The Left has gone out of its way to blame Saturday’s tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on anyone to the Right of the Mensheviks. Among the first to pile on the blood libel was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who pinned the shooting on an alleged conservative “climate of hate.” Most of us countered that the murderer, Jared Lee Loughner, clearly seemed mentally ill, addicted to mind-altering drugs, or perhaps the victim of an LSD-induced psychosis. Krugman should read his own newspaper — and I rarely make that suggestion. The NYT reported yesterday that most assassins are unhinged, not politically motivated, and any intelligent American should have known that was the likely motive. That means those accusing Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and the Tea Party of facilitating this crime are either unintelligent or transparently politically motivated (or both).
The New York Times reported yesterday, “A 1999 study of assassins and attackers found few common threads. Many had delusional ideas, but few heard voices; still fewer abused drugs or belonged to militant groups.” (Emphasis added.)
To make matters clearer, many of those who appear to kill for a political cause are merely demonstrating symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Forensic psychologist Dr. Michael Stone told the Times the paranoid mind “picks up on the grand themes of the day,” weaving them into his unbalanced mental process. It is the disease, not the rhetoric, that leads to murder. “It’s not political thinking,” Dr. E. Fuller Torrey summarized. “It’s psychotic thinking.”
The Times climbed down from its tower by acknowledging the obvious: Loughner appears to be disturbed:
Details about Mr. Loughner are still emerging, and only an examining doctor will be able to make a definitive diagnosis. But the writings and comments attributed to him point strongly to the kind of delusional thinking that is common in schizophrenia.
“I’d say the chances are 99 percent that he has schizophrenia,” said Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Va., which advocates stronger laws to require treatment for people with severe mental illnesses. “He was together enough to take courses, and people with untreated schizophrenia can function very well for periods.; But when you see these rambling, incoherent writings and comments, there is almost no other disorder where this is a prominent symptom.”
Virtually anyone reading his writings, watching his YouTube video, or listening to the testimony of those who knew him would have come to this conclusion. His writings are the ravings of a madman, with references to wide-awake hallucinations and “mind control.” His friends wondered aloud if he were on hallucinogenic drugs, and his classmates at Pima Community College called him mentally disturbed. Again, Dr. Randy Borum of the University of South Floria told the NYT, “This guy wasn’t a missed case.”
College officials (and probably Sheriff Clarence Dupnik’s office) knew he was troubled, but apparently no one in his life — from his countercultural parents to his drug abusing friends — cared enough to see he got the treatment he needed. Rather than take responsibility or say he did all he could, Sheriff Dupnik has unleashed several vicious attacks blaming the shooting on a political movement Loughner did not follow and a talk show host he may have never listened to — and whose beliefs were the opposite of the twisted ramblings he professed.
Dupnik knew this first hand.
The nation’s liberal punditry, which fancies itself the most educated segment of society, should have known the statistical likelihood of the assassin being deranged, and they certainly should have known the signs of schizophrenia.
The media and the Left either did not read the signs that were obvious to millions of non-leftist-haters in flyover country, or they ignored them in order to smear their political opponents as murderers. They are either stupid or malicious — although these conditions are not mutually exclusive.
Given their past history, I know where I’m laying my bet.
Can someone tell me, why you guys continue in giving CREDIBILITY to these SICKOS from the Left?
Let them talk,
It's written:
"Turn a deaf ear to those who pretend to know it all" or something to that effect,
Luis D. Rey
NYC
If we remain silent, more and more people will believe those idiots. They are the same idiots who dumbed down and indoctrinated our youth in the Public Schools with their Marxist filth. Hitler's propaganda minister Goebels said, "If you tell a lie long enough, frequently enough, and loudly enough, it will eventually be seen as the truth."
I believe some of the problem starts in the classroom where these radical, communist, progressive high school teachers and college professors are teaching our kids what they believe in, while NOT teaching, American history, and about our founders, the Constitution and patriotism in the classroom. Instead they are teaching our young people communism, fascism, and terrorism. Just look at all the people who surround Obama, who were themselves radical nut jobs and are now professors teaching their beliefs to our students. These teachers and professors need to be removed from the classrooms before they do anymore harm.
