Unknown Versus Known

 Two "events" occurred recently and one was probably unknown to about 99% of us, while the other was known to us and reported on incessantly, but with such duplicity and ignorance that only the mentally challenged could have failed to surmise the reason for its commission.

The first event, the unknown one, was a playground shooting that took place in New Orleans on November 22 at the Bunny Field Playground.  In that attack 17 were wounded, fortunately none fatally. As you might expect, most of the injured were children. 

I can't speak for you, but I didn't know about the incident until over a week later, and only then because my daughter ran across an obscure article about it.  I have since asked several people if they knew anything about a shooting in New Orleans and not one did. Of course, the story finally got out through talk radio hosts airing it on their programs, so now the press is all over it -- about two weeks too late and only because someone leaked the story to the unknowing public.

Oh, why do you suppose the major networks and news services didn't cover the story as front page or lead item news?  Well, this is just a guess on my part, but the shooter was a Black-African-American and he was in a confrontation with other B-A-A gang members, so it didn't fit the agenda of white-on-black crime.

The second event is well known, a shooting in San Bernardino that took the lives of  14 and left as many as 20 others wounded.  This one was committed by a man and his wife, both with Arab-sounding names.  At least, I think that Syed Rizwan Farook, and Tashfeen Malik are Arab and not African-American, but then, the names of some of the latter are pretty hard to pronounce and spell, too.

The California shootings left the suspects dead (shot by white police, can you believe it!?) so the motive for the shootings "could not be immediately determined," according to police and FBI investigators, and President Obama said that "we should not rush to judgment as to the cause -- it could be workplace violence and not terrorism at all."

One of the news services did report that there is an abortion clinic within a mile of the scene of the shootings, and that was quickly picked up by the mainstream media as a possible clue to the crime.  I'll leave that to you to puzzle out...

Well, as luck would have it, a further investigation of the residence of the two dead shooters revealed the presence of several pipe bombs and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.  These are not your average hobbyist's or weekend handyman's tools and crafts.

Now, this whole massacre might have been thwarted if the neighbor of the shooters had reported the suspicious activity she observed at their house, but she was afraid that she would be accused of racial profiling or (God forbid!) Islamophobia. Why do you suppose she felt that way?  Maybe the Attorney General's remarks about federal prosecution for anyone who bullies Muslims has something to do with it.

In light of the events and their consequences, especially the lack of reporting in the one case and the delay in assigning motive in the second, I wonder why it is that over half the American public bury their heads in the sand and ignore the plain truth that our media, our Justice Department and our President are not performing their duties.  We are at war, and they pretend that it is merely a case of "workplace violence" that causes some of the slaughter, while the rest is blamed on Republicans, gun owners, Tea Party followers and pro-lifers.

WAKE UP!!!  YOUR GREAT AMERICAN DREAM IS BECOMING A HUGE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE!