Police: Alleged freeway shooter was targeting ACLU

[lostinblue 1,989]

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/07/byron_williams_californias_i-5.php

For a little more detail.Someone left a lot out of the above story.

two-time felon Byron Williams stole his momma's guns, got loaded -- both figuratively and literally, with booze and a bulletproof vest -- and took to I-580 near Oakland looking for trouble. The 45-year-old parolee found it when police officers pulled him over for weaving in and out of traffic. That's when Williams, a former resident of Seattle and owner of two out of the three strikes necessary for a life sentence, opened fire like some bad guy at the end of a Michael Mann movie.

Below, check out a YouTube video filmed during the firefight. Which, based on NSFW audio alone, makes the 200-300 shots fired sound like a scene out of RoboCop. "They buckin'" indeed.

2-300 shots?wow

[Obama 2012 1,714]

I really wish individuals would stop doing this..... While it's great they want to make their political point, they're always going to be stopped very quickly. Even if they do get a few shots off or take out a few people, they just are made to look like nuts no matter what their motivation may be.

These people need to join a militia group or something and take action as a group if they really have a point. At least then it'd have a chance of being heard...

[Ban Hammer 13,364]

Indeed - even a clock is correct twice a day, isn't that the well worn phrase used in these situations?

what if it's a digital clock?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

http://blogs.seattle...fornias_i-5.php

For a little more detail.Someone left a lot out of the above story.

two-time felon Byron Williams stole his momma's guns, got loaded -- both figuratively and literally, with booze and a bulletproof vest -- and took to I-580 near Oakland looking for trouble. The 45-year-old parolee found it when police officers pulled him over for weaving in and out of traffic. That's when Williams, a former resident of Seattle and owner of two out of the three strikes necessary for a life sentence, opened fire like some bad guy at the end of a Michael Mann movie.

Below, check out a YouTube video filmed during the firefight. Which, based on NSFW audio alone, makes the 200-300 shots fired sound like a scene out of RoboCop. "They buckin'" indeed.

2-300 shots?wow

From your article above: (did you run out of room to post this part?)

Unfunnily enough, this very non-model citizen thought that it was other people, most especially the "left-wingers" in Congress, who were dragging America down to Hell.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

UPDATE:

Why would gunman Byron Williams have an interest in targeting the Tides Foundation? It's hard to say for sure at this point, but Glenn Beck talks about the foundation quite a bit.

The ACLU has been a whipping boy of the right for years. But the Tides Foundation? If you haven't heard of Tides, a standard-issue lefty foundation that's been around since the 1970s, it probably means you don't watch the Glenn Beck program. It turns out that Beck rails against Tides constantly on his program — roughly weekly, according to our search of his show transcripts. That includes two shows less than a week before the July 18 shooting. Tides frequently appears on Beck's famous blackboard renderings of who is pulling the strings of the Obama administration and the liberal media.

Also keep in mind here that Williams' mother told the press that her son was angry by what he heard about left-wingers on TV news — though we still don't know what specifically he was watching. Beck's obsession with Tides in the context of the Oakland shooting was first pointed out by the blogger Michael Wolraich.

Here's what Beck said about Tides on July 13, five days before the shooting:

Well, they [progressives] have the education system. They have the media. They have the capitalist system. What do you think the Tides Foundation was? They infiltrate and they saw under Ronald Reagan that capitalists were not for all of this nonsense, so they infiltrated.

Here's another typical Tides diversion from Beck's April 27 show, in which the foundation served as a link in a chain connecting the White House and domestic terrorists:

The Joyce Foundation, which gives money to the Tides Foundation -- John Ayers, the brother of Bill Ayers, Wade Rathke. On the board between '03 and '08 was Valerie Jarrett. She is in the White House now. She was also with the Fed in Chicago at the same time she was on this board.

Tides spokeswoman Christine Coleman told Salon that "after comments [about Tides] on Glenn Beck, similar things pop up on the right-wing blogosphere." So clearly there is an echo-chamber effect here, with Beck the driving force.

No one's saying that Beck is advocating violence or that anyone who watches Fox will be whipped up into a frenzy to hunt out left-wingers. But there's a real possibility that Williams heard about Tides on Beck's show.

A spokesman for Beck declined to comment on the Williams case.

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[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

UPDATE:

Why would gunman Byron Williams have an interest in targeting the Tides Foundation? It's hard to say for sure at this point, but Glenn Beck talks about the foundation quite a bit.

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I thought Glen was a wack job? Now you use him to make your point. I get it, your making wild stabs in the dark and using some of that pretentious hope to make it stick. MORE DESPERATION! Times a tickin bye, comon baby go viral! Your desperation is only doing you harm.

[rsn 135]

Indeed - even a broken clock is correct twice a day, isn't that the well worn phrase used in these situations?

[Captain Oates 911]

i hate it when people become disguntled!

Even worse when pigs get disgruntled - it's a right mess

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I foresee a leftwinger goin ballistic soon. It will come in the way of a leftist loon pretending to be a righty. The self destruction of the left is near. I hear Greece is nice this time of year.