The Times buries the truth about the left-wing conspiracy of the killer. NYT: “His Anger Would Well Up at the Sight of” Bush

Looking Behind the Mug-Shot Grin

“But Jared, a curious teenager who at times could be intellectually intimidating, stood out because of his passionate opinions about government — and his obsession with dreams.
He became intrigued by antigovernment conspiracy theories, including that the Sept. 11 attacks were perpetrated by the government and that the country’s central banking system was enslaving its citizens. His anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush, or in discussing what he considered to be the nefarious designs of government.
“I think he feels the people should be able to govern themselves,” said Ms. Figueroa, his former girlfriend. “We didn’t need a higher authority.”
Breanna Castle, 21, another friend from junior and senior high school, agreed. “He was all about less government and less America,” she said, adding, “He thought it was full of conspiracies and that the government censored the Internet and banned certain books from being read by us.”

“Mr. Loughner said that he would not ask any more questions for fear of being expelled. All the while, though, he was *expressing himself in sometimes odd conversations with other players in an online strategy game. Writing under the moniker “Dare,” he denounced his “scam” education, expressed frustration over his continued unemployment (“How many applications … is a lot?”) and revealed that he had been fired from five jobs — including one, at a hamburger restaurant, that he lost because he left while in the throes of what he called a “mental breakdown.”

*(In a blog post published today, the Earth Empires team says”After a great deal of discussion, we’ve decided to make the entirety of these threads he was active on available to provide proper context for many of the quotes that have been surfacing in the media in recent days. As a warning, many of these posts contain explicit content and readers should exercise discretion when deciding whether or not to read them. Jared Loughner’s screen name within these posts is “Dare”. We have cleansed these posts of personal information for other posters to protect their identities, but the threads are posted in a complete manner in order to provide context for many of Jared’s posts and responses.”
Interested readers can find the posts in their entirety here. http://www.earthempires.com/jared-loughner-arizona-shooter-posts )

Leaving an Impression
At a small local branch of a major bank, for example, the tellers would have their fingers on the alarm button whenever they saw him approaching.
It was not just his appearance — the pale shaved head and eyebrows — that unnerved them. It was also the aggressive, often sexist things that he said, including asserting that women should not be allowed to hold positions of power or authority.
One individual with knowledge of the situation said Mr. Loughner once got into a dispute with a female branch employee after she told him that a request of his would violate bank policy. He brusquely challenged the woman, telling her that she should not have any power.
“He was considered to be short-tempered and made people at the bank very uncomfortable,” said the individual, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the matter.
The bank’s employees could not forget how, after bulletproof glass was installed at the bank, Mr. Loughner would try to stick his finger through a small space atop the glass and laugh to himself, the person said.
And employees at the Sacred Art Tattoo shop would not forget that day in November — the same month in which Mr. Loughner bought a Glock — when he walked in wearing jean shorts and a muscle shirt and holding up a 9-millimeter bullet that he said he wanted replicated on his right shoulder.
It took less than a half-hour and cost $60. And when it was done, Mr. Loughner insisted on shaking the artist’s hand.
Then, a week later, he returned to get a second bullet tattoo.
“I started talking to him about what he liked to do, hobbies, pastimes,” recalled Carl Grace, 30, who drew the second tattoo. “He said he dreamed 14 to 15 hours a day. He said he knew how to control his sleeping and control his dreams.” But when the artist asked about the meaning behind the tattoo, the customer just smiled.
“When he left, I said: ‘That’s a weird dude. That’s a Columbine candidate.’ ”

READ THE ARTICLE AT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us/16loughner.html?pagewanted=1

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