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Cody Balmer Update: Crazy, Yes, But Also Ranting About ‘the Palestinian People’

Posted on | April 16, 2025 | Comments Off on Cody Balmer Update: Crazy, Yes, But Also Ranting About ‘the Palestinian People’

After Tuesday’s victory lap — in which I congratulated myself for deducing that Cody Balmer was mentally ill — it is now time for me to eat some crow for dessert, as it turns out that the arsonist who lit up the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion also had a political agenda:

The madman who carried out a firebomb attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home was driven by antisemitism and fury over what the Democrat “wants to do to the Palestinian people” – and called the Jewish governor a “monster,” police alleged in a search warrant.
Alleged firebug Cody Balmer, 38, called 911 following the Sunday attack, identified himself by name, and delivered the chilling message addressed to the governor over the phone, according to warrant details obtained by The Post.
Balmer said he needed to know that Shapiro — who had hosted Passover dinner just hours before the attack — “will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” the police warrant read.
He also said the governor needed to stop killing his friends, telling police “Our people have been put through too much by that monster” and that “all he has is a banquet hall to clean up.”
“You all know where to find me. I’m not hiding, and I will confess to everything that I had done,” Balmer allegedly told a 911 operator over the phone, according to the warrant.
Prosecutors say the phone call indicates antisemitism and anti-Israel beliefs were behind Balmer’s alleged attack. . . .
But even if antisemitism is found to be the motivation, [Dauphin County District Attorney Fran] Chardo said adding a hate crime charge wouldn’t change Balmer’s sentencing if he’s found guilty.
“Pennsylvania hate crimes statute would just increase the grade of the offense, that’s all it does. We’ve got five first degree felonies that we’ve charged. It doesn’t get any higher than that,” Chardo said.

So he wasn’t merely a kook, but a pro-Palestinian kook — like those dangerous mobs at Harvard, Columbia and other Ivy League schools.

Dana Pico at First Street Journal:

With his past criminal background and his obvious mental issues, no one can say that there was any real, logical reason behind Mr Balmer’s actions, but it is true that bad causes attract bad people. Is it also the case that bad causes attract crazy people?

Cody Balmer was both bad and crazy.



 

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