DHS memo suggests suspect influenced by racist group

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization
According to a memo obtained by Fox News with information compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and released to state Law Enforcement officials, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter. American Renaissance is an organization that Loughner mentioned in some of his Internet postings and federal Law Enforcement officials are investigating Loughner's pos...

DHS Memo Linking Loughner to Racist Group, American Renaissance, Leaked. American Renaissance Denies.
How convenient for someone at DHS to leak this information. (FNC) — According to a memo obtained by Fox News with information compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and released to state Law Enforcement officials, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white Racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter. No direct connection , but strong suspicion is being direceted at American Renaissance, an or...

DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization
Source: FOX DHS Memo Suggests Shooter May Be Linked To Racist Organization by Jennifer Griffin | January 09, 2011 According to a memo obtained by Fox News with information compiled by the Department of Homeland Security and released to state Law Enforcement officials, Jared Loughner, the alleged shooter of Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, may have been influenced by a pro-white racist organization that publishes an anti-immigration newsletter. No direct connection, but strong suspicion is being d...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is Jewish? From Carl: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) wasn't shot because she was pro or anti-immigration. She wasn't shot because she voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. She wasn't shot because Sarah Palin targeted her seat in last fall's Elections. And she wasn't shot because she voted for ObamaCare. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because of a much more baseless hatred. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is a Jew!

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

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...

U.S. cites evidence of assassination plot
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Piece by piece, details of the weekend rampage in Tucson are beginning to emerge: The heartbreaking tales of people slain on a sun-splashed morning, the courage of those who overpowered the gunman and the state of mind of the suspect, a young man who the authorities say had plotted for weeks, and perhaps longer, to assassinate a member of Congress. As the full scope of the tragedy sank in Sunday, it also had rekindled a national conversation, sparked by the outspoken sheriff of...

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...

DHS Memo Suggests Jared Loughners Motiviation Might Have Been Anti-Semitism
The mystery surrounding the motivation of Jared Loughner might be starting to clear up. According to numerous reports, the alleged assailant in the weekend shooting in Arizona has not cooperated with authorities, but a reported memo from the Department of Homeland Security procured by Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin provides some clues.On her Greta Wire blog, Fox News host Greta Van Susteren published the DHS memo which suggests that Loughner might be be linked to an “anti-Semitic” ...

Official: DHS has not determined any possible ties between Arizona shooter and law enforcement group
For the last 24 hours, the Web has been alive with speculation that the Arizona shooter has some sort of ties to a right-wing group called American Renaissance. The primary source for this claim is a Fox News report from yesterday saying that Law Enforcement had made this determination based on information provided by the Department of Homeland Security. But a DHS official tells me that the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis f...

John McQuaid: On Political Madness
Jared Lee Loughner's motives are obscure, but it's hard to disentangle the shooting of a congresswoman, the killing of a Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl, and four other people from the political culture that it occurred in, an environment of exaggerated divisions, the demonization of opponents as Socialists or traitors, and a lot of gun Rhetoric, gun imagery, and... guns. Almost certainly, history will tie the two together no matter what we learn about Loughner in the coming weeks. Political ...

DHS uses Giffords shooting to push loose borders political agenda (Jared Lee Loughner, American Renaissance)
The Department of Homeland Security and various media sources are using the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by Jared Lee Loughner as an opportunity to try to smear opponents of illegal Immigration, focusing on the higher-level white racial separatist group American Renaissance (DHS memo at [1], report at [2]). Not only do they get that group's ideas wrong, but they mislead about what was in Loughner's videos and what appears to have been on his MySpace page. From the memo at [1]: no direct conn...

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...

Arizona Shooting Suspect Set For Court Appearance
The suspect in a weekend shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded will make his first court appearance Monday afternoon, where he faces charges of attempted Assassination. Jared Loughner, who allegedly fired a Glock pistol point-blank at the Democratic congresswoman's head before spraying a crowded Supermarket Parking Lot with bullets, was expected to appear in a Phoenix court at 2 p.m. MST (4 p.m. EST). U.S. District Judge John Roll, an...

