http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/05 ... -ideology/
Menard-relevant bits bolded.
The rest fits into an established pattern, including what looks like the use of a public disturbance, perhaps even a 911 call, as “bait” for police, said Prof. Arntfield, whose PhD examined police killings including Mayerthorpe, where in 2005 James Roszko initially fled his home, then secretly returned and sat in ambush for police there to seize property. Four Mounties died.
The initial ambush scenario fits the stereotype, and his anti-authoritarian ideology is part of a broader forensic spectrum that includes the anti-government Freeman movement, which has long been seen as a modern frontier in violent crime, in which police officers are the obvious victims.