© APThe back of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, June 12. Police say they used an APC to make these holes in the wall, through which many surviving hostages escaped. It's undisclosed who made the bullet holes around the larger holes.
An Everyman for our times then, it would seem.
The story goes that, at 2am on Sunday 12 June 2016, 29-year-old Omar Mateen walked into a dark nightclub packed with 320 people having a good time. Mateen is carrying an AR-15 rifle and 30 magazines of ammunition on his person. In the dark, beneath the flashing and strobing lights, he begins shooting and goes on to reload and empty his AR-15 rifle 30 times, firing nearly 1,000 rounds of .223 ammunition. In the process, he achieves the remarkable feat of killing or injuring one third of the people around him, the majority of his victims being shot multiple times, some as many as 12 times. And he does all this in under 7 minutes. Alone.
That, dear readers, is the 'official story', aka, 'all the news that's fit to print'.
Here's the list of victims:
- Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34
- Stanley Almodovar III, 23
- Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20
- Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22
- Kimberly Morris, 37
- Luis S. Vielma, 22
- Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30
- Amanda Alvear, 25
- Enrique L. Rios Jr., 25
- Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35
- Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32
- Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24
- Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40
- Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37
- Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25
- Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22
- Darryl Roman Burt II, 29
- Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32
- Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21
- Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25
- Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25
- Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50
- Martin Benitez Torres, 33
- Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26
- Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35
- Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25
- Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31
- Oscar A. Aracena-Montero, 26
- Miguel Angel Honorato, 30
- Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32
- Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19
- Cory James Connell, 21
- Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37
- Luis Daniel Conde, 39
- Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33
- Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25
- Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36
- Jerald Arthur Wright, 31
- Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25
- Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27
- Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33
- Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49
- Yilmary Rodriguez Sulivan, 24
- Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32
- Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28
- Frank Hernandez, 27
- Paul Terrell Henry, 41
- Antonio Davon Brown, 29
- Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24
- Akyra Murray, 18
The first shots were fired just after 2am, presumably at patrons inside the club. A police officer was on duty at, or in the vicinity of, the club. He was initially joined by two more police officers and they exchanged gunfire with 'the shooter', who was apparently outside the club at this point, but who then ran back into the club. How he got into the club in the first place, armed to the gills, isn't disclosed.
Anyway, the first 3 cops were joined within minutes by "about 100 officers from the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Orlando Police Department." At 2:09 am, nightclub employees sent a message via Facebook telling patrons to "get out of Pulse and keep running." Then nothing happened for 3 hours, ostensibly because the remaining patrons were being held hostage. Police officials said they had to hang around all that time "to access the situation, get armored vehicles on the scene and make sure they had enough personnel."
Access the situation? That's either a typo and it should read 'assess the situation', or too many of those cops were idling in the nearby Dunkin' Donuts.
The only thing of note, we're told, that took place during that time was that the shooter called 911 to tell police that he was doing this for the leader of ISIS, who he named and pledged loyalty to, before expressing solidarity with the supposed perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombings (which took place in 2013, before 'ISIS' existed) and solidarity with the Florida man who died in 2014 as a suicide bomber in Syria for Al-Nusra Front (a terrorist group the US State Department is working around the clock to distinguish from ISIS as 'moderate' because it is arming and funding it).
At about 5 am, SWAT police units used an armored vehicle to smash their way into the club, confront the suspect "in the doorway and shoot and kill him." Another variant of that ending has the 'lone wolf' engage in a one-hour shoot out with SWAT units, subjecting them to "a hail of bullets" before he is killed. Job done, everyone goes home.
Florida governor Rick Scott then gave the 'Orlando Strong' speech...
"This was an attack on our people, an attack on Orlando, an attack on Florida, an attack on America, an attack on all of us."US president Barack Obama followed up with the 'Love and Light' speech...
"In the face of hate and violence, we will love one another. We will not give in to fear or turn against each other, instead we will stand united as Americans to protect our people, to defend our nation, and take action against those who threaten us."And that's it; end of story.
There are, however, a few small details to iron out, like squaring the above with the following testimony provided by several people who were actually there at the club that night:
Part 1
Part 2
Multiple shooters coordinating a tactical assault on the club? Keeping exits blocked to maximize the death toll? Snipers keeping the cops at bay?
