Posted on 10/04/2017 10:30:41 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
What do the Las Vegas massacre, the Charleston church shooting and last weekend’s Islamist stabbing of two Frenchwomen have in common? The murderers’ sense of inadequate recognition, and the primal lure of the ecstasy of killing.
Acts of deadly terror are in fashion, the default position for a wide range of frustrated egotists. From lone-wolf Islamists enabled by faith, through punk racists, to a high-stakes gambler who craved casino perks — slum-dweller, misfit or property owner — these terrorists shared a sense that their societies wouldn’t give them their due.
Too much has been made of the measure of wealth amassed by Stephen Paddock, the calculating demon of Las Vegas. You can be a high roller at the gaming table and still be the guy the cocktail waitresses loathe. While we may learn that the killer was mad about gambling debts or another trigger issue, years of watching mass-casualty attacks convinces me that his ego and need for recognition just couldn’t be satisfied by the casino VIP benefits he embraced. He needed a starring role in a vengeful drama.
Paddock spent decades moving from one job to another, never quite fitting in, until he found a way to profit from real estate. Even then, he made few friends and seemed remote and rootless to neighbors. The old folks were right: Money can’t buy happiness.
As with Dylann Roof, who entered a black church and went on a racist rampage, or with any of the Islamist lone wolves who drove vehicles into crowds or simply attacked with knives, I believe that Paddock felt slighted by the world around him, unjustly marginalized — a condition doubtless aggravated by our corrupting sense of entitlement. His lack of a motivating ideology reveals the angry ego at the core of so much terrorism.
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Those tea leaves could be critical in determining a motive!
How does Peters know he had no ideology? What does Peters know about him?
By now, the FBI has gotten his smartphones, his computers, his internet searches, his texts, his phone calls. They know what the story is. And yet no leaks - this is tight as a drum.
The more I read about this, the more I lean toward the guess that Paddock thought of himself as carrying out an act of war against an enemy, probably some kind of Antifa notion of a blow against white supremacy. The planning by Paddock seems characteristic of someone who considered himself planning a military operation.
I'd still like solid information on the girlfriend's citizenship. Was she illegal? Was she a US citizen? All I've seen reported is an Australian passport.
Was the 'hispanic' woman who warned the crowd that they were all going to die actually Filipino?
As a casino 'regular' known to all the workers Paddock likely knew lots of illegals from the P.I. or Indonesia or Latin America working as employees in the hotels and casinos.
And if his true occupation was money launderer, his business associates may be Mexicans or Filipinos or Chinese.
And of course influenced and reinforced by the relentless anti-white drumbeat in the media, the government, universities, for years and years now.
I would guess the FBI role in this is to take control and monopolize as much of the information coming into the investigation as possible, and to protect the motivation from becoming known to the public and inflaming them if indeed Paddock thought he was part of an Antifa war on whites.
Mass murder and terrorism are the bedrock foundations of the left. It’s pretty obvious Paddock’s ideological motivation.
Ralph is way out of his league on this. I don’t think he has a clue on Paddock.
Because no one is seeing the clues.
This is like the JFK conspiracy. They made Oswald a pawn in some massive coup d’etat with LBJ, the CIA, Doris Day and anyone else because it had to be bigger than Oswald. A puny little leftist shit could not take down a King all by himself. Yet that is exactly what happened.
Right now it is a lone wolf guy who planned and planned a detailed massacre, for seemingly no reason at all but a psychosis?
It is not enough, and there has to be more to this than just getting back at a casino. No one wakes up a Jason Bourne to begin killing people because the CIA flicked a switch. It just doesn’t happen.
This guy had a reason to do this and it has to be found.
Without reason, the senselessness takes over and it forces people to lose hope. It is punishing, because illogic is paired with incredible evil. So people need a rational basis to get through this, or they will be haunted, and afraid.
Paddock was a real estate developer, a gambler, mostly sounds like he made his own schedule for years. No wife and children. Not having to go to a job suited him, but he very well could have been in the CIA.
What has he been doing, day by day for the last 5 years.
Did he work for a government agency?
Who knows? It will never told.
Peters may be wrong on the specific details on the LV event; however, I think this is an important article on the general nature of where our culture has been heading.
Decades ago there was less easily available exposure to how the OTHER GUY lives. Jet-setters, young wealthy athletes, and others with the women, toys, and a seemingly happy celebrity life are overexposed today. The misguided thinking that “everyone somehow has that better life than mine” can be desctructive to someone without a healthy perspective on how most Americans live. It may result in disaster if that individual is without a PROPERLY FORMED CONSCIENCE.
The LV shooter could have been the Columbine kids with just more money, access, an idle time to plan a more widespread and detailed evil. The investigation continues....
Ralph Peters is a pussy
Ralph Peters is a Hillary supporter. Therefore, he is a psychopath.
Peters knows NOTHING!
His reason could be really stupid...
Could be he just hated rap music. Not in a racist way, just because it is awful. Or if he hated rap it could be because he viewed it as a cultural pathogen infecting other forms of music.
He cased a rap festival earlier in September, then starts shooting at a country western concert.
What do they have in common?
Believe it or not, both concerts may have rap in common.
Oddly enough he waited to the last set of the Country festival to start shooting. He waited until a guy named Aldean comes on.
Jason Aldean’s got a hit song [groan] that is a rap song, called “Dirt Road Anthem.”
It is excruciating. It could possibly drive me to do something horrible.. It should only be reserved to torture people at Gitmo.
I don’t know if he sang it that night, but if he did, and if that’s the moment when the murderer started shooting... it might very well be that his anger was overreaction to rap music.
Stupid? Yes. Is there some reason to expect blood-lusting nuts to have good reasons?
Anyone have a program for the festival?
Oh look... Beautiful Life festival rap... meets country hip hop rap. Someone mentioned the killer called to complain about the noise people were making in the room below his the night before. Anyone hear that? Seems a little sensitive to sound for a guy planning mass murder with an arsenal in his hotel room, doesn’t it? Anyone know if it’s true? People have been killed for dumber reasons.
So after casing the rap concert he returns to kill at the country festival, but not until it is nearly over. He’s a whackjob.
Evidently people were awaiting the hip-hop “country” song “Dirt Road Anthem” when all hell broke loose....
Las Vegas
Some Las Vegas victims died with family, friends at side
HE WAS ‘TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD’ Brian Fraser, a father of four, was moving toward the stage in anticipation of Jason Aldean playing his favorite song, “Dirt Road Anthem,” …
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Pacific Palisades
L.A., SoCal Victims Of Las Vegas Massacre: Updated List
“He had made his way closer to the front of the stage in anticipation for his favorite Jason Aldean song, Dirt Road Anthem, when he was fatally shot at the Route 91 Country Music …
Patch4h
Or in other words, we are dealing with persons who are perfect possessed by the enemy.
How many shooters?
And how many undercover FEDS helped Paddock over the years?
Who really believes the MSM narrative anymore?
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