“Radicalized” driver hits two Canadian soldiers with his car (UPDATED)
Fox News reports that fellow who was “radicalized by Islam” ran over two Canadian soldiers in a mall parking lot yesterday, one died from his injuries;
The suspect in the attack, which took place in a mall parking lot near Montreal, has been identified as 25-year-old Martin Rouleau. Police fatally shot Rouleau after a car chase that ended with the suspect losing control of the car and rolling over several times in the town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 25 miles southeast of Montreal.
Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet said Rouleau exited the car and was shot. He said police found a knife on the ground, but could not say if he had it in his hand when police fired their weapons. Television images showed a large knife in the grass near his flipped over car.
Nice to see that gun control in Canada is working so well.
UPDATED: From Associated Press, the Canadians have been watching him for a few months;
Couture-Rouleau, 25, was one of 90 people in the country suspected of intending to join fights abroad or who have returned from overseas, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson.
He first came to attention of authorities in June because of Facebook postings that showed he had become radicalized and wanted to leave the country to fight, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Martine Fontaine.
Police seized his passport at the airport in July when he tried to travel to Turkey, Fontaine said. He was arrested and questioned but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime, she said.
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Lapointe said the suspect sat in his car in the parking lot outside a veterans’ support center for at least two hours before the hit and run. He said the other soldier is in stable condition with minor injuries.
So, watching someone isn’t the same as preventing them from harming someone, I guess.
Category: Terror War
Damn. RIP Soldier. Prayers for the other that he has a quick and full recovery!
Rot in hell Islamic scumbag.
rb325th…I’m late catching up yesterday’s threads but again, “what you said brother”.
As of an hour ago (as I wrote on AT…lol) the officials are still calling it a “possible terrorist attack…”
If it walks like a duck …
Here in the US it would be workplace violence.
Under the current Regime, it would be classed as a random traffic accident.
If you love gun control thank your Queen. If not You Canadians need to realize they are their own county and start voting like citizens instead subjects of the crown.
You do realise that HM Queen Elizabeth II doesn’t make laws, right? That’s the duty of Parliament. Laws there require her Royal Assent…which she cannot refuse, and has indeed never been refused for nigh on 300 years.
Realise? HM Queen Elizabeth? Well nigh? Here you go, Semper Idem. This is in your honor:
Good riddance to this shitweasel. Their laws suck, but in this case the Canadian cops did right sending this cocksucker to hell.
Hopefully the other Soldier recovers soon. Prayers and condolences for the family of the one who didn’t make it.
You know things are taking a turn for the worst when cops are shooting perps in CANADA…
Does ‘radicalized’ in 2014 mean the same thing as ‘flower child’ and ‘expanded consciousness’ meant in the 1960s?
That’s not a facetious question. Both concepts represent extremes. Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground came out of the SDS, which started as a low-key movement and then went out of control, just as the Black Panthers did earlier.
Anyway, I hope the soldier who survived is okay. R.I.P. the other one.
UPDATED: From Associated Press, the Canadians have been watching him for a few months;
So, watching someone isn’t the same as preventing them from harming someone, I guess.
Point 1: Terrorist ideology is what the Canadians call it. Terrorist ideology. How nice. Don’t want to ruffle feathers. How about terrorist theology, my northern friends?
Point 2: The AP says that the suspect sat in his car in the parking lot outside a veterans’ support center for at least two hours before the hit and run. Hit and run? How about calling it a barbaric attack on two soldiers?
Those points go to language. We need language to think. We are changed by language. We are indoctrinated by language. Language is a conformity tool. It is usually very subtle and sometimes, as here, quite obvious. Pay attention to the language. It matters.
Yes, it does matter.
I am offended by people who are offended when I use blunt language because it is more truthful than platitudes and obsequiousness.