Editorial
Burlington, North Carolina
Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor
"He's reached a level here where he's nothing. He's been a big loser; nobody wants anything to do with him." "He's angry with himself, angry at others -- but not at a specific person, at the population at large. What America represents here is this wealthy country where he keeps getting kicked out and comes back and may try to get going in a job but just can't make ends meet. Coupled with these feelings, these inadequacies, fueled by the fact that he's known to take alcohol, take drugs, lowers his inhibitions now to go out and kill."
-John Douglas, former FBI criminal profiler, June 29
Is the serial murderer that FBI wanted posters call "Rafael Resendez-Ramirez" just another loner who has gone wacko and started down the train tracks to mass murder - or is he a terrorist, acting from motives common to all illegals from Mexico, motives that generally stay suppressed?
Former FBI profiler John Douglas - who had studied serial murderers and other "headline crime" perpetrators in his 25 years with the FBI - views Resendez-Ramirez as careless, but also as a man acting from motives far different than the prototypical serial murderers such as Ted Bundy, who "specialize" in one type of victims, often prostitutes.
Douglas told the online true-crime newspaper APB Online that he views Resendez-Ramirez as committing crimes to satisfy immediate material needs, such as money - but murders in significant part out of anger at the rich America that keeps deporting him to his impoverished homeland. Such a motive would almost amount to a form of terrorism - because Douglas went on to say that Resendez-Ramirez doesn't care what race, sex, or age his victims are, but rather hates the whole American population.
It's not just Mexican illegals who see the U.S. as a nation where living standards are immensely higher than those of their homelands and come here illegally for that reason - but Mexico is the only Third World nation whose poor are blanketed by Hollywood's airbrushed version of American prosperity.
How many more Resendez-Ramirezs are out there, waiting to go off?
