I love opening a NY Post like this on the subway right in front of someone who looks say....less than conservative. Then again, a headline like this gets the whole subway car looking at it.
Posted on 10/18/2002 1:14:51 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:09:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
October 18, 2002 -- A NON-STOP frenzy of psychological profiling has been gushing out of televisions, newspapers, and magazines since the start of the "Sniper Killings" in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., earlier this month, producing in almost every case a rather too pat portrait of a killer (or perhaps two) who are white, in their 20s or early 30s, have military experience, enjoy exercising the god-like power of life and death, and are alienated from society.
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By the way, I read some place yesterday about the cops checking underneath one of those white vans that they had stopped.
Why would they, when they can simply ask the head of the investigation? And he, in his graciousness, says the nice things about a fellow FBI employee that one would expect him to say (perhaps - probably - he even talked to Linda's supervisor himself).
Look, until you can determine precisely what sort of work she was doing as an NIPC cybercrimes analyst, I don't think you should substitute the eulogizing of her colleagues to draw sketchy inferences.
I don't think I'll be able to make that precise determination. As the hometown paper story said, the nature of her work was classified, and she wouldn't talk about it.
But I do know, from a different story, that she was involved in a program for the FBI to give tips and warnings to private businesses. And I can guess what sorts of tips and warnings the FBI has been giving local businesses for the past two weeks.
That would be one route. Another is to go about 50-100 yards west on the access road, make a right into the apartment complex, and go another 200 yards to Wilson.
Or, take the little shopping mall alley directly adjacent to the parking lot (next to the liquor store), drive up to Wilston, make a quick left and then right to get onto Wilson Blvd. Or just head another mile to the entrance to I-66 (by the Metro station).
But that's the point, you're right, there are several egress routes from the school parking lot.
In general terms, NIPC has no other mission than "to give tips and warnings to private businesses." That is their job.
Also, it seems that anyone working with NIPC would have clearance and be working on classified material. That also is their job.
From the NIPC web site:
"Located in the FBI's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., the NIPC brings together representatives from U.S. government agencies, state and local governments, and the private sector in a partnership to protect our nation's critical infrastructures."
Best put away the news cameras untill they have the suspect(s) in jail with a pile of evedence on top of them. Hell, no wonder they get fooled by fake witnesses. It becomes another chace to get on the news.
That reminds me of when I was a kid, and we would play hide-and-seek outside at night. The house was well-lit, and I would "hide" by going about 10 feet beyond the edge of the lightbeam in the back yard. Everyone was completely unable to see me and they would run around calling for me to come out, all the while I was right there in the open sitting on the lawn, about 30 feet away, able to see everything they were doing.
I love opening a NY Post like this on the subway right in front of someone who looks say....less than conservative. Then again, a headline like this gets the whole subway car looking at it.
That's why the Libs are praying (to whatever dieties they worship) that it IS a white right-wing gun nut. If it turns out to be AQ, we're going back to '76 baby (1776, that is). I wouldn't be surprised to see the Supremes decide that any gun regs are unconstitional.
BTW, Caleb Carr's father was one of the original Beats (before the label was even coined) when they were all undergrads at Columbia right after WWII. The early Beats where high IQ bohemians that liked to hang around street toughs and get involved in petty crime.
When Carr's dad was indirectly associated with a homicide, Kerouc, Ginsberg, et al ended up dropping out. And thus began their original wanderings with Neal Cassidy at the wheel as portrayed in 'On the Road'.
I'm afraid I don't see why you would call this kind of terrorism is "so stupid". One of the stated goals of AQ is to disrupt the American economy. Suppressing the public's willingness to go out (by shooting people randomly, including at gas stations, malls, and store parking lots), for even a moderate percentage of the people, would have such an effect.
Another goal would be to instill a sense of helplessness in the populace by demonstrating that the government cannot protect the people (the fallacy of this belief notwithstanding - but that's a second amendment issue). From all reports, there is certainly such a feeling growing in the hearts and minds of many DC area residents, if not the nation.
While a sniping tactic is certainly reprehensible, it is certainly a less costly alternative to other unprecedented attacks like 9/11.
Because the Islamofascits believe the worst of American culture - and that we cower when threatened (a la Black Hawk Down, the USS Coles, etc.) - the sniping would be aimed at enabling the gun grabbers while instilling general fear.
Having said all that, I'll finish by saying that it is my opinion that a foreign controlled (Islamic) terror cell is behind the sniping, but that the truth will only be known when the perps are caught. Let's all pray that this happens soon.
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