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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Nutjobs coming out of the woodwork... (6/5/2009 10:00:54 AM)
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This man is on the run with $85k in cash and a slew of weapons... the worst part is that in one of his statements he used the term "We".
There's a lot about this that's pretty disturbing when you reflect on it for a moment (aside from the fact that he's planing to kill the president, of course.)
Who is this guy? What's his story? From what I've been able to piece together from the article, it looks like he's been traveling all over the country for weeks, if not months, particularly in areas that are known to be hotbeds of extreme right-wing religious fundamentalism. He winds up in Utah, and deposits $85,000 in a bank. Where'd he get it? Why does someone from New York drive all the way to Utah to open a bank account and make a deposit? They've got banks in New York; I've been there, and I've seen them. They're all over the place. Big signs on the front and everything. Then, after he withdraws the money, he shows up at a bank in Iowa. Why? Collecting more money? Whose?
It looks to me like someone's funding this guy. It doesn't sound as though he had this money in his possession when he left New York, because it wouldn't have made sense for him to drive all the way to Utah to deposit it. It sounds like he got a check from someone, or more likely multiple checks from multiple someones (the article's not clear on that, being that it's the Daily News, after all), and sat around in Utah waiting for the check(s) to clear. It very much sounds as though his purpose for barnstorming around the country was to meet up with contributors, and when he'd amassed a certain amount, decided to cash it out. And then apparently went to Iowa to collect some more. Thus the "we".
He may be a nut, but the circumstances strongly suggest he's not a lone nut. It looks like he's got people with pretty deep pockets subsidizing his grand little adventure, and I think it's a pretty good bet he's got some sort of network of people providing him with shelter and, perhaps, logistical assistance of some sort. He's clearly insane, and evidently not very bright, so I don't doubt the Secret Service is up to the task, but the more pressing issue (IMO) is who's he fronting for? What's the whole story here?
And what's up with that friggin' bank? A guy makes death threats to a teller if he doesn't get his money, and then when he gets the money, makes further direct threats against the life of the President of the United States, and what do they do? He comes back the next day, and they give him the rest of his money. Did they not report this on the first day? When he came back the next day, why were the police apparently unaware of the situation? How did he just walk right in, collect the rest of his money, and sashay right back out again? How does that work?
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