Crisis Managed
I’ve called Peter, and he’s not dead. Nor is he being sequestered in his office. Which is a block away. From the Jewish Federation building. Where people were just shot.
Update (incidentally, this is my 5400th post):
Apparently the Jewish Federation building, you have to be buzzed in, there’s a gate, bullet-proof glass, after 9/11 they beefed up security even more (boy, those Joooos and their deviousness) so the question is how the hell a gunman or two got into the place.
And apparently the man on the second floor we’re all waiting for has a long-range rifle and a good view up the street.
And Medved’s on Hugh Hewitt.
One of the comments at LGF:
#46 thscott 7/28/2006 05:06PM PDT
My gut says that this was just a nut… Seattle is crawling with them… you can’t go two blocks without hearing someone babbling to himself. If this was connected to Hezbollah it would have been much more deadly.
It’s true. I’ve been complaining about that to Peter since we moved here. There are so many crazy people on the streets here. I mean, it’s not a big city, but the population density of yelling nuts is so much heavier than Philly or New York.
Okay, real update:
King5 is saying one person is confirmed dead. Link at Kiro.
Oh and the one man arrested was taken down by a bike cop.
Another real update:
Apparently the shooter called the police and told them he was shooting people. There’s an assistant chief of police or something on TV right now. Not saying anything about a guy with a rifle, but he doesn’t know much about motives etc.
Oh they’re just looping the same footage over and over now.
Whoops spoke too soon. A big SWAT truck and a bunch of fire trucks “in an unusual formation” according to the man on tv just pulled up.
Footage looping again. Looking at the “perp”, he looks rather normal. Let’s speculate. What if it turned out to be a pissed-off divorcé, or something.
Uh oh, real update:
The guy arrested is a “Pakistani male” with a “criminal history”. No word on his immigration status, or lack thereof.
I don’t suppose a Pakistani man might have an ex-wife inside the Jewish center on the eve of the Sabbath that he wants to get revenge on.
Update:
The police guy is on again, and he says that the guy who was arrested was the only guy, and basically they’re investigating the crime scene. So no second man/sniper, and I guess the bomb squad and Swat team and all those guys that pulled up are just going through the motions. Probably fairly good practice, after all. But traffic remains unmoving, and Peter is going to need to get home somehow.
Whoops again, something just happened. “Activity.” Who knows.
Ah. Members of a “Joint Terrorism Task Force” (how 24!) have just run into the parking garage beneath the Bed, Bath & Beyond, presumably after the suspect’s “vehicle”.
Update:
So the guy got through security, announced he’s an American Muslim, and he’s mad at Israel, and started shooting. The police are doing a presser now.
Update:
The lady who was 21 weeks pregnant and shot in the forearm (did I mention her yet?), she’s supposed to be fine.
Final Update:
Kerlikowske said the shooting will be treated as a homicide and a hate crime.
July 28th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Good heavens! Yawls turn out the lights and keep situational awareness. I hopes you don’t need serpentine motion.
July 28th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Will do! But what’s serpentine motion?
July 29th, 2006 at 1:51 am
Is it low crawling on knees and elbows? I tried it. Looks easier on TV.
Someone from Portland commented on Tim Blair that just before this shooting there was a pro-Hezbollah/Lebanon rally a couple of blocks away. Was that true, do you know?
July 29th, 2006 at 1:52 am
“the shooting will be treated as a homicide and a hate crime.” What madness is this?
July 29th, 2006 at 3:03 am
Serpentine Motion! Serpentine Motion! Run round like a snake with no obvious destination. From Peter Falk to Alan Arkin in The Inlaws. Falk the professional spook made Arking the dentist go back into a shooters line of sight because he forgot Serpentine Motion!
July 29th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Ninme, I almost posted on this, but there is such a flood that anything I would say would be lost. I thought instead I would drop by your house and make a comment, being that I know it was in your backyard (though I didn’t know Mr. Man was so close).
One thing that came to mind is that over the last 5 years one, if not the, largest group of Jews moving to Israel have been from France. The French have a slow-boil pogrom going on via their Muslim minority against the French Jews that have been there since, well, Trajan. Anyway, one reason is that the French police and public will not call it what it is, and as a result, the Muslim attackers are getting a pass. The Jews of France no longer feel they are safe, so they are moving back it Israel. The US Jewish population is so large mostly because we didn’t kill ours off 60 years ago, and by the example set by George Washington early on, never has a place been safer and more hospitable to Jews than the US. We need to be careful to look very close at those who attack for religious reasons. Not sense the persecution of the Mormons in the 1800s have we seen such a thing here. Shame on us if we let the American Jews start to feel like the French Jews.
BTW, the Jewish Left needs to change its opinion about the NRA. Just an idea.
July 29th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
The left in Israel itself seem to have largely come to their senses (didn’t take much, did it?). Now it is the turn of the Jewish left elsewhere.
July 30th, 2006 at 10:07 am
Oh I think the Jewish left here have done some serious turning. It’s the only way to explain the Democrats’ crazy insane behaviour. Just no one knows about it except some internal polls, maybe.
And I’ve noticed that quite often when an Israeli is in the news, he ends up having a French passport as well. But then I’ve also noticed a lot of Australian Israelis as well. Hmm.
July 31st, 2006 at 4:52 am
Nothing unusual about serpentine motion….
July 31st, 2006 at 5:06 am
That is interesting. Boy, if the Jews walked out the Democrat IQ would take a nose dive.
I think the Ozraellys are generally idealistic people who go to Israel to “help out” - and they don’t mind the heat. The only Australian killed in the Lebanon conflict was a dual citizen who was fighting with the IDF.
July 31st, 2006 at 5:08 am
(Was that a Tom Jones reference?)
July 31st, 2006 at 9:33 am
(It may have been)
(It’s Red getting creative with his handles again, but I don’t get it)
I think if I were Jewish I’d be pretty keen on going “back”. I couldn’t believe it when I heard that the tours of Israel that Jewish kids go on are free. Weeks at a time and all the way from the US. I asked a guy whose daughter went on one (the Golan Heights story, anyone? Anyone..?) if maybe it was possible to fake being Jewish to get a free holiday? But yeah.
July 31st, 2006 at 11:29 am
:>
August 1st, 2006 at 1:10 am
Cy Dwinder = sidewinder = serpentine motion.
I don’t mind people not getting my jokes. After all:
“It’s not unusual” Tom Jones