March 14, 2005

Dead Man Walking
By Carl F. Worden

The Big Story since Friday, 3/11/05, has been the case of Brian Nichols, who is alleged to have overpowered a sheriff's deputy, taken her gun and killed three people, including the court reporter and the Judge presiding over Nichols' trial on rape charges.

Nichols is also suspected of murdering a federal customs agent and taking his ID, gun and vehicle while eluding the dragnet that had been laid out for him around Atlanta, Georgia.

The most commonly seen photograph of Nichols appears to be his mug shot, and he's not smiling. In fact he looks somewhat brooding and menacing. At this writing, authorities report Nichols has just been arrested and is in police custody.

Some of the aspects of this case intrigue me a great deal. (Read the rest here)

Libertarian Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2004

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Iraq: Pipeline attacked as relatives mourn their dead
Guardian [UK]
"Weeping relatives gathered in small groups Friday to bury 50 people killed by a suicide bomber in [Mosul], after canceling a mass funeral procession for fear of another attack. As the mostly Shiite Muslim families mourned their dead, Iraq's main Shiite and Kurdish coalitions agreed in Baghdad on a deal divvying up the top three posts in the new government, but differences remained over the deployment of Arab troops in ethnic Kurdish areas. North of the capital, insurgents [sic] blew up an oil pipeline in the latest attack targeting the country's fragile economic infrastructure." (03/12/05)

This is the follow-up story; my comments are after that.
Iraq: Suicide bomber kills 47 at funeral
Detroit Free Press
"A suicide attacker set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners Thursday, splattering blood and body parts over rows of overturned white plastic chairs. The attack, which killed 47 and wounded more than 100, came as Shiite and Kurdish politicians in Baghdad said they overcame a major stumbling block to forming a new coalition government. The explosion, in a working class neighborhood of this northern city, destroyed a large tent pitched next to a smaller one on a grassy patch in the courtyard of a mosque." (03/10/05)

Yeah - the "freedom fighters" are too busy fighting their own brethren of a different sect to fight the infidel, right? The history of Islam from about fifteen minutes after Mohammed died: one of the major reasons that the West has been able to launch counteroffensives against the rising tide of Islam over the past 1300 years is this kind of internal bloodletting, both intra-Arab and by Arabs on most other ethnic groups that are either Muslim or infidel. Can ANY Islamic nation, much less Iraq, have a truly free republican and democratic form of government, in which the people have even as much freedom as modern Americans? Literally these people operate on the principle that if they can't have it their way, everything must be destroyed. (Read the rest of the Commentary here)

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