October 28, 2002
Sniper Questions
I'm glad they caught the snipers in Washington, D.C., but I'm having a hard time separating all the reporting from fiction. Apparently, everything we thought we knew before they were caught is wrong - it isn't a lone crazed white guy in a white van, but two black guys in a blue Caprice (OK, they were right about the guy part).
I have a lot of unanswered questions. Are they linked to Al Qaida, or are they just a couple of losers, or are those two things mutually exclusive? Were they terrorists, extortionists, robbers who morphed into mass murderers who morphed to serial killers and then decided to retire on 10 million dollars rather than kill people anymore? If they hadn't called people and told them about Montgomery, would they still be on the loose? Doesn't Tacoma have an ordinance about discharging a firearm within the city limits - a common one around here? I mean, these guys shoot up a stump every night for weeks on end, and nobody calls the cops? And does the INS ever bother to actually deport people anymore? I hope I get some answers, but I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at October 28, 2002 01:08 PM | Current Events
