barracuda wrote:As fascinating as all these possible deep state motives are, there's no point in pretending insanity isn't a motive. You have to ignore a long history of extremely similar mass killings in order to do so.
Etc.
(Okay, that last one I sort of empathize with in terms of motivation for
something, but not the killing of eight random people in a shopping mall. I mean, I basically say the same thing to myself each morning.)
Don't go looking for a "eureka" moment of understanding in these killings. There isn't one. The motivations of the insane are insanely opaque.
At the very least, it's nearly impossible to deny that something was very wrong with Adam Lanza from a fairly young age, and that his mother tried a variety of strategies in order to deal with his problems. And Ryan apparently knew enough about his brother's problems to realize right away that Adam may have killed their mother: "It was my brother. I think my mother is dead."
If Adam Lanza killed those people, if that's really is the way it happened, there is no
motive that will make sense. There will be no scrap of information about his mother, about his schooling, about his gaming, or anything else that will come to light and cause anyone to say to themselves, "oh, NOW I get it, now I see why he slaughtered eighteen cowering six year old children." It won't happen, because
nothing justifies these actions.
(^^Bold-type emphases added.)
I don't know why you insist on blurring the crystal-clear distinction between a motive and a justification, because you're surely aware of it. Many men and some women have been motivated to kill their partners out of
jealousy. Lots of parents have been motivated to kill their babies because
the kid just wouldn't shut up. Numerous fathers have been motivated to kill their daughter because
she was dishonouring the family. Etcetera.
Any judge or jury would recognise these as
motives, because that's what they clearly are. (Something
moved those people to do what they did.) No judge and no jury (in the western world in the 21st century) would recognise them as
justifications, because they clearly are no such thing. It's a simple and obvious and necessary distinction.
Not only did Adam Lanza have no justification for murdering 26 children and adults in that school, he had no plausible motive either -- none that hasn't been merely fantasised into existence by amateur psychologists with a low attention span. Anyone actually paying attention can see that the case against him is rudimentary (it consists -- so far at least -- mainly in the fact that he was found among the dead); that the entire case is a baffling and godawful mess, starting with Adam L's misidentification as Ryan L. and the "news" that Peter L had been murdered; that the FBI, the corporate media, and an untold number of discreetly anonymous "law enforcement sources" are doing their level best to spread rumours and disinformation about Adam Lanza; and that all this speculation and disinformation about the dead boy's alleged motives is precisely as Connecticut State Police Spokesman Paul J. Vance described it last week:
hideous.
Still, barracuda, your suggestion does open up lots of fascinating new opportunities for wily and well-connected crooks. In fact, however, the opportunity was noticed long ago; it's just been becoming ever more popular in recent years. If you want to make someone a patsy for a heinous crime, all you have to do is make sure that the crime is heinous enough
and that the patsy dies during or very shortly after the crime. No one will ask any serious questions, because,
Hey, loonies do loony things! Case closed! It worked a treat with the quickly-late Lee Harvey Oswald, with the Nineteen Deathloving Superstudents (deceased), and, perhaps most implausibly of all, with the four dead "suicide bombers" of the London Tube, to name but twenty-four.
Like dead women, dead men tell no tales. Their lips are sealed.
- Flashback to the days when those silly old spooks still took quite unnecessary risks by leaving their patsies alive, and talkative:
The Maguire SevenThe Birmingham SixThe Guildford Four^^All exonerated, sometimes after more than a decade in jail. Of course, if they had been "suicide killers", not one of those men and women would had their name cleared, ever. Because who's gonna bother clearing the name of a corpse? Not the corpse itself, that's for sure. And, in all likelihood, nobody else either. The most any prudent pundit will condescend to do
post mortem is to psychoanalyse that damnably guilty corpse, often while insisting (simultaneously) that there's simply no fathoming the deep dark mysteries of the black human heart*. QED.
*
If we're taught that the human heart is not just imponderably deep but incorrigibly dark, who benefits from that teaching? I think we should be told. (Not that the answer isn't obvious.)"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
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