Shooting reported near White House

[Sundog]

It looks like that he was not some how forced to work in a hospital laundry, or denied "meaningful work". Rather, personal choices centered on work discipline can make more advanced positions difficult to obtain.

That aside, I wonder what Noem means by "radicalization"?

No evidence of a manifesto with RL. No social media declaring allegiance to ISIS, Al Queda etc. No "justifications" by RL using the koran. And... apparently no Islamic terror group has claimed him.

I am thinking that, well, in a dark way, RL committed an "American" attack:

I don't like my life for a variety of reasons. I could well have moderate to heavy substance use. No immediate hope for a better future. The fact that I am responsible for my own predicament is ohhh so not relevant to me.

So.... time to rampage. And.... as @Telltale illustrated, the rampage was going to be a little more attention getting getting than shooting it out with police officer in small town USA during a traffic stop.

The Secretary of Homeland Security may have information that hasn't yet been released to the public. The FBI are still examining his social media and electronic devices, and his contacts in both San Diego and in the community where he lived in the state of Washington. I wouldn't rule out radicalization yet.

 

[Elley Mae]

https://www.ernst.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Senator%20Ernst%20Letter%20to%20DHS%20and%20DOD%20on%20Afghan%20Vetting%20PDF.pdf

Afghans selected to board American military planes in Kabul did not complete the long- established interagency vetting processes shared across the Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Instead, much of the vetting is occurring on military bases on U.S. soil.2 Furthermore, the State Department’s inability to facilitate or process SIV applicants on-ground, those that aided American operations in Afghanistan, fails our partners and breaks promises made to those who put themselves and their families at significant risk to aid U.S. efforts in Afghanistan.