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Media Narrative Flips in Boulder Shooting
The mass shooting at a Boulder, CO, grocery store left 10 dead Sunday. As the gunman was taken into custody, bluechecks flooded Twitter with their hot takes. The cops didn’t kill the murderer because he was a white male promoting white supremacy, obvs. On Monday, the shooter was identified as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa and the narrative flipped in an instant. Back in 2015, I created the following chart and it still holds true:
On Sunday, racist MAGA deplorables were to blame. As of Monday, Islamophobic MAGA deplorables obviously provoked Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa to shoot up a store in hyper-progressive Boulder. Trust the narrative.
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They can send 15 agents to investigate a ‘noose’ at NASCAR, you’d think they have all the agents and resources they need.
Unless, of course, they are just the Stasi arm of the Democrat party, nowadays.
But the poor are among the 47% (possibly higher, now) that don’t pay taxes.
They pay taxes, just not direct taxes on income. But yeah, the middle class is even more important as far as government revenue is concerned.
A lot of the taxes they “pay” are paid with Other Peoples’ Money (OPM) to start with, such as rent and the various taxes involved with that, which may be paid by subsidized housing assistance, sales taxes which may be paid by “welfare,” and to the extent food/groceries are taxed in some areas, those taxes might be paid by “food stamps.” Which really just means they’re being paid more or less invisibly by others.
The police dept. in the Twin Cities suburb where my brother was an officer for many years (he retired last year) was working on a case a couple years ago, and were about to bring in a suspect when the FBI stepped in and said “Don’t. Just keep surveilling him.” And they said “Yeah, but he’s just continuing to commit crimes. We have enough on him now to book him now.” And the FBI said basically, “No, just keep tracking him.”
So his department said “Fine, he’s your problem now,” and they washed their hands of it.
They tell us the field agents are okay, and it’s the hierarchy that’s the problem, but I’m not so sure.
It’s not necessarily a bad strategy to follow Joe Sixpack until he leads you to Capone, or whatever. But it seems to go wrong a lot.
I don’t remember the details, but that wasn’t really what they were doing.
And the fact that people would still end up being victims of these crimes while the FBI just . . . watched . . . that’s infuriating.
Yes but there’s actually a pretty long history of going easy on the low-hanging fruit, even letting them off entirely and giving them new identities etc, if they help with getting “the big fish.” The Mafia stuff is a good example.
Now, imagine that someone you know is killed in one of these crimes that the FBI just allowed to happen. How would that make you feel about the FBI?
I’m sure the people who had that happen, aren’t happy about it at all. The counter-argument might be that getting Capone, and not just Joe Sixpack, avoids a lot more of those, for a lot more other people.
It’s the trolley problem, I guess. But cold comfort for those who mourn.
Lots of people got killed fighting WW II, too. Does that mean it wasn’t worth defeating the Nazis?
Totally not the same thing. Especially when they volunteered.
I’m pretty sure there was a draft in WW II.
Sure. The whole military that fought WWII was drafted. You win.
If you figure out a way to arrange things so that only the volunteers get wounded or killed, let the world know.
Be nice.