Loughner May Have Anti-Semitic Ties

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...

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” ...

Media: Loughner May Be Possibly Linked to Anti-Semitic Group
The media is now suggesting that Jared Loughner may have links to a radical anti-Semitic group American Renaissance. Take this with a grain of salt. THE suspect being held over Saturday’s shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords may have links to anti-Semitic race Hate 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 linked̶...

New Evidence Jared Loughner Was Not Political....Just Psycho
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has brought out all of the political cheap shots, with many on the left continuing to blame the incident on Talk Radio, Fox News, Sarah Palin and in the case of Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, GOP members of Congress rejection of the Obama agenda. However, the more the media and police find out about Jared Loughner the shooter the more we learn that he had to political agenda he was a very disturbed psycho. USA Today, reported that Loughner's teache...

AZ Sheriff: Vitriolic remarks may have some responsibility in shooting
Stumble This! An Arizona sheriff responsible for investigating the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 18 others isn't backing down from assigning some responsibility to vitriolic remarks by public figures. Appearing on ABC News Monday, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik stood by earlier remarks that "vitriolic statements" made on radio and TV created a dangerous climate in Arizona that inspired 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Giffords. "You've been very busy...

DHS probing shooter's ties to fanatical group
By MAGGIE HABERMAN The feds are reportedly probing whether shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner has ties to an anti-Semitic, anti-government Hate Group that has ads for Tea Party organizations on its website. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 A Department of Homeland Security memo quoted by Fox News says the agency is looking into whether Loughner is “possibly linked” to the fanatical group American Renaissance. The group promotes views that are “anti-governmen...

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!

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Among a Dozen Shot in Tucson Parking Lot
Blue Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was among at least a dozen people shot outside a Tucson shopping center during the Congresswoman's annual "Congress in your Corner" event. Giffords, who recently took part in the reading of the U.S. Constitution on the floor of the House, was responding to doctors' commands Saturday evening after the bullet pierced her brain as it entered then exited her skull. The gunman also allegedly killed an unidentified nine-year-old girl and Federal District Court Judg...

Carolyn McCarthy to Introduce Gun Control Legislation in Response to Giffords Shooting
Rep. Carolyn Mccarthy, who lost her husband to gun violence before coming to Congress, and who has since become one of the leading pro-gun control politicians in the country, plans to introduce Legislation in response to the shooting in Tuscon, Arizona that claimed the life of 6 and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a medically induced coma. “My staff is working on looking at the different Legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early as tomorrow,” ...

Jared Loughner YouTube Videos, MySpace Suggest Alleged Shooter May Have Ties To Hate Group
WASHINGTON -- Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others on Saturday, may have ties to anti-Semitic, anti-immigration Hate Group American Renaissance, according to a leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security. It's unclear whether Loughner maintains a direct connection to the group, however, "strong suspicion is being directed" at American Renaissance in the wake of the group being referenced in Loughner's MySpace and YouTube videos, according to t...

Americas toxic political climate
Recriminations and soul-searching began over whether an inflamed political climate influenced a gunman to shoot a US congresswoman and 19 other people in Arizona. From the left and the right, politicians and commentators seized on the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords Saturday as either a reflection of the passions stirred up by rabble-rousing Conservatives or the isolated act of an unhinged psychopath. Liberals highlighted a map posted online ahead of the November ele...

Alleged Arizona Shooter May Have Ties To Hate Group
Source: Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others on Saturday, may have ties to anti-Semitic, anti-immigration Hate Group American Renaissance, according to a leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security. It's unclear whether Loughner maintains a direct connection to the group, however, "strong suspicion is being directed" at American Renaissance in the wake of the group being referenced in Loughner's MySpace and YouTube v...

Loughner Had Satanic-Like Occult Shrine in His Backyard
But don’t worry, it’s still Sarah Palin’s fault (even though the shooter never mentioned her in any of his insane ramblings). (NYDN)- 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 pott...

