Who is Jared Loughner?

Exploring the Mind and Behavior of Jared Loughner
Jared Loughner is not cooperating with police, remaining silent since being taken into Custody. So we only have his past patterns to use to try and understand his character and his motivations for arriving at the Tuscon Safeway with a loaded gun on Saturday. It looks increasingly clear that Loughner was a normal teen who gradually lost touch with reality, probably due to Mental Illness. He was anti-government but not in a coherent way. And it appears he held a grudge against Gaby Giffords. Ti...

There Is Yet No Loughner / Far-Right Connection
It is worth stating again that there is at present no — zero — evidence that purported Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was affiliated with any Tea Party group or other mainstream conservative cause. But nor is there any reason to think that Loughner was aligned with even far-right or radical political causes.  Some people who study right-wing Militia groups and those who align themselves with the so-called Patriot movement said Mr. Loughner’s comments on subjects like the Am...

David Wynn Miller
The single weirdest, most straight-up nutso thing about John Lee Loughner’s worldview as expressed on YouTube seemed to me to be the stuff about how the government is exercising control over people’s minds via its control of grammar. That, I thought, is a political theory nobody would embrace. And yet the ace reporters at The New York Times found someone who does: This is similar to the position of David Wynn Miller, 62, a former tool-and-die welder from Milwaukee who describes him...

Of the right?
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok has followed the Far Right, in detail, as long as anyone, and he was the first to tie Jared Loughner to an obscure, bizarre theorist of mind-control through grammar, David Wynn-Miller, who styles himself the King of Hawaii. (Miller supported that view in an interview with my colleague Carrie-Budoff Brown.) “The idea weirdly enough of controlling grammar, of somehow the government using grammar to control the people is an idea that exists on th...

Loughner's Grammar
Carrie Budoff-Brown tracked down the origins of Jared Loughner's strange ideas: Jared Lee Loughner’s rants about grammar and mind control track closely to the writings of a Conspiracy theorist who believes that is how the government controls the populace, one leading group says – and the man tells Politico he agrees with some of Loughner’s statements. The far-right Activist,...

Jared Lee Loughner's Mug Shot
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Gunman's Grammar Conspiracy Connection
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A nation is trying to understand the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. that left 14 wounded, including a congresswoman in critical condition, and six others dead, including a Federal Judge, a congressional aide and a 9-year-old girl. As investigators look into the life of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner they are noticing his strange obsession with grammar and its ties to a Milwaukee man's Conspiracy Theory website. In early coverage of Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabri...

Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
Is Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a right-wing Extremist? It’s hard to say. When you look at the Internet material he purportedly produced, the first impression you get is that the 22-year-old now in custody for the shooting of 19 people in Tucson was completely out of his mind, or at least mildly deranged. His writings will be virtually impossible for most people to understand, what with his references to unexplained numbers, ...

Mark Potok: Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
Is Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a right-wing Extremist? It's hard to say. When you look at the Internet material he purportedly produced, the first impression you get is that the 22-year-old now in custody for the shooting of 19 people in Tucson was completely out of his mind, or at least mildly deranged. His writings will be virtually impossible for most people to understand, what with his references to unexplained numbers, hi...

Loughner's ties to conspiracy theory
Jared Lee Loughner’s rants about grammar and mind control track closely to the writings of a Conspiracy theorist who believes that is how the government controls the populace, one leading group says – and the man tells Politico he agrees with some of Loughner’s statements. The far-right Activist, David Wynn Miller, said in a telephone interview that he didn’t know Loughner, but agreed with his statement in a YouTube video that “the government is implying mind cont...

What Does Jared Lee Loughner Believe?
This March 2010 photo shows a man identified as Jared L. Loughner at the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books in Tucson, Ariz. Jared Lee Loughner, the young man who allegedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six others in Tucson on Saturday, would seem to defy easy categorization. Yet the evidence does provide clues into the mind of a man who even the staunchest partisans should be able to agree held muddled politics far outside the mainstream. It seems clear based on Loughner's YouTu...

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...

Sheriff Knew About Death Threats By Suspect...
The FBI is investigating whether the man is the same person who posted a rambling Internet manifesto accusing the government of mind control and demanding a new currency. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, of Tucson, was taken into Custody moments after the shooting at a political meeting held by Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords in a Supermarket Parking Lot. Six people died and Giffords had a critical head wound. [ID:nN08246649] Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, where the shooting happene...

