The media explains the Beltway Sniper for you

It turns out that the root cause of John Muhammed's alledged spree killings might not be due to religion, sociopathic hatred, or crime after all. In fact, the root cause has been discovered.

As this story makes clear, he was just "a former member of the U.S. Army," no other identifying information other than his name is given. That's linked to off the WaPo's KidsPost; gotta plant those seeds early.

This story even goes so far as to give one possible defense tactic: "We have people that are on death row now, people that killed and don't even know they've killed, and they were also in the area of the sarin gas exposure," Riley said.

This story is a little more intellectually honest.

This report contains the interesting statement This person is an American, he's a former Gulf War vet, he's black, he's a criminal and he also may be mentally ill - and yet all those factors suddenly can be minimized and the Muslim name Muhammad rises above all these other realities of who he is.

Sniper · Fri, 10/25/2002 - 16:17 · · Importance: 1