What are we to make of this? It was reported in Yahoo News that a Colorado man, Martin Wirth, killed one deputy and wounded two more before being shot and killed by officers. Wirth, a member of the Occupy Movement in Colorado was facing eviction from his home in Bailey, CO. He was described by neighbors as “reclusive” and by his cohorts in the Occupy Movement as a “sweet, quirky, kind-hearted guy.”
Wirth ran for public office in 2014 as a Green Party Candidate. At one time he sued Governor Hickenlooper, the Colorado Attorney General and a judge in 2013 in an attempt to stay in his home.
“He wrote disparagingly of police, the federal government and corporations on his candidate page on Facebook and praised former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked millions of documents about government surveillance. He made regular posts criticizing leading presidential candidates from both parties.”
It seems that Wirth was attempting to make a “Bundy” stand when he called on the Colorado Foreclosure Resistance Coalition to join him in a “non-violent eviction resistance.”
