Major K. writing from Iraq clues us in to the fact that suicide bombers are rarely brave souls who are throwing their lives away for their cause. In fact most of the time they're unwitting chumps who are asked to drive a vehicle containing a remotely controlled explosive device: «The dirty little secret of the Islamo-fascists is that many of these car bombs are not the suicide sacrifice that they tell of in their recruiting propaganda. All too frequently, the driver of many of these vehicles is unaware that he is doing anything more than smuggling supplies through a checkpoint or planting a car bomb for later detonation. These murderers are often driving not far behind the VBIED with a remote control detonation device. The bomb is detonated as soon as the vehicle gets close enough to the target, or, as in many cases, the device is about to be discovered and the mission compromised at a checkpoint. The checkpoint becomes a target of opportunity, no matter how many innocents are there. We refer to this as a Kervorkian, or an assisted suicide bombing.» Tip o' me tam to Joe. I had to try this several times, interestingly, I get some malicious javascript when I try to post at tblog. Just another reason why I hate this socialist windtunnel full of nicotine breath. I just come here to take a whiff now and then and remember why I'm glad whynot and Dianne live in France and I don't. ahhh, America. Where you can do what you like without the police breathing down your neck or putting you in jail for wearing a cross around your neck or wearing a headscarf.

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Davids Medienkritik and Medienkritik Online began the effort to put together a demonstration in Mainz, Germany little more than a week ago. The result was an incredible success that received enormous media coverage. The rally was well coordinated with local authorities and despite large groups of hostile counter demonstrators, everyone who attended felt safe and was able to express their views fully. Everything went off without a hitch. Those attending our rally were interviewed by virtually every major German television station and newspaper.

The Authorities were trying to determine on Tuesday that what had caused a teenager to gun down his grandfather, and put on the man’s police-issue belt and bulletproof vest, and drive his marked squad car to a high school, where he began shooting his classmates.

His motive still wasn’t clear Tuesday, but the FBI said that the shootings appeared to have been planned in advance. Since that horrific day that left 12 students, a teacher and the two teen gunmen dead, many schools have made safety improvements. Several Columbine-like attacks have been averted. Students are 100 times more likely to be murdered outside school than inside.

Those gains are overshadowed by the latest tragedy on a Minnesota Indian reservation. Now Red Lake High School joins Columbine as an emblem of school violence. There, a 16-year-old, self-styled Nazi named Jeff Weise went on a killing rage that left nine dead before he killed himself.

Jeff Weise, the 17-year-old named in newspaper reports as the gunman in the Red Lake school shooting, may have been investigated last year in connection with a shooting threat to the school, according to posts made on a Nazi website.

Today the Libertarian National Socialist Green party said incidents such as yesterday's shooting were to be expected when "thinking people are crammed into an unthinking, irrational modern society".