Posted on 10/13/2017 12:55:29 PM PDT by Twotone
FoxNews is now saying the time line may be resolved.. new evidence.. After commercial break.
I agree with Mark about almost everything, and specifically to this article, totally agree about the modern practice of press conferences when big disasters or crimes happen. Every lead cop from every involved juristion, with tag-a-long politicians, gallop to the nearest microphone to congratulate themselves while basically telling the public nothing useful.
Mr. FBI man, where are the videos from the elevators/ floors/ doors? We’d like to see everything, sir.
*ouch*
Coulter’s column, that Steyn refs, is awesome, must-reading.
MEDIA BEGGING US FOR CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON LAS VEGAS
October 11, 2017
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2017-10-11.html
(The bottom of Ann’s column:)
The most likely explanation is that the reporters and investigators are incompetent nitwits. But the changing facts from law enforcement and preposterous lies from the press aren’t doing a lot to tamp down alternative theories of the crime.
Among the questions not being asked by our wildly incurious media:
Why would Paddock unload 200 rounds into the hallway at a security guard who was checking on someone else’s room before beginning his massacre?
How can it possibly take eight days to figure out when the alleged shooter checked into the hotel?
Why was Paddock wearing gloves if he was about to commit suicide?
Have any other solitary mass shooters ever had girlfriends?
If Paddock wasn’t making money on video poker — and he wasn’t — why would he be cycling millions of dollars through a casino, turning every dollar into, at best, 99 cents?
Maybe Paddock enjoyed video poker. But if the allegedly serious media are going to keep telling us he was making a living doing it, they’re just begging us to say that losing a percent or two on millions of dollars doesn’t make sense as an investment strategy, but it does make sense as a money laundering operation.
And the probable illicit business requiring money to be laundered that leaps out at us in Paddock’s case is illegal gun sales. If true, it would not only explain the arsenal in his hotel room, but also raises the possibility of either an accomplice or different perpetrator altogether.
If this were a movie script, a terrorist would go to Paddock’s room on the pretense of buying guns, kill Paddock, commit the massacre, put his gunshot residue-covered gloves on Paddock’s dead hands and slip out of the room when the coast was clear.
According to the all-new timeline given by the Las Vegas police — pending a third revision — this is at least possible. The hallway was empty, except for a bleeding security guard down by the elevators, for at least two minutes after the shooting stopped. The stairwell was clear for more than half an hour. It also explains the gloves.
There’s no evidence for any of this, but on the other hand, there’s no evidence for the version the media are giving us. At least the movie script version doesn’t require us to pretend that Paddock was making “millions” from video poker.
And I’m betting we will never get a satisfactory explanation.
bump
If you ever get that request make sure you synch your phone first so you have a copy.
The conspiracy theory this was a ‘fast and furious ‘ type operation is getting more steam.
My guess is the sheriff knows a lot more than he can reveal.
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