John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting? ("It begins"-AllahPundit)

Christian Science Monitor ^ | 3-5-10 | Peter Grier

[pillut48]

The Pentagon attack and the destruction at the IRS building in Austin, Texas, come at a time of explosive growth in extremist-group activism across the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations.

The number of US extremist paramilitary militias grew from 42 in 2008 to 127 in 2009, according to a just-released SPLC annual report.

So-called “Patriot” groups, steeped in antigovernment conspiracy theories, grew from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009 – an increase that the SPLC report judges as “astonishing.”

[pillut48]

Yes, I know ANY article citing the racist folks at SPLC as a legitimate news source is crap, but wanted to share anyway.

[NavVet]

Two pro Obama Bush Bashers, including one 9/11 truther attack federal targets and somehow the tea party movement gets the plame

[Trod Upon]

I thought the guy was one of those left wing “truther” nuts.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Those piggies at the SPLC need to stop this crap of blaming the actions of THEIR COMRADES on Americans. This is BS. This guy was a Bush-hating “truther”. Much like the bozos at the SPLC.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Forget that both of these terrorists were left-wingers and the Pentagon shooter was a 9/11 truther.

[astyanax]

Author’s email is here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Contact/Staff-Writers/Peter-Grier
if anyone wishes to enlighten him.

[Graybeard58]

How is it that a 9/11 “truther” is “right wing? Somebody doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground or their left from right. Or is this Orwellian newspeak?

[jessduntno]

“So-called “Patriot” groups, steeped in antigovernment conspiracy theories, grew from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009 – an increase that the SPLC report judges as “astonishing.”

Holder and his 9 Judicial Nazgul should be all over this...

[jessduntno]

How is it that a 9/11 “truther” is “right wing? Somebody doesn’t know their ass from a hole in the ground or their left from right. Or is this Orwellian newspeak?”

Yep...like Rosie O’Donnell, famous right winger...

[tumblindice]

Recall that 0 returned home after the bombing attempt of the Northwester airliner by a Nigerian moose-limb (*four days* after—he was on vacation) and assured everybody that it was “an isolated incident” even though there was evidence at that time that he had been trained by al Qaida.

Being a fraud *and* stoopid is no way to go through life in the WH.

[dirtboy]

He's anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War and a truther, but he's a right-winger.

Suuureee...

[Yardstick]

Someone needs to start a campaign to discredit the SPLC. It needs to be exposed as the leftwing propaganda organ that it is. I’m tired of seeing them cited by the media as some kind of credible authority.

[ETL]

On a related matter...

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 manifesto' (CNN PDF file)]

[ETL]

On a related matter (again)...

"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]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464834/posts

[rlmorel]

ping for later. Thanks for the link.

[drpix]

John Patrick Bodell's own words:

"I am determined to... establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions"

"...I think is one of the most unjust laws, cannabis prohibition,"

"I desire to... illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary system."

Right-wing?

[Hacklehead]

Its truly amazing how the left cannot connect shootings by a muslim military officer who openly expresses support for our enemies and communicates with muslim extremists to the war on terror, but they immediately see right wingers behind this shooting and the IRS plane attack.

[SirLurkedalot]

LOL Gee, let’s not confuse the public with the facts or anything.

In the minds of most of the Left, Hitler was a right-wing Christian, not a pagan socialist.

[dirtboy]

The left simple paints anyone who likes RuPaul as a right-winger (since he ran for the GOP nomination in 2008), and completely disregards the fact that a LOT of liberal and libertarian antiwar nutbars like Paul for his antiwar stance.