This is an attack on America, our institutions and our freedoms. Whoever did this, no matter his motives, acted out of deranged evil and anyone who tries to make political hay out of this is sick.

Before we are conservative or liberal, or left or right, or Republican or Democrat, we are Americans. This is tragic and could have far reaching consequences that hurt all Americans.

Again, this and all actions like it, are a direct attack on the United States of America and every good thing we have stood for over the last 234 years.

Praise the Lord – the initial report of her death is being taken back. Reuters and some law enforcement are saying that she’s still in surgery, very critical condition, but NOT dead.

I will tell anyone who will listen how despicable they are that while this woman clung to life how they ripped her humanity away to make a political point and suggest you all do the same until the crescendo is so loud they skulk away to the dark corners to which they belong.

Do you not care that this woman was a mother and wife? She is a human being and so were the others who were shot. They are not simply poltical fodder that can be tossed around.

Just because Palin wanted to defeat her in office or disagreed with her politically does not mean that she wanted her to be harmed. People, please have a heart. Our focus right now should be to pray that this woman will live and survive this tragedy ( Fox is reporting that she is alive, but in critical condition).

Make no mistake, this was an attack on the US. Someone shot at a United States Representative and her staff. This is a sad daty and I hope that the person who committed this crime will be brough to justice.

Newspapers:

- Arizona Republic is the state’s most professional newspaper, out of Phoenix
- Arizona Daily Star is Tucson’s only “real” newspaper. Google: “azstarnet”

Online papers:

The Tucson Citizen and Tucson Weekly will be the most pro-liberal. (Tucson Weekly is an alternative newspaper). If you’re looking for slurs on Republicans, they’ll most likely start here.

On TucsonCitizen.com, watch the following bloggers, whose disdain/hatred for Republicans is most white-hot
- Desert, Science and Hot Dogs: The Three Sonorans
- Tucson Progressive
- View From Baja Arizona
- The Data Port

If you’re looking for the places where “blame-the-Republican” comments are likely to emerge, watch the Weekly and the Citizen.

Just disgusting. The Pima County Democratic Party is already trying to score political points with this on CNN.

… and not one word on the perp’s race. (You KNOW the MSM would have posted it by now if he “looked” like a TEA party patriot)

I say the left will be rendered VERY quiet (a la the Discovery Channel gunman) when his identity/motive are confirmed.

Continued prayers for her, her family, and the other victims and their families.

It’s sad that the Left seems to almost jump with glee when something tragic like this happens because they see an opportunity to mine it for political capital, rather than being concerned about the victims involved. It’s shameful and tells you all you need to know about the most sick of the sick on the Left. If it comes out this was a protest against her immigration policies, watch how they all retreat like cowards.

Unfortunately, this is a call to arms on the leftie websites like Daily Kos – they want the guns taken away, the talk show hosts inciting violence off the air and they want this to be the end of Sarah Palin for “targeting” her during the elections. I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I don’t even put it past the libs to do things like this on purpose to further their goals and political figures. It is more likely that the shooter will turn out to be a registered Democrat than anything else. And we will probably hear Sarah Palin’s name this week more than Giffords. And the libs will not feel guilty about it at all.

for one of the local papers, a Fitzpatrick, I believe. He started out saying this was the fault of the “Right Wing.” Disgusting.
May God have mercy on the victims and pray for the wounded.

The left also jumped the gun on the loon who drove his plane into a building in Texas. His writings were full of anti-Bush hate. I think the also jumped the gun on the Fort Hood psycho, saying it may have been a right wing radical, then saying it had nothing to do with his Muslim background.

the Daily Kooks were making “jokes” about Scalia dying.
By the way, Giffords was a Blue Dog which on that blog is called a “Bush Dog”-a species they have repeatedly called on to be “exterminated”, “wiped out”, etc.

Here is a post from one JtinDc from Jan. 4 on that lovely blog:
” I will be dancing in the street on the day evil scumbags like Cheney and Scalia die. If any of them get buried anyuwhere within my geographic location I will make every effort to spit and pi*s on their graves on at least an annual basis.” followed up by one two Moms in AZ who states “I feel bad that I agree with you “.
Then we have another humanist called teachme2night chime in with “I can’t think of a single way Scalia could die that would fail to make me laugh out loud and dance a little jig.”

Somebody with more internet knowledge then I needs to save these posts before TV Markos deletes them.

