unless you have a reason to use a gun in your daily duties, carrying is off limits on military bases. The irony, yo. But i guess the military is not so keen on men and women carrying guns when they have no cause to.
Irony always slays me.
According to Cullen, DC sniper and his counterpart were a psychopath/angry depressive pair who, Cullen says, often travel in pairs.
another side trip, NYRB had an excellent piece of the undercover infiltration of OWS on the part of the NYCPD. They operate like the FBI. As I read along all I could mutter was, "Ain't that some shit."
At 01:20 PM 12/18/2012, Sean Andrews wrote:
>Though it is sort of a side step from this thread, I was reminded that two
>of the most visceral domestic terror plots in recent memory - the OKC
>bombing and the DC sniper, who was active during the time we lived in the
>area (I still remember ducking while I was pumping gas) - were the product
>of people who were basically like the folks covered in the book Irregular
>Army that Doug profiled a few weeks ago. If it is weird that SCOTUS allows
>for right wing militias, it is absolutely loony that the army feels okay
>basically arming and training paramilitaries who might eventually pose a
>threat to their power. Unless, of course, they think those folks might be
>of use: they've come in handy in Columbia, Afghanistan, and many other
>places, but it is weird to think of them as useful on home turf. Is this
>just economically determined buffoonary - we're going back to having a
>league of mercenaries instead of a standing army. I don't know enough about
>military history to interpret this, but it seems like a bigger threat to
>national security than guns on their own.
>
>The DC sniper was highly trained and, from what I can tell, relatively
>sane. Just a ruthless plot involving terrorizing civilians - complements
>of good ol Uncle Sam and the US Army.
>
>sean
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