I don't know about you, but not very long after Monday's Berlin truck ramming terrorist spree that left 12 people dead and wounded 48, I noticed that numerous mainstream media outlets were running outlandish headlines like these:
- New York Times: "9 dead in Berlin after truck drives into Christmas market"
- CNN: "Truck kills 9 at Berlin Christmas market"
- CNBC: "Truck plows into crowd at Berlin Christmas market, 12 dead"
- BBC: "Berlin Breitscheidplatz: Lorry kills 12 at Christmas market"
- and many more.
If you were paying attention, you would have noticed that all of the above headlines suggest that a truck suddenly became self-aware and decided to kill.
CNN's story included:
"A tractor trailer barreled into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing nine and injuring at least 50."
Umm, excuse me? Last time I checked, trucks do not somehow suddenly start up and kill people of their own accord.
It's the same logic that they use when trying to take away gun rights. "Guns kill people," they say. Well, no – actually they don't.
Inanimate objects never killed anybody (except maybe in the movies).
It seems to me that the mainstream media deliberately avoided the fact that someone had to be behind the wheel of that truck. I guess the fact the truck was going at speed and deliberately headed for a Christmas market where large amounts of people were gathered was somehow a complete coincidence. I think not.
They continued to peddle these headlines long after a terrorist investigation into the incident had been declared, by continuing to imply the attack was some major "truck crash" instead of a likely terrorism incident.
Eventually, the Daily Mail, The Star and Guardian and others began admitting that police were investigating a deadly Berlin truck crash as a "presumed terrorist attack."
Of course, in journalism, reporters must wait for confirmation or at least credible information before reporting about anything as fact. But why blame a truck and make it sound like it murdered 12 people of its own accord? Why make it sound like an official terror investigation is somehow not a very important fact the public should know about?
It is quite clear the media completely avoided the possibility of the "truck crash" being linked to terror despite an active terrorist investigation taking place.
I suppose the simple fact that ISIS and al-Qaida have been plotting attacks exactly like Monday's for a very long time completely escaped reporters' minds. Let's not forget that just last month, the U.K. Mirror warned of terrorists "planning a wave of Christmas attacks throughout Europe, targeting shopping areas and crowded marketplaces to maximize casualties."
A security source informed the Mirror:
"Whilst U.K. agencies have been extremely good at preventative intelligence operations against jihadist groups, other European equivalents have been less successful, sadly.
"This means the entire continent is vulnerable to attack as we have seen in France, Germany and Belgium but particularly in the run-up to Christmas.
"It is a Christian period of festivities, bring together large crowds of soft target civilians and will attract attention from those who wish to inflict harm."
Another coincidence? I think not.
Why have they gone to great lengths to distance the attack from having anything to do with Islamic terrorism?
The interesting thing is that when the instigator of an attack is a so-called "Christian," the media jump all over the story, stretching and sensationalizing it in every way possible.
But when it's a possible Muslim who's the instigator, all I can hear is crickets.
As it turns out, the driver of the big rig was a 24-year-old Tunisian asylum-seeker, Anis Amri – a product of Merkel's brave new Germany thanks to her reckless "open doors" policy.
He reportedly entered Germany in 2015 and was under the surveillance of German intelligence for several months.
As a Tunisian asylum-seeker, the suspect's chance of being a Muslim terrorist is 99.99 percent.
When will the mainstream media stop prostrating themselves for the sake of Islam?