How to Stop “Known Wolf” Attacks

I’d meant to comment on this story yesterday but didn’t get around to it. As it works out the perpetrator of the machete attacks in an Ohio restaurant, was a) in all likelihood a nutcase motivated by misguided Muslim views and b) known to the FBI. NBCNews reports:

An Ohio man who slashed four restaurant patrons with a machete and was later killed by police had come to the attention of the FBI four years ago for radical comments, law enforcement officials said.

Agents took a brief look at Mohamed Barry but moved on, the officials said. The officials did not elaborate on the radical comments.

Investigators said Friday it is unknown why Barry, 30, attacked patrons at Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, or why he struck at that restaurant.

These “known wolf” incidents have become depressingly common.

I have a surefire plan for reducing their number: start prosecuting FBI officials for nonfeasance or misfeasance in office. You’ll be amazed at just how ignorant the FBI can become.

Obviously, I’m kidding but as the old proverb has it many a true word is spoken in jest. Bad operators tend to attract law enforcement’s attention. The incident does highlight an important reality: don’t expect law enforcement to protect you. They’re in the business of enforcing the law, generally after the fact.

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  • steve Link

    I don’t think we know the denominator here. First, what counts as radical comments? If he was having an online chat with a bunch of conservatives, the kind I regularly interact with who think all Muslims should be killed, and he responded in kind, is that radical? Don’t know. Next, how many Muslims (minorities in general actually) respond to provocations by making radical comments, whatever those are. Last, how many ever make anything that could be considered radical? DO you end up with something like the terror watch list where you have so many names it is useless?

    Steve

  • walt moffett Link

    For S&G value, lookup the Castle Rock cases, in short you have no right to police protection nor is there is a right to have restraining orders served by the police.

    However, I don’t want to live some place where free speech is only approved speech and ” you have ten seconds to comply …”

  • Guarneri Link

    That’s a good question, steve. If I was having a chat with Democrats, the kind I regularly interact with who think all women should be able to stick a spike through a baby’s head at birth if she so chooses, is that radical…………….how many of those democrats feel provoked and respond with radical comments………?

  • Guarneri Link

    This probably belongs in comments a number of posts ago. Oh well.

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-14/how-clintons-enabled-2008-economic-crisis-and-financial-coup-detat

    Talk amongst yourselves.

  • steve Link

    Ok. This took all of one minute to find.

    Time to Fight Back in the Holy War of Islamism
    By William A. Levinson

    “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah,” proclaims the terrorist group Hamas on its Al-Aqsa TV station. Bosnian Muslim soccer fans joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration whose chants included “Kill the Jews.” Here is a video in which a Palestinian imam brandishes a knife and exhorts his followers to stab Jews, and here is another in which an Islamist in Fort Lauderdale calls for Jews to go back to the ovens.

    The treatment of Christians in Islamist-dominated nations is meanwhile well known. ISIS is painting the Arabic letter nun, for Nazarene, on Christian homes the way Nazis once put yellow Stars of David on Jewish-owned homes and businesses. Islamists throughout the Middle East and Central Asia are beheading and crucifying the Christians they don’t use as slaves. Islamists in London meanwhile praised Osama bin Laden and said they would take European women as war booty.

    Europe is inexplicably importing even more Muslims who proclaim openly that their ideology gives them the Allah-given right to kill, rob, rape, and/or enslave those not like themselves, including the wrong kinds of Muslims. Germany is even evicting its own citizens from their apartments to make room for them. You can take the Muslim out of the Islamic State but you cannot take the Islamic State out of the IS Muslim, as shown by the honor killing of a rape victim in Germany. The Obama Administration meanwhile wants to import hundreds if not thousands of school shootings, Fort Hood massacres, Boston Marathon bombings, and 9/11s waiting for times and places to happen.

    Militant Islamists have declared open war on the entire civilized world, which gives us both the right and the duty to destroy their entire ideology and, if Islam cannot reform itself, the entire Islamic religion. The instant you (the Islamist) use your Koran, your prophet, and your deity to menace us with physical harm and/or violation of our human rights, the inherent right of self-defense entitles us to destroy all three. This does not mean a Koran-burning or cute pictures of Mohammed, but rather the deployment of effective arguments to get your followers to walk away from your system in disgust, and possibly rip you to pieces for deceiving them.”

    Your turn.

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