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From Ken McCarthy at Brasscheck
October 14, 2002
- The probable make up of the Washington sniper
team.
First of all, we are most likely looking at a TEAM of
people.
I've glanced at the moronic news coverage which seems
designed solely to baffle and terrorize the public.
Some of the
things that were obvious immediately to anyone with a lick of sense and
knowledge, but have somehow not been mentioned in the press:
1.
Snipers work in teams (that's finally dawning on them) 2. Leaving death
cards is an old Vietnam trick (intended to add to the terror of the
situation) 3. In spite of their seemingly unsophisticated weapons, these
guys are military-level practitioners
This is NOT simply a lone
marksman and is quite possibly is more than just two
people.
Why?
Being a sniper requires: 1) getting into
position undetected, 2) maintaining cover while waiting for the shot, 3)
taking the shot, and 4) getting away undetected.
You don't learn
that at a rifle range and even law enforcement trained snipers (of which
there are many) don't learn and practice the last, vital, trick and are
not well trained in skills #1 and #2.
A standard sniper team
includes a shooter and a spotter. The latter helps the shooter find the
target and assists in the getaway. He's a second mind and pair of eyes
in a very stressful and challenging situation.
Why do I think
this is a team of more than two?
Common sense. One person to find
the shot. One person to take it - and at least one person to be sitting
behind the wheel ready to drive away at a second's notice. Neither the
spotter nor the shooter are in a mental state to be able to do that last
thing as effectively as these guys are doing. Can you imagine them
running to the car, fumbling with keys (can't leave them in the
ignition, can you?) etc?
There may be another team member - or
three - to monitor police radio, plan and navigate escape routes (which
probably change depending on conditions), and provide lookouts and
diversions.
If the team is as big as I think it might be, it will
have to have a leader, someone to be in charge of overall management and
security for the group. They will also need some mundane things: food,
places to stay - and they need to be controlled.
Speaking of
providing diversions... the white panel truck. This team could also
include additional vehicles, including a white panel truck, which would
be noisily and conspicuously present at every shooting as a red
herring.
So who is doing this?
A government. You need a
lot of resources and a good sized pool of highly trained and well
disciplined people to pull this off.
What government? Either our
own or someone else's. There sure is a lot of motivation floating around
right now, particularly after the Bush administration's announced 'one
bullet' diplomacy initiative in Iraq.
Domestic
motivations:
1. Casts further negative light on private ownership
of guns, essential for moving the coup to the next level
2.
Maintains the atmosphere of tension and terror Bush & Co. need to
continue the ongoing coup at a relatively low cost
3. Blocks the
headline space so that there is room for no news of substance to be
reported
4. Conducts an experiment in social control
The
fact that this operation is taking place in the United States and so
near to the largest concentration of supposedly sophisticated law
enforcement and intelligence practitioners in the country - and that
this team has not been even close to getting caught - leads me to favor
the hypothesis that this is a domestic operation, or a foreign operation
that is being permitted to take place to serve the interests of the
ongoing coup.
I sure wish this wasn't the case. It would be more
comforting to think this is another lone 'gun nut,' but it doesn't add
up. Even if such a person is 'apprehended,' I will have to doubt the
veracity of the report.
Logistics, it all boils down to
logistics, and this looks like big league stuff.
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- UPDATE
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- On Speculations And 'Conspiracy'
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- From Ken McCarthy
10-18-2
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- For those who think my speculations regarding the
existence of a sniper team (which would suggest involvement of a - but
not necessarily OUR - government) are over the top, please recall that I
was the first person to point out in 'print' the extreme rarity of
inhalation Anthrax (especially in an office environment!) and suggest
that the first Anthrax death was most likely the result of a deliberate
attack against a US media company in an attempt to send some kind of
message. That the first person to die (right after 9-11) from the
Anthrax attack was a photo editor working at the largest circulation
weekly newspaper on the world I found noteworthy.
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- On the sniper phenomenon...
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- I couldn't help but note that the day after the FBI
employee was killed, a full and highly detailed bio of her life appeared
front and center on the front page of the New York Times. Pretty fast
and detailed journalism which managed to leave out her actual job
description. (We sure learned everything else about her life though.)
She was a terrorism analyst, studying threats to infrastructure
including computer networks. That's all I've been able to find
out.
