Attempted Assassination of Congresswoman Giffords in Arizona

Arizona shooting suspect charged with attempted assassination
Source: Reuters The United States on Sunday charged Jared Lee Loughner, the man suspected of killing six people and wounding a U.S. congresswoman in Arizona, with five criminal counts including attempted Assassination. The charges were filed in U.S. Federal Court in Tucson. Read more: https://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/arizona-shooting-sus... https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109/ap_on_re_us/us_cong... Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges ...

Right-Wingers Rush to Label Arizona Shooting Suspect a Liberal While Simultaneously Accusing Left of Politicizing Assassination
by MoHotta18 We still don’t know all the facts about Jared Loughner, the suspect held in the Arizona shooting rampage, and we may not for some time. But right-wing Bloggers knew immediately — right away! — that this anti-government goldbug who has been connected to an anti-immigration Hate Group, has an odd fixation on the Constitution and federalism and an enthusiasm for guns — was in no way a right-winger, and in fact, a total liberal. While the bodies were still warm...

Applying the Louis Farrakhan Standard [Anthony McCarthy]
One of the interesting results of the Assassination in Arizona was the speed with which Sarah Palin's operation took down her map of the United States with cross hairs over Gabrielle Giffords' district, and many others. The model could have been the infamous post on an anti-choice site that listed Abortion providers whose assassinations were crossed off in celebration. It is not credible that no one responsible knew about that and that no one who saw it didn't inform Palin's operation about the ...

No More Mister Nice Blog
A HORRIBLE MOMENT, AND THE BLOGOSPHERE IS MAKING IT WORSE I've been away from computers since yesterday morning and I learned about the Arizona massacre from the Sunday print New York Times. At that point I really didn't want to get online, because I knew what was coming, and I was exactly right: the shooter is mostly crazy and, though clearly influenced by angry right-wing Rhetoric, in a political gray area. Our side is essentially Stones, Glass Houses, Etc.: Documenting Liberal Media's Use of 'Violent Rhetoric'
It has become apparent in the last 24 hours that the Mainstream Media is bent on attributing some level of blame for yesterday's tragic shooting in Tuscon, Arizona to Sarah Palin. The chief piece of evidence for this claim is a map SarahPAC devised that placed crosshairs over a number of Congressional Districts the group would target during the 2010 election cycle. But if violent metaphors in political Rhetoric drive crazy people to violence, than the media had better save some blame for the...

Palin Staffer Defends Crosshairs Map
The Alaska Dispatch reports: The news was barely out today when social networks were erupting, blaming Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for inciting the 22-year-old alleged gunman who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat from Arizona, and 16 others in a Grocery Store in Tucson, Ariz. Giffords was one of those 20 moderate Republicans and Democrats that were on Palin’s now infamous “target list” that Palin compiled early last year. The graphic that went with the list fe...

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn’t yet have a lawy...

Pamela Geller, Big Government: The Jared Loughner Shooting of Rep. Giffords and the Left Wing Smear Machine
I refuse to "play" by a set of rules demanded by our oppressors. On the one hand, we should not exploit this horror, this mass slaughter for political purposes. Of course we shouldn't. But the left has been rabid. Vultures. Vampires. And we should not stand by while they destroy us and our most effective leaders and voices. Paulo in Brazil left this comment in a previous thread: I've just watched a report in Wolf Blitzer(CNN) about the shooting. They mentioned the name Sarah ...

Dems, GOP split on gun rhetoric's role in Tucson shooting
Even as they unite in grief, Democrats and Republicans are splintering over the role that violent political Rhetoric – exemplified by Sarah Palin’s “crosshairs” list – played in Saturday’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Both sides say the tragedy transcends politics – but their partisan positions are already hardening and the talking points are starting to take shape. Democrats argue that irresponsible utterances on the right have incre...

Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Giffords Shooting For Fundraiser!
An extreme, left-wing Democrat group calling itself 21st Century Democrats has had the gall to send out an email blast using as a Fundraising tool Saturday’s criminal shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. Judge John Roll and four others were killed in the incident, one of them a 9-year-old girl, but these Democrats are ignorant enough to be using this incident to try and squeeze donations from its supporters. Some might think the action of 21st Century Democrats is itse...

In the US, where hate rules at the ballot box, this tragedy has been coming for a long time | Michael Tomasky
It was instructive to read elected Republicans' official statements in response to the Gabrielle Giffords shooting for what they did not say. The House Speaker, John Boehner, said: "An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society. Our prayers are with congresswoman Giffords, her staff, all who were injured and their families. This is a sad day for our country." Arizona Senator John McCain issued the fol...

And the misinformation starts
…because the narrative has to shift to both sides do it. The wooly thinker Matt Bai of the NY Times has already started his patented dissembling, and has compared Sarah Palin’s infamous cross-hair map of Democrats to take out with a single comment on a thread of the Daily Kos, “where one of the congresswoman’s apparently liberal constituents declared her “dead to me” after Ms. Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi in House leadership Elections last week.” ...

