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Jared Loughner, Portrait of the Tuscon Safeway Shooter
The portrait of Jared Loughner, the accused Tucson Safeway Massacre shooter, is taking shape. Loughner, contrary to some pronouncements on and off the Internet, was not a right-wing, Tea Party acolyte of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
But interviews with former friends and acquaintances paint a portrait of a man with " ... nihilistic, almost indecipherable beliefs steeped in mistrust and paranoia," according to the AP. YouTube videos and his MySpace page contain rantings about the currency, poor grammar, "lucid dreaming" and mind control. Loughner was also a 9/11 truther and atheist.
Loughner was also a heavy abuser of alcohol and marijuana, at one point taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. He was rejected for military service after failing a drug test.
Loughner had a number of run-ins with the police due to disruptive behavior in the library and classroom at the community college he was attending. According to the Washington Post, a classmate, Lynda Sorenson, was genuinely frightened of him.
"We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird. I sit by the door with my purse handy. If you see it on the news one night, know that I got out fast..."
Jared Loughner also kept a bizarre shrine under a camouflage tent in the backyard of his home that featured a skull atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. There were candles and a bag of potting soil nearby. The whole setup is suggestive of a weird version of the occult.
In short, Loughner was a disturbed loner who had no discernible ideology at all. Despite the pronouncements of certain pundits, there is no evidence that Jared Loughner was influenced by or was even aware of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or the Tea Party.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110110...ughner_portrait_of_the_tuscon_safeway_shooter
The portrait of Jared Loughner, the accused Tucson Safeway Massacre shooter, is taking shape. Loughner, contrary to some pronouncements on and off the Internet, was not a right-wing, Tea Party acolyte of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
But interviews with former friends and acquaintances paint a portrait of a man with " ... nihilistic, almost indecipherable beliefs steeped in mistrust and paranoia," according to the AP. YouTube videos and his MySpace page contain rantings about the currency, poor grammar, "lucid dreaming" and mind control. Loughner was also a 9/11 truther and atheist.
Loughner was also a heavy abuser of alcohol and marijuana, at one point taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning. He was rejected for military service after failing a drug test.
Loughner had a number of run-ins with the police due to disruptive behavior in the library and classroom at the community college he was attending. According to the Washington Post, a classmate, Lynda Sorenson, was genuinely frightened of him.
"We have a mentally unstable person in the class that scares the living crap out of me. He is one of those whose picture you see on the news, after he has come into class with an automatic weapon. Everyone interviewed would say, Yeah, he was in my math class and he was really weird. I sit by the door with my purse handy. If you see it on the news one night, know that I got out fast..."
Jared Loughner also kept a bizarre shrine under a camouflage tent in the backyard of his home that featured a skull atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. There were candles and a bag of potting soil nearby. The whole setup is suggestive of a weird version of the occult.
In short, Loughner was a disturbed loner who had no discernible ideology at all. Despite the pronouncements of certain pundits, there is no evidence that Jared Loughner was influenced by or was even aware of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck or the Tea Party.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110110...ughner_portrait_of_the_tuscon_safeway_shooter
