Posted on 01/08/2011 1:18:25 PM PST by icwhatudo
The media completely buried the fact that Ted Kaczinski was all into Al Gore and global warming. No ideology there, he was just crazy. It’ll be the same thing here, just another nut, move along.
That's what Shep does best.
I'm still outraged over Shep Smith's "reporting" today... the guy should be fired. Did you notice the other reporters like Bret Baier and new guy Doug McElway (sp?) had to keep bringing Shep back to earth, ie by reminding him that Republican members of Congress had had plenty of threats by kooks during the "healthcare debate"? (Bret reminded viewers of shots being fired at Eric Cantor's Richmond, VA office)
There were also kind of veiled warnings from Bret and Doug that Shep "not jump to conclusions and blame any group yet" for the actions of this nutcase gunman until more information about the guy was confirmed. When Shep came back on at 7pm, we switched the channel - couldn't take it anymore. The only thing worse than Shep would be Whorealdo... did he show up live on FNC today?
How on earth were you able to get onto FR Saturday afternoon? Every time I tried to post something FR crashed for me. Grr!!
He could also just be an eclectic reader, who’s a nutbag psycho killer as a hobby. Well, I hope they fry him. But in case they don’t, I guess he’ll have lots of time to catch up on his reading.
I agree he “MADE” the flag burning video. It had to be a second account. Some were suggesting he had a 3rd account too, but I never found out if that was true.
He was ‘interested in men’, ‘wanted to be a woman one day’ and he went on a killing spree.
Yep, this has “Tea Party” written all over it /MSM
Blunt but accurate, unlike the MSM's coverage.
I'd only add pot-addict, atheist and transgender-wannabe to that list.
I know this nonsense has infiltrated school curriculum, parochial and public. The literary gymnastics that people will go through for political correctness would be funny if not so tragic.
What do you expect? If a comet hits the earth, DKOs will blame it to Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers!
Idiotic DKOs! The gunman is definitely akin to DKOs!
You’re speaking of NOW.
Not long ago, educators replaced the AD and BC with CE and BCE (respectively) for political correctness.
They avoid the use of the phrase “Our Lord”.
Below is a link to an excellent article about this insane killer:
Suspect in rampage called ‘very disturbed’
TIM STELLER Arizona Daily Star azdailysun.com
The man arrested for opening fire at a community meeting held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Saturday — killing six people and injuring 13 others — disrupted classes at Pima Community College, tried to manipulate his dreams and posted rambling messages on the Internet.
The suspected shooter is Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old who lives on the northwest side. He is mentally unstable and may have had an accomplice, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said Saturday evening.
A former classmate of Loughner at Pima, from which he was suspended Sept. 29 for code-of-conduct violations, said he was “obviously very disturbed.”
“He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts,” said Lynda Sorenson, who took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College’s Northwest campus.
Dupnik said the suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers. The threats weren’t against Giffords, Dupnik said.
Investigators are looking for a second person who may be an accomplice, Dupnik said.
“We are not convinced he acted alone,” Dupnik said of the shooter. “We have photos,” he said, of a man in his 50s.
“There’s some reason to believe that (the shooter) came to this location with another individual. And there’s reason to believe the other individual would in some way be involved,” he said.
Loughner has several online accounts, which suggest he has spent most of his life on the northwest side: His MySpace profile says he attended Thornydale Elementary School, Tortolita Middle School and Mountain View High School.
As a middle school student, Loughner was “kind of an outcast,” said Shannin Macey, who said via e-mail she attended Tortolita and Mountain View with him. In high school, Loughner was in jazz band and played the saxophone, but he dropped out in junior year, said Tommy Marriotti, who was a high-school friend of Loughner.
At the time he dropped out, Loughner was having drug problems, Marriotti said, but he seemed to do well once he started taking classes at Pima.
Loughner attended Pima courses from summer 2005 until he withdrew in October after his suspension, the college said.
He tried to enlist in the Army in 2008 but was rejected, said First Sgt. Brian Homme, who oversees Army recruiting in Tucson. Loughner was sent to Phoenix to take a test and physical, but “he was found to be unqualified,” Homme said.
Loughner registered to vote for the first time in 2006, said Chris Roads, Pima County’s registrar of voters. He registered as an independent and last voted in the 2008 general election.
Sorenson, Loughner’s classmate at Pima, said he was asked to leave the pre-algebra class several times and eventually was barred from class.
Pima officials said in a news release that from February to September 2010, Loughner had five contacts with PCC police for classroom and library disruptions at Northwest and West campuses.
Another Pima classmate, Lydian Ali, said Loughner would frequently laugh aloud to himself during the advanced-poetry class they attended. Only about 16 people were in the class, so Loughner’s behavior stood out, Ali said.
“It almost seemed like he was on his own planet, because his comments would have nothing to do with what we were talking about,” Ali said.
Loughner’s online accounts contain some political comments but are dominated by bizarre discussions of his desire to establish a new currency and his disdain for what he considered the public’s low literacy rates. He also wrote threatening and despairing messages.
