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Jared Loughner, Alleged Shooter in Gabrielle Giffords Attack, Described by Classmate as "Left-Wing P
Pheonix Times ^ | 1/8/11 | James King

Posted on 01/08/2011 9:17:06 PM PST by Nachum

A classmate of the man accused of shooting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning describes him as "left wing" and a "pot head" in a series of posts on Twitter this afternoon.

Caitie Parker did not immediately respond to our request for an interview, but her "tweets" in the hours after the shooting paint a picture of Jared Loughner as a substance-abusing loner who had met Giffords before the shooting. She says, Loughner described the congresswoman as "stupid and unintelligent."

We've confirmed that Parker and Loughner went to school together at Mountain View High School in Tucson and that both attended Pima Community College, so her claims of knowing Loughner seem to be legit.

Parker "tweets" that she and Loughner were in the band together and were friends until 2007 when he became "reclusive" after getting alcohol poisoning and dropping out of college.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com ...


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To: Nachum

Absolutely true, the left will (and already are) falsely making this guy out to be a right wing nut; however I refuse to lower myself to the depths of their moronic political discourse and falsely call him a leftist.

He was psychotic and not capable of a coherent political philosophy.


21 posted on 01/08/2011 10:22:56 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: IrishCatholic

Maybe he didn’t vote. He was only 22. I didn’t vote until I was at least 30.


22 posted on 01/08/2011 10:30:09 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Nachum

Oh, that is rich!


23 posted on 01/08/2011 10:30:54 PM PST by celmak
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To: Red Steel

More likely a volunteer for one or more leftist groups around there.


24 posted on 01/08/2011 11:06:33 PM PST by GeronL (How DARE you have an opinion!!)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
Come on people, he wasn’t a leftist or a tea party-er. His political views were the incoherent ramblings of a madman. He had no cohesive political point of view, he wasn’t capable of it.

That description is the essence of Liberalism. The boy called himself a Nihilist! The Nihilist movement was the intellectual precursor to Communism!

After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, the Nihilists were known throughout Europe as proponents of the use of violence in order to bring about political change.

He is a Leftist!

25 posted on 01/08/2011 11:19:16 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: djf

It wasn’t a “rally,” just a “meet-and-greet” out front of a grocery store with a couple card tables and a banner between pillars. At least one report said there were maybe “twenty” gathered around.

They declined to say if there was video from the store.

In 2011, it’s hard to imagine no one would be taking cellphone video from the parking lot even with shots fired. There seems to be video of everything happening in public these days.


26 posted on 01/08/2011 11:23:28 PM PST by newzjunkey (Well wishes to all the families affected by the Tuscon shooting.)
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To: higgmeister

His ramblings are incoherent, he’s psychotic, incapable of any meaningful understanding of any philosophical point of view, leftist or otherwise. He may have regurgitated some left wing nonsense, but the overarching chaotic nature of his diatribes was psychotic parroting of random disconnected bits and pieces.


27 posted on 01/08/2011 11:39:53 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better

Say what you want but his friend and classmate is calling him a Leftist. He may be a nutty Leftist, but a Leftist nonetheless.


28 posted on 01/08/2011 11:51:19 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (My baloney has a first name, it's DEMOCRAT; my baloney has a second name, it's PARTY)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Rise above the blame game. There are psychotics that self identify as both left and right wing and are all are capable of unspeakable violence because they’ve had a break with reality. If they self identify as a Martian, that doesn’t make them one. His level of disassociation from reality goes way beyond nutty. Barney Frank is nutty, this guy is living in world of chaotic random neuron firings. He’s like Hinckley or Berkowitz, he’s not like Obama’s buddy Ayers. That guy IS a nutty leftist (and a criminal POS).


29 posted on 01/09/2011 12:09:10 AM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
He may have regurgitated some left wing nonsense, but the overarching chaotic nature of his diatribes was psychotic parroting of random disconnected bits and pieces.

Oh please, spare me your shilling for Socialists! How is Jared Loughner any different from every Leftist Socialist Democrat minion anyone has ever heard from? If you've heard one synapse snap from any Liberal, you've heard them all. They all use groupthink as dogma and this crazy assassin is no different at all! Stop defending the Nazi-Communist Socialists!

