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The Giffords Death Report — An Apology
By Dell Hill I’ve been waiting for a followup to this outrageous National Public Radio (NPR) report ever since the morning the tragedy took place. I was manning the Uncoverage.net FaceBook page and scanning the morning headlines when the news … Continue reading
Indians Claim a Political Scalp After Obama’s Tucson Speech
By Jane Jamison
Remember the half-Mexican/half Yaqui Indian guy, Carlos Gonzales, who gave the very bizarre ‘feather blessing’ – ( blessing reptiles, the door, whatEVER) prayer at the Tucson “T-shirt rally” funeral for the people who were killed by Jared Loughner?
There is PC “fallout” from that freaky multi-culture mukkity-mash, which was nothing but the precursor to Obama for President 2012.
An attorney who was a regular contributor to a conservative blog has been “fired” from his blog by his law firm bosses for daring to say that the “blessing” was weird and Mexi-Yaqui featherbrain was…. an idiot. ( even though he WAS / IS an idiot!!)
SHAME, shame on Akin, Gump law firm….politically-correct wimps to their Indian clientele. Gonzales was a BUFFOON. He had no business blathering on about himself at this ceremony for slain victims. Where was a priest for the Catholic victims, or the rabbi for the Jewish victims, or the pastor for the Christians who were shot? Why the need for some mix-master culture hat tip who meant nothing to the grieving families?
For the record, here is what Blogger Paul Mirengoff wrote at Powerline Blog about Gonzalez’ weird/gross display:
From PowerLineBlog: “An evening in Tucson — the good, the bad, and the ugly” by Paul Mirengoff:
“As for the ‘ugly,’ I’m afraid I must cite the opening ‘prayer’ by Native American Carlos Gonzales. It was apparently was some sort of Yaqui Indian tribal thing, with lots of references to ‘the creator’ but no mention of God. Several of the victims were, as I understand it, quite religious in that quaint Christian kind of way (none, to my knowledge, was a Yaqui). They (and their families) likely would have appreciated a prayer more closely aligned with their religious beliefs. But it wasn’t just Gonzales’s prayer that was ‘ugly’ under the circumstances. Before he ever got to the prayer, Gonzales provided us with a mini-auto biography and made several references to Mexico, the country from which (he informed us) his family came to Arizona in the mid 19th century. I’m not sure why Gonzales felt that Mexico needed to intrude into this service, but I have an idea. In any event, the invocation could have used more God, less Mexico, and less Carlos Gonzales.”
Can We Learn From a Major Conservative Blogger’s Exit?
Paul Mirengoff, a well known blogger at distinguished and conservative Power Line, has left the field.
Dan Riehl “Mirengoff Out At Powerline” (who initially drew our attention to the details of this matter) and Stacy McCain “Power Line Gets Scalped: Did Indian Tribe Money Influence Akin Gump Decision?” comment on the lamentable developments that resulted in Mirengoff’s departure from blogging.
William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection develops the story. He explains –
“So why is Mirengoff no longer at Power Line?
It all resulted from this blog post Mirengoff made after the Tucson shooting memorial service, in which the service was opened with a prayer, of sorts, from an American Indian tribal leader:
‘As for the ‘ugly,’ I’m afraid I must cite the opening ‘prayer’ by Native American Carlos Gonzales,’ Mirengoff wrote. It ‘apparently was some sort of Yaqui Indian tribal thing, with lots of references to ‘the creator’ but no mention of God. Several of the victims were, as I understand it, quite religious in that quaint Christian kind of way (none, to my knowledge, was a Yaqui). They (and their families) likely would have appreciated a prayer more closely aligned with their religious beliefs.’”
Law professor Jacobson cites the outcome at Akin, Gump –
“. . .Bruce McLean, chairman of the firm, issued the following statement: ‘We sincerely apologize for the blog entry posted by Akin Gump partner Paul Mirengoff on his personal blog, powerlineblog.com. Akin Gump is neither affiliated with, nor a supporter of, the blog. We found his remarks to be insensitive and wholly inconsistent with Akin Gump’s values. Mr. Mirengoff regrets his poor choice of words and agreed to remove his post.’ “
We urge our readers to review the many comments at Cornell Law School’s Jacobson’s post, Big Law Firm Takes Down Big Conservative Blogger.
The back-and-forth in these comments gives the reader an often gut-wrenching sense of what “Big Law” in the nation’s capital is all about. Here are three samples (scroll down in the link to see them all) from different voices. They speak for themselves:
“Dear Professor Jacobson- I do not talk out of turn by the way. I have been involved for over twenty-five years with rather large law firms and it is absolutely de rigeur that all employees and partners are required to go through hours of sensitivity training.”
. . . . .
“I am a practicing attorney (former BIGLAW) who has conservative to libertarian leanings. Periodically I post comments on conservative websites. I only post under a pseudonym due to concerns about career issues.”
. . . . .
“Akin Gump is an amazing and amorphous creature, almost unique on the American legal scene in a number of respects . . . .I am absolutely and positively certain that Mirengoff has partners who would have been very sympathetic to his predicament. But you’re looking at the result of a negotiated compromise that presumably reflected Mirengoff’s own assessment of his relative strengths and vulnerabilities vis-a-vis Meggesto and his other partners. And as an institution, they’re superbly well experienced in juggling competing interests; they’re counsel for presidents, princes, and occasionally paupers, and they navigate conflicts like the best Olympic kayaking teams.”
Yes, we know that the Founders would be astounded at the vast governmental influence of “Big Law” — and that these giant law firms are light years from Justice Marshall’s world.
But our question is whether Big Law’s tribal ways — as inferred through these comments — are also the tribal ways of too many in Washington’s much larger Political Class.
Think of all those often quoted GOP “aides” and “consultants” who can be counted on, following the norms of the Republican wing of the Political Class, to talk down such independent legislators as Senator Jim DeMint or Representative Michele Bachmann or the former governor of Alaska.
Perhaps all the talk of “clients” and “money” in the Mirengoff case, and “electability” among the GOP branch of the Political Class, instead masks a kind of generational herd-think.
One thoughtful academic reflecting on today’s university students may also be describing a phenomenon that has already been shaping many of Washington’s younger movers and shakers for two or three decades.