Gabrielle Giffords shooting: Jared Loughner may have been influenced by occult
FBI investigators delving into the warped mind of Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner are exploring whether he was influenced by the occult and a Right-wing Conspiracy theorist....

Currency Confusion: Why Is Jared Loughner a Gold Bug?
Currency Confusion: Why Is Jared Loughner a Gold Bug? Monday, 01/10/2011 - 2:43 pm by Marshall Auerback | Post a Comment Why confused ideas about currency will continue to circulate in addled brains. Gold buggery seems to be constructed on a fundamental myth. The idea is that self-regulating markets, aligned to a gold standard, are able to maintain a perpetually maximum state of bliss and produce equilibrium for the pricing of tradables, including the value of money. Gold bugs have a notion t...

Inscrutable Writing
Inscrutable Writing by digby This article in Politico is intriguing, although it's hard to know if it has any bearing on what happened yesterday: Jared Lee Loughner’s rants about grammar and mind control track closely to the writings of a Conspiracy theorist who believes that is how the government controls the populace, one leading group says - and the man tells POLITICO he agrees with some of Loughner’s statements. The far-right Activist, David Wynn Miller, said in a telephone intervie

Fed Student Loans Three Times 2008 Levels
Consumers are cutting back Debt in all but one area: Student Loans. That's because the Federal Government is Lending triple the amount it did in 2008, thanks to the Stimulus Package and the Health Care Reform Bill. In November, 2010, the government subsidized Student loans were $315 billion, driving the non-revolving Debt to near-record levels of $1.606 Trillion. In contrast, Credit Card Debt dropped 6.3%, continuing a 28-month downward trend. This is the longest decline since the Federal Reserv...

Redstate: Outspoken Sheriff Accused Of Dismissing Loughner Death Threats
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local Bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the Victims that he was being well managed by the Mental Health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Th...

Beck: Stop it!
You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. Investigators today released this Mug Shot of Jared Lee Loughner, the guman accused of killing six individuals and gravely wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Saturday's bloody spree outside a .....

'Before they tighten up the state laws, I'm buying more guns'
Trade was roaring at the gun counter of the Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, where roughly 30 types of shotguns competed for shelf space with 100 pistols, 50 rifles and enough ammunition to fuel more than one decent shootout at the nearby the OK Corral. Just a day had passed since Jared Lee Loughner allegedly launched a deadly Shooting Spree using a gun purchased from the very same store, but patrons were undeterred. Richard Tucker and his eight-year-old daughter, Emily, sp...

Sarah Palin: I hate violence
On his radio program on Monday, Glenn Beck described an email exchange with Sarah Palin over Saturday's tragedy in Tuscon. Beck said there was no evidence that Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter, was directed by political Rhetoric and motivations. "The media continues to toss blame around but they didn't get it right," Beck said during the program, stating that the media have "no evidence, you don't have the full story, you don't know what's going on!" He mentioned that Palin had reached ou...

A message from your 2016 GOP Presidential nominee...
Notice how many times former Florida Governor Jeb Bush uses the term "center-right" in his appeal for more Republican "outreach." Query: Have the Bushes decided to start moving away from the word "conservative"? And doesn't this push for Latino "outreach" sound a lot like "compassionate Conservatism", the approach that begat Medicare expansion, the campaign for Immigration Amnesty, and No Child Left Behind? Memo to all "evolving" pols--true conservatism is the most empowering and uplifting polit...

In Tucson: 'Before they tighten up the state laws, I'm buying more guns'
Trade was roaring at the gun counter of the Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, where roughly 30 types of shotguns competed for shelf space with 100 pistols, 50 rifles and enough ammunition to fuel more than one decent shootout at the nearby the OK Corral. Just a day had passed since Jared Lee Loughner allegedly launched a deadly Shooting Spree using a gun purchased from the very same store, but patrons were undeterred. Richard Tucker and his eight-year-old daughter, Emily, sp...

End Game
The Tucson Murders: "Disturbed 22-year-old loner Jared Lee Loughner was held without bail Monday after being charged with murder and (Read more...) ...

Accused gunman had no party affiliation
(CNN) - Accused Arizona gunman Jared Lee Loughner was not registered to any political party, and in fact hand wrote "independent" on two separate voter forms, county officials said Monday. Pima County, Arizona, Registrar of Voters Chris Roads said Loughner registered to vote on September 26, 2006. Voters are not required to list a political party, but are instructed to write at least the first three letters of any party they want to be affiliated with. The state of Arizona recognizes dozens of a...