ISIS: Terror In America

[Peter Lemkin]

Something doesn't seem to fit. We are told that in his garage or home he had many pipe-bombs and equipment to make more of them, as well as many more weapons and ammunition. Also, that he was a happy [as reported by his fellow workers] health inspector who got along with his co-workers. There are unconfirmed reports of his having had a dispute with someone or more than one person at a 'Christmas Party', and then suddenly going home and returning with his new wife from Pakistan, both dressed in para-military outfits and both with assault rifles, leaving their six month old son with his mother as they had to 'go to the doctor'. They also supposedly had pipe bombs with them in the attack, but that these did not function for reasons unknown. There are two different reports - one of their leaving and changing cars; the other their staying in one escape car - both with their being cornered and killed by SWAT teams. Obviously, the shooting took place and people were killed, but there is something about this story that just doesn't fit....and it is hard to put one's finger on it - yet. If, as the media and authorities are trying to paint him as planning a big attack of some kind, it is hard to imagine over a dispute at a party, he'd change his long planned attack and just drop off his son, take his wife and stage an ad hoc one. If this was his planned attack, then why waste all the extra explosives and firepower at home? It also is a very non-standard image of the typical Islamic wife - in military clothes, brandishing and using an assault weapon as well as explosives. Maybe they were just an illogical and belligerent couple who also cared little about their young son becoming an orphan. Strange.

America now averages one shooting of someone unknown to the attacker, and unrelated to robbery, per day! Mass shootings, like this one are definitely common and on the increase.

American exceptionalism, for sure.