It has got to frustrate the lamestream media that the Tea Partiers are generally so well behaved. I will always remember 4/13/2009, the day I attended my first protest. It was the politest protest I could ever imagine.

Heh! John P. Bedell and I had a lot in common: both from Hollister, California and alumni of San Jose State U. I linked to your article at Saber Point.

Here is an update to my related post:

Update: Left Coast Rebel posted the voter record that gives Bedell's address in Hollister. I hopped in my car, punched the address into my GPS and tried to go over to his house. However, my GPS led me to the Ridgemark Golf & Country Club, where Bedell lived in a gated community (complete with a guard shack), so I couldn't complete my journey. In any case, it appears Bedell wasn't economically depressed.

The media spent the whole day after this crime calling Bedell "anti-government", but they didn't utter a single word in weeks about Nidal Hasan being muslim.

I saw an aerial view of the guy's house last night on the news: it was HUGE.

Nick, you gave me a good idea. You can view Bedell's house from Google Maps, both aerial and street view. The house is indeed huge, and has a pool and spa in the back yard.

Patrick's family house is in an older but nice part of a gated golfcourse community built in the 60s and 70s. It's not huge, not small either; not flashy or fancy. His family is upper middle class; fiscal conservative, social mid-liberal. Patrick was a amiable guy. He was 'nerdly' only that physically he was a late bloomer; a pudgy kid. He was socially outgoing somewhat, and extremely bright. This is a recollection prior to the last 10 or 15 years when I wasn't aware of his mental illness. What I take from the incident is what is known about mental illness– people can't self diagnose mental illness. I wish he'd gotten help and stuck with it. Patrick wasn't meant to be a line worker, programming code, etc., in a big company. He had the brilliant edge that could have helped him make big contributions to society in computer science, engineering, etc. I recall a conversation with his father years ago, Patrick hadn't been accepted to Berkeley, though I'm unsure if he applied, however, an [engineering or IT] dept head had given him an office to work on a gps-in-phone microchip project/idea, he was in his early 20s, this was in the early '90s. He was very bright and had original ideas. I don't know how he ended up where he did, or if I knew him recently if I'd like him. Nonetheless, this is all unfortunate.