More details have emerged about John Patrick Bedell, the thirty-six-year-old California man who opened fire last week outside the Pentagon. Bedell wounded two police officers before being shot to death. Bedell’s father said Patrick showed symptoms of a mental disorder, approaching paranoid schizophrenia. In an audio recording archived online, Bedell rails against government encroachment on private property and the monetary system.

John Patrick Bedell: “When the government can control how private property is used, and especially when the government controls the monetary system that is used to exchange private property, the government has the mechanisms and the motivation to control individuals to the smallest detail. To prevent themselves from being enslaved, the powerful masters of our existing governments use every means at their disposal, including bribery, theft and murder, to control those governments, which are imperfect institutions operated by imperfect individuals.”