There is this one event that has been occupying my mind since Saturday, roughly about 8 hours into event in Orlando, FL shooting.
As you probably know June is LGBTQ Pride month, across the nation on different weekends LGBTQ community celebrate and commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan.
So this weekend (June 10-June 12) was kick-off for LAPRIDE, Southern California' biggest LGBTQ celebration Music Festival & Parade in West Hollywood.
Naturally in light of Orlando tragedy which was still unfolding, the Los Angeles Pride celebration were going to be a bitter sweet event not only because the community just lost 49 of their own to what it was clearly a hate crime but also because by this time we have heard about the alleged 911 call and the possibility that this case of domestic terrorism was inspired by ISIS!!.
Right in the midst of tragedy unfolding in Orlando came a News Break which reported of authorities arresting an Indiana man with a cache of weapons, ammunition, Chemical explosive-making materials in his car with apparent plan to attend the L.A. Pride festival in West Hollywood.
Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks initially said on Twitter that the 20-year-old suspect told one of her officers after he was arrested that he wanted “to harm Gay Pride event", later on the story was changed when Lt. Saul Rodriguez said the suspect told investigators that he was going to the Pride festival but he did not make additional statements about his intentions.
In any event Federal and local law enforcement very quickly decided against canceling the annual parade. Evidently, the young man who drove all the way from Indiana with car loaded with cache of weapons, ammunition, Chemical explosive material heading to LAPRIDE event WAS NO REASON for the Federal & State law enforcement to even suspect there might be some kind of connection to the event in Orlando and they very quickly deemed it 'UNRELATED."
I have to make a personal disclaimer here before I continue.
As much as the authorities, the government, the media have given me reasons, many reasons not to trust them, as much as I value healthy skepticism and have always encourage 'questioning' that which does not make common, logical and scientific sense.......I am far from being on an auto pilot for hypothesizing and/or theorizing.
Having said that, I can not get over how little attention were paid to James Wesley Howell of Indiana who was arrested in Santa Monica in early hours of Saturday June 11 while sitting in his Indiana registered car which contained three assault rifles, high-capacity ammunition and a 5-gallon bucket containing Tannerite, an ingredient that could be used to create a pipe bomb and other improvised explosive devices.
How can one explain the scant attention paid to James Wesley Howard as if he could not possibly be a 'terrorist', 'influenced by the terrorists,' or 'inspired by the terrorist'. As if he could only NOT POSSIBLY BE RELATED to the event in Orlando. As if he WAS NOT "part of the plan", he WAS NOT part of the "script."
He was not even considered to be your 'mainstream homophobe' ready to commit a hate crime, the changed story from his admission & intent to harm Gays and Lesbians to the story that he had harbored no ill will toward gays or lesbians, made him not even a hate-crime suspect!
I suppose James Wesley Howell drove all the way from Indiana and was just there on sightseeing mission with car full of weapons, ammunition and explosives and a license plate which included a symbol of the National Rifle Assn. on the left side and the bottom said, "Teaching Freedom." :)
What do I know right? The Federal Law enforcement knew something that I didn't, they knew that James Wesley Howell of Indiana, 20 year old White male with a long rap sheet was not part of the 'script.' ;)
Link to FB post: https://www.facebook.com/susan.nevens/posts/10208740802013192
Susan Nevens - 16 June 2016
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