My thoughts on why this guy ain't the sniper
 

I do not believe the guy they caught is the actual sniper or at least not the 'lone gunman'. I want to see what the police have to say about all the past stuff now about the white van, an olive colored skinned man -- i bet they just ignore it. "Forget all that other stuff, we got our man!"

The police needed an arrest and a scapegoat more than anything right now. Arresting these guys today put a lot of people at ease
Perception of safety is what drives law enforcement. We could overthrow over the police at any time. That's why Bush has 2 go 2 war with Iraq cause we couldn't get Bin Laden and there's no 'closure' on our safety there, he needed a diversion. The perception of safety says Bush, law enforcement, etc. have it under control. But if everyone went crazy at 8:00pm tonight, we could bring the whole country down before midnight. And the trial is of no use for these guys. CNN has already executed them. Their faces are plastered worldwide. Say they're not gulity (i.e. Richard Jewell in Olympics bombing), it doesn't matter because they're lives are ruined.

Oh well, enough ranting for me....gotta go watch Arlington Rd. and Conspiracy Theory!

I think a lot of people are just mad its a black guy and not the mythical right wing white nut they were so hoping for.

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Does the NRA support your statement?

Anyway who gives a fuck about his skin color... Stop the fucking racism...

I heard this same theory on the radio this morning. Neal Boortz said that expected a "Timothy McVey" type of person and was quite surprised to see the pics of the sniper suspect...

"olive colored skin man" information was already discarded.


but (allegedly) they have the gun, the prints, the cartridges, the hole in the back of the car, the motive, the military training

not enough?

my views on these types of cases have changed after watching arlington road, the movie seemed very real

That's what I thought.

that wasnt racism at all :disgust

everyone did think it was a "white male right wing extremist"

"'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose"
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=...4-034003-7658r

I expected him to be in a clown suit.

I'm not saying he definitely is not the one, but it seems quite hard for me to believe your average liquor store robber could get away from FBI 12 or more times driving a '91 bucket. I think it's something more. And don't think scapegoats don't work and aren't used in this country. Think JFK, MLK assassinations. Someone has to be responsible. Pointing the blame is the American way.

if i was going to run around shooting people id dress up like santa clause :ak47: ho ho ho

I am getting sick of the media over inflating "MILITARY TRAINING"

in the US Army everyone is required to shoot and Qualify with their m16 every 6 months and like 20% qualify as expert

The media's in a frenzy because they haven't had earnings this good in a while.

You don't think a black man with military expertise is capable of picking off a dozen civilians?

Nope, you have to be white... ;)

definately have to be white

So what? He still HAD it, didn't he? I have no idea what it's like out East, but I doubt many people here in SoCal could shoot a gun properly, not to mention pick off several people with somewhat decent precision.

I was hoping for:

1. Some Osama/Saddam linked guy

or

2. Ex-marine sniper, injured in Afghanistan and out for revenge

and they would be busted by

1. A huge shoot-out :BangBang: in a Waco-style compound

or

2. An OJ style car chase ending in a shoot-out :BangBang:

:thumbsup

Jack

http://www.JustAddBrains.com

Haha! Racist bastards. :winkwink:

1 out of 4.... not too good...

even then, more like 1/2 out of 4...

I'm not surprised at all. a) The police engage in disinformation all the time. The information they give out is the information they want the CRIMINAL to know, not what they want us to know. b) All that other information came from eye witness observation which is notoriously bad (circumstantial evidence usually actually proves more reliable). c) Just because a very common vehicle was seen around one or more of the incidents, it doesn't follow with any degree of necessity that this is anything more than coincidence. d) It's absurd to think that the police arrested these two merely to appear to have done something. This would be fruitless, because if these guys don't account for "the sniper," he can prove he still exists by shooting some more people.

We'll see if the shootings stop.

3 scenarios.

1. He is the sniper -- shootings stop
2. Fed sniper -- scapegoat -- shootings stop
3. Outlaw sniper -- shootings stop, he moves and starts over as a copycat :)

What if it's a group of people? That's like saying all the terrorists in America died on those planes since nothing else big has happened since 9/11. Couldn't the rest of the group have seen the news this morning and decided to chill for awhile and regroup?

quite possibly. Still glad they arrested part of the group.

