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Quit Smoking Dope or You’ll Go on a Psycho Rampage, You Libertarian Freaks

Posted on | March 5, 2010 | 26 Comments

Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on Monday.
— Reuters, March 1

Pinto: I won’t go schizo, will I?
Jennings: It’s a distinct possibility.
— National Lampoon’s Animal House, 1978

Having previously dabbled in the political blame game with the Pentagon shooter, I think now it’s time to play the “Reefer Madness” card on the late J. Patrick Bedell:

I have a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and studied biochemistry at San Jose State University. . . .
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. . . .
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. . . . 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.

Speaking of “tools,” the unlinkable Charles Johnson seized on this murderous dopehead’s Mises reference to implicate libertarianism. Single-sentence refutation:

Ronald Reagan was likewise a “devotee” of Mises and F.A. Hayek, but was not a murderous dopehead.

Case closed. But two can play the Little Green Footballs game:

J. Patrick Bedell was from Southern California, just like Charles Johnson, Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson.

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Category: Charles Johnson, Crime

Comments

26 Responses to “Quit Smoking Dope or You’ll Go on a Psycho Rampage, You Libertarian Freaks”

  1. Mark J. Goluskin
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:02 pm

    Remember, I am from So Cal! And I can tell you that UC Santa Cruz is a freak show. They do not have letter grades. Their mascot is a banana slug. And now add J. Patrick Bedell on their honor roll!

  2. Mark J. Goluskin
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:02 pm

    Remember, I am from So Cal! And I can tell you that UC Santa Cruz is a freak show. They do not have letter grades. Their mascot is a banana slug. And now add J. Patrick Bedell on their honor roll!

  3. John S
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

    Good points, esp. about Reagan’s admiration for Mises and Hayek. The Hot Air community, Patterico, et al., are having a field day on the fact that they can *finally* now expel libertarians/libertarian-leaners from the conservative movement.

  4. John S
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:03 pm

    Good points, esp. about Reagan’s admiration for Mises and Hayek. The Hot Air community, Patterico, et al., are having a field day on the fact that they can *finally* now expel libertarians/libertarian-leaners from the conservative movement.

  5. theCL
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:12 pm

    @JohnS:

    Are they really? Have they stooped so low they must play Charles Johnson games?

    If this is considered political discourse, we’re screwed.

    I’m an Old Right conservative (libertarian today) because that’s who my grandparents were, and they were far more virtuous and wiser than any mainstream pundit I’ve ever read or heard in my entire life … none of which deserve to even shine their lowly blue-collar shoes.

    If these games are what it means to be conservative, count me out! Actually, count me as an enemy.

  6. theCL
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm

    @JohnS:

    Are they really? Have they stooped so low they must play Charles Johnson games?

    If this is considered political discourse, we’re screwed.

    I’m an Old Right conservative (libertarian today) because that’s who my grandparents were, and they were far more virtuous and wiser than any mainstream pundit I’ve ever read or heard in my entire life … none of which deserve to even shine their lowly blue-collar shoes.

    If these games are what it means to be conservative, count me out! Actually, count me as an enemy.

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  8. Lyndsey
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:18 pm

    Quoting Reuters… then Animal House. Hence, Stacy McCain.

  9. Lyndsey
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

    Quoting Reuters… then Animal House. Hence, Stacy McCain.

  10. Stogie
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:21 pm

    Like J. Patrick Bedell, I live in Hollister, California and went to San Jose State. You see, there IS a connection!

    I tried driving over to the address listed on his voter registration, and found that he lived in the Ridgemark Golf & Country Club, in a gated community. There was a guard shack preventing me from finishing my journey. I decided not to use the Bedell Option to enter, and went home instead.

  11. Stogie
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:21 pm

    Like J. Patrick Bedell, I live in Hollister, California and went to San Jose State. You see, there IS a connection!

    I tried driving over to the address listed on his voter registration, and found that he lived in the Ridgemark Golf & Country Club, in a gated community. There was a guard shack preventing me from finishing my journey. I decided not to use the Bedell Option to enter, and went home instead.

  12. Stogie
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:23 pm

    One more connection! Like Bedell, my son was a UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug. He graduated in 2003 and now works for AIG. Someone contact the media!

  13. Stogie
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:23 pm

    One more connection! Like Bedell, my son was a UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug. He graduated in 2003 and now works for AIG. Someone contact the media!

  14. chuck cross
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    I will be watching in the coming days to see what conservatives try to link this nutjob to traditional conservatism.

    Because he mentions LvMI, I bet several do it.

