dbcooper41 wrote:http://www.wral.com/news/national_world/national/story/7173587/
an excerpt from the story maddy just posted:
Hill said that Bedell, 36, has been at in-patient mental health institutions at least four times.
The parents reported Bedell missing on Jan. 4, one day after a Texas Highway Patrol officer stopped him for speeding in Amarillo, according to the missing person's report. Bedell told the highway patrolman he was heading for the East Coast, and the officer used Bedell's phones to call his mother, Kaye Bedell, because he seemed disheveled and out of sorts.
Kaye Bedell told the highway patrol officer in Texas that her son was fine, and the patrolman let him go with a warning. The next day, Kaye told sheriff's deputies in California that her son didn't have any reason to travel to the East Coast because he had no friends or family there and they were worried about his mental state.
The 36-year-old Bedell returned to his parent's home on January 18, telling them "not to ask any questions" about where he had been.
His father told deputies his son then left. They did not know where he had gone.
"This is, you know, Middle America," Hill said. "These parents are good folks."
Sometime afterward, Bedell drove cross-country and arrived outside the military headquarters armed with two semi-automatic weapons, authorities said Friday. Internet postings linked to the lone shooting suspect reflect long-held anti-government anger.
so,
1- he's a former mental in-patient. MK anyone?
"He just reached in his pocket, pulled out a gun and started shooting" at
point-blank range, Keevill said. "He walked up very cool.
He had no real emotion
on his face."
http://www.wral.com/news/political/story/7171997/2-a 36 year old man is pulled for speeding in texas and the trooper borrows his phone to call his mom because he's "disheveled and out of sorts"?
now patrick, let me see your cell phone so i can call your mommy. does she know you have the car? when's the last time you heard of that happening? last time i got pulled while "disheveled and out of sorts" they didn't seem to care who my mom was. they gave me a ticket and a breathalizer test. i guess things are different in texas nowdays.
3- mom tells trooper "he's fine". so they let him go without even a speeding ticket?
again, is this unusual?
4- why did the parents file a missing persons report the day after they found out he was in texas? at that point they knew he was alive and on the road. if he was "mentally impaired" wouldn't a silver alert be more appropriate. though both seem a little unusual considering they knew about where he was.
5- what was going on in texas the beginning on january?
i'd like to see the warning ticket, missing person report, troopers name,(they created a nice neat paper trail for mr oswal..i mean bedell) and some more on his family background.
i imagine we'll soon learn that he killed his sister when he was younger.
Well. to start on a subject unrelated to the above-quoted:
(1) I saw in at least one article that the (apparently) original source for a third officer being involved was a Pentagon spokesperson. So: Good eye. There's a math problem there. Although I suppose he could say he was going off of early, inaccurate info or something. But it's pretty fucking hinky, imo. That said, moving right along to...
(2) ...the question of potential MK-Ultra-hood and psy-ops generally, you know what? The more I read, the less I see to support that view. For one thing, it's not having any impact on the nation's psyche, to speak of. Cable news personalities are hysterically carrying on and leaping to predictable conclusions, granted. But they also do that when a kitten gets stuck in a tree.
Besides which, there aren't really any contemporary Big Media Personalities who have so much clout or credibility with the nation as a whole for what they say about subjects on which the vast majority of their viewers have had strong and decided opinions for years -- such as, inter alia, 9/11 truth -- to alter the status quo by much. (Barring some highly theoretical scenario in which they suddenly decided to shock the world by doing thorough, substantive and relevant factual reporting on the topic, obviously.)
Furthermore, news stories that don't have a sexy or dramatic visual component (celebrity mugshot, attractive missing minor and/or pregnant female, planes flying into tall buildings, Anderson Cooper backed by bodies floating down the currents of flooded New Orleans, etc) are typically all but completely forgotten in a matter of months, if not sooner. As are some news stories that do, for that matter. Speaking of New Orleans.
And finally: There's way too much right-libertarian anger at the government for comfort already.
And I just honestly can't see how the death of a young, clean-cut, and basically sympathetic right-libertarian at the hands of armed Pentagon gatekeepers could possibly do anything except increase it. Especially given that his life's calling was seeing justice done for a proud Marine who'd been betrayed by the group of shady, covert criminals that almost everyone on planet earth thinks of as being the infinitely and monstrously evil servants of [
VILE ELITIST GROUP OF YOUR CHOICE HERE].
Because the violence just wasn't large-scale or public enough to have an adverse recruiting affect on any of he numerous. more politically organized groups that share both Bedell's love for our troops and private property ownership and his hatred of public education and the federal government. It takes something more along the lines of the 1968 Democratic Convention to drive the armchair revolutionaries back to their Barc-a-Loungers. Off-camera martyrdoms do the reverse, almost always.
I mean, it's just manifestly not going to be very psy-operational to send a brainwashed John Patrick Bedell to the slaughter in a climate where even James Von Brunn didn't get much traction as a boogeyman; the phrase "conspiracy theorist" is already so thoroughly bad-jacketed that it's beyond rehabilitation and not in need of any booster shots; and at this point, there just aren't that many people who are so enraged by the assertion that 9/11 was an inside job that the slightest exposure to it sends them into such a blind state of frothing patriotism that they forget they don't have jobs or health insurance or whatever.
So I don't see really see what would have made it a game worth the candle from the perspective of formal political authority and power, in a nutshell. I mean they do definitely benefit somewhat from having the spotlight directed elsewhere for a news cycle or two at the moment.
But if that was the only goal, there are (a) about one-million-and-one lower-risk ways of achieving it; and (b) no reasons I can think of to introduce it on a Thursday and then hype the shit out of it on a Friday.
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Although I still don't think there's enough information to hang a hat on. And I do have to say that his parents aren't quite adding up for me. Both of them seem to use more than one first name, for one thing. So I'm having a hard time figuring out what and who they are, exactly. Which isn't definitive, but is kind of unusual. I'd be very interested in knowing a lot more on the family-background-and-affiliations front, if anyone knows anything.
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Oh! I almost forgot: dbc41, I have more detail on that clinic thing, if you're interested, even though I do feel compelled to admit in advance that it's totally not interesting. It's just detailed. So please do let me know if you still care.
