{"id":9065,"date":"2010-03-05T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:41:57","slug":"climate-of-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9065","title":{"rendered":"Climate Of Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is evidence that John Bedell, yesterday&#8217;s Pentagon shooter, was there to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35716821\/ns\/us_news-crime_and_courts\/\">P get the &#8220;truth&#8221; about 9\/11:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was &#8220;determined to see that justice is served&#8221; in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up&#8230;The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was &#8220;a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6676\">Dusty Trice, the City Pages<\/a> and the Southern Poverty Law Center, it&#8217;s that even the most tenuous intellectual synchronicity is evidence of a shadowy undercurrent of hatred.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; I believe the inflammatory remarks of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-it.net\/jesse_ventura_911_truth.html\">Jesse Ventura<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4166\"><em>Minnesota &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Project&#8217;s <\/em>Grace Kelly<\/a> led to this shooting, and wonder when they&#8217;ll accept responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>(Ever since I learned the technique of holding people responsible for things people who seem tangentially like them also happen to say, I find that I&#8217;m relieved of the usual burden of being responsible and accountable).<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 <em>Of course <\/em>the leftyblog hamsters tried to tie Bedell to the Tea Parties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_A24UZctD--E\/S5EEPlitSvI\/AAAAAAAABYY\/YhLuRXrrZu4\/s1600-h\/Pentagon+Shooter+-+Bedell+-+Mediaelite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_A24UZctD--E\/S5EEPlitSvI\/AAAAAAAABYY\/YhLuRXrrZu4\/s320\/Pentagon+Shooter+-+Bedell+-+Mediaelite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But no, he isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Or <a href=\"http:\/\/legalinsurrection.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/anti-tea-party-crowd-disappointed-again.html\">wasn&#8217;t<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has become <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/03\/04\/pentagon-shooter-anti-bush-nut-case-and-911-truther\/\">pretty clear<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/03\/04\/pentagon-shooter-anti-bush-nut-case-and-911-truther\/\">pretty quickly<\/a> that Bedell sufferred from Bush Derangement Syndrome, and was a 9\/11 Truther, just like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/bush_administration\/22_believe_bush_knew_about_9_11_attacks_in_advance\">35%<\/a> of Democrats as of May 2007.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we&#8217;ve got Bill Sparkmann, Major Hasan, John Bedell, the guy who crashed his plane into the IRS office &#8211; all of them who were seemingly driven to horrendous (and\/or self-immolating)\u00a0acts by the <em>rhetoric of the left<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why, if I were a leftyblogger and the parties were reversed, I might be tempted to call it a &#8220;climate of hatred&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is evidence that John Bedell, yesterday&#8217;s Pentagon shooter, was there to P get the &#8220;truth&#8221; about 9\/11: Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. 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