“WOW! I’m glad i didn’t kill myself. I’ll see you on National T.v.! This is foreshadow .... why doesn’t anyone talk to me? ..” he posted on MySpace Dec. 14.
On Dec. 13, he wrote: “I don’t feel good: I’m ready to kill a police officer! I can say it.”
In a posting on YouTube, Loughner wrote repeatedly about a new currency.
“I’m thinking of creating a new currency,” he wrote. “Therefore, I’m thinking of a design for my new coins size, shape, color, material, and image to start a new money system.”
He also wrote repeatedly about literacy. In a message on YouTube, Loughner wrote: “The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate — hilarious. I don’t control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure.”
In a message posted on his MySpace account, titled “Goodbye friends,”
Loughner said: “Dear friends...please don’t be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven’t talked to one person who is literate.” It was unclear when it was posted.
In a MySpace profile, Loughner said “My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college.”
Conscious dreaming is trying to manipulate your dreams, an interest Loughner pursued, Marriotti said.
He lists among his favorite books “Mein Kampf” and “The Communist Manifesto”. But he also includes a broad variety of other titles,
including: “Animal Farm,” “Brave New World,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
In another YouTube message, Loughner said: “I know who’s listening:
Government Officials, and the People. Nearly all the people, who don’t know this accurate information of a new currency, aren’t aware of mind control and brainwash methods. If I have my civil rights, then this message wouldn’t have happen.”
“In conclusion, my ambition - is for informing literate dreamers about a new currency; in a few days, you know I’m conscience dreaming! Thank you!”
In a YouTube video dated Dec. 15, titled “Introduction: Jared Loughner,” he describes himself as a U.S. military recruit who had applied to join the Army.
In the video, Loughner makes a rambling mention of “MEPS in Phoenix” an apparent reference to the Military Entrance Processing Station in the state capital that all Arizona recruits from every branch of service pass through before leaving for basic training.
“Every United States military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix is receiving one mini bible before the tests,” it said. “Jared Loughner is a United States military recruit at MEPS in Phoenix. Therefore, Jared Loughner is receiving one mini bible before the tests.
“I didn’t write a belief on my Army application and the recruiter wrote on the application: None.”
Sgt. Homme declined to say why Loughner was rejected, citing confidentiality laws.
Loughner has had at least two minor run-ins with police, online court records show.
In October 2007, Loughner was cited by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department for possession of drug paraphernalia, a charge that was dismissed in November 2007 when he completed a diversion program.
One year later, in October 2008, Loughner faced a “local charge” in Marana Municipal Court. That charge was also dismissed following the completion of a diversion program in March 2009.
Court records indicate the Marana case file is due to be purged in December 2013. It’s unclear what the exact charge was.
Grant Wiens, 22, attended Mountain View High School with Loughner, although they were not in the same grade.
Wiens also took a class at Pima Community College with Loughner, where they occasionally talked, he said.
“He was a guy in high school who definitely had his opinions on stuff and didn’t seem to care what people thought of him,” Wiens said. “He did his own thing.”
Star reporters Carol Ann Alaimo, Alex Dalenberg, Fernanda Echavarri, Patrick Finley, Ernesto Portillo Jr. and Sarah Trotto contributed to this report.
do I really have to say it???
Any connection? Loughner - Child Protection Services - Ayers - Anarchy - Juvenile Justice/Youth Rights
No doubt. The shooting will be blamed on the Supreme Court (Heller and McDonald), the Tea Party, the Republican Party, Talk Radio, Sarah Palin, etc. All of Conservatism will be blamed, but the Liberal Media will NEVER blame the shooter.
After they finish the above blaming, they will call for more gun control; ultimately, that evil gun made this poor innocent boy fire at those people.
I’ve read some of those books too but my FAVORITES list would look far different.
First, this 22 year old PUNK is a FOOL, and yes, because he shot AND KILLED a federal judge, and attempted assasination upon a Congresswoman, the federal punishment stands, and I would buy the bus ticket to see the city dim, at that moment in time, of the movement of the switch to “engage”.
May CongressWoman Giffords recuperate from this tragedy, with as near to perfect faculties, as this type of injury allows. (I want her to finger this guy, in person!)
Second, no matter HOW MUCH we might not like any political figure, we are a nation of law, therefore, let’s use the law with logic and reasoning (even if our guts twist inside for the seething going on), since assassinations pollute the whole country, its image to the world, and ourselves.
About the FOOL’S video, you can watch it, but when you attempt to download it, SOMEHOW you get the “hello, I am” 1:07 min. video, NOT the 7:xx video that he recorded with the flag in the start.
SOMEBODY monkeyed with these videos.
The fool was a product of his times,he wasn’t likely a member of the tea party or a communist.More then likely he had no real understanding of politics beyond basic knowledge.
I will point out that if this country keeps going down this road,this divide between left and good.There is going to be a full blown civil war with extremists on both side duking it out.....
The Democrats are still ultimately to blame for this monstrous not so Great society but that doesn’t you should start blowing them away in the middle of a crowd.I highly doubt that is what Madame Palin was talking about either.
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