That's a question worth examining, due to the coincidental timing, and if these sniper attacks increase as the debate on terrorism increases.
I don't think those snipers would be considered useful idiots...
when looking at the pictures of the victims, most of them do not look Caucasian...
As you suggest the examination of the incidents may lead to some working hypotheses.
First of all, these are fairly experienced snipers, since they have to leave the scene rapidly.
Secondly, if as you say the victims have something in common that may lead to one or more hypotheses, white racism, or etc.
Thirdly, as the anthrax episode showed, there can also be another thread through the incidents.
In that case the tabloid investigator who was writing anti-administration articles was first, then liberal Congressional leadership, on the eve of a vote on the Patriot Act which coincidentally avoided review and was passed in the resulting panic.
In this case we are on the eve of a debate on legislation to award unlimited warmaking power to the President, a multi-trillion-dollar decision, which some folks consider to be a matter of life-and-death, in more ways than one.
We are also on the eve of growing public-area protests, which might be affected by unsolved sniper incidents.
There is another public protest in Washington scheduled for the 26th of this month.
Random assassinations of citizens is a good way to reducee crowd size.
Paranoid fantasies worthy of Tom Clancy or Al Martin? Sure.
I still recall, however, the most potent anti-administration "unanswered questions" news conference with Mike Ruppert and Catherine Fitts and several victims' families was scheduled for June 10th, and I was wondering what "incident" might occur to derail attention.
Lo and behold, June 10th the same morning and at the same time as the Nat'l Press Club conference was to start, we heard from Ashcroft, all the way from Russia (11 time zones away), rehashing of month-old information about a "dirty bomber", which turned out to be bogus anyway...
OTOH, if these aren't random maybe they are our enemies from Saudi Arabia (and supposedly Iraq and elsewhere) called "Al Queada" who are trying to influence American policy.
Do you think random terror in American shopping malls will persuade Congress not to go to war?
Don't think so... |
