Another One Bites The Dust
John Patrick Bedell is dead. That is almost undoubtedly a good thing.
He was the man who walked up to a security checkpoint at the Pentagon the other day, pulled a gun and shot 2 police officers (both are expected to recover completely from their wounds).
My suspicion is it was a suicide. There is plenty of evidence that the man was delusional, but I doubt that anybody is so completely delusional that they think they are going to invade the nerve center of the largest military organization the world has ever seen with a handgun and win.
The thing that bothers me about this is that Bedell and I share some of the same viewpoints. He was an ardent advocate for the legalization of marijuana. So am I. I would like to point out, at this juncture, that the vast majority of marijuana smokers are peaceful folks. Probably even more so than the general population. Bedell was an exception among smokers.
Also, Bedell believed that 9/11 was an inside job. So do I, and it bothers me that this will just be used as further evidence that anybody who believes the 9/11 was an inside job is nuts. I’m not nuts. I have very good reasons for believing it was an inside job, but no intention whatsoever of invading a federal building with a gun.
Apparently, he once wrote a grant request for a project which would merge DNA with microchips. It’s actually a great plot for a science fiction story and I’ve often wondered at what point in the future of mankind that will become a reality. Like nuclear power or heavier than air flight, it will be a two edged sword. It could hold mankind’s salvation or our destruction, be an incredible tool for good or agent for evil. It’s going to happen. The brain, the human body and the cells that make it up are physical entities. They can be analyzed and, eventually, replicated.
But it’s not going to happen in the near future. We are getting better and better at mapping the brain and computer technology is advancing at a rapid pace, but the merging of the two is still as much a fantasy as manned interstellar flight.
J. Patrick Bedell will certainly never live to see it. Good riddance, Mr. Bedell. We may have agreed on a couple of points, but the world is a better place without you in it.
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