Thank you, JoeProBono
Posted on 01/02/2012 9:44:37 PM PST by Rabin
US police have confirmed that a body found in Mount Rainier National Park near Seattle, Washington is the man wanted in the shooting death of a park ranger.
The suspect, Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, is believed to have fled to the remote park to hide after an earlier shooting at a house party near Seattle that wounded four, two critically.
Barnes had allegedly sped past a checkpoint. While one ranger began following him, Anderson eventually blocked the road to try stop him. Before fleeing, Barnes allegedly fired shots at both Anderson and the ranger who trailed him, but only Anderson was hit Police mounted a manhunt for Barnes, an Iraq war veteran.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
The guy was obviously nuts.
Why paint The US Military?
I'LL TELL YOU WHY....:
You are probably too young to remember that after Nam (and for AT LEAST, the following 10 years) this was SOP for the Far Left, Hate-America/Military, Lame Stream Media) in that in EVERY instance where they could tie a Nam Vet to a crime, it was reported as......"Vietnam Vet charged with rape;" "Vietnam Vet robs bank;" Vietnam Vet held on suspicion of dealing drugs," etc., etc., etc.
It was endemic and drove some of us Nam Vets nuts (of course thanks to that F'n, Backstabbing, Bottom-Feeding, Scumbag, John Kerry, we had ALL been labeled as not only "nuts" but "baby-killing, drugged-out, rapist, pillagers, psychos," and worse) and caused many of us to become so ashamed that we removed any mention of our service in Nam from our resumes and did not tell anyone we did not know about having served there.
Thus, I expect to see much more of this now and in the foreseeable future as the Left and anti-war Loons use any excuse to show how Iraq and Af-Gan has turned our returning vets into some sore of wacked-out, animals.
Another article I’d read said that the rangers only knew that he’d blown through a safety checkpoint that was set up to ensure that everyone had their chains on. Ranger Anderson was a law-enforcement trained ranger and was therefore armed, but was shot before she could even exit her vehicle.
My guess, with a mind uncluttered by the facts and unburdened by any relevant experience; hypothermia secondary to alcohol poisoning.
I remember like it was yesterday. I’ve seen reports how a large portion of returning vets went back to school on their GI bills and went on to contribute a great deal to society. Their only complaint was the percentage of college teachers and professors that were draft dodgers and anti-American. Some things never change.
He was found with one shoe.
One, not two. Shoe, not boots.
He was completely unprepared to spend any time out of his vehicle this time of year up there, I’m guessing he was at 3000 feet or so.
Every year there are reports of people who go up there - PREPARED - for a day hike and they never come back. Weather moves in, they might slip or fall, often they simply get lost in a white out and try to hunker down and don’t make it.
Once you get wet, yur toast!
No wonder infrared detectors couldn’t locate him; he assumed the ambiant temperature.
They've been at it a long time. As a kid, I remember there was much media hand-wringing over all those WWII servicemen "who were used to killing" returning home. They were predicting a wave of murder. Until the Korean War, ANY sort of violence usually headlined "EX-ARMY/NAVY/MARINE KILLS . . .".
Then the meme changed with Eisenhower. Then they covered their predictive errors by getting snarky. From then on, all you read was how "boring" the 1950s were. Boring indeed. All those vets wanted to do is make up for the years taken from them - they had had enough violence to last them the rest of their lives.
You expected better from Al Jazeera? Really?
I heard that. I always carry a gun when I go out into the wildlands. I’m not too scared of the animals (although it’s always good to be careful), it’s the people that you really have to watch out for.
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