Maryland Sniper Shootings-FR Commentary

Fox, CNN, Press Conferences | October 9, 2002 | Fox, CNN, Press Conferences

[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.

[OReilly]

Looks like alrea had to run...

which is obviously so silly that it may be planted to divert. or encourage a claim of responsibility.

What is so silly? Who's claim of responsibility?
Planted by whom, the police?
Planted to divert what, or whom?
Are you saying this was just another screen test 'gone wrong' for The Moose?

[Route66]

It was a verbal leak from somewhere within the police department. There is no picture of the card which is available to the public.

[cake_crumb]

"Maybe we ought to lighten up a bit on that police chief. And practice the Golden Rule. For sure, which one of us Freepers, really in all honesty, would want to be in his position right now, or be under the stress he is. None of us."

Absolutely. It's far easier to criticize than walk a mile in another man's shoes.

[relee]

The school shooting could be a copycat with a similar calibre weapon or maybe even a false flag operation.

Except that they claim that they have a bullet match between the Monday shooting and several of the others.

I read it was a caliber match.

[AnAmericanMother]

Chances are it is the Death card with the knight on horseback. That's the image from the Rider-Waite deck, by far the most popular deck around. Anybody with only a casual acquaintance with Tarot probably has a Rider-Waite deck.

The other most common image is death walking with the scythe, the Grim Reaper. The Tarot de Marseilles uses that image, as does Aleister Crowley's Thoth deck.

Thoth deck:

Marseilles deck:

There are a lot of other limited distribution decks around with other images, but these three between them cover probably 99.9 percent of the decks in existence.

I don't think this has any occult significance here. The shooter (if he and not some thrill-seeking teenager dropped the card) just probably thought this would aggravate and frighten everyone.

[Elenya]

Looks like they're African-Americans after all!

[relee]

FOX News just reported something going on in the Rockville area.People told not to leave a building because of a security concern.Anyone in the area with local access to news know what is happening?

Something about John Walsh was shooting an "America's Most Wanted" nearby and the told them to remain indoors.

[browardchad]

This is the second time Moose has messed with the media. The first was on Friday, in believe, when his office released info about a missing person (who subsequently turned out to be completely unrelated to the shootings, and has been released). He admitted on Saturday morning that his office had released the info, and that he had later tried to stop the info from being printed, but "people weren't answering their phones at 2 a.m." (Implying that if he was up all night, why wasn't the media?)

As far as his criticism of profilers, Moose was the one promising an FBI profile by 5 p.m. on Friday, only to be told by the FBI that they couldn't profile a perp on which they had virtually no info. Failing that, he dragged out a "geographic profiler" from Canada, making a dog and pony show out of it on Saturday. The killer then struck again on Monday, in a different location.

On Monday, he assured the world at 7 a.m. that the schools were perfectly safe, and an hour later the killer struck, at a school, in that different location.

There's nothing like accusing the press of messing up a case to distract attention from your own mistakes. I don't think the killer is so much listening to the talking heads as he/she is listening to what Moose has to say, and mocking him. Maybe Moose should just shut up.

[sissyjane]

An arrest has been made in maryland.Man firing 45 out windows.other guns found in house.Not saying he's the sniper,but have interest in him.

[two23]

FOX Reports arrest of man....(firing pistol out of a window?)

[cake_crumb]

"I read it was a caliber match."

That's what I read...IIRC, there wasn't enough left of the slugs to do ballistic testing.

[Dog]

We were all trying to figure out a pattern in the shootings a few days ago.........some saw the moon and star of Islam..... I myself saw the number 4 and 7 ....Shootings 1 thru 5 form the number 4.....shootings 6 thru 8 form the number 7

Could the number 4 and 7 mean something??

[relee]

A man fired shots from a .45 out the window in Kensington, MD.
The arrested him.
They are canvassing the weapons in his house.
It is a man they had some interest in, in the past.

[Skywalk]

I see nothing wrong with that Wayne Hicks 'letter.' It could just as easily have been written by any online libertarian(check out Robert Kocher's apologia for McVeigh on Zolatimes.com) or conservative. Someone who makes clear such principled stands for liberty, country and the Constitution in its original spirit is hardly one that's going to randomly target innocents.

Now if they threw in some stuff like "ZOG" or "mongrels" then I'd be more suspicious.

[cake_crumb]

Note that all of the representations are of skeletons...even the crusador.

[relee]

Any one consider Abu Sayaf (sp?). No Asians targeted and they may have a bone to pick or two with the death of their leader a few months back.

Prenkumer Walekar, the cab driver shot on Thursday morning, was an Asian.

[NautiNurse]

Prayers offered that this is the killer under arrest.

[Elenya]

Prayers offered that this is the killer under arrest.

Same here. I need to stop freeping...

[archy]

Testing the ping list....

Ping for anyone on the *Bang_list that's interested...

[ET(end tyranny)]

GeorgeandtheDralgore found the letter. I pasted it here for people to see. Probably isn't them, but who knows.

Weren't the LE's looking for someone from N.C. earlier, but said they got the wrong man???