Maryland Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary

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[Peach]

Another press conference due soon. To avoid multiple vanity threads regarding any news that comes from press conferences, thought we'd keep a live commentary thread going again today.

[Chapita]

The number of times Moose has been on the air tells me that they are using the media to communicate disinfo to the shooter. Probably watching people to see if they react to a certain message.

[OReilly]

...they need a professional spokeman...his little rant this morning about the media, merely has given the sniper another "avenue" to drive Moose nuts...he will USE the media as his accomplice.

Moose has no clue how to run the interface between the Police, the Media, and the public, but that female captain has shown herself to be capable in one of the first conferences.

[Merovingian]

Thank you for this article...Glendenning is another one way out of his league....

[Naspino]

I think we're going to see a live sniping in one of these news conferences. If he is after the police then it seems like a logical target. The media attention would certainly be there. It reminds me the other day when a car spun out in earshot of a news conference and everyone on camera flinched.

[Hatteras]

Save me some time, debrief me. I've read your posts on this issue and I can't for the life of me, see how there is a consistant connection involving local parks, churches, cemetaries and a craft store with each of these crime scenes.

Please, I beg you, spell it out.

[ET(end tyranny)]

I think we're going to see a live sniping in one of these news conferences.

I thought the same thing a couple of days ago. Talk about getting exposure.

[relee]

Police are searching the woods near a school in Clinton, MD. A student reported they saw a man in the woods with a bag.

I hope the student is not crying wolf to get attention.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Check #141 of this thread. That may help.

[relee]

I think we're going to see a live sniping in one of these news conferences.

Let's hope not.

[Jrabbit]

I thought school was out today for teacher conference or something.

[dljordan]

Since the anti-gun furor over Columbine has died down another round of murders will get the rhetoric rolling again. If you didn't want the public to think this was committed by a terrorist it would have to look like a nut-case, militia, red-neck, angry white male type. Then again I could be wrong. Just a thought.

[Conservative Tiger]

Good point. LEO should run a check on Michael Tasker, Michael Benjamin and Benjamin Michael to see what comes up.

BTW, this is truly creepy for me in that I attended Benjamin Tasker Middle School from 1979-1981 and some of the happiest moments of my childhood are of going to school there, playing football on the school grounds with my friends, teen night dances, playing in the woods and riding my bike on the bike paths near the school. To me this son of a bitch has taken away part of my childhood as I will never be able to think of the time I spent at BTMS without this horrific event coming to mind. I hope LEOs find him soon and he ends up with a bullet in his head.

[OReilly]

It reminds me the other day when a car spun out in earshot of a news conference and everyone on camera flinched.

I happened again this morning and Moose said, ....Backfire! and then went on anouncing the time of the next conference, etc.

[dljordan]

Since the anti-gun furor over Columbine has died down another round of murders will get the rhetoric rolling again. If you didn't want the public to think this was committed by a terrorist it would have to look like a nut-case, militia, red-neck, angry white male type. Then again I could be wrong. Just a thought.

[relee]

I think Clinton is in PG County. The schools are having a teacher work day in Montgomery County.

[small_l_libertarian]

Probably completely unrelated, but I just searched on "Benjamin" (for Benjamin Tasker Middle School) the way people have been doing for "Michael."

Under "Benjamin + meaning + name" the first site that comes up is "The 12 Tribes of Israel." It says "Benjamin was born in Bethlehem and was the last son of Jacob and Rachel. The birthing of Benjamin brought the death of his mother and in her final moments, Rachel (soul) called him 'Benoni' (son of my sorrow), but Israel (spirit) called him Benjamin, meaning the son of my right hand (Gen 35:18). Also means: in the widest sense of son (grandson, great-grandson, etc. thereby covering all generations to come). It was the bringing of Benjamin to Joseph in Egypt that released the provision of food to Israel (Jacob)."

Then, I searched on "tarot + Benjamin" and got "Finally, a lesser known legend is the Benjamin deck, supposedly brought back to the Known Worlds by Benjamin Verden after his diplomatic expedition to the Vau. Rumor has it that the Vau were fascinated by the pictures and symbols in a Tarot deck that one of Verden's daughters brought with her to Vau-space, and when she left, a Vau gave her a copy he had made, what eventually became known as the Benjamin deck. Little is known of this set, but supposedly it has strange, alien wisdom hidden amongst the Vau-drawn Major Arcana."

Food for thought, anyway.

[Jrabbit]

Thanks.

[Prodigal Son]

I wasn't trying to dog your ideas. We're all speculating and it basically all has the same value. I'd be interested to see those areas though. You'd think it shouldn't be too hard for the cops to narrow down his shooting positions- I mean the weapon has a finite range and anything in a circle that you couldn't see from the victims spot could be ruled out.

I would bet he has cased out his shooting positions many times to see what could be seen from them and how to easily get into and out of them. If they can narrow down where they think he shot from, they should be able to start asking locals if they've seen anybody coming to those spots with maybe binos or a spotting scope lately or doing anything odd like laying on the ground... I hope they catch this scoundrel.

[relee]

MSNBC - At Rose Valley elementary school - The police stopped a blue ford (looks like a taurus). This person drove up to the school from the wooded area, the police talked to her and then put her in the back of a car and drove away quickly.

What's that about?

[Hatteras]

Clinton is off Branch Avenue in PG County. It is also in the final approach to Andrews AFB.

Would the president be the tarot "King"?