Dave Griffey at Daffey Thoughts gives us his thoughts about the pipe bombs delivered to icons of the Left:
So the Pipe Bombs are all the news. Around the clock the media is outraged and frightened, since several media outlets were targets of the failed pipe bombs, along with exclusively liberal politicians and activists. The verdict is in. Unlike the shooting of Republican congressmen Steve Scalise at a baseball park, in which we were told there was no connection to be made with political motivations, this is being portrayed as everything from pure Right Wing terrorism to the fault of Donald Trump.
The problem, as my second oldest son pointed out, is that anyone dumb enough to think this would help the Republicans wouldn’t be smart enough to pull off a vast series of coordinated attacks against multiple targets across the country all on the same day. And that continues to be the big bugaboo. There simply is no sane motivation for a conservative activist to do something like this. Everything was trending in ways that were far better than Republicans could have hoped for six months ago. The Democrats were struggling. Radical Leftists were leaving a bad taste in the mouths of many Americans. So why would a conservative or Republican activist think this would help?
Of course there is plenty of reason to be suspicious, the lack of sane motivation being the most glaring. Another is the speed with which everyone immediately dismissed the idea that this could be done by a liberal or leftist activist, or any other non-affiliated activist (Russia anyone?), as if such a thing has never happened in the history of the planet. Here, National Review jogs our memory with examples of faked scandals meant to make someone else look bad.
And furthermore, this sudden disdain for anything but pinning this on the GOP comes from the same sources – the press – that were quick to insist that you couldn’t pin the baseball park shooting on anything political. Even if the shooter was a vocal Democrat, Bernie Sanders supporter, who swore against the GOP and promised to finally stop the Republicans at all cost when he went to gun down Republican congressmen exclusively, there was still no connection to politics.
My sons, in discussing the developments, have speculated that it could simply be the latest in a string of attempted October Surprises. The others – the Kavanaugh hearing, the Saudi journalist, the immigrant caravan – have not had the ‘GOP as Nazi!’ impact that the press/Left had hoped. Perhaps this is a last ditch effort to do anything to stem the tide turning against the Left. Who knows? My sons, like I, concede that if proof of conservative or right wing operatives is found, then obviously it needs condemned and the criminals prosecuted and blame placed where it belongs.
But we’ll at least wait for someone or something to be caught or discovered. As itchy as the Left is to set aside due process, presumption of innocence and burden of proof, we’ll withhold any judgement until we know more. Perhaps that will set an example to those who have already declared all Trump supporters assassinating murderers who need to be crushed once and for all – without evidence. We will also pray for peace and that our country turns back from the brink before such things don’t include lame devices doomed to fail.
UPDATE: The first valid reason has been offered why someone on the Right would do such a stupid thing. Apparently one of the pipe bombs had some Islamic insignia on it. It is possible that some wacked out, white nationalist type would try to frame Muslims in light of the upcoming Caravan of Immigrants. Again, it would take a coordinated effort, and there would need to be many involved. But it could be. Fair is fair, this would make sense. IT wouldn’t bear down on the GOP, and given that the GOP universally came out and condemned this, as did conservative media outlets like FOX News, there is no reason to blame them for this. Though betcha they will be blamed no matter what. We’ll see.
Go here to read the rest. A few thoughts of my own:
- The pipe bombs were quite crude. The lads and lasses in my high school chemistry class in 1972 would have had no difficulty in whipping up something far more deadly, and precise. The pipe bomb delivered to CNN had a powder in it that was non-explosive.
- The individuals and groups targeted were such that unless either a complete loon or a complete idiot is the perpetrator, the person sending the pipe bombs had to know that the bombs were almost certainly going to be discovered.
- No individuals or groups have claimed responsibility or launched a manifesto. This type of terrorism is almost always about bringing attention to a cause, and thus far the perpetrator has been completely silent.
- The number of pipe bombs being sent out may give law enforcement clues enough to swiftly catch the perpetrator.
