War against the government?.....Serious grievances(making animal sounds during a meeting.) Yeah... that's a serious way to present such grievances.
Give me a break!
?Thornton's brother, Gerald, told CNN affiliate KMOV-TV in St. Louis that his brother had serious grievances with the city government.
"The only way that I can put it in a context that you might understand is that my brother went to war tonight with the people that were of the government that was putting torment and strife into his life," Thornton told KMOV.
"And he had spoke on it as best he could in the courts, and they denied him all access to the rights of protection, and therefore he took it upon himself to go to war and end the issue."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/08/city.council.shooting/index.html