Five year old Alabama hostage rescued unharmed, hostage taker not so lucky.

Courtesy of ABC News:  

A week-long Alabama standoff in which a retired trucker held a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker has ended with the kidnapper dead and the child safe, according to law enforcement. 

"FBI Agents safely recovered the child who's been held hostage for nearly a week," FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson said at a news conference. 

The agent said negotiations with the suspect Richard Lee Dykes "deteriorated" in the past 24 hours. 

"Mr. Dykes was observed holding a gun. At this point the FBI agents fearing the child was in imminent danger, entered the bunker and rescued the child," Richardson said. 

The boy identified only as Ethan "appears physically unharmed" and is being treated at a hospital, authorities said. 

Dykes, 65, is dead, but officials have not yet provided details on how he died.

Is it wrong to hope that he died while suffering significant pain? This man also murdered the school bus driver who tried desperately to protect his passengers from this man, before he took little Ethan off of the bus and down into his bunker with him.

I am sure that all of you, like me, have been following this story and wondering what could make a man do something so horrendous to a small child. Would you believe conservative radio?

This courtesy of our friend Sarah Jones over at Politicususa:  

Michael Creel said Dykes kept to himself and listened to a lot of conservative talk radio. 

“He was very into what’s going on with the nation and the politics and all the laws being made. The things he didn’t agree with, he would ventilate,” he said. 

James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, put it differently. 

“He’s against the government, starting with Obama on down,” he said. 

Dykes also has been arrested for possession of marijuana and neighbors say he once killed a dog with a lead pipe. According to neighbors, he patrols his yard with a flashlight and a firearm, threatening to shoot children who step foot on his property. 

Ironically, given his hatred of government, Dykes lives in a FEMA trailer on his rural property. 

“I think he’s just a really angry and bitter guy with some anger management issues,” Morris Dees of Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery told the AP. “He is just against everything – the government and his neighbors.” 

Against everything. That pretty much sums up the anti-government, Obama hating, conservative mantra.

I am not sure how this man's anti-Obama, anti-government, hatred spilled over onto this little boy's life but the source for it seems relatively easy to ascertain.

Yet another example of the constant Right Wing hatred laced pollination directed to the mentally ill, undereducated low hanging fruit of this country.

Well at least that boy will be going home safely to his parents. It could have been so much worse.