Maine Owl

While we're on the subject of wingnuttia and the excellent coverage of it at Orcinus, Sara writes that the extreme nutjob who rampaged with a gun last summer at a Unitarian Universalist church in Tennessee, killing two parishioners, has been sentenced to life.

James Adkisson by all accounts is an extremely angry person, inspired and animated by right-wing talk radio. He managed to put his anger into words in sort of a suicide note/manifesto quoted in the Orcinus piece:

Adkisson: Know this if nothing else: This was a hate crime. I hate the damn left-wing liberals. There is a vast left-wing conspiracy in this country & these liberals are working together to attack every decent & honorable institution in the nation, trying to turn this country into a communist state. Shame on them....

This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It's the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence."

I thought I'd do something good for this Country Kill Democrats til the cops kill me....Liberals are a pest like termites. Millions of them Each little bite contributes to the downfall of this great nation. The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is to kill them in the streets. Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals.

This man seems to be the fruition of the kind of thinking found at Palin rallies last fall.