Tea Party Terrorism? Oakland Gunman Targeted Tides Foundation, ACLU

[Joanne98]

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/07/21/tea-party-terrorism-oakland-gunman-targeted-tides-foundation-aclu/

580 CHP Assassin Was Headed to ACLU, Tides Center. Why Tides?

The Tides Center, located at the Presidio, is essentially an aggregator of wealthy heirs’ money, who want to do good but would rather not be bothered doing the due diligence responsible philanthropy requires nowadays. They do that homework, and meet their donors’ overall goals without bothering them with the specifics of each beneficiary’s every operation.

They also provide spectacular conference center space — I attended great day-long team-building exercises when working for a non-profit San Francisco AIDS service organization, thanks to a colleague’s wife who worked at Tides — with quiet and peaceful views of the Golden Gate bridge. Contemplative, dedicated to social justice, low-profile, but essentially a capacity-building, incubator-providing, infrastructure-enabling clearing house for do-good inherited wealth: here’s Tides’ mission statement, from their website.

Our mission is to partner with philanthropists, foundations, activists, and organizations across the country and across the globe to promote economic justice, robust democratic processes, and the opportunity to live in a healthy and sustainable environment where human rights are preserved and protected.

Scary, right?

How does a guy like Byron Williams get motivated to go kill liberals at Tides?

Oliver Willis connected the dots for me this morning.

Byron Williams’ mom was quoted saying she kept her home arsenal "because a revolution is coming" and that her son watched the news and was disturbed by the liberal takeover of America.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/60987

[RKP5637]

1. Beck would be gone in some countries... n/t

[ck4829]

2. K&R

[Politicalboi]

3. I wish Beckkk had a

#1 Fan. (Misery)

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4. Oooh...

Annie Wilkes with absolute control over Mr. Beck - THAT could be interesting.