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U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the attack would be investigated as a hate crime.
Would it still be categorized thus-- had the victims been white too?
Just what would it have been investigated as had the murdererâs delusion been of different origin than race?
If the murdered had been selected indiscriminately?
Compare with the suspected motivation of the DC Snipers John Mohammed and Lee Malvo:
(From Wiki)
Investigators and the prosecution suggested during pre-trial motions that Muhammad intended to kill his second ex-wife Mildred, who had estranged him from his children. According to this theory, the other shootings were intended to cover up the motive for the crime, since Muhammad believed that the police would not focus on an estranged ex-husband as a suspect if she looked like a random victim of a serial killer.
While imprisoned, Malvo wrote a number of erratic diatribes about what he termed âjihadâ against the United States.[29] âI have been accused on my mission. Allah knows Iâm gonna suffer nowâ, he wrote.[29] Because his rants and drawings featured not only such figures as Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, but also characters from the film series The Matrix, these musings were dismissed as immaterial.[29] Some investigators reportedly said they had all but eliminated terrorist ties or political ideologies as a motive.[30][31][32] Nonetheless, in at least one of the ensuing murder trials, a Virginia court found Muhammad guilty of killing âpursuant to the direction or orderâ of terrorism.[33]
If the stretch can be made using actions that followed conviction(s)-- to express the crimes had represented acts of terrorism-- the truth is-- that anyone using violence to âignite a civil warâ-- acts as a terrorist.
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Light brown haired, blue-eyed slim white young man who could have done so much with his brain and his good fortune to have been born in the USA. One has to ask and find answers to how this went so wrong for America and for the families of victims he never even met before he shot them.
How does a wonderful nation like America produce such fortunate young people who turn out to inflict such damage on our nation and kill and hurt so many people? Isnât that the question we all need to ask ourselves? Care to respond? Could Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and all the rest of the right wing nutcases who make huge profits and enjoy a lavish lifestyle from our TV and radio airwaves have all played a part in this young manâs fall from grace? Could they have filled his mind with the Cancer of racial hatred? Why would anyone shy away from taking responsibility for influencing this young man? He, himself has confessed and admitted to his crime. I doubt Fox News and Rush L. and all the rest of the racist bloviators we allow on our mass communication networks will ever take any responsibility for having helped to influence this young manâs mind.