Extra commentary by Timothy Horrigan; January 8, 2011; revised
January 17, 2011
(The reading list is down at the bottom of the page.)
[August 1, 2011] Congresswoman Giffords returned to work less than
seven months after she was shot. She cast her first vote in favor
of the debt ceiling compromise bill which averted a global financial meltdown. |
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[January 22, 2012] Congresswoman Giffords announced that she would be resigning from Congress. |
[January
17, 2011] This first video was leaked (apparently by law enforcement) a
week or so after the January 8 assassination. It is a first-person
video taken while he was wandering around the campus of Pima Community
College (which looks unsettlingly like a Second
Life
build come to life.) He rants about
genocide, the constitution, and grammar. It was made shortly
after he was suspended from school for disrupting his classes.
Original URL's:
Here are several YouTube videos put up (at least ostensibly) by Jared Lee Loughner, who tried to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and succeeded in assassinating Federal Judge John Roll. Loughner may or may not be schizophrenic; he may or may not be found not guilty by reason of insanity when he is tried; but he is clearly a nutcase.
"Introduction:
Jared Loughner"
URL: http://youtu.be/nHoaZaLbqB4
"This
Student At Pima Community College: An Unconstitutional Crime!"
URL: http://youtu.be/VhAx8WzNJT0
(Loughner was suspended
from college because of a "disturbing" video. It was supposedly
this one. The next two videos are actually much more disturbing.)
"America:
Your Last Memory In A Terrorist Country!"
URL: http://youtu.be/3L1lsLU-kUw
The Palinoids have been spreading the word that Loughner must be a liberal, because he included the Communist Manifesto on a list of favorite books. But all the list tells me is that he must have taken a few introductory humanities courses in college. The entire list includes conservative classics such as Animal Farm and We the Living. I am not sure what significance the order has, if any— but the rightwing bloggers have been singling out a work by Marx & Engels as his "favorite" when it was in fact 2/3 of the way down a longish list of otherwise non-Marxist books. Here is the list, in the same order Loughner had it in, although I added the numbers:
and Meno.
See Also:
January 10, 2011 Human Events rant (Keith Halloran & I were smeared, along with Paul Krugman!)
