Patterico does some "Internet Research" (he really calls it that) that PROVES the Pentagon shooter was "a 9/11 Truther and an anti-Bush nut case" (emphasis his). Michelle Malkin links to Patterico's PROOF and takes what she seems to imagine is the high road, leaving this fresh steamy road apple upon it:
But just as I passed on playing the blame game with the global warmicides earlier this week, I’m not playing MSNBC/NYTimes-style “gotcha” with this one, either.
Why, bless your "warmicide"-eschewing little charcoal heart for this highly impressive display of transparently backhanded insinuation humane magnanimity.
Of course, as Patterico's very own Internet Research reveals, the shooter was of course only "anti-Bush" and "a 9/11 Truther" because he was an Anti Big Government right wing loonball. In the fellow's own words:
The political and military disasters such as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq that an illegitimate coup regime uses against the people who pay its bills are closely tied to the effects of inflationary paper monetary systems which are themselves intimately linked with financial and political disasters throughout history. The blatant violations of the constitution of limitations on the economic role of the government accomplished through many subtle usurpations over many decades are perhaps even more pernicious than, and are certainly a key motivation for, the violent seizure of the United States government.
In order to establish a firm and lasting basis for justice and sound government, the economic role of the government must be re-examined in every detail. It must be recognized that arguments for government control of the economy and government redistribution of economic resources are generally misguided … or even shameless lies to advance enslavement and conceal theft and murder. Furthermore, it must, once again, be recognized that the most successful means to ensure justice, secure domestic tranquility, and promote prosperity is to ensure the protection of private property.
The emphasis is Patterico's, though I have no idea who he thinks he's fooling. After all, there's nothing more Big Government than running a war. This is hardly a leftist rant; I assure Patterico that I myself did not oppose the Iraq war because I thought it constituted a threat to American private property, much less "paper money systems."
But Patterico has his reasons for playing stupid here -- he wants to disown his crazy and have it too, as in his witty punchline:
As a correspondent wrote to me: “If he thought Bush was out to get private property, just imagine what he thought after Obama’s first year.”
I imagine he thought "Omigod! Obama is a socialist, so let me go find some government employees and shoot them."
Patterico also enjoins us to "save this link when Big Media tries to portray him as a Tea Partier or right-winger."
Will do, my man. Will do. It'll also be handy to keep around to reference in regards to pious invocations of the "non-partisan" nature of righteous Tea Party fury and how these salt-of-the earth patriots were just as upset at Bush because he, too, spent a lot of money.
MORE FUN! Malkin discovers that the shooter is a Registered Democrat, a fact that certainly ought to give pause to anyone making reckless claims about how the Tea Party anti-government crowd hasn't transcended the Partisan Divide that Has So Sadly Blighted Our Politics.
Anyway, party affiliation is no sure guide to ideological conviction. Take me, for example. I'm a registered Democrat and yet, as opposed to my Party, also a liberal. Strange but true.
MAS. Stupid bloggy platform won't let me post properly. Look, I'm not arguing this guy isn't just plain crazy. I'm saying that Patterico & Malkin are being silly as regards the facts, and that while there sure is a lot of confused gun-slinging crazy going on lately, and it's not always easily ideologically rectifiable, the common denominator of the violent crazies is anti-government extremism. Deal with it.