Just heard CNN reporter keep prodding Pima County Dem committee leader until he got a gun control comment out of him.
Pima county leader’s main concern, rightly so, was the welfare of the injured, but the reporter couldn’t help himself….
Prayers for the Rep. and others injured.

Regards

May the One who was a source of blessing for our ancestors, bring blessings of healing upon Gabriel Giffords, a healing of body and a healing of spirit. May those in whose care they are entrusted be gifted with wisdom and skill, and those who surround them be gifted with love and trust, openness and support in their care. And may they be healed along with all those who are in need. Blessed are You, Source of healing.

G. Giffords is my congresswoman, and I wanted to see her replaced by Jesse Kelly. Nevertheless, I am exceedingly sad to learn that she — and others — have been shot.

Prayers for all of them are in order, and also for our nation — as I do not think that the people who boast of not letting a crisis go to waste will hesitate to further their leftist, anti-Constitutional agenda through using as a pretext this despicable incident.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/01/democratic-rep-gabrielle-giffords-6-others-shot-at-arizona-safeway/69138/

The gunman, who may have come from inside the Safeway, walked up and shot Gifford in the head first. According to Rayle, who is a former ER doctor, Gifford was able to move her hands after being shot.

After shooting Gifford, the gunman opened fire indiscriminately for a few seconds, firing 20-30 rounds and hitting a number of people, including a kid no older than 10 years old. Rayle hid behind a concrete pole and pretended to be dead. When the gunman apparently ran out of ammunition he attempted to flee, but a member of Gifford’s staff tackled him. Rayle helped hold the gunman down while waiting for the sheriff to arrive, about 15-to-20 minutes later. The EMS came about 30 minutes later. Rayle said he was “stunned” by how long it took medical help to arrive.

The gunman was young, mid-to-late 20s, white, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing and said nothing during the shooting or while being held down, although he struggled at first. He was “not particularly well-dressed”; he didn’t look like a businessman, but more of a “fringe character,” Rayle said. The sheriff’s department arrived, arrested the gunman and cordoned off the parking lot.

diary by Blue Boy who says he worked to get Giffords elected & because she voted against Pelosi as speaker, she (Giffords) was dead to him.

Downloaded it though. Have it on my desk top. Pretty nasty stuff.

The facts have not come out, but I think it’s very interesting that you all are condemning the left for their reaction in much the same fashion that the left is blaming this on the right.

We’ll see what the facts are. What will you say if he is a tea party guy?

nt

…while ignoring the Colombine shooter’s virulent anti-Christianity.

Judge John Roll was killed in this shooting. He has a judge appointed by Pres. Bush in 1991. This is a sad day in America when our elected and appointed officials are attacked like this.

Judge John Roll was killed in this shooting. He has a judge appointed by Pres. Bush in 1991. This is a sad day in America when our elected and appointed officials are attacked like this.

This is a shooting with political motives but we really have NO idea WHAT political motives and all this mudslinging should wait until later and concentrate on prayers for the living and the families of the dead

and there is optimism for her recovery. Keep praying…

that I have Facebook friends that are blaming Sarah Palin for this….
“Dear Sarah Palin, Nice work with the whole crosshair, Don’t Retreat, Reload bit. You twit.”
Poor woman is fighting for her life, her family doesn’t know if she’ll survive, and all they can do is try to score political points. Shameful.

that I have Facebook friends that are blaming Sarah Palin for this….
“Dear Sarah Palin, Nice work with the whole crosshair, Don’t Retreat, Reload bit. You twit.”
Poor woman is fighting for her life, her family doesn’t know if she’ll survive, and all they can do is try to score political points. Shameful.

Anti-God, semi-right wing, and thoroughly, completely detached from reality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZaLbqB4

…and may well have been the target. He and family had been under strong fed protection for two years over an illegal immigration trial.

Watch and wait.

Some of his posings elsewhere….the guy sounded like he had enough material from both left and right to be dangerous, but not an idealogue following a party line.

I have ALREADY seen accusations that he was a TEA PARTY person, but from what I have seen he was sure the Amendments to the Consituttion invalidated it along with other strange takes on the US.

He is a loon.

Mein Kampf

What we have here is a one of those “liberatarians (not old school), anarchists, liberals” that have been swirling at the bottom of the bowl of ideology, that I have mentioned before.

“….the guy sounded like he had enough material from both left and right to be dangerous, but not an idealogue following a party line.”

The left is going to be so, so disappointed if this doesn’t work out for them.

