Last week I wrote a post and said that would be my last on the subject of Orlando attacks….I went back on my word and for that I apologize…..but this stuff is too important to ignore…..
Last week after the massacre in Orlando pointing at who was to blame for them attack. Everyone is blaming whoever it is they do not like for the attack…..It was the Muslims fault……or the gays brought it on themselves…..even Obama was the cause of the attack…..I chose a rational group to blame….the FBI.
In case you missed my post or only read the title let me refresh your memory…..
I have been watching and listening to all the finger pointing surrounding the attack in Orlando……my first reaction was to ask why all the accusations not much is said about the attacks …
Source: Who’s To Blame? – In Saner Thought
I had a few people wanting to point the fingers elsewhere but I still maintain that the FBI dropped the ball…..and even more so after I read another piece…..
A missed chance? Even without his name on a watch list, Orlando gunman Omar Mateen raised suspicions in at least one gun store in the weeks before he slaughtered 49 people at the Pulse nightclub. Robert Abell, co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Fla., tells ABC that a man he now knows was Mateen tried to buy high-end body armor of a kind typically used by law enforcement and 1,000 rounds of ammo five or six weeks ago. He says Mateen asked strange questions and made staff uncomfortable, so they turned him away and informed the local FBI office about the would-be customer. Abell says there was a follow-up conversation with the FBI, but agents never visited the store—and without a sale, the store didn’t have a name to give to investigators.
The FBI should stop looking for a scapegoat and step up and admit that they pissed this up….completely.
I have seen nothing yet that would lead me change my mind at the culprit of fault….
There is more that makes me feel the way I do about the FBI……
Before Omar Mateen gunned down 49 patrons at the LGBTQ Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, the FBI attempted to induce his participation in a terror plot. Sheriff Ken Mascara of Florida’s St. Lucie County told the Vero Beach Press Journal that after Mateen threatened a courthouse deputy in 2013 by claiming he could order Al Qaeda operatives to kill his family, the FBI dispatched an informant to “lure Omar into some kind of act and Omar did not bite.”
While self-styled terror experts and former counter-terror officials have criticized the FBI for failing to stop Mateen before he committed a massacre, the new revelation raises the question of whether the FBI played a role in pushing Mateen towards an act of lethal violence.
Source: Before Omar Mateen Committed Mass Murder, The FBI Tried To ‘Lure’ Him Into A Terror Plot | Alternet
This is just sad…..looks like the FBI is busy trying to entrap people and ignoring real threats…..
The responsibility still remains on the heads of the FBI….period!
On my CBS news, they reported that Abell did NOT have a name to give the FBI when they reported the incident. What could they do with without a name?
That is true….was there a surveillance camera in store…then a copy of the mug of the guy would have helped….I had not heard that today…..but I do not go with MSM…so it could be possible.
Often those store cameras catch a guy with a baseball cap on and the reporter asks, “If you know anything about this man….” If you can’t see a face…..
Then the person needs to update his security….a store with the distinct possibility of robbery….if this is true…then why come forward if not for a couple minutes of fame….
It also adds fuel for the conspiracy hounds.
And that is what most of this is about….furthering someone’s theory of everything….
Because they’re so eager to suck on the Homeland Security tit, the FBI is far too busy trying to set-up every single Muslim in American in a Newburgh Sting to…oh…I dunno…do their actual fucking job? But their job is boring police work that doesn’t get them on the front page and doesn’t rocket them up the promotion ladder.
Semi-officially, the FBI is paying at least 10,000 “informants” to try to entrap anybody in America who doesn’t like pork & alcohol into a “terror plot” that only exists because the FBI created it. I guess it’s inevitable that someday a recruit would get radicalized by them, but would want to “do it my way”.
Maybe this is that “someday”. But we’ll never be allowed to know for sure.
There are too many stories about their attempts to entrap people….it is just a game to them….seems no one is serious…
‘The new revelation raises the question of whether the FBI played a role in pushing Mateen towards an act of lethal violence’
Sounds right…
‘Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t’.
Well, when the very premise is….”find a desperate/stupid/mentally ill Muslim, whip him into a frenzy, then swoop in on your own plot and be the hero”….How many times can you possibly do that before you start getting targets in frenzies who then “go rogue”?
It’s a pretty risky premise, especially when you target thousands of individuals who are free to walk the streets in between meetings with your shady “informants”. Perhaps a much better approach would be…
“find a desperate/stupid/mentally ill Muslim, calm him down out of a frenzy, then go home without any fanfare and without scaring the shit out of the public over a ‘plot’ you invented”.
Oops…Mark Twain..
Omar just did what it was only natural for Omar to do … He did what his God demands of him … he killed infidels!
God did not have a damn thing to do with his act.
Hmmm….
Let’s put the blame where it belongs, which is a culture which not only rewards unethical behavior, but actively promotes divisiveness as being morally justifiable. When people stop trying to place the blame for their own lack of security in life on anyone but themselves, then this will stop being an issue at all. Nobody is responsible for your, or anyone else’s safety; get over it.
Sure, the FBI, and a number of other agencies which proclaim to be working to stop this sort of thing all dropped the ball. But, the ball really wasn’t theirs to begin with…. If the US stopped bombing people indiscriminately, it would go a long way to reducing such events.
We are all to blame; nothing else matters in the final analysis.
gigoid, the dubious
I agree….but the one trick pony posters cannot move past some terminology….chuq