Who were these gunmen? Where did they go? Who do they work for? And more to the point, why isn't the media reporting this, at least alongside the incredible story of a lone wolf whose astonishing kill rate put Hollywood action movie 'heroes' to shame?
The very fact that the Orlando mass shooting simultaneously targeted pretty much all of America's fault lines points to the psychology of those behind it. We're not looking at wayward chance here; we're looking at someone or something that knows Americans better than they know themselves (and no one knows Americans better than their authority figures).
This is the terrorists (the actual ones) once again 'hitting the paranoia switch', as psychologist Martha Stout describes in her seminal work, reviewed here.
Then again, never mind; these are just trivial details and 'conspiratorial' speculation (based on eyewitness testimony). What's really important is that everyone gets together to cry crocodile tears for people they wouldn't ordinarily give a damn about, pledge their undying support for the military-industrial complex, and remember to vote this Fall for the most authoritarian 'leader' (take your pick between Killary and raging baby-man Trump) who will lead Americans (and the world) further down the road of global chaos and, quite possibly, ultimate destruction.
Reader Comments
Age limit.It's my understanding that many clubs allow 18 to 20 year olds in the clubs but they can't drink. Everyone inside is given a wrist band showing age. It's been around a while.
(When I was 18, that WAS the drinking age.)
R.C.
Surprised there have not been any black SUVs linked before, during and after the incident.
It's just a simple concept to give the government full control over you for at least 25% of your life
Cops have not been historically friendly to gay people and this mass murder is probably an extreme example of that. It's terrible to think that people would be so alienated by this aspect of human sexuality that they might have sat on the butts while people were being murdered, and if that is the case it's likely because those persons who did so had no direct experiences with that aspect of society.
As public servants that isn't acceptable in my opinion. You need to experience those parts of society which you serve in order to be logical and humane about what you do as a peace officer.
I live in Seattle where there are several nightclubs and most bars are at least gay friendly if not altogether gay. So I was in a gay bar drinking with friends when the cops came in, and they were obviously looking for someone. So I stood up and asked everyone to be quiet, which they did, and then I said; Officer, what can we help you with>Who are you looking for? Just tell them, meaning the other patrons.
Well ya know, those cops were so relieved you could just see the stress melt away, and when they gave a description of the guy they were looking for and why, then everyone nodded no, or said they hadn't seen anyone fitting that description. Ya know, those cops had never had an entire establishment suddenly come to a screeching halt just to assist them in a search. I'm quite sure they were a little surprised at the support.
Going to a gay nightclub or bar doesn't make you a fag people. It doesn't mean you're curious either, even if some of the aggressive patrons might think so, but so what, you can go to any bar or nightclub and still have someone find you insanely attractive but whom you would rather not have in the immediate area. It's called life and you deal with it.
As I've gotten older I've found that hetrosexual males have to be about the stupidest creatures on the planet, not to mention insecure. Don't be one of those. Women don't like that much and neither does anyone else for that matter.
Now about the PD sitting on their butts while gunfire is going on > well what's that say? We got the wrong kind of people wearing badges obviously. That's not the old school PD I can tell you that. I can't even imagine what kind of person with a gun in hand could or would sit by while that was happening.
Cops are supposed to be hero's looking for a location. Just who are they hiring today is my question.
Oh Danny Boy, You read what I wrote above? They would have legally been there provided they weren't drinking.
The point I made is that they are considered 'adults' under DRINKING AGE. (Hence my comments about the wrist bands for all - say red for under 21 and green for 21 and older - except the old fogies - and even them sometimes.)
R.C.
Thoughts From Rense.com
6-13-16
Cops Take An OATH To Put Their Lives On The Line
For The Citizens They Supposedly 'Protect And Serve'
How Many More Civilians Were Murdered During
The 3 HOURS The Cops Hid Outside?
Families Should SUE The Orlando Police Chief & Department For
Gross Negligence, Public Endangerment & Dereliction, Etc
One Escapee Found Cops Outside & Yelled 'Why Aren't
You Going In?!?" As Gunfire Continued From Inside.
Cops Have No Trouble Killing Innocent Civilians As We
Constantly See & Hear. One Brave Cop With A Gun Could
Have Saved Many Lives In That Club. Or If Some Of The
Patrons Were Armed. Or Even The Bartender
Why Did It Take Chickenshit Cops 3 HOURS To Go IN?
