Posted on 01/09/2011 2:32:42 AM PST by Scanian
TUCSON, Ariz.—In high school, Jared Lee Loughner was a scrawny kid with a bushy mop of curly hair under the hood of a gray sweatshirt, a saxophone player at football games who jammed with a friend's garage band.
More recently, in a series of videos he posted on YouTube, Mr. Loughner, now 22 years old, rages against the government and the constitution and refers to himself as a "terrorist."
Then, a few minutes after 10 a.m. Saturday morning, authorities say Mr. Loughner, armed with a semiautomatic pistol fitted with an extended magazine, shot 19 people, killing six, in the parking lot of a Safeway supermarket a few miles from his parents' home just north of this desert city.
Among the severely wounded was his apparent target, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a 40-year-old Tucson Democrat in her third term.
Interviews with Mr. Loughner's friends and former classmates, as well as a review of his copious and bizarre online activity, describe a young man who fell into disturbing and erratic behavior.
In his freshman and sophomore years at Mountain View High School, Mr. Loughner flew under the radar. "All he did was play video games and play music," says Tommy Marriotti, a friend from those days.
Mr. Marriotti says much of his free time was devoted to the school band. He was not especially political, Mr. Marriotti said, though he expressed frustration with the Bush Administration.
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As we all know, an unstable mind will gravitate to unrealistic ranting.
But FYI, Jennifer Griffith, the Intelligence reporter for FOX is reporting that HLS is targeting Something called Ameican Renaissance Project and Jared Taylor the founder.
Don’t know who these people are but interesting how they have so quickly jumped to an org.
Anyone know anything about this bunch?
From Yoda:
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
I heard that too. First I heard of it. I wonder if there is any truth to it, or Napolitano’s bunch is just making it up for their own political purposes. I don’t have much confidence in what they say.
it is to be noted that the article does not mention his friend Catie Parker, the one who says he is a liberal lefty. It seems a strange omission especially her name and her views about him are all over the net .
Not being American I am not sure if the wall Street Journal is biaised against the Conservatives ?
I hope the guy is found out to be a lefty lunatic.
For which rejection countless vets are thankful this morning.
At one time I’d have said “too damned late” to stop me from buying them, but, alas, I lost my entire collection in a horrible boat accident.
Why dont we have a “Like” button? :)
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