This time, let’s find out who they are

~ susie

Before we start attacking them. Stephan Marche:

But this moment, before we know who did it, may be more important than when we do know. The speculation has established three possible perpetrators: Islamic terrorists, domestic terrorists, or simple lunatics. The potential of this moment is that we can recognize that it could be any of them, that they all want the same thing, that they are, in the only way that matters, the same thing. What we are dealing with is the force of madness against sanity. We are dealing with people who see the world’s flags fluttering at the finish line of a great accomplishment and want to blow it all up. Does it matter what kind of hats they wear? The cultural roots of the perpetrators are irrelevant. The history will be applied post-hoc and poorly. Whoever it turns out to be will incur a blame for entire groups of people — whether Muslims or American gun nuts — which are entirely accidental to their being. Let us pause, right now, and agree not to make that mistake.

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4 thoughts on “This time, let’s find out who they are”

  1. Those who use violence to send a message, make a point, voice their opinion, etc. is the group that should be condemned. And they are a like-minded group. That group deserves all the blame that it will get. Letting them off the hook this time would be a grave mistake.

  2. Across all of these suspects I am willing to pre-suppose one identifying factor. It is mass murder therefore the perpetrator(s) will be male. Whatever other factor proves at work here will be immediately elevated above this near certainty. Because we accept this as a given, the next will follow.

  4. Actually, the time before we knew who they really were. But we didn’t care because Afghanistan has little oil, whereas Iraq has a lot of it. Plus, Iraq wanted to start trading oil for other than dollars.

    It all depends on what behind-the-scenes agenda the rich and powerful want carried out, and what they want us to be stampeded into.

    Whatever happens, justice will not rule. Shock doctrine will.

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