The Death-Oriented Culture Of Islam Must Be Acknowledged For What It Is.
Islam Is Arguably A Death Cult - We Must Face It AND ACT
Mr.Trump YOU MUST Repeat Your VOW To Ban Muslims
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For one: the official accounts of all these mass shootings are incredible suspect (to the point we can call them absolute bull s$&t).
For two: there would be no terrorist organizations with out the funding from the west.
For three: crazy nut job terrorists don't represent Islam.
I hope you disagree a bit with what they have to say on the issue though. I mean with all that Islam bs.
That's the state of 'alternative media' in the West.
Somebody please show me a tactical vest that can hold 30 or more magazines of 30 rounds.
So that means he was walking around with 33 to 35 lbs of loaded magazines. (1000 rounds of 223 being around 28 lbs). Seems like he needed a backpack or carry bag.
50lb drum magazines are very bulky and it still would have required 20 of those to fire 1000 rounds since I doubt this guy was reloading anything. Try reloading a mag even with a speed loader and you'll notice it takes a while.
Questions:
- where was he carrying all this ammo?
- where did he purchase all these magazines? (regular 30 rounders or 50 round drum mags).
- how did he logistically bring all this ammo in?
- how did the constant firing not cause some sort of barrel warp and subsequent rifle failure after shooting so many rounds? I would have expected rifle failure before the 1000 round mark under rapid fire conditions. (the barrel gets hot you know)
Seems like a fantasy that one guy shot 1000 rounds. Either that or the the number of rounds fired is much lower.
He just rolled in there filled with ammo.
Maybe it is .... the PTB monitor all our thoughts and that includes fantasies by warped people
Maybe they don't bother with CIA script writers anymore and just enact the "best" fantasies they find in all their surveillance
We all know how dangerous it is for the public to have access to drones - there was an open patio with access to the club
Not sure about the total count expended - it does not seem possible to have carried in 30 loaded magazines, a dozen would be no problem and he certainly had some downtimes where he could have reloaded with stripper clips.
Under those conditions is possible and likely that multiple individuals be struck by the same bullet, so a gunshot count probably not the best indicator of rounds fired..
The AR 15 is a fast, light, accurate shooter that reloads in seconds. This also implies he was dropping magazines all over the place and so makes a reload scenario even more difficult. He might have had a bag over his shoulder and just drop the spent ones in, pull a fresh one from a vest or other bag. Presumably he had some training via his security work.
Admittedly there are some real questions, but overall it doesn't seem impossible by any means.
Any security at the door would be easy enough to light up on the approach and once inside is a barrel shoot. Is also possible if not likely that any reports of multiple shooters could have been the result of an armed patron trying to take the active shooter down. Even though technically illegal to carry concealed in a bar in Fla, I'd be very surprised if no one there had a small back-up on them.
Automatic rifles are illegal to own. Either he got this illegally or he was given it by the government, or his security firm, or a whole bunch of other possibilities.
too many coincidences...
Is there any evidence that Mateen actually fired any weapons?
No surveillance or cell phone video from inside the bar has surfaced, which is really strange. None of the eyewitness statements that I have read/heard identified him as the/a shooter.
Multiple people have alleged that Mateen was gay. Multiple people have stated that he was a frequent customer of the bar.
Was Mateen a patsy?
I also believe there was more than 1 shooter or at least someone else there during part of it that was helping him. Why it took the police 3 hours to finally make that decision to go in is suspicious too. What were they doing playing poker?
If he had visited the club prior he knew it was latino night so if he was after white only why did he go that night? You know he knew the difference between latinos and whites.
It's like the whole thing was instigated. Hate Gays, Hate whites, but kill mostly Latinos, saying Blacks had had it hard enough, claim to ISIS.
Why did some say doors felt like someone was blocking them, why are some saying more than 1 shooter, why did the police take 3 hours to decide to go in?
I know that we have some sickos in our government, I just pray this was not instigated by anyone, party or group!
Media is playing big time to Obama's "Gun Control". To get people to sympathize that this would not have happened had we had stronger gun control. Well face it, a killer is going to get a gun even if we did have more gun controls.
