Posted on 10/17/2002 6:43:21 AM PDT by spycatcher
The psychological profiling that has consumed the media since the start of the sniper killings has produced in almost every case a rather cliched portrait of a killer or killers who are white, in their twenties or early thirties, have military experience, enjoy exercising the godlike power of life and death, and are alienated from society. Some describe the culprit as a serial killer, and some label him a spree or thrill killer. Yet the salient aspects of the shootings do not fit with our knowledge of either of these types, and if the perpetrator does turn out to be disaffected, frustrated, alienated, white and male, he will constitute an important new subcategory. Should the killings be the work of international terrorists, on the other hand, they will fit a textbook pattern that has been on ample display during recent years in every part of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Remember the Egyptian pilot who crashed the passenger plane muttering Islamic prayers? That was puzzling when it happened, but it is understandable now. These killers experiment and have trial runs.
The killer could be a terrorist helping to perfect technique.
Even if he is not, even if he is a lone psychotic serial killer, the successes he has had have not been lost on the terrorists who are studying us.
Bush is right. America is at war with international terrorism, though Americans do not want to be.
Bush's recognition of this horrible fact immediately after the September 11 attack was brilliant in its clarity and focus.
This war will be horrible. It has already come to American soil. The enemy is every bit as fanatical, vicious, and dangerous as Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan.
America must win this war. It will take every bit of American knowhow. Most importantly it will require clarity, focus, and resolve.
God is with us! Take courage from that.
What if this is a test case as it was suggested in a commentary on WorldNetDaily? What if this spreads to 20 other cities when we attack Iraq? Then, the inability of our hapless govt. to protect us will become quite apparent! Then, Americans will willingly submit to martial law (as if that will do any good). I hope at that point that Americans demand the rounding up of all middle eastern males between 15 and 50 - not for internment, but for deportation back to Mohamed-land where they belong. If Americans get mad enough, it will happen and it will be a good thing for our national security. To hades with diversity. I don't want to mix with a culture that is bent on world domination. I want them out.
How do you know that? How do you know that God isn't using islam to judge America for its heinous sins? It wouldn't be the first time God has judged a nation, would it? God used the evil empires of Assyria and Nebuchadnezzar to judge a wayward Israel. Why is America special? America has kicked God out of the public square, is the biggest propagator of pornography and weapons of war in the world, the biggest killer of unborn babies (next to China maybe), and the American people are mostly moral relativist. Now, there's a nation God can love, eh?
Yeah: no burka.
More than one were Black.
I believe some 30% of Americans Muslims are black.
So true!
They all say the same thing like brain-dead robots that terrorist's always will claim responsibility. Yeah right, and I'm the Pope posting on Free Republic.
Well, OK, so there are some holes in my theory. But I still think it's Islamic terrs.
What you say may be true but if it is they sure picked a whimpy virus to reign terror with. Thats not a very good kill ratio and it is usually only fatal to the old and the very young. How many people die of influenza each year, I would suspect its more than 164
The liberal media has been in a slumber for about 5 decades.
One of the GREAT things about the net is that the elites can no longer limit discussion about subjects which they would prefer to sweep under the rug. Fifteen years ago, we would all be just be sitting in front of the TV shouting at Dan Rather....all the while thinking that we were the only sane individual left in America. Now, we have a method of running an end-around the media/elite establishment. They cannot control the truth anymore or make us feel isolated. That is the miracle of the net.
Political correctness is a fascinating phenomenon. It is the ultimate example of the old story about "the emperor has no clothes". Our elites slavishly ignore obvious facts and suppress heretical thoughts because they fear the social ostracism that they will experience if they leave the elite liberal reservation. The reality is: suggesting that this sniper may be a muslim is politically incorrect. It is perfectly OK to suggest that he is a racist, gun-worshipping white male redneck (that is well within acceptable bounds of discussion for our elite). But suggesting that he is a minority (and probably an immigrant, no less) is strictly forbidden. Thus, even if they hamper the effort to catch the culprit by hiding information about his appearance, the liberals must maintain total PC form and continue to suggest that it must be a new Tim McVeigh.
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