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An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in a 2013 attack that sent passengers running for their lives pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and 10 other charges.
Paul Ciancia agreed last week to plead guilty to all 11 charges in the rampage that killed one officer and wounded two others and a teacher who was headed for a flight.
Ciancia, 26, was spared the death penalty by entering the plea but faces a mandatory life term in prison.
[...] Ciancia, who was living in the Los Angeles area after growing up in Pennsville, New Jersey, said in the note that he wanted to kill at least one TSA officer but hoped to kill more.
"If you want to play that game where you pretend that every American is a terrorist, you're going to learn what a self-fulfilling prophecy is," his note said, according to court documents.
The note added, "I want to instill fear in your traitorous minds. I want it to always be in the back of your head just how easy it is to take a weapon to the beginning of your Nazi checkpoints."
Ciancia signed the note with his name, adding beneath it, "Pissed-off Patriot."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LA_AIRPORT_SHOOTING
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Los_Angeles_International_Airport_shooting
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 08 2016, @08:49PM
Political power IS violence. Don't just take an AC's word for it: "Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." -Chairman Mao Zedong
Violence itself is a tool, much like a knife - it has an essential place in human life. It is morally (and legally) used only in defense. This is why political power is so insidious: its use is initiated against people and this is largely perceived as proper. Violence created the United States of America. Violence conquered the Confederate States of America. Violence wrested power away from corrupt law enforcement in Athens, Tennessee. Violence caused the USA to greviously wound its own self in late 2001. The threat of violence and the means to use it prevented a slaughter at the Bundy family's Nevada ranch in ~2014.
The use of violence has accomplished much more than you want to give credit for. I don't advocate for the use of violence except as a last resort in response to another's violence, but to damn violence wholesale is to invite your own violent death... and the deaths of many others [jpfo.org].