This will not go well
by Tom Sullivan
So after getting fired, the former convict walks into the front of the Oklahoma business with a knife, attacks two women, and beheads one before being shot and disabled by a company employee, a county reserve deputy:
Mr. Nolen, 30, was convicted in 2011 of multiple drug charges, assault and battery on a police officer, and escape from detention, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. He had earlier arrests on drug and assault charges.
Per another report:
According to the department’s database, Nolen had “Jesus Christ” tattooed across his chest, an image of praying hands on his right arm and “As-salaamu Ataikum,” tattooed on his stomach, which could be a misspelling of “As-salaamu Alaikum,” a standard Muslim greeting that means “Peace be upon you.”
Did we mention the suspect with the Jesus and praying hands tatoos recently converted to Islam? Fox News is already talking about the "ISIS effect."
More fodder for the fear-mongering campaign ads Gail Collins runs down in the New York Times:
The most popular terrorism-connected campaign theme is overall border security, since it allows conservative candidates to roll up ISIS terrorists with illegal Hispanic immigrants. “She’s for amnesty, while terrorism experts say our border breakdown could provide an entry for groups like ISIS!” announced that David Perdue ad against Michelle Nunn in Georgia. Some experts believe that even at this early hour, Perdue has wrapped up the title of Worst Commercial of the Campaign.
The “terrorism experts,” by the way, are actually the Texas Department of Public Safety.
From there, the ads descend from revoking the passports of American terrorists to Scott Brown, now the Republican candidate for Senate from New Hampshire, bragging how "he sponsored a bill to revoke the citizenship of anyone who gives aid to a terrorist group." Terrorist, terrorist group, and anyone, of course, being in the eye of the fear-mongerer. Collins notes that Perdue's ads suggest that Nunn "funded organizations linked to terrorists" when running George H. W. Bush's Points of Light charity.
Now a beheading. This will not go well.
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