See, just as I predicted, the liberal democrats , the Marxists, the Socialists, the Communists, once again because conservatives have them on the run, they start with the racial, Tea Party …. blame someone else. They attack people like Sara Pallin and Michele Backmann, they try to turn all their failures into a political murder caused by a Repub or conservative etc etc. In my opinion, the major cause of this henious crime and others such as the Ft. Hood killing spree, and many others all around the country is simply all the pent up anger most Americans are feeling because of what Obammy boy his crew of crooked czars have been doing to our great country. Obammy has been promoting racial and religious conflicts long before he was placed into the white house. Look at his past assocications and the criminal actions he has been involved with by hiding his true birth place, fake SS cards and numbers, etc etc. and then look at all his friends and czars who continue to defend him knowingly that he is not an Christian, he is a true muslim, he is anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Constitution, Marxist believing evil man.
What a joke! I just read that my opinion has to be approved by this site's admin. before it can be posted. Hmmmm looks like censorship is being used to control a free society's public opinion?
I thought that the NYT was just bought by a Latino National? Could be wrong.
This country is not only invaded by those who cross over the border in the night but by the wealthy Latinos, silent partners in the drug cartels who launder money (illegal money) on this side of the border; pay into politician's campaigns, buy strategic US businesses, etc.
Get my drift?
There has never been a group of people on this earth that despise this country more than the elite of Mexico and the rest of Latin America.. We have had a Trojan Horse traveling up from the South for a long time and we think it is the poor, hungry campesino who is a problem to the USA. Not so. Do you remember the Vodka Ad that was distributed in Mexico which advocated "dreaming big" and the dream was a Mexico that took back all the borders lost to the US during Colonial days. The Vodka ad showed a map of Mexico that included all of Texas, NM, AZ, Southern California and Colorado. The ad was pulled, stirred some controversy and then fast forgotten. Sleepy, dreamy Americans…
We will be sorry for this lack of astuteness. We Americans do not know how to watch our backsides, nor recognize the enemies face to face.
We are a sorry bunch. Our kids and grand kids will pay for our laziness, lack of sharp thinking … We won't even realize when it will be too late to stop the Trojan Horse and when we have had the blow in the quick.
You are right on Irosin. I have been writing the same message for months, keep it going, thanks.
This is not "Intense Debate" when the commentary is totally censored and most of what I said was left out. It is sad in this country that those who have lived in a Latino Country south of the border, lived along the border cannot say what they found to be true. For over 2 decades the news along the border has been ignored. Things that happened everyday that would shock the world if it happened in Kansas City but goes unreported in the daily new of the US. Intense Debate is just another media scam.
Obama the usurper is involved in this evil.
The Quran Says that Non-Muslims are
Destined for Eternal Torture in Hell
Although nowhere does the Quran say that Allah loves those who don’t believe Muhammad, there are over 400 verses that describe the torment that he has prepared for people of other religions (or no religion):
And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers (3:85)
The relative worth of non-Muslims is that they are but fuel for the fire of Hell:
(As for) those who disbelieve, surely neither their wealth nor their children shall avail them in the least against Allah, and these it is who are the fuel of the fire (3:10Shakir: "firewood of hell")
As they are fueling the fire, unbelievers will be tormented by Allah’s angels on his command:
“O ye who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a Fire whereof the fuel is men and stones, over which are set angels strong, severe, who resist not Allah in that which He commandeth them, but do that which they are commanded.”(66:6)
It doesn’t matter how many good deeds an unbeliever does, because they count for nothing with Allah:
The parable of those who reject their Lord is that their works are as ashes, on which the wind blows furiously on a tempestuous day: No power have they over aught that they have earned (14:18)
Shall we tell you of those who lose most in respect of their deeds? Those whose efforts have been wasted in this life, while they thought that they were acquiring good by their works? They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight. That is their reward, Hell, because they rejected Faith, and took My Signs and My Messengers by way of jest. (18:103-106)
Muhammad told his people that anyone who rejects his claim to be a prophet will go to Hell:
Surely those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and (those who) desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: ‘We believe in some and disbelieve in others’, and desire to take a course between (this and) that. These it is that are truly unbelievers, and We have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement. And those who believe in Allah and His messengers and do not make a distinction between any of them– Allah will grant them their rewards(4:150-152)
In Christianity, punishment in the hereafter is directly tied to sin and ‘wickedness.’ There is relatively little said about Hell, but the emphasis is on personal suffering for selfish or cruel deeds. In Islam, Hell is a punishment for merely not believing Muhammad’s personal claims about himself. In contrast to the Bible, every 12th verse of the Quran speaks of Hell and vividly describes Allah’s wrath on unbelievers:
But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads, Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning. (22:19-22)
No one could torture a person in this way without hating them intensely. Neither can Allah’s intense loathing for unbelievers help but affect the Muslim attitude toward those outside the faith.
