# Would James Huberty Have Joined the Tea Party?

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**Created:** [November 5, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-james-huberty-have-joined-the-tea-party/559567 "2010-11-05T13:14:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-james-huberty-have-joined-the-tea-party/559567/1 "2010-11-05T13:14:59Z")

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Reading through[his Wikipedia page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald's_massacre), I was surprised to see how closely his beliefs lined up with those we have seen at Tea Party rallies recently. Are people like Huberty and [David Adkisson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting)the vanguard of the great new political force in America?

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**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-james-huberty-have-joined-the-tea-party/559567/2 "2010-11-19T17:14:49Z")

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Wasn’t the [Virginia Tech guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho) a lifelong libertarian?

Okay, serious now…I think most spree killers are inclined to gravitate towards immoral, psychopathic philosophies, just to show the world how eeeeevil they are. (For instance, the kids who shot up Columbine chose 4/20 because it was Hitler’s birthday.)

It’s not really indicative of how Tea Partiers think, IMO. Most Tea Party members aren’t psychopaths; they are merely fucking retarded.