Post by Cactus Jack on Mar 6, 2010 11:17:35 GMT -6
By now most know the mainstream media has a different agenda, different from simply reporting the news. Theirs has more sinister underpinnings, such as the following:
Don’t Believe the MSM: John Patrick Bedell, the Pentagon Shooter, was no Right-Winger
Already, the media has jumped on the John Patrick Bedell story, claiming that he was a raving right winger ''with virulent antigovernment feelings.'' And, just as they did with the Joseph Stack case, they’re ignoring the evidence in order to come to that conclusion.
Bedell is a registered Democrat. The media has completely and conveniently ignores this little fact.
They’ve also ignored that he was anti-military; he believed the military murdered Marine Colonel James Sabow. This is a conspiracy theory popular among left-wingers, who believe that Sabow, whose death was ruled a suicide by official investigators, was killed because he knew too much about drug- and weapons-smuggling activities at his military base.
He was anti-Bush; his amazon.com reading list included left wing tomes like The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, and Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America.
He thought that the Bush Administration had staged 9/11 in order to centralize government power. From his online website, Bedell said, ''This organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, sacrifice of thousands of its citizens in an event such as the September 11th attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control. This collection of gangsters would find it in their interests to foment conflict and initiate wars throughout the world in order to divert attention from their misconduct and criminality. The true nature of such a regime would find its clearest expression in Satanic violence currently ongoing in Iraq.''
He supported legalization of marijuana, as the media reported immediately. That’s not in the Republican or Tea Party program.
He was a 36-year-old man going to school full time at San Jose State University – not exactly the hallmark of a right-winger.
Basically, the media is hanging its hat on a rant that Bedell posted at archive.org, in which he made several arguments for less government intrusion and for private property. Here’s a sampling:
The media wants to ignore the crazy talk in favor of the intelligible argument, but you simply can’t do that – they’re both part of his comprehensive psychotic worldview which meshes paranoia with leftist hatred of the Bushes and love for pot. He’s half Ron Paul follower, half Lyndon LaRouche delusional. Pillorying him as a typical Tea Partier simply demonstrates the lengths the media will go to destroy the mainstream conservative movement in this country. And that is scurrilous.
{preceeding from: bigjournalism.com/bshapiro/2010/03/05/dont-believe-the-msm-john-patrick-bedell-the-pentagon-shooter-was-no-right-winger/ }
Don’t Believe the MSM: John Patrick Bedell, the Pentagon Shooter, was no Right-Winger
Already, the media has jumped on the John Patrick Bedell story, claiming that he was a raving right winger ''with virulent antigovernment feelings.'' And, just as they did with the Joseph Stack case, they’re ignoring the evidence in order to come to that conclusion.
Bedell is a registered Democrat. The media has completely and conveniently ignores this little fact.
They’ve also ignored that he was anti-military; he believed the military murdered Marine Colonel James Sabow. This is a conspiracy theory popular among left-wingers, who believe that Sabow, whose death was ruled a suicide by official investigators, was killed because he knew too much about drug- and weapons-smuggling activities at his military base.
He was anti-Bush; his amazon.com reading list included left wing tomes like The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed, and Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America.
He thought that the Bush Administration had staged 9/11 in order to centralize government power. From his online website, Bedell said, ''This organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, sacrifice of thousands of its citizens in an event such as the September 11th attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control. This collection of gangsters would find it in their interests to foment conflict and initiate wars throughout the world in order to divert attention from their misconduct and criminality. The true nature of such a regime would find its clearest expression in Satanic violence currently ongoing in Iraq.''
He supported legalization of marijuana, as the media reported immediately. That’s not in the Republican or Tea Party program.
He was a 36-year-old man going to school full time at San Jose State University – not exactly the hallmark of a right-winger.
Basically, the media is hanging its hat on a rant that Bedell posted at archive.org, in which he made several arguments for less government intrusion and for private property. Here’s a sampling:
The most basic principle of economic justice is the protection of private property and the protection of the right to freely exchange that property. Modern governments, however, consistently and routinely violate the rights of property owners with the assumption – the incorrect assumption – that government can utilize property more efficiently than its lawful owners can. As institutionalized theft by property violation becomes increasingly routine and accepted, it has far-reaching consequences for the character and morality of society as a whole. The injustice of that permeates society and creates disrespect for the law. On the part of ruling elites, the perception is created that society is to be exploited for the benefit of the rulers. Incentives are created to generate and promote ignorance throughout society to conceal the injustice of that. As the institutionalized violence of government is used to violate the rights of individuals to keep and trade their own property, the violation of economic justice inevitably results in the undermining of justice in every other part of society.
The media wants to ignore the crazy talk in favor of the intelligible argument, but you simply can’t do that – they’re both part of his comprehensive psychotic worldview which meshes paranoia with leftist hatred of the Bushes and love for pot. He’s half Ron Paul follower, half Lyndon LaRouche delusional. Pillorying him as a typical Tea Partier simply demonstrates the lengths the media will go to destroy the mainstream conservative movement in this country. And that is scurrilous.
{preceeding from: bigjournalism.com/bshapiro/2010/03/05/dont-believe-the-msm-john-patrick-bedell-the-pentagon-shooter-was-no-right-winger/ }