Posted on 10/26/2018 12:53:00 PM PDT by reaganaut1
As my colleague Jack Crowe has noted, a bombing suspect is in custody. His name is Cesar Sayoc Jr., and as you can see the instant you log on to Twitter, he apparently drove a white van covered in pro-Trump stickers. That is not a vehicle a normal human being drives, and now I’m seeing the right side of the Internet light up with takes saying that he’s obviously “crazy.”
Let’s use caution with that claim. It’s a word that can allow us to wrongly minimize the significance of the attack. There is a huge difference between obsessed, violent, unstable, and truly insane. And that difference matters both legally and practically. When a person who’s afflicted with severe mental illness assaults another person (think of the terrible attack on Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz.), the reasons are often so completely disconnected from reality that preventing such attacks is mainly a question of medication or other forms of mental-health intervention.
But there are other kinds of violent people, including angry obsessives. They’re not normal. They act strangely. But they’re also legally and morally responsible for their actions. If you spend any time in politics or the public eye, you encounter them with some frequency. Usually they’re harmlessly annoying, but sometimes they launch harassment campaigns online, sometimes they make violent threats, and sometimes they’ll show up at, say, a pizza place with an AR-15.
The angry obsessive is absolutely vulnerable to being stoked, inflamed, and inspired by angry rhetoric. Speech can inspire violence. It can. It’s one reason why civility and a sense of proportion in your speech aren’t just abstract, sanctimonious, or elitist concepts. They’re moral responsibilities for people with any kind of meaningful platform. Not all listening ears are sober-minded or entirely rational.
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Once I see the author is David French, my mind, and interest in reading, completely turns off.
Pins and needles, Needles and pins.
We all deal with semantics.
You hate Trump that much .
Oh, I see. The perp is just a regular MAGA bot, but not crazy (says the NeverTrumper). How convenient.
So, threatening to bomb Florida Power and Light in 2002 is not crazy?
Sorry NeverTrumper....you cannot shut MAGA down, we have your number now.
The guy was a male stripper according to nypost. Maybe Avenetti will represent him.
Crazy like a dim op.
Attack? What attack? Nothing went “BOOM.”
David French - idiot.
I use MORE than just his “van” to make a judgement.
Idiot.
So, threatening to bomb Florida Power and Light in 2002 is not crazy?
Sorry NeverTrumper....you cannot shut MAGA down, we have your number now.
******
He also has at least five dismissed counts on selling steroids. He is nuts.
This reeks of a typical FBI/BATFE entrapment setup. The fact that they had prior knowledge of him and contact with him means they had him in their rolodex as a possible future pigeon. He’s just a dumbass who probably talked too much politics. Same stitchup they ran on Papadopolous.
If I were an enterprising reporter I’d be dredging all his hangouts to find out if he had recently acquired a new (FBI/BATFE supplied) buddy who talked a lot of politics with him, maybe got him a side job or otherwise funneled some cash his way.
A chronically overlooked point:
Nobody got hurt.
This is what betrayers behind our lines do - accepting EVERY left wing premise as their starting point, and arguing from there.
French doesn’t know what the “right side of the Internet” is saying, at all. We’re not calling the suspect crazy. We’re calling out the whole scam for the hoax it is.
Did the DNC team miss that during the van preparation?
“””His most recent arrest in Broward was in 2014. In 2002, he was charged with making a bomb threat in Dade County, Florida. He was sentenced to one year of probation. Prosecutors agreed to withhold adjudication of the felony charge, meaning it was dismissed after he completed the probation in 2003.
In 1991, Sayoc was charged with third-degree grand theft, a felony. He pleaded guilty that same year and was sentenced to two years of probation. In 1994, his mother sought a domestic violence injunction against Sayoc, court records show.
Sayoc was arrested on drug charges in 2004. He was accused of possession and sale of steroids, along with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, tampering with evidence, filing fraudulent tax returns, criminal use of personal ID info and possession or unlawful issue of a driver’s license. He pleaded guilty that same year and was sentenced to 18 months of probation.
In 2013, Sayoc was charged with battery and third-degree grand theft, a felony. He pleaded guilty in 2014 and was sentenced to probation. In 2009, Sayoc was charged with operating without a valid license, not having insurance and not having a tag light and was fined after pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charges.”””
Cesar is a good example of how our Florida Justice System reduces the statistics on felons incarcerated in Florida Prisons.
Instead of sending the felons to Prison, the Florida Justice System lets the felon cop a plea and be sentenced to probation.
Recidivism is a huge problem in Florida and our Government Leaders work overtime to hide it from the public.
BTW vote NO on Amendment 4. This felon should not have been allowed to register to vote.
Interesting that French chose that particular example when he could've easily chosen a much better one -- leftist James T. Hodgkinson shooting up a Republican congressional baseball game with the intent of mass murder. But hey, that's NeverTrumper Frenchie for you, as biased as any leftist "journalist" out there.
The guy sounds like he abused steroids, to say nothing of being extremely financially unstable with a lengthy arrest record.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t other people involved.
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