Dual tracks, ideological distortion
By Daniel M. Ryan Last week featured a revealing spectacle. On Monday, the FBI took out a pipe bomb in a hand-delivered package from the mailbox of the Soros estate; they said they detonated it. Two days later, all hell broke loose. Similar packages with other bombs were found or intercepted. Amongst the addresses were Hillary Clinton; former President Barack Obama; former Vice-President Joe Biden; Maxine Waters, who got sent two; John Brennan via CNN; Robert deNiro; and, due to a clumsy attempt at a false flag, Debbie Wassermann Schultz. Her Florida office got the bomb meant for Eric Holder’s address because it had been returned to ‘sender’ due to insufficient postage. During the two days between bombs discovered and perp nabbed, it was as if the world had split into two tracks: the Normal track and the ideological track. The former concentrated on the search for the perp, the amateurishness of the bombs, speculation on the motives of the perp, who and where he was, etc. President Trump quickly condemned the act and promised that the perp would be brought to justice. It didn’t take long for investigators to figure out that the perp was from Florida. On Friday, they nabbed Cesar Sayoc, Jr. after getting a latent fingerprint of his from one of the bomb envelopes. They already had his fingerprints on file for a reason you can easily guess if you don’t already know. Mr. Sayoc proved to be quite a character. A former male stripper, he was working as a doorman and DJ at a place called the Ultra Gentleman’s Club. As Heavy.com explained, Sayoc pled guilty to at least two felonies, both third-degree grand theft, the second felony committed long after the first. He was given one year’s worth of probation for making a bomb threat to a power company that had proceeded to cut off his electricity for non-payment. He had had several other scrapes with the law, but he didn’t get dinged with a lot of jail time. Incongruously, given his criminal history, he successfully registered as a Republican in March of 2016; the primary there was held on March 15th. He did prove to be a Trump supporter, which debunked some speculation flying around, but in a creepy “superfan�? way. His Twitter account was like his van: covered with pro-Trump and anti-anti-Trump memes. Both spoke to a monomania, which a lawyer for his family explained as Sayoc regarding President Trump as a substitute father. If this hasn’t put you on your guard, imagine a fellow who regards a Hollywood starlet as a substitute girlfriend. One who did was a fellow named John Hinckley Jr.. Hinckley was found not guilty for reason of insanity, which Sayoc’s lawyer undoubtedly knows. While the hunt was on, the go-to comparison was to Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. A former math prodigy turned back-to-the-earth simple-liver, Kaczynski was triggered by the sight of a constructed road near his unheated and unpowered wilderness cabin. He then started to send out mail bombs, which, unlike Sayoc’s, worked and exploded. In 1995, Kaczynski successfully intimidated the New York Times and the Washington Post into publishing in full his 35,000-word manifesto. It was a blend of insightful social criticism and lunatic ideology. According to Kaczynski, the woes of the world result from the Industrial Revolution. His bombing campaign had the apparent aim of sparking a revolution that would force the world back to mid-18th-century technology. It’s not easy to concoct an ideology that makes Ban-the-Bomb activists look pragmatic, but the Unabomber did it. Given the looniness of his ideology, it’s no surprise that the only Kaczynskiite was Kaczynski. No-one followed in his wake. But it’s important to remember that, had he not been triggered and followed through by making and sending out mail bombs, Kaczynski would have been nothing more than an insightful social critic and harmless eccentric. Reaching back through the decades for analogies to Sayoc’s spree says something important about America. These incidents are rare, for a good reason. Once they occur, they’re almost universally punished – not only by the law but also by social sanction. Unlike the increasingly frequent hate-crime hoaxers and false accusers of rape, with their spates of media flattery and “nothing to gain�? Go Fund Mes, enactors of political violence are hardly ever rewarded. With the exception of antifa, whose violence tops out at assault, vandalism and at least one robbery - the level of a pre-’70s street gang looking for a rumble - you’d have to go back to the 1970s to find an exception. Both the Weather Underground and the Purto-Rican-terrorist Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) were lionized in certain circles. Not coincidentally, each group racked up a series of bombings and violent crimes before they had sputtered out or been brought to heel. Contariwise, no-one of any account lionized the Unabomber. The folks who believe that President Trump is too compromised know very well that one of their confreres indulging in political violence would be a disaster for their movement. We’re about to find out. A confirmed White Nationalist, Robert Bowers, was arrested after shooting up the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He shot at least seventeen people - including four police officers - and allegedly murdered eleven. Pamela Geller wrote, “ Daniel M. Ryan, as Nxtblg, is spinning his wheels at Steemit.
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