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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @06:26PM
I'm guessing this guy doesn't understand human nature one bit. His actions were worse than ineffective--he gave TPTB yet another reason that we need security theater lockdown.
How did we get security theater lockdown? Certainly there are guilty parties who sold the idea to the American people, but the American people bought it. They may bitch, moan, complain, and kvetch about it now and then, but they want it, in an indirect way.
The ballot box is not broken, unless credible evidence emerges this November that it is. It's just that the ballot box does not magically produce the policy decisions most people want. As you indicated, if one is pissed about a problem, one should talk to others and get their thoughts as well. One day we may need to escalate to the ammo box, but that's only if enough people are ready to escalate to the ammo box. People just need to stop voting the same lizards in over and over again. Nothing will change, no matter how compelling this campaign or that campaign is, as long as that continues.
As long as the majority of people have food and a home, they'll be complacent. People are perfectly fine showing their papers, and they're perfectly fine with locking up weirdos and undesirables. In fact, the more they struggle to get food and a home, the more effort they want put into locking up weirdos and undesirables.
Of course, that's not sustainable because eventually a significant portion of the population are weirdos and undesirables that another significant portion of the population want to lock up. Sometimes cooler heads prevail and a society makes progress. Other times it ends in civil war and revolution--and there's no guarantee that the end result of a revolution will in any way resemble the high-minded ideals of liberty many of us here value.
What disturbs me is the alt-right. They believe that "progress" itself is evil. The only argument that they will accept is a bullet. I think we're headed for something similar to civil war again. Just remember that the last time around, Abe had a habit of imprisoning reporters. I imagine with the internet and the advent of the amateur journalist, one would need some very large prisons. The FEMA camps might just do, even if that's what they weren't originally provisioned for. (Well, who's to say that major riots that destroy enough housing wouldn't fall under FEMA's bailiwick?)