30 posted on 01/09/2011 12:43:07 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: pissant

Aha! A democRAT.


31 posted on 01/09/2011 12:47:13 AM PST by Waco (From Seward to Sarah)
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To: higgmeister

You have completely misunderstood and mischaracterized my argument. In a nutshell (no pun intended), my assessment of this guy is that he’s more like the person you see on the street corner having an passionate argument with a lamp post than he is like Stalin.

I submit his final diatribe as evidence:

Hello, my name is Jared Lee Loughner.
This video is my introduction to you! My favorite activity is conscience dreaming; the greatest inspiration for my political business information. Some of you don’t dream — sadly.

Firstly, the current government officials are in power for their currency, but I’m informing you for your new currency! If you’re treasuerer of a new money system, then you’re responsible for the distributing of a new currency. We now know — the treasurer for a new money system, is the distributor of the new currency. As a result, the people approve a new money system which is promising new information that’s accurate, and we truly believe in a new currency. Above all, you have your new currency, listener?

Secondly, my hope - is for you to be literate! If you’re literate in English grammar, then you comprehend English grammar. The majority of poeple, who reside in District 8, are illiterate — hilarious. I don’t control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure.

Thirdly, 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!


32 posted on 01/09/2011 12:53:51 AM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
Rise above the blame game.

Your big mistake is in thinking that the political spectrum travels in a straight line with the left at one end and the right at the other. The Ultra-left and Ultra-right are the same Socialist creature. One seeks "Social Justice" from "the people" while the other seeks "Social Justice" from "the State" and are all of the same stripe.

...he’s not like Obama’s buddy Ayers.<

Ayers murdered for so called political gains and Loughner murdered for the same reason!

33 posted on 01/09/2011 12:56:35 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: pissant
I’ll bet you anything the POS was on prescription happy pills

That's the problem. He probably wasn't actually TAKING them. In fact, he was probably never diagnosed with a mental condition, until now. Too late.

Since he was living at home, I lay this at his mother's feet for not getting him some kind of help years ago. She ignored the problem hoping it was a "passing thing". Everyone else that knows him, including the local Community College, knows this guy had serious mental issues.

34 posted on 01/09/2011 12:57:20 AM PST by muleskinner
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To: higgmeister

“Your big mistake is in thinking that the political spectrum travels in a straight line”

I would never make such a remedial mistake, it is one however that the MSM makes on a regular basis (usually to tie us to some extremist group).

Your mistake is in assuming that this psychotic was anything more than most delusionals who hear voices in their heads and thinks they’re a flower pot. There is a difference between insane and evil. Stalin and Mao were evil, Berkowitz is insane.


35 posted on 01/09/2011 1:10:10 AM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: higgmeister

“Ayers murdered for so called political gains and Loughner murdered for the same reason!”

Not so, while Ayers did indeed do this this, Loughner’s murders were more akin to those of Berkowitz.


36 posted on 01/09/2011 1:20:38 AM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
You have completely misunderstood and mischaracterized my argument. In a nutshell (no pun intended), my assessment of this guy is that he’s more like the person you see on the street corner having an passionate argument with a lamp post than he is like Stalin.

Again I say that is no different from any Democrat that wants Universal Health-care, a living wage, censorship of dissenting opinions, free housing for the homeless, gun control to fight crime, Tax increases for the wealthy, providing Internet access to every home, appeasement of Muslims to end terrorism and a host of other insane and unstable ideas with no concept of any downside.

Every Liberal Leftist Democrat Socialist is an ignorant fool in a continuous state of "conscience dreaming!"

37 posted on 01/09/2011 1:21:31 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better

You seem to believe that insanity is a defense. Without logic there is no sanity, therefore all liberals are insane. How can you believe otherwise?


38 posted on 01/09/2011 1:27:58 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better

Cheers big ears! I’m out of here!


39 posted on 01/09/2011 1:36:21 AM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister

There is a profound difference. Liberals suffer from faulty logic, they think A plus B equals D, when in reality it equals C (i.e. higher taxes will always lead to increased total tax revenue, which of course is not always the case). Psychotics “think” A plus B equals goldfish; bizarre random and insane.


40 posted on 01/09/2011 1:40:23 AM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (If you like the employees at the DMV, post office, SS office... you'll love government healthcare)
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