'Lone Wolf' Theory

I listened with only half an ear. The story repeats itself almost daily. It’s no longer interesting. Some kind of criminal - involved in serial crime - was on the loose in some urban neighborhood (possibly one of the outer boroughs of New York City).

He was said to have robbed banks, raped women, abducted school children, or stabbed random people on subway platforms - I can’t remember which. People from the neighborhood were reported to be afraid. They did not want their names broadcast as they gave interviews. From their voices it was apparent that they were not native speakers (unless broken English was native to their neighborhood). The cameras blurred their faces.

Neighbors were cautioned to remain indoors while the cops were working out the details of the cases. They gave out descriptions of the perp: Male; roughly 5’9; about 45; last seen wearing a blue jacket.

As far as the shooting at the Frankfurt airport is concerned, my ears perked up when I heard that U.S. soldiers had been shot. In Afghanistan? Maybe. Surely not in Frankfurt. The link to ‘Kosovo’ appeared early in the reporting of the incident. (Could still have been someone upset with Obamacare.) The detail of the shooter shouting ‘Allah-U-Akbar’ came much later. It was immediately followed by the ‘lone wolf’ theory. No names yet.

This has me wondering just how many of these ‘lone wolves’ are still out there. Strange that there appears to be absolutely nothing to tie them together.

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Speed Bumps

Whereas international agreements generally come to nothing, the effect of same as propaganda footholds for the ground troops should not be underestimated. When Kyoto failed, it did not die and pass into the dust bin of the 'never-again-mentioned'. On the contrary, it became a the rallying cry of the defeated - a wound that would never be allowed to heal; a sore, repeatedly scratched open to bleed its puss into the body politic - now culminating in Hopenhagen (sic) with even higher stakes. For the first time, a U.S. president and a U.S. Congress is fully aboard. It's show time! They will press ahead! If not now, when?

The focal point of Serb history was the battle for Kosovo in 1389 which Serbia lost. Six hundred years later, Slobodan Milosevic addressed a crowd of a million Serbs at the monument commemorating the defeat (6 miles outside of Pristina) and stripped the local Albanian majority of their civil rights and autonomy.

‘Warmers' are a patient lot. It took them many years to construct their house of cards. "Climate gate" is but a speed bump for them. They won't slow down. The wheels may come off. But then again, they might not. In any case, they're betting that, if and when they go down, they'll take America along with them - like suicide bombers crashing the gate. So far, amazingly, they're still very much on track to accomplish what they set out to do. What does that say about us who are watching and know exactly what's going on?