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Arizona Rep. Giffords shot, several wounded Part 2

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Monday, January 10, 2011 5:50 PM

CANTTAKESKY


This thread is a continuation from here:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=47075

Have at it.


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Monday, January 10, 2011 6:03 PM

KANEMAN


Trouble maker

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Monday, January 10, 2011 6:12 PM

CANTTAKESKY


The other thread was 5 miles long. I had to do it.


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Monday, January 10, 2011 6:21 PM

KANEMAN


The left hates her for this kind of stuff its probably why that pinko shot her.

Arizona's 8th Congressional District is one of 10 in the country bordering Mexico. Giffords has stated that the Arizona SB1070 legislation is a "clear calling that the federal government needs to do a better job".[18] and saying that she hopes the legislation acts as a wake up call to the federal government despite the fact that it "does nothing to secure our border". [19]

On August 31, 2010 Congresswoman Giffords praised the arrival of National Guard troops on the border: "Arizonans have waited a long time for the deployment of the National Guard in our state. Their arrival represents a renewed national commitment to protecting our border communities from drug cartels and smugglers."[20]

Giffords worked to secure passage of the August 2010 bill to to fund more Border Patrol agents and surveillance technology for Arizona’s border with Mexico. The legislation passed the House of Representatives only to be sent back by the U.S. Senate with reduced funding. Ultimately a $600 million bill was passed and signed in to law. The bill was over $100 million less than Giffords fought for, but she said that “This funding signals a stronger federal commitment to protect those Americans who live and work near the border.”[

From Stormfront.org they did point out she is jewish.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 6:26 PM

KANEMAN


Or maybe they tried to kill her for this

Giffords has discussed her gun ownership and support for gun rights [14] opposing the DC gun ban and signing an Amicus curiae brief with the US Supreme Court to support overturing it

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:08 PM

CANTTAKESKY


If you want to entertain conspiracy theories, maybe they weren't targeting her at all.

This article sounds like something PN might write, except without the racial and homophobic slurs. Still, there might be something to it?

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/01/top-us-federal-judge-assassinated-after
-threat-to-obama-agenda
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Quote:

A Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the top US Federal Judge for the State of Arizona was assassinated barely 72-hours after he made a critical ruling against the Obama administrations plan to begin the confiscation of their citizen’s private retirement and banking accounts in order to stave off their nations imminent economic collapse, and after having the US Marshals protecting him removed.

According to this SVR report, Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll was the Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona who this past Friday issued what is called a “preliminary ruling” in a case titled “United States of America v. $333,520.00 in United States Currency et al” [Case Number: 4:2010cv00703 Filed: November 30, 2010] wherein he stated he was preparing to rule against Obama’s power to seize American citizens money without clear and convincing evidence of a crime being committed.

The case being ruled on by Judge Roll, this report continues, was about bulk cash smuggling into or out of the United States that the Obama administration claimed was their right to seize under what are called Presidential Executive Orders, instead of using existing laws. The Obama administration used as support for their claim before Judge Roll, the SVR says, the seizing of all American citizens’ gold, in 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 6102, which was ruled at the time to be constitutional.




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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:24 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


That's a good point CTS, we're mostly taking the media's word on Giffords being the target. Of course, it was her event, so it's a reasonable assumption, but what if we're wrong about that? I'm not saying I believe this foreign intelligence report, but until now, I had not thought of "what if Giffords wasn't the real target?"

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:30 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


She was the first shot - in the back of the head at point blank range. After that Loughner went down the line shooting one by one as he went. There are many witnesses to this sequence of events. It really does seem like Giffords was the target, and everyone else was just a target of opportunity.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:42 PM

CANTTAKESKY


Happy,

I looked into that article a bit more. There doesn't seem to be anything to substantiate those allegations.

But I did find this:
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In 2009, Judge Roll faced death threats after presiding over a $32 million civil-rights lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by illegal immigrants against an Arizona rancher. After Judge Roll ruled that the case would be certified, threats came from talk-radio shows which fueled controversy and spurred audiences into making threats against the judge.

After one radio talk show, Judge Roll's name logged more than 200 phone calls as some callers threatened the judge and his family. This resulted in the judge and his wife being placed under a full-time protective detail for one month. A US Attorney's investigation identified four men as the makers of the threats, but no charges were filed.



http://judgepedia.org/index.php/John_Roll#Immigration_suit_threats

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/07/09/2009
0709threats0709.html


Why is everyone exploiting these tragic murders for their personal ideologies, further polarizing our politics? This poor man got enough death threats to get him full time protective detail, and yet...everyone is going on and on about Palin's crosshairs symbol map? Something is very askew.

I frankly find this demogoguery disturbing.


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Monday, January 10, 2011 7:46 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki:
She was the first shot - in the back of the head at point blank range. After that Loughner went down the line shooting one by one as he went. There are many witnesses to this sequence of events. It really does seem like Giffords was the target, and everyone else was just a target of opportunity.



It really does and probably is. The possibility that Giffords was not the primary target is small to nonexistent, but it was something I hadn't considered before, so I commented on it.

I've mostly kept up with this story through yahoo news every time I go to check my email and haven't come across the specifics of how it happened, in what order, etc... The most detailed information I've come across so far was concerning Giffords injuries.


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Monday, January 10, 2011 8:36 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"I frankly find this demagoguery disturbing."

Demagoguery - something mean to inflame the masses.

I don't necessarily think that Palin's imagery - and words, can't forget the words meant to invoke images of guns and shooting - were specifically involved in this specific instance. Plus it would be hard to prove, unless of course investigators find a hard-drive with Palin's stuff on it and ramblings that echo Palins words.

HOWEVER - extremism breeds extremism - ESPECIALLY when broadcast over the media - something the Founding Father never envisaged. They never conceived of voice, images, graphics, remotely broadcast to hundreds of millions. It is quantitatively and therefore qualitatively different from the local face to face lynch mob, or the months-old newsprint. Laws need to keep up with technology.

