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Amy Bishop, the nut-job professor who killed three colleagues, was left-wing activist
By Wing Chun Geologist on February 15, 2010 at 01:57 pm 30 Comments and 0 ReactionsBefore much was known about Amy Bishop, the deranged harvard trained biologist who murdered three colleages and possibly her own brother, it was assumed in the blogosphere that she wasn’t a conservative.

That assumption is pretty safe since she worked in a university and was upset about not getting tenure. Conservatives are descriminated against in academia, and had she been an out-of-the-closet republican she wouldn’t have lasted long enough for tenure to even be discussed.

The second reason is why it’s safe to assume she wasn’t a conservative is that her politics have largely ignored by the media. Had she been a conservative activist it would have already been widely reported on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and would have been the primary topic on MSNBC since her arrest. It would have also been pointed out here since George Soros keeps a troll in the basement who’s only function is to point out every traffic ticket a Republican gets on Say Anything Blog.

Now comes word from the Boston Herald that, according to Bishop’s family, she’s definitely a big Obama supporter.




A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.




In addition to that mention in the Boston Herald, Bishops politics also, as Instapundit points out, were mentioned in Rare My Professor.




“This class was great. Bishop makes the class interesting by talking about her research and her friends research. That speaker she had for class was hard to understand but smart. She expects alot and you need to come to every class and study. She is hot but she tries to hide it.And she is a socalist but she only talks about it after class.”




Putting aside the shoking idea that someone found Professor Crazy Eyes "hot" the tone of that professor rating was generally positive, indicating that it was written by someone who approved of her being a socialist.

In addition to the murder of three colleagues, and the likely murder of her brother, far-left activist Amy Bishop was also a person of interest in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Professor.



The Boston Herald paints a picture of Bishop, during questioning for the mail bomb, as being quite satisfied with herself.



Bishop acknowledged at the time being questioned in the bombing attempt of a Harvard medical doctor evaluating her on doctorate work, a professor with whom Bishop was known to quarrel, Fluckiger said.

Reyes confirmed he is working with the FBI to learn more about why Bishop was a suspect in the attempted bombing of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who received a double-pipe bomb in the mail on Dec. 19, 1993. He ran from his Newton home with his wife, escaping without injury. The bomb never exploded.

“She was quite cavalier about it,” Fluckiger said of Bishop’s description of her interview with police. She said Bishop “grinned” as she described being asked by cops whether she’d ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. “I cannot tell you what the grin meant,” Fluckiger said.




One can assume the troll in George Soros’s basement will largely ignore this.


*************** Update Below ****************

Democrat congressman was prosecutor who let Bishop go after she shot brother.
It turns out the district attorney who decided not to Trie Bishop for killing ber brother is now a Democrat congressman.






(Don Surber) Another Boston Herald story reported: “Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier has said officers on duty claim they were forced by retired former Chief John Polio to let Bishop, whose mother was a member of the police personnel board, go. Polio denies that and said then-District Attorney William Delahunt investigated the case and ruled it an accident.”

Our cyber-buddy at the Boston Herald, Jules Crittenden, laid into Delahunt, now a Democratic congressman, for not pursuing her fratricide in 1986.

Wrote Crittenden: “The terrible news from Alabama, and the revelation that it apparently could have been stopped dead 24 years ago but for Massachusetts has a tiresomely familiar ring to it. Whether it’s the rampant hackery, liberal do-goodism or cronyism, they just keep letting criminals go so they can do it again. Killers and rapists.”

Ah yes, the Land of Willie Horton.

Oh, did I mention that she held Tom Pettigrew, then 22, hostage after killing her brother? It’s in that second Boston Herald story.

Ah, but nothing to see here. A killing. A kidnapping. A Democrat.

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Amy Bishop: Far-left Wing Political Extremist (and Lover of Dungeons and Dragons)
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The Boston Herlad: A family source said Prof. Amy Bishop was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

What? Feign surprise.

So, the nubjob professor at the University of Alabama who shot three of her colleagues to death after she was denied tenure was a leftwing nutjob who was obsessed with President Obama to the point of being off-putting. So, other then the execution-style killing of three colleagues, she was pretty much just another typical University professor.

Don’t look for the “far-left political extremist” angle to get much play in the MSM. But just imagine for a moment, if you will, the non-stop, 24-hour coverage and accompanying faux rage and indignation that would be spilling forth from the MSM had Bishop been a Tea Party activist.

Olbermann’s head would have exploded all over Rachel Madcow’s flannel shirt (not that there’s anything wrong with that).
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‘Oddball’ portrait of Amy Bishop emerges
Suspect’s family, pals offer clues
By Laurel J. Sweet, Jessica Van Sack, Jessica Fargen and Ira Kantor
Monday, February 15, 2010 - Updated 1d 17h ago



E-mail Print (381) Comments Text size Share Buzz up!As authorities searched for clues into what could have sent a University of Alabama neurobiology professor on an alleged killing spree, friends and family yesterday described Braintree native Amy Bishop as an awkward introvert on the brink of losing her teaching job.

Bishop’s husband, James Anderson, told the Herald his wife had been fighting the university for over a year about a tenure denial, and several months ago received a final decision. She was upset, but not overly emotional, approaching her appeal “like a game of chess,” he said.

Police in Huntsville, Ala., charged Bishop, 44, with capital murder after she allegedly opened fire on six colleagues at a faculty meeting Friday, killing three. Afterward, she calmly called her husband and asked him to pick her up as if nothing had happened, said police Chief Henry Reyes.

“She was an oddball - just not very sociable,” said Sylvia Fluckiger, a former lab technician who worked with Bishop in 1993.