- Some are claiming this is a false flag effort of the Left. Don’t go there until we have far more evidence than we do now.
Something else I saw pointed out and bears watching: the packages seen so far don’t appear to have been processed by the post office at all. (Unless there’s been new images – someone let me know if they’ve spot it.)
So… if a postal service didn’t deliver these, how did they get to their destination?
This is like that Las Vegas shooting all over again – nothing makes any sense, here.
“nothing makes any sense, here.”
Bingo.
Presumably we are expected to think that the post office delivered them–else why all the stamps? But if so, what is the timer for? One would expect them to use a detonator triggered by opening the package. How could one possibly set a timer for when the P.O. finally delivers a package?
There’s a report that the alleged ISIS flag on one of the bombs was actually (allegedly) a “Get Er Done” sticker. For whatever that’s worth
The ton of stamps MIGHT be meant to make the target think it was delivered, and pick it up.
But that still runs into the issue that the bombs have, thus far, not been able to explode– they look like they were designed by a props crew. (4Chan already identified the model of clock, probably using the research from ClockBoy– it doesn’t have an alarm function.)
We’re getting conflicting accounts on whether any of these bombs were functional. Also, they were reportedly attached to timers rather than to triggers which would detonate when you open the box. That sounds like a great plan for blowing up the inside of a mail delivery truck; for assassinating George Soros, not so much.
As has been remarked, someone with access to DNC mailing lists would have the home addresses.
So… if a postal service didn’t deliver these, how did they get to their destination?
Without a doubt, Hellary, Soros, the Obamas, and CNN have security cam footage. He hand delivered them, he’s there.
This is like that Las Vegas shooting all over again – nothing makes any sense, here.
This is comic (git’r done). Fifty-nine dead bodies is not. The Las Vegas business remains baffling. Suspect we’ll have some answers shortly.
When accused of shooting at someone. the most decorated soldier in WWII, Audie Murphy said: “If I shot at him, do you think I would miss?”
Art, why did you include my point about the commonality yet still go off on something not germane to the point? Do you really not understand the concept of metaphor?
One recalls the Reichstag Fire. I’m inclined (without much evidence, other than plausible motivation) that it was done by the Left to shame Republicans and Trump.
You used a simile, not a metaphor. And no it really isn’t like that.
Bob, my problem is that there just is no sane reason for a Conservative to do this now. Within the last week, the press has walked back on its predictions of a ‘Blue Wave’. Heck, they’ve even discussed the slim possibility that the Democrats could fail to take either house (though most still think they’ll take the House of Representatives). That’s a far cry from the blue wave of earlier in the year. Plus the radical leftists attacking conservatives in public has been largely condemned. Plus you have the Kavanaugh hearings backfiring on the Democrats. Things are definitely trending for Trump and the GOP. What sane reason can anyone give for a Conservative thinking this will help?
Perhaps, as my sons also pointed out, it was an outside party – Russians perhaps? They mentioned how odd it is that Russia has been the first suspect in almost everything for the last two years and yet, all of a sudden, it hasn’t even come up as a possibility.
Bob Kurland said exactly what I’ve been mulling over. I can not help but think the Left would conjure up this false event.
Cynical. (?)
I’m guilty. The Kavanaugh crucifixion has left a mark on me.
This is what gets you labeled autistic, Art.
Play nice folks. No verbal pipe bombs against each other!
I’m with MARY DE VOE on this one. “…do you think I would miss?”
I spent much of my life in piscatorial pursuits and this certainly smells piscatorial.
Here are two conclusions: one, the “mad bomber” is a democrat (motive, opportunity, and nothing they try works); two, whatever you see/read/hear in the media is false.
Our Mary is correct. Likely a person-other-than-a-democrat would be minimally effective. One or more would inadvertently detonate. It ain’t that hard.
Targets. CNN? Aside from brain-washed zombies, nobody watches CNN. Crazy Uncle Joe Biden? President Trump should be praying in 2020 the morons run out the imbecile.