A Podcast thought to be recorded by John Patrick Bedell
Pentagon Gunman ‘Had Gone off the Deep End,’ According to Friends, Writings
In recent years, in conversations with friends and in Internet writings and audio postings, which appear to be his, Bedell spoke often and at length about social issues and what he saw as attacks on personal liberty. He was especially irked by criminal penalties for marijuana use, said Reb Monaco, who has known Bedell since Bedell was a child. Bedell had not expressed hostility towards the military, Monaco said
Parents of Pentagon Shooter Reportedly Warned Authorities About Him
San Benito County Sheriff Curtis Hill told the AP the parents of John Patrick Bedell filed a missing persons report and were worried about his mental stability. After reading an e-mail from their son to an acquaintance, the parents told deputies they were worried that he had purchased a gun.
Pentagon Shooter Acted Alone
The man who opened fire at the entrance to the Pentagon Thursday evening, shooting two Pentagon officers before being shot, acted alone and is not believed to have any ties to domestic or international terrorism, Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevill said Friday morning.
John Patrick Bedell: Rants on Wikipedia and YouTube May Have Foreshadowed Breakdown
A Wikipedia entry linked to Bedell, posted under the name JPatrickBedell, says that he intended to “see that justice is served in the death of Colonel James Sabow, as a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions and institutions such as the coup regime of 1963 that maintains itself in power through the global drug trade, financial corruption, and murder, among other crimes.”
Pentagon Shooter: Another Violent Anti-Government Loon?
The Internet Archive has a series of deranged audio files by “JPatrickBedell:” Internet Archive: Free Download: Directions to Freedom, part two (25 November 2006).
Pentagon Shooter: Anti-Bush Nut Case and 9/11 Truther
Internet research shows that the guy was a 9/11 Truther and an anti-Bush nut case.
John Patrick Bedell, Pentagon Shooter Photos
21 photos from the scene.
J. Patrick Bedell’s Amazon Profile
Reading list – More than a little paranoia to be found here.
Suspected Pentagon Gunman Outlined Theories Online
As a reader of the blog Media Elites pointed out on Friday, the YouTube channel jpbedell2006 includes just one uploaded video, “Introduction to Information Currency.” In the video, embedded at the top of this post, the user, speaking directly to a camera, describes “information currency” as his “invention,” and says, “We will be able to use it in order to better manage the huge amount of information that’s available today and also to make more money from the information that we create and release to the public.” The video goes on to describe — in a somewhat uncanny fashion to a news blogger coming across this video today — how items like YouTube videos created by one person might later be purchased by “specialists who want to identify important information… and make a profit by reselling” access to those videos.
Stop Playing Games, MSM. John Patrick Bedell was a Registered Democrat
www.Electorates.us has 180 million registered voter records available online (thanks to Anne Horrigan). Thirty-six-year-old John Patrick Bedell’s voter registration records in Hollister, CA are available for any journalist before he/she goes off and labels him a “right-wing extremist.” Guess which party he registered under in 2005 and was actively registered under as of 2008? DEMOCRAT.
Worth Watching: Tweets about John Patrick Bedell
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March 6th, 2010 at 1:21 am
You might want to check out whether the local perchlorate and tce drinking water contamination in Hollister, and the rather ugly coverup of the problem by San Benito County authorities, helped set this guy off. Lyndon Johnson did coverup environmental perchlorate back in 1963, so it fits into Bedell’s world view. If Bedell bought his guns at the firing range above the perchlorate plume in my town of Rancho Cordova, I would bet on it.
http://www.perchlorate.org/topics/ike_statements.html
http://ameinc.net/project/ordnance.htm