How long before we hear that the terrorist in New Orleans was on the FBI’s radar? That seems to be a pattern.
A terrorist who may have accomplices outstanding managed to kill fifteen people in New Orleans. He had been an Army Human Resources worker, got divorced, and converted to radical Islam. He was an American citizen living in Texas.
On the same day, some probably MSNBC viewer drove a Tesla up to the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas filled with fuel and fireworks and exploded it, killing himself.
On the same day, the FBI in Virginia rounded up a white dude who wanted to bring back political assassinations and had built the largest stockpile of pipe bombs the FBI has ever encountered.
Progressives are pointing to the last as proof the FBI is right that white nationalists are the biggest terror threat in the country.
The dead in New Orleans might disagree. So too might the people of Las Vegas.
In fact, the FBI has insisted during the course of the Biden Administration that white Christians are the biggest domestic terror threat in the country and to prove it they’ve arrested grandmothers praying inside abortion clinics. They’ve investigated parents going to school board meetings and used most of their resources to round up people who wandered into the Capitol on January 6th.
Now we have fifteen dead Americans in New Orleans, killed at the hands of an American who turned not to MAGA and white nationalism, but Islam.
While Democrats lecture us that Islam is a religion of peace, it seems unique in the amount of terror it generates.
The present FBI needs reform. The status quo is unacceptable. Kash Patel, a disrupter, should be given a chance to do what must be done.
The dead in New Orleans are silent. But their bodies are evidence of the failures of the status quo.