“[T]hey are imbued with the idea that their highest objective should be to get credentialed and connected so that they can enter the Ruling Class so aptly described by Angelo Codevilla in the American Spectator last summer. They are also a product of a society that reinforces the baneful lessons they are taught in school; a society in which: lack of feasance to the prevailing wisdom is punished by marginalization and scorn; morals are relative and no value system is more worthy than any other; deference to professional authority is encouraged and individual curiosity, initiative and responsibility is demeaned; and respect is due to those who help one to gain entry to the Ruling Class, while contempt is reserved for those who stand in one’s way.“
Even though we conservatives have all done our bit to elect a largely congenial majority in the House of Representatives, we still need to take the measure of this opposing but skilled and diligent Political Class whose ways are clearly not ours.
Indeed one is struck, in contrast, by this particular comment appearing on professor Jacobson’s post –
“I’ll tell you whose career is toast: whoever values it more than truth, more than love, more than loyalty, more than duty, more than shame.”
One wonders, moreover, how much freedom of action a conservative blogging (not anonymously) would realistically have if employed in the Federal career service.
These three accounts of the Mirengoff case — Jacobson’s, McCain’s, and Riehl’s — may give us a snapshot of the prevailing Washington, D. C. mindset we face.
Let’s try to learn from this unexpected revelation as we work to turn America in the right direction!
Palin Family Moves: 2010 SarahPAC Report, Bristol Moves to Arizona
The Palin family has been working hard all year and it is paying off. Going “private” to stop the nuisance lawsuits from the Democratic party while she was governor was the wisest thing Sarah Palin could do. Despite the fact that she gets criticism for being a “quitter,” she outfoxed the trial attorneys who would have bankrupted her or worse. She has a Fox News contract, a reality TV show, books, speaking fees, and her political action committee.
Bristol, meanwhile, is making good use of her “15 minutes” of fame. She is moving to a new life in Arizona and leaving a lot of the sadness behind.
Good for her.
After bringing in $279,000 during the final six weeks of last year, Sarah Palin’s political action committee’s total fundraising for 2010 topped $3.5 million, according to a financial disclosure filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
Nearly all the money raised by SarahPAC from Nov. 23 to Dec. 31 came from individual donors — mostly in amounts less than $200, The New York Times reported. Of 600 itemized donations, only eight were for $1,000 or more, the newspaper said.
SarahPAC spent about $2.6 million last year, leaving about $1.3 million in the bank for 2011.
Politico pointed out that Wednesday’s FEC filing betrayed no signs that Palin is gearing up for a White House run. She’s hired no new staff and the PAC’s expenses aren’t close to campaign-ready levels.
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Mix 96.9 in Phoenix, Arizona is offering Bristol – the single mom most recently celebrated as a finalist on Dancing With the Stars — a slot as co-host on the station’s morning show. The current host said he and others met with the 20-year-old last week.
“She seemed like a really nice person,” Mix 96.9 a.m. host Mathew Blades told ABC15 in Phoenix. “The ball is in her court, but she seems interested.”
Bristol recently bought a five-bedroom house in Maricopa, Ariz., and told the Palin family’s favorite Alaska talk show hosts at The Bob & Mark Show that she loves the new place (especially this time of year, we bet).
“It made Dancing With the Stars worth it, for sure,” she said of paying $172,000 in cash for the house.
Apparently, she’s also trying to get her son Tripp’s father, Levi Johnston, to relinquish his parental rights so she can change Tripp’s last name to Palin and Johnston can quit paying child support. Bristol said she’d allow Johnston visitation rights with his 2-year-old son, though.
In addition to talking on the radio, perhaps for a living, Bristol has been invited to bring her abstinence talk to Washington University in St. Louis as part of the school’s “Sexual Responsibility Week” in early February. The school’s student union is budgeting $20,000 for a keynote event featuring Bristol. Outed by her mom as a pregnant 17-year-old during the 2008 presidential race, Bristol earns between $15,000 and $30,000 talking about abstinence to youth groups.
OMG – Obama “High-Fived” Michelle After the Tucson Speech?!
Shirts are seen on chairs before a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in Tuscon, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
I swear, I would give my right arm to get a picture of that.
“Here is something that you will never hear from the media but that some witnessed shortly after the (Tucson) memorial service had finished. Behind the staging area, Obama gave Michelle a “high five” and shared a laugh with her. So within minutes of seeing what is Obama’s finest moment as president it is followed by one of his worst. It is this easy and always there contradiction in the president that concerns me very very much. He was just thrilled at his performance. That was priority #1 for him. It always is. The motivation for his speech was not to heal following the tragedy, but to further appeal to the public and get their approval of him.”
This is spoken by the mysterious individual calling himself “White House Insider” who’s been spilling the beans about the Obama Administration to an equally mysterious online reporter called ‘Ulsterman’. The Insider’s revelations have dwelt with everything from President Obama’s drug use in treating his depression, to the President’s abandonment of important White House meetings, to Michelle’s racism. The Insider campaigned for Obama in 2008 but is now so disgusted with him that he’s rooting for Hillary to get the nomination in 2012. The latest example of Obama’s moral failure is his cynical use of the blood of innocent victims to bolster his political fortune. As the Insider puts it, “Even by DC political standards the human element in Obama seems to be utterly absent. I don’t get it. I don’t understand it.”
I also am disgusted – but it’s from having to listen to the Insider whine that he “doesn’t get it” about Obama’s moral corruption. Oh, come on! He expects me to believe that this is all a big surprise? For God’s sake, two years ago Obama’s corruption was staring the whole world in the face. Back then, his best friend was a Weatherman terrorist who whined he didn’t get to kill ‘more’ American soldiers; his pastor for 20 years was a racist who screamed ‘God D*MN America’ from his pulpit; his political sponsor was a sleazy slumlord; and, most of all, Barack himself had voted three times to deny medical aid to babies who’d survived late term abortions. For crying out loud, in 2008 everyone saw Barack Hussein Obama paddling the backstroke in a sewer of filth and corruption. But only now the Insider is ‘Shocked! Shocked!’ the President isn’t smelling like a rose?
