The Native Iowan

Golly, woke this morn to a lot of bad-newz, big bluez…

Another vehicle vs pedestrian rampage has taken place in New Orleans. Numerous dead. Evidence shows this was suppose to be a bigger “Terror Attack”. More deaths were planned. Hard to say but, might have gotten lucky, a bit.

And: A vehicle-bomb was detonated in front of the Trump Tower in Vegas. I say vehicle-bomb and not car-bomb because the vehicle was a Tesla CyberTruck.

Terrorism is not new, is not a modern concept. Fomenting fear, instability, societal unease and confusion is the aim of terrorism.

Blocking The Harbour Bridge, in the name of Climate Awareness, is terrorism. The raging and looting and burnings we have seen in US cities is terrorism.

Some terrorists are ideologues. Some are just confused and misled. Some are down right evil.

I have an old friend that had her life changed by an act or terrorism.

In December 2017… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2017_Melbourne_car_attack….
According to witnesses and police, the driver, Saeed Noori, an Australian citizen of Afghan descent who had arrived in Australia as a refugee, deliberately ran a red light then accelerated into an area with a speed limit of 40 kilometres per hour (25 mph), where he ran into the pedestrians. His car then hit a bollard beside a tram stop. The nineteen injured included nine foreign nationals: three from South Korea, and one each from China, Italy, India, Venezuela, Ireland, and New Zealand. An off-duty officer of the Victorian Police was credited with quickly subduing the suspect, who was wrestled to the ground, handcuffed, and arrested.

My friend is disabled these days, unable to adequately function, physically, emotionally, mentally.

The Terrorist in the Melbourne case was probably more confused, more ill, more delusional, than ideologically committed, to anything. Mental illness is real and very prevalent on our streets. But a seed of disquietude can go along way to pushing a mentally ill being over the edge. Being radicalised is basically the act of taking a confused, ill, sad individual and convincing them its OK to commit evil acts… in the name of God, Allah, Glowball Warming, Trans-rights…

We know little about what is what in both N.O. and Vegas.

Initially we see connections between the two incidents.

For some reason I cannot fathom – The current administration is loathe to state that these are/ were acts of terror. I hear them make excuses. The long standing policy to leave Islam alone (as much as possible) has leaders (National, State and Local) looking foolish. An ISIS flag in N.O. should kinda be enough to tentatively assume that, yes, this is an act of Islamic Terror.

What if… WHAT IF… the flag in the truck was a Johnny Rebel flag?

I dig the fact that the Tesla truck muffled the explosion in Vegas, made a big show but little blow. Even the glass doors at the Hotel did not blow out…

2025… Off to a good start.

More later