We shouldn't be surprized.

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Dec 23, 2015 at 14:22

Hello, Daniel. You said,

Was he a criminal who fell out with his accomplices, a friend who had drunk too much, a would-be lover knocking off his rivals for the affections of a woman, a family member eliminating aspirants for an inheritance, a crazy man randomly shooting passers-by? Or was he perhaps a jihadi seeking to spread the message, law, and sovereignty of Islam? I cannot answer those questions because the case lingers in total obscurity

Neither can I answer those questions, for the same reasons. This is the case with many killings by lone perpetrators. In the the Farook/Malik case, however, there were TWO perpetrators, acting in usison -- as there were also in the Boston Marathon bombing. Both cases were eventually shown to be terrorist attacks. That is the clue that should have tipped off our law enforcement agencies immediately. Instead, they floundered around in political correctness for days -- despite corrobarating evidence such as the fact that their tactics and methods had beed specifically spelled out on terrorist websites, the fact that an arsenal of military weapons had been stockpiled in advance; and in the San Bernardino case, the killers went so far as to don uniforms.

This is an ungodly nation, which elects ungodly leaders. We shouldn't be surprized, then, when our police and courts produce these stupid results.

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