The personal superiority of Muslims is confirmed by the contrasting picture painted in so many places in the Quran in which they are rewarded with the greatest of earthly comforts in heaven, while the unbelievers concurrently suffer horrible torment (see Sura 56 for just one example).
From the statement of Jared Loughner's classmate Caitie Parker shines a ray of truth. Parker describes the 'shooter' as political radical; LEFT WING; quite LIBERAL and Anti flag. Seems the controlled media jumped on this quickly to try and shove their murdering 'nut case' off as a Tea Party type. Look at the books he read; same as some Obama appointees hold up as part of their grooming. It appears that Gifford being a bit conservative was all this Left Wing wacko needed to set him off. Now in typical style, the Left quickly spreads the Big Lie and will tell it over and over. The radical left and their brain dead (no pun intended) excel at 'Goebbels-ism' "Tell a big enough lie often enough and the people will believe it.
This is how the left survives, by degrading and ridiculing the opposition. They did it to Senator McCarthy in the fifties. They did it to the Birch Society so much so that Conservatives shunned the Society. They did it more recently for President Bush and they are trying to do it to the T E A Party. But this time it is time to fight fire with fire. On the forums from the A O L News, every time one of the libs say any thing derogatory about the movement I post a reply blaming them for more hatred and vitriol. They do not like being blamed for the hatred they show in this country. We must learn the lesson of what they have taught and fight fire with fire. Oh and PLEASE REMEMBER !!!! It is all OBAMA’S FAULT !!!
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/01/10/glenns-letter…
This is where you will find the pledge Glenn Beck put forward to ALL AMERICANS of no violence. Let us hope that we all can agree that PEACEFUL discussions are welcome still here in America. A mentally ill man murdering and hurting so many can be a moment when we all say ENOUGH. Pres. Obama has a long history of violent talk, let us hope that Glenn Beck can encourage the AMERICAN PEOPLE to show we are the grownups and leaders and will not stand for this smear and violence by signing the pledge!
I wanted to discuss how years of inflammatory, often violent, rhetoric from the far Left walked us all right up to the moment in Tucson where liberal hate led to liberal violence in one horrific afternoon. I wanted to point out how the incessant drumbeat of rage from Democrat Party outlets like MSNBC and Daily Kos was laying a welding torch to the gunpowder of Leftist anger. I wanted to expound on the fact that the endless “Worst person in the world” ranting from MSNBC’s Zen master of hate Keith Olbermann, with the defamatory efforts of his “mini-me,” the appallingly angry Rachel Maddow, would ultimately drive one of their brainless acolytes to the edge of insanity.
But none of that really matters. Today, a husband sits anxiously next to his wife’s hospital bed. Today, a family is preparing to bury their husband and father. Children have to say goodbye to parents. Parents have to say goodbye to children.
Nonetheless, while the Democrat Party urges its supplicant media to find a way to pin the murder of six people on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party and the GOP by proxy; the facts reveal a vastly different picture. It’s a picture of the ultimate expression of Leftist rage, fanned by monsters like Markos Moulitsas, raging idiots like Olbermann, violent union thugs from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and possibly the anti-semitic roaring of characters like former President Jimmy Carter:
Lib-friendly News outlets, such as MSNBC in particular, has taken a page from Adolf Hitler's propaganda machine through Josef Goebbels when the Nazis set the Reichstag in Berlin on fire, cleverly blaming it on the Communists and successfully getting the public to turn against them. Leftist news personalities such as Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews jump to conclusions immediately by casting blame on the right on the Tuscon massacre, when it was a left wing nut job who idolizes Karl Marx who acted alone in this heinous crime (cont. below).