Yes, this picture of Obama high-fiving Michelle after that Tucson speech is disgusting. But what I find even more disturbing is the picture of a blind follower who two years ago stared a corrupt, lying morally bankrupt politician in the face – and didn’t see a thing.
Loughner and the Law
Jared Loughner
Andrew McCarthy of the National Review explains the peculiar intricacies of indicting a man who shot bullets into the head of a judge and a 9 year old girl in Tucson.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/257665/loughner-indictment-andrew-c-mccarthy
The first thing to explain is why the federal indictment did not indict Loughner for murder, despite the presence of corpses littering the ground of the mall where he opened fire. Instead, the indictment charged him only with attempted murder of Representative Giffords and her two aides, Ron Barber and Pamela Simon. The answer lies in the Speedy Trial Act which demands that the federal government indict a defendant within 30 days of the crime.
It doesn’t take a legal mind to realize that this is way too small of a period in which to gather evidence against the accused. Worse, it’s not enough time to run the tests and do the investigation in order to determine if that evidence is accurate or not. Even the smallest misstep can result in defendant’s attorney making a motion at trial to throw out the entire body of evidence and thus secure an acquittal for his client. The prosecution is thus caught between a rock and a hard place; he must satisfy both the Speedy Trial Act and also the need to indict a gunman with evidence that won’t fall apart in court. To solve this dilemma, the federal prosecution employs a legal sleight of hand. McCarthy refers to it as a “stop the clock” indictment wherein the prosecutors cite only the most absolutely rock solid evidence in their charge against the accused. This easily satisfies the 30 day requirement and frees the prosecution to now take all the time it needs in order to assemble the really devastating evidence – blood tests, eyewitness accounts, expert testimony, etc. Once this later evidence is obtained, it will then be added to the charges in what is called a “superseding indictment”.
A clue that this is the government’s intention was given in their press release when they did something unusual in citing the indictment as “an initial three-count indictment”. This was a clear signal they are going to be adding much deadlier charges to it in the weeks and months to come.
One final note – most people will be very surprised (and upset) to note that the prosecution did not seek the death penalty. Part of the explanation is given by the histrionic outburst of Sheriff Dupnik attacking anyone except the gunman for his actions. This signifies the presence of an extremely liberal base in Arizona, one which is always opposed to the death penalty. But the real hindrance to seeking such a penalty lies in Loughner’s mental state. The jury (so to speak) is still out as to whether he is or isn’t insane. On the surface, it would seem obvious from his assault on innocent people in a shopping mall that Loughner is unbalanced; not to mention the fact that he was kicked out of university months earlier due to fears his mental state might endanger his fellow students. But insane acts do not make an insane person. It is a given, of course, that his attorney will plead insanity but the truth remains that it’s still not clear whether his client can be classified as such. Until that determination is made, the indictment will be missing a call for the death penalty.
These therefore are the legal intricacies up to now in this case. For the time being, we can only watch and wait – and pray for the recovery of those individuals harmed by this person called Loughner.
County Attorney (Finally) Tells Sheriff Dupnik to Shut Up About Tucson Shootings
Sheriff Dupnik Finally Muzzled
In a move that should have taken place on January, 8th, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County Arizona, has finally been stifled.
The man directly responsible for blaming political debate for the shooting deaths of six people has finally been told to put a lid on it and the order comes from the Country Prosecutor’s office — essentially, Dupnik’s boss.
“The Pima County Sheriff‘s Department has suddenly turned off the flow of information in the January 8th mass shootings in Tucson. Shortly after noon Tuesday Sheriff’s Public Information Officer, Jason Ogan released this terse, one-line statement:
“Until further notice, due to a controversy between the Sheriff’s Department and the County Attorney’s office, no further information reference the January 8, 2011 shooting will be released.”
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik – Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic
Unfortunately, that same County Prosecutor stood silent for 12 days as Dupnik went on a liberal media whirlwind tour, repeating his political philosophy at every stop. Every time you looked up, Dupnik was on TV, saying exactly what his liberal Democrat fellow politicians wanted to hear. By the time he was done, every Conservative (and Conservatives ONLY) in America was being blamed for the outrageous actions of a deranged young man, who – as it turns out – doesn’t appear to have any real political party axe to grind. All of the evidence thus far indicates he was strongly opposed to the U.S. government in general, but Dupnik has stuck to his guns (sorry, for the highly inflammatory language) and he’s tried to justify it by telling AZ Central ”I’m 75 years old. Thirty years sheriff, 52 years a cop. Maybe I’ve earned the right to speak my mind.”
If only that were true, sheriff, and we both know it’s not. No one cares how many years of experience you have or what your political opinions might be. You’ve crossed the line from independent criminal investigator into an area that’s forbidden. Pretending to know what goes on in a criminal’s mind is a job for doctorate level experts, not the local sheriff who also has a personal axe to grind.
What Sheriff Dupnik didn’t say is as important as what he did. Dupnik is a card-carrying Democrat for his entire adult life. He’s generally considered as the leader of the Pima County Arizona Democrat Party and this isn’t the first time he’s allowed his political opinion to spill over into his professional judgement. Dupnik became a celebrity of sorts by refusing to enforce Arizona’s SB 1070 law because, in his opinion, that law was unconstitutional. (Note: Dupnik isn’t a judge; he’s not an attorney, nor is he medically trained to the level that would qualify him as an expert witness in any court of law. His actions constitute ‘selective law enforcement’, which is seriously frowned upon by the entire law enforcement community.)
No one is questioning Sheriff Dupnik’s right to speak his mind. He’s an American citizen and we all have that same right. However, introducing his political opinion into a murder investigation just a few hours after the fact is a serious malfeasance of his sworn oath and a violation of the ethical standards to which he is also bound. He made the same mistake that all law enforcement officers make from time to time — he allowed his personal admiration for the victim(s) and his political beliefs to overrule good judgement and a fair, independent investigation of the facts surrounding a six count murder. The fact he was allowed to hit the talk-show circuit to continue his tainted rant is even more troubling. He should have been muzzled immediately.
Dupnik has unknowingly handed defense counsel a truckload of ‘causal connection’ petition material. In essence, the good sheriff has said ‘we arrested the shooter but it wasn’t his fault’. In the coming weeks, he’s going to hear that same excuse repeated time and time again as a plausible reason for Jared Loughner to go on a killing rampage. He may very well have planted the initial seeds of ‘reasonable doubt’ in the mind of a prospective juror, which could lead to an acquittal.
