Through the Looking Glass

Alice Delafleurs

Casablanca News/Ministry of Truth

Bobby Lee Smith, in a rage fueled by his fundamentalist Christian beliefs, went on a murder spree at Fort X today killing 13 people and wounding at least thirty. Crisis counseling teams from Washington are, as we speak, en route to the area, and the FBI has arrested all known acquaintances of Mr. Smith and has taken his family in for questioning.

President Barack Obama quickly called a national press conference to press for passage of his national health care initiative, stricter gun-control laws, and to condemn this act as a hate crime. He also stated that Mr. Smith's church would be shut down "until further notice", and expressed his "strong belief" that Mr. Smith's murder spree was not a random act of violence, but rather an "expression of the fundamental tenets of his religious beliefs which are openly anti-American". Mr. Obama also hinted that Mr. Smith might be sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility until his trial by military tribunal.

Mr. Smith is a registered republican and is rumored to have visited Idaho recently, where right-wing hate groups including the Aryan Nations and the American Nazi Party, have been known to have been organizing for years. His personal emails, made public on our main site, show a rigid belief in the christian 'god' and a desire for 'justice'. He also is a NASCAR aficionado.

Candlelight vigils will be held tonight across the country. At the vigils a petition will be presented by A.C.O.R.N. to push for gun-control legislation, and to ask congress to indict former President Bush for his weak record on gun-control, and for his militaristic bearing which may have given some impetus to Mr. Smith's rampage. You may sign this petition at our main website also.

Unfortunately the government may have some road-blocks to a quick conviction at trial as Mr. Smith is a diagnosed 'paranoid schizophrenic', but a Harvard psychiatrist, speaking off-the-record (and on condition of anonymity) said the following. "Mr. Smith certainly seemed to be paranoid in the days prior to the shooting, but his emails do not seem to be these of a true schizophrenic, rather, they seem to be the writings of a man obsessed with military culture and angry that he could not enlist in the Army due to his 'diagnosis' ".

Mr. Smith's actions recall those of Timothy McVeigh, the so called 'pro-life' movement, the Salem witch trials, the Spanish Inquisition, and the crusades,... the common thread is impossible to ignore. Mr. Smith committed the murders with weapons stolen from a neighbor. The neighbor has been arrested.

In a tragedy such as this one does tend to question one's opposition to the death penalty, but the question 'why' seems to have already been answered.