Assassination looks like Antisemitism

The American Renaissance 'links'
THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE 'LINKS'.... As media outlets scrambled over the weekend to better understand why Jared Lee Loughner allegedly went on a shooting rampage in Tucson on Saturday, Fox News said it had a scoop: the network had "obtained" a memo from the Department of Homeland Security connecting the shooter to a Racist group called American Renaissance, and this memo was distributed to Law Enforcement agencies. I held off on mentioning this, because of the source -- the only thing less rel...

Sheriff: Ariz. Shooting Suspect Not Talking
PHOENIX (CBS/AP) Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old who allegedly killed six people and shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head in a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona Saturday, is not cooperating with police, say authorities. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told ABC News that Loughner, 22, said "not a word" to investigators regarding the horrific rampage that occurred outside a Tucson Supermarket, leaving Giffords in critical condition and 13 others injured. Loughner, whom neighbors described as a soci...

Hypocrisy Unending
One of the lines of Democrats is, “They mean and crazy, we nice and sane. Republicans are extreme and dangerous, and Democrats are good, well-meaning citizens.” I thought it might be timely to offer, or re-offer, a piece I did about a year and a half ago, called “All Wee-Weed Up: Protests on the right, hypocrisy on the left.” Go here, if you wish. The piece will remind you — if reminding you need — of the general stance of the Left during the eight years of Bu...

The Left Hypocritically Exploits Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' Shooting
Just hours after Saturday's tragic shooting incident in Tucson, Arizona, numerous news sources on the left from CNN to the Huffington Post were casting blame upon Sarah Palin, Tea Parties, and Second Amendment supporters. Hoping the shooter had right-leaning views, the Left immediately started portraying Jared Lee Loughner as a Right Wing nut. Even as information trickled in revealing Loughner had some left-leaning political views, the left ignored it and ran with their own spin, labeling hi...

Ban On Arizona Shooter's Gun Was Overturned By The GOP In 2004
The Glock 19 used by Jared Lee Loughner had been banned under a 1994 assault weapons law instituted during the Clinton Administration. But under enormous pressure from the National Rifle Association, in 2004 the GOP successfully worked to allow that ban to expire. AmericaBlog posts this excerpt from Salon: According to police and media reports, the alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, legally purchased a semiautomatic Glock 19 with a high-capacity magazine in November at a gun store in Tucson....

Get your story straight, MEPS.
I'll have more to say about the tragedy in Tuscon that killed a 10 year-old girl, a Federal Judge, several others, and critically wounded U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ-8) over the weekend. But in the mean time I think DoD needs to figure out which story they are going with. This: In one of a handful of anti-religious, anti-government videos on Loughner's YouTube page, he says "every United States Military recruit at MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) in Phoenix is rece...

ADL urges "thorough examination" of Loughner's motives
In the wake of reports that investigators are probing Jared Lee Loughner's possible ties to a white supremacist organization, the Anti-Defamation League calls in a statement Monday for a thorough examination of whether the suspect was "influenced by Extremist literature, Propaganda or Hate Speech" in his targeting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the first female Jewish member of Congress elected from Arizona. "ADL remains in contact with Law Enforcement as investigators endeavor to ...

BRYAN PRESTON: Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughners backyard skull shrine, linked fro
BRYAN PRESTON: “Clicking through images of Jared Lee Loughner’s backyard skull shrine, linked from Drudge. I’m not seeing a Gadsden flag.” ...

Caitie Parkers Tweets Re Jared Loughner
In reverse chronological order (latest to earliest) from Twitter: Caitie Parker @johnedelstein possibly. I’m looking back at this at a 14-19 year old. Who knows if any of us knew what for sure we were yet. @johnedelstein not as I knew him no. Very accepting of everyone. But that was 3 years ago. @FriendThatCooks 3 years ago when I saw him last he was more leftist. Now I don’t know. @johnedelstein & when I say "us" or "our" I mean our group. There were 5-6 ...

DHS links Arizona shooter Loughner with white supremacist American Renaissance
 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a memo linking Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shooter Jared Lee Loughner with the anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, white supremacist Hate Group American Renaissance. According to a Law Enforcement memo based on information provided by DHS and obtained by Fox News, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that pu...

Tea Party Express Leader: Left Is 'Revolting And Disgusting' For Blaming The Tea Party
Another Tea Party Leader is accusing the left of unfairly blaming the Tea Party for the Mass Shootings in Arizona, describing how "revolting and disgusting the left is for trying to associate the tea party with violence like this." Sal Russo, the leader of the Tea Party Express, said on Fox News today that shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner "was obviously a leftist. He admired Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto. Those are not volumes that are popular with the Tea Party so he was obviously...

Giffords environmental advocacy
By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don't know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords -- a Blue Dog in a re...

Loughner Conviction Could Come Down To Why Judge Was At Giffords Event
Whether Jared Lee Loughner is convicted federally of killing Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll could come down simply to why he showed up to Saturday's event with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In the Criminal Complaint filed against Jared Lee Loughner, the FBI is building the case that U.S District Court Judge John Roll attended Rep. Gabrielle Giffords "Congress on your Corner" not by chance or on a social visit, but for official government business. So why does Roll's reason for attending t...

