3 people shot yesterday at Pentagon employee entrance
Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.
John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., was identified as the shooter. Officials said they’d found no immediate connection to terrorism but had not ruled it out.
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.
In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was “determined to see that justice is served” 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.
The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”
That same posting railed against the government’s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author’s 2006 court case inOrange County, Calif., for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer. Court records available online show the date of birth on the case mentioned by the user JPatrickBedell matches that of the John Patrick Bedell suspected in the shooting.
There has been a public relations campaign lately promoting the idea of “right-wing extremism” foisted upon us by the likes of the Southern Poverty Law Center and David Niewert. I wonder how they will classify a liberal from California who grew pot, resisted authority, harbored 9/11 conspiracy theories, and tried to murder two police officers at the Pentagon a “right-winger”? I’m sure they will try, stay tuned.
By the way, what motivates the SPLC to create these crazy claims tying innocent folks to terror and extremism? Well, there is an old saying… Follow the money!
