Posted on 10/18/2002 5:29:17 AM PDT by KLT
It’s official. The Washington-area sniper story is now a full-fledged circus.
All the ingredients are in place:
1—A phony witness leads police and media on a wild goose chase, telling a tall tale of a cream colored van with a non-functioning taillight, driven by an olive-skinned man and carrying a shooter with an AK-74 – none of which existed.
2—Fox News sends its top hack, Mr. Showbiz himself, Geraldo Rivera, to do a standup at the Fredricksburg, Virginia, shooting. Afterwards, Geraldo retires to do what he does best, autograph butts at the local Hooters, then jets off to Bali where the body count is higher.
3—The various media outlets give the shooter names: The Single-Shot Sniper (redundancy, redundancy), the Beltway Sniper, etc.
4—All the networks develop splashy graphics to headline their stories.
5—Routine press conferences become “breaking news.”
6—Instant experts appear like locusts on the wind, citing their expertise as “former counterterrorism experts” and offering varying theories on local, network and cable news shows. An FBI source of ours says half these experts were forced to retire because they weren’t that good at their jobs.
7—Gun control freaks come out of the woodwork, citing the shootings as justification for taking all the guns in America and melting them into a giant memorial to Michael Moore.
8—Newspaper columnists, running out of ideas, call up Washington-based journalists and ask them if they are afraid to pump their own gas.
9—Politicians issue reams of press releases and introduce new bills to curtail sale of firearms and ballistic fingerprinting of those already in existence.
10—When the media runs shot of facts, they find some fruitcake to claim it’s all a big al Qaeda plot.
All this hoopla only cheapens the sad facts of this case: a madman with a rifle systematically and cold-bloodedly kills nine people and wounds two other over a two-week period.
Cops can’t do their job because they must take time out of their investigation to deal with the ever growing rat pack of reporters who dog every move, demand every detail of a sensitive investigation.
The defense department decides to deploy sophisticated recon planes to help in the hunt, but NBC news tells us the planes won’t be here for several days, telling the sniper he still have a window of opportunity to increase his body count.
At each shooting, camera crews rush to interview witnesses before police get a chance to talk to them, contaminating a crime scene that already yields too few clues.
It’s time to back off and let the cops do their job. It’s time to stop glorifying this nutcase and feeding his ego by claiming he is part of some vast foreign plot to destroy the United States.
Change the channel. This is murder. It ain’t entertainment.
© Copyright 2002 by Capitol Hill Blue
But you can't put everything on TV and expect to catch this maniac...Everyone is so worried about public relations, they don't care about anything else...
It would take at least that much iron to do justice to the girth of that mammoth boore bore boar.
I like my odds of whuppin' any GunControlNut who attempts to disarm me...MUD
Yes, me too :~)
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: ) Yes indeedy! No matter how many laws are passed or what those laws say there is still only one way they can take possession of my firearms.
MOLON LABE!
Hey, Slick Willie, yer a TREAS'NOUS FOOL!!
Gon' make Bill sweat...Slick's Mudboy's Tool!!
Medyuh's VILE, way they ignore Left's stink...
Gon' make Slick burn, gon' make Left sting.
Hey, Slick Willie, didja think you'd git away?!!
Boy, yer such a trip...still, Prison's yer Fate!!
Oh yeah, oh yeah ah, ah, ah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah ah, ah, ah~ah.
Right's gotta roll...we shan't stand still,
Once Justice starts...next, we'll git Bill!!
"If ya do the crimes", Ashcroft said,
"We'll catch you, 'cuz Truth ain't dead!!"
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah.
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ahhh__.
Heh Terry, "PUNK" McAuliffe...Slick's petty "lady".
Lib'rals, watch US do it now!!
Slick Willie, yer a Traitor, you Evil Rapist,
Fear yer Fate...Right's Rollin' Now!!
Folks, won't take too long 'fore Slick finds out
What FReepers mean by "Take Slick Out!!"
Takes my money, scratched my car,
Started tellin' MUD's FRiends, Slim's just gone too far!!
Yes, I know, Right must be Bold...
RATS' red-necked Lib'rals ain't got no soul.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, yeah.
All I ask for...all I pray,
Dubyuh's Rollin' Justice gon' come Slick's way!!
Need no Lib'rals...no Feds to hold my hand,
Git Left outta my Life, make me a happy man!!
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Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ahhh__.
Ohhh ye-ah.
Justice makes US do it now.
Yeah-yeah. Yeah-yeah. Yeah-yeah.
FReepers shake 'em do it now.
Babe! Babe!
Wooh, keep doin' it babe.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
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[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey~yeah.
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[ Busted. ] Hey~yeah. Oooh~yeah.
Oooh~ahh. [( Well done. )]
Justice makes US do it now.
FReedom lets US do it now.
Work in progress...Mudboy Slim
Shhhhhhh. Don't tell Mrs. MUD...Will tell you in person next Saturday...LOL
LOL...yep, they do the same thing to me, I'm RILED UP this mornin', and I ain't even had a cup of Java yet!!
FReegards...MUD
FReepers don't "HATE", my kind FRiend...we LOATHE!! As in "I LOATHE Bill Clinton" or to quote Slick Willie, "I LOATHE the Military!!"
LOL and FReegards...MUD
Let's Roll !!
The RATS Are In Disarray...Eradicate The Rodents !!
Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!
GWB Is The Man !!
Snuff Saddam, NOW !!
Death To all Tyrant's !!
The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
Can you link me to evidence of this...I'd like to pass it on but need verification.
$1 Billion?! For WHAT?!!!
FReegards...MUD
1. It is okay to automatically accept the profile that the sniper is a white guy.
2. Given that it is a white guy, it is okay to profile.
3. Given that it is a white guy, citizens are encouraged to monitor suspicious behaviour, and tip off the authorities.
4. Given that it is a white guy, he must be stopped, rather than stop to ask ourselves, "what did we do to make this man hate us?"
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