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Accused Tucson Gunman Described as 'Pot-smoking Loner'
KTLA ^ | 7:27 p.m. PST, January 8, 2011 | KTLA staff

Posted on 01/08/2011 7:59:25 PM PST by Diogenez

TUSCON, Ariz ( KTLA) -- Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged Tucson gunman, was described Saturday as a politically radical loner. Now an internet trail emerged in which he apparently railed against the US government and told friends: "Please don't be mad at me".

There are unconfirmed reports that 22 year old Jared Lee Loughner once met with Rep. Giffords in 2007. A former high school friend said that he had often talked about meeting and talking with the congresswoman.

Arizona court records show Loughner has twice been charged with previous offenses. The first, in October 2007, related to the possession of drug paraphernalia. It was unclear what the second, a year later, related to. Both charges were dismissed after Loughner completed a "diversion program".

People who knew him described him as philosophical, a person who read a lot of books. On his YouTube page, Loughner listed among his favorite books "The Communist Manifesto," "Siddhartha," "The Old Man And The Sea," "Gulliver's Travels," "Mein Kampf," "The Republic" and "Meno."

One former high school friend Tweeted about knowing the accused gunman: "He was a pot head and into rock, like Hendrix, The Doors, Anti-Flag," she wrote. "I haven't seen him in person since 2007 in a sign language class. As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal and oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy. He had a lot of friends until he got alcohol poisoning in 2006 and dropped out of school. Mainly a loner, very philosophical."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2007; 200710; assassinationplots; gabriellegiffords; giffords; lefties; leftwing; loughner; potheads; radical; signlanguage
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To: Jedidah

Someone had a facebook page up showed that he worked for child services and was gay.


61 posted on 01/08/2011 9:11:04 PM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: Jedidah
"Where did you hear that the perp is a government employee?"

At least one of his online profiles (youtube?) says he works for Child Protective Services.

62 posted on 01/08/2011 9:12:37 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: Diogenez
Screen shots from one of his YouTube videos. In case it gets deleted too. There are fake Facebook pages out there but these seem to be the real deal. Matches other writings he made. Oddly enough, he seems fixated on grammar.

He was certifiable. Why was he still walking the streets?


63 posted on 01/08/2011 9:19:20 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (My baloney has a first name, it's DEMOCRAT; my baloney has a second name, it's PARTY)
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To: Terry Mross
Unless the press is taken over by true journalists who report only the facts, this country is doomed.

I was watching Fox News for awhile and when Shep Smith ran out of speculations he'd put up one of his one feather indians (Doug McGruder or something like that). Good old Doug dragged out the Tea Party reference, then he stated that the shooter must have used "fully automatic" weapons because of the great amount of damage. He babbled on for several minutes, displaying a total and profound lack of knowledge regarding firearms, ammunition and terminal ballistics. They also featured comments from one of their staff Md's who said that the Congresswoman was "lucky" because she was shot with one of those slower moving bullets which kept her head from exploding like happened to JFK (shot with a much more deadly, faster moving, rifle bullet). I guess in his world a .22 LR is deadlier then a .45 ACP, hmmmmm.

Sometimes it's just better to turn the babble box off until the adults marshal the facts and organize a pressor. Watching/listening to the MSM during the first few hours is a waste of time and an insult to ones intelligence.

Regards,
GtG

64 posted on 01/08/2011 9:21:55 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: preacher
A few weeks before the Kennedy assassination a woman protesting Adali Stevenson let a protest sign slip and some of the cardboard brushed Adali’s head. This incident was extensively reported on at the time by the MSM. At the time of the Kennedy shooting - in the first hours and days after the shooting, the video of this incident was played and replayed in the MSM with the overwhelming commentary and implication being that the assassin was right-wing. This defamation was later cited by left wing commentators as being an important fact underlying and proving Oswald's innocence.
65 posted on 01/08/2011 9:25:12 PM PST by Diogenez
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To: Diogenez

All five of Loughner’s YouTube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRjwPWaxiY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/u/0/7uRjwPWaxiY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Wr6AeZTCE&feature=autoplay&list=ULGZRTNOG-r6Y&index=1&playnext=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhAx8WzNJT0&feature=fvsr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnNx0WThoF0&feature=fvsr


66 posted on 01/08/2011 9:28:40 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (My baloney has a first name, it's DEMOCRAT; my baloney has a second name, it's PARTY)
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To: freedumb2003
He is a run of the mill lefty who just did what all lefties endorse: shut up anyone you disagree with, using force if necessary
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Yep. just the usual paranoid delusional godless totalitarian big gov’t freak that believes the world actually revolves around him. More people gots to carry. I'm very disappointed this f-ing scum wasn't terminated before he got off a couple of clips.
Funny, I was on eliptical at the gym when it came on TV. When I heard who got shot (democrat rep from AZ) my reaction was to pray it wasnt a conservative pissed off over the border. As I had more time to think however, I concluded that it was unlikely because we believe in God and our morality and respect for life would make it really hard to just ambush a defenseless bunch of people like that. I also thought that we are on God's side right now and he's not going to allow us to mess this up. I was then at peace with it and began to pray for the victims, which I am doing right now.
67 posted on 01/08/2011 9:28:51 PM PST by photodawg
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To: 9422WMR

It looks like the guy posted on a leading conspiracy web forum, they closed the topic but

here are his post

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/profile.php?member=Erad3&display=posts


68 posted on 01/08/2011 9:31:48 PM PST by Sophia777
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

.the ‘Rat Rep. was NOT singled out as the main target.
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Very low class comment. Nobody deserves this. She was a well respected woman. Please read her bio before you indict her with callus political comments. Lets pray she recovers along with the other injured victims.