Shooter Jared Loughner has ties with white racist group American Renaissance
"An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by Fox News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance." The Great White Wave: The 2010 Elections saw a dramatic uprising against the policies of President Obama and the Democratic Congress led by the “Tea Party” movement. Another phenomenon has yet to be fully expounded—the decisive factor of the white vote. Assistant editor Stephen Webster ...

Jared Lee Loughner Possibly Linked To Racist, Anti-Government Group American Renaissance
I don’t think there’s any doubt that Loughner is mentally unhinged, but I maintain that politics of some sort is behind this. And an internal DHS memo obtained by Fox News sheds light on his motivations… 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 publishes an anti-immigration newslette...

Loughners Fixation On Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Started In 2007
Which sort of makes it hard to blame Sarah Palin or the Tea Party for the shooting. After all, in 2007 Palin wasn’t well known outside of Alaska (she rose to prominence in the 2008 Presidential Election) and the Tea Party movement didn’t start until spring of 2009. TUCSON, Ariz.—Accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to have been long obsessed with U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. A safe at Mr. Loughner’s home contained a form letter from Ms. Giffords’ office thank...

WND: AZ Shooter Attended School "Founded by Bill Ayers and Funded by President Obama"
As the nation attempts to deal with the tragic events of this weekend in Arizona in which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others were shot and several people lost their lives, everyone is trying to figure out what drove Jared Lee Loughner to carry out such an attack. Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in Saturday's Arizona shooting, attended a High School that is part of a network in which teachers are trained and provided resources by a liberal group founded by Weatherman te...

Federal Charges in the Shootings
The Times has posted the Criminal Complaint filed by the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona. It charges two counts of murdering, and three counts of attempting to Murder, federal officals. Specifically, Count One alleges the Attempted Murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords; Counts Two and Three allege the murders of legislative aide Gabriel Zimmerman and chief Federal Judge John M. Roll, respectively; and Counts Four and Five allege the attempted murders of legislative aides Pamela Simon an...

Jared Lee Lougher's "frightening, twisted shrine."
Reported by the Daily News: Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. A row of ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil lay nearby, photos reveal....It's a skull replica, according to the photo caption. I don't know how you can tell from a photo that a candle is "ceremonial" or if/why the potting soil is part of the still life. Would you have found this display frightening if you wer...

Pictures from the Scene
The home of accused mass-murderer and would-be assassin Jared Lee Loughner, along with other images retracing the crime. ...

Support for public employee unions drops significantly
With states across the country finding that benefits for public workers are becoming nearly impossible to fund in the current economic climate, support for Public Employee Unions has fallen. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of Americans now at least somewhat favor Unions for public employees, while the identical number (45%) are opposed to them. These findings include 21% who Strongly Favor such Unions versus 30% who are Strongly Opposed to them. Bye-bye bland! Mu...

A Closer Look at Jared Lee Loughner
Anyone trying to understand what happened on Saturday needs to read this piece in Mother Jones, which features an exclusive interview with one of the few people who still had contact with Jared Lee Loughner.  One thing that becomes clear is that Loughner was obsessed with Congresswoman Giffords for several years, ever since she failed to adequately (in his view) answer the question “What is government if words have no meaning!” Like everyone above, my understanding is that while...

"I Have Confidence in Our Legal System:" NJ Son of Arizona Shooting Victim
The son of one of the Victims caught up in the Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said, "Because of the state of mind of the suspect, I don't really hold any bad feelings" toward the man arrested at the Murder scene, Jared Lee Loughner. Former New Jersey resident Phyllis Schneck, 79, also died in the attack and her son Ernest, who lives in Rutherford, N.J., told NBC New York, "I have confidence in our legal system that they're gonna do the right thing to mak...

Jared Loughner's Skull and Oranges Potpourri Tea Party Holiday Arrangement
See where Hate Speech has taken us? A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others. Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. A row of ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil lay nearby, photos reveal. Ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil are standard tools of conservative politi...