A man described by police as a “British national” went on a killing spree in DeKalb County, Georgia, murdering two women — one of whom worked for the Department of Homeland Security.
Now, before we go any further — notice the scare quotes around “British national.” That phrase is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in these news reports. “British national” tells you exactly one thing: the suspect held a British passport. It tells you nothing about where he was actually from, how he got here, how long he’d been here, or what his immigration status was in the United States. The media knows this. They’re counting on you not to ask follow-up questions.
When the press calls someone a “British national” instead of just saying “a British man,” your radar should go off. They’re using the vaguest possible language for a reason. A reason they don’t want you thinking about too hard. Because if this guy were a fifth-generation Londoner named Nigel who went to Oxford, they’d say his name or call him a “British man” so you’d know the color of his skin. The deliberate vagueness is the tell.
Two women are dead. Their families are destroyed. And the best the media can give us is a passport description that sounds like it was written by a State Department press office at 4:55 on a Friday.
Here’s what we DO know: Olaolukitan Adon Abel was arrested for the murder of two women in a violent spree in the Atlanta metro area. Abel is a national of the United Kingdom who was naturalized by the Biden administration. He has a LOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG rap sheet that includes offenses like sexual battery, battery against a police officer, and assault with a deadly weapon. https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/2044254385375523074
One of the victims was an employee of the Department of Homeland Security. That’s the department whose entire mission — the reason it exists, the words on the building — is to protect the American homeland from threats. A DHS employee was murdered by a foreign national. On the homeland. That she was supposed to be protected on. https://twitter.com/mattvanswol/status/2043762525057978866
That fact should be leading every newscast in America. Instead, the coverage reads like a local crime blotter with the serial numbers filed off. No deep dive into the suspect’s background. No questions about his visa status. No investigation into how he entered the country or whether anyone flagged him. Just “British national” and move along.
Ask yourself: if this suspect were a white American male, would the media be this vague about his background? Would they describe him with a passport designation instead of, you know, actually telling you who he is? Of course not. They’d have his social media posts, his high school yearbook photo, and a three-part series on his “radicalization” by dinner time. But when the details might point in an inconvenient direction, suddenly journalism gets real cautious.
We’ve seen the press do this kind of thing before where they’ll tie itself in knots to avoid saying things that might make people ask uncomfortable questions about who’s being let into this country and why Democrats immigration policies are so devastating to Americans.
Two families in Georgia are planning funerals tonight. The media is playing word games with the suspect’s nationality. And somewhere, a DHS office has an empty desk that belonged to a woman who gave her career to border security and homeland protection.
She deserved better. From the system she served. And from the press that can’t even be honest about who took her life. https://twitter.com/SecMullinDHS/status/2044372949826683104