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- How to create a team of domestic terrorists
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- You may recall - if you managed to somehow dig it out
from under the mountains of disinformation regarding OKBOMB - that one
of the groups that Timothy McVeigh passed the time with as he supposedly
worked towards his Ryder truck bombing which turned concrete support
pillars deep inside the Murhah Building to dust (sic), were a fairly
successful group of White supremacist who paid their bills by team
robbing banks across the Midwest.
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- These 'folks' plied their trade using Oklahoma's
Elohim City as one of their hideaways. Andreas Strassmaier, a
well-connected former German intelligence officer who was permitted to
leave the US unmolested in spite of extensively rubbing elbows with
McVeigh and the bank robbers he socialized with, was also an Elohim City
visitor and sometime resident as well.
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- The skills a team would need to rob banks successfully
would translate well to the current sniper operation. In fact, for
people with such experience, the sniping might even be significantly
easier.
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- It's possible that the team, if it is in fact a team,
is made up of former military men with combat experience and/or
experience committing garden variety crimes liked armed robbery.
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- What's not so clear is who would be funding this
non-profit venture and why is it being allowed to run amok?
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- Historical note: When the CIA initiated its "Strategy
of Tension" in post-war Italy in order to destabilize the country so as
to insure that the right people were in power, they drew their
terrorists from a coalition of of Mafia members, native fascists, and
corrupt members of the Italian secret police.
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- It's entirely possible that the world has
spontaneously gone mad in the last 14 or so months with mysterious,
unnamed, and unfindable individuals suddenly - and independently -
deciding (and able) to launch unique, high profile, and logistically
sophisticated terrorist attacks on the US (9-11, Anthrax mailings, DC
sniper)
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- I think it's at least equally possible that something
else is going on. What law of history states that a terrorist strategy
employed all over the world against democracy abroad - outside the
bounds of the country using it - could never be used at
home?
Comment
From Charles
Tait
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
10-18-2
Dear Jeff,
My
thanks to Ken Mccarthy at CounterPunch/Brasscheck, and to you for
posting his analysis.
I'd like to add my two cents. I understand
that indeed there is a 'coup' going on, and the preparations started
sometime ago. The object is to turn the United States into a Banana
Republic. It's happening on two levels - economically, and now
politically. At this critical point in time, it only makes a kind of
twisted sense to realize that our next national election may well be
transformed by the kind of violence which is common in Banana Republics
at election time.
The most flagrant example of this kind of
'campaign' was seen recently when Mugabe was re-elected as President of
Zimbabwe. In fact, he's been using these same methods since 1980, while
the rest of the world looks the other way. But that's another story, and
it's thanks to rense.com that I learned about it. (Question: Where is
Jimmy Carter to oversee democratic election procedures when it's people
who need him, and not the IMF?)
So here in America, it's time to
let everybody know in Washington, D.C., particularly Congress, just what
kind of Voting Day lies in store come November. Yes, I know they all
just gave Bush a blank check for war. But just in case there are
recalcitrant consciences still to be reckoned with, this kind of
Sniper-Enforcement is a lot less messy, say, than anthrax in the mail
system. It creates the proper climate of terror at the same
time.
So these killings intimidate their reluctant allies, while
at the same time preparing the U.S. public at large psychologically for
an increasing level of violence which may, in fact, give the Bush
Administration an excuse to CANCEL ELECTION DAY.
The groundswell
of popular opinion against the Bush Gang is growing at a prodigious
rate. (Thank you, Michael Moore, for your new movie "Bowling For
Columbine". I liked your book "Stupid White Men", or part of it anyway.
I only wish you could get your life saved someday by someone with a gun,
because maybe it would take that for you to wake up. Maybe you, too,
have read this "DC Killings" article and are beginning to discern
yourself that all the 'lone nut' boogeymen in recent the American
history were only puppets with strings attached. There's hope for anyone
like you, Mike, who has a nose for news and a nose for
truth.)
Because Americans are waking up, one way or another, the
potential dynamics of this must be freaking out even the control freaks.
I'm not sure even their "vote scam" technology (as in the book of the
same name published several years ago) could handle the volume of
fabricated results necessary to swing results their way. I don't think
they'd dare putting it in the lap of the Supreme Court again.
So
welcome to the death squads in the USA -- now at a gas bar near
you.
Now is not the time to scrap the Second
Amendment.
Charles Tait
Canada
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