The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and right-wing bloggers

[Joanne98]

When news broke last Thursday that a deranged gunman had opened fire outside a Pentagon security checkpoint, wounding two officers before being stopped by return fire (the gunman later died from his wounds), the reaction from some oddly giddy right-wing bloggers was swift. They wanted everyone to pay attention to the story. Why? Because bloggers claimed the gunman, John Patrick Bedell, was a loony liberal.

Under increased scrutiny for the rampant anti-government rhetoric of the Tea Party movement, along with its often violent imagery and open talk of insurrection, right-wingers seemed anxious, even frantic, to hold up the Pentagon killer as proof that they weren't responsible for -- or connected with -- every political act of vigilante violence that makes headlines these days.

But as more details emerge about the incident, the far-right bloggers may wish they hadn't shone a spotlight on the disturbing Pentagon story. If anything, as we learn more about the anti-government rantings and writings of Bedell, this madman attack looks an awful lot like a string of other "lone wolf" attacks, such as the recent kamikaze pilot who flew his plane into an IRS office in Austin.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Pentagon-shooter-insu-by-Eric-Boehlert-100309-567.html

[Puzzler]

1. It doesn't matter if these home-grown terrorists are "lone wolves"

It seems to me that even if MSM pundits admit that these guys are terrorists, then they strain to point out that they are "lone wolves", and not connected to anyone. Well, so what? They don't have to be directly connected to anyone. It's idiots like Beck would deliberately appeal to these so-called lone wolves. God knows, there's enough of them out there... and Beck, Palin and co. know this.