Terror in Our Backyard – UPDATED

These are the headlines on the drudgereport right now.

ABC NEWS: HOSTAGE TAKER A WELL-KNOWN LOCAL RESIDENT WITH HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS… Developing…
‘TROY STANLEY’: WITNESS NAMES ALLEGED PERP…
SEN. CLINTON CANCELS DNC TALK…
SHUTS ALL IOWA CAMPAIGN OFFICES…
OBAMA, EDWARDS ROCHESTER OFFICES EVACUATED…

Now, it may just be me, but doesn’t these seem to be a very strong reaction to what may well be an isolated incident by a deranged person?

And some people still insist that being very concerned about global terrorism, makes one a bed wetter…

UPDATE:

Looks like this time it was a case of suicide by cop.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2007/12/05/2007-12-05_hillary_clinton_hq_bomber_hoped_police_w.html

He told how he quickly freed three of the 18-year-old hostages, including a volunteer because “he looked like he was having a nervous breakdown.”

He ordered the other four to lie on the floor in the back room, he said, “because if there’s any shots fired, they’re going to be shot at me, not at you.”

And then, he said, he waited to die.

“I didn’t surrender,” said Eisenberg, 46, of Somersworth, N.H., adding that he hoped police would kill him in the standoff.

“I knew once the last hostage went out the door, there would be no reason for them to have restraint. I could see the sharp-shooter. He was all dressed in camouflage, and he had one of those laser lights on his rifle.

“I didn’t have my hands up or nothing. I just walked toward the door, thinking, ‘This is it, he’ll take me out.’ So I swing the door open, and he still didn’t shoot me, and I’m like, ‘What do I gotta do here?’

“My intent was never to hurt anyone. My intent was actually almost like a suicide by cop,” he said. “But I wanted to make a message first.”

Eisenberg, who has been diagnosed as bipolar, said he became “so apathetic and despondent [and] more and more hopeless” after he lost his job as a sales manager at a local automotive dealer and his wife filed for divorce.