At similar point in Clinton presidency angry guy flew plane into WH

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

He crashed into the south side, aiming at the oval office. (Clinton was out of the country)

I don't remember the guy's beef or if it was even ever determined but it served as a preview of 1994, the summer of the "angry white man" that kind of kept ramping up in the zeitgeist until Oklahoma City (April 1995). After that the media pressured the vibe down some.

The angry white man as workplace shooter, estranged wife murder-suicide and occasional political terrorist is usually too scattered a mind-set to match any partisan profile. (Timothy McVeigh was upset that his farm subsidy checks were too small, for instance... an incoherent view in terms of his goal of abolishing government.)

I don't know if this guy had partisan politics. Many people do not, on an issue by issue basis. But the driving thing is generalized anger and RW media plays a part in that in promoting a general sense that there is some problem that demands extreme solutions.

(I am assuming today's "pretty bad pilot", to use W's phrase from 9/11, was white)

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. That was the era of the rise of the militia movement, of Falling Down,

of unfocused white rage.

Yep. I see a similarity.

[damntexdem]

2. That settles it -- the plane crash in Austin is Clinton's fault.

So good to get back to the old, tried and true, forms of scapegoating.

;-)

[Jennicut]

3. It does remind me of that somewhat. Stack was so incoherent and yet he seemed to be full or rage.

Angry white men are attacking us, or maybe just angry crazy people.

[csziggy]

4. There was also the guy that tried to hijack and fly a plane into Nixon's white house

Bycke - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck

The one that tried but missed the Clinton White house with a small plane was Corder - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder