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In reply to the discussion: 2 months before his murder spree, Mateen signed his house over to his Brother-in-law [View all]
countryjake
(8,554 posts)watch all three network evening news daily, listen to CNN and MSNBC regularly, and read headlines at all the nation's top newspapers. If I were her, I'd go underground, too, and I'd think that government authorities may have helped her along in that, sticking her in a safe house or some place where conservative rabid wingnuts can never find her, while they find out exactly how much she knew about her husband's intentions and how much she may have helped him in his dastardly plot and if she was capable of stopping him.
What you've said somewhere in another post about her situation in their marriage, that she possibly was also a battered wife, just like Mateen's first spouse (who has appeared in numerous television interviews telling how controlling and explosive he was), rings true to me. After almost five years of marriage, the man only recently "allowed" her to learn to drive a car and get a license. I don't think there's any doubt that Mateen was a flaming bigot and probably despised women as much as he hated LGBTs. And I can imagine a person living in such a relationship being afraid to defy or report him.
I take with a grain of salt the reports that he had been scoping out the gay community. I'm just a lowly country jake and all that those stories make me think is, what better way to throw the FBI off of his trail. The timing of his first "assessment" by the FBI back in 2013 actually coincides with some of the tales of his LGBT involvement, so I would not be too quick to discount the absolute cunning that such a person was capable of, considering now what he has actually succeeded in doing.
If you could have heard the twenty-four hour supposing and speculation on the murderer's "gayness" that various tv commentators, idiotic blowhards, political pundits, and government security representatives have been blathering across the airwaves all this week, you might understand why it's upsetting to me and why I can only consider such an effort as deliberate propaganda.
Where did you hear about Mateen's wife "vanishing"?
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