Strange shrine found at Loughner's home
TUCSON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Arizona Shooting Spree suspect Jared Loughner had an occult shrine in his back yard, photos show. The New York Daily News showed the photos on its Web site Monday. Inside a camouflage tent behind the Tucson home where Loughner lives with his parents is an altar with a skull on top of a pot of shriveled oranges. A row of ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil sit nearby. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Experts told the Daily News the elements...

Exploiting a tragedy
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was still in the operating room when the professional Left began to leverage her shooting for political purposes. Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos blamed Sarah Palin. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann wagged a finger at a long list of high-profile Conservatives, ranging from newly-elected Florida Congressman Allen West to Glenn Beck. Gifford’s own father suggested “the whole Tea Party” might be suspects in the shootings. It’s easy to understa...

Jared Lee Loughner and media 'madness' | SE Smith
Within minutes of learning Saturday's breaking news about the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords along with staff and bystanders at a public event in Tucson, I, along with many other people with Mental Illness and Mental Health advocates, knew exactly what to expect: a torrent of speculation about the Mental Health status of the shooter. Real time reactions on the Internet did not disappoint, whether talking about "crazed gunmen", "lunatics", "psycho killers", or "mentally dis...

The Radical Right Responds to the Tucson Shootings
Leave it to Fred Phelps and his rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to provide the most heinous response to this weekend’s shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and 14 others wounded, most notably U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In a flier posted to the WBC website, the group, whose members plan to picket the funerals of those murdered, writes, “God appointed this rod for your sins! God sent the shooter!” The flier continues, “Your Federal Judge is dead and your (fa

Tucson shooting alters congressional agenda
WASHINGTON - This weekend's shooting in Tucson that killed six and wounded 14, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, hasn't just shaken Washington emotionally -- it's also shaken up the congressional agenda. The new Republican leadership in the House had planned an ambitious agenda for the first days of the 112th Congress, following up its adoption of new Budget rules last week with a vote to Repeal the Health Care bill this week. But on Sunday, Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor sent o...

What Riverdaughter said
There seem to be two major camps regarding this tragedy: Sarah Palin is a monster and the Tea Partiers must be blamed. Or, Sarah Palin is the scapegoat and her picture had nothing to do with this tragic incident. I prefer the third way. .... In the past 18 years, starting with the advent of Rush Limbaugh, we saw a ratcheting up of Right Wing Extremism. ... And it is into this environment that Sarah Palin steps as the champion of a new set of people. A group that even the Right Wing Republicans ...

Arizona Shooter Believed Government Was Behind 9/11
What a surprise... weaselzippers At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his High School friends the question was essentially this: “What is government if words have no meaning?” Loughner was angry about her response — she read the question and didn’t have much to say. “He was like … ‘What do you thin...

Gun-friendly laws made Arizona shootings possible, Brady Center president tells Raw
Stumble This! The president of the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence told Raw Story that excessively permissive Gun Laws are a culprit in the tragic shootings of 20 people in Tucson, Ariz. Saturday. Among those shot by 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner were Federal Judge John Roll, who was killed, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was critically wounded. The gun Loughner used was lawfully purchased, The Associated Press reported. "Apparently everyone who knew him lately describes him as v...

Obama Leads Moment of Silence After Shooting
WASHINGTON— A somber President Barack Obama led a moment of silence on Monday for a nation stunned by an attempted Assassination against an Arizona congresswoman that left her gravely wounded, several other injured and six people dead. On a frigid Washington morning, the president and First Lady Michelle Obama walked out of the White House to the sounding of a bell at 11 a.m. EST. Wearing overcoats, they stood next to each other on the South Lawn, each with their hands clasped, heads bow...

Why Was Giffords Targeted?
Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged would-be assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Leaving aside whether broader currents in American political discourse influenced Jared Lee Loughner’s attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s life, what exactly were the direct, proximate motivations behind Loughton’s decision to shoot Giffords in the head and then open fire on the crowd at her “Congress on Your Corner” event Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, killing six and wounding nearly two d...

Loughner is Anti-ZOG, Truther; Likely Schizophrenic
As Yael of the BokerTov blog notes, “Yep, two and two IS four.  I could feel it in my Zionist kishkehs:” (JTA) — A U.S. Department of Homeland Security memo reportedly notes that Gabriel Giffords is Jewish in describing the motives of the Arizona congresswoman’s alleged assailant. The memo, obtained by Fox News Channel, says that Jared Lee Loughner mentioned American Renaissance, an Extremist anti-immigrant group, in some of his own postings. “The group’s

Against Insane Fame
Now comes insult added to social injury as the "news" starts to tell us every detail of the Tucson killer's sick life and what lead him to massacre innocent people and devastate a nation as well as so many families. In my lifetime of journalism spanning Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated JFK, to Mark David Chapman, who gunned down John Lennon, one of the sorriest dilemmas was how and how much to report on those monstrous figures who try to redeem their twisted obscurity with the blood of well-...