Given the recent mayhem in San Bernardino, the stabbing incident at
UC-Merced in early November has been pushed from the national headlines. But
not entirely, as will be noted below. Not surprisingly, it still is newsworthy
in the local Merced area.* However, beyond the local news, various conservative
news media allege a cover up of the UC-Merced incident, i.e., that it was
really terrorism. The allegation arose shortly after the event** and continues
to the present.***
Shortly after the UC-Merced incident, the local sheriff
indicated that the student perpetrator was not a terrorist – presumably meaning someone
acting out of religious and/or political beliefs. It was instead due to the mental
issues of someone angry about being rejected from a study group. This
interpretation was based on a manifesto the stabber left behind. The document
was reportedly slated to be released a few days after the incident.**** Put
another way, the Merced incident was similar to the incident at UC-Santa
Barbara in May 2014 where the perpetrator killed people out of anger at not
having a girlfriend. In that case, the killer left behind a manifesto “explaining”
his motives.
In contrast, the UC-Merced manifesto hasn’t been released,
although there have been various news reports since the incident that somehow interpret what is
allegedly in it. At least one blogsite has filed a public documents request
which has been rejected. See below:
“Upon review, we have concluded that the information you have requested is integral to an ongoing investigation. The disclosure of it at this time would endanger the successful completion of that investigation. Therefore we are denying your request at this time…”
Source:
http://www.pipelinenews.org/
http://www.pipelinenews.org/
Yours truly suggests that the conspiracy/terrorism
interpretation could be quickly put to rest if the UC-Merced police would
simply release the manifesto (and whatever other relevant documents there are). Surely
the UC-Merced police have a copy or could get one from the Merced sheriff. The
local sheriff shortly after the event said, "We had an upset teenager that was upset because he got kicked out of a
study group."**** Given that official view – no terror conspiracy/just individual mental
problems – a view which has not changed in any news report since, there remains
only the Galanter hypothesis (see above) as to why the manifesto has not been
released, even without a public document request. With all the calls for “transparency”
in public matters, not honoring the request seems like bureaucratic
incompetence.
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*http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/education/uc-merced/article49067410.html
and http://abc30.com/news/search-warrant-says-ucm-attacker-sat-in-silent-day-of-attack/1118558/
***http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/10/with-spotlight-on-san-bernardino-yet-more-questions-about-college-knife-attack/
Excerpt: …Yet, more than a month after the Nov. 4 attack at University of
California Merced, local and federal authorities continue to insist that Faisal
Mohammad, 18, carried out the vicious attack because he'd been banished from a
study group. (John) Price, whose son Byron Price, a 31-year-old construction
manager for the family business who was working nearby and was stabbed when he
heroically intervened, suspects the White House's reluctance to identify acts
of radical Islamic terror has trickled down to investigators who are still
probing the Merced attack…
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