Wasn't the white van theory thrown out a while ago anyway?

If this guy wasn't the shooter, the real shooter has two options: 1) continue killing to drive the country absolutely crazy, or 2) stop killing and walk away free.

Depending on his motives, those are two interesting and possible options.

The capture was a bit boring...

The guy will have lost half his movie rights money at least.

I think he should make a daring escape, get those figures back up again

Possibly. Don't you think it's odd for a group of people to share the same gun though?

Not if it's one's day to shoot and the other's to build the escape pattern and leave the notes.

basic military training by no means makes you a sniper,
shooting straight is just one aspect of being a sniper, if you seen fox news then you'd know where i was comming from

besides whose to say it wasn't the kid that shot them?(if it was really them)

Excuse me... a duck in a noose? Can you actually do that?:uhoh

Does anyone else find it interesting/intruiging that someone called in a tip on the line set up for only the sniper to call in on? And the message "We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.".. ? Makes me think that was a coded message to someone.

Would it be totally crazy if an Al Qaeda cell had multiple sets of snipers - they turn in the first group, pass coded messages and have the subsequent group start up? And when they get caught, a third group, etc?

Conspiracy theory for sure but shit, we ain't talking about the US Gov - we're talking Al Qaeda..

They may have caught the guys who've been doing the shooting but somehow I don't think this is over. :-/

All the sniper statements are BS. He wasn't good enough.

If this is the guy, I'm guessing the kid had something to do with it.

For all you non-believers, what the fuck was this guy doing with New Jersey plates and a Washington license? Think he just didn't get a new license yet, or is there more to it? If he did actually reside in New Jersey, why was he at an overnight rest stop instead of at his place?

i had my doubts at first, but this guy is fucked. either way, he killed the guy in montgomery alabama. and the white truck is a stupid thing that just started and after that, everyone saw a fucking white truck. i don't now much about guns, but this military guy was talking yesterday how the bullet reaches supersonic speed, so it makes two "gunshot" sounds. he said average people that don't now about it look towards the second sound, then immediately at the victum. and whoever said eye witness testimony is unreliable is right. i took a psy class on it. we held all sorts of experiments, having people be a 'target' and it was crazy how few details were remembered. i wonder how much the kid was really involved. all they're saying now is that he was brainwashed.

Possibly. As you mentioned though, I'm not sure this guy is THAT smart though. Maybe.

No one said he wasn't a criminal or shady. But being a criminal does not make you the lone DC sniper.

You're right about the gunshot sounds, I completely forgot about that. They also echo, which can really throw you off.

Also about the psych class, I took the same course. Eye witnesses are extremely suggestive. Which is why I think the van theory is moot.

Think about this, if that Mexican that they caught in the white van pulling up to the payphone (coincidentally) that day also had a rifle in his van (maybe coincidence, maybe he's a common criminal) don't you think we would have strung his ass out to dry? Easy scapegoat potential. We almost have enough to say Labret's the sniper. Hmmm...let's see....white, short haircut, has a lot of guns, involved in pornography, hates people in general....gotta be him! I could see the CNN headlines now.

well after that last so called arrest of the two illegals
i second guess them on everything,

maybe these guys are just trying to take advantage of the situation?

i mean come on they wanted $10 million deposited to a credit card?

how stupid is that? most ATM's max cash withdraw is $300

Yeah, considering they've made a movie about the "Son of Sam" there will no doubt be a movie about this :Graucho

I've seen it as both credit card and Jamaican bank account that a credit card was attached to. Who knows, the latter is obviously the only possible solution.

Why wouldn't you demand the money in cash? It could have been traced with the bank account. See, this shooter WAS stupid.

Maybe it was the black guy after all... :Graucho

Considering that the police have just now stated that the gun found in the trunk is a ballistic match to the bullets found in the victims, I think it's safe to say that these fuckers are the snipers. I live in Maryland and finally I can get gas without worrying about being fucking killed again.

Yep. America is once again a safe place. Hooray!

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Did I say that? I didn't think so. Seeing that you're from Georgia, I really couldn't care less what you have to say about this anyway. You don't live here and you aren't here to see the change in this area from yesterday to today.