Jared Lee Loughner: erratic, disturbed and prone to rightwing rants

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/09/jared-lee-loughner-rightwing-rants

Loughner echoes concerns of Tea Party movement in videos that reveal fears about government brainwashing

Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk,

Sunday 9 January 2011 19.06 GMT

Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old resident of Tucson identified by police as the gunman in Saturday's rampage, left a series of indications revealing the mentally unstable state of his mind and the extreme rightwing causes he supported in the run up to the tragedy.

Just hours before he embarked on the shooting, he posted a message on his MySpace page saying: "Goodbye friends. Dear friends, please don't be mad at me." He also posted a YouTube video of written slides called My Final Thoughts. In it, he wrote: "Jared Loughner is in need of sleep."

In a series of videos, he gave a rambling account of obsessions and paranoias that appeared to be troubling him with increasing intensity up to the catastrophe. They included references to conscious dreaming, or "conscience dreaming" as he called it, a process of directing one's own dreams that he is thought to have practised. Another was a belief in the gold and silver standard of currency – a favourite topic of the rightwing of American politics that is regularly propounded by the Fox News commentator Glenn Beck.

The tone of Loughner's rantings is almost exclusively conservative and anti-government, with echoes of the populist campaigning of the Tea Party movement. "Don't trust the government listener!" he said in one video, accusing Washington of mind control and brainwashing.

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1. recommend

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2. Shame that we have to get this from an overseas source

You won't hear the talking heads in our compliant, complicit corporate media admit as much. Looks like the Guardian knows this country better than CNN.

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3. thanks to the BBC

for reporting the TRUTH!

:kick: & recommend.

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10. all I keep hearing state-side is how lone and erratic he was -- as if her political

affiliation meant nothing to him -- she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time

Could have happened to any Republican...

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4. Too bad the US media doesn't have access to foreign media articles.

I'm sure that's why they're not saying the same thing.
:sarcasm:

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5. Which RW assassin wasn't "disturbed"?

J.W. Booth, Oswald, Sirhan/Sirhan,James Earl Ray, McVeigh. . . .

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6. "Don't trust the government"? Mind control and brainwashing?

if this was 2008, that's what a lot of DUers were saying.

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8. Of course. Some posters at DU say a lot of crazy shit

That is because DU is an anonymous website. We don't have only Democrats posting here. For all we know Rush Limbaugh posts outlandish BS here to make Dems look bad. Ever consider that?

Don

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9. When did "don't trust the government" go from the general sentiment

to "crazy shit"? I think it was shortly after Obama got elected... and I don't think it's all because Limpballs made up thousands of screen names over the past decade to call the government out for things like the Patriot Act and extraordinary rendition.

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7. Sounds like my father in law.

Too soon?