An intense manhunt was underway Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in [Charleston, South Carolina], killing nine people before fleeing.
The chief of police of Charleston, Greg Mullen, called the shooting a hate crime.
‘This is a situation that is unacceptable in any society, especially in our society and our city,’ Chief Mullen said at an early morning news conference. ‘We are leaving no stone unturned.’
(New York Times, June 18, 2015)
Yet this constancy is such that I see no point in commenting much beyond reiterating two abiding points.
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What far too many forget is that long before al-Qaeda terrorists struck the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in DC, a good ol’ American boy named Timothy McVeigh struck a government building in Oklahoma, making it painfully clear that, when it comes to terrorism, we have as much to fear from domestic/Christian terrorists as from foreign/Muslim ones.
(“Norway’s Timothy McVeigh Perpetrates National Massacre,” The iPINIONS Journal, July 23, 2011)
So why do U.S. media continually refuse to call a spade a spade when it comes to White psychos who commit acts of terrorism … like this one?!
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I don’t know why the media always reward these psychopaths by giving them the fame they covet; that is, by plastering their pathetic mugs all over television and reporting pop psychology about why and how they did their cowardly misdeeds. Isn’t it clear to see, especially in this age of instant celebrity, why some loser kid would find this route to infamy irresistible?
You’d think that – given the record of these psychotic and vainglorious episodes since Columbine – we would have figured out by now that the best way to discourage them is by focusing our attention on the victims and limiting what we say about the [perpetrator] to: May God have mercy on your soul as you burn in Hell!
(“Massacre in Omaha,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 7, 2007)
The exception in this case, of course, is that the suspect is still at large, and the police are seeking the public’s help in identifying and apprehending him.
Therefore, I feel duty-bound to help by publishing these images of this pathetic creature:
If you recognize this man, please call 911 immediately!
NOTE: The two murderers who made that daring escape from a maximum-security prison in New York ten days ago are probably breathing a sigh of relief (aka letting their guard down?) today. Because not only were the police already scaling back their search, but the media are now covering this massacre as if their escape is ancient history.
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