Video-Pentagon Gunman Shot and Killed After Shooting 2 Officers: Plus JPatrickBedell on Wikipedia

A lone gunman opened fire on three Pentagon Officers, wounding two, before being shot and killed. The gun man John Patrick Bedell, 36, died in the hospital after being hit twice, once in the head and again in the shoulder. One officer sustained a thigh wound, and the other a shoulder wound. Both were released from the hospital the next day.

It appears that the gun man was a 9/11 conspiracy believer. A blog connected to Bedell via the social networking site LinkedIn shows his growing distrust of the federal government and hints at a deeply seeded mistrust of the Defense Department emerged in a few Internet postings linked to Bedell. A blog connected to his LinkedIn profile contained a two-part treatise on big government, including its vulnerability to being controlled by a criminal organization. He tries to give credence to the idea that a criminal enterprise is being run out of the government and could have staged the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

This was one of several conspiracy/hate-laden Internet postings Bedell made, that attempted to shine light on a 9/11 conspiracy theory. "This organization, like so many murderous governments throughout history, would see the sacrifice of thousands of its citizens, in an event such as the September 11 attacks, as a small cost in order to perpetuate its barbaric control,"

Authorities said Bedell, of Hollister, Calif., had previous run-ins with law-enforcement, but found no known connection to terrorist groups or other types of ideologies, chief investigators said. The attack outside the massive Defense Department headquarters appeared to be a case of "a single individual who had issues," Richard Keevill, chief of Pentagon police, said Friday during a press conference.

Bedell died Thursday night from a single head wound. Officials said the two wounded guards were officers Jeffery Amos and Marvin Carraway, both of whom returned fire. They said a third guard they did not name also fired. Reached by telephone, Amos declined to answer any questions about the shooting but said he was doing fine. "I'm fine and my family is fine," he told The Associated Press. "I just thank the Lord that he shielded me when all of this took place."

Bedell drove across country, including a single known stop at a hotel in Reno, Nevada, law enforcement officials said.

Bedell was described as "very well-educated" and well-dressed, wearing a suit that blended with commuters when he showed up at the Pentagon's subway entrance about 6:40 p.m. But he was concealing two 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapons and "many magazines" of ammunition, Keevill said. "When Bedell seemed to reach into his pocket for worker identification, he was instead reaching for a gun", Keevill said.
"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."

Although the gunfire near the subway exit in Arlington, Va., lasted less than a minute, Keevill said, numerous shots were fired. There was more ammunition found in Bedell's truck, which authorities found in a nearby mall parking garage only a few blocks from the gates of the Pentagon.


"He came here from California," Keevill said. "We were able to identify certain locations that he spent that last several weeks making his way from the West coast to the East coast." Keevill said he did not know what motivated the shooting: "I have no idea what his intentions were."

There is a Wikipedia page linked to Bedell, by a user with the name JPatrickBedell revealed ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces and made reference to another conspiracy theory.
JPatrickBedell wrote that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up. Sabow's family has maintained that he was murdered because he was about to expose covert military operations in Central America involving drug smuggling.

That posting can be linked to Bedell through online court documents matching the shooter's birth date but Keevill said Friday that authorities had not made "a final determination" that the shooter was the same Bedell found online.


On the Internet posting, user JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."

There were some warnings though....John Patrick Bedell's parents reportedly warned authorities about him, saying he might have a gun. They also filed a missing person's report on him with the San Benito County Sheriff's Department about two months ago, stating they were concerned about him, citing past mental health problems. He apparently made light of his intentions before departing for his violent clash.

He was also the best circuit design student at San Jose State University, but also a troubled man with a serious drug problem. Now.a conflicting picture of Bedellm has began to emerge as professors, classmates, friends and family reacted to the event. On the one hand he was a quiet but brilliant engineering student who attended colleges off-and-on over the past 18 years, but he smoked and cultivated marijuana, displayed erratic behavior and was involved in a number of scrapes with the law.

Asides from the Engineering part, smoking pot and having run in's with the law describes a large section of the United States 30 something population. 

John Bedell's Wiki Post:

My hope is to use the creativity of markets and advanced technology to transcend the destructive regimes that have fastened themselves upon the world. I have dreamed for an number of years of creating v:production econosystems, which I hope to apply to the creation of v:security service econosystems using new and economic mechanisms and information technology.

I have a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and studied biochemistry at San Jose State University. I've studied electrical engineering with the goal of creating microsystems for molecular analysis.^[1][2][3][4]
You can see a proposal to use aluminum anodization as an adsorption method for DNA molecules on CMOS chips at v:DNA_integrated_circuit/proposal_import_2007 (which originates from an unsuccessful DARPA proposal to create a "microMIRV" interoperable with standard firearms ammunition), and a proposal to use xenon difluoride to create a picoliter-scale computer-controlled device for sorting biomolecules (available at v:Capillary_electrode_array/proposal_import_2007), including DNA and protein molecules.

My goals include the discovery of a protein sequence for the diamondase enzyme, enabling the creation of macroscale diamond structures, and the creation of self-assembled macrosystems with CMOS DNA-integrated circuits. The scale of these and other projects have led me to develop financial instruments representing information as a tool to manage large projects that are very knowledge-intensive.

I am determined to see that justice is served in the death of Colonel James Sabow, as a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions and institutions such as the coup regime of 1963 that maintains itself in power through the global drug trade, financial corruption, and murder, among other crimes. My work to develop information currency is an effort to create a framework for information management that uses financial markets to create the economic signals (prices) that will effect complex human actions in the real world based on specified information.

My desire for justice led me to violate what I think is one of the most unjust laws, cannabis prohibition, by growing 16 cannabis plants on my balcony in Irvine, CA from March 2006 to June 2006. I've posted the Orange County, CA District Attorney's complaint for this offense at http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/JPatrickBedell_2006-06-06_cannabis_felony_complaint .

One desired result of my effort is (will be) billions and billions of carefully cultivated, highly valuable cannabis plants growing throughout the United States with complete security of property. I have posted the image to the right in order to illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary system using digital financial instruments. There are two information currency units in each of the PDF417 codes pictured.

One of the information currency units is drawn from a series with "one gram cannabis" with the underlying asset, and the second ICU in each code has as its underlying asset the URL http://www.mises.org/humanaction/pdf/humanaction.pdf and the SHA-1 digest value of the file at that location (fd8205cb8b4793d43b57ba6f6c7367aa700c307a). This is a way of associating the work of Ludwig von Mises with financial value, which may be a tool to implement his ideas in reality. I hope someday to see full-reserve banking and observance of Article One, Section 10 of the US Constitution.

I apologize for the graphic content of some of my contributions, but detailed evidence is sometimes necessary to address important matters. I am very disturbed by the fact that Col. Sabow's civilian superiors and their successors have been able to continue their narco-mercantilism. For historical comparison, I might resemble the odd German still complaining about the murders of the Night of the Long Knives in 1938(?). Of course, Wikipedia didn't exist in 1938!