Posted on 10/22/2002 2:09:43 AM PDT by Peach
Let's keep a live commentary thread gonig again today.
We have to remember that he is being used here as a figurehead, and he has to parse his words so carefully, knowing one wrong word might end someone else's life. I would NOT want that responsibility.
I am sure the weight is heavy, and this may sound harsh...but in life and death situations, you need a leader. STRONG and CONFIDENT, SKILLED and IN CHARGE.
No disrespect to this man..but...when choosing the General to lead the army, you do not chose someone who shows the weight of the world on his shoulders. I know that sounds harsh..but..THINK.
Instead, the national government has developed a response that focuses on controlling law abiding domestic citizens--people who ride on airplanes; private pilots; gun owners and the like. The FBI and other government agencies focus their initial investigative energy on "white supremicists" and other domestic sources. "Homeland security" and Tom Ridge are just a PR exercise designed to make people feel better. We are not doing anything about the substance of the problem nor do we show any signs of being prepared to do so.
We aren't responding to this sniper and a lot of innocent Americans, black and white, probably including kids, are likely to be killed.
So yes, I think the real pressure ought to be on the national administration to get organized to do something effective about this attack. I'm real sorry you don't agree.
"The gunner of Washington kills again and threatens the children to increase the photograph ROCKVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) - the gunner has striken at the source of the true psychosis in the United States informed the police force that the children of the area of Washington were not in safety "nowhere, at any time". Charles Moose, head of the police force of the county of Montgomery, declared at the time of a press conference which the police force had received a phone call of the killer, suspected of having assassinated 10 people and to have wounded three of them since October 2. The police force launched a vast hunting to the man in the area of Washington, where a bus driver was killed by ball Tuesday morning - an act which resembles the nine assassinations extremely and three attempts allotted in twenty days to the gunner embusqué at the origin of a true psychosis. The new victim was touched whereas it was held upright beside its bus with the stop, around 6 hours of the morning (10h00 GMT), on Connecticut Avenue, in Aspen Hills, in the county of Montgomery (Maryland). It is in this same county that the gunner in series had initially appeared, and organizes it of Montgomery, in charge of the investigation, deployed impressive means to put the hand on the author of these acts. The principal roads were blocked while the investigators controlled the vehicles, in particular those led by men. Agents, helicopters and units of dogs of the police force took share with hunting for the man, relayed by all the media of the country. But the gunner seemed to have taken once more the broad one. All the elements seem to prove that it is about a new victim of the "sniper" which haunts the surroundings of the American capital: only one ball would have been drawn, and the place is near a wooded zone where it is possible to hide. ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN RETREAT Although the police force awaits usually the results of the ballistic examinations to officially establish the link with the gunner in series, it recognized that it inquired as if this bond existed. The authorities thus deployed means with the measurement of the panic sown by the gunner in series, which touched each one of its victims of only one ball, drawn by a powerful rifle with long range. The last episode of this fact various which holds in breath the United States is likely to feed the psychosis still more. The schoolboys of the area of Washington, which includes/understands the States of Maryland and Virginia, were constrained to remain in class at the time of the recreations, and the principal sporting events in the open air had to be cancelled. Who more is, the economic activity of the area was deeply reached, of many people preferring not to expose itself in the street. The majority of the victims of the gunner were touched in commercial zones or service station. The last shooting allotted to the killer in series had wounded Saturday evening a man with Ashland, in Virginia, to approximately 130 km in the south of the federal capital. Since, the head of the police force of the county of Mongtomery, Charles Moose, in load of the investigation, tried to come into contact with the gunner embusqué by interposed media. According to Washington Post, the investigators found a letter handwritten on the spot of the incident of Saturday. With believing of it the American daily newspaper, which quotes Tuesday of the sources close to the police force, the police officers started a dialogue with a man which is, according to them, the gunner. This last had left a first message close to a school of the county of Prince George, in Maryland, where a pupil had been seriously wounded on his arrival with the establishment. It acted according to media's of a chart of tarot representing the death on which it was registered: "Dear police officer, I am God." "
I'd like to hear those words NOW with a small change:
President Bush took the floor of the House Chambers and said, we won't rest, and neither will you. We are coming after you, and you will pay AND WE'RE GOING TO START IN THE US!
Yes, I was basing my comments on my observation of the news conference.
He was specifically asked about his use of the word "people" and set the reporter straight that he had been using the phrase "person or people" for several days (which he has--which I have also heard with my own ears).
Absolutely correct. They may do that anyway.
I agree completely. But let me add something that may cause us to disagree. I believe the pressure was not mostly from the press. I believe it was from the Lawyers...
I realize that there are more lawyers in this area than anywhere on earth. I'm getting to be able to smell lawyers like a blood hound smells blood (or Whatever). Just look at Moose's words starting with the preamble to this section...
Secondly, there continues to be...
I also think they should release most of the information they have (keeping whatever "Tells" they need and whatever items they think others could easily copy.
The authorities have demonstrated they can't even come close to catching this guy. It's like the Unabomer... two months after releasing the manifesto, we caught him and we didn't even have FreeRepublic back then.
I think we could do it in two days on FR.
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