Strange Coincidences in Wicks, Stack, and Bedell Triple Suicide Attacks

In an astounding 'coincidence' the guns used by both John Patrick Bedell and Johnny Lee Wicks not only were both bought in Las Vegas, but they both came from the same Memphis police evidence vault according to a recent AP article. Apparently it is customary for the Memphis police to sometimes sell confiscated weapons.

Joseph Andrew Stack and Johnny Lee Wicks have something else in common, they both burned down their houses before attacking governmental offices. Stack allegedly attacked the Echelon One building in Austin with his airplane enraged over the IRS, and Wicks opened fire at the Las Vegas Federal Courthouse supposedly enraged over losing Social Security benefits.

And finally several coincidences connect both Bedell and Stack. Not only were they both electrical, computer engineering specialists pursuing technical work in defense related projects, but they also both were from the same San Francisco area and also both lived for some time in Austin, TX.

Why Patsies Have Split Personalities: 'Sheep Dipping'

I wrote a previous post about typical characteristics of a patsy which were outlined in Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror and compared them to John Patrick Bedell. But there is one characteristic which I left out.

One nagging element to the Bedell story and the story of other patsies such as Oswald which sticks out I would describe as a contradiction in personality, or even a split personality.

In the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, as outlined in James W. Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable (p.61-66), we learn about contradictory elements to his actions. Actions which seem almost like two opposite types of people. Imagine someone picking pedals on a flower saying "she loves me...she loves me not....she loves me....she loves me not..." but instead saying "Oswald is an anti-communist...Oswald is a communist..." and so on. That is similar to how one feels looking at the facts of Oswald's associations leading up to the JFK assassination. Oswald is an ex-marine. He also is a defector to the Soviet Union. He visited CIA linked anti-castro leaders such as Carlos Bringuier, pledging to "train Cubans to fight against Castro." He also was seen demonstrating on the street with a sign that read "Viva Fidel" and handing out pro-Castro pamphlets. This kind of obvious complete contradiction in the character of a patsy has perhaps a very simple explanation. Part of it is real and represents the allegiance, in this case, of the patsy Oswald to his anti-castro, CIA linked handlers. The other part, the pro-Castro, pro-Communist part, is the 'sheep dipping', intended to indentify the patsy with the group which the handlers wish to scapegoat.

Can not a similar contradiction be found in the case of John Patrick Bedell?

David Parent, a professor of Bedell's in a Mercury News article tells one tale:

One of his professors remembered him as one of the best circuit design students in his class.
"He was always on time. Always prepared. Always asking that great question that sparked further discussion," professor David Parent said. "I just feel for his family."
During a news conference later in the day, Parent said, "I would have called him a gentle man and somebody seeking to help others." The professor said he wished he had taken more time to ask Bedell "'What's up?'
"Out of the 800 students who've been in that class, I remember J.P. fondly," Parent said.

The same article also tells another tale:

At the time of the shooting a bearded Bedell was wearing a suit, armed with two 9 mm semi-automatic weapons and carrying "many magazines" of ammunition. There was more ammunition in Bedell's car, which authorities found in a parking garage, Keevill said.

On the one hand he was an exemplary, punctual and talented engineering student with a linkedin page and writing research proposals for defense projects for the Pentagon, on the other hand he was cultivating marijuana in public view, getting arrested numerous times and leaving garbled web messages linking him in his perspectives to 9/11 Truth, the movement for a new 9/11 investigation, and Austrian economics.

So in the case of Bedell, the open marijuana use and interest in 9/11 and Austrian economics could be the 'sheep dipping' side of his personality, created to implicate those groups in the alleged violent attack.

Perhaps even more significant for 'sheep dipping' then anything mentioned so far is a text he left online in both audio and text format where he describes a 'criminal organization' which has taken control of our government. He describes that organization in the following paragraph:

Such an organization would be able to protect its shipments of illicit drugs into the United States, while using the power of law enforcement organizations to imprison their would-be competitors, and would subsequently be able to distribute those illicit drugs and launder the enormous profits in the huge and minutely regulated financial markets of the United States.

