I have a second bunch of theories, and they’re totally left field from my militia nut theory.
Two people. One drives, one shoots. They may switch on different killings. They have at least two older delivery trucks, and other personal vehicles.
Highly thought-out killings. The plan for location, they spend the weekend scouting places and rehearsing the scenario in their normal passenger cars. Over the next week they put the plan in motion. When the occasion comes, it’s just a matter of who is standing in the wrong spot. If nobody is there, they don’t always give up the plan. Sometimes they shoot the next nearest target. They make their escape as planned, ditch the van/truck in a pre-rented safe location and drive home in their passenger car/s. Later, they come back and use the van/truck for the next killing in the vicinity. For the most part it’s Van=Northern Va., Truck=Md. They have at least two safe-houses/garages.
They have been planning this for some time before starting. They practiced shooting, familiarized themselves with the roads, rented or bought hiding space for the vehicles, learned the police codes on the scanner.
The first killings came in a wave to draw attention, but the real agenda is to create a sense of fear, powerlessness and frustration with the authorities. They don’t announce themselves as members of an organization or cause, because that would be counter-productive to their agenda. The fear is in the not knowing who these guys are or what they want.
Like I said, left field.
Irregardless, these latest shootings are all around my house, and my favorite gas station is in a plaza parking lot with a Michael’s! BFG is becoming a constant companion, and he would love to drill the bastard(s) a new airhole.
Sorry, didn’t read the link, but did read your post and exposition…whaddya mean, What if?. What if what? What if the persons involved had ‘tanned skin’? That includes an awful lot of people, like, most of the worlds’ population, if you get what I mean. What ARE you saying** particlewill**??
Read the freaking link, ** kambuckta**. Then you will see what I am saying. According to the link there is evidence that this may be a terrorist thing. It is for that reason I am asking “What if”. What if it turns out that this IS terrorism? What should our response be? I am sorry if I wasn’t clear there.
You might like to have that knee removed from your forehead Kam, that was a mighty big jerk it did…
If these really are terrorists, the smartest thing they could do now is simply disappear. Uncertainty would spread terror far better than a few more killings that eventually culminate in them getting caught.
Ok I will draw the line at using my mind to tell anyone the best ways to be a terrorist.
Our only advantage over nutballs who mindlessly kill random people…is that they tend to go about it in a pretty stupid way, (because they tend to be somewhat stupid in the first place to choose to embrace the rational leading them to their nutball killings)…thus we get to catch them eventually.
So I am going to restrict my discussion to analysis of the available evidence, and not how the nutball could be more successful.
I was ready to be convinced that the sniper was an Al Q terrorist until the whole Death card thing happened. Al Q religious nuts wouldn’t leave a tarot card that says “I am God” on it. They would consider that blasphemy. This guy’s homegrown.
I was ready to be convinced that the sniper was an Al Q terrorist until the whole Death card thing happened. Al Q religious nuts wouldn’t leave a tarot card that says “I am God” on it. They would consider that blasphemy. This guy’s homegrown.
I am with **Sam Stone ** and **deball ** theories, with a hefty dosage from our aussie criminologist.
Whomever this is, is well dressed or good appearances. I am really torn between the home grown loon to Al-Qaeda link. I am leaning towards a group, three to four guys working together.
The Tarot card was a plant by some kid. It is a lark. If was a line of communication there would have been more. the shell casing, however, was because perhaps he was spotted by some one but they haven’t come forward because they were a kid and scared to death.
Whomever it is, is a sterling member of a community who will receive tons of " I am shocked." " He was so quiet" sound bytes from neighbors. His mother will refute it.
I also fear that he/they will go into hiding to never surface again. But another round of sniper attacks, new group, will start up in another city. (Not LA because the traffic there is such a log jam.)
Philly, because it is the birthplace of our country? Although, I just can’t get a Hollywood attack out of my mind either.
That one witness, the guy with the funky accent, who has been all over the news, (last name starts with an M, I think.) he really disturbs me. I can’t place his accent ( eastern Euro? Mid east? His last name looked spanish, I thought. But didn’t sound spanish.) My immediate thought with seeing/hearing him was that " He’s part of it. A decoy of sorts." It’s not because of the accent…he’s just gave me the creeps.
When he went after that boy, this son of a bitch crossed the line.
It still seems to me that something very strange is going on.
What are the odds that two men, both illegal aliens, would just HAPPEN to park in front of the phone booth in a van which just happens to exactly match the descriptions of the vehicle?
The other day, a spent rifle shell was found in a white panel truck that a rental clerk was cleaning. Turned out to be the wrong caliber.
The shooting before last, a white van was caught speeding away from the scene, but the driver was released when another shooting occured while he was in custody.
I wonder if there isn’t some disinformation going on?
And then there’s that cryptic comment from the police yesterday saying that the note had them worried that something extremely serious was about to happen. As opposed to people being shot in the streets? How much more serious can a lone crazy person get?
This still sounds like terrorism to me. It’s too calculated, too planned, for it to be a lone nutbar. That’s still possible, but if I were a betting person, I’d say that we’re looking at some kind of terrorism. Perhaps not al-Qaida - it could be a domestic terrorist. But I don’t think it’s a nut job.
I heard the original report about the casing being the wrong caliber. Today one of the police spokesmen addressed the casing specifically, and said the media had gotten the story wrong, and that it was a .223 caliber casing.
I’m sure this is just one of many mistakes the press has made. I can’t wait for the book to come out that gives a day-by-day analysis of what we are hearing and what the truth really was.
Just a WAG at this point, but it is looking like the sniper used the two guys this morning as bait. Either that or they were screwing around with the cops somehow.
One of the witnesses made a point about how the cops were there before the van pulled up. (of course we know how reliable eyewitnesses are)
“And then there’s that cryptic comment from the police yesterday saying that the note had them worried that something extremely serious was about to happen. As opposed to people being shot in the streets? How much more serious can a lone crazy person get?”
Yes, there’s no possible way one criminal could do more damage than a single shooting a day, and not every day at that. :rolleyes:
Anyone have a link to a page that shows the layout of each of the shootings. Where they think he lay in wait?
I am from Montgomery county and know a bunch of the places where he did his dirty work. He seems to like watching gas stations and other parking lots where he is fairly certain to get a target every few minutes.
But from what i remember, their aren’t lots of super hiding places. I would like to take a look at photo’s showing the layout and where he is comfortable setting up a snipe.
I’m beginning to think of the killer as a negative entity from a demonic plane who materializes in this plane long enough to shoot, then dematerializes, which would explain his success in evading all detection.
What’s more, his electronically garbled voice over the phone is reminiscent of Indrid Cold.
I need to revise my generic profile generator. Black Islamic ex-military machinist who worked at the sniper school, nobody nailed that one. Special forces, hardly. He did not even serve in a combat capacity.
If Muhammad thinks that this is helping Islam, he should use the insanity defense. “Al Qaeda didn’t do it (9/11),” he says. “To prove it, I’ll slaughter some innocents.” (not actual quotes, hearsay + speculation)
Good job, Muhammad. You are doing what Jerry Falwell could not hope to do. It is getting harder and harder to argue against some limited religious profiling. 99+ percent of Muslims don’t do this sort of thing, but the less-than one percent are awfully busy.