Those amazingly efficient G-persons—when it suits their purposes

(Note: this entry also deals with the Bush justification for our being in Iraq.)

Reader N. sends this news story:

FBI Rules Out Terrorism in Mall Shooting, Casper Star-Tribune, WY, 02/15/07)

The gunman in Monday’s fatal shooting spree at a Salt Lake City shopping mall was Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old immigrant from Bosnia who arrived in the United States in 1998. The gunman was a legal U.S. resident who lived in the city with his mother, but police had few other details to share. The FBI said that the shooting is not related to Islamic terrorism….

N. comments:

It is rather interesting to me that the FBI can decide in just a couple of days that there’s no possible terrorist angle in this case. It would take longer than two days just to talk with everyone that Talovic knew, check out any organizations, groups, clubs, and other associations he may have had, inspect the computer he is almost sure to have owned and examine his emails. Frankly, this smacks of “don’t scare the peasants” to me.

Yes, isn’t it remarkable? Think of the endless wait for the FBI to determine all kinds of facts the public is eager to learn about—months, years. Yet whenever a Muslim in the U.S. launches a murderous attack on society, within hours the Feds tells us authoritatively that this was not an act of Islamic terrorism. What’s the truth? The truth is that our government is controlled by people who are not on our side and who, acting on the basis of Auster’s First Law of Majority-Minority Relations in Liberal Society, consciously and systematically conceal from us negative facts about Muslims. Now, I’m not saying that this Talovic monster was acting out of jihad-type motives. But I am saying that there is no way, given the FBI’s painstaking and deliberate approach to the determination of facts, that it could have determined within two days that Talovic’s slaughter of innocents had nothing to do with jihad-type motives. Therefore the FBI is lying to us. At the very least, it is acting in such a way as to convince a reasonable person that it is lying to us.

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Brent L. writes:

This pre-ordained “conclusion” by the FBI has a simple explanation, which I believe is implied in the heretofore unmentioned comment by House Minority Leader John Boehner during recent deliberation on the Iraq resolution: “It is the nature of our enemy to fight us wherever and whenever they can. Whether in Asia, Africa, or elsewhere, al Qaeda has supporters and sympathizers throughout the world. They have the ability to strike anywhere at any time with lethal force across the globe. Right now we’re fighting them in Iraq. This battle is the most visible part of a global war—but it just one part. If we leave, they will follow us home. It’s that simple.”

My initial response to Rep. Boehner’s question was “How will ‘they’ follow us home? Does al Qaeda have a paratrooper division? Or is there a Mahdi Navy as well?”

Then I read about the Utah mall killer’s background, and I realized that, even in the event of a complete U.S. pullout in Iraq, “they” won’t follow us home. They won’t have to—they are already here. It’s that simple.

Of course it would be impossible for this administration and its pro-immigration lackeys (like Boehner, who voted against every border-strengthening bill that came up during the last House session) to admit that, because it destroys their entire “stay the course” argument. Hence the quick “yeah, he was a Muslim immigrant—but he CAN’T be a jihadi” reaction from the Feds.

Honestly, can it get any worse?

Keep up the excellent work, Mr. Auster. I’ll keep reading, and spreading the word as best I can.

LA replies:

I thank Brent. That’s a new argument he has made. If I may restate it: The federal government is extremely reluctant to admit that Muslims in the U.S. are jihadists. Why? It is because one of the Bushites’ main—and totally off-the-planet—arguments for not leaving Iraq is, “If we leave Iraq, our enemies will follow us here.” Since this argument depends on the assumption that our enemies are not already here, the Bushites can’t admit that our enemies are already here, because that would destroy one of their main arguments for not leaving Iraq.

Richard B. writes:

I was pleased to hear Paul Harvey’s comments today, that when he reported the President’s plan to allow 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the US, his telephones were swamped with calls from angry Americans.

They were outraged because we were supposed to be fighting them “there” so we don’t have to fight them “here”, and now Bush was opening the doors to the enemy. They all know that 7,000 is just the tip of the iceberg if this happens.

LA replies:

Let’s try to sum this up. According to President Bush and his followers, we invaded and occupied Iraq so as to attract Al Qaeda into Iraq so that Al Qaeda would fight us in Iraq instead of somehow coming here to fight us here. In other words, we deliberately allowed Iraq to be destroyed so as to protect the United States. (As an index of the poor thinking skills of politicians and journalists today, notice that NO ONE has ever questioned the Bushites on this obvious, monstrous implication of their argument.) But now, this so-clever plan having failed, because the chaos we supposedly deliberately invited into Iraq turned out to be too much for us, we must withdraw from Iraq, with the result that perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees must come here. Of course, many of them will be pro-U.S., whatever that means, but they are Iraqis and will inevitably be bringing all their problems with them, including their justifiable hatred of the U.S. FOR HAVING MADE THEIR COUNTRY MORE UNLIVABLE THAN IT WAS UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN.

So, in order to avoid the supposed arrival in the U.S. of maybe a couple of thousand terrorists who (according to the wacko Bush theory) would have somehow been able to sneak into the U.S. if our forces hadn’t been in Iraq, we will end up with HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DISPLACED, ANGRY IRAQIS.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 15, 2007 07:43 PM | Send