Posted on 01/09/2011 6:02:30 PM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON -- His MySpace page included a photograph of a U.S. history textbook, on top of which he had placed a handgun. He prepared a series of Internet videos in which he posted odd statements about the gold standard, the community college he attended and SWAT teams.
Jared Lee Loughner, in these few public hints, offered a sense of his alienation from society, confusion, anger as well as foreboding that his life could soon come to an end. Friends talked of how he had become reclusive in recent years, and his public...
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Another former high school classmate said that Mr. Loughner's politics were left of center and that he may have met Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head outside the Safeway supermarket, sometime before the attack.
"As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy," the former classmate, Caitie Parker, wrote in a series of Twitter feeds Saturday. "I haven't seen him since '07 though. He became very reclusive."
"He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in '07, asked her a question & he told me she was 'stupid & unintelligent,' " she wrote.
Neighbors of Mr. Loughner in Orangewood Estates, a middle-class subdivision of single-family homes north of Tucson, said he lived with his parents, Amy and Randy Loughner, and they did not believe he had siblings. Two neighbors said they saw the family come and go but knew little about them.
"They stick to themselves," said a woman who lives across the street and who asked not to be named.
A series of short videos posted on the Internet, apparently by Jared Loughner, consist of changing blocs of text that are largely rambling and incoherent. [Click here for the YouTube page.]...
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
bttt
Now that he did not turn out to be the hated filled foaming at the mouth Sarah Palin Rightwing extremist, the media is not trying to humanize this loser.
Now that he did not turn out to be the hated filled foaming at the mouth Sarah Palin Rightwing extremist, the media is now trying to humanize this loser.
The media tried to claim that the gun was on top of a copy of the “constitution” and not a history book. I wonder what they were trying to achieve with that incorrect factoid.
the MSM will never examine the left wing angle. it’s an unquestioned article of faith that this sort of thing is the exclusive domain of “right wingers”.
I saw the interview of the classmate, a woman.
In a few sentences she did a lot of damage to the Liberals argument and who are trying to blame anyone but the shooter.
“Mr. Loughner’s politics were left of center”
Then why am I suffering attacks on my politcal point of view and everyone that speaks for me, when Loughner was with those we oppose???
I went to that link to read what he posted...if it his a sample of his writing as advertised, he sounds mentally ill to me. I can’t say what it is, but he sounds completely outside the norm. If you have a conversation like this with someone, your radar would go up that this person needs help.
All that matters is “freepers” keep pouring MILLIONS of $$$ into the leftwing propaganda mills.
Post any crap leftist show or movie, or fatburger chain that sponsors the MSM, and watch them come flocking in droves, slobbering and drooling in masochistic adulation.
Doesn’t fit the narrative, so he will be ignored soon.
I'm rapt investigating the actual location of his bedroom in the Loughner House? Could it possibly be located in their suburban basement? Adolph Hitler began his democratic socialist party from a basement in Linz. Hell always begins in the basement.
God save the Republic
Nah - they have it all wrong. Not Palin’s fault. It’s Bush and Cheney’s fault, plus Netanyahu and Global Warming.
Bush and Cheney created an atmosphere of hatred, Netanyahu and the Jews are too stubborn, and Global Warming makes people crazy.
Oswald was more than just left-wing, he was a dedicated Communist who had attempted to emigrate to the USSR. Too bad he never made it to trial...his testimony would have destroyed the Left’s appeal in America, IMO.
We will not know what was really going on until we hear from his parents.
OK, I sat through the You Tube videos. Good luck trying to label this wingnut as a conservative. Here’s my impression: I’m thinking that the left will politicize every tragedy to try to turn it to their benefit. There is a tragedy. Therefore, the left will try to politicize every tragedy to their benefit. Where is your coin? (Sorry, too late at night to be watching the insanity of this guy on you tube.)
Well 2 of his favorite books are Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto-—not much difference there.
The kid was unhinged...where was his family?
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