Bombs in the Mail and Accusations of False Flags, as Fingers Start Pointing

Yesterday, documentarian, Ken Burns said America is more divided now than at any time since the Vietnam War. It's hard to argue with that assessment, especially since, at the moment, it is all the rage to mail pipe bombs to people you don't like. And gun down congressmen while they practice softball. Or run them out of restaurants with behavior which, at best, is reminiscent of frat house hazing. Or go before the nation to say there were some "good people on both sides," rioting in Charlottesville even though a large number of them were self proclaimed Nazis.

Of course we haven't approached the point Richard Nixon reached before his downfall. Things got so out of hand when he was in charge he felt the need to station federal troops with live ammunition on the steps of the United States Capitol building. He was the first and, so far, only president to do so since Abraham Lincoln.

At this moment--and the situation is so fluid you have to use that caveat--10 bombs, or as the press likes to say, explosive devices, have been sent through the U.S. Postal Service. The addressees include, George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Joe Biden, and Robert De Niro.

Because the bomber, or bombers aren't very good at what they do and the Secret Service, among others, are, none of the devices have exploded.

Representative Waters and former Vice President Biden were each sent two of the deadly packages. The one addressed to former CIA head, John Brennan arrived at CNN's New York City offices. Another, sent to former Attorney General Eric Holder, had his mailing location so fouled up it was bounced back to the return address, which was the Florida headquarters of Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Many of the others also bore her name and office as the return address.

It doesn't take Holmes to see a pattern here. None of the people who were targeted are fans of Donald John Trump and all, are frequent subjects of his ire and bile. They are also at the center of a slew of far right wing conspiracy fantasies.

Indeed, even now certain ultra right radio hosts are postulating the bomb scare is a, "false flag," operation, meant to sway the mid term elections which are less than two weeks away. Strangely, that grotesque hypothesis makes more sense than the other one they're pushing these days.

It maintains the caravan of would be immigrants currently winding its way through Mexico is financed by Soros and, or the democrats. Why the left would be creating a situation which can do nothing, but guarantee a bigger turnout of Trump supporters at the polls is beyond any logical explanation, but as we know, logic has little to do with trailer park phantasms. No, if we are going to go all conspiratorial you have to think those thousands walking toward the border are bankrolled by wealthy Trumpists who are attempting to rally the maniacally xenophobic base.

Conjecture and flights of fancy aside, what we do know is the pipe bombs have been described by experts as crudely designed, but potentially lethal. Despite the Wasserman-Schultz touch, both ironic and clever--who of those intended victims would question a package from the former chair of the DNC--only a complete dolt would think people such as Obama, Clinton, and Biden get unscreened mail.

In fact only four of the devices actually made it past pre delivery screening. The one sent to Soros got to his home mail box and another to De Niro's Tribeca office. The one mailed to Brennan ended up in CNN's NY mailroom although, Brennan doesn't contribute to CNN, but rather NBC and MSNBC. Finally there was the one which found its way to Wasserman-Schultz's south Florida office.

Yes, this latest wave of terror has all the earmarks of some high school drop out with minimal brain activity who simply has access to the internet and a Home Depot.

Fingers are already being pointed. Many on MSNBC and CNN are blaming the hyper-aggressive language used by Mr. Trump and his uber right pals. This morning Trump, tweeted it is all the main stream media's fault because they're the ones stoking America's anger with their continual, "fake news." Last night he sarcastically told a crowd in Wisconsin, "See, I'm being nice. We're all behaving quite well."

Personally, right now, I don't care about root causes. Let's just catch the sons of bitches before they actually harm someone with their two bit handiwork, then we can figure out the rest of it.


sic vita est


10-25-18