Jared Loughner committed a terrorist act

[lunatica]

That's the first important thing to understand. That he may have been influenced by some extreme rhetoric from whatever fringe groups that are out there comes in second place.

He killed a 9 year old little girl. That has made me cry more than once today. She was probably there because her parent or parents wanted her to learn about Democracty. I've wondered if her parent/s is/are one of the dead people which means the police can't identify this little girl because what child carries id? I want to know about this child. I want to know her name and I want to see her photograph and I want people to know that she was killed by an American terrorist.

[NNN0LHI]

1. Is this isn't terrorism nothing is terrorism

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[valerief]

3. Loughner. nt

[lunatica]

10. Thanks. I corrected the spelling.

[femmocrat]

4. I would also appreciate learning about the little girl.

As well as the other victims. I have seen a fair amount about the judge today. Our local TV reporter said that he had previously been assigned a security detail after a ruling in a controversial immigration case.

[DainBramaged]

5. Let's send him to Gitmo and see what else he knows!! He wants to kill politicians

let's treat him as an enemy combatant.

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[ZombieHorde]

6. Why is that the first important thing to understand? nt

[lunatica]

9. In my opinion we tend to overlook white Americans as terrorists when they kill

a lot of people in public places. If he had been brown with an Arabic sounding name we know all too well what would have ensued. And heaven forbid if he had been brown with a Mexican sounding name while daring to live in Arizona.

[ZombieHorde]

14. I see. nt

[BR_Parkway]

7. especially now that Congress has suspended for next week

[JerseygirlCT]

8. That's what I keep thinking: a nine year old girl. He shot a nine year old girl.

Good God.

But I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for the right to acknowledge this as terrorism. To them, terrorists are those brown people who worship Mohammed and hate our freedom.

This is horrible. And such an indictment of our society today.

[lunatica]

11. Tim McVeigh is rarely called a terrorist

If you're white in this country you don't count as a terrorist. Just some lunatic or some good boy gone bad.

[JerseygirlCT]

13. Yup. nt

[lunatica]

12. They know who the little girl is

Her name is Christina

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x144433

[gatorboy]

15. More like an assassination.

[lunatica]

16. Well he killed a lot of people

Most assassinations usually end up with one politician or public figure being killed which in some cases included some collateral damage for those too close to avoid death. In this case he shot a politician in the head and then turned to shoot into a crowd until his magazine was empty. He seems to have had the intention of killing at least as many people as the number of bullets his gun could fire.

[gatorboy]

17. Just because he eventually went on a shooting spree doesn't change anything.

The definition is to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person. And it's alredy been reported he asked a witness from the event for her by name.

[lunatica]

18. Are you saying that he didn't know who she was so he had to ask?

Yeah, sure. He didn't even know who he was just going to shoot in the head? There was a damn banner with her name on it. So how does the assassination reason apply? If he didn't know which person in the crowd she was that puts a big hole in your theory. Most assassins, as far as I know have previous knowledge of what their intended victim looks like.

[gatorboy]

19. Jesus Christ.... I don't know why you're fighting me so hard on this. Here:

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_76bc3c24-1b79-11e0-b748-001cc4c002e0.html

he gunman, wearing a beanie and baggy clothes, approached Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ meet-and-greet Saturday wanting to speak with her immediately, a witness says.

Alex Villec, a 19-year-old volunteer, organized the line of constituents outside the Safeway where a young man approached the line.

He said, “Can I talk to the congresswoman?”, or something to that effect, Villec said. He told the man to stand at the back of a line to wait for about 20 minutes.

[Tsiyu]

20. A link with info

Her name was Christina


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x144433


Yes, and the young man fits the age profile of jihadists and terrorists all over the world. Young, male, confused, easily manipulated by imagery and rhetoric.

The media won't call it terrorism, though, because they feed off it like leeches.