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Home Front: Culture Wars
AZ Gunman was a truther
2011-01-10
AP has been collecting stories from people who knew him.

Among his beliefs was that the govt (presumably the US Govt) was behind the 9-11 atrocities.

He almost died once from drinking too much tequila and liked poetry.

Mr Loughner believes a great many strange things. Truther nonsense is only a small part of it, and not the defining part. The psychiatrist-blogger Dr. Sanity has concluded Mr. Loughner is a classic paranoid schizophrenic.
That I would believe. That's why he had days where he could hold it together, and presumably it was one of those days that he bought the pistol he used in this terrible crime.
Posted by:lord garth

#12  Grammar is important. For example, you can help your Uncle Jack, off a horse or you can help your uncle jack off a horse. Apparently the distinction of things like this drove him nuts.
Posted by: remoteman   2011-01-10 23:52  

#11  Quick grammar lesson for the spelling-impaired.

The word is "ensured" if you want to be "sure" of something. The spelling is "insured" if you are paying monthly premiums to know that if you crash into someone with your car there will be a payoff to the injured party.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2011-01-10 22:46  

#10  No, it was the arrow through your head. >>-- ^_^ -->>
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-10 21:13  

#9  What gave me away? The glasses? the goofy grin? My hatred of Robert Ludlum?
Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous   2011-01-10 19:59  

#8  And I forgot to mention that he hung out with Goober.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-10 15:02  

#7  He was (is) obviously an agent of THRUSH. He reads Animal Farm and Lewis G Carrol too. Almost as bad. We must begin counter-tactics immediately. And Robert Ludlum!!! Shoot to kill!

Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous   2011-01-10 14:34  

#6  Personally, I feel he is connected to the left. As are his actions.

Two of his favorite books are Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto. Those who went to school with him say he's a liberal. His actions parallel those of Lee Harvey Oswald and Ted Kaczynski. He blames the world's woes on a group of people, as socialist societies seem to do in order to divert the people's attention from the true problem. In his case, it's Jews.

He's got some paranoid stuff in the mix, too, like government mind control through grammar. Remove that and the violence from the mix and you're back to liberal thinking and the problems of a socialist governmental system.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-10 13:44  

#5  In the early minutes after the shooting CNN and MSNBC tried desperately to tie this nutcase to the right. The narrative didn't take. He is not connected to the left either. He is a truly troubled man that needs some mental help.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge    2011-01-10 13:28  

#4  THe question remains: who hold people like that ass Krugman, and the editors who greenlit his inflammatory article, and others in the left dominated media accountable for spewing the hate and disinformation attempting to politicize this and pin it on conservatives and libertarians and the TEA party?
Posted by: OldSpook   2011-01-10 11:24  

#3  The government is appointing his defender to insure that there are no errors that might lead to an acquittal.

They are picking San Diego attorney Judy Clarke, who served on teams that insured Timothy McVeigh was executed, Unibomber Ted Kaczynski got life in ADX Florence, and Susan Smith, who murdered her children and created racial strife by blaming an unidentified black man, got life with no possibility for parole for 30 years.

As a rule of thumb, never, ever let the government pick who will defend you in a criminal case, if the government hates you.

This is why in a duel, it is the person who is challenged who has the right to choose the weapons used.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-10 09:19  

#2  News sez he failed the routine Army entrance exam urinalysis due to drugs. Not the sharpest hoe in the garden shed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-01-10 08:24  

#1  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

The left's narrative keeps falling apart. How long before this whole story is swept under the rug and put on the history sites as, "Schizophrenic gunman shot 12 people, killing a federal judge and a 9 yo girl."
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-10 08:22  

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