Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Gunman Linked to Grammar 'Judge'

[Hissyspit]

Source: Guardian UK

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Gunman linked to grammar 'judge'

Activist apparently shared Jared Lee Loughner's obsession with grammar and mind-control theories

Peter Walker
guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 January 2011 11.42 GMT

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Former friends have recounted that Loughner had a fixation for grammar and words, saying that he challenged Giffords at a previous public meeting with the impenetrable question: "What is government if words have no meaning?" In one of his video diatribes posted on the internet, he said: "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. You control your English grammar structure."

Some reports have connected this with the arguments of David Wynn Miller – or as he styles himself, Judge David-Wynn: Miller – whose near-impenetrable, capital letter-heavy website expounds the notion that grammar is used to control the populace, and that by inserting colons or hyphens into your name you can escape taxable status by becoming a "prepositional phrase".

While a small number of defendants have previously sought, without success, to use Wynn Miller's methods to defend themselves against tax avoidance charges, he has until now remained largely unknown outside of far-right US circles. His name was connected to the Loughner inquiry when an official from the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors extremist groups, told US television that it seemed Loughner had been "getting some of his key ideas from David Wynn Miller".

Wynn Miller claims to have 1 billion adherents worldwide. In interviews he agreed that he and Loughner shared beliefs on grammar and that it was possible that the latter had read his website. But he dismissed as "ridiculous" the idea that this could have inspired the mass shooting. There is no evidence thus far that Loughner knew of Wynn Miller or his beliefs.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/10/gabrielle-giffords-shooting-grammar-extremist?CMP=twt_fd

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. That is one of the most incomprehensible websites I've seen

It's not quite as bad as the 'timecube' one, but it's not far off. Loughner's videos were a model of clarity compared to it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. A bottle of Doctor Bronner's 18-in-1 Pure Castile Soap makes more sense (and reads better, too!). nt

[TalkingDog]

14. Hey! I actually LEARNED things from a Dr. Bronner's bottle.

Pointless syllogisms... not so much.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Agreed.

Makes Lee Mercer, Jr. look sane and articulate in comparison.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. But you gotta admire the originality of the tax evasion theroy.

[formercia]

19. Right along with magic shirts that stop bullets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wovoka

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. I honestly had that thought when I typed my response.

Guess the ghost Dancers were the original "tinfoil" users, so to speak.

[formercia]

23. Great minds think alike.

unfortunately, Lemmings do too. :hi:

[xchrom]

3. 'largely unknown outside of far-right US circles'. nt

[florida08]

4. thought I'd heard most conspiracies

but never heard of Miller. Grammar being used for mind control? We're all going to die next year and he's talking about grammar?

[InkAddict]

5. 2 tarbul dat perzens no spek LOLcat suppika-shun:

EX-ampul:

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(an git lotz cheezburgerz) srsly

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=How_to_speak_lolcat
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Ceiling_Cat_Prayer

[Odin2005]

6. That is bizzare.

[Democat]

7. Another far right connection for the shooter?

Seems there are more and more of them coming out by the hour.

[lobodons]

10. But what about that girl

But what about that girl who last saw him in 2007 who said he was liberal. The righties have been citing her all weekend.

[No Elephants]

15. She lied.

[Javaman]

8. Man yells at clouds. nt

[lib_wit_it]

9. Another of JL Loughner's RW connections: blatant, idiotic hypocrisy. How the Sam Hill can the guy

responsible for the following sentence claim to know anything about grammar: "The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. You control your English grammar structure."?

Or do he and Sarah Palin collaborate on the technique of using atrocious grammar in a clever Jedi mind trick to stymie government mind control? :sarcasm:

[davepc]

11. I don't know how anyone can tie a political ideology to such a batshit insane idea

What is it about linguistics as a mind control device that makes it some sort of inherent 'right-wing' idea?

Sometimes crazy doesn't fit on the spectrum.

[quakerboy]

13. I am guessing its the

Anti-tax portion of it. If I read that rats nest right, there is also a goodly bit of anti-gvt incomprehensibility in there. Thats probably what the linkage is, at a guess

[Wilber_Stool]

16. ?

that by inserting colons or hyphens into your name you can escape taxable status by becoming a "prepositional phrase".

I can't argue with that. Really, I can't.

[JudyM]

20. ROFL. My reaction exactly. Become a prepositional phrase, right? nt

[SpartanDem]

18. It kinda explains the gibberish on his videos

I visited the "judges" website and it's just plain :crazy:

[Anakin Skywalker]

21. .