Example: did the Founding Fathers really want corporations to control political access to the population?

If the laws don't keep up with technology, they allow those who control that technology to control the society.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 9:12 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



This nut was stalking her before the TEA Party even existed.

He's a nut.

Anyone who tries to spin it that he's in any way a 'right winger', is themselves, a nut. Just like him.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Monday, January 10, 2011 9:42 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


There's a difference between stalking and shooting - maybe you didn't notice that. It's always possible that his specific obsession was turned deadly due to the media. After all, what is the difference between then, when he was merely obsessed, and now, when he became violent? Though I suspect we will never know for sure either way - not me - and not you.


I think what will eventually turn out is that this poor sod was schizophrenic, become violent due to our inherently violent society, attuned to the message of violence from others.


And - now that Kaneman's run away I see you're back. I might suspect the alcohol ran out.

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Monday, January 10, 2011 10:05 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



His own classmates said he had a high likely hood of showing up w/ some violence on his mind.

You know how there are always these sort of cases, where folks say of the perp - " He alwayw was so quiet and polite. Kept to himself a lot and never caused any trouble." ?

This wasn't that guy. They KNEW he had a screw loose. Or several.




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:35 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:

This nut was stalking her before the TEA Party even existed.

He's a nut.

Anyone who tries to spin it that he's in any way a 'right winger', is themselves, a nut. Just like him.


" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "



Likewise, anyone who tries to spin it that he's some kind of "radical left-winger" is also a nut.

This guy is in the PN wing of the crazyhouse.

This Space For Rent!

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:31 AM

CANTTAKESKY


Quote:

Likewise, anyone who tries to spin it that he's some kind of "radical left-winger" is also a nut.
That's exactly my point about demagoguery.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Demagogy

"strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public."

A tragedy happens and what do we do? We exploit it for negative campaigning against our competing political party. We blame the demogoguery that fanned hatred and vitriol before the tragedy, by using demogoguery AGAIN.

Six people are dead. DEAD. Have some respect. This is NOT a political opportunity, guys.



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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:20 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


This ex cop says Loughner probably was under mind control in the loonybin, thanks to a standard judicial diversion available in all jurisdictions, with standard expungement of the court records:

Quote:

WWW.THEPOWERHOUR.COM RADIO MONDAY – JANUARY 10 – DOUBLE FEATURE:

Hour 1 http://archives2011.gcnlive.com/Archives2011/jan11/PowerHour/0110111.m
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Federal judge appoints lawyer for shooter Jared Laughner, same lawyer for SSgt Tim "I Have A Microchip In My Ass" McVeigh the MKULTRA mind control patsy in the Fed Govt's bombing of the OKC Fed building killing little children, same lawyer for Unabomber Ted Kaczynski the admitted MKULTRA mind control lab rat, lawyer for CIA MKULTRA Al Qaeda patsy Zacarias Moussaoui.

Ex cop George Freund joins TPH during the 1st hour to give his thoughts on the latest shootings in Arizona. Listen to George every Thursday at 8:00pm live on www.ThatChannel.com : The truly beautiful people get their news from alternative sources. Put something wild into your evening news with Conspiracy Cafe.

Listen to host George Freund's Podcast: http://thatradio.podhoster.com/index.php?sid=1746

Hour 2 http://archives2011.gcnlive.com/Archives2011/jan11/PowerHour/0110112.m
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ATTORNEY KURT HASKELL provides an update since originally reporting on his eye-witness account of the now infamous ‘Underwear Bomber’ incident, where governmental agencies ordered the airline to allow the bomber on the airliner, without a passport and bypassing the naked body scanner. The US State Dept later admitted it was ordered by an unnamed US Govt agency to put the bomber on the plane.

“Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans.”

Let me explain: [The truth being more than one person was involved and the authorities refusing to answer the key question as to why particular individuals are not screened by Customs agents - - - and in this case, why the actual Underwear Bomber went suspiciously unscreened!]
Website: http://www.HaskellLawFirm.com
Latest Story--By Kurt Haskell; January 1, 2011: The Man In Orange and the Merry Go Round of Ron Smith/U.S. Customs
Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com





Funny how his Democrat parents had no complaint about his Church of Satan revival tent in their back yard.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/10/2011-01-10_chillin
g_shrine_in_madmans_yard.html


Liberal Smear Machine Backfires After Alleged Gunman Found To Be Satanic Atheistic Abortion-Loving Open-Border Illegal Alien Loving Pot-Smoking Long-Haired Liberal Commie Left-Wing Democrat Homosexual Transvestite
http://www.infowars.com/liberal-smear-machine-backfires-after-gunman-f
ound-to-be-occultist-pot-smoking-left-winger
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74-year-old retired Army colonel who took down Arizona assassin was grazed in the head by a bullet, choked Loughner by the neck
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/10/2011-01-10_74yearold_reti
red_army_colonel_who_took_down_arizona_assassin_was_a_born_hero.html



Democratic Commie Liberal faggot Jared Lee Loughner's mugshot today
http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2011/01/10/image-jared-lee-lou
gher-mugshot-and-smirks-in-court-today
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Creepy bastard looks just like the creepy mass-murdering husband of Rep Giffords:



Fed judge appoints CIA MKULTRA defense lawyer Judy Clarke from California, defense lawyer for CIA MKULTRA Al Qaeda patsy Zacarias Moussaoui, defense lawyer for SSgt Tim "I Have A Microchip In My Ass" McVeigh, defense lawyer for CIA MKULTRA Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, to represent CIA MKULTRA mind control slave Jared Lee Loughner
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=197690.0

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The Unabomber a Harvard MKULTRA Victim

In his first week, at the tender age of 16, the real Manchurian Candidate met with his soon to be controller, Dr Henry A Murray.

Ted would become one of many children indoctrinated, set-up and tormented by the "secret" CIA Mind Control program. Dr. Murray helped found the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, led the Harvard Psychological Clinic, selected agents for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

Dr. Murray would become world famous in 1967 as the CIA psychologist who slipped a colleague LSD. The colleague then took the magical mystery tour out the window of a New York Hotel, landing in front of horrified guests head-first on the sidewalk 14 floors below. It was the first, and worst, public exposure of the 7 billion dollar budgeted MKUltra Mind Control program in which Dr Murray worked.

But in 1959 Murray sat in an office at Harvard University in the early fall interviewing a promising prospect. From the Midwest, socially awkward, sexually repressed, incredibly brilliant...a mathematics prodigy. Murray must have liked the first test results on the very young prospect because he code named the 16 year old "Lawful". In Mind Control parlance the rough equivalent of "Perfect". Murray would meet with Ted regularly for the next three years until the records purge of MKultra in 1962 when the agency attempted to destroy all references and records related to the program.

David Kaczynski reveals the MK-ULTRA-CIA mind control program that brother Theodore Kaczynski (dubbed the Unabomber by the FBI) was unwittingly a part of for three years at Harvard, and then at the University of Michigan and probably U.C. Stanford. In recalling some of the details of his brother’s involvement in the covert behavior modification program, David Kaczynski says of his older brother, “In a sense, he wasn’t paranoid; he was in a sense conspired against.”

Here was a chance to ask David Kaczynski about his brilliant, eccentric, loving older brother, and what the U.S. government may have done to him and with him.

You know, Mom had remembered it because since Ted was only 17* when he went into this research project, parental consent was needed, and Mom remembered getting a form, you know, Harvard College, asking for her permission for Ted to be in this study and Mom said, ‘Gee, I thought Ted’s…. You know, he’s socially awkward, he doesn’t fit in very well. Maybe being exposed to psychologists could be very helpful to him. Well, little did she know that this study wasn’t conducted with his benefit in mind.

How knowledgeable was Ted’s defense team about MKULTRA?

David Kaczynski: The defense apparently put a lot of research into this. It was going to be at least one of their arguments for mitigation that Ted had been seriously abused in this…. this research program that might have even been funded by the federal government. It was hard to get research, hard to make the connection fully. They [Ted Kaczynski’s legal team] found that numbers of the records had actually been destroyed – not for confidentiality reasons, or something. It was destroyed because there was a congressional investigation of the MKULTRA program and the then director really, uh, in contempt of Congress, destroyed many of the records of that program. They did eventually get to look at some of Murray’s private research papers. That was where some of these transcripts were found. They also were able to track down just a couple of other participants in the study, one of which was, by the way, working at Las Alamos making big bombs. A weird irony of the whole thing.

Mind Control in the Unabomber Manifesto:

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151. The social disruption that we see today is certainly not the result of mere chance. It can only be a result fo the conditions of life that the system imposes on people. (We have argued that the most important of these conditions is disruption of the power process.) If the systems succeeds in imposing sufficient control over human behavior to assure itw own survival, a new watershed in human history will have passed. Whereas formerly the limits of human endurance have imposed limits on the development of societies (as we explained in
paragraphs 143, 144), industrial-technological society will be able to pass those limits by modifying human beings, whether by psychological methods or biological methods or both. In the future, social systems will not be adjusted to suit the needs of human beings. Instead, human being will be adjusted to suit the needs of the system.

[27] 152. Generally speaking, technological control over human behavior will probably not be introduced with a totalitarian intention or even through a conscious desire to restrict human freedom. [28] Each new step in the assertion of control over the human mind will be taken as a rational response to a problem that faces society, such as curing alcoholism, reducing the crime rate or inducing young people to study science and engineering. In many cases, there will be humanitarian justification. For example, when a psychiatrist prescribes an anti-depressant for a depressed patient, he is clearly doing that individual a favor. It would be inhumane to withhold the drug from someone who needs it. When parents send their children to Sylvan Learning Centers to have them manipulated into becoming enthusiastic about their studies, they do so from concern for their children's welfare. It may be that some of these parents wish that one didn't have to have specialized training to get a job and that their kid didn't have to be brainwashed into becoming a computer nerd. But what can they do? They can't change society, and their child may be unemployable if he doesn't have certain skills. So they send him to Sylvan.

153. Thus control over human behavior will be introduced not by a calculated decision of the authorities but through a process of social evolution (RAPID evolution, however). The process will be impossible to resist, because each advance, considered by itself, will appear to be beneficial, or at least the evil involved in making the advance will appear to be beneficial, or at least the evil involved in making the advance will seem to be less than that which would result from not making it (see paragraph 127). Propaganda for example is used for many good purposes, such as discouraging child abuse or race hatred. [14] Sex education is obviously useful, yet the effect of sex education (to the extent that it is successful) is to take the shaping of sexual attitudes away from the family and put it into the hands of the state as represented by the public school system.

154. Suppose a biological trait is discovered that increases the likelihood that a child will grow up to be a criminal and suppose some sort of gene therapy can remove this trait. [29] Of course most parents whose children possess the trait will have them undergo the therapy. It would be inhumane to do otherwise, since the child would probably have a miserable life if he grew up to be a criminal. But many or most primitive societies have a low crime rate in comparison with that of our society, even though they have neither high-tech methods of child-rearing nor harsh systems of punishment. Since there is no reason to suppose that more modern men than primitive men have innate predatory tendencies, the high crime rate of our society must be due to the pressures that modern conditions put on people, to which many cannot or will not adjust. Thus a treatment designed to remove potential criminal tendencies is at least in part a way of re-engineering people so that they suit the requirements of the system.

