I'd originally just been sent a link to the first video in this story and wondered if someone may have been trying to spread disinformation by putting out audio from another incident and get people to run with that -- plus I think it's good to be cautious noting all the different and changed stories coming out of Newtown. But this seems to pretty much confirm the plan was to torch the guy, and so now we need to ask why, and how that fits in with approved police protocols, because if they can use it against one "suspect," we have to ask ourselves if that's all it should take. [More]
What's the threshold? A level of fear necessary to open fire on innocent newspaper delivery women?
One other point: I saw Mark Fuhrman on Hannity last night, and he made a good case that Dornan wasn't the highly-trained Rambo he and everyone else made him out to be, but acted instead like a rank amateur and a cornered animal. If that's the case, the cautionary tale becomes even stronger -- imagine if he had been. Imagine what several of such true operators could do.
And they'd be smart enough not to leave a public manifesto that would basically guarantee becoming identifiable manhunt targets.
What's the threshold? A level of fear necessary to open fire on innocent newspaper delivery women?
One other point: I saw Mark Fuhrman on Hannity last night, and he made a good case that Dornan wasn't the highly-trained Rambo he and everyone else made him out to be, but acted instead like a rank amateur and a cornered animal. If that's the case, the cautionary tale becomes even stronger -- imagine if he had been. Imagine what several of such true operators could do.
And they'd be smart enough not to leave a public manifesto that would basically guarantee becoming identifiable manhunt targets.