SNIPER (TEAM?) ACCOMPLISHING THREE MAIN GOALS

10/17/2002 | Vanity

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The sniper (and his team?) are accomplishing three main goals: First, instill absolute fear on the general populace in a given area. Second, cause the government to overreact and begin to set up for weapons confiscation from the general public. Third, undermine the confidence in the government by portraying it to be ineffective and useless to stop the killing.

This indicates that the sniper is not a native (as some here on FR have mentioned). All of the action from the news that has been released seems to point to a very professional operation with goals beyond just killing someone. It is also playing on a major weakness in U.S. culture...the lack of desire to severely punish horrific crimes.

It is time to return to public hangings for heinous crimes like shooting children in schools, raping and killing women, brutal road rage killings, etc., etc. But, someone knows Americans are not willing to do so. Just look at our schools. If students refuse to do their work and someone pushes them, the students are not punished for refusal (or very little), the authorities who are demanding the school work end up in political hot water...ad infinitum.

The United States simply must wake up or the consequences and subsequent loss of our governmental system will occur soon. We must go back to a system where those who do what is right are rewarded and those who do what is wrong are punished in accord with the crime committed. To fail to execute justice brings evil upon the nation. Lying, corruption and injustice breed the very same thing.

Last, but not least, it is time for checkpoints on major thoroughfares. How many drug shipments, criminals on the run, etc. could be stopped with impromptu checkpoints on the nations major highways and roads? However, Americans recoil at the thought. It would stop drug shipments, it would stop criminals, and yes, it would even stop the sniper. Reason has no friends.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

No further comment.

[taxed2death]

Oh I don't know......if you read Drudge report this morning.....some Gub-mint nit-wit came out to tell everyone to "zig-zag" while walking outside.

If anyone has a spare minute or two, please take a video camera outside and film the millions of people in Maryland, DC and northern VA swaggering around like a bunch of drunken sailors with a 3 day shore leave. Send video into "Americas Funnies Home Video" show and proceed to collect the million bucks.

How about putting counter sniper teams out there from SWAT.....naaaaaaa that would make too much sense.

Maybe the towns could "borrow" a few sniper spotters from the Marine Corps..........naaaaaaaa....too logical.

Lets just get ordinary people scared out of their wits with nonsense.

I wonder how many motor vehicle deaths have ocurred in the general area of where this sniping has been going on over the last 14 days? Just a guess, but MV deaths might be as high or higher than sniping deaths. Perhaps I'm wrong....just a thought. Or how many people have died of heart attacks in local hospitals...probably more than the tally of victims this a$$hole has chalked up.

[MsLady]

I have to agree. 9 people are dead from this shooter out of a population in that area that numbers in the millions. Look at Israel, do we see the Jewish population zigzagging? I would think they would have a much higher death rate from this type of violence. You just gotta go about your day to day like you always do. Just be more aware of your surroundings. And PACK HEAT!!!

[donozark]

Good statement. I have been listening to HARDBALL as Chris Matthews visits various US universities. Last night Fordham. Intelligent kids, but oh so misinformed.

You are correct re:Capital punishment. Time to stop with the "Potosi push" and bring back the noose...

[heavy12773]

i believe the shooter(s) have shot people in the back - masaponix,kensington shell,hillandale (if it is linked)and manassas. please correct me if i am mistaken.

i work in kensington accross the street from shell shooting. i live in silver spring.

i have been zigzagging since day one. packing heat is a good idea, but even with such, one is defenseless with his or her back turned.

[syriacus]

Very nice post.

Your point about road blocks is interesting. Evildoers probably love the "Easy Passes" that let cars go through toll areas without stopping. No prying eyes from toll booth operators.

It is time to return to public hangings for heinous crimes like shooting children in schools, raping and killing women, brutal road rage killings, etc., etc

I think that if we are going to have capital punishment, the guilty parties should be executed by a method similar to how they hurt their victims.

For example, Tim McVeigh would have been chained to a desk in a building about to be blown up for demolition. He would not have known the hour or day at which the explosion was to occur.

Evil-doer snipers would be placed in a large, secured area. Shots would be fired near them and (at an unnamed time) at them. It would be best to do this to more than one sniper at a time, so that they could wonder who will be shot first and can see the other one get shot.

This method has the advantage of giving the perpetrators the chance to think about what their victims went through and to feel some remorse before they meet their Maker.

Remorse is good for the soul.

[MsLady]

I was raised about 1 mile away from the first few victims. The church I attended was the Lutheran church, St. Andrews right down the street from where the first victim was shot. My whole family still lives in the area. I pray for them everyday as I also pray for everyone in that area. I also pray that this monster or more probably monsters are caught before anyone else gets killed.

Prayer is the answer to many problems. From personal experience I have learned to lean heavely on G-d, there are way to many things in this world that can't be controlled, but, one thing I can do is stay close to G-d and pray.

[DB]

Don't forget about economics. He's taking out people shopping or getting gas. If you make ten percent of the public afraid to go out and shop you can cause an economic down turn in the area.

The radical Islamist believe they can get rid of us if they can make us poor. All the assaults on American soil so far are designed to do two things: Make us afraid to go out and do things and to hurt us economically by causing billions in damage.

[Sender]

I agree, these shooters are deliberately trying to hurt the economy. A recent al Qaeda letter said they will attack us in the joints of our economy...now here we have the union strike on the Western docks (hmmm...) and DC under siege. If the shooters in other cities start up, they could easily take our economy down 10 percent or worse, not to mention the effect on public morale. However, I think if that should happen there will be a backlash that the enemy really does not appreciate, and we may yet rid this country of the 'sleepers' that are out there waiting.

[1234]

...If you make ten percent of the public afraid to go out and shop you can cause an economic down turn in the area.

excellent point, with the way EVERYTHING in biz is run at the absolute margin-look at the Xmas toy scare in So. Cal durin the dock strike....
on a national scale,if sumptin(s) happened to cut 10% off consumer component of demand.....

[spectre]

Right. And Michaels Craft Stores are suffering financial loss, especially since we are going into the "Fall and Christmas" festive decorating months.

If they don't catch the perp before Halloween, we've got another economic problem...candy. No trick or treaters, no candy purchases. Big bucks.

sw

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Don't forget about economics.

Whoops. My bad. You are correct.

[El Gato]

Look at Israel, do we see the Jewish population zigzagging?

No, mostly we see them shooting back. Which is one reason the Pali's shifted to suicide bombings, while keeping up harrassing long range rifle attacks, short range non suicide attacks having proven ineffective and hazzardous to the health of the attackers.

[El Gato]

Time to stop with the "Potosi push" and bring back the noose...

I've always favored "Old Sparky", but both it and a few feet of hemp rope are much better deterents than the "Big Sleep".

[alrea]

a few feet of hemp rope are much better deterents than the "Big Sleep".

yeh and they couldn't be too happy to see reports of RECORD gun purchases and permits. hopefully somebody will at least torture them some before they blow them away.