The Sniper Problem…An illustration that law-enforcement is not all powerful. This is very bad for the government. They can’t have ordinary Americans being shown day after day that the government is impotent to stop a determined murderer. Another potential problem is the possibility that this sniper could have been someone trained in the US Military. That would be a huge embarrassment to the Bush administration and to the military junta that runs this country.
The threat of continuing embarrassment and the attention of this series of shootings has prompted the Pentagon to approve the deployment of military surveillance to help find the sniper. Maybe also so if it is a member of the military they can take him out on their own? Something is fishy about this. Also, not to mention that this violates the spirit of the Posse Commitatus Act despite assertions to the contrary:
Authorities had considered using a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle but decided to have military pilots fly reconnaissance, a defense official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. A main objective is to improve communication among investigators.
The help will be provided in a way meant to comply with the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1878 law that bans the military from domestic law enforcement. That means the military will relay data to law enforcement officials and will not decide on its own what targets to watch, the official said.
The Pentagon’s participation also could involve a system of sensors that could detect flashes of gunfire on the ground, the official said.
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Am I the only person whos noticed that in the past few days this sniper has been getting darker and darker? A few days ago i recall witnesses saying he was a while male, yesterday he became “olive skinned”, and now today theyre saying he is dark skinned and probobly MIDDLE EASTERN (or hispanic). No wonder theyre not finding the guy! This is like somthing off of startrek!
i really wish, should our sniper turn out to be ex-military, that that would be such an embarassment to the bush administration. the fact of the matter is these boys can’t be embarassed, and what concerns me more is that few americans would even see the irony in any of it.
where the embarassment should already be is with the nra. this isn’t even a handgun issue, this is a rifle issue, even likely a hunting rifle issue.
“guns don’t kill people, people kill people” goes the nra addage, and yes, it does take people to kill people. it just so happens that those with guns are a helluva lot better at it.