With a degree from Evergreen State (Rachel Corrie’s alma mater), a trip to the West Bank as a “peace activist,” a history of participation in anarchist anti-globalization protests, and a penchant for posting at moonbat haven Indymedia, Andrew Mickel followed the leftist delusion all the way to its violent conclusion: Murder, Incorporated? (Hat tip: cunnipa.)

The coming revolution against the United States government was announced on the Internet via a manifesto by a self-described “proud and insolent youth,” a college sophomore who sought to be our leader. This was to be the spark:

At 1:27 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2002, Officer David Mobilio of the Red Bluff Police Department was working the graveyard shift when he pulled his cruiser into a gas station in his quiet little farm town. As he stood beside the car, the 31-year-old husband and father of a toddler was shot three times, twice in the back and once in the head, at very close range.

Beside Mobilio’s dead body, someone left a handmade flag with a picture of a snake’s head and the words “Don’t Tread on Us.”

A well-chosen spot for an ambush. That is what investigators later concluded, especially when they learned the suspected assailant had Army Ranger training. A lonely crossroads. Poorly lit. No station attendant on duty. No witnesses. It was a killing that might have never been solved.

That is, until a confession appeared on the Internet. Six days after the shooting, a manifesto appeared on more than a dozen Web sites operated by the left-leaning Independent Media Center.

It began: “Hello Everyone, my name’s Andy. I killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, California in a motion to bring attention to, and halt, the police-state tactics that have come to be used throughout our country. Now I’m coming forward, to explain that this killing was also an action against corporate irresponsibility.”

The tract — which managed to mingle an almost chirpy tone with leftist cant — was signed by “Andrew McCrae,” later found to be an alias for Andrew Mickel, a student at a liberal arts college who before enrolling had served three years stateside with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

Mickel explained that “prior to my action in Red Bluff, I formed a corporation under the name ‘Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated,’ so that I could use the destructive immunity of corporations and turn it on something that actually should be destroyed.” The name is a reference to the novel “Peter Pan.” “Just before their final duel and Capt. Hook’s demise, Hook said to Peter, ‘Proud and Insolent Youth, prepare to meet thy doom,’ ” Mickel wrote.

“Now, Peter Pan hates pirates, and I hate pirates, and corporations are nothing but a bunch of pirates,” he wrote. “It’s time to send them to a watery grave, and rip them completely out of our lives.”