Mustaine: Obama Staged Aurora, Sikh Temple Shootings
WARNING: Strong language, not suitable for all ages.
DENVER (CBS Denver) - Dave Mustaine, the lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Megadeth, told an audience of fans that President Barack Obama staged both the Aurora movie theater shooting and the Sikh temple shooting in a bid to pass anti-gun legislation.
A YouTube video, uploaded by the user Sataniccarebear666 on Aug. 9, starts with Mustaine dealing with a member of the audience who threw a shoe onstage during a concert in Singapore.
After jokingly chastising the fan - and making a reference to incest - Mustaine thanked the crowd for coming to the Aug. 7 show and praised the country of Singapore before his speech turned political.
"Back in my country, my president is trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders," he said. "Like the 'Fast and Furious' thing down at the border, in Aurora, Colo., all the people that were killed there, and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple."
The incidents Mustaine referenced are the Fast and Furious sting operation involving Mexican drug cartels and legal domestic dealers, the July 20 shooting at a movie theater in Aurora during a premiere of "The Dark Knight Rises," and the Aug. 5 shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis.
He added, after pausing to shake his head, "...I don't know where I'm going to live if America keeps going the way it's going because it looks like it's turning into Nazi America."
Mustaine has said in the past that Megadeth's name is representative of the "annihilation of power," according to the band's Wikipedia page.
Earlier this year, Mustaine had publicly supported former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, though he hesitated to call his support an endorsement.
The incident in Singapore has been evocative of musician Ted Nugent's rants against the Obama administration. During an interview, he told a conservative radio show host that he would either be "dead or in jail" by next year if Obama won the election on Nov. 6.
