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‘Random Tragedy’ Not So Random: Socialist Serial Killer Amy Bishop
Posted on | February 13, 2010 | 15 Comments
“It’s always baffling to me when people try to politicize random
tragedies — usually while they’re breaking news stories with little
real information.”
– James Joyner, Outside the Beltway
Joyner is (a) from Alabama and (b) has a Ph.D., and I’m sorry if that
caused anyone’s head to explode — “An intellectual? From Alabama?” —
but he doesn’t seem to be the kill-everybody-in-the-faculty-meeting
type of intellectual, so he’s OK with me.
Joyner is correct about the unfortunate tendency toward instant
politicization of major news events. We’ve seen Michael Moore blame
the 1999 Columbine shootings on Charlton Heston. We’ve seen Robert
Kennedy Jr. blame the 2005 New Orleans flood on Haley Barbour and
George W. Bush.
Having recently seen liberal bloggers make fools of themselves by
hasty conclusions — “Send the Body to Glenn Beck!” — I certainly
wasn’t going theorize about Professor Amy Bishop’s murder spree at the
University of Alabama-Huntsville in the absence of facts.
Well, the facts are now starting to pile up like the corpses of Amy
Bishop’s victims, so let’s go there, shall we?
* Bishop was an alumna of Harvard University, which is also the
alma mater of Ted Kaczynski.
* As Instapundit noted last night, at least one of her students
described Bishop as a “socialist.”
* The UAH massacre wasn’t Bishop’s first homicide: “The Boston
Globe reported at the time that Amy Bishop had accidentally shot her
18-year-old brother, Seth M. Bishop, an accomplished violinist who had
won a number of science awards, in Braintree. Braintree Police Chief
Paul Frazier confirmed today at a news conference that Amy Bishop had
shot her brother in 1986. But Frazier offered a different account of
the shooting, saying Bishop had shot her brother during an argument
and was being booked by police when the chief at the time ordered the
booking process stopped and Bishop released to her mother.”
* Via Dan Riehl and Gateway Pundit, there’s now this news:
”Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former
police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered
the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation
with former district attorney William Delahunt. Delahunt is currently
a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts.”
* Moe Lane is just askin’ questions: “Polio was not forthcoming
about why then-DA Delahunt decided not to press charges, or why the
documents in the case are apparently not available. Given the
circumstances, perhaps the Congressman from MA-10 would like to fill
in the blanks, as it were?”
You know who else might want to start asking questions? Republican Joe
Malone, who is reportedly considering a challenge to Delahunt in
MA-10:
In [the Jan. 19] special election Scott Brown won the 10th
Congressional district 59.8% – 39.3% over Martha Coakley . . .
Worth noting is that Brown’s senior team, before they were
Romney’s senior team, were Malone’s senior team. Eric Fehrnstrom, Beth
Lindstrom, and Priscilla Ruzzo were instrumental in Malone’s runs for
Treasurer. The Brown machine is revved up and Joe Malone may reclaim
them for his next run.
Polls show Delahunt is in trouble, he’s reported to be considering
retirement, and the news that Delahunt was responsible for releasing a
Harvard-educated socialist serial killer . . . well, that’s not so
good for Bill Delahunt, is it?
The Other McCain: Politicization You Can Believe In!
UPDATE: Professor William Jacobson:
One thing about Bishop’s politics seems likely, however. And that
is that she must never have attended a Tea Party or said something
nice about Sarah Palin, or we would have heard about it by now.
The BlogProf coins a new term, “Going Professorial.”