Bishop acknowledged at the time being questioned in the bombing attempt of a Harvard medical doctor evaluating her on doctorate work, a professor with whom Bishop was known to quarrel, Fluckiger said.

Reyes confirmed he is working with the FBI to learn more about why Bishop was a suspect in the attempted bombing of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who received a double-pipe bomb in the mail on Dec. 19, 1993. He ran from his Newton home with his wife, escaping without injury. The bomb never exploded.

“She was quite cavalier about it,” Fluckiger said of Bishop’s description of her interview with police. She said Bishop “grinned” as she described being asked by cops whether she’d ever taken stamps off an envelope and fastened them onto something else. “I cannot tell you what the grin meant,” Fluckiger said.

Seven years prior, Bishop shot her brother to death in Braintree in an incident that was ruled an accident at the time.

But Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier has raised questions about the handling of the case, and officials are investigating missing records in the 1986 death of 18-year-old Seth Bishop.

A classmate of Seth Bishop’s recalled yesterday that the boy, who was “painfully shy,” never talked about his older, only sibling.

“It was as if he was a complete stranger in her life. It seemed like a dysfunctional family. We just accepted them as being odd,” said the classmate, who spoke to the Herald on condition of anonymity.

Amy Bishop, he said, “wasn’t mean because she wasn’t someone you could get close to. She wasn’t an attractive girl, she didn’t have friends. She didn’t work at having friends. I think people probably, over time, learned to leave her alone.”

The Bishop household, he said, “was anything but a home . . . It was just a really dreary, dark place where there wasn’t a lot of love.”

Meanwhile, in an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, Anderson said he was searching for the “trigger” to his wife’s breakdown, and that he wondered whether an e-mail message - potentially in the form of a final tenure denial - might have upset her, because university higher-ups were known to send “nastygrams” on Fridays.

A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children - the youngest a third-grade boy - was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

But Mercedes Paz, a Brookline biochemist who also oversaw Bishop’s work in 1993, described her as a friend and a likable woman.
“She was a very good person,” said Paz, 81. “She was respectful and she did what she was supposed to do. I never saw anything that could make me think she was violent.”

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Did Amy Bishop, Accused University of Alabama Shooter, Murder Her Own Brother?

Did Amy Bishop, the University of Alabama professor accused of killing three peers Friday in a possible tenure dispute, also gun down her brother in cold blood? Or was his 1986 death a tragic accident?

Photo: Amy Bishop is detained by police at University of Alabama in Hunstville, Feb. 12, 2010.

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Some of the facts are not in dispute, but some details of the case are disturbing.

On Dec, 6, 1986, Bishop, 44, shot and killed her 18-year-old brother with a shotgun at their Braintree, Mass., home. She told police at the time that she had been trying to learn how to use the gun, which her father had bought for protection, when it accidentally discharged.

Photo: Shooting victims Dr. Adriel Johnson Sr., Dr. Gopi Podila, and Dr. Maria Davis.

PICTURES: Shooting in Alabama

In all, three shots were fired: Braintree police Chief Paul Frazier said she shot once into a wall, then shot her brother, then fired a third time into the ceiling.

46 minutes later, Seth Bishop, a promising young engineering student and violinist, was dead, according to the Boston Globe. He was 18.

Photo: Amy Bishop's mug shot.

PICTURES: Shooting in Alabama

But there are differing accounts, according to the Boston Globe, of Bishop's actions leading up to and after the shooting and there are disturbing questions as to why the police file of the case is now missing.

At the time, Braintree Police Chief John Polio called the incident an accident. A 1987 report the Boston Globe obtained from the Norfolk County's District Attorney's office said that after Bishop had an argument with her father she went to her parents' room to learn to load the family's shotgun. The weapon fired once in the bedroom. She then went downstairs, the report says, and accidentally shot her brother while her mother looked on. Then she ran out of the house, 12-gauge shotgun in hand.

Police eventually caught up with her, cuffed her, and took her to the station. But because Bishop was so emotionally distraught, she was released hours later.

Police questioned family members 11 days after the shooting and found discrepancies in their versions of events, according to the Boston Globe.

Amy Bishop's mother said that Amy had asked her for help in unloading the gun and accidentally shot her brother. Amy Bishop herself said that she had asked her brother not her mother for help. He told her to point the gun high, she said. Someone said something. She spun around, and accidentally shot her brother who was walking across the kitchen.

Police at the time sent the case to the District Attorney's office who believed the core of the story, called it an accident and filed it away.

But now, after Bishop allegedly stormed into a biology faculty meeting on the University of Alabama campus, shot three faculty members to death and injured three more, police are questioning whether they got it right in Boston more than 20 years ago.

"I don’t want to use the word 'coverup,'" Braintree's current police chief, Paul H. Frazier told the Boston Globe. "I don’t know what the thought process was of the police chief at the time."

Frazier believes that Amy Bishop got in a fight her brother, not her father. He also doesn't understand why the original police report has been missing since 1988. He told the Boston Globe he was a patrolman at the time, but got his account from an officer who was at the scene.

Former chief Polio called the idea that he covered anything up a "joke," according to the Boston Globe.

It's not yet clear if Massachusetts police will re-open the old case, but Amy Bishop still has plenty of trouble. She has been charged with one count of capital murder. She could face the death penalty if convicted. More charges are expected.

Killed were Gopi K. Podila, the chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences, and professors Adriel Johnson and Maria Ragland Davis. Joseph Leahy and staffer Stephanie Monticciolo were in critical condition early Sunday. Luis Cruz-Vera was released from the hospital.

Police believe Amy Bishop was angry over not getting tenure. As she was hauled away from the campus she seemed to not fully understand her alleged actions. "It didn't happen. There's no way," she said. "They are still alive."