155. Our society tends to regard as a "sickness" any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system, and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a "cure" for a "sickness" and therefore as good.

156. In paragraph 127 we pointed out that if the use of a new item of technology is INITIALLY optional, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional, because the new technology tends to change society in such a way that it becomes difficult or impossible for an individual to function without using that technology. This applies also to the technology of human behavior. In a world in which most children are put through a program to make them enthusiastic about studying, a parent will almost be forced to put his kid through such a program, because if he does not, then the kid will grow up to be, comparatively speaking, an ignoramus and therefore unemployable. Or suppose a biological treatment is discovered that, without undesirable side-effects, will greatly reduce the psychological stress from which so many people suffer in our society. If large numbers of people choose to undergo the treatment, then the general level of stress in society will be reduced, so that it will be possible for the system to increase the stress-producing pressures. In fact, something like this seems to have happened already with one of our society's most important psychological tools for enabling people to reduce (or at least temporarily escape from) stress, namely, mass entertainment (see paragraph 147). Our use of mass entertainment is "optional": No law requires us to watch television, listen to the radio, read magazines. Yet mass entertainment is a means of escape and stress-reduction on which most of us have become dependent. Everyone complains about the trashiness of television, but almost everyone watches it. A few have kicked the TV habit, but it would be a rare person who could get along today without using ANY form of mass entertainment. (Yet until quite recently in human history most people got along very nicely with no other entertainment than that which each local community created for itself.) Without the entertainment industry the system probably would not have been able to get away with putting as much stress-producing pressure on us as it does.

157. Assuming that industrial society survives, it is likely that technology will eventually acquire something approaching complete control over human behavior. It has been established beyond any rational doubt that human thought and behavior have a largely biological basis. As experimenters have demonstrated, feelings such as hunger, pleasure, anger and fear can be turned on and off by electrical stimulation of appropriate parts of the brain. Memories can be destroyed by damaging parts of the brain or they can be brought to the surface by electrical stimulation. Hallucinations can be induced or moods changed by drugs. There may or may not be an immaterial human soul, but if there is one it clearly is less powerful that the biological mechanisms of human behavior. For if that were not the case then researchers would not be able so easily to manipulate human feelings and behavior with drugs and electrical currents.

158. It presumably would be impractical for all people to have electrodes inserted in their heads so that they could be controlled by the authorities. But the fact that human thoughts and feelings are so open to biological intervention shows that the problem of controlling human behavior is mainly a technical problem; a problem of neurons, hormones and complex molecules; the kind of problem that is accessible to scientific attack. Given the outstanding record of our society in solving technical problems, it is overwhelmingly probable that great advances will be made in the control of human behavior.



http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2008/06/unabomber-harvard-mkultra-vic
tim.html







Shoot Out in Tuscon: Gun Owner Returns Fire at Giffords Massacre, Makes Citizen's Arrest of Shooter, as Cops Refuse to Allow Ambulances Help Victims
Mascara-wearing Fox News host Shepard Smith aghast that a MAN would fire back at a gunman in self-defense
http://www.infowars.com/return-fire-at-giffords-massacre/

Full uncensored history of this shooting (read between the bullshit)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=47075

Quote:

"Not a single issue voter, but if I was, gay rights would be it. I just want Democrats to be tough. And I wish Obama were tougher. That’s all. I’m a proud gay. I had favorite books: The Communist Manifesto."
-Jared Lee Loughner (or his sockpuppet)
www.businessinsider.com/jared-lee-loughner-2011-1

“Good luck to you, Mr. Loughner."
-U.S. Magistrate Lawrence Anderson

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
-Dictator Hussein Obama Soetoro
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_kn
ife_fight.html




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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:15 AM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Blah blah blah blah fucking blah.

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 6:43 AM

HARDWARE


This talk about radical political speech is just hyperbole from people who don't know the first thing about history as recent as the 1930s. Read up on the bonus army and the speech that was going around then. The end of all that speech? The president, Hoover, ordering the army to make war on American citizens.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 7:26 AM

HARDWARE


Quote:

Originally posted by 1kiki in the original thread:
"... nowhere does it say he was receiving professional mental health treatment." That's true - IN GENERAL we have many, many clinically insane people who never see a professional. It in part is due to Ronald Reagan's push to 'de-institutionalize' the insane and close state-run hospitals where many resided, a step he promised would reintegrate them into the community, and where close-to-home treatment would be provided. Except that the promised close-to-home treatment never happened. Oops. It is also due to a 1977 Supreme Court ruling which ruled for a maximum 3-day involuntary hold for evaluation only. But see below ...

"Nothing in the published reports I have read would have disqualified him from purchasing a pistol, rifle or shotgun." Except, oddly Arizona which does allow involuntary institutionalization for drug problems. That would definitely have landed him in the system, on the books, and denied guns.


Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.

So, Arizona has a liberal involuntary institutionalization law. Yet, it was not utilized in an apparently appropriate situation. Does that mean we need new laws? No. It means the laws we have on the books already need to be applied.

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"Regarding convicted criminals; until 1968 they were allowed to purchase and own firearms. Why are they allowed on the street if they cannot be trusted with firearms?" And why are they denied other 'rights' as well? B/c apparently, this TYPE of post-release restriction is quite common, maybe even in your state:


Except the statute that restricts convicted felons from possessing firearms is a federal law, not a state law. The BATFE is the sole agency responsible for monitoring, interpreting and enforcing firearms laws in the US.

The Heller and McDonald SCOTUS decisions established that self defense and possession of a firearm are civil rights and bound the states to respect those rights in regard to their laws. Whether or not being convicted of a felony strips you of your those civil rights remains to be seen. It hasn't been tested in court since the McDonald decision was handed down. Civil rights violations with regard to state laws are primarily enforced at a federal level.
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"There are both civil and criminal consequences to felony convictions. On the criminal side, you can be sentenced to jail or probation and/or fined. On the civil side, you may lose the right to vote, become ineligible to sit on a jury, hold elected office and/or possess a firearm. Civil consequences may last far longer than the criminal punishment."