It needs to start with Barack Obama. A list of his inflammatory language would be very interesting to read. We could start with “hostage takers” – it’s OK to shoot them, right?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001935064664

Jared and Neuken Op de Fiets are now friends. · Add Neuken as Friend.
Jared is now friends with Brant Hansil and 10 other people…
Jared added Sara Palin and Sarah Palin to his list of inspirational people..
Jared changed his Interested In..
Jared likes Tea Party Patriots and Sara Palin..
Jared joined Facebook..

He also lists:
_______________________________________________________

Basic Information.Sex Male

Interested In Men
_______________________________________________________

He lists under Activities and Interests:

“Tea Party Patriots”

Other than that, the page is blank.

Of course, liberal activists like “JoeMyGod” are busy putting out the message that this FaceBook page is “fake”.

Interestingly… Remember a guy named Jason Levin? The man who started a website back in April called Crash The Tea Party… The man who encouraged his follwers to infiltrate the Tea Party in an effort to dismantle the organization by destroying the Tea Party through faking events of racism and violence to turn public opinion against them?

Pajamas Media wrote a piece on him back in April of this year.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/whos-behind-the-crash-the-tea-party-website/

A post on his website read:

WHO WE ARE: A nationwide network of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents who are all sick and tired of that loose affiliation of racists, homophobes, and morons; who constitute the fake grass-roots movement which calls itself “The Tea Party.”
WHAT WE WANT: To dismantle and demolish the Tea Party by any non-violent means necessary.
HOW WE WILL SUCCEED: By infiltrating the Tea party itself! In an effort to propagate their pre-existing propensity for paranoia and suspicion. … We have already sat quietly in their meetings and observed their rallies.
Whenever possible, we will act on behalf of the Tea Party in ways which exaggerate their least appealing qualities (misspelled protest signs, wild claims in TV interviews, etc.) to further distance them from mainstream America and damage the public’s opinion of them. We will also use the inside information that we have gained in order to disrupt and derail their plans
Sound like fun? … It is!!

If you try to go to his website today you will find this message:

Notice: This domain has been redirected”
If you are the registrant of this domain please contact
invalidwhois@godaddy.com

http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/

Another interesting thing are those posts believed to have been written by Jared Laughner prior to the shooting in which he mentions poor spelling habits of others as his justification for trying to kill those innocent people today…

Coincidents all?

……until an hour or so ago the DCCC had a page that featured a map of America and several bullseyes in different locations. Each bullseye would call up a Republican congressman who, in the DCCC’s words, was “TARGETED” for pressure re the stimulus.
As I said, that site has now been scrubbed. Wonder why? I took a few screen shots and will post if I can figure out how.

A woman who went to school with Jared Loughner is tweeting some interesting things about the shooter:

(Obvious caveat that there is no way to confirm at this time that she actually does know him, but the following is interesting)

“I went to high school, college, & was in a band with the gunman. This tragedy has just turned to horrific.”

“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy.”

“He was a political radical & met Giffords once before in ’07, asked her a question & he told me she was ‘stupid & unintelligent’”

“he was a pot head & into rock like Hendrix,The Doors, Anti-Flag. I haven’t seen him in person since ’07 in a sign language class”

Her latest tweet is that Good Morning America has called her. It’ll be interesting to see if they actually put her on if she actually did know him.

NPR??????? Their so-called news organization should be dismantled. How could you publish something like that without confirmation?

NPR was there as well as Loughner;

Latest information seems to indicate that this person used political thoughts s merely the random bits of lettuce and tomato and Bac-o Bits in his psychotic word salad. If it weren’t the gold standard it’d be FEMA concentration camps or UFOs or lizard people. If this guy was a Tea Party member I’ll be surprised, and if he mentions Sarah Palin I’ll be doubly surprised. But neither would be relevant in any case since a causation implies some level of rational link, and the suspect doesn’t appear to be playing by those rules.

Society needs an early warning system for 20-something males exhibiting signs of a schizophrenic break — but that’s probably impossible because what gets defined as “insane” thoughts would probably be subject to political pressure of all sorts and we don’t want a revisit of Stalinist punative psychiatry…

- Does not believe in God
- Likes burning the American flag
- Dislikes the police
- Favorite books Mein Kampf and Communist Manifesto
- Pretty sure he washed out of the Army in MEPS. I have yet to see anything substantive he was a “veteran”

Product of the Tea Party? You have to be kidding- right??