Compare that to this quote from Dan Russel for example:

... To this day American defense contractors are the biggest drug-money launderers in the world.— Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy, p.318.

or from Rodney Stich:

The drug trafficking involving the CIA, with obstruction of justice by Justice Department and other agencies continued, year after year. - Defrauding America, p. 418.

or from Michael C. Ruppert:

...drug money has become a $500-600 billion a year cash flow that is now an essential part of the world banking and financial system because it provides the liquid cash necessary to make the "minimum monthly payments" on huge stock and derivative and investment bubbles in the U.S. and Britain.

Bedell continues here:

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.

I could give any number of quotes in comparison here, but how about this from 9/11 Synthetic Terror:

...We see here a tradition of thought, alive in the Schmittian-Straussian neocons of today, which would have no trouble in accommodating a crime on the scope of 9/11.


He later describes the coming to power of this organization:

This seizure of the United States government by an international criminal conspiracy is a long-established reality. The murder of the United States President in 1963, the associated murders and institutional subversion, and the manipulation of official inquiries and public opinion, was effected by individuals within organizational structures that play a central role in the United States government up to the present day.

Compare that with this passage from JFK and the Unspeakable (p.370):

The extent to which our national security state was systematically marshaled for the assassination of president John F. Kennedy remains incomprehensible to us. When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. We lack the independence needed to judge the system around us. Yet the evidence we have seen points toward our national security state, the systemic bubble in which we all live, as the source of Kennedy's murder and immediate cover-up.

His views in other words, reflect the opinion of many U.S political analysts critical of the current establishment who might very well be seeing the truth of post WWII U.S. politics. If there was such an organization as Bedell's alleged writings assume, then it would certainly benefit from 'sheep dipping' patsy Bedell in the idealogical realm of it's investigators and critics. Whether or not he actually was a patsy, his views certainly lend themselves to the task of associating ideas critical of the government with acts of violence.

Professor Parent from the Mercury News article quoted above however, seems to almost suggest something more sinister then just a lone nut who coincidentally was involved with 9/11 Truth and criticizing government as we can see from the final lines of the article:

Bedell gave no clue to the officers about what he was going to do. "He wasn't pretending to be anyone. He was wearing a coat and walked up and just started shooting."
That sounded nothing like the former student Parent thought he knew so well.
"I still can't believe this is the JP I knew,'' he said. "It's as though someone stole his identity."

Is John Patrick Bedell A Typical Patsy?

In Webster Tarpley's 9/11 Synthetic Terror he talks about some characterists of a typical patsy. According to Wikipedia the origin of the word patsy comes from "early 20th Century vaudevillian Billy B. Van, whose character, Patsy Bolivar, was more often than not an innocent victim of unscrupulous or nefarious characters."
According to Tarpley, "if the real authorship of state-sponsored terrorism is to be successfully concealed, then a collection of scapegoats is the first ingredient required. These may be defined as the patsies, or alternatively as fall-guys, scapegoats, useful idiots, stooges or dupes."

Some typical characteristics of a patsy mentioned by Tarpley could be listed as I've done below:

1. ...Of low mental ability and great gullibility, since their mission is to be part of false-flag groups which pretend to be working for a cause, while in reality they are under the control of a private network inside the US government...

Bedell probably doesn't fit this characteristic very well, though he may have been gullible enough to be duped.

2. ...Require constant financial assistance to be able to travel around the world, as they so frequently seem to be able to do without any visible means of support.

Though reports of his whereabouts are sketchy, it is known that Bedell traveled accross the U.S. turning up in Reno and Texas at different times before he arrived in DC to commit his crime. He seems to have engaged in many research projects and lived many years without any mention of a steady job or means of earning a living. He also received financial assistance from his parents. Bedell definitely fits this characteristic to a T.

3. The most important thing about patsies are that they are almost always physically, mentally and technically unable to carry out the crimes of which they are accused. This is a matter of insufficient ability and capability, and not of the lack of criminal intent, which is often abundant.