And as of now - that's the way things are and is the sum of the argument - unless you are going to argue people break the law en masse ...



But people do break the law en masse. Mostly you see civil disobedience, and it is considered a misdemeanor. Other times you can see rioting, such as the L.A. riots in the wake of the Rodney King decision. Pretty serious damage there. Also, you should read up on the Battle of Athens, TN. In that example you have what amounted to an armed insurrection against the (at that time) legal government of a county.
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"And until 1968 any school child in America could order a rifle, shotgun or pistol through the mail." Same argument - today, it's against the law.


But the law does not specify children. The law is a blanket law that hinders me from obtaining a firearm through the mail or in another state. Further, if I attempt to purchase a firearm in another state, that state may further hinder me from purchasing or obtaining that firearm.

I am questioning the validity of the law. Laws are not immutable, as you seem to think they are. If you do not want to question the reason and validity of the law, then I hope your shackles will always rest lightly upon you. I certainly do not want to count you as my countryman.
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But you have a major problem with your logic if you are trying to argue unfettered, unrestricted access to all arms as a right - I could argue that an infant should be allowed to have a button to launch a nuclear bomb as a teething toy. Taken to extreme yours is an untenable position.


Your opinion. You don't support your opinion with facts. Until 1936 all Americans had unfettered and unrestricted access to firearms, including cannon, explosives and fully automatic weapons. Thompson sub-machine guns and Browning automatic rifles could be purchased at hardware stores.

The laws were changed due to a bad economy and civilian unrest. I think it is past time to examine those laws again in light of our current economic problems. I do not want to wake up some day to find the boot heel, any boot heel be it red or blue, on my neck.

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If you wish to discuss limits and where they should be reasonably set, then I'm in. Otherwise, I'll just consider you extremely stupid and not worth my time.




Ah yes, the personal attack. Trolling tactic number 2.

I'm all set to discuss what those limits should be. Not setting newer, more restrictive limits. That seems to happen every time someone violates the law and misuses a weapon. In fact the usual suspects, Frank Lautenberg and Caroline McCarthy have already submitted a bill to restrict "high capacity" magazines.

As you may have guessed, I own guns. I routinely have background checks run on me. I pass every time. Why are my rights being scrutinized?

I'll say this one more time in the vain hope it will sink in. GUNS DO NOT CAUSE CRIME. I don't have a problem with my guns loading themselves and going out on shooting sprees without my knowledge and consent. I do not hear whispers from my gun locker to load them and go off into the night to cause carnage.

People commit crimes. Every harm you can do with a gun is already illegal. If those laws did not discourage people from committing those crimes how do you propose we make those acts MORE illegal? Do you honestly think that will deter people who are set on performing those actions?

And before you come back at me with the tired old saw of guns making it easier to kill people, let me point out that the biggest spree killing in US history was committed with a gallon of gasoline. Look up the Happy Land Social Club. Are you in favor of outlawing gasoline?

I find you over-opinionated and under-informed. Until you can come back with facts to argue your position I'll just consider you a troll and ignore you.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:34 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:51 AM

KANEMAN


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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



He stricks again....My favorite busy body.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:18 AM

HKCAVALIER


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Likewise, anyone who tries to spin it that he's some kind of "radical left-winger" is also a nut.
That's exactly my point about demagoguery.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Demagogy

"strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public."

A tragedy happens and what do we do? We exploit it for negative campaigning against our competing political party. We blame the demogoguery that fanned hatred and vitriol before the tragedy, by using demogoguery AGAIN.

Six people are dead. DEAD. Have some respect. This is NOT a political opportunity, guys.



Can't Take (my gorram) Sky
------
Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

Y'know, I just gotta say, I think you're kinda putting the cart before the horse here. I really don't see this as partisans taking advantage of a tragedy to further their agendas. I don't think they're "spinning" this one way or 'tother. The spinning's long over and the lines in the sand have been drawn. You give them far too much credit for thinking. To the partisan, this is just "proof" that their partisanship is correct. This just proves their non-falsifiable premise, i.e.: the folks they oppose are truly evil. It's not deliberate manipulation, it's knee-jerk reinforcement of their faulty premises. Constant reinforcement is crucial if one is to continue to believe lies.

Sure, when Sarah Palin's handlers try to say the crosshairs on the map were really doilies, or whatever it was they said, they're "spinning," back-peddling, but the attacks on Palin and the attacks on the "libs" are beyond demagoguery at this point, it's dogma.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:52 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Leave our natural right to free speech and self-defense alone.

Period.




"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:10 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by kaneman:
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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



He stricks again....My favorite busy body.



Yes... I uh... "strick".... moron.

Nice to see you come to the defense of any poorly thought out response, though. We can always count on you to be wrong.

Well, it's true.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:24 AM

HARDWARE


Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:

Originally posted by kaneman:
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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



He stricks again....My favorite busy body.



Yes... I uh... "strick".... moron.

Nice to see you come to the defense of any poorly thought out response, though. We can always count on you to be wrong.

Well, it's true.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



Gee Strick, your point wasn't THAT poorly thought out. Wrong, but still...

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:53 AM

KANEMAN


Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:

Originally posted by kaneman:
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:

Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



He stricks again....My favorite busy body.



Yes... I uh... "strick".... moron.

Nice to see you come to the defense of any poorly thought out response, though. We can always count on you to be wrong.

Well, it's true.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."




Okay, stellar speller. You type on a nook and see if you give a fuck...lol...You spelling fairys are gay.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:34 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Hardware:
Quote:

Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by kaneman:
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Quote:

Originally posted by Hardware:
Where to begin? Hmm, after laying the blame at Reagan's feet you find the actual attribution, a 1977 court ruling (Which would lay the "blame" at the feet of Carter) yet you don't go back and correct your statement. Hmm, trolling behavior number 1.



