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OUR TAKEAWAY POST THE SAN BERNARDINO DISABILITY CENTER MURDERS (c) Carrie Devorah :
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The lesson is simple.

Let’s see.

A mother and dad dropped their baby off at the grampies and then made international headlines in a most horrific of ways, taking out 14 other peoples children and husband and wives, permanently, leaving others scarred for life. Is that what we as a culture have become via an internet world where reality is no longer real.

Inquiries going on. Take a lesson. Well, for me, I would start with following the money. Odd. I known. Mom’s and Dads don’t go to their deaths without a payoff somewhere. Watch the baby’s bonuses. Search the parents debts. Mommy’s of 6 month olds don’t martyr. Unless… there is always that ‘unless.’

Who is Farook, really, if his own father didn’t know the difference in his child going out to be a Doctor of Death rather than a dental patient as said. And if a father cannot tell, then how can intel or the swarm of hundreds of responding police. Who can tell?

This tragedy of failed intel, the deceit of the system promising security, is amplified with this statement alone… Farook and his wife told the grandparent they were going to the dentist…. We all know the rest of the story, or do we now…..

Yesterday was INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY DAY. Coincidence or factor to the slaughter in San Bernardino? Maybe. Or not. (Using my ‘intel’ there). In the least, it is one of the many factors of which to note, lost in the days crush of data people flying through airports and other public places were flooded with, messages of fear. Did you know that cartoons and CNN are the two most shown shows in public places with TV screens set in place to entertain? Cartoons 24/7 one can handle. CNN? Over and over repeating useless details in the CNN presentation of ominous voices, banners, commercials that it is appearing are canned until needed to be thrown on ‘the barbie’ which is in effect what CNN is doing- fueling flames.

The lesson that is lost in the head count of 355 shootings this year is that each day of whoring murder beyond the call of normal reporting is another day that inspires the next and next few shooters.

It is as simple as that.

The PR woman for Law Enforcement was masterful. She said little. Model her. Say little. Few words said allow less interference from fewer people with ambition of Superstar Careers from this potential moment in fame.

CNN filled their airwaves with CNN’s usual suspects- former military intel, failed politicians, even current sitting legislators all responsive to CNN seeking to make the day shooting in to, yet another, potential week of similar themed shows or documentaries down the road or a CNN Hero, something, anything from which CNN can fill the air with ireporters trained to speak slow with carefully paced words to fill time along with adding drama to the main study host- Anderson Cooper, the channels breakout star as they have made him, a likely replacement for Wolf Blitzer, it seems.

What was learned that was relevant? Takeaway- a father had no idea his own son was marching down this road of insanity; a daughter that will be raised in the footsteps of the legend her parents became the day they were downed in a hail of fire in S.B.

That, is what scares me. As a profiler, I am telling you now, as tragically as it seems, this 6 month old poppet is a terrorist-in-waiting, potentially.

You see, it is human nature over time to forget fact and blur reality. We see it all the time. Remember Yasser Arafat’s spokeswoman?

I do.

She was a hottie in a red dress that grew through the Canadian system into the Parliament and in to becoming the on air spokeswoman for the P.L.O. How does that come to be? Well, her parents raised her with stories that didn’t quite tell all the truths. No matter. The stories became truths to her making her in to a world viewed JIHAD Jane before that term was coined. While we hear stories, today, of Jihad Janes being killed trying to leave the organizations the women are enchanted by in to joining, no one knows what happened to Arafat’s Canadian hottie who it turned out wasn’t part of the P.L.O. storyline as her parents raised her to believe.

No matter, the lesson is that one day the Farook’s 6 month old may become the next face of a radical group, flamed on by the distasteful reporting standard that CNN has set or enflamed by stories the elder Farook, and family, will fill her with, unless….

The facility with which the slaughter took place is fanned by the Internet. There is no denying that the military intel President Bill Clinton took public is how these tragedies will exponentially increase. A colleague in Belfast told me the Land Of Sinn Fein is startled at the frequency of shootings in America. Seems that Northern Ireland gets one or two of these slaughters a year. That said breaking news in Northern Ireland is the exposure that shootings, decades back, were not done by random kooks or the IRA but by British Intel costumed to look like random kooks and IRA. One man, hitting his stride of ‘I am old and can admit it now’ said he did 80+ shootings alone.

All that money being spent on intelligence and security and ‘everything terrorism’ droned in to our culture these days? We witnessed firsthand that no one knew, not even the shooter’s Dad. THAT alone is the comment on the investment in to chest thumping going on around the world.

I learned the lesson better at the race track when I was shooting finishes…. Internationally- So Cal, NY, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong and Dubai. This, is your takeaway, no one can predict and anyone that tells you they can predict has a dog in the fight or a fix on the finish. The winner of the sprint will always be the horse that crosses the finish line first.

Right now, no one is winning this sprint.