Reply #259: Here's the Deal

[Don1]

We don't really know anything about what happened. News reports saying 1 shot. Some saying 4 or 5 shots. Some say he was bipolar. People here are promoting that to raving lunatic. Some news reports say he had no mental illness at all. An anonymous source in the Administration...*cough*...Scott McClellan...*cough*...says the guy had made bomb threats, but no witness says this.

Here is a more rational scenario.

The guy was slightly flakey, slightly bipolar. He was on lithium. He did not say he had a bomb. He mentioned something about being afraid of a bomb on board. Then, he quickly left the plane, because yeah, he was scared. Maybe he even had a point. Maybe someone else on the plane was seemingly suspicious.

So, he's a bit odd, coming off a plane to/from Columbia and with a backpack. Remember London? Citizens thought the Brazilian guy was Arabic. This Latino man was mistaken for Arabic, due to normal racist crap seeing everyone as Black, White, and in-betweens. Same as in London. So, the field marshalls, hearing a story from the plane transmitted over radio about a bomb on the plane, took that to mean it was this "olive-skinned" fellow with the backpack out ahead of everyone else leaving the plane.

They panicked and shot him. Now, there is a cover-up. The cover-up includes, defaming the guy's mental state. Pretending he threatened the plane with a bomb. Why a cover-up? Because if people knew the truth, they would realize that they are not safer.

We are not safer. That is what this is about. It shows the incompetence of post-911 security teams in airports. And this has ramifications upward all the way to El Presidente. That's why someone in his administration is lying.

We are not safer.

Now someone is dead. He was a good man. He was doing volunteer dentist work in a third-world country. He's dead. Stop defaming him and his memory. Stop with the rumors about him.

A good man is dead and we are not safer.