On 07/09/2016 09:53 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
Isn't it weird so many shooters are military guys?

The Dallas shooter [1] "was an Army Reserve Afghan War
veteran".

In 2009 [2] "Hasan was a United States Army Medical 
Corps psychiatrist who admitted to the shootings"

IIRC the person who recently shot gays in a bar was
a security guard in respected c0rp0ration.

Some kind of "disposable hero" syndrome?


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers&oldid=729053396
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nidal_Hasan&oldid=726572811

You understated G4s' role. They ARE a mercenary recruiter with quick reaction teams stationed in South Sudan and elsewhere. They also provide armed security, executive protection teams, etc.

The military's already trained you to kill without compunction and never deprogram you.

Whatever rage resides in you from that, or other experiences, is easily steerable. When people are confused or angry they DO NOT make correctly informed decision. Easy prey for government spooks.

Just in... Local action just as I was reading The Hill's article: "America's anger boils over" <http://thehill.com/homenews/news/287093-american-anger-boils-over> which is quite hot. In the eleven minutes after I posted the following, it had *336* new comments:

"Right now, outside this cafe' there are 3 police cars & 6 cops from 3 different agencies because of a car without a back plate belonging to a local disabled vet.

They know who the car belongs to. He has coffee here every day. He's an amputee who gets meds. They think he's a drug dealer because he's kind to the homeless and outcasts and buys them coffee, gives them spare change... and the missing plate gave the police, the semi-deputized 'rangers' (muni codes only) and a private patrol company that's totally un-deputized, a chance to harass him.

I told one of the 'rangers' (A city councilmember's son) to be careful... There's people out there who like to kill cops.

Normally I wouldn't say anything of the sort in my normal dealings with them but f*ck them. If the act like pigs MAYBE we SHOULD make bacon."


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