UNFORTUNATELY ANOTHER HORRIBLE KILLING IN GERMANY, NINE DEAD, A
TRUCK PLOWED INTO A CHRISTMAS MARKET IN THE GERMAN CAPITAL OF
BERLIN AND OF COURSE IT WAS VERY CROWDED THERE, IT WAS NEAR THE
RUINED KAISER WILHELM MEMORIAL CHURCH WHICH WAS KEPT AS A
BOMBED OUT RUIN AFTER WORLD WAR II, THERE WERE NINE KILLED AND
50 INJURED.
WHENEVER THERE IS AN ATTACK IN THE FIRST 24 HOURS THE
INFORMATION IS NOT RELIABLE, IT IS BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW,
THERE ARE CONFLICTING REPORTS ABOUT THE DRIVERS, THE ONLY
INDICATION WE HAVE OF ANY NATIONALITY AS WE DO THIS LIVE
IS APPARENTLY THEY SAY THE CO-PASSENGER, WHATEVER THAT
MEANS, WAS OF POLISH DESCENT.
HE COULD BE A POLISH NATIONAL AND
BE OF ANY PARTICULAR RELIGION, RACE, ETC.
-- THAT IS THE VERY
POOR INFORMATION WE HAVE NOW.
UNDERSTANDABLY SO, AS
AUTHORITIES TRY TO FIGURE WHAT HAPPENED AND MAKE SURE THE RIGHT
PEOPLE ARE DETAINED AND CAPTURED.
AS USUAL OUR HEARTS GO
OUT TO GERMANY.
I KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, LET THE
SPECULATION BEGIN, THERE ARE USUALLY THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE
WHO DO THESE MASS KILLINGS -- PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET
ATTENTION, AND THEN YOU HAVE ISLAMIC RADICALS WHO OBVIOUSLY
HAVE DONE SIMILAR ACTIONS IN EUROPE ALREADY, THEN YOU HAVE
RADICALS OF OTHER SORTS WHETHER IT IS IN THE U.S. IN EUROPE,
LIKE THE SHOOTING IN NORWAY, IT IS DONE FOR OTHER REASONS IN
THEIR HEADS.
ARE THEY ALL CRAZY?
YES.
THEY KILL ALL THESE PEOPLE
AND I'M SURE WHAT WAS A HAPPY TIME FOR THEM, LEADING UP TO
CHRISTMAS, PROBABLY A LOT OF THEM WERE WITH THEIR FAMILIES,
EVERY TIME I THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE KILLED IT IS
HEARTBREAKING.
I KNOW THE DIFFERENT CAMPS, IF IT IS AN
ISLAMIC RADICAL HE'S NOT CRAZY, HE REPRESENTS EVERYBODY IN THAT
FAITH, SOME WILL SAY -- IF IT IS A NON-ISLAMIC RADICAL HE'S
CRAZY, A LONE WOLF, AND HE DOESN'T REPRESENT ANYONE ELSE.
NOW IT IS AN INTERESTING MOMENT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS,
BUT I GUARANTEE YOU ONE OF THOSE STORYLINES WILL PLAY OUT.
WE
WILL FIND OUT.
IF IT IS A NON-ISLAMIC RADICAL AND
EVERYBODY SAYS HE'S PART OF A MOVEMENT AND HIS RELIGION OR
RACE OR ETHNICITY OR POLITICAL COHORTS SHOULD ALL BE BLAMED,
THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING.
I WOULD NOT AGREE WITH THAT, BUT
THAT WOULD BE A NEW TWIST.
IF IT IS AN ISLAMIC RADICAL I WOULD BE
SURPRISED IF HALF THE PEOPLE DIDN'T SAY YOU SEE THAT?
1.6
BILLION MUSLIMS ARE SIMILAR AND WE SHOULD BE WARY OF ALL OF
THEM, WE SHOULD KEEP SOME OF THEM OUT OF OUR COUNTRIES, IT IS
THEIR FAULT AND WE SHOULD BEGIN TO PROFILE THEM.
THE OTHER HALF
OF FOLKS, BY THE WAY, WON'T SAY THAT AND THEY WILL DEFEND 1.6
BILLION PEOPLE.
BUT ONE OF THOSE STORYLINES WILL PLAY OUT AND
WILL GO AROUND AND AROUND.
WILL WE GET TO AN ANSWER?
WE HAVEN'T
YET, BECAUSE THE SHOOTINGS CONTINUE IN AMERICA AND THESE
MASS KILLINGS ALSO NOW UNFORTUNATELY ARE AFFECTING
EUROPE.
THE BLAME GAME HASN'T WORKED VERY WELL ON ANY OF THE
SIDES, PERHAPS A CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTION WOULD BE GREAT.
BUT
DON'T GET ME WRONG, THERE ARE NO EASY ANSWERS.
IF THERE WAS, WE
WOULD HAVE DONE IT ALREADY.
BECAUSE FOR ALL RATIONAL, DECENT
PEOPLE, STORIES LIKE THIS ARE HEARTBREAKING.
WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE THE STORIES OF THE VICTIMS.
IN EVERY CASE, WHETHER IT IS
PARIS OR ISTANBUL OR SYRIA OR HERE IN AMERICA, ORLANDO, THE
LIST GOES ON, ONCE YOU HEAR THE STORIES OF THE VICTIMS, IF
YOU'RE ANYWHERE NEAR A DECENT HUMAN BEING IT WILL BREAK YOUR
HEART.
I HOPE THAT AT SOME POINT WE COULD ALL COME TOGETHER AND
ACTUALLY COME UP WITH A RATIONAL WAY TO FIGHT THIS, BECAUSE
IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.