69 posted on 01/08/2011 9:34:48 PM PST by photodawg
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To: Diogenez; preacher

The fact that Kennedy’s assassin was an unstable, poorly educated radical Communist who had spent time in Russia and thought he had a grudge against the US was barely reported even at the time. I lived through this, and as soon as the press realized that Oswald’s connections were entirely left-wing (in fact, extreme left), analyses of his motives disappeared from view...and then he was dead.

I think this current assassin, Loughner, was probably unstable at best and psychotic at worst. The latter may have been the result of some adult-onset form of schizophrenia, or it may possibly have been caused by excessive dope smoking. In high school in the 60s, I knew stoners who smoked so much that they were afraid to go into their lockers because “they” were watching them. I was never sure who “they” were, but then again, I didn’t dare ask.


70 posted on 01/08/2011 9:38:56 PM PST by livius
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To: Republican Wildcat

that guy certainly is “vitriolic” and full of hate talk. but he’s a leftie, so that’s okay. /s


71 posted on 01/08/2011 9:42:03 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: All

Another MSM wannabe blogger posing as a journalist. Reporting that shooter was inspired by Palin and Tea Party. The guy had an “anonymous source” that was a “Palin supporter”. The guy is quoting a FAKE facebook page that sprouted up after the shooter’s name was released. This writer, Timothy, is quite the horse’s ARSE.

http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/2011/01/az-shooter-jared-lee-loughner-charged.html


72 posted on 01/08/2011 9:49:35 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Diogenez

More recently; Lefty mayor Bloomberg commented on the failed Times Square bomber as being someone unhappy with the healthcare debate.


73 posted on 01/08/2011 10:00:25 PM PST by joelt
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To: photodawg; Diana in Wisconsin
Our local (Leftard) media is saying ...

You must have missed this part of Diana in Wisconsin's post. She was quoting not making a comment.

74 posted on 01/08/2011 10:05:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Jedidah

On his Facebook page that was scrubbed earlier today he said he had worked for Child Protective Services. There are some screenshots on various threads.


75 posted on 01/08/2011 10:13:42 PM PST by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: Williams

That Dupnik dope should be put in a cell also.


76 posted on 01/08/2011 10:20:40 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: Terry Mross
Geraldo is on now and all are upset at the father saying his daughter's enemy is the Tea Party. Also a dangerous irresponsible comment no matter how grief stricken. There are more facts in this forum being discussed then Fox at the moment. Geraldo has asked for people to shut up and not make it one side of the aisle against the other. There are nut cases out there.."this is your brain on drugs".

If you pinned me down asked me whom I blame? Would say Pelosi and Obama for dividing the country as they have. They are making it all about health-care, this terrorist act of violence today. The media on both sides are just playing their normal role as opinion whores to Breaking News pouring salt on new wounds.

The Governor of Arizona, however, expressed her sincere sympathy to those caught in the cross hairs of this terrorist act and her friend Gabrielle. She has not played politics like angry Chellie Pingree [D] from Maine (as the state went 100% Republican control) who has insinuated that "their lives have been in danger"...they just can't make up their mind if it is health-care or if they should pin it on prejudice under the illegal immigration issue.

The little terrorist seems to appear betrayed that Obama has promised a left wing socialist agenda and then went rogue on him, Pelosi, Pingree, Frank, the Lot-with the continuation of the "Bush tax cuts" and appeared then to play kissy kissy with the Right. The Left was in an uproar, were they not? the Left wing media MSNBC was in an uproar saying Obama would not be seen as fit to run another term, he would be removed, etc...I rest my case.

FTD

77 posted on 01/08/2011 10:20:43 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Diogenez
Anybody remember how "right wing violence" was named by the major media as the implied cause for the Kennedy assassination in the first hours?

That theme was deliberately re-libeled by banned screen writer Dalton Trumbo in a Communist screed, Executive Action, in which Burt Lancaster starred, supported by blacklisted Communist actor Will Geer and actor Robert Ryan.

The film blamed the assassination on the CIA and Texas oil men.

78 posted on 01/08/2011 10:41:59 PM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Terry Mross
Maybe this dumb sheriff is the reason the feds are taking over.

Not nice to call Obama a dumb sheriff.

79 posted on 01/08/2011 10:47:25 PM PST by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: TigersEye
Our local (Leftard) media is saying ...
You must have missed this part of Diana in Wisconsin's post. She was quoting not making a comment.
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If she was quoting then there should be quotation marks. Actually she was paraphrasing up to the point where she used the three periods and the added her opinion about the, and I quote “RAT rep”. No lefty media would use the term “rat rep” Rat is a term used by conservatives to express justifiable disgust with democrats. In this case however it was not “justifiable”

80 posted on 01/08/2011 10:48:49 PM PST by photodawg
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