Jared Lee Loughner: Meet Rep. Giffords' Alleged Shooter

[marmar]

from Mother Jones:





Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot in the head Saturday morning at a "Congress on Your Corner" event outside a supermarket in Tucson. After initial reports that Giffords had died, the hospital has confirmed she remains in critical condition though she is "expected to pull through," according to MSNBC. Six people were killed in the shooting—including federal judge Bill Roll, Giffords' district director, and a nine-year-old child—and at least 12 people were injured.

The alleged assailant has been identified as 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, an Arizona resident described by one eyewitness as a white, clean-cut man who reportedly called out the names of some of his victims as he began shooting. (The Associated Press identified the suspect, who's now in police custody, as Jared Laughner, but the Arizona Daily Star, Politico, and other outlets have ID'd him as "Loughner.") The suspect appears to have posted YouTube videos under the handle "Classitup10" that rail against the government and talk of revolution and terrorism. The user, identified as "Jared Lee Loughner," says in a rage-filled, rambling, and incoherent post accompanying one video:

We need a drum roll for those front runners in the election; those illegal teachers, pigs, and politicians of yours are under illegal authority of their constitution. Those dirty pigs think they know the damn year. Thirdly, tell them mother fuckers to count from 0 to whenever they feel a threat to stop their count…Those illegal military personal are able to sign into a country that they can't find with an impossible date! How did you trust your child with them fraud teachers and front runners, listener? Did you now know that the teachers, pigs, and front runners are treasonous!

In another video, the same user accuses the government of imposing "mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar." Loughner continues: "You don't have to accept hte (SIC) federalist laws…A terrorist is a person who employs terror or terrorism, especially as a political weapon. If you call me a terrorist then the argument to call me a terrorist is Ad hominem." ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-gabrielle-giffords

[theothersnippywshrub]

1. Bush's grammar, Palin's syntax, Limbaugh's logic and Cheney's penchant for shooting people.

How very Republican.

[Raster]

2. Yours is the post of the day!

Outstanding!:rofl:

[Divine Discontent]

5. what a DUzy!

[kestrel91316]

7. +1

[Catherina]

3. This all just makes me so sad. So very sad. n/t

[Barack_America]

4. "reportedly called out the names of some of his victims as he began shooting"???

This would suggest that his actions were considerably politically motivated one way or the other.

Reports are that some of those injured and killed were Giffords's staff members. Why the hell would he know their names? Or the names of random citizens who had come for the event?

[Stargleamer]

6. The Communist Manifesto and Loughner

it won't be long before conservatives and/or Fox News will make an issue of how the Communist Manifesto was listed as one of his favorite books, here comes their rhetoric and willful blindness to subtlety. . .