I'm not against banning certain type of guns, but that doesn't mean they won't be available to someone that wants one.
And how convenient that this happened right after Hillary won the nomination for the Democrats. Just saying. Her connection to Soros who is known for inciting violence and funding terrorist and wants the US to emergence of a totalitarian world government (NWO).
Then there's Saudi Arabia that would like more than anything to take over the US. Rumors that Saudi funded the 911 attacks on us and now email is out that Hillary knew Saudi Arabia funded the Benghazi attacks.
Between those two they have given millions and millions to Hillary, Obama and the democratic Party. And that scares the hell out of me!
All of this is "I'm just saying" of course but something is very very shady about this tragic that killed those innocent people.
Too many people on social media, which is their news outlets, and it's harder than ever to stop them talking to each other:
Man overheard shooter’s phone conversation; shooter said there were 4 others involved, ‘3 snipers and 1 woman suicide bomber’
Eyewitness testifies that 5 people were involved with the Pulse attack in total
June 13, 2016
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Behind all this only one objective to kill the second amendment. Take the guns away from the good law abiding American citizens and implement the police state.
describing multiple persons involved: [Link]
I think what is bothering me the most is the comments to this. WTF has the age of the people involved have to do with anything? As well, what do the specific details have to do with the tea in China or what it tastes like. The above article posed all of those issues for us. Anyone who has been watching the mass shooting insanity knows it is targeted and designed to get the greatest outrage possible. The recent POTTYGATE crap is perfectly in line. I am very afraid that anyone of us could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and BAM dead. You could be out walking your dog in front of a shooting range, gay bar, school, ect ect ect and be collateral damage and the perpetrators would say oh well. It happens on a daily basis in Africa, Syria and many other parts of the world. Get ready folks it is coming to a town near you. Sorry if I seem a bit pissy.
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As it happens, hers is the best testimony of multiple persons having been involved. (See 'Part 2' video above). Now the 'actors' theorists are trashing her. Coincidence?
The second eyewitness gave too much (specific) information. He sounded like he had to be very close to the person doing the shooting and yet how does that happen? Quite a tale to tell. I'm a little bit suspicious of it.
Here there are also some good points:
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-- from the Faux Event Forecast Service:
Scattered faux events through the summer in all parts of the United Sheeple of America. Large faux systems gathering through the coming months, culminating in huge storms around election time.
After Hillary's coronation, a period of quiet.
Dr Paul Craig Roberts has asked his millions of readers to help him find some evidence to support the official account.
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so far, nothing. nothing.
"So far all we have are official statements and testimony by what seem to be crisis actors."
*facepalm*
If you catch this before they wipe it, you will discover that the original story was supposed to be 20 dead and 40 injured, and
that it was released to the MSM 6 hours early and damn near everybody published it six hours early.
Google scrubbed a lot of it, and an AI or something went through and over wrote all reports (including date updates to the 12th, but the ghost is still there, take a look at this!:
UPDATE: This has been updated and made better as I went around laughing, finding better stuff that totally showed how far their pants were pulled down.
They BLEW THIS, the official lie CANNOT SURVIVE THIS.
RED ALERT GRAB INFO QUICK POST:
HERE IS HOW YOU PROVE HUNDREDS OF PUBLICATIONS RELEASED THE PULSE SHOOTING REPORT SIX HOURS BEFORE IT HAPPENED:
TYPE "20 DEAD 40 injured pulse" into Google and tell it to only return results from the 11th.
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Bombshell Proof Emerges BLM Pushing For Martial Law And No Elections
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Hacked Twitter DMs find BLM leaders scheming with Obama administration to get elections cancelled and Trump kept out of office.
Niall, Who's fallen into where? And who already lives in what trap?
You state that Paul Craig Roberts (PCR) has
"also fallen into the 'actors' camp:
"So far all we have are official statements and testimony by what seem to be crisis actors."
*facepalm* "
PCR has long tended to speak his mind. I remember when he woke up about the farce of the drug war, etc. The changing of one's mind after additional facts indicates someone with an open mind and willingness to admit their error, and humanity.
