Posted on 01/08/2011 10:43:22 PM PST by Red Steel
WASHINGTON — Jared Lee Loughner had become increasingly erratic in recent months, so much so that others around him began to worry.
He had posted on his Myspace page at some point a photograph of a United States history textbook, on top of which he had placed a handgun. He prepared a series of Internet videos filled with rambling statements on topics including the gold standard, mind control and SWAT teams. And he had started to act oddly during his classes at Pima Community College, causing unease among other students.
That behavior, along with a disturbing video, prompted school administrators to call in Mr. Loughner’s parents and tell them that their son had been suspended and would have to get a mental health evaluation to return to college. Instead, he dropped out in October, a spokesman for the college said.
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Police officials on Saturday said that Mr. Loughner had a criminal record of some kind, but they did not provide any details.
Don Coorough, 58, who sat two desks in front of Mr. Loughner in a poetry class last semester, described him as a “troubled young man” and “emotionally underdeveloped.”
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Another former high school classmate said that Mr. Loughner may have met Representative Giffords, who was shot in the head outside the Safeway supermarket, several years ago.
“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.”
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Hmmm....
Oh shoot, you mean he isnt a member of the Palin/Beck assassination hit squad?
I am no psychologist but he seems to be behaving like a classic schizophrenic.
Not an excuse, just an observation.
Was he a registered voter? If so, which party? Why has nobody checked?
No, now he is to be pitied because no one “reached out” to help him because of the evil conservatives denial to fund community programs that would have “saved” everyone from this tragedy. (extreme sarcasm on)
maybe we should all try harder to understand him
58 and attends community college...ok.
I agree. I also believe that he’ll never see the inside of a prison. He’ll be sent to some loony bin for a few years until some shrink says he’s sane and no longer a “threat to society”. Then he’ll be back on the street.
Just trying to get his degree in poetry.
He is now unemployed and has nothing better to do
“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy,”
Why has no one blamed this on George Noury yet?
“58 and attends community college...ok.”
He wants to be a poet when he grows up.
Maybe he writes poetry? Something unusual in a 58 yr old poet who maybe never went to college before? Your comment indicates immaturity, so I’ll guess you are about 19?
A kook and a dopehead.
58 and attends community college...ok.
? Why not?
“...His YouTube page also listed a series of favorite books. Some were novels about political dystopias — including “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley. Others were about falling into fantasy worlds — like “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass” by Lewis Carroll.”
Gotta love how the NYT conveniently leaves out the Communist Manifesto from his list of favorite books...
Geez, maybe he is just interested in poetry. My community college offers lots of enrichment classes, and I have often been tempted to take a Civil War history class, or something like that.
Yup.
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