A lot of clues about yesterday’s events point in the same direction. I remembered a lot of “noise” on YouTube and Alex Jones about a group of young men “resisting” police in Arizona a couple years ago. That group was organized around the name 4409.
Google around a bit and the trail points to Alex Jones and Fans of Ron Paul. That “incoherent rambling” about a new “currency” backed by gold fits pretty cleanly into what some people are hoping happens with the Fed. I’m not suggesting Ron Paul has any involvement, but it is a line of investigation. If he was part of that group, it explains almost everything
Note that it was less than four hours from the shootings before his name was released to the press.
We can ID and release the terrorists (commandos) hired for 9-11 in what 30 min? It takes 4+ hours for this? It drove me nuts the way Bush used the terror excuse and terror alerts to tend and guide the flock of public opinion – that guy had nothing on the O’Bama Gang.
This isn’t directly related, but the “progressive” talk shows are starting to do a WTF? asking why Obama just appointed a banking executive from JP Morgan/Chase to run the White House
Just out of curiosity, what is a judge – let alone a federal judge doing at a political rally?
Here are dots…
She used to be a Republican
The judge is a very strong Conservative
They were friends
The most specific answer was in one of the local papers – he had asked for her help to cosponsor a resolution to support increased spending on the Federal courts in Arizona, which are swamped with cases involving illegal immigration.
One other detail in one source (not confirmed) is that she was one of the handful of Democratic House members who Voter against Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader. She also appeared on Fox News on Friday.
I was seeing a few tidbits suggesting mom in an environmental consultant. If you’re waiting for NPR to ask questions to get to the heart of the matter, it will be a long wait.
He was kicked out of Community College because he was scaring people and refused a psychiatric evaluation. The Army declined his offer to join the military. He was known to be a pothead by his peers and had a couple minor drug related arrests.
Oh and to the actual question – it wasn’t a political event. It was a meet and greet with people in her District. It wasn’t a fund raiser or anything like that.
The first thing I did when I learned of this mess was to send up a little prayer for all harmed by this self-absorbed little punk. Then I read a report or two, and there it was: Her dad blaming the Republican Party and the Tea Party. Aside from revealing astonishing ignorance on his part, it also confirms that some people will seize any excuse, even the mutilation of their daughter and the deaths of innocents including a 9-year-old child, make it into a grandstand and use it to slander others in a dour attempt to score political points. Seventy-five years old or not, that man and people like him are putzes. I hope the Congresswoman recovers completely, that the assailant is executed and that the father is shamed.
It took so long to learn anything about him that I assumed he was a member of a minority/protected class.
Aside from the losses of the family members, we will know see tighter control over gun rights. Republicans who fight the trend will be bludgeoned with it in ’12.
Tighter control on gun rights will probably be the next agenda, A friend of mine, (retierd CHP officer) just moved down to Arizona 7 months ago, and he was telling me carrying a side arm openly was legal, but however only a couple of months ago Arizona passed a law that now a permit was Not needed to carry a weapon conceled. The shooting may have an effect on that law now.
I think the gun control issue will be national in focus. Not that Arizona won’t curb gun rights, but I think gun control will be a hot-button topic in next year’s presidential election. Don’t count POTUS Soetoro out just yet.