(cont. from above) The left are at their mercy. They know it's a losing battle for them as their news outlets are losing viewership! In a desperate move the left will do all they can to win back public support by alienating those who oppose the liberal/progressive agenda in hopes to gain support from the public. They are going as far by lobbying to Congress to pull Fox News and Conservative talk radio off the air because, in their words, "you are being exposed to lies." Those are the kind of "lies" I like and enjoy listening to!!! What the left claim are "lies" is the actual truth, exposing the liberal lies the left don't want anyone to hear. Strict censorship is the norm for the left.
Even by shutting down Fox News and Conservative talk radio will not, as the left are hoping, win back public support to watch MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC or other lib-friendly news outlets just so we could be exposed to the real lies. I would tell them, "Forget it!!!" The ghost of Goebbels is permanently ensconced into the minds of those hypocrites running these news outlets and it is getting beyond worse!
Not surprised that the buffoon in the white house did not jump right into this discussion and tell the folks to wait before judging!!!! Like he did with the muslim terrorist and fort hood, and blaming the white guy for the black stuff who then had to come to his idiotic beer bust….This buffoon is unaware that the killer more closely aligns with his radical crap…i.e. the manifesto, etc. and has nothing to do with conservative thought!!!
Planned Parenthood recently released its 2008-2009 annual report; and behind the polished presentation and colorful charts is a staggering fact: Planned Parenthood received over $363 million in federal funds during this time – all at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.
Planned Parenthood used this money to end the lives of 324,008 unborn — while their abortion "referrals" undoubtedly resulted in tens and tens of thousands of more deaths.
And going into 2011, their taxpayer funding is set to increase.
$327 million alone is allocated for the Title X Family Planning Program which funnels funding to Planned Parenthood.
$710 million is allocated for international family planning which provides funding to organizations such as Planned Parenthood that promote and perform abortion overseas.
It seems there is no end to the money that will be poured into Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers and advocates.
By Aaron Klein
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
"The Communist Manifesto" and Hitler's "Mein Kampf" were among the favorite reading materials of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspected gunman in today's fatal shooting that reportedly left six dead and gravely injured a U.S. congresswoman.
Lougher, 22, listed those tomes among his favorites on his YouTube channel, in which he wrote that "conscience dreams" were a "great study" at his college, Pima Community College.
One user on Twitter, Caitie Parker, wrote she went to high school, college and was in a band with the gunman. She said she hadn't seen him since 2007.
Parker wrote of Lougher, "As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal and oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy."
She also described him as "more left."
Lougher also left a trail of bold political statements.
Sadly, the "Mainstream" Media, the "Entertainment" Industry, Public "Education", and the "Democratic" Party have been taken over by the dregs of Society.
On November 11, 2010, I saw a video in which Marxist journalist and cartoonist
Ted Rall, who was being interviewed on MSNBC, was agitating for a violent
(Communist?) revolution here in America. Rall has written a book titled "The Anti-
American Manifesto." This is during a live interview – right on the Dylan Ratigan
show on MSNBC! Ratigan seems to agree with Rall! Rall tries to weasel his way
out of choosing the book's title by claiming that it is partly in jest!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31510813/#40076926
So now, when the American People say NO to their provocations, bullying, lying,
election fraud, persecution and criminalization of those of us who disagree with
them in order to silence us, the dumbing-down of our schoolchildren to
indoctrinate them, and the forcing of perverse lifesyles upon us in their bid to
destroy our morals, our liberty, our culture, and our nation, the radical Lefists are
agitating for a violent revolution here in America!
We Constitutional Conservatives, TEA Party Activists, and other American Patriots
have a long, difficult journey ahead of us to restore or Republic indeed!
Thank you for the link.. I will pass it on..Blessing!
Bel
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