Notwithstanding his ties to the Occupy Wall Streeters, the man who shot at the White House must have derived his views from Christian conservatives and the Tea Party, according to a column in the Guardian, because he reportedly called President Obama the Antichrist.
“Alleged presidential assassin Ortega-Hernandez reportedly called Obama ‘the Antichrist,'” notes the subtitle of Sarah Posner, “So who put that idea in his head?'”
Posner doesn’t give a straight answer, but points to apocalyptic comments by American televangelists who have suggested a variety of people as the Antichrist, before naming some Michigan pastor who seems to think Obama has a high “Antichrist quotient.”
Her column reaches its (utterly predictable) conclusion when she produces video of a man at a Tea Party rally holding a sign that portrays Obama as Satan. “This man’s companion could not cite chapter and verse, but insisted, nonetheless, that the Bible tells us that Obama is the Antichrist,” she writes.
“We don’t know yet exactly which apocalyptic brew [alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro] Ortega-Hernandez was imbibing,” Posner concludes. “But tasting it to guess whether the Antichrist is a human dwelling among us is more than a harmless parlour game.”
Well, here’s what we do know about Ortega-Hernandez. Police searched for him at the Occupy DC encampment after they received reports that he had spent time there.
Occupy San Diego protesters decided that such reports were sufficient to claim the White House shooter as one of their own, and so they held “a moment of silence” to demonstrate their “solidarity” behind the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama.