Hmm, conflating two seperate but related points (which were clearly presented as seperate) as if they were the same in order to discredit them - which trolling behavior is that now?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



He stricks again....My favorite busy body.



Yes... I uh... "strick".... moron.

Nice to see you come to the defense of any poorly thought out response, though. We can always count on you to be wrong.

Well, it's true.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."



Gee Strick, your point wasn't THAT poorly thought out. Wrong, but still...

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.



It's cute that Kanie has a boyfriend now.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:27 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!




Jared Lee Loughner is a kosher homosexual, just like the Columbine shooters...except this time targeting jews not Christians.

That explains why only jews are allowed to report on this story on Jew TeeVee.

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Alleged Arizona shooter Jared Lee Loughner has Jewish mother, acquaintance says

An acquaintance of Jared Lee Loughner, the accused gunman in the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, says his mother is Jewish.

Bryce Tierney, a friend of Loughner from high school, told Mother Jones magazine that the alleged gunman posted “Mein Kampf” as a “favorite book” on a social media site in part to provoke his mother, who Tierney says is Jewish.

Amy Loughner’s maiden name is Totman, according to Arizona public records, and she married Randy Loughner in 1986. Totman is a common old English name and JTA could not uncover any record of Jewish affiliation for the family. Jewish Tucsonians said they were unaware of the family.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/arizona_shooting/article/alleged_arizona_
shooter_jared_lee_loughner_has_jewish_mother_acquaintance_s
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Is Loughner’s mother Jewish?

JTA Jewish News Service
January 10, 2011

There's a lot of buzz about the parents of Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in the attack Saturday that critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six people in an attack in Tucson.

More precisely, there's a lot of buzz about who these parents are -- we've heard about Loughner's allegedly untoward behavior at a community college, what high school acquaintances have said -- but the New York Times, for instance, shunts until the very end of its profile today what it knows about Randy and Amy Loughner: Randy Loughner was an unpleasant neighbor.

There's not much more, beyond their silence.

Now we get this from Mother Jones. Nick Baumann interviews Bryce Tierney, a friend of Jared's who recalls the alleged shooter's first encounter with Giffords, in 2007 -- and then explains why Jared might have listed Mein Kampf as a "favorite book":

Tierney believes that Loughner was very interested in pushing people's buttons—and that may have been why he listed Hitler's Mein Kampf as one of his favorite books on his YouTube page. (Loughner's mom is Jewish, according to Tierney.)

UPDATE: Amy Joanne Totman and Randy Loughner were married on April 24, 1986 in Pima County -- or perhaps that's the day they got their license, Arizona state records show. No judge is listed -- perhaps suggesting they were married by clergy? I'm not so well versed in these matters.

In any case, Totman is an old English name, and seems fairly common. I'm not seeing any connection, except for what Tierney thinks he remembers -- and even if he remembers correctly, his informant was likely Jared, who may be less than reliable.

http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2011/01/10/2742483/is-loughners-
mother-jewish


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/us/10shooter.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&
hp


http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-friend-voic
email-phone-message?page=1



"Not a single issue voter, but if I was, gay rights would be it. I just want Democrats to be tough. And I wish Obama were tougher. That’s all. I’m a proud gay. I had favorite books: The Communist Manifesto."
-Jared Lee Loughner (or his sockpuppet)
www.businessinsider.com/jared-lee-loughner-2011-1

“Good luck to you, Mr. Loughner."
-U.S. Magistrate Lawrence Anderson

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."
-Dictator Hussein Obama Soetoro
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_kn
ife_fight.html



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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 5:46 PM

HARDWARE


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Originally posted by Storymark:


It's cute that Kanie has a boyfriend now.




Best you can do? Total weaksauce.

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:42 PM

CANTTAKESKY


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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
... but the attacks on Palin and the attacks on the "libs" are beyond demagoguery at this point, it's dogma.

Fair enough. But if that is true, does this mean from here on out, it is simply war and more war and nothing but war?

Will we ever heal this country?


Can't Take (my gorram) Sky
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Everything I say is just my opinion, not fact.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 2:29 AM

HARDWARE


Quote:

Originally posted by canttakesky:
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Originally posted by HKCavalier:
... but the attacks on Palin and the attacks on the "libs" are beyond demagoguery at this point, it's dogma.

Fair enough. But if that is true, does this mean from here on out, it is simply war and more war and nothing but war?

Will we ever heal this country?





Who benefits if the country is healed? The people in power who may suffer the ire and ill opinion of the no longer distracted public who will notice the sad lack of direction and the overall sorry state of the country? Sorry, does not follow that those folks would actually want an end to the petty posturing and demagoguery. Unless they were really worried about someone putting a bullet in their brainpan.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 3:04 AM

JONGSSTRAW


The country will never heal. It hasn't since the beginning. Open democracy means an ongoing debate concerning all political and cultural issues for all eternity. It is individual people that can heal themselves. You cannot heal anyone except yourself. Best way to heal yourself is to get on with life. Forget all the Washington DC crap. So little of it ever affects you directly, it's hardly worth the worry. I've been though 11 Presidents and 25 sessions of Congress in my life. All different permuations of Republican or Democrat control. I've lived well, raised a family and sent my kids to college. That's what I was supposed to do according to my set of beliefs. I think I was successful because I simply tuned out political rancor for large strecthes during my life. It works, try it. Have fun and give your keyboard a rest. Your healing is waiting for you to try.








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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:05 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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The left hates her for this kind of stuff its probably why that pinko shot her.
Oh, for gawd’s sake, talk about being desperate to blame the left!!

