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FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via CBS News: FBI Director James Comey echoed President Obama's statement that he does not think the Orlando shooting was a plot directed from outside of the U.S. "So far, we see no indication that this was a plot directed from outside the United States and we see no indication that he was part of any kind of network," Comey told reporters. The intelligence community, Comey said, is "highly confident that this killer was radicalized at least in part through the internet." CBS News reports: "The FBI first became aware of the shooter, Omar Mateen, in May 2013 when he was working as a contract security guard and he made statements that were 'inflammatory and contradictory,' Comey said. Mateen told his co-workers at the time that he had family connections to al Qaeda and that he was a member of Hezbollah. Comey pointed out that Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, is a 'bitter enemy' of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to which he pledged loyalty in 911 calls as the attack unfolded early Sunday morning." According to CNN, at least 50 people were killed inside Pulse, a gay nightclub, marking the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
More likely than "radicalization" is that he was simply someone with mental problems and a history of spousal abuse and violent behavior who bought into the current rhetoric (originating from Trump, Cruz, Limbaugh and other extreme right-wing sources) against the LGBT community. In his eyes it gave him an excuse to do what he wanted to do, and now we have to clean up the mess.
Ah my, bigots with mod points...
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(Hang on a second, while I put on my tinfoil hat...)
This is pretty conspiratorial and therefore wrong, but it's Slashdot, so I'll continue.
I'd argue that the liberal media wants to accomplish a couple of things.
One, it's an anti-gay hate crime. This allows for a gay victimhood narrative, which also allows a broad brush to paint anti-gay Christians as being partly responsible for it by promoting an anti-gay narrative (gay marriages, the bathroom thing, etc). And in this country, any incident that makes your group a victim enhances your group's political standing as deserving of special protection.
By making it an anti-gay crime, they can focus on the hate crime angle and talk around the Islamic terrorism part. Now, this guy sounds unhinged and he might also have pledged allegiance to Emperor Palpatine, SPECTRE and the Big Bad Wolf, too, so the actual ISIS part probably isn't all that significant.
But by focusing on the hate crime aspect, the mental illness part, and everything else, they can avoid talking about anything to do with Islam as a religion/theology/philosophy which encourages violence and terrorism. Downplaying Islam as a force of violence is a very high priority in the Diversity(tm) business.
And ignoring the Islamic terror part of the equation and making it "just another hate crime" also allows the narrative of gun control to be introduced -- because of course, it wasn't a planned act of terror committed by someone embracing a terror agenda. *Those* people could plant bombs, run hijacked planes into skyscrapers or numerous other non-gun acts of violence. We can't stop committed terrorists, but if we had gun ban^H^H^Hcontrol we could stop these hate-filled lunatics.
Anyway, that's my conspiratorial angle on it. I don't know how much I actually take seriously, but it's obviously going to be used first to promote gun control, then go after anyone with a non-conforming opinion on gay rights, and with enough discounting, used to go after anyone who suggests that maybe the Islamic terror thing has anything to do with it.
No, people who likely share your mindset.
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Color you a dumb ass for not having the balls to say who you are. Deadhead here, calling you a dumbfuck.
You were only pointing how your confirmation bias works. I get it, you're a right wing lunatic who needs to see the evil other side as producing all the nuts. It's probably due to the fact that your a childish individual lacking in any perspective, and buying fully into this view that "left" and "right" represent "evil" and "good".
As to your AGW nonsense, well, stupidity usually drives one to view major branches of science being wrong, because, again, you're a pathetic infantile individual.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You're the one who thinks the Democrats have some special lock on violence, a bizarre position that could only come from someone so thoroughly steeped in their own cognitive dissonance that they're either an attention-starved adolescent or certifiably insane.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.