Posted on 10/07/2017 6:26:50 AM PDT by Twotone
On Friday morning I started the day on the curvy couch with "Fox & Friends" to discuss the latest developments in the Las Vegas attack and the Democrats' push for "gun control". The perpetrator of the deadliest single-shooter massacre in US history is so unlike his predecessors that it seems to me that nothing in his history is coincidental: there is a reason for everything, even if we will never know it - all the way down to, for example, such peripheral details as the fact that he owned property in both Mesquite, Nevada and Mesquite, Texas.
It is also interesting to note that Stephen Paddock apparently cased the "Life is Beautiful" concert in Las Vegas, headlined by the rapper Chance. The victims at that event would have been very different from those at the country music festival, and the press coverage would have been, too: Democrats would have stampeded down the "white supremacy" track rather than "gun control". One senses that the killer, in his cold calculations, was aware, for whatever reason, of all these factors.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Some want to blame ISIS , others blame a lack of gun control. Face it. Paddock was the product of home grown neo pagan, hedonistic, epicurean decadent nihilism. It is not surprising that this repulsive, amoral creature erupted in Las Vegas. Time to look in the mirror and wonder deeply about what much of America has become over the last fifty years. Paddock was not spawned in a vacuum.
If you think things are bad now, ask yourself how many American cities would be ablaze with rioting and carnage at this very moment had Stephen Paddock chosen to shoot up a Wu-Tang Clan or Snoop-Dogg gangsta rap hip hop concert instead of a Country & Western concert. Can you even imagine how it would be treated by the Democrats and their liberal media marionettes? The difference between the two is what’s wrong with America.
-— he also spent days filling his hotel room with more weapons and ammunition than he could ever conceivably use -—
He believed the hotel suite was the alamo
For later....
My theory is that he was pretty much a sociopath who has been fantasizing about committing mass murder for years & finally came up with an effective plan & acted on it.
It certainly was NOT about guns. Although I wonder why he didn’t use an airplane. He could’ve swept the field & killed hundreds if not thousands, & had a bird’s eye view of the carnage all the while. I guess we’re lucky he didn’t think of that.
Conservatives on the other hand are mostly responsible, civic minded individuals in control of their emotions who view weapons as a reasonable means of self defense.
I think once we accept this we can come up with a compromise.
IMHO he also believed he’d be able to keep on shooting a lot longer than he did. If so, he’d need backup guns because full auto like he was using melts guns very quickly. Indeed, the army instructs its recruits to fire only three round bursts to prevent machine guns from overheating. In WW II the Germans equipped each of their MG 42 machine guns with a spare barrel just to deal with the overheating problem.
In the article comments one person posited that Paddock believed he was part of a casino heist - think Oceans 11. In such a scenario, Paddock was the money man and probably not the shooter. It is also likely that Paddock was probably dead before the actual perps commenced fire from the room where they had all gathered.
I am leaning towards the ‘Paddock was not alone’ theory also.
Very interesting
This or a brain tumor.
A conspiracy would imaginably need to account for how to find a guy like this to do the deed. However, one cannot just find a guy like this— a 64 yo intelligent multimillionaire with (apparently) no LE involvement and no online social identity.
The guy must have had an email account. Not to have an email account (and use it to communicate with friends and family) for someone like this would require almost superhuman will.
This guy was an accountant? Accountants normally love keeping records. But he reportedly kept no records of himself. That is extreme will power.
The scene of the crime is a testament to his intellect. It is the perfect storm of a mass murder target in the post 9/11 world. Take the crime scene and work backwards to figure out how the guy thought. He needed elevation, a crowd, and sub-par security. A downtown Las Vegas hotel offers all three.
Lack of military background not needed. But the guy revealed his amateur “lone nut” streak by attempting to bring down the jet fuel tanks, and buying and bringing, but not using, the tannerite. The tannerite may have been part of a contingency plan to bring down the jet fuel tanks the correct (reliably with negligible chance of advance warning and tripping security) way, but he did not have enough time and did not have enough accomplices to do it reliably.
Marilou’s behavior remains somewhat suspect. Moving her belongings out of the house and being sent to the Philippines on a whim, and receiving $100K wire transfer? She would have to be rather a dim bulb not to connect the dots to the large number of guns being bought. —Still it does not seem to have direct relevance so far. I imagine that she has a tail and has been told not to leave the country (anyone know?).
the security guard jesus campos approached the scene of the shooting, was fired on, and stayed until police arrived. any other shooters would have needed to leave before campos arrived, or else (as a couple of folks online have claimed) campos was complicit in the shooting and his wound is a ruse designed to throw suspicion away from himself. imho Ockham’s Razor would seem to dictate that the commonly accepted timeline is accurate and the shooter was alone and committed suicide shortly after campos arrived.
I think by the time Jesus arrived Mohammed had already fled.
Makes you wonder.
We are one step away from a country wide riot that will burn down the cities.
This was an alphabet soup agency operation.........
…I think a lot of Americans have guns because they’re fearful—and for damn good reason. They fear a coming chaos, and know that when it happens it will be coming to a nation that no longer coheres. They think it’s all collapsing—our society, our culture, the baseline competence of our leadership class.
They see the cultural infrastructure giving way—illegitimacy, abused children, neglect, racial tensions, kids on opioids staring at screens—and, unlike their cultural superiors, they understand the implications. Nuts with nukes, terrorists bent on a mission. The grid will go down. One of our foes will hit us, suddenly and hard.
In the end it could be hand to hand, door to door. I said some of this six years ago to a famously liberal journalist, who blinked in surprise. If that’s true, he said, they won’t have a chance! But they are Americans, I said. They won’t go down without a fight… ***
— Peggy Noonan, The Culture Of Death – And Of Disdain
Fast and Furious is the only scenario that makes sense, an FBI sting gone bad (or good, in their terms).
You have to admit, the theory has merit.
I’d argue the assumption he wasn’t political is way off though given his target.
Mark: I’d love to hear his comments on this unreported bombshell:
A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has vacated the conviction of Dean Skelos, a Republican who was the majority leader of the New York State Senate, because of a “charging error” by prosecutors in defining the term “official act” for the purpose of instructing jurors in the case. Mr. Skelos and his son Adam now join the former Speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver; Bank of America, Michael Steinberg, Rengan Rajaratnam, Javier Artajo and Julien Grout, Benjamin Wey, John Pauling, Todd Newman, and Anthony Chiasson on the list of people that federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and his associates at the FBI went after but who were later either cleared by courts or found to have been the victims of problematic prosecutions.
Interesting, but if that’s the case, why take his own life? By surrendering and being put on a lengthy trial he could’ve greatly prolonged his “statement”.
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