{"id":606,"date":"2010-03-05T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2010\/03\/shooting-at-the-pentagon.html"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T10:46:00","slug":"shooting-at-the-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2010\/03\/shooting-at-the-pentagon.html","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at the pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trend of “white right” violence is definitely increasing – we’ve had the abortion doctor murder, the austin suicide plane<\/a>, and now a shooting at the Pentagon<\/a> in Washington DC:<\/p>\n

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Officials said the man, indentified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of the US state of California, died on Friday from head wounds recieved in a shoot-out with police near the US Pentagon building outside of Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Police said Bedell pulled out a gun at the busy commuter rail subway entrance that serves the Pentagon, shooting and injuring two police officers. Police returned fire, shooting Bedell in the head.<\/p>\n

Richard Keevill, the chief of Pentagon police, said Bedell was “well armed” with two 9-mm handguns and several magazines.<\/p>\n

“There was no distress,” Keevill told reporters at a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n

“When [Bedell] reached into his pocket, they assumed he was going to get a pass and he came up with a gun. He wasn’t pretending to be anyone. He was wearing a coat and walked up and just started shooting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I was reluctant to label this terrorism last time but I’m increasingly convinced otherwise. It looks like this guy was a 9-11 truther believing that the attacks were a government conspiracy. Just as Joe Stack did, it seems that Patrick Bedell also had an internet rant<\/a> or two which may shed light on his motivations. (Note – its not clear whether JPatrickBedell really is the same person – the FBI are still investigating).<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Charles Johnson authoritatively documents Bedell’s extreme right-libertaran<\/a> political views. Right wing commentators are scrambling to distance themselves<\/a>, but less and less convincingly so. The Department of Homeland Seccurity report from last year warning of increasing right-wing extremism<\/a> has been prophetic, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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