Considering I did not hear a thing about this till about a half hour ago, tells you that this is still not getting the attention it needs...
People from all angles can debunk and difuse this as a punk kid who killed himself...
I'm not buying that...
I think he screwed up, obviously the things they found out about him and the physical evidence already described being found back at his apartment tell me that this was not going to be a one-time-deal...
A suicide could have been easily facilitated by other means that a bomb which had the potential to kill others...Statistics show most suicides are individual, or more contained, to achieve the attention they desire even in death...
His affiliations or literature found indicate a possible conversion to islam, something to be confirmed...If he frequented a mosque to pray at, then that may hold some weight...
The other bomb making material (a claim yet to be substanciated) obviously means he may have had intentions on making more explosive devices...He obviously was too stupid to get them ready to go for maximum effect on the public...One right after the other would have made his efforts more productive...
Maybe thats why he's dead now...Not enough thinking it through...
But then again the media and other pundits can play this down all they want...
Theres a lot of smart people here who see it for what it is...Regardless...
Pretty sad...Its taken only a few years, and an incident like this to get us right back into the lathargic attitudes most people had before 9-11...
Not that this was that big a deal, but for it not to be discussed at length outside this website...
The people who will benefit from this incident are already reaping the reward...
I will not be surprised at the next one...
I'm sure the next one will be buried as well. It won't be until another few thousand Americans are murdered before it really gets out there. Thousands are too many to hide from the public. God help us.
I guess I'm one of those people who are on the fence about the motive of this-- until I know differently I am forced to ASSUME that this was in fact a suicide.
I can rationalize it with the possibility that the younf man was schizophrenic, the same kind of schizophrenia that afflicts many young people and drives them to commit horrendous crimes and do absolutely crazy things, like the guy who heard voices in my college and shot a guy and a girl in the cafeteria that he didn't even know.
But I could be wrong-- time will tell. Actually, I hope I'm not. A deranged student is sad, but a terrorist conspiracy is downright frightful.
Well the Norman PD blew up something Sunday night, after evacuating and searching the apartment complex he lived in. That was reported on several OK City TV stations shortly after the controlled detonations at the police range occurred. Scared the Shiite out of folks and probably lit up the switchboard. (They couldn't have put a crawl on folks TVs and a brief announcement on most radio stations *before* detonating the stuff?)