This characteristic fits Bedell in the sense that walking up to armed guards at the pentagon metro station seems a ridiculous way of 'attacking' the pentagon, especially since he seems to have had little background with firearms. He definitely wasn't up to the task if his intent was to in some way damage or injure or kill 'agents' of the state. Though one would imagine if his only intent was injuring the guards, he could have hit a point blank target, yet the guards came away with only minor injuries. He seems on videos like a bit of a 'softie' and while wierd enough, not necessarily violent.
As pointed out in a previous post, there is also considerable doubt about how he managed to obtain a firearm, since his marijuana arrests and mental health record probably would have raised red flags during a background check. We also know from his brother that he did fail one background check. Bedell seems to fit this characteristic as well.

4. ...They have to be noticed. They must attract lots and lots of attention. They may issue raving statements on videotape, or doubles can be used to issue these statements for them if they are not up to it. They need to get into fights with passersby...Even if they are presumed dead they must remain prominent...

Well, we know from an article on myFOXla.com that he purposely grew marijuana on his balcony in free view to anyone or any authorities, as well as forcing cops to carry him down several flights of stairs after his arrest. From the same article we know that he "was arrested in San Benito County in central California...for starting a fight about the time he violated probation." According to an article on MercuryNews.com "he was arrested after randomly approaching a 6-year-old and the child's father at Mountain View's Bubb Elementary School and threatening them with a 6-foot-long stick when they wouldn't let him join their soccer practice." He was caught speeding in Texas where he underwent a mental evaluation and he was arrested in Reno on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana. He also made strange video tapes and audio tapes documenting his anti-government, anti-corruption views that survived his death, as well as some very dubious writings on a bazpedia profile page as well as a research project and other downloads linking him with movements critical of the present political establishment. He definitely fits this characteristic.

5. Despite the need to be noticed as much as possible, the patsies have to stay out of jail. If they are all in jail, the planned terror action cannot take place. This is not because the patsies are needed to carry it out, but rather because they must be on hand in order to be blamed for it, whether they are on the scene or far away. If the patsies are in jail, they cannot be scapegoated. Therefore a lawyer and bail money must be provided, or a complicit judge told to release the defendant. Immigration authorities and Customs must be told to look the other way. To keep the patsies out of jail so they can serve their vital purpose is the job of the moles, as will soon be shown.

We know that Bedell spent a short time in jail a few years ago, but that would hardly have an effect on an operation which would take place much later. He managed to stay out of mental health facilities as well as jail in the recent past despite an arrest only a few weeks before the crime. He was free to carry out 'his crime.' He more or less fits this characteristic.

6. Finally, if all else goes well, it is the destiny of the patsies to take the blame for the terror action once it has happened. At this point the moles in the government apparatus, who had earlier been the patsies’ greatest friends and protectors, become their most implacable enemies. The patsies must be hunted down and, preferably, liquidated on the spot, as the British Special Air Services anti-terrorist force always prefers to do, with a maximum of firepower. Their faces and stories will be demonized as the latest manifestation of absolute evil. The nationality, philosophy, or religion which the media portray them as representing will become the target of raving vilification, arrest, economic sanctions, cruise missile retaliation, and armed invasion, as the case may be.

According to reports, Bedell was killed by the guards as he ran away after he allegedly opened fire on them point blank and missed. As in other recent cases such as the Joe Stack case, within hours we had materials from the internet which revealed his 'anti-government' views. He was quickly demonized as a 'nut case' 9/11 truther and marijuana user who criticized corruption in government. This branding of those critical of the government as 'dangerous radicals' is an obvious danger to democratic opposition in the U.S., as well as demonizing, in an already anti-intellectual American climate, anyone who forms critical opinions of the establishment. An investigation into the events of 9/11 could possibly completely bring down the entire contemporary political establishment, which uses 9/11 to justify so many of their most destructive policies, and therefore, it obviously sees the 9/11 Truth movement as a threat. Austrian economics, something also against the grain of the current political establishment, has also been tied to Bedell. Marijuana use is also something which can easily be demonized in the eyes of many people and so by combining all three with a violent act, an establishment agent or group could perhaps believe they have scored points in the war for the minds of average people, that is, if Bedell was actually a patsy, and not truly a violent lone nut.
So it seems Bedell does fit this characteristic very well indeed.

