Orlando Shooter's Secret Too Ugly to Mention

A somber start to the week, Friends,

Omar Mateen was different than other radical Islamic terrorists who've attacked our homeland, and no one really wants to talk about it much because the difference is so profoundly painful.

This one-ton elephant in the room plays right into Donald Trump's narrative. It even gives some credence in a perverted way to his disgusting attack on federal judge Gonzalo Curiel, a true American hero.

Like Judge Curiel, Mateen is a first-generation native-born American.

Take a look at me. I could be the idiot who changed the whole world
'cause I got pissed off.

According to Trump's very-public opinion on the matter, this would give him more bona fides than either Ted Cruz or Barack Obama to be president of our country.

The fact that we were attacked yesterday by a fellow American who'd been radicalized by ISIS should be absolutely chilling to us.

Two other radical Islamic attacks on our soil have been carried out by a native-born Americans.

The Fort Hood shooter was born in Virginia.

Syed Farook, the male half of the San Bernardino husband/wife terrorist team, was born in Chicago.

This has become an  issue that needs to be openly discussed, not dismissed.

Trump will likely co-opt this as another reason to suspect first-generation Americans, especially those of ethnicity with which he has some gripe.

I guarantee it won't take him very long to seize on this act of national betrayal, since it supports his outlandish anti-Islamic vitriol.

He now has the worst mass-shooting in U.S. history to demagogue, and he's already jumped on it.

His official statement takes a shot at both POTUS and Hillary Clinton for not calling out radical Islam by name.

Hillary put that to rest this morning by calling out radical Islam by name on national TV and making a very cogent argument on how she would fight it. She actually does show she's had some experience at being diplomatic.

As far as yesterday's attack goes, the FBI made it impossible to prevent. That happened when it determined that Mateen was no threat--after interviewing him three separate times over 10 months.

He did nothing that any other licensed security guard wouldn't do. He didn't break any laws, and he'd be expected to have a licensed weapon.

In a security-conscious country like Israel, Mateen would have been profiled to the max. Here, we don't do that.

Donald Trump has already told us that as president he'd be surveilling American Muslims.

We have to determine as a nation if this is what we want.