Lee Eisenberg walked into Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire with a bomb strapped to his chest and took members of Clinton's campaign staff hostage. He called CNN officials multiple times, speaking about a need for better health care coverage for average people who can't afford it.
Eventually he gave in, having made no threats and ending the hostage situation. It seems pretty trivial, but it reminds me of those small rebellions that we learned about in US history. I think it was Shay's rebellion in which the rebellion wasn't that large but it represented the desires of the people. Is he representing others like him who want better health care coverage?
Or, another possibility was taht he wasn't coherent becuase the article did say "He said he'd been to a local psychiatric hospital," although it didn't specify if he was a patient.
Either way, this is antoher wake up call about security and safety in our modern world.
Here are some articles about this story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/30/clinton.hostagetaker/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/30/clinton.office/index.html
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I've been looking into this a little bit, and I was wondering what party Leeland Eisenberg belongs to. In an earlier article that was posted before the hostage situation was resolved (in a very short article that can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/30/update-cnn-has-since-rep_n_74875.html), an acquaintance of the hostage taker, Troy Stanley, said that Eisenberg "complained of conspiracy theories and things of that nature." That might just be because of his mental illness, but that statement made me wonder if maybe this whole hostage situation was more than it seemed (which would tie into his party affliation). For exmaple, if he was a Democrat he could be trying to make Hilary look really good, and if he was Republican he might have even been persuaded to do this in order to make Republicans look bad. I have no proof of this or anything of the sort; I was just wondering if things might not be so simple.
It wasn't a bomb. He attached road flares that he had bought earlier to his chest with duct tape. It was in your second link, too. Just so you know.
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