to be useful. I think he wanted to say that he is ready to bring sacrifices (in other words to be useful) in order to defend his beloved country from (mainly Hispanic) immigrants. He wasn't very intelligent so I assume that he just didn't have a clue about the difference between Chilean exchange students and Mexican immigrants.
So, it has to be considered as an desperate act of a man possessed by an inferiority complex and not a murder fuled by some ideology of hatred.
3 comments:
Tony, Thank you for your continued investigation.
Igor,
Thank you for the update. This is very helpful.
You do make my point for me when you say "I think he wanted to say that he is ready to bring sacrifices (in other words to be useful) in order to defend his beloved country from (mainly Hispanic) immigrants."
There is a reason Dannie thought Latino Immigrants were the enemy. Surely you hear all of the anger and venom coming from the ANTI Immigration extremists. You say Dannie wanted to be a hero. He thought by killing those he heard were evil immigrants, he would be considered a hero.
That is the problem with all of the Hate Talk by the extremists. We do have the weak minded, like Dannie, who hear them then, like Dannie, or the Caucasian Crew in Patchogue, New York, or the students in Shenandoah, PA, they murder innocent students or fathers.
I've already seen Dannie's news video posted on podblanc, a White Supremist site.
I think all of this ANTI Immigrant Hate Talk needs to stop. Too many people are dying.
http://podblanc.com/lone-wolf-dannie-baker-ready-revolution-begin-miramar-beach-walton-county-fl
First of all, thanks to Mr. Tony Bridges for this Blog and the useful research. People in our little country Chile is very shocked and had some surprise when all this happened.
What Mr. Igor says is very very important for Chileans, since most educated Chileans (upper and middle class) truly believe that Chileans are very different from Mexicans or other Central America people that goes to the US.
As a Chilean with some time in college in the US (Virginia), and having some knowledge of the south of the US, I would say that Mr. Igor is completely right in that Mr. Baker really made a mistake because the Chileans are a very small part of hispanic inmigration. In Chile this event got a lot of press coverage, and even the political authorities are really interested. If any want to see Chilean coverage about this, althought in Spanish (has English versions), please visit the most important newspaper in Chile, in the Internet site " emol.com ".
I would say that there is no hate to the US for this, and most people understands what Mr. Igor says in this page (Blog). Thanks!
This is in response to the comments made by Mr. Igor. I have known Dannie Baker for most of my life before and after his mental breakdown. Before the breakdown you would not say he was not very intelligent. I think he graduated from college. He was happily married before. While I can't excuse what he did, this makes me understand the importance of the mentally ill defense in our legal system. It is a very sad situation. My heart goes out to the family of the students as well as his own family.
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