None Dare Call It Terrorism

None Dare Call It Terrorism - The Maryland Sniper murders apparently continue - and J.J. Johnson wonders why it's not being called terrorism?

since nothing - absolutely nothing since September 11, 2001 will be called terrorism. Not the American Airlines flight over New York City a year ago, not the string of oil refinery explosions, unexplained train derailments, not the nutcases attacking Greyhound bus drivers, and heaven forbid - that Anthrax thing was an anomaly, just like the West Nile Virus and the new cases of malaria popping up in the same area of the shooting. Just individual crazed lunatics mind you, not terrorism.

OK, seems a little paranoid? Perhaps. But he goes on:

Not bad for eleven rounds. Anyone want to take a guess how many of these students are children of federal employees? Now, let your brain spin. Here's a federal government planning for war, importing and exporting no goods on its western flank, and with a market in a steady freefall, and yet to even submit a budget this fiscal year. But none of that will be on their minds when they wake up - only: who's next?

Just like September 11 - brilliant war tactics. Then again, as any sniper can tell you, psychological terror is a bi-product of this time-tested, lethal art.

I'm also counting the hours until some anti-gun zealot tries to count this as another reason to ban firearms - despite the fact that Maryland's gun laws are already extremely strict and proscriptive.

Posted by Mitch at October 8, 2002 03:04 PM