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Wednesday, October 30, 2002
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Ineptness By Law Enforcement Goes Unexplained In Wash-DC Sniper Case. Hope that your country never has to fight a trained terrorist. The nationwide killing spree by the Beltway Snipers, while the nation stood on alert for terrorist attacks, will likely cause local police and federal investigators some agony. Unlike Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber who escaped detection by using cash instead of checks and credit cards and lived in a remote cabin with no address, the Beltway Sniper and his accomplice had left many overt clues that in hindsight make it difficult to understand how law enforcement missed their quick apprehension. [LewRockwell.com]
An account of the clues police missed or ignored, up until Muhammed practically turned himself in by contacting the police repeatedly.
9:49:13 PM 
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How I Was Smeared. When I dissented from the liberal line on race, the Texas papers depicted me as a racist. They had complex motives. [City Journal]
It's really hard to do justice to this article with just a summary--I strongly recommend reading the whole thing. I thought it was a bit suspicious that the accusation of rascism, which had almost nothing to do with the content of the speech, was made by a liberal from San Francisco. The speech was made by a well-known conservative in Dallas, after all. When I got to the part about how the newspapers were using it as an excuse to attack Bob McTeer, it made me think that perhaps the whole thing was a setup. Maybe he was there for the sole purpose of crying "rascist" sometime during the speech so that liberals would have something to use against McTeer if he were nominated for a higher office later.
8:16:16 PM
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Stop the Idiocy. I have been noticing lately that there are many people in the "freedom movement" who are causing much more harm than good to the very movement they claim to support. Many of these folks are no more than self-aggrandizing publicity-hounds who make spurious and bizarre claims about issues they plainly have never properly researched in any depth.
For instance, some of these attention-seekers publicly debate tax professionals regarding tax issues, only to scurry away with their hats in their hands when they are trounced and made to look like the utter fools they are. The damage they do by these stunts is all too often irreparable. [Sierra Times]
My favorite stupid claim is the one "proving" that the US is under martial law because flags in courtrooms have gold fringes. I actually had a former co-worker tell me that one with a straight face.
3:21:10 PM
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Watch Where You Point That Weapon!. The other night I was watching television, fixated on the DC area sniper shootings. They were showing footage of the lock down on I-95 after one of the shootings. The footage included a scene of a man who was pulled over in a white van. Just for driving a white van, the man had the pleasure of being forced out of his vehicle by three police officers at gunpoint. The three officers pointed their weapons directly at the man even though he posed no immediate threat to the officers. The man proceeded to lie down on the pavement. With that, the footage ended.
This brings us to a disturbing trend that has been occurring in police agencies and departments across the country. Police are more apt to brandish weapons and aim in on the citizens they have sworn to protect. Much of this can be explained by the recent militarization of U.S. law enforcement. The spirit of posse comitatus has been weakened by incidents like: Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzales, Amidu Diallo, and now the DC sniper. All these incidents have shown just how much the government is willing to threaten us in order to "protect" us. [LewRockwell.com]
1:50:47 PM
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Dial 'H' for Hostage. A Russian dancer held captive in the recent standoff with Chechen rebels uses his cell phone to post a message to the world. Neither his captors nor government censors can stop him. Sergey Kuznetsov reports from Moscow. [Wired News]
Mark Rankov, one of 750 hostages held by Chechen extremists inside a theater here last week, had a message for the Russian people while he was a captive: "Your TV is lying."
Rankov, 28, wanted his countrymen to know that it wasn't just his Chechen captors who favored holding a rally on the Moscow streets to end the war in Chechnya, as Russian television had reported. So did a number of the hostages.
12:02:28 PM
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Chuck Muth's News & Views. From Chuck Muth's News & Views:
"Now let's keep the same scenario but change the outcome. I am
approached by the hungry man, as before, but this time, instead of
agreeing to share my sandwich, I refuse to do so. Along comes a third
man, who pulls out a gun, points it at my head, and forces me to hand
over my sandwich to him, upon which he gives it to the hungry
guy. What is the moral quality of the gunman's action? I think most
people would consider him an unscrupulous thug who should be
apprehended and punished. Yet when the government does precisely the
same thing - forcibly seizing from some in order to give to others -
the liberal insists the government is acting in a just and moral
manner. This is clearly not true." -- Dinesh D'Souza
[End the War on Freedom]
I'm not convinced that liberals necessarily would consider that third man an unscrupulous thug. I think that at least some of them would applaud him as a "great humanitarian"--just as long as he stayed out of their fancy upper-class neighborhoods.
10:55:49 AM
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Poll on US ties rocks Iran. According to the poll of 1,500 Iranians, conducted by three separate institutes including the National Institute for Research Studies and Opinion Polls (NIRSOP) and published by Irna on 22 September:
- 74% of respondents over the age of 15 support dialogue with the US
- 45.8% believe Washington's policy on Iran is "to some extent correct".
[BBC News]
9:59:36 AM
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Ken Hagler.
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