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Bedell, according to family and friends, was mentally ill and a marijuana user. But he also had extreme views about the government, and he laid out those feelings in audio postings on the Internet.
"When governments are able to confiscate the resources of their citizens to fund schemes that only need to be justified by lies and deception, enormous disasters can result," he said in one post.
There has been a lone wolf attack against the government in each of the first three months of this year. In February, Joseph Stack, infuriated with the Internal Revenue Service, made a suicide flight in his plane into the agency's offices in Austin, Texas. One IRS worker was killed.
I had a full post written and ready to go, but after previewing it I realized that I was actually providing a step-by-step explanation of how to turn the public against people like us.
I have posted that self censorship is the most effective kind, however some things are best unsaid: No need to do the leg work for those who increasingly wish to view us as 'The Problem'.