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The Other Shooter: The Banality of Terror
As the nation was reeling from the Ft. Hood horror yesterday, a pathetic loner killed one man and wounded five other people in an Orlando office building shootout.
Compared to the complexity of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Jason Rodriguez looks like a run-of-the-mill loser with a failed marriage and the inability to hold a job after being fired two years ago from the architectural firm he shot up and later from a Subway eatery in a career of downward mobility.
As he was being led away by police, he told them, “I’m just going through a tough time right now. I’m sorry” and explained his murderous pique at former coworkers by claiming “they left me to rot.”
Such lethal blandness is, in a way, more terrifying than whatever roiling of religious, ethnic and political passions led the Ft. Hood killer to his actions.
The well-dressed, calm Rodriguez seems outwardly more stable than many members of protest crowds in Washington and elsewhere, venting their passions about health care and the economy across the political spectrum. Even bland Al Gore gets into the acting-out act by proclaiming that “civil disobedience has a role to play” in the struggle to control climate change.
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4 Responses to “The Other Shooter: The Banality of Terror”
There is a lot more of that to com…
Lots of people have lost their jobs, their houses, their marriages and their prospects for a middle class life. We have left and are leaving lots of people to rot on the side of the road. Unfortunately most of these people who have think that they have nothing left to lose usually go and kill the wrong people.
DQ, I'm having all kinds of trouble with your response. Who is “we” who are leaving “lots of people to rot”? This pathetic creature is luxuriating in the victim mentality. “Poor poor pitiful me!”
And what does your last sentence mean? “Unfortunately, they… go and kill the wrong people.”
There's somebody who would be right to go and kill?
We have met the enemy and he is us
The right people
More of the right people
The wrong people
More of the wrong people
Ah. Well, okay then. That clears things right up.