Saturday, January 11, 2025

Unhappy New Year In New Orleans And Las Vegas - Murder And Suicide As Political Statements

 Saturday January 11th, 2025


Back in 2001 Bill Maher lost his Late Night ABC Television Show "Politically Incorrect" for stating that the 9/11 Hijackers who killed themselves along with thousands of Innocent Americans had a lot of guts for being willing to sacrifice their own lives for a purpose that they believed in.

Maher was absolutely correct, of course.  It certainly did take a lot of guts for the Islamic Terrorists to sacrifice their own lives in what they considered as Jihad.

Once again in the early hours of New Years Day we have seen Terrorists, this time Homegrown American Terrorists, willing to sacrifice their own lives in the New Orleans Case for the apparent alligiance to the Islamic State or as it is better known, ISIS.  

The New Orleans Terrorist had left social media posts indicating that prior to his despicable act on Bourbon Street in which he ran down New Years Revelers he had pledged his commitment to ISIS.  He also had an ISIS Flag on the rented truck which he rammed into the Bourbon Street Partiers in New Orleans.  When the truck stopped the driver jumped out of the truck and started shooting.  New Orleans Police who were nearby returned fire and killed the Terrorist.  Certainly the man driving the truck down Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Years Day would have known that this particular street at this particular time would have been loaded with people celebrating the arrival of New Years Day.  It certainly looks as though the individual who committed this crime was looking for maximum damage to people and he certainly got it and got new publicity for ISIS, which had been starving for publicity these days.

We had not heard much about ISIS lately.  Our Once and Future President, Donald Trump had claimed responsibility for wiping ISIS off the map during his prior Administration.  Could it possibly be that Donald Trump was not telling us the truth about that?  

Yes, that is certainly possible.

Not only has Donald Trump lied about the elimination of ISIS.  In this terribly unstable period of time as he prepares to return to the Presidency he has also taken the tragic situations in New Orleans and Las Vegas and lied about the perpetrators of these criminal acts.  Prior to much being known about the New Orleans and Las Vegas Terrorists Donald Trump was quick to claim that these people were "Illegal Aliens".  Following investigations by the FBI and Regional Police forces it was learned that not only were the New Orleans and Las Vegas Terrorists American Citizens but, like many members of the January Sixth Mob that attacked the Capitol, they were American Citizens and either current or Former Military Personnel. We still don't know much about why these men did what they did early on New Years Day.  Since both of the Terrorists are dead in what appears to be in New Orleans Suicide by Cop and in Las Vegas Suicide by shooting himself and blowing himself up in a Tesla Truck outside of a Trump Hotel, it is doubtful that we will ever truly know how and why both of these men who had Relatively Positive Military Service Histories went Rogue on New Years Day in 2025.

There are clues, of course, regarding the motives of these two men who ended up killing themselves and in New Orleans many others also.  But the clues are confusing and in many cases contradictory regarding why these men did what they did on New Years Day.

Although it certainly appears as though the New Orleans killer was looking to promote the fear that ISIS likes to promote, the motives of the Las Vegas man who blew up a Tesla Truck with himself in it outside of a Trump Hotel is a bit more difficult to fathom.  

Supposedly this Military man was a Trumper. So What in the hell was he doing committing suicide by shooting himself and blowing up a Tesla Truck outside a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.  What kind of message was his desperate act sending to Donald Trump and/or Tesla Founder and Trump Buddy, Elon Musk.  Or was he sending a message to America and if he was, What in the hell was it?

It wasn't that long ago when a well educated University Of Pennsylvania graduate named Luigi Mangione was identified as the killer of the CEO of United Healthcare outside a hotel in New York city.  After a tip by a McDonalds employee in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Mangione was caught and with much publicity he was brought back to New York to be indicted.  

Although Television Network News programs have shown the murder of the United Healthcare CEO over and over, Mangione, who is a handsome guy seems to be well on his way to being somewhat of a Folk Hero to some, rather than a villain as a result of his murdering the Healthcare Executive.

What the hell is going on Here?  Have we gone Completely mad as we watch the mention of Mangione's name being cheered like a Rock Star on Saturday Night Live recently.  Are we really going to become a country in which Killers and Terrorists are cheered and revered rather than reviled.  Are ISIS and Al Quida being welcomed back as if Their terrible legacies do not exist.

We witness daily the frightening situation in Ukraine, as the brave patriots of that country fight to keep their Freedom as the Russians (Who have no right to be in Ukraine in the first place) keep fighting to annex that presently Democratic country.  We wait nervously as we hope that Donald Trump will not sacrifice Democracy in Ukraine to satisfy his Puppet Master, Vladimir Putin.

We watch with Horror as Israel wipes out not only Hamas, but also the Palestinian People, most of whom were not responsible for the Hamas Terror Squad who killed and kidnapped so many Israelis back on October 7th of last year.

We see that the world, which has always been a dangerous place seems to be getting more and more dangerous by the day not only in our country but all over the world where the warning lights are flashing multiple Red alerts.  

Not only are Americans worried about keeping their freedom in the Second Coming of Trump but England, France, Germany, Taiwan are all concerned about keeping their own Governments from falling into the wrong hands.

We are living in an astonishing age where Responsible Political behavior seems out of style and only insane behavior seems to be worthy of being rewarded.

Thank you once again, Joe Biden for not only telling us the truth but for improving all aspects of our lives and keeping us from what we are now headed into in just a few days.  I don't know why or how there were enough voters to give Donald Trump a Political victory in November.  We have seen him appoint many of the worst people possible for his cabinet members and we have seen Republicans become nothing but Insensitive Lap Dogs for Donald Trump.  You and Kamala have done your best Joe but apparently it wasn't good enough to keep the Democracy going.  Maybe miracles will happen and we will get through the next four years without our country descending into complete insanity.

Maybe Pigs will fly.  But then Maybe not.

God help us, Joe.  You have done what you could and we certainly appreciate it.  At least some of us do.  Unfortunately you were not a Miracle Worker.  You were just a Good Man doing a Good Job and Not enough Americans appreciated that.

There's not much more to say to you, Joe Except.

Happy New Year.  

Enjoy your time at Rehoboth Beach.      

     

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

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