When 46-year-old deranged anti-Semite Robert Bowers opened fired on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in the morning of Oct. 28., killing 11, injuring 6, Democrats were quick to blame President Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric. Only recently have reports about Bower’s paranoia come out, telling FBI officials that “noise” in his head made him to think that Jews were to blame for the carnage in the White community. Nowhere in Democratic circles or the mainstream press has Bower’s psychosis been emphasized, seizing on the chance to blame Trump for the massacre only one week before the Midterm elections. Judging by recent polls, it might be working, with generic polls showing Democrats ahead. Pointing fingers at Trump is Democrats way to gain traction before voters decide the fate of the House of Representatives and the Senate Nov. 8.
Stealing headlines after the Jewish massacre in Pittsburgh, 49-year-old potential 2010 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Bookers (D-N.J.), blamed Trump for inciting violence at his campaign rallies and media interviews. “Words matter,” said Booker. “We need to understand that words matter and that we all need to be mindful of what we’re saying,” Booker told reporters Sunday. Booker recently blamed Trump for the mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc Jr., suggesting that Trump’s campaign rhetoric and interviews motivated Sayoc to try to maim elected officials, Democrat billionaires and left-leaning celebrities. Talking to young Democrats at the University of New Hampshire, Booker called on Trump to watch his rhetoric, seeing the Squirrel Hill massacre and mail bomber as motivated by Trump’s hate speech. Booker has no facts to back up his claims.
Booker blames most of the domestic terror attacks since Sept. 11, 2001 on White Supremacists, despite the fact that Mideast sympathizers participated in the June 12, 2016 Orlando, Fl. Pulse Nightclub shooting by 31-year-old Omar Mateen, killing 50, injuring 53, whose computer records indicate he was a follower of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Booker forgets the Dec. 2, 2015 San Bernardino slaughter by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashteen Malik who mowed down 16 coworkers, injuring 24, also expressing loyalty to ISIS and al-Baghdadi. Booker wants to point to 64-year-old White guy Stephen Paddock who opened fire Oct. 1, 2017, from his Las Vegas Mandalay Bay hotel room, killing 59, injuring 422. Booker knows Trump wasn’t in office at the time of the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history. Blame Trump now for Pittsburgh shows Booker’s political ambitions.
When all is said-and-done about Pittsburgh, Bowers is nothing more than a psychotic bigot, whose paranoia dictated a mass murder in a Jewish synagogue. Rising anti-Semitism or racism didn’t motivate Bowers to commit the worst act of anti-Semitism in U.S. history. Bowers was psychotic enough, perfectly capable under today’s federal and state gun laws to buy assault rifles and semiautomatic handguns legally. As long as federal and state gun laws don’t impose a mental health test, lunatics like Bowers will continue to get their hands on dangerous weapons. Federal officials know that the Second Amendment and mental illness don’t go together but don’t know what to do about it. While there’s no way to know whether Bowers could have been stopped, federal officials have an obligation to do something about preventing mass murder. No arms control legislation can stop a deranged killer from committing mass murder without taking more steps.
Elected officials passed Oct. 25, 1978 the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act [FISA] to intercept saboteurs before they commit terrorist acts on U.S. soil. How that worked on Sept. 11, doesn’t make FISA look too good. Government officials under former President Barack Obama had no problems going to the FISA court to tap the phones of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page or, form that matter, listen in on conversations of former Russian Amb. Sergei Kislyak, including the other side of the conversation with former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn and Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions. Yet somehow federal, state and local officials can’t tap the phones of potential mass murders who post vile racial, religious and ethnic hate on social media sites. Elected officials figured out it’s possible to stop saboteurs by creating the 1978 FISA Court to help law enforcement officials.
Given the slaughter in Pittsburgh, it’s high time for Congress to work on creating a Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Act [DISA] to help federal, state and local law enforcement to track down potential mass murders. Only by monitoring the “Dark Web” or Internet hate sites, can law enforcement get a leg up on mass killers like Bowers. Bowers left a distinct signature on GAB, an alternative to Twitter, where racists, anti-Semites and other bigots can be monitored, tracked down and arrested before committing horrific acts. “A lot of them are using the rhetoric of leaders in this country in their propaganda,” said Booker, again blaming Trump, trying to score points before the Nov. 8 Midterm election. If Booker wanted to helped prevent future mass murder, he’d work vigorously with this Senate and House colleagues to create a Domestic Intelligence and Surveillance Act to stop mass murder.
