It
seems this term "self radicalized" is being tossed around a lot
intimating that people who are already in America are somehow independently,
without the help of anyone outside their sphere of influence is helping them to
become "radicalized" to engage in terrorist activities. This was the almost immediate conclusion the
Administration drew regarding the two men who were charged with the Boston
Marathon bombing; they were "self radicalized."
That
seems almost like an "oxymoron" where a person can become influenced
to the extent of being "radical" about some cause without there even being
a cause to be a part of. In the case of
the Boston bombing where bombs were made, detonation devices were constructed,
certain materials were used in combination that closely resembled the same
combination used in other bombings in other parts of the world, containers to
carry the explosive material were common to other bombings in the Middle East,
and now three other people have been arrested in connection with the two who
carried out the bombing. Not being an
expert in these matters, it still seems that just on the surface of the
evidence so far one would have to at least consider the two bombers may not
have been working alone.
Therefore,
if all of those similarities exist, the components, type of explosives,
canisters (pressure cookers), types of shrapnel, the older brother traveling to
Russia for six months, reading and studying the material published by radicals
in Islam, then how can the Administration conclude within just hours of the
bombing and arrest of the one brother that they were "self
radicalized"? Could it be that has
to be the conclusion in order to fit the narrative the Administration has
projected that they have destroyed the capability of terrorist actions
world-wide? If so, it seems like a very
dangerous position to turn a blind eye to extended investigations, restricting
theories of cause to just a narrow narrative and shutting down interrogation
efforts prematurely to curtail the collection of further threats. Those actions, it seems, could put the
citizens of America in further danger.
Jim Killebrew
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