Are you likewise willing? Are YOU certain that NONE of all of these mass murder events (which ROUTINELY fail to have the Social Security Death Jump that ALWAYS follows REAL mass casualties) are actually the work of a Lying Gov. working with a Lying MSM one behalf of the PTB.
Or are you stuck in the fact that 'there can be no crisis actors' EVER, ANYWHERE! PERIOD!"
Where are all the videos we should see of Paris, Brussels, Pulse, Aurora, etc? Where are the 'bodies' buried?
Rather, as I recall, when the ever witty and eloquent writer and photographer, Dave McGowan, pointed out in his detailed photographic analysis of Boston, you folks put him on the cross, (while also refusing his offers to debate, as I recall.) (Of course, that's not a problem now as he got a Ruby-esque cancer and he's RIP).
So did YOU THEN PERMANENTLY FALL into the 'anti-actors' camp? What PCR said was "I'm tired of being lied to by the MSM on behalf of the PTB." I will believe this when the proof is presented. Please, my millions of readers, prove my concern over our all-too-often lying government ill-founded. I await EVIDENCE, not MSM re spouting of a Government that lies routinely."
That's hardly in the "actors' camp.' Rather it's completely in the 'open minded,' camp. Just because Geraldo Rivera says it doesn't mean I believe it. Or B. Obama for that matter. (And SOTT routinely points out MSM & government lies. What is it about 'crisis actors' and overstated body counts (sound familiar?) that gets your dander up?)
I'm confident that Alex Jones got co-opted on the issue of Israel's role in everything, and his subsequent actions and online news time have proven the point.
Might there perhaps be any such co-option re Crisis Actors at SOTT? Y'all seem a bit touchy about it.
Well, let the hornets fly.
R.C.
Yeah, until about a couple of years ago, his perception of events was great. Now he's all 'Russia, nuke Washington before it's too late! What's wrong with you, Vlad!', betraying a poor understanding of how the world works. That he's giving even the slightest credence to such events as Orlando having not actually taken place at all further indicates that his thinking is deteriorating.
"Are you likewise willing? Are YOU certain that NONE of all of these mass murder events (which ROUTINELY fail to have the Social Security Death Jump that ALWAYS follows REAL mass casualties) are actually the work of a Lying Gov. working with a Lying MSM one behalf of the PTB."
We examined the 'Boston Bombing as HOAX!' crisis actors scenario up the wazoo. It's utter nonsense, in part driven by COINTELPRO, in part driven by Americans believing that they are exceptional, that what happens routinely in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and elsewhere (Western intel-created death squads riddling people of all 'sides' with bullets, then pinning it on 'the enemy') can't happen to them because they are special.
"Rather, as I recall, when the ever witty and eloquent writer and photographer, Dave McGowan, pointed out in his detailed photographic analysis of Boston, you folks put him on the cross, (while also refusing his offers to debate, as I recall.) (Of course, that's not a problem now as he got a Ruby-esque cancer and he's RIP)."
That's not quite how it went down, but yes, Dave was another 'alt.media' writer who lost the plot when these kinds of attacks ramped up in recent years.
"So did YOU THEN PERMANENTLY FALL into the 'anti-actors' camp? What PCR said was "I'm tired of being lied to by the MSM on behalf of the PTB." I will believe this when the proof is presented. Please, my millions of readers, prove my concern over our all-too-often lying government ill-founded. I await EVIDENCE, not MSM re spouting of a Government that lies routinely."
Good luck to you!
"That's hardly in the "actors' camp.' Rather it's completely in the 'open minded,' camp. Just because Geraldo Rivera says it doesn't mean I believe it. Or B. Obama for that matter. (And SOTT routinely points out MSM & government lies. What is it about 'crisis actors' and overstated body counts (sound familiar?) that gets your dander up?)"
You mean, what is it about it that gets your dander up?
"I'm confident that Alex Jones got co-opted on the issue of Israel's role in everything, and his subsequent actions and online news time have proven the point."
Nah, AJ is 'co-opted' in the sense that he was always 'America First'.
"Might there perhaps be any such co-option re Crisis Actors at SOTT? Y'all seem a bit touchy about it."
Likewise!
"Well, let the hornets fly."
Nah, we couldn't care less really. Everyone has already chosen what they believe.
Oh well.
R.C.