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Murder in Tucson - Jared Loughner's sickness is not the product of politics..
The Wall Street Journal ^ | JANUARY 10, 2011

Posted on 01/10/2011 8:05:10 AM PST by Delacon

On all available evidence, Jared Lee Loughner is a mentally disturbed man who targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and anyone near her in Tucson on Saturday because she was prominent and they were tragically accessible. He joins Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley Jr. and many others whose derangement led them to horrible acts of violence. Whatever confused political motives he expressed seem merely to be part of the maelstrom of his mental sickness.

In a better world, no one would attempt to exploit his madness for political gain. We would instead focus on the contributions of Ms. Giffords, by all accounts a laudable public servant. We would celebrate the lives of the other victims, and we would praise the survivors who intervened to tackle Mr. Loughner and disarm him before he could kill others—like 74-year-old retiree Bill Badger, who was grazed in the head by a bullet before helping to restrain the shooter.

But the shooting news had barely hit the wires on Saturday before the media's instant psychoanalysis put the American body politic on the couch instead of Mr. Loughner. "Bloodshed Puts New Focus on Vitriol in Politics," declared a story in the New York Times, which focused primarily on the tea party and Sarah Palin in the context of mass murder. The story even hauled in opposition to health-care reform.

Politico, the Beltway website, chimed in by quoting a "veteran Democratic operative" advising the White House "to deftly pin this on the tea partiers," just as "the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people" in 1995.

Shouldn't a publication insist that someone urging the exploitation of murder


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To: Delacon
His sickness is his leftist ideology... you cannot separate him from who he is.

LLS

21 posted on 01/10/2011 9:52:15 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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22 posted on 01/10/2011 10:03:38 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: MrB

Where did you get the info saying Loughner’s gay? If so, the media seems to be keeping it quiet.


23 posted on 01/10/2011 11:01:27 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg (("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose))
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

I don’t know how happy (gay) he is right now. He seems like a very disturbed and depressed individual.

However, there are several sources (you can find them through google) stating that he is a homosexual. Initial reports said something about him being upset about a breakup with a “same-sex partner”.


24 posted on 01/10/2011 11:10:10 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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I wonder if they’ll restrain this nice young lady:
http://zoee.tumblr.com/post/135485492/schadenfreude-via-zina-saunders

I mean, see her profile picture, doesn’t she look sweet and innocent?


25 posted on 01/10/2011 12:55:41 PM PST by Terriergal ("I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace," Shakespeare)
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