Waging War on the Hyperviolent
Today’s extreme counter measures to eliminate homicidal maniacs!
It is dangerously naive to assume that the violent suspect you may face will have no training, and will have some type of inferior weaponry. Such an assumption could cost you your very life. Indeed, the federal ECSP (Exceptional Case Study Project), an operational analysis of the thinking and behavior of 83 persons from 1949 to 1995 who assassinated, attacked or approached to attack a prominent person in the United States concluded that, among other findings, “…mental illness is not critical to determining dangerousness; the ability and capacity to develop and execute a plan is much more significant. Most importantly, the findings indicated that there is no ‘profile’ of the assassin, but rather, identified a common set of ‘attack related behaviors’ exhibited by the subjects.” In other words, a cogent man or group on a mission is a greater threat than the deranged and loud that one would intuitively suspect. It is not a stretch to interpolate the mindset from assassination, to mass murder, to terrorism.
The Minds Of Madmen
As recounted in the new book Storming Las Vegas by John Huddy (Ballantine Books, 2008), Jose Vigoa was anything but untrained and unprepared in his armed robberies of armored cars in Las Vegas. Vigoa is a former Cuban member of the Spetsnaz (Russian special forces) with combat experience in Afghanistan and Africa. When Vigoa “immigrated” to the U.S. as part of the Mariel boatlift, he found his way to Vegas. First applying his “talents” to the drug trade, he was known as being very brutal and very well armed. After a stint in federal prison, Vigoa returned to Vegas and soon applied himself to robbing armored-car pick-ups at some major casinos. He methodically planned robberies and was ready to fire his AK if any resistance from the guards was experienced.
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