FBI shows Palin had nothing to do with it
Attention liberals, if you mentioned Sarah Palin in any commentary over the weekend or today about the shooting in Arizona, you owe her an Apology. You are wring. Plain and simple. No ifs, ands, or buts. Political Rhetoric and hyperbole had nothing to do with this national tragedy. Obsession did. And that obsession began long before Sarah Palin was selected as a vice Presidential Candidate. From the Wall Street Journal: TUCSON, Ariz. — Accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner appeared to have been ...

Ariz. Shooting Suspect to Appear in Court
The man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 19 others faces court Monday and the chance of the federal death penalty because federal workers like Judge John Roll were among his Victims. Rather than a politically-motivated vigilante, 22-year-old Jared Loughner seems to fit the profile of the crazed, obsessed lone gunman -- and in his case, an isolated, deluded, lonely gunman. "He was probably ostracized to a significant extent by other people and that means he's not going ...

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...

Latest on Giffords Shooting: Loughner 'Possibly Linked' to Fringe Group
Considering in the past 18 hours we've seen the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Fox News and Talk Radio blamed for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and may other in Tucson, take this with a grain of salt.THE suspect being held over Saturday's shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords may have links to anti-Semitic race Hate 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 -...

Report: DHS says shooting suspect 'possibly linked' to anti-Semitic group
Fox News reported Sunday morning that an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the network indicated that suspect Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is "possibly linked" to an anti-Semitic, white supremacist group. The DHS memo called the group American Renaissance "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti -ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic." The information reportedly came as Loughner's computer and personal effects were searched in the shooting investigation. Giffor...

Further Questions of Anti-Semitic Motives In Gifford Shooting
Yesterday I questioned whether Anti-Semitism was a possible motive in the shooting of Gabrielle Gifford. From what we know so far, the shooter had far Right Wing ties and there is now a possible tie to an anti-Semitic group: 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 group subscribes to an ideology that is “anti-...

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...

Jared Lee Loughner in Court Today; Moment of Silence for Victims at 11 a.m.
Loughner, in a yearbook photo ​• A moment of silence will be held by President Obama today at 11 a.m. for the Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is due in court this afternoon. He faces five federal charges -- "the attempted Assassination of a member of Congress and the killing or attempted killing of four other federal employees," along with additional state charges. Judy Clarke, who represented the Unabomber, has been recommended as his attorney. [The H...

Odd package closes Metro station near US Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Suspicious Package is disrupting commuters headed to the Capitol. The Capitol South Metro station on the blue and orange lines is closed. Capitol Police are tightly controlling where people can walk outside the station Monday morning. Riders trying to leave the station were initially redirected to the Federal Center Southwest and Eastern Market stations. Other passengers were later allowed to leave by taking an elevator and exiting about a block from the entrance where ...

Jared Loughner and 'violent rhetoric' | Alex Slater
Jared Lee Loughner: while some in the media have been quick to point at possible rightwing influences on the Arizona shooter, such as Sarah Palin's website 'targeting' of Gabrielle Giffords district, Loughner's YouTube postings do not suggest a coherent political ideology. Photograph: Mamta Popat/AP After one Saturday, in one car park in one Arizona city, everything in American politics has changed. Except the media. In fact, the media's coverage of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona and the a...

What Sarah Palin should have said about Tucson shooting
A makeshift memorial at the University Medical Center in Tucson for those killed and wounded during an attack on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords The shooting in Arizona shocked the U.S. into grief - and presented Sarah Palin with an immediate political problem: her now-notorious gunsight map. My sincere condolences are offered to the family of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other Victims of today’s tragic shooting in Arizona.    On behalf of Todd and my family, we all p...

Clinton Compares AZ Shooting To Islamic Terrorism
Apparently, religious fanaticism and organized Terrorism are the same as individual acts of violence. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told a meeting in Abu Dhabi that Extremism was a global problem following the Arizona shooting of US lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords. During her Gulf tour, Clinton paused to reflect on Saturday's tragedy, which took the lives of six people and injured another 14, including US Republican Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head at point-blank range. "Lo...