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posted by martyb on Thursday September 08 2016, @06:36AM   Printer-friendly

An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in a 2013 attack that sent passengers running for their lives pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and 10 other charges.

Paul Ciancia agreed last week to plead guilty to all 11 charges in the rampage that killed one officer and wounded two others and a teacher who was headed for a flight.

Ciancia, 26, was spared the death penalty by entering the plea but faces a mandatory life term in prison.

[...] Ciancia, who was living in the Los Angeles area after growing up in Pennsville, New Jersey, said in the note that he wanted to kill at least one TSA officer but hoped to kill more.

"If you want to play that game where you pretend that every American is a terrorist, you're going to learn what a self-fulfilling prophecy is," his note said, according to court documents.

The note added, "I want to instill fear in your traitorous minds. I want it to always be in the back of your head just how easy it is to take a weapon to the beginning of your Nazi checkpoints."

Ciancia signed the note with his name, adding beneath it, "Pissed-off Patriot."

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LA_AIRPORT_SHOOTING
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @04:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @04:43PM (#399229)

    Innocents being judged will someday judge you. Terrorism is another name for the creation of pissed-off people and giving them reason to take revenge for the harm you caused them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @05:45PM (#399278)

    Ok, you are not very bright.
    Here's the point: If 23 years was not long enough to convince him to take another choice, why do you think any amount of time would?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @07:51PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @07:51PM (#399334)

      You are not very bright.

      ... until he reaches his thirtieth year or thereabouts a man’s mental development will mostly consist in acquiring and sifting such knowledge as is necessary for the groundwork of a general platform from which he can examine the different political problems that arise from day to day and be able to adopt a definite attitude towards each

      -- Chapter 3: POLITICAL REFLECTIONS ARISING OUT OF MY SOJOURN IN VIENNA

      A man, who has given his ideas reasonable thought will come to the conclusion that killing people is not a solution. It will only worsen the problem -- generally, people are not very smart (just like you) and will allow themselves to be shafted more thoroughly after a single fondler is killed.