Talking Points Memo has a full write-up of who John Patrick Bedell was.
The California man who opened fire last night outside the Pentagon was a property rights extremist who railed against the government's ability to "confiscate the resources of their citizens to fund schemes that need only be justified by lies and deception," and wanted to "eliminate the role of the government in education."...."Communist and socialist governments that abolished or disregarded private property," said Bedell in the recording, "created poverty, repression and murder on a truly enormous scale." But, he continued, "Even in the United States, however, there has been a continual erosion of protection of private property justified by the belief that government is an efficient instrument for the positive direction of society."
He made a recording of his views a few years back and posted them online. Not to sure how long the FBI will allow this link to remain up.
Again, I'm going to steer clear of calling this man a full-fledged Tea Bagger, even though his Right-Wing views on property rights and government in general do mesh quite nicely with what many within the Tea Bagger movement espouse.
And isn't it a nice coincidence that Fox"News" has taken to championing property rights this year.
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