Sheriff Dupnik innocently revealed his personal involvement in this case almost from square one, telling AZ Common “(he) was leaving a sheriffs convention in Palm Springs, Calif., a week ago Saturday when he got word of a shooting just outside Tucson
“Seven people shot. That’s all we knew,” he said.
On the six-hour drive back, he heard more details on the radio. That it was at a town-hall meeting outside a supermarket. That U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot point-blank in the head and was clinging to life. That the gunman, young and possibly mentally unstable, kept firing and killing and wounding others before being tackled and disarmed.
“I just got angrier and angrier on my way back to Tucson,” said Dupnik, a longtime family friend of Giffords’ and her parents.
He arrived at headquarters and about a half-hour later was standing before reporters to give a briefing. He started speaking about his friend, Giffords, and about his sadness and his shock. Then, he gave voice to his anger.”
And it was at that very moment that Dupnik should have referred this investigation to the Arizona State Police and/or Federal Bureau of Investigation authorities. He didn’t recognize the fact that his personal involvement was seeping over into his profession as a law enforcement officer, instantly tainting anything and everything he did from that point on. The very same prosecutors office that stifled Dupnik today should have done so on January 8th. Every single piece of his work in this case is tainted by his personal affection for one of the victims and his personal political beliefs. Neither of which is acceptable in law enforcement.
Tucson Murder Trial to Be Moved to San Diego
Jared Loughner
As expected, the murder trial of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner will have a change of venue. The fact that a federal judge was one of the murder victims has caused all federal judges in the Arizona district to recuse themselves.
Federal authorities are planning to move the trial of the alleged gunman in the Jan. 8 mass shooting in Tucson to San Diego because of extensive pretrial publicity in Arizona, federal law enforcement sources said Sunday night.
Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is charged in federal court in Arizona, but court officials plan to move the case out of the state within several weeks, the sources said. They cited publicity and the sensitivity of the case in Arizona, where one of those fatally shot was John M. Roll, the state’s chief federal judge.
The new chief judge, Roslyn O. Silver, will make the final decision about any venue change, but one law enforcement official said “it’s going to happen. It’s just a matter of time.”
Loughner is charged in the massacre that killed Roll and five others and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz). Legal experts have said his lawyers are likely to seek a change of venue to ensure he receives a fair trial.
Federal officials said San Diego would get the case in part because it’s one of the closest judicial districts to Arizona. A San Diego-based federal judge, Larry A. Burns, was appointed last week to hear the case because Arizona judges recused themselves. Judy Clarke, Loughner’s attorney, is also based there.
Although changes of venue are not regularly granted, they have occurred in high-profile cases. In 1996, for example, a federal judge moved the Oklahoma City bombing case to Denver, saying defendants Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols had been “demonized” in the media.
Loughner, who is charged with murder and attempted murder, is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison outside Phoenix.
For his own safety, officials said, he is being kept away from other prisoners and spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell. He gets about an hour a day to shower and exercise.
Grannie, Get Your Gun: Tucson Gun Show Jammed with Buyers After Massacre
The Democrat response to the Tucson massacre, one week ago today, is to immediately make moves to take guns AWAY from us. REAL Americans living Tucson are flocking to a gun show this weekend and buying everything in sight.
Note: Crossroads of the West is having a gunshow in San Francisco this weekend. Here is the calendar of upcoming shows.
Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive gun laws in the United States.
“People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I’m going to get shot,” said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city. “Either way, it drives sales.”
The show was held a week after college dropout Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a grocery store with semi-automatic pistol, killing a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl and four others.
Thirteen people were injured by the hail of bullets, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remains critically ill in a city hospital, shot through the head.
Private citizens in the United States are the most heavily armed in the world, according to a study issued by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and gun ownership is a cherished constitutional right.
In 2009, the FBI ran more than 14 million criminal background checks on people seeking to buy firearms, although no record is kept of the number of guns actually sold.
As a stars-and-stripes flag fluttered at half-staff outside the show to honor the dead, shoppers picked over stalls crammed with AR-15 assault rifles and semi-automatic pistols, including the popular Glock 9mm model police say was used in last weekend’s shooting.
Others bought hunting and target rifles or pistols for self-defense, or bought and sold antique weapons for the love of collecting.
“It’s just a hobby,” said chemist Donald Macaulay, 62, who hoped to sell several reproduction flintlock and cap lock rifles at the show. “I get a lot of pleasure from it.”
‘WAKE-UP CALL’
Loughner, 22, is charged with five federal counts, including the murder of a federal judge and the attempted assassination of Giffords.
The shooting highlighted permissive gun laws in the United States — and in Arizona, where a state law allows citizens at least 21 year of age to carry a gun in their pocket without special training or permits.
Gun control advocates said they would like to close one loophole in the law that allows the purchase of guns at gun shows, such as the one in Tucson on Saturday, without going through a background check.
Some in the U.S. Congress want tighter regulation of some semi-automatics and the extended magazines of a type Loughner is accused of using to fire dozens of shots in just a few seconds.
But some people at the Tucson trade show drew the opposite conclusion and said the deadly spree showed that Americans need to go out and buy more guns for self-defense.
“This incident shows very, very clearly why it is so vital to have more people armed and ready and prepared to defend” themselves and others, said Charles Heller, 53, a founder of the Arizona Citizens Defense League, a group that advocates the right to bear arms in the state.
Jim Hague, a 50-year-old nurse, said of last weekend’s shooting: “If a responsible person carrying a gun had been there, he could possibly have helped control the situation.”
Loughner has had a history of emotional problems that have emerged since the shooting. Calls by some groups have focused on the weaknesses of the system used to prevent people with mental illness from buying guns. Loughner successfully bought a gun from a store in November.
“I’m in favor of possibly doing a bit more of a thorough background investigation before just handing someone a firearm,” said Steve Smith, 53, a commercial collections investigator carrying a Beretta carbine strapped across his chest, and a Colt pistol in a holster.
