For what little they’re worth, I have three unseemly comments about tonight’s shooting in Butler. The first is: I wonder how long it will be before the nothing-is-as-it-seems junkies decide it’s too much of a coincidence that the shooter went for the one rooftop the Secret Service failed to cover. So the Biden administration must have been in on it. If it’s not on the dark web already, it can’t be too far off.
The second is the disconnect between the Dems Laocooning for the last six months that Trump’s election will be the country’s last, and that Project 2025 is a re-issue of Mein Kampf. Many if not most people believe that had the world known what Hitler had in store for it, a preemptive assassination would have been morally mandatory. And yet every talking head on CNN and MSNBC is falling all over himself bleating his heartfelt relief that Trump survived so unscathed. If I really thought what these people claim to think, wouldn’t it be grief rather than relief that that first shot hadn’t been a centimetre more to the right?
And, finally – and this one is equally predictable – someone who knowingly sacrifices his life, as this man did, for what he took to be a just cause, as this man must have, may be a lot of despicable things. But the one thing he’s not is a coward. That’s the kind of Doublespeak George Orwell’s 1984 was about. I counted seven uses of ‘cowardly’ within the first hour after 9/11. I’m up to three now, and the night is young.
Categories: Editorials, Social and Political Philosophy
Paulosophical Vimplications 
This sort of attack has been called “suicide by police”. Unless the person had an online message history we may never know his motives. But there will be endless speculation, especially if he had any connection to another country like Russia or China or one in the Middle East.
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That was my comment above, but somehow it came out as anonymous”.
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I agree he’s not a coward. However, I am skeptical that he did this out of pure political conviction. He had a bleak choice between living out 60 more years in Butler, Pennsylvania where he was a loser freak or living eternally in history. Brave of him for literally and figuratively pulling the trigger on creating his own life’s meaning. Good thing he likely died before realizing his failure. I suppose everyone gets the remembrance they deserve.
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Actually, Crooks wasn’t from Butler. His home was about an hour’s drive south of there. He only came up to Butler because that’s where the rally was. As to whether he failed in his mission, I suppose we’d have to know what that mission was. If it was just suicide by cop then I suppose it wasn’t a failure. Hey, I’m just sayin’.
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