Posted on 10/15/2002 7:25:52 AM PDT by LSUfan
Who is doing these random 'snipings' in and around our nation's capital?
The media is of course focusing on a 'Son of Sam' type solo, deranged nutball. And maybe they are right. FBI profilers have become frequent TV Talking Heads opining on who this shooter is.
Yet lost in the clutter is the report that "two men" were seen driving away from the latest gas station murder in Manassas, Va. Two men changes this crime – radically.
Two men means a conspiracy – and it also means planning, talking, debating and some sort of direction and chain of command.
Now, let us consider something: Is it mere coincidence that, just as D.C. is approving a massive war on Iraq, D.C. and its surrounding bedroom communities are terrorized by murderous snipings?
If these murders were happening in Boise or Seattle or Chicago, we could easily ascribe them to some domestic nutcase. But this is a systematic campaign to go to the heart of our nation's capital – and almost exactly one year after the anthrax mailings also sent D.C. into a lockdown.
If you look at a map of the Washington, D.C., area, these murders are taking place both in the city itself and also in a systematic pattern around the beltway. The killings are almost completing a circle around D.C. – where most people live.
Just as the FBI immediately 'steered' its anthrax investigation to a 'domestic mailer,' so, too, has law enforcement focused on a deranged psychopath like David Berkowitz. We hear virtually nothing from the federal officials about a Mideast connection here.
A year later and the feds haven't caught the anthrax mailer.
Three years after the arrival of West Nile virus in New York – right across the East River from the U.N., where sanctions were approved that crippled Saddam's income – we still have no clue how it got here. Yet officials are wary about accusing Saddam and his battery of evil scientists.
This author was first out of the gate claiming that it was "no coincidence' that West Nile virus was here. I continue to believe Saddam was and is trying to hurt us in any way he can – without leaving a return address.
The ongoing D.C. killings may very well be yet another terror tactic – from Baghdad – aimed at inflicting pain on a people who are voting for regime change in Baghdad.
On the end of the Britt Hume News hour thay had a hilarious animated cartoon of Sadaam with a featured role for Osama.
But I missed seeing the web address!
I thought under the Clinton administration that hateful rhetoric was criminal activity. Unless directed at Republicans, of course.
Yipes! I hadn't heard that part before. If true, this pretty much nails it.
Yeah, I know. Another one that peeves me is a permit to assemble. "Uh, Big Brother, may we get together and protest you?"
I have complete sympathy for anyone who packs iron without a permit, if they are packing it for protection. But I guess I'm not ready to encourage it, because it can mean jail time, unfortunately. I have had a weapon in my vehicle and have crossed the border into collectivist states where I could have been arrested for it. That's unbelievable, to me! I'm not going to try to figure out which states are Constitutional and which ones aren't before I travel, though.
Again referring to the dying Constitution, even if there wasn't a Right To Bear Arms, you should have no problem carrying your weapon into other states as long as you have a permit in one state:
Article IV
Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.
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