Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret from Colorado Springs, Colorado, also wrote in notes he left on his cellphone that he needed to “cleanse” his mind “of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Livelsberger served in the Army since 2006 and deployed twice to Afghanistan.

“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives,” Livelsberger wrote in one letter found by authorities and released Friday.

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    The summary shows his warning.

    The following is the terrorist attack …

    Tesla engineers, meanwhile, helped extract data from the Cybertruck for investigators, including Livelsberger’s path between charging stations from Colorado through New Mexico and Arizona and on to Las Vegas, according to Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren.

    “We still have a large volume of data to go through,” Koren said Friday. “There’s thousands if not millions of videos and photos and documents and web history and all of those things that need to be analyzed.”

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      Goddamn. So it’s just constantly filming and listening 24/7 the entire time.

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        In addition to tracking, speed, acceleration, every sensor inside and outside, and probably hundreds of other data points. Oh and the doors automatically locked when the explosion happened but Elon was able to remotely unlock the car doors and give all that data to authorities.

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          Elon was able to remotely unlock the car doors and give all that data to authorities.

          It probably really boosted his hero complex to take on such a task.

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      This is the lede being buried. Other than that its just the typical Ya’ll Qaeda domestic terrorism we’ve all come to know and expect.