Gabriel Wortman’s parents were “bizarre” & he a “strange little guy”, “paranoid” & obsessed with “money” - Mountie cousin

 Nothing of what  Gabe’s mountie cousin (that’s mountie close relative #3 , if you’re keeping score !) told the RCMP - after 24 people lay dead - surprises me.

I believe today what I believed initially more than five months ago : Gabe’s constellation of obsessions pointed to the very unsettled first six years of life he had in the United States.

I am not not saying he caught some endemic American infection that makes people resident there more likely to obsess about guns, money & mass shootings.

(Although it is worth noting that the America safety net for people who are poor and out of work is far, far worse than it is in Canada and the rest of the developed world - leading to huge increases in stress for its people living unsettled lives with reduced income.)

I simply feel that what ever made Gabriel do what he did April 18th-19th 2020 had its beginnings in the very unsettled - and unsettling - life his parents made for him between 1968 and 1974.

Wortman’s adult behaviour reminds me of nothing more than that of a tiny child constantly losing his toys, pets, home, friends, over and over, during those early years when a child’s mind is so plastic and so open to being permanently warped.

Anyone appearing to be threatening to take away his is property - his toys - could set off Gabriel’s violent streak in ways that few other issues could : his common law partner Lisa Banfield told the RCMP that the latest person appearing as a threat to Gabe’s “toys” was Justin Trudeau’s government’s mid-March 2020 musings about banning paper money to reduce it spreading Covid-19.

(A possibility you might remember that I raised in an earlier post as a factor behind GW’s decision to withdraw masses of cash.)

A month later on April 18th, Trudeau still had not banned paper money - Gabriel’s all important untraceable cash - so it is hard to see this as the final tipping point  that led to his decision to destroy all that he had built up over the years, killing two dozen people along the way.

However it is also much much harder to otherwise explain why anyone convinced they are about to die (from Covid) and who still very much loves his wife of twenty years, the woman he left all his estate to in his current last will and testament, still intends to leave this beloved wife nothing from his estate but smoke and ashes.

It was almost as if Gabriel Wortman, still 5 years old inside his warped head, felt that ‘if I can’t have my toys (real estate & vehicles) after I am gone, I am at least going to see to it that - finally - no one else can never ever take them away from me’...