(Loughner) Tucson shooter obsessed with bizarre Internet movie

Washington Examiner ^ | 1/17/11 | Byron York

[markomalley]

In other words, he was loony tunes.

Nice piece, Byron, but no humongous revelations contained herein. Sorry.

[JohnBrowdie]

he’s a GWB hater and a truther. he reminds me of keith olbermann MUCH more than sarah palin.

[Danae]

So he was a truther as well.

I don’t even know what to say, in some very small way I feel sorry for the guy, because he was clearly mentally ill, and in dire need of help he obviously didn’t get.

I hope that the medical community can help this guy, if only so as to make him sane enough to recognize what he did. At the very least he should become cognizant of just how sick his actions were.

Sad sad sad story from start to finish.

[NoLibZone]

Yes he hated Christians Christians like Tea Partyers.

[raccoonradio]

Speaking of Looney Tunes, as in a certain cartoon blog,
Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Brew blog has this:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/bad-ideas/was-arizona-shooter-obsessed-with-waking-life.html

>>Was Arizona Shooter Obsessed with “Waking Life”?

>>If something is too difficult to explain, just blame cartoons. So now some people are beginning to suggest that Jared Loughner, the gunman who went on a shooting rampage in Arizona that killed six people, may have been a fan of Richard Linklater’s 2001 rotoscope-animation film Waking Life. Last night on 60 Minutes, friends of the shooter said he was “obsessed with the film.” The connection stems from Loughner’s obsession with lucid dreaming—a mental state in which you’re aware that you’re dreaming—which is a central theme of Waking Life.

>>Fans of the film are so worried that they’ve already started publishing pre-emptive defenses of the film, like this one at the Brown Tweed Society:

—— Waking Life kept popping up in my mind because Jared Loughner wrote a lot about the blurred lines between dreams and reality. He also asked a lot of difficult questions about government and social control, questions which mirror many of those posed in Waking Life. Before his dark mental illnesses really took hold of him, some of Loughner’s questions contained a degree of reasonable skepticism grounded in established, though perhaps poorly understood on his part, tenets of philosophy and linguistics. He asked it in a poor, ill-suited context of course, but the question Loughner posed to Gabrielle Giffords at the much-discussed 2007 public forum—“What is government if words have no meaning?”—is a valid inquiry grounded in the assumption that government and other human social abstractions are primarily linguistic constructions. It’s exactly the kind of question that prompts much of Waking Life’s extended dialogue segments.

[pissant]

I’d prefer they just quickly execute the POS.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t even know what to say, in some very small way I feel sorry for the guy, because he was clearly mentally ill, and in dire need of help he obviously didn’t get.

To make matters worse, liberals actively encourage and enable mental illness. With them they see it much the same way they see drugs as a tool to enhance creativity. Unfortunately with most liberal ideas, it too often ends in disaster.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

A lot of that reads like George Noory's CoastToCoastAM, especially the truther stuff, Bush's illegal wars, Bush's anti-constitutional Patriot Act, global conspiracies.

Noory claims C2C is nonpartisan and not political but after six years or so of calling G.W. Bush everything but president and now getting furious at guests who don't address Obama as President Obama, I find it hard to believe that Noory is telling the truth.

I wonder if Loughner is C2C fan.

[USNBandit]

And the third part tells us the real powers behind 9/11 and the other myths are central bankers.

Well it's a well know fact, sonny Jim, that there's a group of the five wealthiest people in the world known as the pentaverate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers. And meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion known as, the Meadows. .......The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothchilds and Col. Sanders before he went tets up.

Oh, I hated the Col. with his wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face, Oh you're gonna buy my chicken, Oohh...... Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave for it nightly, smartass!

[mylife]

And do you know what the Colonel does with the chicken ***es?

He sells those to McDonald!

[DarrellZero]

Of course human language is a manmade construction.

As such, it is only an abstraction of reality.

It doesn’t require any particular genius to realize this. Loughner seemed to think this notion was some sort of amazing insight on his part.

[cripplecreek]

Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence.

I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto.

But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here.

When I stop going there, I will be well.

Are you also divergent, friend?

[USNBandit]

With all this coming out over the long weekend I'm sure MSNBC will correct all the "misplaced outrage" they have been putting out since the shooting.

In fact, "misplaced outrage" should be the operative term to respond to leftist attacks on conservatives over this event.

[reagan_fanatic]

But religion is much more than astrological musings. "It empowers the political establishment who have been using the myth to manipulate and control societies," the movie claims.

That's funny. If anything, the government is doing all it can to minimize and maginalize Christianity in America. You'd think if it was using it to 'control' society, it would let it flourish so that it would gain more adherents.

[Crim]

Nope...he was just our every day truther off his meds....

There have been multiple mass shootings tied to truthers now... and the fact is...this info is going main stream...

Truthers are being exposed...

[Danae]

Just as long as he recognized what he did, on a cogent level.

Works for me otherwise.

[pissant]

I’ve always hated the “insanity defense” and it shouldn’t be up to jurors or judges or anyone else to determine if a murderer is nuts, or just sometimes nuts, or just nuts when he did his evil deed.

Ted Bundy was apparently a very intelligent man. But he was also a psychopathic murderer. So whether this AZ bastard is as aware and cognizant of what he was doing as old Bundy was makes no difference to me. I want him dead ASAP so not one more dime (than necessary for trial) of his victims and victims families tax payer money is spent to house and feed him.

[El Cid]

I’ve always hated the “insanity defense”...

I never had a problem with the insanity plea... But it should have been an 'AND' statement, not a 'Get out of Jail' card.
If guilty, the ruling should be: 'Insane AND Guilty' - not, 'Not Guilty by reason of Insanity'... that's just crazy. I'm certainly sorry that the murderer's brain was scrambled - but that's true about most murderers. If he's guilty of murder - than he's guilty of murder.

[joesjane]

Love love love this movie!

[depressed in 06]

"We've been lied to. We've been lied to by every institution."

He may be on to something or on something.