Note: Crossroads of the West is having a gunshow in San Francisco this weekend. Here is the calendar of upcoming shows.
Do you feel lucky, Punk?
Grannie, Get Your Gun: Tucson Gun Show Jammed with Buyers After Massacre
The Democrat response to the Tucson massacre, one week ago today, is to immediately make moves to take guns AWAY from us. REAL Americans living Tucson are flocking to a gun show this weekend and buying everything in sight.
Note: Crossroads of the West is having a gunshow in San Francisco this weekend. Here is the calendar of upcoming shows.
Reuters) - Thousands of shoppers browsed for guns at a trade show in Tucson on Saturday, a week after a shooting rampage that killed six people and raised questions about permissive gun laws in the United States.
“People see it as either guns are going to get banned, or I’m going to get shot,” said stall holder Randall Record, 27, explaining the mood at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show on the outskirts of the city. “Either way, it drives sales.”
The show was held a week after college dropout Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire on a crowd gathered outside a grocery store with semi-automatic pistol, killing a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl and four others.
Thirteen people were injured by the hail of bullets, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remains critically ill in a city hospital, shot through the head.
Private citizens in the United States are the most heavily armed in the world, according to a study issued by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and gun ownership is a cherished constitutional right.
In 2009, the FBI ran more than 14 million criminal background checks on people seeking to buy firearms, although no record is kept of the number of guns actually sold.
As a stars-and-stripes flag fluttered at half-staff outside the show to honor the dead, shoppers picked over stalls crammed with AR-15 assault rifles and semi-automatic pistols, including the popular Glock 9mm model police say was used in last weekend’s shooting.
Others bought hunting and target rifles or pistols for self-defense, or bought and sold antique weapons for the love of collecting.
“It’s just a hobby,” said chemist Donald Macaulay, 62, who hoped to sell several reproduction flintlock and cap lock rifles at the show. “I get a lot of pleasure from it.”
‘WAKE-UP CALL’
Loughner, 22, is charged with five federal counts, including the murder of a federal judge and the attempted assassination of Giffords.
The shooting highlighted permissive gun laws in the United States — and in Arizona, where a state law allows citizens at least 21 year of age to carry a gun in their pocket without special training or permits.
Gun control advocates said they would like to close one loophole in the law that allows the purchase of guns at gun shows, such as the one in Tucson on Saturday, without going through a background check.
Some in the U.S. Congress want tighter regulation of some semi-automatics and the extended magazines of a type Loughner is accused of using to fire dozens of shots in just a few seconds.
But some people at the Tucson trade show drew the opposite conclusion and said the deadly spree showed that Americans need to go out and buy more guns for self-defense.
“This incident shows very, very clearly why it is so vital to have more people armed and ready and prepared to defend” themselves and others, said Charles Heller, 53, a founder of the Arizona Citizens Defense League, a group that advocates the right to bear arms in the state.
Jim Hague, a 50-year-old nurse, said of last weekend’s shooting: “If a responsible person carrying a gun had been there, he could possibly have helped control the situation.”
Loughner has had a history of emotional problems that have emerged since the shooting. Calls by some groups have focused on the weaknesses of the system used to prevent people with mental illness from buying guns. Loughner successfully bought a gun from a store in November.
“I’m in favor of possibly doing a bit more of a thorough background investigation before just handing someone a firearm,” said Steve Smith, 53, a commercial collections investigator carrying a Beretta carbine strapped across his chest, and a Colt pistol in a holster.
Note: Crossroads of the West is having a gunshow in San Francisco this weekend. Here is the calendar of upcoming shows.
Do you feel lucky, Punk?
Jared Loughner’s “Genocide, Torture” Video
Jared Loughner showed up in court with a shaved head and a bruised cheek
The blatant attempt by the Pima County Sheriff to blame tea party conservatives for the Tucson murders is a “deflection.” Clarence Dupnik is trying to hide his own negligence in not arresting, detaining, or committing Jared Loughner for mental health treatment. This will come out, though maybe not right away. There’s no other explanation, unless it would be that Dupnik is nothing but a political hack.
In the meantime, the Los Angeles Times has received a rambling, freaky video filmed by Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner, which shows how “far gone” he is. Wow.
Apparently Loughner posted this to YouTube, campus police found it, and Loughner was (finally) suspended from school. With this and all other run-ins with the law and other people, why didn’t Loughner have a laundry list of charges on his record and why had he never been involuntarily committed? Such a commission, even if temporary, would have put him on the Department of Justice list to not be able to buy handguns, wouldn’t it?
The negligence of Pima County sheriff Clarence Dupnik in not making any charges stick on this kid is very, very suspicious. Loughner’s mother is/was a county employee in Pima – is this a reason why nothing was done? Developing….something is not right here. Listen to this tape. He is a GOON.
Here is a link to the video at Los Angeles Times.
The video, titled “Pima Community College School – Genocide/Scam – Free Education – Broken United States Constitution,” was created shortly after the biology class incident in which Loughner was escorted to an administrator’s office, campus police said. It was taped on the college campus, according to school police.
In the video, Loughner states, “The war that we are in right now is currently illegal under the Constitution”; “This is my genocide school. Where I’m going to be homeless because of this school”; “I haven’t forgotten the teacher that gave me a B for freedom of speech”; “This is Pima Community College, one of the biggest scams in America”; “If the student is unable to locate the external universe, the student is unable to locate the internal universe”; and “Thank you…. This is Jared … from Pima College.”
Within hours of seeing the video, college police officers arrived at Loughner’s home and delivered a letter of immediate suspension to Loughner and his father, Randy, school police reports said.
The video was no longer on YouTube as of this week. It was unclear who deleted it, and exactly when it was taken off the website.
UCBerkeley Chancellor: Arizona’s “Mean-Spirited” Xenophobia Caused Tucson Massacre
U.C.-Berkeley students end corn fast by eating corn
Is it any wonder that the world thinks that Berkeley, California is the fruitsy-nutsy kingdom of the world? The University of California-Berkeley chancellor is its king with a tinfoil hat crown.
The University of California-Berkeley chancellor Richard Birgeneau needs to resign NOW.
