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I guess that following Glenn Beck means that you can't possibly be a terrorist
If this guy was an Arab with a stated grievance against US foreign policy, they wouldn't be downplaying the possibility of terrorist motives regardless of whether he acted alone or not. It is quite possible to be a lone-wolf terrorist, in fact we're constantly told by the media that the structure of Al Qaida is built around small groups working independently with only a common ideology to unite them (sound familiar?). His stated goal in committing this act was to get back at the US government for perceived actions that they took against him, similar if not identical to the motive that most Islamist terrorists seem to have. The only thing that separates this man from a Palestinian suicide bomber or the people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center is that he's a white American, and that his hatred of the government is much more palatable to the Teabaggers that run the media than the hatred of the government shown by the terrorists that we actually go after.
EDIT: So apparently this guy had some ideas that would be considered liberal, most importantly support of health reform. Still, the teabaggers consider themselves to be populists (ignoring of course their ties to big business and the Republican leadership) and health care reform is certainly a populist idea. Just because the rich CEOs who bankroll the movement would look down on his desire for universal access to life-saving treatment doesn't mean that he didn't consider himself a part of the movement or share some of their alarmist ideology.
If this guy was an Arab with a stated grievance against US foreign policy, they wouldn't be downplaying the possibility of terrorist motives regardless of whether he acted alone or not. It is quite possible to be a lone-wolf terrorist, in fact we're constantly told by the media that the structure of Al Qaida is built around small groups working independently with only a common ideology to unite them (sound familiar?). His stated goal in committing this act was to get back at the US government for perceived actions that they took against him, similar if not identical to the motive that most Islamist terrorists seem to have. The only thing that separates this man from a Palestinian suicide bomber or the people who flew the planes into the World Trade Center is that he's a white American, and that his hatred of the government is much more palatable to the Teabaggers that run the media than the hatred of the government shown by the terrorists that we actually go after.
EDIT: So apparently this guy had some ideas that would be considered liberal, most importantly support of health reform. Still, the teabaggers consider themselves to be populists (ignoring of course their ties to big business and the Republican leadership) and health care reform is certainly a populist idea. Just because the rich CEOs who bankroll the movement would look down on his desire for universal access to life-saving treatment doesn't mean that he didn't consider himself a part of the movement or share some of their alarmist ideology.