More questions than answers about the alleged perpetrator of the bank bombing last Friday in Woodburn, Oregon, that killed two law enforcement officers and seriously injured a third.
A 32-year-old Salem man whose family has deep roots in the area was arraigned this morning on aggravated murder for the deaths of two police officers in Friday’s bank bombing in Woodburn.
A probable-cause statement released to reporters this morning details much of what happened at the West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn last Friday, and says that the OSP bomb technician killed in the blast believed that the bomb was a hoax device before the explosion.
Joshua Abraham Turnidge was arrested late Sunday afternoon at an undisclosed northeast Salem address in connection with the bomb that detonated inside West Coast Bank along Oregon 214.
All sorts of questions remain, like did he act alone? Is his family somehow notable beyond having lived in the Salem area a very long time? Why are authorities not even discussing a possible motive?
Obviously, authorities deserve leeway to conduct their investigation. Hopefully at some point the public will get a better idea what the heck was up with this terrible attack.
UPDATE 2:33 PM: Joshua Turnidge’s father, Bruce Turnidge, has also been arrested, according to the Associated Press. (Tip of the hat to our Cesspool friend Mr. Cynical.)
I just read this a few minutes ago. It made me laugh:
And this:
Oh my gosh! I love Miller.
YLB–
Glad you are so easily humored….simple-mindedness is easily amused.
But I’m with Jon on this….what was the Murderers motive.
All I could find on-line was his Facebook…which you cannot get into unless he lets you.
I wonder what his Facebook, e-mails and computer will reveal??? Likely, his motive.
@3: Poor cynical – wrong again.
Humor is actually a very sophisticated response – especially irony and hypocrisy. Those particular types of humor take a sophisticated brain to recognize the patterns that do not fit. That is why so many simple-minded republicans did not get that Colbert was mocking them – and instead were nodding their heads in agreement with him thinking he was playing it straight.
That Miller is calling Orwell (actually Eric Blair, the author of 1984 and Animal House among other works) an “idealist”, is pretty ironically funny. Of course, Orwell wrote the seminal works on totalitarianism and the future of “mindthink”). It shows that Miller has no clue about much of anything and his mouth/pen/keyboard moves much faster than whatever brain cells he has left.
The dude arraigned on the bombing had just started a business converting vegetable oil to biodiesel. Bad Timing.
4 – Miller was total failure at playing by the straight world’s rules. His biography shows a life steeped in miseries, mostly of his own making.
Yet he was able to lift himself above his poor state and thrive in a strange way. He lived practically hand to mouth until his sixties when the money started rolling in for him from his writing.
Tropic of Cancer is a great read. It’s about a man who seems to derive endless joy from living outside the mainstream society’s norms. Any freedom lover could celebrate this book. Conservatives mostly disdain it of course.
And to my knowledge, Miller didn’t use drugs (not very often at least), was alcoholic or anything like that. I don’t think he ever suffered from Alzheimers.
In another quote, he states outright that he never voted. He had no use for politics and obviously believed that ultimately it did little to no good for people.
Orwell wrote this about him:
Complimentary yet dismissive at the same time. I believe this remark is what Miller was reacting to.
2nd Arrest just made in the bombing–
http://www.oregonlive.com/news.....t_tho.html