The L.A. Times this morning is reporting [1] we’re dealing with cases of arson :
Amid worries of new blazes adding to the firestorm already afflicting the region, a man in Hesperia has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and police reported shooting and killing another arson suspect after chasing him out of scrub behind Cal State San Bernardino.
Law enforcement officials said today that they didn’t know whether either of the men had started any of the more than a dozen large fires that have devastated Southern California in recent days, including the nearby Lake Arrowhead blaze. The brush fire in Hesperia was quickly extinguished by residents.
Investigators have said that at least two of the huge wildfires, one in Orange County and the other in Temecula, were the work of arsonists.
Arsonists, generally fall into two categories:
- They get their jollies by setting fires.
- They get paid for setting fires.
(Photo: Dale Franks, Q&O) [2]
[3]What if there was a concerted effort afoot to make the current administration look bad? Who would gain by this? Possibly, a large number of currently illegal immigrants, perhaps? Forgive me for saying so, but I’ve noticed an interesting dearth of fires south of the Mexican border. Further, I’ve noticed that a good deal of those fires are within spitting distance of that same border. Further, they have less in the way of firefighting equipment south of the border, then do we. Yet in looking at the pictures provided us by NASA this morning, which were taken from the space shuttle, it seems clear that these fires are only happening north of the border.
Then we have the press, who has been more than willing to report complaints that the whole thing was President Bush’s fault that we didn’t have the thing under control, and that they started in the first place. they have also been notably reluctant to report that the deployment of the national guard into the vicinity of those fires was not in the least affected by the number of soldiers that we currently have in Iraq. Of course, it’s the environmental policy, it’s Iraq, you know the drill. Normally, the left is fairly knee jerk -ish about playing such games when these events come along anyway. It’s despicable, but there it is. But this time, there seemed to me a level of coordination that we haven’t seen for a long time. Almost as if this was planned this way.
This is pure speculation, mind, but it fits the events rather nicely. And it would explain quite a bit. And no, I would not put it beneath the opponents of the president. Not for one split second.