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Edited on Thu Feb-18-10 02:31 PM by 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)
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