  15. chuck cross
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm

    I will be watching in the coming days to see what conservatives try to link this nutjob to traditional conservatism.

    Because he mentions LvMI, I bet several do it.

  16. Fritz_Katz
    March 5th, 2010 @ 9:53 pm

    Stogie:

    I tried driving over to the address listed on his voter registration,… I decided not to use the Bedell Option to enter, and went home instead.

    Funny!

    Did you happen to notice that the party on Bedell’s voter registration was Democrat. Zombie disects the ‘blame game’ of the MSM. How many Tea Partiers or conservatives…

    – Shoot at the Pentagon and hate the military?
    – Are registered Democrats?
    – Hate George Bush and the whole Bush family?
    – Think 9/11 was perpetrated not by Muslims but by Republicans?
    – Grow and smoke marijuana?
    – Read left-wing anti-Bush books?
    – Are anti-war?
    – Talk about “economic justice”?
    – Think the Vietnam War and the Iraq War were not merely mistakes but were part of a government conspiracy?
    – diagnosed as clinically insane.

  17. Fritz_Katz
    March 5th, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

    Stogie:

    I tried driving over to the address listed on his voter registration,… I decided not to use the Bedell Option to enter, and went home instead.

    Funny!

    Did you happen to notice that the party on Bedell’s voter registration was Democrat. Zombie disects the ‘blame game’ of the MSM. How many Tea Partiers or conservatives…

    – Shoot at the Pentagon and hate the military?
    – Are registered Democrats?
    – Hate George Bush and the whole Bush family?
    – Think 9/11 was perpetrated not by Muslims but by Republicans?
    – Grow and smoke marijuana?
    – Read left-wing anti-Bush books?
    – Are anti-war?
    – Talk about “economic justice”?
    – Think the Vietnam War and the Iraq War were not merely mistakes but were part of a government conspiracy?
    – diagnosed as clinically insane.

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  21. Tony Ryals
    March 18th, 2010 @ 4:19 am

    All I know is that,aside from alledged Pentagon shooter John Bedell,
    that Ludwig Von Mises’ biggest fans are fascists indeed such as James
    Dale Davidson founder of Steve Forbes’ National Taxpayers Union near
    the SEC headquarters in Alexandria,Virginia as well as newsmax.con
    that includes the British fascist Lord William Rees-Mogg,deceased
    wingnut General Al Haig,et.al. and Agora Inc,Baltimore(and world wide
    internet) penny stock promoting and money laundering scumbags Bill
    Bonner,Lila Rajiva,Porter Stansberry,Lard William Rees-Mogg,and CIA
    ‘economist’ and
    Columbia University parasite Mark Skousen of the Nevada Fraud ‘Freedom
    Fest’ et.al..Their corrupt group also includes Texas Republican
    wingnut and womens rights denier Ron Paul who lied to the SEC about
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac AND THEIR SLEEZY PENNY STOCKS being ‘naked
    shorted’ for them .
    All these Lew RockWell-ian parasites are Misesians which certainly in
    itself doesn’t say anything good about Ludwig Von Mises.Maybe Mises
    wasn’t a crook,pseudo-intellectual or CIA scumbag but his admirers at
    present certainly are.

    http://washingtonindependent.com/78543/john-bed…

    John Bedell and Ludwig von Mises
    By David Weigel 3/5/10 3:39 PM ThinkProgress points to a strange item
    on the Bazpedia page of Pentagon metro shooter John Patrick Bedell,
    buried below the incomprehensible kookery (”I have posted the image to
    the right in order to illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary
    system using digital financial instruments“) and a brief appreciation
    of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises.

    …

    LewRockwell.comAn anti-state/pro-market site on the net run by the
    president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Updated 6 days a week.
    http://www.lewrockwell.com

    ……………………..
    Another interesting relation of John Bedell, or at least of his father who has the same name, is the fact that he runs a FINRA approved stock dealing company in Hollister called SagePoint.And it appears AIG scumbags are now hiding behind that name after having dirtied their own.

    http://brokerdealer.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!20…

    January 11
    AIGFA to Re-Brand – Will Now be SagePoint

    AIG announced that AIG Financial Advisors is being re-branded (changing its name) to SagePoint Financial. Clearly they are trying to distance themselves from the negative brand image that the mother-ship, AIG, is enjoying at the moment. AIGFA is the second largest of the three B/D’s in the AIG Advisor Group. The other two being Royal Alliance and FSC – who, conveniently, are not tainted at the moment with the AIG brand name……..

