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Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Govern Terrorist mentLast night, a California man armed with two semiautomatic weapons and “many magazines” of ammunition opened fire on police officers at the entrance to the Pentagon, wounding two before being killed by police. The shooter, 36-year-old John Patrick Bedell, was “well dressed in a suit” and “very calm,” walking “very directly to the officers” before engaging them, a police spokesman said.
Bedell “appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings,” the Christian Science Monitor reports, who traveled from California specifically to attack the Pentagon. While police were hesitant to assign a motive, “writings by someone with his same name and birth date, posted on the Internet, express ill will toward the government and the armed forces and question whether Washington itself might have been behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”
In one posting, Bedell ranted against “big government.” In another, he wrote, “I am determined to see that justice is served in the death of Colonel James Sabow” — a Marine whose suicide has been the subject of conspiracy theories — because it would be a “step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”
In podcasts, Bedell propagated his conspiracy theories, which eerily reflect fringe right-wing rhetoric:
The blatant violations of the Constitution’s limitations on the economic role of the government accomplished through many subtle usurpations over many decades are perhaps even more pernicious than and are certainly a key motivation for the violent seizure of the United States government.
The Pentagon shooting is just the latest in a string of violence seemingly motivated by far right ideologies. Of course, last month, “[h]atred of the government motivated a man in Texas” to launch a suicide attack on an IRS office. And a recent Southern Poverty Law Center report found a 244 percent rise in the number of extremist hate groups. But when the Department of Homeland Security released a report last year warning about the threat from right-wing domestic terror, conservative politicians and commentators were outraged, claiming it was an assault on conservatism. Sadly, the report was right.
Update In a post, Bedell urged potential collaborators to contact him at an email address with the domain name @mises.com -- which belongs to the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank with ties to Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). A Mises senior fellow led an official event at CPAC last month. Bedell's connection -- if any -- to Mises is unclear, though he was also a "fan" of the organization on Facebook.
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lISTEN YOU POS DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM OR MY SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY. YOU ARE A SHALLOW WATER MAN STAY OUT OF THE DEEP END OF THE POOL LITTLE MAN
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: lISTEN YOU POS DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM OR MY SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY. YOU ARE A SHALLOW WATER MAN STAY OUT OF THE DEEP END OF THE POOL LITTLE MAN
I never did either of the two you suggested, so before fabricating a situation to bicker about do as suggested....take a deep breath.
If behavior such as that is on your side of the pool, I think I will stay on the shallow end.
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: lISTEN YOU POS DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION MY PATRIOTISM OR MY SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY. YOU ARE A SHALLOW WATER MAN STAY OUT OF THE DEEP END OF THE POOL LITTLE MAN
Have you ever seen a bovine in deep water trying to "cow-paddle" its way to the shore? Cows don't swim all that well. If I were a cow I'd stay in the shallows too.
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Looks like Raybond and Jordan have flaming liberal written all over them.
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I am a liberal and I am proud of it you never saw me ashamed of being liberal.
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: .......you never saw me ashamed of being liberal.
You might be in the near future. Also, I don't know if the word "liberal" really describes you. Describing oneself as liberal, conservative, etc. typically implies that you tend to agree with one side of most issues but at times agree with the other side as well. That's not you at all.
Some more fitting descriptions would be the oft-used "parrot". Mindless party devotee fits as well. I think the most fitting though would be extremely biased, overly closed minded and frighteningly hateful to all "non-raybond" type people.
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