Posted on 10/28/2002 5:22:36 AM PST by SJackson
I will not join in the chorus of praises for Chief Moose, head honcho in Montgomery County, Maryland, and the familiar face for overdone press briefings. I shall not applaud nor chant his name as the media did. I have fears and foes not vanquished with the arrest of accused snipers, John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
I'm flummoxed as to how two lug heads ducked the noose for so long. For three weeks, a juvenile illegal immigrant with a record and a man with two ex-wives, restraining orders, a pending shoplifting charge, the name Muhammad and anti-American sentiments managed to not just escape detection but also stymie our Keystone Kops.
The former FBI profilers who dominated the cable news shows should be sentenced to real work for their hocus-pocus. This group of babblers got it all wrong and owes apologies to all Southern white males. These profilers, Greta, Donahue, and other liberal wonks who condemn profiling with a vengeance, paraded their skills at it for fees and ratings, so long as white males were the targets. Law enforcement task forces were so convinced of this diagnostic mumbo-jumbo that they thrice stopped John Muhammad and John Lee Malvo during the manhunt, but let them go. Astounding bias, i.e., looking for a white male, interfered with their ability to investigate.
This was humanity at its lowest, profilers assured, a white conservative male who knows how to use a gun. Worse, he is sinister because, they said, he drove what was close in species to that diabolical vehicle, the SUV. The cameras stalked white vans, people dodged white vans, and every officer from here to Mars stopped white vans even as the real culprits lived, drove, and shot in a 1990 blue Chevy Caprice.
Had the moronic Muhammad not sent notes, tipped the police that he was involved in the Alabama shooting, and asked for a $10,000,000 deposit on a stolen credit card, we'd still be watching the crawl on Fox News for other stories as the screen showed white vans in the D.C. area. Muhammad called Chief Moose, family, friends, and local priests, begging to be caught, while demanding coverage.
Still, with the Beltway terrorists barely in custody and the tarot cards just marked for evidence, calls for inane reforms abound. The Bushmaster rifle, weapon of choice for these two ne'er-do-wells, is one target. The New York Times, in a subtle assignment of blame, notes the manufacturer remains quiet. Try enforcement of existing gun laws. When a man with a restraining order applies to buy a rifle, the answer is, "NO!" Mr. Muhammad was able to buy a gun sometime AFTER kidnapping his three children from his ex-wife.
True homeland security requires that PC platitudes and media theories and bias be tossed. These two internal terrorists were an illegal immigrant and a convert to Islam who expressed sympathy for the 9-11 hijackers. So, of course, the headline reads, "Ex-soldier linked to D.C.-Area Probe." Of all the things in John Muhammad's wife-abusing, child-kidnapping, anti-American background, being a soldier is hardly the story lead.
Moose, the media, and law enforcement need to get serious about immigration. John Lee Malvo had been arrested in a number of skirmishes with the law. When his mother reported John Muhammad for domestic violence, the police arrested her and Malvo for violation of immigration laws. They then released them both on $15,000 bond and never saw them again. Here's a solution: deportation. You're here illegally - OUT! You're here legally and arrested --- OUT! INS should be dismantled.
Public schools and colleges and universities provide enforcement tools liberal judges and INS officials have refused to use. Court mandates on providing education to illegal immigrants provide cover. When a child shows up for school, as Malvo did, with no records, no identification and no residence, OUT!
Finally, there comes a point for admissions and statistical reality. The Muslim faith may be a peaceful one, as we are assured regularly, but in the past year, 21 people have visited death, destruction and terror on United States soil. All save young Mr. Malvo were of the Muslim faith, and indications are he was leaning that way. Mr. Muhammad offended his fellow occupants at the Tacoma homeless shelter with his support for the hijackers.
Muslims living in the United States who are sympathetic to terrorists are problematic. Not facing that harsh reality found us enduring 3 weeks of wild goose chases that cost 11 lives and horrific injuries to 2 others. Death, injury, and living in terror. At least we didn't offend anyone.
If you would like to be on or off please frmail me.
I --will-- join in. Had they not caught the guy for two years, or never, Moose would have been called every name in the book. Moose's team caught them. Granted, they caught the snipers because of errors -they- made, but Napoleon preferred luck to brilliance, while noting that the efficient create their own luck.
Walt
This is an absurd statement.
This author needs to realize life is not a movie or a tv show. It is just idiotic to think that one man hiding in Virginia/Maryland can be rounded up as easily as criminals are on LAW AND ORDER every Wednesday night.
America/Americans lives in an unreal world. They want the impossible done with the time and ease it takes to order a pre-made burger at McDonalds.
The author goes on to say that with all the criminal records these 2 had, that law enforcement should have just "realized" it. This is probably the stupidest statement I've read in a long time.
Then, the author shows us that maybe she isn't so dumb after all. She is spot on that Homeland Security throw away all the PC mess this country is being dragged down by. The INS needs to be overhauled because it stopped working around 1950.
Muslims living in the United States who are sympathetic to terrorists are problematic. Not facing that harsh reality found us enduring 3 weeks of wild goose chases that cost 11 lives and horrific injuries to 2 others. Death, injury, and living in terror. At least we didn't offend anyone.
For this she gets a bravo and a standing ovation.
Good stat.
By all accounts, Muhammad/Malvo were stopped and let through at least three blockades, and perhaps as many as five. The license plates should've been recorded and databased, and then crossreferenced after every incident. How many out of state plates do you think showed up near the scene of three different sniper attacks?
Nope, it appears the police were too busy searching white vans, even as they said the sniper was responding to public statements - including all the statements about white vans. By their own logic the sniper would've changed vehicles.
What's more, some accounts have Muhammad/Malvo sitting in their Caprice watching the SWAT team close in on that Richmond phone booth. It seems no one thought to also look for those who might be watching that scene - even though a few posters on this site predicted exactly what happened as the event transpired.
Maybe. Napoleon would have been sure to have promoted him.
Remember what crazy George Patton said about the chaplain who wrote the "weather prayer":
"He stands in good with the Lord and I want to decorate him!"
And he did.
Walt
Imagine the damage a smart sniper could do.
That does sound like a reasonable thing to take in hand.
Probably go in the AAR.
Walt
< sarcasm >
Thank God that evil gun that committed all these murders is "off the streets". Who knows what that gun could have done to someone else if it had made its way into some poor, unsuspecting innocent's hands. It would have turned them into a cold blooded killer.
< /sarcasm >
By who's accounts.
What's more, some accounts have Muhammad/Malvo sitting in their Caprice watching the SWAT team close in on that Richmond phone booth.
Again, by who's accounts.
By all accounts, Muhammad/Malvo were stopped and let through at least three blockades, and perhaps as many as five.By who's accounts.
Official: Sniper duo stopped at least 5 times at roadblocks (Newsday)
What's more, some accounts have Muhammad/Malvo sitting in their Caprice watching the SWAT team close in on that Richmond phone booth.Again, by who's accounts.
That account is by News of the World, clearly not an authoritative source. But what makes it a bit more believable is their claim that the Caprice appears in the background on news footage. I've been unable to find any footage to verify that.
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