People desperately wanted to pin the last set of bad Southern California fires a couple of years ago on Muslim terrorists.
Turned out to be a random assortment of accidents, idiots, and assorted arsonists, as it usually is.
They did arrest one guy with a weird-sounding Armenian name for a wildfire arson and the more clueless on FR briefly got excited thinking he might be a Muslim or Arab.
Some of the current fires are known to not be arson related.
As for those which are, a lot of the arsonists are caught and prosecuted.
Here’s hoping they catch and prosecute whoever did this whatever their motive.
I don’t know why but I suspect disgruntled “undocumented workers” since these fires are so close to the border with our neighbor to the south.
Seems to me the illegals would love to put a finger in the eye of rich white Californians.
“the more clueless on FR briefly got excited thinking he might be a Muslim or Arab.” Was he a Jew?
If intentionally set, I’m sure it was either an environmental hippie or firefighter. Could never be a terrorist.
It’s not a discussion of potential-terrorism until Strategerist shows up to discount the possibility altogether and piss on any Freepers who dares to suggest otherwise in one fell swoop.
The fact is, this could be tweaker firebugs or deranged volunteer firemen. It could also be Muslim terrorists. Given the incredible and unprecedented scale of these fires, only a blind man would discount the latter as a possibility.
And let’s face it... as much as the biggest “Islamophobe” on this board “wants” this to be an act of jihad, that’s exactly how badly you want to prove it isn’t, whether it really is or not. That’s been your agenda for as long as you’ve been posting here.
Is debunking an inherent part of your profession? A serious question.
Ah well . . . does tend to keep the rest of us more grounded and reality based.
But I still think you set yourself up to be blind-sided by a TYPE II error.
Turned out to be a random assortment of accidents, idiots, and assorted arsonists, as it usually is.
They did arrest one guy with a weird-sounding Armenian name for a wildfire arson and the more clueless on FR briefly got excited thinking he might be a Muslim or Arab.
It never ceases to amaze me how events that ten years ago could be chalked up to natural causes, criminal mischief or incompetence are now some grand Mexi-Muslim plot.
Have all the homegrown kooks, degenerates, psychos and general evil-doers suddenly vanished from our midst? Did we achieve societal nirvana while I wasn't looking?
California always has fires, often very bad ones. I don’t really feel that sympathetic for people who build homes in places that are likely to burn.
Besides, it is California. I have really had enough of that state constantly having disaster after disaster and then expecting to get more off the government teet.
Deal with your own stew.
Nevertheless, I hope any arsonists are found.
“They did arrest one guy with a weird-sounding Armenian name for a wildfire arson and the more clueless on FR briefly got excited thinking he might be a Muslim or Arab.”
Yeah IIRC the guy’s name was Oyler.....If it’s the same case that we’re thinking of.