The police have identified Jared Lee Loughner as the suspect in the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a dozen others at a Giffords' event at a Safeway grocery store in Tucson.
Internet postings, including a MySpace page and a YouTube account, belonging to a "Jared Lee Loughner," age 22 of Tucson have been identified, but haven't been confirmed definitively as his.
Here's what was listed on his MySpace page before it was removed:
Schools:I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.
Interests:My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
Movies:(*My idiom: I could coin the moment!*)
Music:Pass me the strings!
Books:I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno.
A recent video uploaded on the Loughner YouTube account included "suggestions of anti-government political views."
""You don't have to accept hte federalist laws," the video above says; it also insists on the gold and silver standard, talks of revolution, and suggests that the government is imposing "mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar."
His linked MySpace page, no longer available, included statements about the gold standard and about SWAT teams paying for their equipment with illegal currency....
Loughner also "favorited" just one video on YouTube, which shows the burning of an American flag and is accompanied by an anti-government screed. A sample from that screed:
If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.
There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown.
Burn every new and old flag that you see.
Burn your flag!
I bet you can imagine this in your mind with a faster speed.
Watch this protest in reverse!
Ask the local police; "What's your illegal activity on duty?".
If you protest the government then there's a new government from protesting.
There's not a new government from protesting.
Thus, you aren't protesting the government.
Whether this is the same Jared Loughner or not, the young man who could get a gun and carry it around, concealed, and use it to shoot a Member of Congress in the head was obviously disturbed. Regardless of which team this nut played for, this was a politically motivated shooting--it could be nothing less since he shot a Member of Congress at a political event sponsored by her.