By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times - Thursday, October 25, 2018
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The Washington bombers seem to be a curious collection of political partisans, music critics and aspiring killers. If any of their pipe bombs and other explosive devices actually explode and kill someone, first-degree murder charges can be added to their crimes. If convicted by an eager jury, they should expect no mercy.
They’re not very skilled as bomb makers, for which everyone, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat (or even independent), can be relieved and pleased. Such violence is an assault on everyone, of whatever political persuasion. It’s the inevitable ultimate crime for a time like ours, when rage on the fringe knows neither logic nor coherence, and anything goes.
Such crimes rarely accomplish what the criminals think they will, and when the arrests are made — as they in all likelihood will be made, and sooner rather than later — there will surely be surprises. Rush Limbaugh, who received what turned out to be a harmless package Thursday, speculates that these may be “false flag operations,†diversions to a false target to confuse and mislead detectives, and above all to confuse and mislead the public. The bomber (or bombers) may well be an angry Republican or other conservative. But he might well be a cruelly deranged Democrat as well, eager to fly a false flag.
The wide range of targets, which include prominent politicians of the liberal persuasion, may include a ringer as well. One bomb was aimed at Radio Station WMAL in Washington, and Mr. Limbaugh’s talk show, but another station, popular for its recorded music, was targeted, too. Maybe this bomb was dispatched by a music critic eager for revenge in behalf of a dissenting taste in music.
The left is punching every button to make sure it does not lose control of the story. George Soros, the billionaire political activist who has a finger in a lot pies baked to his taste, moved quickly to hit some of those buttons, to file a claim on public sympathy.
Mr. Soros, whose loathing bordering on hatred of Donald Trump is well known, understands that allowing a national calamity to go to waste is a crime bordering on sin, and he quickly assigned his son to write an op-ed for The New York Times to establish the old man in the public mind as the hero of the epidemic of attempted bombings. He invoked the Holocaust, anti-Semitism and his role in destroying communism in eastern Europe and his philanthropy as the reasons why the bombers made him their No. 1 target. Rarely had The New York Times expended so much ink in such a self-serving enterprise.
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