The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin

FrontPage Magazine ^ | Peter Collier

[Michael van der Galien]

The New York Times’ front page profile on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.

“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the Times for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former. But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe? What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,

“a far left political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with President Obama to the point of being off putting”?

What about the student who called her a “socialist”?

[ETL]

"A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was "obsessed" with President Obama to the point of being off-putting."--Boston Herald, February 15, 2010

'Oddball' portrait of Amy Bishop emerges:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100215oddball_protrait_emerges_suspects_family_pals_offer_clues/srvc=home&position=0
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"The woman accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville was a suspect in a 1993 attempted mail bombing, according to a report by The Boston Globe.

The report broke the day after it was learned that Bishop fatally shot her brother in Braintree in 1986.

More than fifteen years ago, Bishop worked with Sylvia Fluckiger at Children's Hospital in Boston.

"I thought she was an odd-ball. Maybe socially a little awkward," Fluckiger said.  "I felt she was a little bit sloppy working in the lab. But we were not friends. She came to do her experiments in our lab. I had my stuff to be done. We didn't hang out."

In 1993, Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were reportedly questioned about a mail bomb that was sent to the Newton home of Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paul Rosenberg.

Colleagues at Children's Hospital were suspicious at the time, because Bishop was apparently angry at Dr. Rosenberg, although no one knew why.

http://www.necn.com/02/14/10/Amy-Bishop-at-time-of-1993-mail-bomb-inv/landing.html?blockID=180453&feedID=4215

[ETL]

Joe Stack (IRS plane crasher) ends his “manifesto” with this, a popular Karl Marx quote and a slap at Capitalism...

“The communist creed:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed:
From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”

-Joe Stack (1956-2010)
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['See text of the note' (CNN PDF file)]

[Vaquero]

I am Dr. Amy Bishop!

— Amy Bishop, the biology professor accused of shooting six of her colleagues at the University of Alabama, to a woman she punched in the head at the International House of Pancakes.

(The woman had tried to take a booster seat that Bishop wanted for one of her children. Bishop was charged with assault in the 2002 incident and sentenced to probation. She now faces murder and attempted murder charges in connection with the University of Alabama shootings.)

[Vaquero]

“What about the people who died?” a reporter asked as she was led to a police car.
“didn't happen there's no way. They're still alive,” she responded.

She plays crazy, good.

[dools007]

See Ft Hood Massacre. All hail PC.

[WL-law]

The NY Times story contains one new fact that I find revealing:

Bishop’s husband knew that, following Bishop’s being rejected (by the department, likely, exercising some type of red-ball veto-power) for tenure, she started going to a shooting range.!! And her husband, if the Times is accurate, procured (”borrowed”) the gun!!

So = sounds like her husband prodded her on — and that’s why he is/was being investigated as well.

[Hawthorn]

In the meantime, please keep the two recovering survivors of the tragic Huntsville massacre, Stephanie Monticciolo and Joseph Leahy, in your prayers.

http://josephleahy.blogspot.com/

Prayer for Joe Leahy:

Lord God, heavenly Father of us all, We know that You are with us in the good times, and dare to trust that You are even more surely with us in our trials.

May we never give way to ill-will or discouragement, but persist always in Your grace, mercy and love.

We beg You to watch over Joe, Ginny, Keith and Stephen Leahy, and the extended Leahy and Warnecke families who are “carrying the cross” at this time.

Lord God, please restore Joe to fullness of health and well-being, Restore him to his family, to the students that he loves, and to all of us who so respect and admire him.

May Joe soon “walk tall” in our midst again, and may we live always for your honor and glory.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Our Father . . .

Hail Mary . . .

Glory Be to the Father . . .

Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.

Written by Rev. Phil O’Kennedy,

(Pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church, Madison, AL)

[Oratam]

Bishop’s very existance challenges the leftist faith in human perfectability through education.

[Clioman]

That small point about “where did the gun come from?” keeps nagging away. If she bought it, there would be a paper trail, no? Or, if it’s true that she “borrowed” it, then there’s a lender out there somewhere. And how would our Amy come to know such a person? How would that conversation go, exactly? Somehow it doesn’t seem likely that she’d say, “Hey Ed, can I borrow your Glock? I need to off some low-lifes at the office.”

Surely, if Amy had borrowed a gun, she would have given some rationale. And the lender, by now, would probably realize that the cops will lift a lot of rocks to find out where that gun came from. I’m thinking that the longer it takes to identify the lender, the more likely that Amy’s “borrowing” rationale wasn’t especially rational...and that the lender would therefore have some ‘splainin to do.

[ETL]

See Ft Hood Massacre. All hail PC.

"Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who allegedly killed 11 [count now 13, or 14 if you include the unborn child of the 21-year-old female soldier -etl] people before being shot and wounded by police at Fort Hood, had said Muslims should "rise up" and attack Americans in retaliation for the US war in Iraq, a former army colleague said."

"He said Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor and that we should not be in the war in the first place." He said that Major Hasan said he was "happy" when a US soldier was killed in an attack on a military recruitment centre in Arkansas in June. An American convert to Islam was accused of the shootings.

Col Lee alleged that other officers had told him that Major Hasan had said "maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square" in New York."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6511591/Fort-Hood-shooting-Nidal-Malik-Hasan-said-Muslims-should-rise-up.html
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"Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/alert/sns-ap-us-fort-hood-shooting,0,4218901.story?track=rss

[ETL]

sounds like her husband prodded her on — and that’s why he is/was being investigated as well.

From the article I posted above:

"In 1993, Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were reportedly questioned about a mail bomb that was sent to the Newton home of Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paul Rosenberg.

Colleagues at Children's Hospital were suspicious at the time, because Bishop was apparently angry at Dr. Rosenberg, although no one knew why.

http://www.necn.com/02/14/10/Amy-Bishop-at-time-of-1993-mail-bomb-inv/landing.html?blockID=180453&feedID=4215

[Hacklehead]

I saw the headline on Drudge stating she was an extreme lefty, but the link lead to a different story. Other than going to Harvard and working at a university, what is the evidence that she is a far leftist?