CTTS speaks to the heart of it:
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Why is everyone exploiting these tragic murders for their personal ideologies, further polarizing our politics?.
Well, you know the answer to that; it’s convenient and everything that makes news seems to be politicized if it’s convenient to do so. It’s also an issue the left—-and MANY others (including many on the right)-—would like attended to; the rhetoric has gotten completely out of hand and it would be nice if it were dialed down...which it won’t be, and politicizing this HAS only enhanced it.

Well said, Kiki:
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HOWEVER - extremism breeds extremism - ESPECIALLY when broadcast over the media - something the Founding Father never envisaged. They never conceived of voice, images, graphics, remotely broadcast to hundreds of millions. It is quantitatively and therefore qualitatively different from the local face to face lynch mob, or the months-old newsprint. Laws need to keep up with technology.
I fully agree. On reason we have courts and amendments to the Constitution. If laws were kept the way hard-core “conservatives” wanted, things would be far more of a mess than they already are!
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Anyone who tries to spin it that he's in any way a 'right winger', is themselves, a nut. Just like him.
Another truly asinine statement. This man was so obviously out of it, to compare him to ANYONE else, much less politicians and ideologues who will grasp at anything to push their agenda, is laughable. And pathetic.
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I think what will eventually turn out is that this poor sod was schizophrenic, become violent due to our inherently violent society, attuned to the message of violence from others.
Yes, I think he had serious mental issues, but to blame “our inherently violent society” for his becoming violent is wrong, as far as I’m concerned. Many things can cause mood disorders to manifest, and I’d be willing to bet in his case, as in most, it’s something in his personal life which caused the manifestation. Blaming society, as I see it, is as bad as blaming any one political party for something which was never political, merely one insane person’s delusions.

Hardware, I disagree that things are “the same” as they’ve always been. I’ve been cognizant of what’s going on around me since the sixties; it hasn’t been this bad until recent years. The difference I see is that previously it’s been citizens who went beyond the pale, whereas in recent years those in authority, candidates, politicians and legislators now feel free to say things about violence against the President and government which they never did (or I believe would have) before. The rhetoric HAS become worse, by those in power; it’s always been here regarding politics by the people, yes, but not so overtly by those in authority. And calling the previous remark “trolling” is so far beyond trolling as to be ridiculous.

On the other hand, I agree wholeheartedly with
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So, Arizona has a liberal involuntary institutionalization law. Yet, it was not utilized in an apparently appropriate situation. Does that mean we need new laws? No. It means the laws we have on the books already need to be applied.
I agree, Cav (GOOD to see you!)
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To the partisan, this is just "proof" that their partisanship is correct. This just proves their non-falsifiable premise, i.e.: the folks they oppose are truly evil. It's not deliberate manipulation, it's knee-jerk reinforcement of their faulty premises. Constant reinforcement is crucial if one is to continue to believe lies.
but on the part of politicians, I do believe it’s a deliberate manipulation, just as the rhetoric the past few years has been. I also agree that
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when Sarah Palin's handlers try to say the crosshairs on the map were really doilies, or whatever it was they said, they're "spinning," back-peddling, but the attacks on Palin and the attacks on the "libs" are beyond demagoguery at this point, it's dogma.
The “it’s surveyor’s marks”, on the other hand, WAS (a terrible attempt at) spin, especially given her rhetoric ABOUT the map.

CTTS:
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Will we ever heal this country?
No. Politicians are too well aware that visceral rhetoric WORKS; it will always be used (and pretty much always HAS BEEN). Oops, I see Hardware made the point, and better than I could. I disagree, however, that we should pay no attention, JS; I think an informed public is a good thing. OBSESSING on it, yes, you’re absolutely right---just a glance at those who are obsessed with it HERE is enough to tell you that---but being aware and as informed as we can be? I believe that is a good thing. If more people cared to learn, not just swallow the pabulum put out by slanted “news”, I believe the country would be better off.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off




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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:21 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Hardware - where do * I * start?

I guess by addressing the first point, for now.

The Supreme Court reached its initial ruling in 1975 (O'Connor v. Donaldson) which was fairly permissive of institutionalization. However the grounds for institutionalization became narrower the following year (1976 Suzuki v. Quisenbery). During Jimmy Carter's presidency (1977-1981) the NIMH began closing state-run psychiatric hospitals but Carter initiated community-based mental health programs to close the gap (Carter's Commission on Mental Health). It was during Reagan's terms in office (1981-1989), with his rabid interest in eliminating any federal programs to benefit people, that this effort was defunded.

While the two Supreme Court decisions are to 'blame' for the de-institutionalization of people with serious psychiatric illnesses (especially the second decision) it truly is Reagan's fault that they were denied care. And sadly, once a program - even a good and necessary one - is dismantled it rarely comes back. Such has been the case with community care for the mentally ill. So Reagan is still the cause for the lack.

Does Reagan carry blame? Yes, he does, since he obliterated the last resort for all but the wealthiest of the mentally ill.

Now, if you have any COGENT, FACTUAL debate to offer about this I'll be happy to oblige. If all you are interested in is rhetorical tantrums, well - we'll all figure you out pretty quickly.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:32 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Just as a general note, while Loughner can be considered a 'nut with a gun' that doesn't make the right-wing rhetoric blameless .

That rhetoric gave legitimacy and rational to his delusions, causing him to aim his ASSASSINATION (his word) at a particular politician and supporters, not just plink at random strangers.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 6:53 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


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Just as a general note, while Loughner can be considered a 'nut with a gun' that doesn't make the right-wing rhetoric blameless .


Some of y'all seem bound and determined to make sure some of the blame on lands on your rival party. I'll grant that some of you are at least subtle and clever enough to make it almost seem logical. We know for a fact Jared Loughner was mentally unstable, doing drugs and stalking Gabrielle Giffords, but do we know if he cared about 'the right' or even knew who Sarah Palin was?

