A 37-year old man, Steve Stephens, is allegedly going around Cleveland, Ohio, killing people and he even uploaded a video of it on Facebook. The police still haven’t caught him. I find this story unbelievable for several reasons.

First of all, in the contemporary West surveillance is everywhere. There are CCTV cameras, they can locate your cellphone and who knows what they can do to turn your own devices against you. Yet the police cannot find a man who advertised his crimes on Facebook. The ever-present surveillance never seems to help with any kind of terrorism or other extremely violent crimes. Curious, isn’t it?

I don’t think the police want to find him. This could be for various reasons. One is that the perpetrator is Black, and the liberal establishment does not want to demonize Blacks, so they aren’t really trying. I don’t think this is the case, but it’s possible. Another reason might that the authorities want to cause havoc for whatever reason, such as invoking martial law in Cleveland.

Then again, I’m not convinced he has actually killed anyone. If there have been these 14 murders Stephens alludes to, he may be a (willing?) patsy, or maybe no-one died. There’s a video where Stephens appears to be driving, and very calmly he says he just snapped and killed some people. I think he’s acting. At some point he appears to even be looking at his dashboard as if reading his lines. I don’t find his performance credible at all. Moreover, he is holding a phone he is talking to with one hand, and he is supposedly holding another phone with the other and he is driving with the same hand. It’s not impossible to do so, I suppose, but I don’t find it credible either.