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Last night I watched a 60 Minutes piece where a couple of Secret Service crazy assassin experts explained that, after interviewing all of them who weren't dead, that they all were bonkers in pretty much the same way, that they all acted alone, that "politics" had nothing really to do with what they did except to maybe, as in Jared Loughner's case, to provide a little content. According to these guys all of them realized that committing their crime did not solve their problems. Even Sirhan Sirhan? I'd always heard he claimed not to know or remember why he did what he did if he did it.
Sirhan Sirhan has also been on a strict, court enforced regimen of anti-psychotic medication from the day he was committed. Anti-psychotics will drive you insane if you are already healthily. At this point, according to one person who tried to interview Mr. Sirhan, there is no chance of getting a coherent narrative of what happened that day.
Who knows what if anything is true, but I have trouble believing government agents when they come forth with stuff like this .
Bits and pieces of Loughner's story keep being released to the media a bit at a time, and we hear about a lot of things that we don't get to see, such as his poetry.
But some of the questions that I haven't heard be asked are:
Where did he get the $500 to buy the gun? Wikipedia says he got "fired from his job at Quiznos" then "underwent a personality transformation." What was his personality like before he transformed? Did he have the money saved up and put aside? What about the money he used to check into a Motel the night before the shooting? Where did that come from?
Are efforts being made to question him and see if somebody might have (perish the thought) put him up to it? Or has his court appointed lawyer advised him against speaking? Have they met and discussed things? I've always thought Lee Harvey Ozwald, whether he "acted alone" (as all of them are said to have done by the Secret Service) or, was an "aimed nut" -- that he didn't come up with the idea all on his own.
Is he still sitting in his cell with that same smirk on his face refusing to talk further?
I'm not saying he was framed or was part of a conspiracy, but I can't help but wonder.
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