So in summary, it looks like with the exception of the first characteristic listed, Bedell fits the bill of a patsy. Bedell has at least many of the typical characteristics of a patsy. It probably is a good idea to inform ourselves about the nature of patsies, considering we might be seeing many more such characters in the near future. Unless of course, they are all just really lone wolves...

How Does Someone With Repeated Psychiatric Hospitalizations, Drug Arrests and Jail Time, Buy A Gun?

Some reporters and perhaps even federal investigators are all asking the same question. How did John Patrick Bedell buy a gun if as reports indicate, he had been repeatedly committed to mental institutions for bipolar disorder and spent 30 days in jail for a resisting arrest conviction? How would he have been able to pass the background check which one would imagine would have indicated any psychiatric hospitalization and also his several arrests, jail time and violations of probation? Not only that, but according to a missing person report his family filed with the San Benito Sheriffs Department, he had been detained by police for a mental evaluation only a few days before he allegedly made a $600 purchase at a shooting range. The shooting range purchase on January 10th was discovered by his mother who had come across "some information -- either from an e-mail received from a company, or an online posting on a bank account or something."

According to a website on the Firearm Background Check, it seems he actually may have been able to purchase a weapon if his psychiatric hospitalization had been voluntary, and since his conviction was not for a felony, and the drug charges were dismissed.

But then how does that correspond to accounts like this one in The Washington Post where the shooter's brother claims he failed a background check near Sacramento when he tried to purchase a gun? According to the article, the mother of the shooter claims he later made a purchase at a Washington area gun shop. Could he have been more successful there? And didn't the mother already say he spent $600 at the shooting range in Sacramento?

Update: It seems that his guilty plea for marijuana cultivation and also his arrest on suspicion of driving while under the influence of marijuana are also red flags that should have come up in his background check since "unlawful drug users" is a reason for rejection.

Bedell's Materials: Strange Brew of DARPA and DOPE

Both Joseph Andrew Stack (alleged suicide pilot) and John Patrick Bedell (alleged suicide shooter) were software engineers from California in the vicinity of Silicon Valley. Stack apparently worked for notorious defense contractors such as L-3. Bedell wrote a 28-page DARPA grant proposal for the Pentagon, which can be downloaded, which ends with the sentence "Mr. Bedell has an intense desire to contribute to the national security of the United States." On Bedell's download page that proposal is sandwiched in with a treatise on Austrian economics (think Ron Paul here), and a gruesome medical investigation into the death of Colonel James Sabow (think 9/11 Truth here). So on the one hand we have here two examples of his supposed interest which neatly represent two movements critical of the excesses of the military-industrial complex and seen as a threat by the present American political establishment, on the other hand he is eagerly writing proposals for Department of Defense research projects.
As Cryptogon points out about Bedell:

Conspiracy theorist, libertarian, antigovernment extremist… with, “an intense desire to contribute to the national security of the United States”?

A cnn article describes an internet posting by JPatrickBedell on marijuana:

Given my belief that cannabis prohibition is the least defensible and most unjust aspect of the prohibitionist regime existing throughout the world today, I decided in March 2006 to cultivate cannabis in full view of the world

As stated in a previous post, alleged writings of his on a 'Bazpedia' profile page seem to be some kind of nonsensical hodge podge with links to treatises on Austrian economics mixed with absurd mentions of an information currency with a marijuana standard. I'm not joking. It's nonsense and someone is having a laugh.

A posting entitled "John Patrick Bedell: Welcome to the Conspiracy Theorist Lone Nut Era" on Cryptogon lists some of these as well as other newly surfaced internet materials. There seems to be a pervasive anti-governmental corruption stance in the materials which is then at times combined with nonsense and absurdities to degrade and malign it. As in the case of Joseph Andrew Stack, one must consider the very real possibility that these materials are also being juxtaposed with the alleged violence of the perpetrator to intentionally malign and defang authentic opposition to corrupt elements of our government.

