I-580 RW Shooter - AP and San Francisco TV station Mentions Glenn Beck and RW media

A Tuolumne County man who was involved in a shootout with California Highway Patrol officers in Oakland early Sunday said he was traveling to San Francisco "to start a revolution" by killing people at two nonprofits in the city, according to a probable cause statement released by police.

It's not clear why those two organizations were targeted except that conservative media commentators often accuse them of having left-wing agendas.

On a June 13 show on Fox News, host Glenn Beck said the Tides Foundation was an organization "using failing capitalism to destroy it."

The Oakland Police Department's homicide unit was conducting the criminal investigation of the shooting, and the CHP is carrying out an administrative investigation. The FBI is also assisting.

Williams was scheduled to be back in court Wednesday for a plea entry hearing at 9 a.m. in Department 112 of the Wiley Manuel Courthouse, located at 661 Washington St. in Oakland.

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Though police and prosecutors continued to keep secret the contents of the binder, they said Tuesday that it included details of a plan to attack organizations in San Francisco that Williams believed had a liberal bias.

Police have already said that Williams has a history of anti-government and anti-corporation behavior, and a deep-rooted hate for liberal causes. He reportedly ranted at one point about "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items," according to published reports.

The ACLU calls itself the "guardian of liberty," working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the U.S. Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in the nation. The Tides Foundation is an organization that facilitates donations to nonprofits.

Both organizations are regularly accused on-air and online of having a left-wing agenda.

Tides Foundation spokeswoman Catherine Coleman said the organization was dismayed when it found out it was a potential target. Coleman said it had never heard of Williams before the shootout and could not speculate about the incident while the investigation is under way.

The foundation, she added, has been mentioned on "right-wing blogs and media." But, she added, the foundation "has never had to deal with anything like this. ... Our staff is our prime concern in this matter and we have taken additional security measures."



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Fox News is going to get someone killed.....Oops, sorry Dr. Tiller, I forgot about OReilly.

Obama is going to take your guns & with that your money & freedom. They say this shit openly & act like it's really going to happen. For people like that idiot, the reaction is like the reaction to Orson Wells War of the Worlds broadcast. It goes way beyond the bounds of free speech, it's like inciting a riot.

And a big thank you to the CHP for stopping him.

After cutting their teeth on ACORN, the spleen bullies are targeting bigger organizations. They're drunk on the blood of their conquests. They are sending their thugs and goons out to kill.

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According to the police, Williams had hoped to start a revolution by killing employees of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Tides Foundation. The ACLU is a well-known bogeyman of the right wing, but the Tides Foundation, a progressive non-profit organization founded in 1976 to promote social change, is a less familiar name. Why did Williams target a little-known non-profit in order to incite a revolution? Just ask Fox News...

Of course, the good folks of Fox News don't want violence. Glenn Beck, for example, has admonished his audience, "If you ever hear someone thinking about or talking about turning violent, it is your patriotic duty to stop them. The only way to save our republic is to remain peaceful--forceful but peaceful."

Beck has also denied that his dire prophesies of communist revolution and totalitarian oppression encourage violence. Comparing himself to a flight attendant, he explained:

Blaming TV or radio hosts for the nutjob who killed three Pittsburgh police officers over the weekend is like blaming a flight attendant after a terrorist takes down a plane. In other words: Giving passengers a safety talk to prepare them for a worst-case scenario doesn't mean you are responsible should a terrorist make that worst-case scenario happen. One person is providing important information. The other is a nutjob who would've acted no matter what.

http://dagblog.com/persecution-politics/why-did-california-shooter-try-attack-tides-foundation-3455