Creep of the Week - July 27, 1996

Image: Site of the Olympic Bomb

This Week's Bomber - Olympic Edition

I guess it's time to change the name of this Web Site to The Low-Life Testosterone-Lacking Evil Slimebag Bomber of the Week. By now, no one should be surprised. If you want to make some quick bucks, start a pool to see who can guess where next week's bomb will be and how many will be killed. The Olympic Bomber didn't even have the decency to have a sophisticated device or an intricate plan like the guys in Saudi Arabia or on TWA 800. No, this guy just threw some gun powder into a couple of pipes with a few nails and screws, deposited it in the middle of a rock concert at the park and then called 911. No imagination. Be assured that he's totally disgusted with himself that only one person was killed. All that work for one lousy innocent bystander.

After a week's worth of watching the cream of New York's politicians fill up all available air time to complain about TWA's handling of THEIR bombing incident, brace yourself for another onslaught. Can you think of a muckraking, motor-mouthed Congressman from Atlanta who needs no encouragement to prattle on incessantly about how the administration should have foreseen this tragedy and done more to prevent it? Watch for another batch of victims' families to complain about how the authorities are sitting around sipping mint juleps when they should be out looking for the mad bomber. Expect the usual litany of news stories about how lax security is and how easy bomb making can be.

The last five out of seven Creeps of the Week have had something to do with the killing and/or maiming of innocent people by terrorists with bombs. I'm beginning to run out of witty, original thoughts on this subject. Let's all get down on our knees next week and pray for one of the presidential candidates to be caught in bed with a teenage boy or for some belligerent rich sport figure to punch out Mother Teresa or for another rock star to OD on heroin while blaming his abusive parents. Maybe if we work together, we can bring back the the good old days.

Let me know what you think at montgome@servtech.com

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