Bedell's Phony 'Madman' Material Surfaces

Finally a link led me to the original, and now often cited, Wikipedia page of what is alleged to be John Patrick Bedell's writings. I had previously watched videos and read some statements of his which didn't seem so utterly mad at all. But the writings on his Wikipedia page, purported to exhibit the work of a 'madman' who believes crazy things like Austrian economics and 'conspiracy theories', are so obviously phony and pasted together that I now am more convinced then ever that this whole thing is some kind of manipulation being practiced on what someone obviously thinks is a very gullible public and media. I had trouble believing Joe Stack's IRS rant, but this is really a joke. Read for yourself, it's just drivel that someone made up to try to make the intelligent people who want a proper investigation of 9/11 seem like utter raving lunatics. The trick they use is to combine intelligent government-critical observations with utter nonsense in the hopes that ordinary people will just think all individuals critical of the government are raving lunatics. My guess is that part of the text was real from somewhere, maybe the individual himself, but it was spliced together haphazardly with the absurd mumbo jumbo parts added in for effect. From the psyop's mouth:

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!
I am looking for collaborators for ongoing commercial and intellectual efforts. Email to jpbedell at mises.com is welcome!

Washington Post says 'Pentagon Guards Trained For Attack'

A Washington Post article describes two ex-military Pentagon guards who "did exactly what they were trained to do," when John Patrick Bedell opened fire. Interestingly, the article describes the two guards as "grazed by bullets, treated for minor injuries and released Thursday night." This is surprising given what one would assume was the point blank nature of the attack.

A press release on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority website also describes a drill taking place a little more then a week ago which simulated "gunfire between two shooters in the station. "

A previous Of Goats And Men post outlines how often drills have been known to strangely coincide with terror events.

Again, as in the Stack case, besides the similarity that both California software engineer perpetrators were working on defense related projects, also many of the participants of both events were ex-military. In the Stack case, both the victim Vernon Hunter as well as the 'hero' Robin De Haven were both ex-military. So when one reads in the Washington Post article how for one of the Pentagon guards who was an ex-Marine "the training just snapped in and [he] just reacted," this can't help but remind us of Robin De Haven who mentioned in an interview with Wolf Blitzer that his army training also snapped in to gear.

BLITZER: What was going through your mind?

DEHAVEN: My -- my Army training. I spent six-and-a-half years in the Army and two -- two tours in Iraq -- was -- was going through my head. And I figured I -- I could do something.

I'd -- I've had some -- some experience in triage and -- and battlefield with IEDs and RPGs and gunfire. And -- and that's the first thought was maybe I could help, because I'm more used to dealing with traumatic situations like that. I have a clear head and a calm head -- to try to help those people. And luckily I did.

Another Software Engineer from CA Goes on Apparent Suicidal Rampage

We had Joseph Andrew Stack, now we have John Patrick Bedell.
Again a software engineer from California has made the news. This time he has shot two policemen at the Pentagon's metro station. He was gunned down afterwards and died of his wounds. This time, his alleged anger with the government was not over the IRS, according to news reports, but with the alleged suicide of Colonel James Sabow, and with the government's cover up of the real events of 9/11.

Apparently a deleted wikipedia profile page revealed the following statement of someone with the same name as the shooter:

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.


The shooting fits in conveniently with the opinion piece a few months ago of Arnaud De Borchgrave who had mysteriously attempted to link 9/11 truth with the Fort Hood shooter as a dangerous threat.

This shooting is being described in media reports as the efforts of a "right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings."

From Bedell's Linkedin Profile we find a similar collection of tech companies as we associated previously with the Joe Stack case. It will be interesting to see if this similarity has any meaning.


Below is a video which is claimed to represent him speaking about a project of his, Information Currency.


He also has a website where proposals of his on 'DNA integrated circuits' can be downloaded.

These may be related to proposals which according to an article on msnbc.com, "outlined his idea for DNA nanotechnology research that might "provide significant new capabilities for the Department of Defense and the individual warfighter."

Uptdate: Cryptogon has identified the 28 page proposal, here is the link.