Anyhow, this suggests that the President should make his move sooner rather than later, lest the innocent suffer. And from the strategic perspective, a demonstrated inability to protect those around the elected officials who are already afraid to do their duty is not going to convince them to do it.
It's not even a hacked car, given the description.
#HarrisonDeal car exploded (witnesses heard the explosion over a
mile away). Vehicle left as molten metal, engine block ejected 50-60
yards away. That’s not an accident. That’s a car bomb disguised as an
accident.
- Land of the Free
Unlike most people, I have actually crashed a car, set it on
fire, and seen the fuel tank explode.
It wasn't even a crash per se, it just an unfortunate accident
when I went off the road in a road rally in a 1977 MGB during the midst of a
serious summer drought. Once the car came to a halt, unharmed, we heard
something crackling underneath us and very soon after, smelled smoke. The
catalytic converter had set the very dry field alight. A soon as I realized the
car was stuck, we promptly bailed and ran toward the nearest farmhouse.
The fireman arrived too late to do anything about the car, but
they did manage to prevent the fire from engulfing the whole field or
endangering any homes. When the gas tank exploded, it wasn't like a bomb blast
and it didn't do anything more than blow the trunk cover up, with a dull crump that
sent a brief stream of very black smoke up amidst the regular grey smoke from
the fire. It didn't even blow the cover off entirely, and MGB's are essentially
made out of tin.
Neither gasoline nor diesel explode in a manner resembling movie
effects. They ignite and they burn, to be sure, but they don't explode. So
whatever made the Deal car explode so violently, it wasn't anything that one
would normally find in a civilian automobile or truck.
However, I doubt the engine block could have been ejected that
far and I haven't seen that in any of the eyewitness accounts. The amount of
explosive required to do that would have been unlikely to leave any survivors
in the other vehicles, which suggests someone is confusing that detail with
details from Michael Hasting's "accident".
Anyhow, this suggests that the President should make his move
sooner rather than later, lest the innocent suffer. And from the strategic
perspective, a demonstrated inability to protect those around the elected
officials who are already afraid to do their duty is not going to convince them
to do it.