    I don’t know either if the father John Bedell of Hollister is related to Jeff Bedell of Sacramento but their businesses seem to be similar including AIG and it appears SagePoint Financial connections.I wonder if they have an Agora Inc connection as well ? James Dale Davidson’s and Bill Bonner’s Agora Inc. have fraudulent business scams around the world and California is no exception.After the Goldcor fraud with its Costa Rica connections in the 1980’s,Goldcor’s name was changed to Oxford Club under the corporate umbrella of Jim Dale Davidson’s and Bill Bonner’s and Lord William Rees-Mogg’s Agora Inc..
    It has been rumored that Agora Inc is involved with U.S.AID in some sort of debt
    swap schemes in Latin America.Is this true or is it another ‘Agora’? I’m not from the Washington,D.C. area and so not up to the low downs and dirtes there some of you might be aware of.

  22. Tony Ryals
    March 17th, 2010 @ 11:19 pm

    All I know is that,aside from alledged Pentagon shooter John Bedell,
    that Ludwig Von Mises’ biggest fans are fascists indeed such as James
    Dale Davidson founder of Steve Forbes’ National Taxpayers Union near
    the SEC headquarters in Alexandria,Virginia as well as newsmax.con
    that includes the British fascist Lord William Rees-Mogg,deceased
    wingnut General Al Haig,et.al. and Agora Inc,Baltimore(and world wide
    internet) penny stock promoting and money laundering scumbags Bill
    Bonner,Lila Rajiva,Porter Stansberry,Lard William Rees-Mogg,and CIA
    ‘economist’ and
    Columbia University parasite Mark Skousen of the Nevada Fraud ‘Freedom
    Fest’ et.al..Their corrupt group also includes Texas Republican
    wingnut and womens rights denier Ron Paul who lied to the SEC about
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac AND THEIR SLEEZY PENNY STOCKS being ‘naked
    shorted’ for them .
    All these Lew RockWell-ian parasites are Misesians which certainly in
    itself doesn’t say anything good about Ludwig Von Mises.Maybe Mises
    wasn’t a crook,pseudo-intellectual or CIA scumbag but his admirers at
    present certainly are.

    http://washingtonindependent.com/78543/john-bed…

    John Bedell and Ludwig von Mises
    By David Weigel 3/5/10 3:39 PM ThinkProgress points to a strange item
    on the Bazpedia page of Pentagon metro shooter John Patrick Bedell,
    buried below the incomprehensible kookery (”I have posted the image to
    the right in order to illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary
    system using digital financial instruments“) and a brief appreciation
    of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises.

    …

    LewRockwell.comAn anti-state/pro-market site on the net run by the
    president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Updated 6 days a week.
    http://www.lewrockwell.com

    ……………………..
    Another interesting relation of John Bedell, or at least of his father who has the same name, is the fact that he runs a FINRA approved stock dealing company in Hollister called SagePoint.And it appears AIG scumbags are now hiding behind that name after having dirtied their own.

    http://brokerdealer.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!20…

    January 11
    AIGFA to Re-Brand – Will Now be SagePoint

    AIG announced that AIG Financial Advisors is being re-branded (changing its name) to SagePoint Financial. Clearly they are trying to distance themselves from the negative brand image that the mother-ship, AIG, is enjoying at the moment. AIGFA is the second largest of the three B/D’s in the AIG Advisor Group. The other two being Royal Alliance and FSC – who, conveniently, are not tainted at the moment with the AIG brand name……..

    I don’t know either if the father John Bedell of Hollister is related to Jeff Bedell of Sacramento but their businesses seem to be similar including AIG and it appears SagePoint Financial connections.I wonder if they have an Agora Inc connection as well ? James Dale Davidson’s and Bill Bonner’s Agora Inc. have fraudulent business scams around the world and California is no exception.After the Goldcor fraud with its Costa Rica connections in the 1980’s,Goldcor’s name was changed to Oxford Club under the corporate umbrella of Jim Dale Davidson’s and Bill Bonner’s and Lord William Rees-Mogg’s Agora Inc..
    It has been rumored that Agora Inc is involved with U.S.AID in some sort of debt
    swap schemes in Latin America.Is this true or is it another ‘Agora’? I’m not from the Washington,D.C. area and so not up to the low downs and dirtes there some of you might be aware of.

  23. jennifer martin
    May 6th, 2010 @ 8:21 pm

    Good to know about that.It’s really informative!

  24. jennifer martin
    May 6th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

    Good to know about that.It’s really informative!

  25. Kojocaro
    August 8th, 2010 @ 9:59 pm

    your an asshole tony

  26. Kojocaro
    August 8th, 2010 @ 5:59 pm

    your an asshole tony