Raise your hand if you are old enough to remember the heyday of these terms:
LIHOP ("Let it happen on purpose") – suggests that key individuals within the government had at least some foreknowledge of the attacks and deliberately ignored it or actively weakened United States' defenses to ensure the hijacked flights were not intercepted. Similar allegations were made about Pearl Harbor.MIHOP ("Make/Made it happen on purpose") – that key individuals within the government planned the attacks and collaborated with, or framed, al-Qaeda in carrying them out. There is a range of opinions about how this might have been achieved.
Those were the leading contenders in the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of 9/11. Now the terms return in discussions of the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting. I've heard various suggestions that the event was staged, and have read strong denials.
Update: This post originally contained a claim from a Facebook post claiming that the shooter's father had notified authorities and that the shooter was on a watch list. Both those assertions appear to have been fabricated, so I've deleted that part of the post. Will retain the above for general reference purposes.
If i was the Federal Agent that took a bullet to the vest, I'd be talking to a lawyer.
ReplyDeleteLatest speculation is that he was hit by friendly fire from another agent. Stay tuned...
Delete"In its review, a Secret Service team estimated that Allen was running nine miles an hour, one person in the briefing said, and then stumbled somehow and fell a few yards from the checkpoint. That raises the question among law enforcement professionals of how a person moving that fast could have stopped and fired his weapon at an officer behind him."
DeleteSee, now we're getting somewhere. Maybe the alleged suspect was actually running FROM a bullet and the agent just got caught up in the chase.
DeleteI dont see anything that corroborates that police were notified 48 hours in advance or that Allen was on a watchlist. I thought this was pretty good.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/815007146162946048/feedinghungryhearts-gazing-at-the-rorschach-test?source=share
The link you shared is way too reasonable for today's USA.
DeleteLOL, I apologize for that!
DeleteAnd I've not seen anything yet to confirm that police notification, so I may need to radically revise the post.
DeleteThis is all nice, and we should expect a lot of lies from the administration, but in the end, the security system worked. Dude ran in, got arrested. That's how it's supposed to work.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'm mostly surprised that he didn't get killed. Messing with the secret service is not a good idea.
I was surprised he didn't incur a head shot. Didn't get shot at all, apparently. How convenient.
DeleteJohn Hinckley shot four people and was not shot. Not even shot at.
DeleteI am not old enough to remember those terms. I'll have to look into them more.
ReplyDeleteI'm on Bluesky and X (with a burner account) and the amount of propaganda surrounding the WHCD is jaw dropping.
Airport style screening on Amtrak!
ReplyDeleteOkay, so it was pre-planned. Who the firetruck signs up to be the guy who does it? Who gets paid for his spending nn years in prison???
ReplyDeletePerhaps he was promised a presidential pardon during the next Trump administration...
DeleteAnd an unlimited expense account at the Commissary while in prison.
DeleteThere's a difference between "pre-planned" and "allowed to happen".
DeleteFrom https://bsky.app/profile/espiers.bsky.social/post/3mkhyguy4bc25 - It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong.
ReplyDeleteand
This guy is indicative of people who are anti Trump not having a voice because Congress and SCOTUS have enabled Trump to obliterate any recourse they have when he does horrible things.
Its no surprise to me that three times now someone has wanted to pull the trigger on him. No president has inspired more hate since Abraham Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteObama got sent an awful lot of letters with white powder in them. Not the same, obviously but Trump's current core voters weren't fans of 44.
DeleteThere were attempted shootings of Obama too. Of course Trump supporters don't like to acknowledge how much hatred was directed at Obama because so many of them don't believe he was legitimately elected. Trump himself pushed that belief.
DeleteAs for the hatred directed at Trump, it comes as no surprise that his supporters won't admit that there are good reasons for it. Lincoln was never convicted of a felony, let alone multiple felonies, and there's no record of him ever committing sexual assault. If he did he certainly didn't brag about it.
I think the need for random events to make sense must be burnt into us humans at our deepest level. Some fictional detective, I don't remember who, opined that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one. But somehow we can't accept the notion that something "just happens," in this case that a single person, driven by a personal motive, travelled to Washington to shoot the President and his cronies. That doesn't make sense. Surely it had to be a complex project with lots of players collaborating to serve some huge, dark purpose. It doesn't help that there remains the possibility, however minuscule, that it WAS a conspiracy..."I'm just sayin'..."
ReplyDeleteThe part of this that I feel merits more attention is how the Trumpists are vigorously spinning this as the work of someone who "hates Christians" when the guy's writings indicate that he was taking on this project AS a Christian to combat the immorality of the Trump Administration. Trumpist propaganda conveniently omits the parts of his manifesto where the guy professes his Christian beliefs.
I presume (my personal conspiracy theory?) that they're trying to head off potential defections from the Evangelical base. Trump has already caught flak for the Doctor Jesus picture and his Pope-bashing. He doesn't want Good Christians to read the full text and think, "He might have something there."