Posted on 09/18/2013 12:40:46 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel intends to order a security review at all U.S. military bases worldwide, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday, a day after a contract worker — who had obtained a security clearance despite a history of violent behavior — killed 12 people in a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard.
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As soon as news broke that a deadly attack had taken place at the Washington Navy Yard, Democrats were deeply saddened -- that the mass shooting occurred on a military installation and not at an elementary school. Since the failure of Toomey-Manchin in the Senate earlier this year, Democrats had been hoping for a 'game-changer'.
Democrats were further disappointed that:
-- The shooter was not a white militia member, but a black man;
-- The shooter was a practicing Buddhist, not a right-wing Christian fundamentalist;
-- The shooter was not a law-abiding, Tea Party type, but a raving lunatic with a multiple arrest record: arrested in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another person's vehicle, arrested again in 2008 for disorderly conduct and arrested again in 2010 for firing a gun into his neighbor's apartment;
-- The shooter had been influenced by voices in his head, not Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio show nor Sarah Palin's political target map;
-- The shooter had plans to move to Thailand, not to Montana to start a militia.
Not only was the shooter, Aaron Alexis, not a Rush-listening, Tea Partying, right-wing Christian fundamentalist Palin fan (all of which would have made him a sane person) but -- according to a friend -- he was an Obama supporter and a liberal.
Appearing on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper," Michael Ritrovato said his friend Alexis "wasn't conservative like I am. He was more of a liberal type; he wasn't happy with the former administration. He was more happy with this administration -- as far as presidential administrations."
Now that all of these embarrassing facts about Alexis's personal background have come out, Democrats have hysterically sought to deflect from the reality that the shooter was a liberal Obama fan by referencing the wider issue of guns' ability to 'force' their obviously helpless owners, under deep hypnosis, to commit mass killings. Notice that the shooter is always referred to as the "alleged gunman", because liberals think the real killer is the gun (or, in this case, guns).
In fact, on Tuesday, an alleged newspaper, the New York Daily News, splashed this subtle headline across its front page: SAME GUN, DIFFERENT SLAY. The blood-thirsty, mass murderer being referenced here is the AR-15, which somehow miraculously escaped custody and landed in Alexis's possession, planted voices in his head, and kept him from sleeping by sending vibrations through his ceiling via "microwave machine".
New York Daily News columnist Mike Lupica on Monday angrily attacked the AR-15, writing that "it only takes nine months and two days from Newtown, from 20 dead children and six adults, for someone to carry the same kind of AR-15 that Adam Lanza carried into Sandy Hook Elementary School into the Washington Navy Yard." Numbers-cruncher Piers Morgan of CNN tweeted, "The AR-15 has been used seven times in past 20 months in U.S. mass shootings". Sen. Dianne Feinstein also attacked the AR-15, angrily accusing it with taking the lives of 12 people at the Navy Yard, noting that "This is one more event to add to the litany of massacres ... When will enough be enough?"
Then came news that an AR-15 could not have perpetrated the massacre because, despite a massive search, an AR-15 was not among the weapons recovered from the scene of the crime. CNN's Pamela Brown tweeted, "FBI field office just confirmed gunman was NOT armed with AR-15. Spokesperson says 1 shotgun and 2 pistols recovered." That was after bazillions of articles about an AR-15 being used in the crime.
So, a dysfunctional media establishment that can't get its most basic facts straight, is demanding more gun control and background checks from the same dysfunctional government that handed a secret-level security clearance and honorable discharge to a complete whack job despite repeated arrests and up to 10 misconduct charges including traffic offensives as well as disorderly conduct and who was allowed access to the Navy Sea Systems Command building to shoot up the place by the same, 'move along, nothing-to-see-here' dysfunctional government bureaucracy even after being told by police that the whack job warned them he was a whack job. But, relax. According to the Washington Post article I posted above, Defense chief Chuck Hagel "intends to order a security review at all U.S. military bases worldwide," after the fact. Hasn't done it yet. But he intends to.
Democrats, who have an incurable love for red-tape-ridden public-sector bureaucracy don't want to talk about the issue of widespread government incompetence. Democrats don't even want to talk about addressing mental health issues -- too close to home, I suppose.
Anyway, that's ...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Wednesday morning ping!
Let’s have at it - they couldn’t reject his security clearance because he had black skin.
It was a gun free zone within a gun free zone. Talk about trouble just waiting to happen.
So what the hell was this raving lunatic doing with a Top Secret security clearance?
In 1977 when I joined the Air Force...a secret clearance kinda meant something. Today, I don’t think it has the same meaning or definition.
All this guy ever had....was a secret clearance. It wasn’t like our NSA buddy, who had TS with all the bells and whistles.
As for fixing anything? You probably have at least two thousand folks working for DoD today....who are crazy and ought to be in some facility. I don’t see us doing much about that. Even from my home state of Alabama....we probably have forty thousand folks who ought to be in a facility, but we just don’t have the guts to make it happen. That’s life in 2013.
My dad would repeat the story of the 1930s....when you and a cousin could show up at the county court house...sign a document, and have some relative committed with the judge’s review and eventual approval. It was fairly simple. That era has come and gone. Welcome to modern times.
Wait until the homos start enlisting and they discover that none of them qualify for Secret clearances. They'll dumb it down even more to accommodate them.
Reminds me of my time in the Navy. I had a “Top Secret” clearance and worked in crypto encoding and decoding communications and had been working there for some time. One day I was told I could NOT work or be in that area because my mother was born in Canada. I moved to another area of the communication center for two weeks and then told I could go back into crypto. Guess my mother being Canadian born wasn't so bad after all. Typical military.
I think I just saw my AR-15 elope with my Mossberg 500. I couldn't see clearly, but I believe the AR-15 was smoking a cigarette.
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I’m curious what rules they could have had that would have kept a criminal intent on murder from bringing a shotgun and two pistols onto the base.
In fact, that attack has already been happening and is in full swing.
AA didn’t have a top secret clearance. However, your right that the system broke down. Adverse information on this guy was not reported to higher ups.
In addition, based on multiple occurances within DoD the entire government clearance process is broken and overwhelmed.
Currently being reported that AA picked up pistols from the guards. How AA got the shotgun on the Yard will be the question of the day. Access is controlled and all bags are to be checked. Contractors are not allowed to drive onto the Yard grounds. I anticipate that the DoD will go to a code orange threat condition for all CONUS bases.
“Dysfunctional” should become the standard description of what is happening in DC these days. It surely is not a functional government in the standard meaning of government.
Barn door...horse gone...
Well and truly said, dear JohnHuang2. Thank you!
Bumping to the tippy top!
You still amaze me! And, make me laugh. lol
Even after all of these years...;o)
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