Posted on 04/23/2018 2:53:04 PM PDT by davikkm
UPDATE: 9 dead in Toronto, authorities confirm it was a terrorist attack.
Five people were killed earlier on Monday in Toronto after they were intentionally hit by a white van in what seems to be a standard (part and parcel of living in a big city, to quote from the classics) terrorist attack. The van started mowing pedestrians at the intersection of Yonge Street and Finch, a very busy area of Toronto, in the early afternoon. The driver was arrested at the scene after a short confrontation with the police and hes currently in custody. Early police reports put the number of casualties at 5, together with multiple people injured, some in critical condition. According to witnesses, the white van was traveling at 45 miles per hour when the driver intentionally started crumbling up people on the sidewalk.
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Per above link, looks like there may be some infighting about whether to try to claim the perp’s a nutter....
I have no idea nor do I care. We know the ritual after a terrorist attack by now. Its almost a script. This incident will quickly be forgotten like the many others that have preceded it.
NBCs website is already claiming it was due to mental illness and not terrorism based on reports from anonymous sources.
Funny how we never hear from these anonymous sources that quickly when it goes the other way.
Perp could be one or the other. Could be both since the two aren’t mutually exclusive. But if the perp was on some agency’s radar....
We FREepers ARE good but Heavy, wow, they must be signed up for every imaginable media database and most of those licenses are not cheap, particularly if you require total 24/7/365 access.
"More Toronto: suspect allegedly researched and chatted online about Isla Vista killings from 2014. Mental illness, not terror, a leading theory for todays incident, according to three officials." -@jonathan4ny
And of course the MSM reporter is absent from any follow-up in the ensuing thread, but the timeline responses prime an interesting point - why would this Canuck clown pattern a crime to appear like terror? Even the hint of patterning a crime to appear like terror strongly hints the Canuck wasn't even mentally ill!
Furthermore, it exposes this ridiculous #MSM bias that 'it isn't possible for a white lunatic to abruptly go full Muzzie' - really? two words: Stephen Paddock.
The question is, was the mental illness Islam or something else?
“...the motive remains unclear...” Uh-huh.
David AttentionHogg, PMSNBC wants you to go on and support banning vehicles...
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