Yesterday, everyone from Sheppard Smith to Linda Lopez to Fred Phelps was calling Jared Loughner an “Afghanistan veteran” when he murdered six people and wounded 13 others in Tucson. They seemed absolutely gleeful over the media’s half-assed research. It took me all of ten minutes to determine that he hadn’t been in the Army or the Marines. And it only took that long because I’d let my AKO password expire earlier this month and I had to reset it.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, CJ at A Soldier’s Perspective<\/a>, did a yeoman’s job of tracking all of the Loughner news that was fit to print.<\/p>\n Today, Mr. Wolf is calling for an apology from State Representative Linda Lopez from the bulwarks at Blackfive<\/a> and Big Peace<\/a>. Apology, hell, I want her scalp on a stick.<\/p>\n We’re constantly warned, since 1991, to be careful about calling terrorists terrorists. We’re warned about speculation whether a terrorist is Muslim, an attack comes from Islamic extremists…shit, we can’t even profile at the airport. But one little douche-bag shows up at the MEPS station and gets rejected<\/a> and goes on a shooting spree with a girl’s gun (yeah, a Glock in 9mm is a total chick gun), suddenly he’s a combat veteran.<\/p>\n Ever since the Oklahoma bombing, the Media and the Left have been eager to pin some violence on a veteran. Nearly two years ago, in one of my iconic posts<\/a>, I addressed the McVeigh Syndrome which afflicts the Left and the Media;<\/p>\n McVeigh was a Bradley gunner in the same division that I went to Desert Storm with \u2013 no one I know got any \u201ctraining\u201d in anything McVeigh did that day in Oklahoma City. Nothing. He built a truck bomb, he parked a truck bomb, he ran away. Check the eleven-mike skill level two tasks. He was never trained by the Army to do those things. Any doofus off of the block could accomplish those things without ever having served in the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And apparently, any doofus off the block could do what Loughler did yesterday, because that’s what Loughner is; some doofus off the block<\/a>.<\/p>\n If we can accept that not all terrorists are Muslims, why can’t we get past the fact that not all white-boys in the military aren’t terrorists, too? I wonder how pissed off Ms. Lopez would be if I declared that all stabbings in Arizona are done by Mexicans. A legislator who seems so protective of her brown constituents from racial profiling should be more concerned about racially profiling white boys who commit terror. <\/p>\n Lopez should lose her job because obviously she has a racial blind spot when it comes to white boys who stop by the MEPS station. Or her scalp on a stick, metaphorically speaking, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"