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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.
Imagine the damage a smart sniper could do.
As a civilian, the author cannot imagine the amount of information that was coming in and all that had to be evaluated during this type of crime/terror spree.
The fact that the blue caprice got thru so many roadblocks is a travesty. Somebody down the line was not doing proper 100%searches of vehicles. The individual(s) who were responsible for setting up the roadblocks and not conducting full 100% vehicle searches ought to face consequences.
Their ineptness lead to the prolongation of the terror spree.
I heard Limbaugh and Hannity criticize Chief Moose, I disagree with them. Again they cannot imagine the volume of information coming in, and the difficult job of disseminating it, and co-ordinating multi-agency task forces.
Could Moose have done better, sure. IMO as an individual with 26 years experience in law enforcement at the county and federal levels,He did a tough job very well.
This is all because there is only one profile that may be spoken of on TV--the white male.
I recently saw samples of the handwriting and the sentence structure from the several written communications that Moose had in his possession during the investigation.
Having taught for three years in two Detroit inner-city all-black schools, and having read essays and homework assignments ad infinitum from my "students", I can tell you that it is EASY to recognize the street language of blacks, or as some refer to it, Eubonics.
Any FBI, ATF, or cop working on this case who had access to those notes should have immediately seen that the suspects they SHOULD have been seeking were black.
In my opinion, several additional victims died needlessly because politically-correct, anti-profiling, BLACK Chief Moose refused to divulge the fact that BLACKS had obviously written the letters.
Moose is the poster-boy for affirmative action. People are inclined to let it slide because, "after all, he's a cop, and who cares. It's not like he's in a vital position!"
Just wait until you're involved in that head-on collison and suffer serious head trauma. They take you directly to the OR where Chief of Surgery Moose is preparing to open your cranium. Good luck!