Mean-spirited "xenophobia" defeating the Dream ACT made Loughner a murderer in Tucson
Chancellor Birgeneau has personally overseen financial scandals funneling construction projects and school investments to cronies such as Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband , Richard Blum and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, he padded the school’s ridiculous football program and other athletics while academic students were being forced to pay 32% tuition increases, and now is in the midst of draconian budget cuts which keep fat administrators and pensions in place at the expense of worker bees.
Birgeneau is also genius who hired economist Christina Romer (aka the “pork defender”) the disgraced author of the Obama stimulus program who just came back to cower in the bureacracy at UC-Berkeley. Safe and warm and tenured, she will get to lecture to illegal aliens and out-of-state students on economics which make sense only on paper in Romer-World.
Chancellor Birgeneau has also just paid a consultant $7.5 million to tell him to make these latest budget cuts? Are you kidding? Let me guess…whose friend was the consultant? Why not just consult a OUIJA board, Doc? I was available at less than half the price…….I can at least hit the dart board with one or two darts.
And now Cal’s Chancellor presumes to say Arizona’s immigration law is why a crazy man killed 6 people in Tucson?
How much insanity and insult must the California taxpayer take? Cal-Berkeley bends over backwards to give freebies to illegal alien students, making costs for “paying students” so expensive that middle-class kids can’t afford to attend. Only the wealthy kids and the poor kids getting free stuff can get a California UC education, thanks to chancellors like Richard Birgeneau. CUT THIS MAN OFF THE PUBLIC TEAT. LET HIM go sell himself in the private sector and see how that works out for him. Stop with this self-entitled elitist crap. We can’t afford these people.
Mr. "Diane Feinstein" Richard Blum and Chancellor Birgeneau
Birgeneau’s rant at Matier and Ross.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau has come out swinging over the shooting spree that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people, linking it to Arizona’s “discrimination against undocumented persons” and a “climate in which demonization of others goes unchallenged and hateful speech is tolerated.”
In a campus-wide e-mail message, Birgeneau said: “It is not a coincidence that this calamity has occurred in a state which has legislated discrimination against undocumented persons.”
He added that “this same mean-spirited xenophobia played a major role in the defeat of the Dream Act by our legislators in Washington, leaving many exceptionally talented and deserving young people, including our undocumented students, painfully in limbo.”
The Dream Act would have provided a path to legal residency for undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.
Birgeneau’s office said Tuesday that the statement spoke for itself and he would have no further comment.
This isn’t the first time Birgeneau has offered up social commentary.
A couple of years back, the chancellor argued that Berkeley’s tree-sitter protests against a new sports training center were based on “racism against our underrepresented minority student athletes.”
Berkeley campus tree-sitters were finally forcibly removed from heritage trees around the football stadium after 21 months
Negative blow-back to Birgeneau’s comments:
Ward Connerly, a former UC regent best known for spearheading a successful effort to ban race and gender-based criteria for university admissions in California, found Birgeneau’s remarks to be inappropriate.
“Chancellor Birgeneau has a history of making extraordinarily distasteful comments,” Connerly wrote. “This rises to the top. Just because UC is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants doesn’t mean that Arizona needs to be.”
Connerly wasn’t alone in his criticism. Glynn Custred, a retired Cal State professor who serves on the board of the California Association of Scholars, wrote that the chancellor’s e-mail was “logically invalid and shallow,” citing a lack of evidence connecting the alleged shooter to mainstream political ideology and rhetoric. He also questioned whether it was appropriate to bring up the Dream Act with respect to the shooting.
“In this way Birgeneau demonizes, by implication, anyone who disagrees with him on a policy issue, the Dream Act, on which reasonable people might disagree,” Custred said. “It is also ideologically inspired and exploitative, since he takes advantage of this horrible act in order to advance his own policy preference and ideological stance.”
The San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times are NOT covering the decades of dirty profiteering by Senator Diane Feinstein and her husband on the basis of their political contacts. The investigatory work in California on this story has been done by private investigative journalists whose stories are linked below. The mainstream media and the Democrats in California treat Feinstein as an untouchable queen.
With the economic pain going on in this state, ask yourself, HOW RICH DO FEINSTEIN and her HUSBAND have to be? How many more BILLIONS do they need? It is obscene what has happened to the UC system due to Blum/Feinstein opportunism.
WAKE UP.
Michelle Malkin: Another Day, Another Bizarre Tantrum at UC-Berkeley
California High Speed Rail: Sen. Feinstein’s Pork Barrel Land Scam
California Senator Feinstein Helps Husband Cash In on Government Contracts
University of California Corruption Club: Schwarzenegger, Wachter, Blum
The Investors’ Club: How the University of California Regents Spin Public Money into Private Profit
Jerry Brown: #1 Worst Attorney General in the USA
The Hill, David Keene: “Feinstein’s Cardinal Shenanigans”
MSNBC Ed Schultz Has (Live TV) Proctology Moment
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz desperately needs a proctologist because he just inserted his own head up his own rear – and on national television, no less.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-3GTwalrGY
It must hurt even worse considering Schultz began his broadcast by having so much fun using the Tucson tragedy to bash conservatives. First off, he began by smearing the armed services. The cause of the horror at Tucson was because of “the crisis of under treated mental illness among our veterans and other mentally ill Americans.” Having just smilingly put American soldiers on the same level as homicidal lunatics who shoot up a mall in Arizona and kill a 9 year old girl, Schultz then goes after the NRA. He starts of course with the ubiquitous glorification of himself in contrast to gun-owning morons. “I don’t own a pistol and I couldn’t imagine having a fire arm because I wouldn’t know what to do with (a gun that fires) 30 rounds. These guns are made to kill people.” Schultz then mocks the NRA’s defense of gun owners while simultaneously circling his own head with a halo as a ‘victim’ of that defense. “These guns are made to, I guess, protect people. Whatever way the NRA wants it, that’s the way they’re going to defend it. We’re always the bad guys if we question gun control and laws in this country.”
But then the fun ends. Without a clue as to what’s in store for him, Schultz announces that he has one of the ‘heroic individuals’ standing by to be interviewed on live camera. The hero’s name is Joe Zamudio and Joe was one of the first people to wrestle the armed Loughner to the ground. Joe is modest and obviously uncomfortable at being called a hero. “I didn’t think about it, I just did what needed to be done and I went to go help.” So far, so good – but then the roof caves in on Schultz.
