Posted on 10/04/2017 6:12:28 AM PDT by EdnaMode
As I write this, there is only a small handful of facts, or alleged facts, that all of the talking heads in Big Media seem to agree upon regarding "the largest mass shooting in American history."
First, 64 year-old Stephen Paddock, a white man and resident of Nevada, appears to have acted alone when he opened fire upon over 22,000 country music concert attendees in Las Vegas.
Second, Paddock had a lot of weaponry, guns of various sorts, in the hotel room that he used as a sniper's nest.
Third, Paddock is a relatively wealthy man who enjoyed gambling and may have accrued quite a bit of debt as a consequence of his sinful pleasure.
Fourth, the shooter has a girlfriend, Marilou Danley, an Asian woman who, at the present moment, is in Tokyo. Initially, police cleared her of any wrongdoing. According to the latest update, however, they still plan on interrogating her when she returns to the states.
Fifth, nearly 60 people are now dead and over 500 people have been hospitalized.
Finally, according to his own brother, Paddock had no political or religious affiliation.
As things always go with these sorts of matters, what we think we know now will inevitably change and, in some respects, undoubtedly change dramatically as more information comes to light. So far, though, this is essentially the extent of the propositions on which the Big Media insiders agree.
Admittedly, I don't know anything more at the moment. However, I'm shocked (though not particularly surprised) that no one--namely, no "conservative" commentator--has so much as suggested even the possibility that this historically unprecedented massacre just may be the event in which the violent hatred to which suspected Deplorables have been routinely subjected for over a year-and-a-half has reached its bloody climax.
From even before President Trump received his party's nomination, leftist agitators, mostly fans of Bernie Sanders, began making it a habit to crash Trump's rallies and assault his supporters. Since this time, literally hundreds of Trump supporters, men, women, and young teenagers--the folks who Hillary Clinton infamously characterized as "deplorables"--have had their person and property abused by leftists of different sorts. Antifa ("Anti-fascists"), BLM (Black Lives Matter), and BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) are some of the more militant leftist organizations that came to be counted upon to attack indiscriminately, and with a range of weaponry, Trump supporters--i.e. veterans, flag-waving patriots, Republicans, Christians, and anyone and everyone else who is deemed "fascist."
Pepper spray and bear mace; sticks of dynamite and Molotov cocktails; bats, pipes, clubs, and flagpoles; stones, flamethrowers, and bottles; feces and urine--these are among the weapons that have been used against those who have declared their support for "free speech," Trump, and the American flag.
Some far left members of "The Resistance" have indeed shown up to some events armed with guns, although no one, to my knowledge, has yet used these guns on Trump supporters.
Of course, as recently as June, a Bernie Sanders admirer and avid MSNBC viewer, James Hodgkinson, in an effort to slaughter as many Republican members of Congress as possible, shot several, including and most notably, Steve Scalise (And shortly before this event, another zealous Sanders fan and Trump opponent, Jeremy Christian, who the media tried ((absurdly)) to depict as a "white supremacist terrorist," stabbed three men on a Portland, Oregon train, killing two of them).
In other words, the last nearly two years have established two things:
(a)Violence against anyone and everyone who is suspected of having contributed to the election of President Trump (and the GOP) has been normalized;
(b)This political violence has been normalized by those on the far left.
It also bears noting that Antifa and the like, in affirming their allegiance to "The Resistance," affirm their ideological and political affinity with all of those "mainstream" Democrats in Congress and the media who similarly raise the proverbial banner of The Resistance. For that matter, the embarrassment of a former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, also proclaimed her own allegiance to The Resistance some months back, as did former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Democrats own the fringes of their party.
Now, given the patterns of the last two years (to say nothing of the left's long history of violence), is not the theory that the Vegas killer was but another committed Resister, determined to, "by any means necessary," "bash the fash" not eminently plausible?
After all, the predominantly white country music fans upon whom Paddock set his sights constitute the collective poster child of the Deplorable, a fact of which leftists, in their ever articulate manner, have spared no occasion to remind us from the moment that word broke of this outrage.
Shouldn't someone in Big Media, specifically, in the so-called "conservative" media, at least raise these points?
Can there be any doubt that had this been a rap concert--an event comprised of tens of thousands of black men, women, and children--that, despite being short on verifiable facts, the very media figures who now refuse to indulge speculation as to the shooter's motive would have wasted no time in speculating about "racism?"
Can we doubt that had the targeted event been a gathering of tens of thousands of Hispanics or Muslims or gays that we would have been treated to endless speculation concerning the likely "racism," "Islamophobia," and "homophobia," respectively, of the shooter?
There is nothing objectionable about speculating, as long as the speculation is reasonable, rendered plausible (if not true) by the known facts. Intellectually curious people speculate. Speculation is actually preferable to the incessant repetition of talking points with which Americans are relentlessly bombarded by the media whenever events like this occur.
That those in the media now refuse to speculate or, to put it more accurately, that they refuse to advance the most plausible of speculative theories--the shooter, like the 66 year-old James Hodgkinson, who was in his age cohort, was an anti-Republican, anti-Trump zealot--is explained by the likely fact that he shared their animosity toward the same objects.
