Leftwing Ideology Delayed
Capture of Sniper Suspects

he left-wing multiculturalism imposed on the U.S. by its elites is now infecting law enforcement organizations, producing an anti-white bias so severe that the lives of innocent civilians are at stake.

That's the lesson residents in the Washington, D.C., area learned this fall after the capture of accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, both black. Muhammed is an American-born Muslim convert, and Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica.

A review of the investigatory tactics used to track down the two shows that the willingness of federal and local police to use racial profiling when suspects are believed to be white, but not when they might be non-white, helped delay their apprehension, costing the lives of sniper victims.

For three long weeks, the snipers terrorized the Washington, D.C., beltway area, killing eleven people and severely wounding two. Despite the terror, law enforcement authorities allowed themselves to be blinded by ideology, deciding in advance that the suspects must be white, because authorities didn't want to hurt the feelings of racial minorities.

During the sniper terror that gripped Maryland, Virginia and Washington, newspaper accounts reported that several witnesses said they saw "Middle-Eastern" or "Hispanic"-looking men. Some witnesses said the men were "olive skinned" or "dark skinned." But police organizations refused to act on the information, deciding instead to rely on their own "profilers" who said they believed the suspects were white.

One official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms who worked on the sniper task force told WorldNetDaily.com that authorities played down the terrorism angle to avoid what he called "public panic" in the area.

The police task force, which involved law enforcement units from the BATF and FBI, as well as local police in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, reportedly had enough information from witnesses to produce a composite sketch of the suspects. Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Chief Charles Moose, who led the multi-jurisdictional task force, told reporters that investigators had at least a "partial description" of the suspects whom he characterized as "minorities."

Despite that information, Chief Moose, who is black, refused to release a sketch or further information about the snipers' possible ethnicity. He said he did not want to "paint some group."

But whites were targeted by the investigation, even though profiling of non-white suspects is not permitted in the U.S. Police at roadblocks set up in the area after each shooting were told to "wave cars by if the drivers were minorities or females," one BATF officer told WorldNetDaily. "They were told to search only cars with white males behind the wheel," said the report.

The police were so convinced that their racial profile of white suspects was accurate, they were inclined to doubt eye-witnesses who contradicted the profile.

"We don't want anyone to give up on the fact that it could be a white guy," said Derek Baliles, one of Moose's investigative officers at the task force headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.
When witnesses at a shooting in the parking garage of a Home Depot store in Virginia told police they saw suspects described as "dark skinned," Baliles suggested the lighting was bad in the garage, and even speculated that white men could have been wearing dark make-up.

Chief Moose is a long-time foe of what he considers to be "racial profiling," and has a history of angry confrontations with whites. When he worked as a cop in Portland, Oregon, before becoming a police chief in Maryland, Moose was ordered to take an "anger management" course because of frequent bouts of losing his temper, often over what he considered to be racial slights from whites, according to WorldNetDaily.

One white cop from Portland told the news service that Moose had difficulty getting along with whites.

"[H]e made it very apparent he has some very strong bias against white males, especially ones with blond hair and blue eyes," he said.

When Moose arrived in Montgomery County to become police chief in 1999, he first met with the NAACP and vowed to end racial profiling.