5 Reasons That The AZ Shooter Jared Loughner Is A Teabagger
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Post by Casey Gane-McCalla in NewsOne Original on Jan 10, 2011 at 4:53 pm

Jared Loughner may not have attended a Tea Party rally or registered with any Tea Party groups, but he shares several similarities with the Tea Party movement.

1. Anger Against The Government

The first obviously is his anger against the government. His violent act reflected the anger against government for health care, and immigration symbolized by Sarah Palin’s placement of Rep. Gifford in the crosshairs of gun.

While Loughner’s rants may seem like those of a madmen, so do most rants from Tea Party members. Several elements from Loughner’s rants directly tie him the Patriot Movement, anti-New World Order crowd, that is prominent in the Tea Party.

2. Obsessed With The Constitution

Like many in the Tea Party, Loughner was obsessed with the Constitution. He would use the Constitution to back up his nonsensical arguments constantly according to teacher’s and classmates.

3. Major “New World Order” Conspiracy Theorist

Also like many people in the Tea Party, Loughner was a conspiracy theorist. He believed in a New World Order conspiracy and global currency plot, not unlike the Patriot Movement section of the Tea Party, represented by Alex Jones and Ron Paul. His views on currency also mirror Ron Paul’s and the Patriot movement’s according to the SPLC.

4. Connected To White Supremacist Organization

According to Fox News, the Department Of Homeland Security has tied Loughner to American Renaissance, a pro-Tea Party white supremacist organization. Both the NAACP and myself have connected the Tea Party to several white supremacist organizations.

5. Ayn Rand Fan

Loughner listed Ayn Rand’s “We Are Living” as one of his favorite books. Ayn Rand is Tea Party hero credited with inspiring its philosophy.

The Patriot movement, which is having a big resurgence under the Tea Party, has produced several right wing terrorists. The first one, Timothy McVeigh, a New World Order fearing conspiracy theorist with ties to white supremacists like Loughner, killed 168 people in a terror attack in 1995. James Von Brunn the Holocaust shooter who killed a security guard at the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C. was another right wing terrorist who ranted against the federal reserve, supported Tea Party favorite, Ron Paul and posted on the right wing website, Free Republic.

Byron Williams was inspired by another Tea Party icon, Glenn Beck to plan out an assassination attempt of leaders of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU in an act of terror in 2010 before he was pulled over by police and had a shootout with them.

Jon Patrick Bedell, the man who shot two officers at the Pentagon in a terrorist attack was a fan of Ron Paul’s paleoconservative Lugwig Von Mises institute and Ron Paul’s former head of staff, Lew Rockwell, and the Hutaree Militia who allegedly were planning an attack to kill police men and civilians in Michigan for another terrorist attack were part of the Patriot movement and its leader was a “Ron Paul” fanatic according to his wife.

The elements that had a role in Loughner’s deranged world view, that lead to his atrocious act are all active in the Tea Party, a strong hatred of government, a belief in conspiracy theories, and racism.

Republican leaders must recognize the presence of conspiracy theories, racism, and anti-government resentment in the Tea Party if they are going to incorporate the Tea Party into the GOP. They either need to speak out against these elements or take responsibility next time some McVeigh, Loughner, Bedell, or Williams kills innocent people in a senseless act of terror. In the same way they blame radical Islamic clerics, for the acts of terrorists, leaders and activists on the right must take accountability for the actions of their followers and who they influence.

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thats it, keep drinking the kool aid... you guys will try to convince yourselves of anything...

I don't drink koolaid.

Now if I believed that Obama wasn't a citizen, that is koolaid.
If I believed that the tea party has the best interest for all this country at heart, that is koolaid.
If I believed that the hatemongering and fearmongering of the right has no consequences, that is koolaid.

So no koolaid here.

Loved your article! Its good to see some voices of reason and sanity in this insane world of ours, and its good to stay away from the Kool aid, bad for the health!

so, whenever something bad happens, you lefties try to associate it with the right, whenever something good happens, it was the lefts doing.... kool aid or not, i say get real... who cares what side he is on? so keep playing the blame game, and watch this country go down the toilet because of politics blame game.

the finger pointing extends to both parties...both take the credit when things go right and both blame the other when things go wrong, neither is willing to take a hard look at their internal policies and take responsibility for what people are doing in the name of this or that party.

as long as politicians keep politicking and forget about their duty to the people to govern wisely and fairly for ALL the people, you are going to keep seeing nut bags with guns going postal on innocent citizens.

that kind of crap has been going on all through history, there is always going to be a nutbag with a gun, knife or poison...governing will never be fair for all people, the elitist will always be pissing someone off...

Wait, don't you guys do the same thing? I see a lot of blaming the left for things here in this forum when things aren't going well.

nope...just the lefties...

Riiight. That's just a "lefty" issue. Uh huh.

lol....

This further proves that extreme leftists have no class, they make statements as though they are facts when in reality they are just opinions. AS Ron White said "you can't fix stupid"

Obama learned from the Cambridge police incident and the Shirley Sherrod firing that quickly jumping to conclusions before learning the facts is a bad way to go. Now, if only he can teach that lesson to the media.

and to a few people on here too....

I keep having to remind leftist extremists that by calling someone tea bagger means you are the tea bagged.

Are you seriously telling us that this case of insanity with tragic impact is entirely the fault of the people you personally don't agree with?

This post (along with similar ones from both conservative and liberal Minglers) demonstrates the hatemongering and intolerance you say you despise. The continued fingerpointing and anger almost makes me more sad than the tragedy in Tucson...

Can't we all be NICE for a change?

Person who wrote that obviously never attended a Tea Party rally...

Wanting to shrink size and scope of government does not mean one distrusts government.

It means one does not wish to have their grandchildren assume the debt of irresponsible politicians.

I am getting very good at spotting internet trolls from both parties.

Lets say he was a Teabagger. What does that have to do with anything? I would argue that most democrats are socialists. Hitler was a socialist too. Does that mean we should think Democrats support genocide?

Not sure what happened to my post with all the facts that clearly show he was a Godless,anti government liberal.


You really think this guy who was as anti Government as they get would be at a Tea party rally waving the American flag,signing God bless America,facing the flag and saying the pledge of allegiance,and then listening to speakers talk about how this country needs to get back to the Constitution?


Yeah right!