You can practically hear the MSNBC reporter’s gasp of shock as Joe states: “I carry a gun and so I was – I felt like I was a little bit more prepared to do some good than maybe somebody else would have been.” Schultz desperately interrupts Joe, asking the young man to tell viewers what happened. But it doesn’t help. After describing Loughner as clearly mentally ill, noting the shooter had an eerie lack of human expression on his face (he was ‘other worldly’ and ‘emotionless’), Joe proceeds to make it clear he is one proud gun owner. “I had my hand on the butt of my pistol and I had clicked my safety off so I was ready to kill him.” Joe describes how he was ready to defend his fellow citizens. “If they hadn’t grabbed him and he was still moving, I would have shot him.” By this time, a clearly freaking Schultz sputters as to whether Joe is serious. Joe doesn’t even blink. “You’re damned right. This is my country and my town. You don’t get to walk round hurting people, killing innocents and little girls. It’s not right.” Schultz makes one last desperate effort to make Joe recant by asking him about the gun laws in Arizona – but that blows up even worse in the reporter’s face.
In clear, simple words, Joe explains how gun control laws hurt the law abiding citizens and only help the criminals – the citizens are stripped of the guns necessary to defend themselves while criminals can get guns anywhere they want, from over the border, by stealing them or buying them out of the trunk of a car. Again, gun control laws only benefit ‘lone wolf’ gunmen who murder people in shopping malls. As a citizen of this nation, Joe is grateful for the protection afforded by our 2nd Amendment. “We live in America and we’re allowed to own guns. It’s not an option.” At this point, Schultz shuts Joe up in the only way he can, by thanking him and getting him the h*ll off the air.
What do you bet that that MSNBC reporter screamed like a banshee once the station went to commercial?
Trying to criticize the 2nd amendment to one of the heroes who disarmed the Tucson killer --- you might say it backfired
Pima County Needs to Remove Dupnik to Conduct Investigation/ New Details on Loughner
By Jane Jamison
Editorial: Sheriff Dupnik Must Step Aside or Be Removed from Office
Pima County Should Conduct Inquiry on Loughner Criminal History and Sheriff’s Failure to Act
Revelations of Loughner’s Lengthy Criminal History Show He Should Have Been Committed
Gun Purchase Could Have been Prevented if Sheriff Dupnik Had Done His Job
Suspect Jared Lee Loughner at the Tucson Festival of Books
Arizona Republic newspaper and other media are beginning to demand the records of Jared Loughner’s various run-ins with the law, with his community college and anywhere else.
The purpose behind all of this is to show that there were YEARS of misbehaviors and threats by Jared Loughner, yet few significant charges were ever filed against him, reportedly because the Sheriff had told some complainants not to file charges because Loughner was receiving adequate medical care.
The parents of Jared Loughner should be held to account, because what is being shown is a long laundry list of bizarre carryings-on. This kid should have been charged with some of his many crimes and SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED for mental health treatment.
Bottom line: If Sheriff Dupnik had been doing his job, this kid would have a substantial criminal history, a mental health commitment at minimum and would have been unable to purchase a weapon. The public “deflections” by the Sheriff to blame conservative talk shows and public figures is a ruse to hide his own, very real culpability.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors should place Dupnik on waivers while an investigation of his negligence can be conducted. The families of the shooting victims should immediately lawyer up and notify the county of its liaibility in this matter due to the shameful failure of duty by this Sheriff.
Report on Previous Criminal/ Unusual Behaviors by Jared Loughner
Incidents have been alluded to by the reprehensible Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County. There is good reason to believe that the reason he is pointing fingers and deflecting attention toward the tea party, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and any other conservative he can think of, ACTUALLY the reason Loughner was “on the loose” last Saturday is because of Dupnik’s failure to arrest this delinquent and press charges despite many opportunities to do so.
First, there is a report from the Arizona Republic which shows there was trouble between Jared Loughner and his father a few hours before the massacre.
“New details emerged Tuesday in the investigation of Jared Loughner, the man accused in the weekend shooting rampage of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others, as officials described additional handwritten messages found inside his family’s home and a string of pornography charges on his credit card.
The phrases “die, bitch” and “die, cops” were found scrawled on papers taken from the Loughner home, said Pima County Sheriff’s Operations Bureau Chief Rick Kastigar.
Kastigar said Tuesday that authorities seized the messages, which were among others found inside “a locked box of some kind.”
“There were two significant papers that had some hand-scrawled comments,” Kastigar said. “They were not sentences. . . . What they referenced and who wrote them and all those things are unclear at this point, and it would be conjecture to say who wrote them.”
It’s also unknown when the notes were written. The notes were found alongside others ones, including “I planned ahead,” “My assassination” and “Giffords.”
A federal source close to the case said his credit card had multiple charges for pornography.
Kastigar also confirmed that Loughner’s father witnessed his son with a black bag Saturday morning, the day of the shooting, and inquired about what he was doing.
“Jared apparently mumbled something and left hurriedly,” Kastigar said. “The dad attempted to follow, and Jared darted off in the desert (on foot).”
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told the Associated Press that the father got into his truck and attempted to chase his son. Loughner eventually took a taxi to the Safeway supermarket north of Tucson where Giffords was holding a “Congress on Your Corner” event. The shooting rampage, which killed six and wounded 13, took place just outside the store.
Jared Lee Loughner -- high school photo
Previous Criminal Activities by Jared Loughner
From the Smoking Gun (see more original report links at the site):
JANUARY 12–Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner was once arrested after showing up intoxicated one morning at his high school. He claimed to have “drank the alcohol because he was very upset as his father yelled at him,” according to a sheriff’s department report.
The document, seen here, was among a dozen Pima County Sheriff’s Department reports released today by investigators (the records memorialize assorted contacts cops have had with Loughner and his parents over the past several years). Of the four reports involving the accused killer, two detail arrests of Loughner.
In May 2006, deputies were summoned to Mountain View High School by an assistant principal who reported that Loughner was in the school nurse’s office “currently under the influence of some type of intoxicant most likely Vodka.” Loughner, 17 at the time, was transported to a local hospital, where he told cops that he had consumed about 12 ounces of vodka over a seven-and-a-half hour period.
