{"id":17809,"date":"2010-03-05T13:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17809"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:24:20","slug":"j-patrick-bedell-is-really-a-tea-partier-despite-the-best-evidence-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17809","title":{"rendered":"J Patrick Bedell is really a tea partier, despite the best evidence available"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was reading my newest favorite non-milblog, Legal Insurrection<\/a>, I ruminated about the lengths the Left will go to misrepresent these clearly Leftist suicide nutters. Early this morning, I’d read DrewM at Ace of Spades<\/a> who pointed readers to Patterico’s dumpster diving in regards to Bedell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I actually Googled “John Patrick Bedell” “Tea Party” and you’ll find some gibberish that someone wrote this morning – but it’s real gibberish. Seriously – it wasn’t coherent in the least – that’s not hyperbole.<\/p>\n

But I went to read my email and OldTrooper and NHSparky had both emailed the same article from the Christian Science Monitor<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.<\/p>\n

If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. Mr. Stack left behind a disjointed screed in which, among other things, he expressed his hatred of the government.<\/p>\n

Details of Mr. Bedell\u2019s case are still emerging. But 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, if someone had done this in, say 2005, “ill will towards the government and the armed forces and questioned whether Washington itself might have been behind the September 11th terrorist attacks” would have described 98% of Democrats. But now because there’s a Democrat in the White House and Democrats control Congress, anyone who opposes the government these days must be a Right Wing nut.<\/p>\n

And how did Joseph Stack become a right wing nut when he clearly espoused communism? I mean, he quoted Marx right in the last line in bold in his screed.<\/p>\n

Peckerwood Peter Grier’s (the journalist for the CSM) evidence that Bedell seems airtight; he drove his car across the country, dressed in a business suit for the shooting and owned two guns. Case closed – who else but a conservative would do that?<\/p>\n

Of course, Peckerwood Grier couldn’t help but throw up SPLC’s specious reporting;<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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

So-called \u201cPatriot\u201d groups, steeped in antigovernment conspiracy theories, grew from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009 \u2013 an increase that the SPLC report judges as \u201castonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See how easy it is to be a shit-mouthed, fucking liar without caring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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