“Summer of Violence?”
Another deliberate high-speed vehicle-ramming of innocent pedestrians happened early last Saturday evening, this time in Vancouver, Canada.
Eleven pedestrians DOA, or dead at the scene. Three times that number injured, many critically. Most casualties were members of the local Filipino Community, assembled for an ethnic “street celebration.”
Perpetrator, an illegal immigrant, had “mental-health issues,” was well-known to local police, and should have long-since been institutionalized.
He was arrested at the scene.
This attack is very similar to the one in New Orleans, LA early New Year’s Day of this year. And, casualty count is needlessly high for exactly the same reasons.
Local officials were completely unprepared!
As in New Orleans, hard “vehicle-barriers,” put in place in order to protect pedestrians at scheduled events like this, were conspicuously absent.
The best the local chief of police could do was immediately assure everyone, “… with confidence we can say that this was not an act of terrorism,” as if that dubious footnote magically makes all victims somehow less dead!
Does it really matter to anyone if this terrible attack was carried-out by a jihadist, or a local fruitcake? Apparently, we can all relax now that we’ve all been promised this attack was perpetrated by an “ordinary insane person,” from whom woke officials obviously have no intention of protecting us, any more than the do of protecting us from foreign terrorists.
Flanked by their heavily-armed, ever-present bodyguards, both the local chief of police, and mayor, subsequently admitted that this current incident “fits into a pattern of recent, random, violent attacks across the city,” but neither specified what they intended to do about it (other than further ramp-up their own, personal security)
Lessons:
1) The likelihood (through no fault/intent of your own) of running-into VCAs, be they jihadists, “ordinary felons,” or dangerous fruitcakes has never been higher, no matter where you live. These pernicious, demonstrated threats to public safety should be locked-up, but woke officials will never allow it. Liberal governments absolutely refuse to protect us from these threats, although as noted above (via the liberal use of taxpayer dollars) they take extreme measures to protect themselves. That cynical duplicity won’t change any time soon.
2) Large outdoor events/gatherings, particularly those with religious, political, and/or ethnic overtones, will continue to represent tempting targets for depraved murderers behind the wheel of motor vehicles. These events are good places from which to stay to stay far away!
3) A “Summer of Violence” is on the horizon! Frustrated leftists (who never shy-away from political violence), with encouragement, indeed endorsement, from Democrat/socialist politicians will look for ways to physically harm those whom they perceive at DJT-supporters, and “harm” can take many forms, from vandalism, to edged weapons, to impact weapons, to bullets, to explosives, to speeding vehicles, as we see.
My advice:
Don’t naively assume someone else is looking after your personal safety.
Stay alert
Stay low-profile
Stay prudent
Stay suspicious
Stay dangerous!
/John