A deputy noted that nursing staff reported that Loughner “had stolen the alcohol from his father’s liquor cabinet.” When Loughner’s parents arrived at the hospital, the deputy informed them that the teen “was under Arrest for Consuming Alcohol.” The matter was subsequently handled in Pima County Juvenile Court.
Other incident reports released today included an October 2008 document detailing how Loughner walked into a Tucson precinct one afternoon to report that someone had placed his photograph on an online profile. Loughner told cops that he had Googled his name and the first result listed was to a PeekYou.com page with a photo of him when he was 16.
He also reported that the PeekYou page included a link to a MySpace account that carried only the name “Jared” and a user handle of “screwupretard.” While that MySpace page remains online, it carries no photos, blog entries, or list of friends–though “Jared” claims to be a 32-year-old woman from upstate New York.
Loughner told an investigator that he sought to file a police report “because he was concerned about trying to get jobs and having employers pulled this up and see someone using his identity on their profile.”
A third report details Loughner’s September 2007 arrest for possession of drug paraphernalia. Loughner was a passenger in a friend’s van when it was pulled over in response to a suspicious vehicle call. A deputy, who reported smelling a strong odor of burnt marijuana emanating from the vehicle, first arrested the driver, Bryce Tierney, for possession of rolling papers, a pot pipe, and a marijuana roach.
When a second deputy asked if he had any contraband, Loughner said no. When the cop asked Loughner if he could search him, “He said he had a right to say no…he never stated no, he just advised me that he had the right to say no.” Loughner subsequently admitted that he had a glass marijuana pipe in a pocket.
In response to a deputy’s question about whether any other pot or paraphernalia was in the car, Loughner “stated no there was not as he had already smoked it, meaning him and the driver who was his friend.”
Another report chronicles a September 2004 incident at Loughner’s high school during which he reported that a fellow student had stuck him with some kind of needle. Loughner, 16 at the time, told a sheriff’s deputy that “as soon as he figured out that he was poked with a needle, he started to become pale, got dizzy, could not stand and had to be helped to a nurse’s office by another friend.”
After consulting with his parents, Loughner declined to pursue assault charges. But he did tell a deputy that his parents wanted the other student “tested to see if he has HIV or any other kind of diseases.” (10 pages)
[end Smoking Gun report]
Vodka Report on Loughner
Arizona Republic: Community college releases Loughner incident reports:
Pima County Community College records released Wednesday afternoon detail a series of events that led police to contact Loughner for what instructors and administrators considered increasingly odd behavior.
The file details four incidents in 2010 where campus police officers had contact with Loughner for being disruptive.
Loughner’s run-ins at Pima Community College
The first incident came in February when Loughner reacted strangely to a student’s poem about abortion that was read aloud in the class.
The school’s dean, Patricia Houston, told the officer that Loughner had a “dark personality and is kind of creepy and they had resolved to keep an eye on him.” Another student in the class thought Loughner had a knife in his possession.
The February report also states that the officer checked his criminal history and found that “Loughner has some prior drug involvement but no warrants or anything of immediate concern.”
Two months later, police were called to the library after the director became concerned with Loughner’s behavior when using the computers.
In May, Loughner became “very hostile” over the grade he received in a Pilates class at the school. Loughner’s reaction was concerning enough to the instructor that she said she did not feel comfortable teaching the class without an “officer in the area.”
The final report was taken in June, when Loughner submitted a math paper with “Mayhem Fest!!” written across the top.
The dean, who called police, said she wanted Loughner’s actions documented so the police “could look into the conduct” on the advice of a police commander.
The final report was taken in September and led to the school serving Loughner a “notice of immediate suspension” after he disrupted another class.
The officer who took the report noted that “there might be a mental health concerns involved with Loughner,” according to the documents.
Later, when an officer served Loughner with the suspension notice at the family’s home in Tucson, the officer wrote, “While inside the garage, I spoke with Jared who held a constant trance of staring as I narrated the past events that had transpired,” the report states.
As the officer left, Loughner broke his silence and said, “I realize now that this is all a scam.”
Jared Loughner showed up in court with a shaved head and a bruised cheek
Nice Work, Sheriff! Tucson Tea Party Leader Gets Death Threats
Talking Points Memo via Gateway Pundit:
Way to Go, Sheriff DipStick! Your hate speech may get a Tea Party leader killed.
Trent Humphries, Tucson Tea party
Tucson Tea Party leader Trent Humphries and his famil will not be able to attend the services for the Tucson massacre victims because he has been receiving death threats since Saturday:
Humphries says he’s been getting threats at his home from people who seem to hold him and his organization partially responsible for the shootings Saturday.
Humphries told TPM he’s called the Sheriff’s department more than once in the past few days to make them aware of threatening phone calls.
“We got a not-so-veiled threat,” Humprhies told me. “The Sheriff’s deputies told me to stay away from public places.”
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Humphries said the threats have coincided with Saturday’s shooting and began nearly right away.
“We had people say, ‘too bad it wasn’t your family that was killed,’” Humphries told me. Other angry calls have come in as well. “‘The blood of that little girl on your hands,’” Humphries recalled one message saying.
But it was a new call that came in this week that Humphries said had him staying out of public view for a while.
“It was something like ‘we hate you and we’re going to stand against you and we’re going to use our First and Second Amendment rights to stop you,’” Humphries told me.
Since Saturday, Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been drawing criticism nationwide blaming “vitriolic” tea party rhetoric, Sarah Palin, Fox News, and Rush Limbaugh and all conservatives in general for a “heated” environment which inspired Jared Loughner to murder.
Nice work, Clarence.
Let me direct you again to my posts from neighboring Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio who is telling Dupnik to shut and resign, and a phone-call list for Pima County supervisors to request Dupnik be fired or at the very least, censured and disciplined.
Dupnik is going to cause a very expensive change of venue due to his inflammatory prejudicial statements and he is assisting Loughner’s defense with the bogus alibi of “the media made me do it.”
His friends, his classmates and witnesses says Loughner has no political interests whatsoever, but he is a first-class, monkey-jibber nutjob.
One of Loughner’s friends said again today:
“He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.”