Last 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...Libertarian terrorism? What would Neal Boortz say? Ron Paul? How about Ron Paul's supporters? All those folks who took to the streets to support Mr. Paul by waving signs at the intersection of the 105 Extension and U.S. 321?
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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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How about these upstanding citizens?
An evangelical Christian hate group called “Repent Amarillo” is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and targets a wide range of community members they deem offensive to their theology: gays, liberal Christians, Muslims, environmentalists, breast cancer events that do not highlight abortion, Halloween, “spring break events,” and pornography shops. On its website, Repent has posted a “Warfare Map” of its enemies in town.Army of God? Genuinely scary.
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More from the AP: WASHINGTON — The river of discontent running through America turned toxic in the fevered mind of the Pentagon shooter and others of his ilk. In a culture awash in conspiracy theories and raw anger at government, they are lone wolves who find a sense of community for their hate – yet act alone.
They are, in some ways, more unsettling than organized and trained terrorists because they come from us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100305/us-pentagon-shooting-angry-americans/
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