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It's also likely Moose was more in charge than you'd admit. Look -- the Feds under Ashcroft just recently dropped the Fed charges so as to allow STATE prosecution first. D'ya think that mayhaps the Ashcroftian FBI also let the locals -- that is, Chief "Black Em-Power" Moose -- run the sniper hunt show? If nay, well then pony up the goods that back up your assertion of Fed honchoing up, for in present and demonstrated condition your assertion is the less likely one.

Which state got the prosecution and who decided where Malvo and Mohammed got prosecuted? Was it Chief Moose? Was it the task force? Well, no, that'd be Attorney General John Ashcroft at the Department of Justice. I distinctly remember a press conference yesterday in which he announced that Malvo and Mohammed would be tried in two separate counties in Virginia. Am I wrong? If so, please refer me to source in which Chief Moose made the decision to have the federal charges dismissed and have Fairfax and Prince William Counties in Virgina charge Malvo and Mohammed.

But to get back to Idol Making 101 ... First rule is that Idols are made, not born. Moose is being made into an idol. I don't know about y'all but, personally, I don't cotton to idols. That the Idol of Moose is being crafted right in front of your face, for the purpose of future venerational acts to be forced upon you and I -- that is more important, long-trend-wise, than who pulled the leashes during the sniper hunt.

You're the one that's making Moose into an idol, then tearing him down. I'm saying that Moose didn't profile the snipers--the FBI did. I'm saying that he wasn't the one who was actually in charge of the sniper investigation--the feds were. I'm saying that the decision as to where the snipers charged was in the hands of the feds. What's so hard about that to understand?

You're the one, not me, giving more credit to Moose that he's entitled to. He's just the face out front, nothing more.

Of the states, Virginia got the first trials, they have a death penalty, Maryland did not. Killers die quicker. Simple.

As to who ran thangs ... why *now* that doesn't matter -- what does matter is that some trademarked persona of Chief Moose is being made into an idol of sorts.

But during the hunt it did matter. And you don't know who ran the show. Admit it! Admit that you just don't know. It's a guess on your part -- a guess subject to all the shoot-from-the-hip reactionary bias and overly generalized prejudice the Howlin-Catspaw Axis of PC-ism can muster.

That Mooose either ran the whole show, major parts of the show, or had a major contribution seems clear. Why? Because we all know that Ashcroft is willing to turn thangs over to the states -- he just showed that. We also know -- because we haven't *ignored* these thangs -- that such reverse racism is part of the Moose MO. The pieces fit far better -- all the known pieces -- to a theory that Moose did indeed direct significant aspects of the hunt. That's my guess, and it's a better guess than yours. Better because it ain't made with the ignorance and bias of PC-ism, the blinders and prejudices, your guess is subject to.