In November, I asked a very basic question about why the gay nightclub shooter was even on the loose considering what had happened in ’21.
Friday afternoon around 2:00 p.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Offices responded to reports of a bomb threat on Rubicon Drive in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood, just south of the Colorado Springs Airport.
The suspect, 21-year old Anderson Lee Aldrich, refused to comply with deputies’ orders to surrender. It was reported to the Sherrif’s Office that he had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition.
A Tactical Support Unit, which includes the Regional Explosives Unit was called in. Around 10 homes were evacuated in the surrounding area, while an emergency text notification was sent out to homes within a 1/4-mile radius of the address.
Aldrich would later go on to shoot up a gay nightclub. But the actual story of that ’21 incident has turned out to be much worse.
Authorities said the person who would later kill five at a Colorado gay nightclub was on the FBI’s radar a day before being arrested for threatening to kill family members but agents closed out the case just weeks later.
The details of the June 17, 2021, tip to the FBI are not known. But the next day, Aldrich’s grandparents ran from their Colorado Springs home and called 911, saying Aldrich was building a bomb in the basement and had threatened to kill them. Details of the case remain sealed, but an arrest affidavit verified by the AP detailed how Aldrich was upset the grandparents were moving to Florida because it would get in the way of Aldrich’s plans to conduct a mass shooting and bombing.
The FBI can only do so much, but this is reminiscent of the Pulse gay nightclub shooting. In that case, Omar Mateen, the Afghan Muslim terrorist, had a father who was an FBI informant, and was extensively investigated by the FBI.
The veteran FBI agent and a local sheriff’s deputy took no chances when they got a credible tip about a potential terrorist.
In a joint operation, they ran his name through a maze of federal criminal and terrorism databases and scrutinized his telephone records for suspicious contacts.
Without a warrant, they couldn’t read his emails or listen to his calls. But they watched him from unmarked vehicles to track his daily routine and to see whom he met.They deployed two confidential informants more than a dozen times to secretly record his conversations. They interviewed him twice and convinced him to provide a written statement — in which he admitted he previously had lied to agents.
In the end, after a counter-terrorism investigation that stretched from May 2013 to March 2014, the agent and his supervisor concluded that Omar Mateen was not a threat and closed the case…
Mateen was a private security guard at the county courthouse, where the Sheriff’s Office oversaw security. Co-workers had warned that Mateen had claimed connections to the terrorist groups Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and that he wanted to die as a martyr, the Sheriff’s Office told the FBI.
Mateen played the victim card and cried Islamophobia. Did Aldrich claim that he was nonbinary and troubled because he was the victim of bigotry? We may find out as more details emerge.
Well, in today’s left world – some just are more equal than others. And we must always remember this to keep it holy – no matter how high the body count.
It’s truly admirable that you care so much about the victims of the gay nightclub shootings. Hard to understand, then, why you claim legislators who voted to uphold gay marriage are “abolishing marriage and religious freedom.”
Care to explain? (rhetorical; of course you won’t)
I care about the victims of violent crime, while to your faction the perpetrators of violent crime are the real victims.
And, perhaps you are assuming that the JOB of the Federal Police is to combat crime, not engage in politics like we have seen for the last few years. FBI has completely lost their focus.
Because they DID vote to abolish marriage – the INSTITUTION of marriage as it was defined by the entirety of humankind since the dawn of creation. But since the SCOTUS had no constitutional or legal authority to redefine marriage, the real purpose of this legislation is to force Christian pastors to perform “marriage” ceremonies for same sex couples, a violation, of their rights under the 1st Amendment. AND to establish the justification to take away religious organizations’ tax-exempt status under the IRS code. The way I see it, tax-exempt status was going to go the way of the buggy whip anyway., and most churches will adjust and survive for the most part. As everyone knows, lots of “churches” are just tax dodges. Al Sharpton comes to mind, but I don’t know why. hmm ….. .
“Gay” Americans enjoyed the same marital rights as all other Americans before Obergfell: to marry one person of the opposite sex, as marriage has been understood and accepted for millennia. They also enjoyed the right to enter into private contracts to share property, inheritance, and other civil rights on the same basis as others, despite false claims to the contrary, The “gay” movement not only seeks acceptance of a lifestyle that is abhorrent to many, but seeks to force devout believers in the Bible to perform acts that violate their religious principles in obeisance to the “gay” agenda. No law of man is superior to God’s law, and no disbelief or alternative interpretation of that law entitles you to force another into servitude to your world view. That is how the effect of the “Respect for Marriage Act” will abolish marriage and religious freedom.
EVERY ONE of these incidents should be viewed through the “What if it was one of PRESIDENT TRUMP’S kids” lens!! I can GUARANTEE that there would be NO FURTHER needless deaths!!
Of course there was no follow-up by the FBI. It was too busy pursuing parents who attended school board meetings, seizing the phones of Republican allies of, and attornieys for, Donald Trump, engaging in SWAT raids ofn those who walked through doors in the Capital that were opened by Capital Police, and feeding nonsense to social and news media outlets to keep them from covering the Hunter Biden laptop right before the 2020 election to do anything about mere mass shooters.
The Pulse Nightclub shooter called the police on the phone, mid-slaughter- and told them he was a member of ISIS, and he was killing in the name of Allah. His call was recorded, and parts were later disseminated to the media and broadcast to the public. Nevertheless, the FBI found that the Pulse shooter was simply motivated by hatred for homosexuals. Full stop. They also suggested that he MAY have had some homosexual tendencies himself, so that he “probably” had some kind of cognitive or emotional dissonance. But they failed to add that the Pulse shooter did precisely what his “holy book” commanded him to do. To this very day, the Orlando gay community believes that the Pulse shooter was motivated only by hate – i.e., without any awareness of the true source of his hate – Islam
FBI the Federal Bureau of Incompetence.
Once again – previously known to the FBI.