SO FAR, we don't have suicide bombers, BUT we mhave total frustration among some of our fellow Americans---the world going off on tangents that are different from what their dogmas dictate---loss of jobs and an economy going bad and exposing to view the many failures of Capitalism---total lack of control in a way that produces psychological breakdowns in people who, formerly, were held up by the success of their money producing gambling habits that WERE/ARE the stock market casinos within which they could convince themselves, and all similar thinking cohorts, that their huge monetary successes were actually the result of their own expertise and decision making rather than just dumb luck!

ALL the factors produce desperation. A lack of access to explosives, plus the lack of expertise to construct suicide bomb vests, BUT WITH POSSESION OF HUGE FIREARM ARSENALS, leads to these kinds of copy-cat acts that, ultimately, are suicide by provoking the police to do the act for them when they cannot do it themselves! OR, when their own murderous acts leave them no safe way out, FINALLY, they get the self motivation to kill themselves.

That's how I see it here and now.

I'm just pissed off at the system that seems to do this to their own citizens.

No outrage---only sadness at the sorrows of how we inflict so much on ourselves even while trying to uphold our own individual and group values and dogmas.

Art Thieme
Aril 5, 2009