Skimming through posters talking about him it seems he was really down on NASA. Gifford’s husband was an astronaut.
Also, some speculated that he had used another alias -savvys84-
and then someone wondered if the older guy they are looking for could be savvys84.
Ironic that their site will now be crawling with Feds and lookie loos.
If there is another person a “tutor” so to speak, a person with a plan to indoctrinate or brainwash a young angry misguided person with an ideology it reminds me about McVeigh.
Perhaps for a long time their is or has been a group of “tutors” stalking on websites like ATS and facebook, looking for a veritable ripe human timebomb. The question is, who and who guides THOSE people? And for what reason, a Reichstag fire, excuse my spelling.
I think this young man was recruited to be a patsy, to direct anger in a specific direction, evn if it involves total innocents, and of course all the media whores see this as a $2K trick and are jumping over each other for fame and glory.
I also wondered about the other poster ( savvys84) that was though to be Loughner. How in the h3ll could you mistake this guy’s ramblings for anyone else?
The “older guy” has been found and has NOTHING whatsoever to do with this tragedy. He is a Tucson cabdriver who drove Jared to the Safeway, and went in the store with him, so Loughner could get change and pay him for the cab fare.
Good Lord, I debated this nutjob on that site over the existence of the shuttle and ISS. And now he may have tried to assassinate a congresswoman in part due to her relationship with NASA? There was clearly no getting through to him, he didn´t really debate people so much as continue rambling at them. Still, I´m not sure how I feel about being involved in the attempt to reason with him. I can´t help but wonder if it only served to solidify his beliefs. Certainly what he needed was professional mental help, not me trying to prove to him that space travel is real. This is a real wake-up call to me, he could have just as easily have chosen to target those who argued with him, believing them to be secret government agents with faked evidence (I´ve been accused of that before and thought it was funny, not so funny now).