I heard several descriptions early on. He was described as Indian, whether that was supposed to mean native or from the Indian subcontinent, I don't know. He was described as Iranian, with a Muslim name given, Mohammad something or other. Well, I heard he was a Tea Party member, a terrorist, a Muslim, and a member of a violent WSO Black Bloc group, etc, etc.
India? Indian? Muslim, Iranian?
Looks like a typical Hollywood type to me.
We can speculate about what he looks like forever.
Look, if this guy had any connections to violent groups or Muslim terrorist, there would be substantial evidence by now.
That is unless the FBI, law enforcement an army of media/individuals researching his background, and all his friends, family and acquaintances are all lying or covering up.
I don't think this is likely. How about you?
I don’t know what’s the truth here, and haven’t known what to believe about these kinds of attacks for years. It’s impossible to winnow out the truth early on with authorities leaping to claim no terrorist involvement well before they could possibly have ascertained this as fact. It’s impossible to know with the media fingering the tea party or conservatives or lone wolf white males even when what little is actually known contradicts their reports. We’ve seen this with the Giffords shooting, the guy who crashed his plane into an IRS building, the Malvo shootings in DC, the abortion clinic shooting and quite a few other instances.
The rational response to such rampant and apparently deliberately skewed politicization of the news cycle is to treat it all as suspect. This does give rise to theorizing about conspiracies, so I understand where you’re coming from. What I don’t understand is refusing to question questionable information for fear of sounding conspiratorial.
Which is more paranoid, lol?
Look, if this guy had any connections to violent groups or Muslim terrorist, there would be substantial evidence by now.
That is unless the FBI, law enforcement an army of media... researching his background...are all lying or covering up.
John Doe #2, OKC bombing.