[lbo-talk] Haaretz - Shooter of Jewish Congresswoman listed 'Mein Kampf' as favorite book

James Leveque jamespl79 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 9 05:22:12 PST 2011


He also listed Plato, Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Lewis Carroll, Harper Lee, Ken Kesey and a half dozen other very random books. It struck me a smattering of "important" works, but nothing anybody could glean a coherent ideology from. So I think the listing of Mein Kampf with the Communist Manifesto is more or less meaningless. Much like a lot else in this whole sad crime.

James

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
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> Shooter of Jewish Congresswoman listed 'Mein Kampf' as favorite book
> On his YouTube and MySpace pages, the Jared Lee Loughner posted masses of
> anti-government ramblings on his MySpace page and on a YouTube account
> "Classitup10" that was linked to him.
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> Jared Lee Loughner, the key suspect in the shooting attack that critically
> wounded Arizona Jewish Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, listed
> Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto as two of his favorite books.
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> On his YouTube and MySpace pages, the 22-year-old posted masses of
> anti-government ramblings on his MySpace page and on a YouYube account
> "Classitup10" that was linked to him.
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> The MySpace page, which was removed within minutes of the gunman being
> identified by U.S. officials, included a mysterious" Goodbye friends"
> message published hours before the shooting and exhorted to his friends:
> "Please don't be mad at me."
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> The YouTube account is still operational.
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> His exact motivation was not immediately clear. Federal law enforcement
> officials were poring over captured versions of the MySpace page and over
> uploaded Youtube videos.
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> Loughner, a Tucson resident, is currently being held in custody. Pima
> County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described him as "unstable" but not "insane.
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> The sheriff told a news conference that the suspect was tackled to the
> ground after the shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded.
>
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> http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/shooter-of-jewish-congresswoman-listed-mein-kampf-as-favorite-book-1.336025
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