Pentagon Shooter John Patrick Bedell’s Audio Manifesto

John Patrick Bedell, the anti-government extremist who shot two police officers at the Pentagon, recorded a manifesto in 2006 called “Directions to Freedom.” Bedell ranted about how the government can “confiscate the resources of their citizens” and wanted to “eliminate the role of government in education.”

“Communist and socialist governments that abolished or disregarded private property,” said Bedell in the recording, “created poverty, repression and murder on a truly enormous scale.” But, he continued, “Even in the United States, however, there has been a continual erosion of protection of private property justified by the belief that government is an efficient instrument for the positive direction of society.”

Bedell also spoke out against government control of the monetary system.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.