A stochastic terrorist is a person who uses mass media to broadcast information that incite unstable people (i.e. "lone wolfs") to commit violent acts.
Osama Bin Laden does this when he releases one of his videos.
Glenn Beck etc. are doing the same thing.
For instance:
After Glenn Beck symbolically poisoned and burned an effigy of Democratic party congress woman Pelosi, her house was firebombed by a conservative extremist. The perpetrator's mother went on television and said that her son gets all his ideas from Fox News.
On his radio show, Beck said: “God will wash this nation with blood if he has to, but he doesn’t have to.” If we don’t turn to God for the answers, Beck said, “The country will be washed with blood.”
A couple days before the Arizona shooting I saw Beck on his show saying "something needs to happen." It was apparent that he was not talking about registering new voters.
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