It’s so sad & so scary. We shop at that Safeway & I have a number of friends who work at the bank in the same parking lot. This monster is pure evil. I understand that he may be truly mentally ill, but he needs to pay for his actions in this life & in the next. Justice will be served. And God will serve the ultimate justice.

…for your comments, which are sane and good and true, at once down-to-earth and profound.

I am grateful that you are the face and the voice for so many of us. We couldn’t ask for a better representative.

She doesn’t have any children. Just goes to show the misinformation alleyway that even some Republicans buy into. I pray for Mrs. Giffords full recovery, but, we need to watch the next 24 hours, as her surgeon said. I pray she has a full recovery, and, is back in the House very soon. Please get the facts straight guys.

with the Pima County sheriff? He is all but blaming talk radio for “influencing” a mentally ill person. This is unbelievable. He is turning this tragedy into a political opportunity on live television. Sick.

with the Pima County sheriff? He is all but blaming talk radio for “influencing” a mentally ill person. This is unbelievable. He is turning this tragedy into a political opportunity on live television. Sick.

blames talk radio and ‘bigotry’ for this.

Another article on this:

http://www.huliq.com/10061/az-congresswoman-giffords-shooting-update-hate-speech-blamed

disgusting to politicize this.

These people deserve our thanks and to be recognized for their heroism. If there were really bullets left in the suspects gun then they saved lives period. Their actions are the definition of “Hero”

Mike

about the nine-year-old girl, but pray for all.

As the Left will predictably use this tragedy to attempt to stifle free speech and attack conservative radio, tv and Internet as ‘vitriol’ and ‘overheated rhetoric’, etc, it will be very important to point out that no less than the current President of the United States repeatedly uses language of vitriol and war; with talk of the opposing side as ‘hostage takers’, ‘the enemy’, etc, he has been absolutely the worse offender and we should hold his feet to the fire as well as the MSM as they attempt to spin this for their political advantage.

This has been an utter horror and tragedy, but we must not give any quarter in this struggle; modern politics is warfare of communication and there is too much at stake to let this event sway us from our goal of defeating the Left. We can not allow them a fee pass on any lies or misinformation that they will attempt.

(No to mention that initial indications that this individual listed the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf among his favorite books – full on far -Leftist if there ever was one. )

And let me state that my prayers are with the families of the victims this evening….

the changes our elected officials make in handling their public appearances. I hope there is not an over reaction but I certainly don’t blame them for being concerned for their own safety after this horrible tragedy.

Are things getting so heated that it’s time to consider extra security for Congressional Rep’s and Senators? Should they take some of that 5% they voted out of their own budgets and put it toward Secret Service protection? I think I’d support that expense to ensure our government functions properly.

My heart aches and my prayers will continue for all the victims and families that suffered today.

Unfortunately, the left is using this tragedy to score political points.

Its not unfortunate, its inevitable.

Clinton with McVeigh, Bloomberg with the Times Square Bomber.

I’m still waiting to hear how John Wilkes Booth and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (spelling?) were Tea Party members.

My gut instinct is that at the end of the day for this he’ll turn out to be a seriously mentally deranged person who would have likely shot anyone coming out for an easily accessed local event on the day he chose to go kill someone. Like the guy who flew his plane into an IRS building the media will probably find that the whole real story doesn’t fit the template they tried to force onto the event. Then the media will drop the story like a hot potato.

Sadly many people get shut out or shut off from society and it doesn’t always take a long time to take the trip down the conspiracy/truther rabbit hole of redefining reality to fit this person seems to have walked himself into.

That some will exploit this tragedy for partisan political points is actually a total disgrace in their part that should warrant their removal from office, such as the Sheriff in question and others who are rushing to blame political enemies. But that’s just my opinion.

But I sure expedted it. Some female Dem talking head on CNN earlier this eve repeated the lie that during the healthcare takeover debate, “MANY Democratic legislators had their offices and homes vandalized.” Went on to imply violence is all from the Right. Low-life weasels turn a tragedy into talking points they can spread to “bright” folks like Kristie Brown Kelly.

The strength, spirit, and will to pull through this.

May He guide the actions of her doctors and nurses caring for Gabrielle, and help them act to the best of their professional abilities.

May His kindness and love be with Gabrielle’s family during this trying time.

May He grant eternal peace to those we’ve lost today.

Amen.

There is no right or left in this as far as I’m concerned. This is awful and downright heartbreaking, and I hope she pulls through. Hug your family and be grateful – heaven forbid, it can disappear that quickly.