Assassination Concerns Stir as a Federal Judge Dies, a Democratic Congresswoman Is Shot in Arizona
Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a moderate Democrat who stirred the wrath of right-wingers with her vote for Health Care reform but was narrowly reelected in November, was shot by a gunman Saturday in what appears to have been as Assassination attempt at a community event in Tucson. Giffords was in critical condition after the attack. But others, including a Federal Judge, lay dead. Federal judge John Roll was killed in the rampage outside a Tucson Supermarket. Roll,who was appointed t...

Truth in Old Comics
By Creature If it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics. Labels: right-wing Extremism, Sarah Palin, Truth in Comics ...

Insanity Nation
First, toldja so: Newsmax declares “Shooter Linked to Left Wing Politics.” Yes, by Newsmax. Apparently it was reported the young man accused of shooting owns copies of The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, which of course (in the minds of righties, who cannot figure out why Hitler was a right-wing psychopath, not a left-wing one) proves he’s a leftie. Anyway, the more I hear about the shooter, the more it appears he was deeply disturbed, possibly psychotic. I am not qualif...

Van Fleins name dropped from Anchorage law firm
There's been a shake up in the name of a well-known Alaska Law Firm. Clapp, Peterson, Van Flein, Tiemessen & Thorsness LLC has dropped the "Van Flein" and added a "Johnson." (To be clear, the firm's new name is Clapp, Peterson, Tiemessen, Thorsness & Johnson.) Blame it on Thomas Van Flein's latest career move. In addition to departing from the firm, he's saying goodbye to his stint as a paid advisor for SarahPAC, Sarah Palin's political action committee, and as the Palin family's and Sen...

Palin Aide: Symbols Weren't Rifle Sights, but Surveyor's Marks
Sarah Palin New Media aide Rebecca Mansour sought to deflect attention from an electoral map Palin posted on her Facebook page last March in an appearance on Tammy Bruce's radio show Saturday. The images long described as crosshairs or rifle sights were actually just surveyor's symbols, Mansour said. The exchange, via Weigel: MANSOUR: I just want to clarify again, and maybe it wasn't done on the record enough by us when this came out, the graphic, is just, it's basically -- we never, ever, ever...

How Yihye Ayyash got his virgins
Most of you probably don't recognize the picture at the top of this post. Many of you may not even recognize his name. The 'Engineer' - Yihye Ayyash - was one of the 'pioneers' of Suicide bombing. His life was terminated 15 years ago this past week, when a cellular phone on which he was speaking blew his head off. This article has some details of the hit that I had never heard before. On the morning of January 5, 1996, the Palestinian sitting atop of Israel’s most-wanted list answered a mobi...

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but th...

Jared Loughner Faces Murder Charges Following Arizona Shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. — Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but t...

Suspect in attack on congresswoman faces 5 charges (AP)
TUCSON, Ariz. – Federal Prosecutors charged the suspect in shooting of Arizona congresswoman with attempted Assassination and four other charges. Jared Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to killing a federal employee. Heather Williams, the first assistant federal public defender in Arizona, says the 22-year-old suspect doesn't yet have a lawyer, but t...

UK's coalition govt faces first ballot test
LONDON - It's the first Ballot Box test of Britain's unlikely Coalition Government — a Special Election that pits Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party against his Liberal Democrat partners and gives voters a chance to vent over plans to dramatically slash public spending. Thursday's vote in the northern England district of Oldham East and Saddleworth follows a bitter local battle during Britain's election in May that resulted in the first Legal Challenge since 1911 to a ...

"VERY OPTIMISTIC" -- words of the doctor in Arizona about Congresswoman Giffords
Get Greta's daily update, with all the latest videos, news, and commentary from her blog! Enter your e-mail address below to sign up now. Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Greta Van Susteren is the host of On the Record at 10 p.m. ET weeknights on Fox News Channel. ...

The Abandonment Of Liberalism
Once Liberalism was the dominant political philosophy in the United States. Its hold was so strong that the Red-Baiter Richard Nixon claimed to advocate “practical liberalism”. It is now crashingly clear that this period of American political life is over. Liberalism had its own philosophers, chief among them John Rawls. In his book A Theory of Justice, Rawls began with a thought experiment on the origins of a society. Of course, we didn’t create our society, nor did we create its rules.

Yes, Jared Loughner was 'crazy'. That doesn't exculpate the milieu that unhinged him
They're all going to say Jared Loughner is crazy -- especially the right-wing hate talkers and Sarah Palin defenders who everybody's looking at right now. And you know what? They're right. But that doesn't mean they're blameless, either. When the Conservative Movement's True Believers are fed a steady diet of extraordinary warnings intended to induce a paranoiac, panicked fear -- They're Destroying America! They Want to End Your Liberty! Health Care Reform is the End of America! -- and simultane...