OH, FUCK THIS GUY.

*sigh* Now, this is probably why why people hate convervatives. Via Blabbermouth, this piece of filth was posted on the small-time conservative website, The Iconoclast: AESTHETICS OF HATE: R.I.P. DIMEBAG ABBOTT, & GOOD RIDDANCE
Here's a sample. read the rest and try not to throw a brick through your monitor:

"It was highly amusing, and also terribly sad, to watch on television fans conducting a "vigil" for the slain Mr. Abbott outside of the Alrosa Villa. It was an assemblage of ignorant, semi-human barbarians who were filthy in attire and manner, intellectually incoherent and above all else, hideously ugly to the point of physical deformity. Here is a definite case in which the outer appearance of these "fans" accurately represented the hideousness of their souls. That the physical deformity of their ugliness was self-inflicted makes the spiritual tragedy of their misspent lives all the more tragic.

But one can see why the heavy metal fans so closely identified with Mr. Abbott. He was an ignorant, barbaric, untalented possessor of a guitar and large amplifier system. Freakish in appearance, more simian than human, he was the performer of a type of "entertainment" that can be likened only to a gorilla on PCP. Lacking subtlety, wit, style, emotional range and anything approaching even the smallest iota of intellectual or musical interest, Mr. Abbott was part of a generation that has confused sputum with art and involuntary reflex actions with emotion."

Here's the email I sent the guy, which probably won't be read, after he gets sick of all the "FUCKK U PUSSY PANTERA IS STRONGER THAN ALL DIMEBAG 4EVER!!!!1!1!!!1" emails he's probably getting from the Blabbermouth crowd:

I'll try to keep this relatively short, since your inbox is probably getting flooded right now, and it might not get read, anyway. But anyway, your article was one of the most ignorant, classless things I've ever read. Did you bother to actually research the subject, or did you just skim a news story, and think, "Hmm. Heavy metal... Drug reference in name... Must have been a horrible person who deserved to die"? Whether or not you liked his chosen style of music, what he looked like, or whatever illegal substances the man chose to partake of is no reason to write him off as no big loss. Stripping away all of that, all you have left is a kind-hearted, devoted husband whose main goal in life was to entertain people and make them happy. This isn't exactly violent criminal we're talking about here. And as for the incident itself, the shooter, Nathan Gale, was completely insane, regardless of what music he listened to. If he had been an ex-florist and a Mary Chapin-Carpenter fan, instead of an ex-Marine and Pantera fan, he probably would have ended up trying to run on stage and shoot Mary Chapin-Carpenter. Saying Darrell asked for what happened to him by playing heavy metal is along the same lines of saying Phil Hartman got what he deserved for being a comedic actor.

I can only draw one of two possible conclusions from all of this. The first is that you were just trying to stir people up on the internet, like some sort of ultra-sophisticated message board troll. If so, good job. I'm sure you're enjoying giggling at all the profanity-laced emails typed in all caps that you're getting right now. The other possible conclusion is that you are an elitist of the worst kind, the type that makes all the liberals point and say, "see, they're all like that. Vote Nader!" You're doing more harm than good.

Oh, and by the way... Dimebag Darrell was a pretty hardcore conservative and staunch Bush supporter.

I'll let you know if it gets any sort of response.