I'll show my hand now: While I may be proven wrong, I'd bet dollars to donuts that Stephen Paddock was driven by the same homicidal hatred of all things to his right that animated Hodgkinson.
Paddock, I find it more credible than not, saw himself as a member of The Resistance.
This has been along the lines of my suspicions... that at the very least if they don’t find personal connections or traveling and joining groups, they will find he traffic on his devices to strongly left leaning websites and information sources.
But there is something more that is bothering me. The actual number and variety of guns and ammo that he had. A virtual treasure trove! It reminds me of the scene in Minority Report when Colin Farrell’s character asks how many times he has happened upon a crime scene with ‘an orgy of evidence’. It really doesn’t happen unless it’s set up to be.
Local gun shops have already said he bought guns and stuff from them.
Every weapon can be verified as to it’s provenance...............
Killer had enough weapons to kill for hours. It appears he felt he would NOT be alone in that room.
Killer’s girlfriend was/is married to a ‘move on’ activist.
Killer might have been connected to Antifa.
Killer chose venue carefully over a period of weeks. This was not a spur of the moment slaughter.
The FBI is doing everything humanly possible to protect the killer by keeping leaks to a minimum. Just like they did with Hillary and every other white liberal elite.
The press was freely speculating when the only information was ‘white man’... then they shut down on ‘motive’ when it leaked he was ‘elite’...
This psychotic lunatic planned meticulously and executed with skill. The girlfriend may have had some inkling that he was planning something but her prime intent was to get as much money for herself as possible. She probably does not know his “motive”. His “motive” may be the incomprehensible rant of a psychotic brain. It may never be known.
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That theory is all over the place here. If you don't see it on TV, is that a bad thing? Do we need another rush to judgment?
It's certainly possible. But it's a theory that comes so naturally to political people that they'd be right to be skeptical about it.
If your're a terrorist trying to make a political point, you want to strike deep in the heart of the enemy's territory, or take down a symbol that's important to your enemy. The exception is if you have limited mobility, but you'd still go for a target that has high symbolic value.
A country music concert at Branson or Nashville or Dollywood might be a target if you hate "deplorables." One just outside your favorite casino in Las Vegas -- not so much. And it's not like the alleged shooter didn't have the ability or resources to travel to more symbolically significant locations.
I think it was more a matter of the concert being the largest mass gathering near where he was, rather than a target chosen for political reasons, but subconsciously, there may have been something in this theory. If you're a White guy who shoots up a rap or salsa concert, people are going to conclude that you are a racist or White nationalist or White separatist. If you attack a meeting of largely White people you avoid that. So what looks like a political act to some people may have been an explicitly apolitical act. We don't know yet.
PS I wouldn't necessarily build the ex into something important. He may just have been another guy who spouts politics on the Internet. Of course, someone might have thought the same thing about the Scalise shooter and that would have been wrong, but how different really was Danley from thousands of other guys? Change the political affiliation, and who knows? Maybe you or me.
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Your theory might be even more credible if it turns out he recently learned he had a debilitating or terminal medical situation to deal with.
I agree with the author.
Of all of the photos/film I saw during and after the attack, all I saw were whites.
Maybe he found the life Is beautiful concert was libs so he moved on. I know l figured it was a pro life thing at first.
that pic of someone’s legs/torso in the hotel room is/was interesting.
not a gun expert or a suicide expert or a crime scene investigator, but a gun with a stand that was pictured over the left leg seems odd.
so was the gun under the body- at least it looks like half a gun under the body.
Unless one would lie on the floor and put the bullet into their head?
Is that how it’s done?
But if true, what’s the deal with the other gun under the body, too?
Not sure if one’s body or legs would lie perfectly still after a bullet was shot into their head, but that one gun over the leg of that body seemed not to be disturbed.
I've read that. Could be legally purchased "salesman samples".
he worked for IRs for 10 years -
I see it as primarily an Anti-Trump attack, also, but with a pro-left agenda.
Why would any terrorist surround himself with so much firepower knowing full well that he may have used only 3 or 4 of the weapons
leaving an additional 15 weapons in the hotel room totally unused and never fired during the incident ?
Why would such a methodical and premeditated individual have such a large cache of weapons go totally unused, except to make a statement ?
Foreign press have made mention of a note he left behind in the hotel room
That note might explain his mindset and indicate his thoughts at the time of his terrorist actions.
Either he was a rabid, violent Lefty or he was a Jihadist. My money is on Jihadist but hes a terrorist regardless.
The LVPD officer who gave the press conference yesterday strongly suggested that “radicalization” could be involved and urged the press to start digging into this. He knows something that he’s not being allowed to disclose. I imagine the FBI has something to do with his inability to say anything more.
He videoed his atrocity, to what end? Posterity is for the living, not the dead.
He must have wanted someone to see his evil actions.
The police and feds, certainly, but who else?
Others of his ilk?
Was he ‘live-streaming’ it to somewhere or someone?.............
That report may just be a red herring to make people move away from the “deplorable” theory.
The FBI will never publish the shooter’s motive if he was a Trump hater who wanted to kill Trump voters. This story will be forgotten, dropped down the official Federal Memory Hole where Hillary’s 33,000 emails are.
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