Sunday, June 12, 2016

On What I've Read About The Mass Gun Murder In Orlando Florida So Far

The latest things I've read say that there are 50 victims dead and 53 who were shot at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.  They were shot by a gunman named Omar Mateen whose father said he was angry when two men had kissed and embraced each other in public.  There are rumors that he had ties to ISIL or some other alleged Islamic group but his father said that what he did had nothing to do with religion.   I'm ambivalent about that, I don't think that if you're going to call the Wahabi style of Islam religion, then it certainly advocates terror and violence.  I wouldn't blame anyone who condemns that, as most Muslims do.

I am sure this will be used politically, it already is.  From what I've read Chuck Todd of NBC has already declared to talk about this in relation with the powerful automatic weapons used to kill so many people at once is to "politicize it", that in itself politicizes if on behalf of the gun industry and the Republican Party who the gun industry favors.

The FBI has said that they had Mateen on their radar, so they'll take a big hit, fair or not  I wouldn't say that if they hadn't been the old Whitewater thing for the Republican  Benghazi witchhunters maybe they could spend more resources on preventing domestic terrorism of this kind, well, I just did, didn't I.   Tell me what's wrong with saying that.  

Though when someone decides to give into their hate and kill a lot of people and they have access to powerful weapons and training - yeah, gun training such as he was reported to have had is such a deterrent, isn't it - then they can kill many people very fast and without any alarms that even the best and most competent of police agencies can have on those they are watching.

If this is anything like the many, many past mass shootings, it will be played and twisted by the corporate media to benefit Republicans,  It won't benefit the one candidate for President who has a strong record on opposing gun violence,  Hillary Clinton.  

Look for more of this, from what I have read ISIS and their colleagues in terror really would like to have the United States lose its mind and elect Donald Trump.  They are already using his statements in their recruitment videos.

In quickly re-reading this, I have to ask, if he has an i-phone that the FBI should look at, would the paranoid faction of the Glenn Greenwald set oppose them having access to it?   I think someone who kills 50 people + should be held to have given up a teensy bit of their right to such privacy.  Ironic in that the FBI have been investigating what appears to be a totally bogus political issue surrounding Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail account with the support of such people.

3 comments:

  1. The irony is this shooter was investigated twice by the FBI, but not charged with anything or marked in any way as not being allowed to own firearms.

    And yet the FBI is investigating Hillary and is sure to bring charges because the FBI doesn't investigate somebody for no reason.

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    1. Bernie Sanders owes the Democratic Party a lot more than it owes him. Somehow I think the huge influx of "youth" into the Democratic Party is going to prove as ephemeral as it did when it was declared that Barack Obama had done the same thing, and with more evidence that he might have.

      I think it's going to turn out that Bernie Sanders was a lot more of a spring fashion than a trend that will last into the fall.

      I can hardly wait to hear what Greenwald will have to say if the FBI wants to look at this guys phone records.

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    2. Bernie Sanders owes the Democratic Party a lot more than it owes him. Somehow I think the huge influx of "youth" into the Democratic Party is going to prove as ephemeral as it did when it was declared that Barack Obama had done the same thing, and with more evidence that he might have.

      I think it's going to turn out that Bernie Sanders was a lot more of a spring fashion than a trend that will last into the fall.

      I can hardly wait to hear what Greenwald will have to say if the FBI wants to look at this guys phone records.

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