I know you don't like it, but it's possible 'right-wing rhetoric' is blameless. It may very well have happened without the hostile political atmosphere's non-measurable and perhaps nonexistent effects on Loughner. I'm all for folks on both sides toning down the agressive rhetoric (which I believe would facilitate a better understanding of the real issues) but I'm not ready to blame it for this tragedy. Correlation does not always equal causation.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:03 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"... but do we know if he cared about 'the right' or even knew who Sarah Palin was ..."

As a matter of fact, yes he did care about the right, and about the 'gummint'. And by definition he cared enough to call the shooting an assassination, and to target a political figure he associated with the hated, evil 'gummint'. This was crazy, but not random.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:08 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


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As a matter of fact, yes he did care about the right, and about the 'gummint'. And by definition he cared enough to call the shooting an assassination, and to target a political figure he associated with the hated, evil 'gummint'. This was crazy, but not random.


Oh, well can you link me the evidence? All I've heard and read concerning this was baseless speculation. As is, I have serious doubts political rhetoric was a factor, much less the deciding factor because I have not seen any evidence.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:21 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


http://www. youtube.com/user/Classitup10#p/a/u/1/nHoaZaLbqB4

It wouldn't post the url so I added a space.

BTW this reminds me a little of Stack, the guy with the grotch against the IRS who flew his plane into an IRS building after, if I recall correctly, burning his family's house down. He was kinda' nutty too, in a politically pointed way.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:42 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


Looking through his videos now, which are all music and text it seems. So far all he's said clearly is he does not believe in God, questions listeners literacy and that anyone who can make a language or currency and also make a 2nd and 3rd language and currency... whatever the hell that means. He has voiced, or perhaps written briefly on his distrust and discontentment with the government, but has yet to mention any political parties philosophies. Also, the Government is controlling us with mind control through grammar and he seems confident in 20 uninterrupted minutes he can teach 8 year old's new grammar. This is proof enough to me he is nuts. I teach 8 year old's at the cultural center. There is no such thing as 20 uninterrupted minutes in that age group.

Far as I can tell he just hates the whole government. It'll take me a little bit to make it through every video and I'll edit this if I find something else noteworthy or that changes is mind. No signs of right wing rhetoric/dogma/influence yet though.

EDIT: I have watched all his youtube videos and even his favorited video. He seems to believe the mind controller controls 'belief' and 'religion' and that he is the mind controller and you can be the mind controller... whatever that means. Nothing he's posted makes complete sense, however there was no evidence of any right wing influence in any of his videos. Just a paranoia and hatred of the 'current government' who he claims controls us through our grammar, amongst other things. Also, most Pima College professors are apparently illiterate, and college education is unconstitutional.


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:02 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


He repeats beliefs of the "sovereign citizen movement" - since you can get to many web pages by googling the phrase I won't link any here. They are a right-wing extremist group.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:14 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER


from wikipedia

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The sovereign citizen movement is a loose network of American litigants, commentators and financial scheme promoters. Self-described "sovereign citizens" believe that they are answerable only to English common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal government|federal, state or municipal levels. They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate.[1] The litigants advance this concept in opposition to "federal citizens", who, they believe, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.[2]


Again, still not seeing your right wing connection. Unless you are implying the Sovereign Citizen Movement is representative of the American Right, which makes about as much sense as claiming Communists are representative of the American Left. If I am misinterpreting, please show or explain to me the connection. I'd like to know your blaming of the Right is based on more than just a knee jerk reaction.

EDIT: Also, thank you for the reference, I had never heard of the Sovereign Citizen Movement before. Doesn't make any sense to me, but extremism usually doesn't.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:29 AM

CANTTAKESKY


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Originally posted by 1kiki:
They are a right-wing extremist group.

I would say they are a libertarian extremist group. Libertarians are neither right nor left.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 5:36 AM

BYTEMITE


The boy's cited Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto as his favourite books and spouts off about taxation and mind control, frankly he's all over the map. This isn't one side or another, and even if we want to blame violent rhetoric, the whole political situation has been vile and vitriolic for some time now, with culprits on both sides, it's just during the Bush years it was more the left wing calling for people heads and now in the Obama years it's the right wing. Pretty inconclusive, guys.

As a side note, I do blame society. Kid's whacked out of his gourd. Something made him into what he became, whether he was hitting harder drugs than marijuana at any point, or something with his family, or general social negligence, or some authority figure that screwed up him and he's been rebelling against since. Might even be he's histrionic and this was him acting out for attention (citing both Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto may be consistent with this, you'd only say both if you're trying to get attention and piss people off). Chances are he'll never be coherent enough for any of us to puzzle it out.

All I know is that there's a lot of crazed public shooters from the current generation. Granted, you had your Teds and your Unibombers in the past, but they were screwed up seventies-ish. Now we have bunches of kids who appear to be screwed up in the same way coming out of the woodworks, which makes me think the same social pressures that sculpted previous homegrown terrorists has become more common.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:32 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Internal breakdown vs external breakdown, really.

One one end you have Hikikomori, on the other, shooter nuts.

Root causes are prettymuch the same, though.

-F

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Thursday, January 13, 2011 10:49 AM

THEHAPPYTRADER


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The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare defines hikikomori as people who refuse to leave their house, and isolate themselves from society in their homes for a period exceeding six months.[1] While the degree of the phenomenon varies on an individual basis, in the most extreme cases, some people remain in isolation for years or even decades. Often hikikomori start out as school refusals, or futōkō (不登校) in Japanese (an older term is tōkōkyohi (登校拒否)).


I had to look that one up and thought I'd post it in case anyone else didn't know what it was. While I don't think the 'Hikikomori' made him decide to shoot those people, but it probably agitated and made everything much worse when he made his decision to go outside and attempt to assassinate Giffords.

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