I was trying to write a piece on Jared Loughner, but it’s difficult to make sense out of an insane man’s ramblings. My point was that having lots of talk from the right about using guns to resolve problems, even if they are only being metaphorical, is dangerous talk because not everyone can tell the difference. However, you can’t couch everything you say in order prevent the insane from misinterpreting you. Every few years some nut commits a horrible crime based on his interpretation of the Bible, and there are plenty of horrible crimes committed by sane people based on the Bible, for that matter.
The problem is that insanity is a relative thing. Byron Williams is sitting in a jail after a shootout with California state troopers. He was on his way to San Francisco to shoot lots of people at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU. His only real source of information about the Tides Foundation had to have been Glenn Beck. I’d never heard about the group. Beck, as is his manner, diagrammed how George Soros, today’s International Jew, was using the organization to destroy America.
Just for a moment, suppose Beck is absolutely correct and the Tides Foundation is working to destroy America. If you are really a patriot shouldn’t you want to do something about it?
Here is a video made by Loughner, strolling through the Pima Community College campus one night after he was kicked out and his parents had been told he wouldn’t be welcomed back until he’d passed a mental examination:
The guy sounds crazy, eh? He mentions mind control although he doesn’t go into detail about how the mind control works.
Let me introduce you to David Wynn Miller, a speaker on the rightwing circuit. One of his principle points is that government controls people by their control of language. It has something to do with adverbs. He also believes that adding hyphens and colons to your name makes you non-taxable in the eyes of the law. Thus, “:David-Wynn: Miller”. This theory hasn’t done well in court. According to Miller there is some connection to the Swiss postal service and the New World Order. He personally has claimed to be a judge and the King of Hawaii.
Miller also is associated with the sovereign citizen’s movement which has something to do with the Christian patriot movement and the Christian Identity movement and other fringe groups. These groups are anti-Semitic.
There is something about the right to print money, which I think brushes up against Ron Paul territory. That was another of Loughner’s obsessions, the illegality of US currency.
As far as I know, David Wynn Miller is not crazy. People come to listen to him speak at seminars. People believe him. People have gone to jail on tax fraud and other charges after trying to use his theories in court. Miller himself believes that Loughner has visited his website because of some of the things that Loughner has said.
Here is an article that better connects the dots between the two.
(If you think that these theories about money are wacky, go here for an hour-long show about money. It answers questions like where the money went when your house lost half its value recently.)
While people are now sitting in jail for following his theories of tax law and how colons and hyphens makes one a non-taxable human, I don’t think he’s ever told anyone to shoot a Congressional representative.
But Sharron Angle, who failed to unseat Harry Reid last fall, said this: "What is a little bit disconcerting and concerning is the inability for sporting goods stores to keep ammunition in stock ... That tells me the nation is arming. What are they arming for if it isn't that they are so distrustful of their government? They're afraid they'll have to fight for their liberty in more Second Amendment kinds of ways?" Since the Second Amendment is the right to bear arms, what the hell is she talking about? And why shouldn’t that be interpreted as shooting for what you can’t get in an election?
Sarah Palin, whose motto is “Don’t retreat, reload”, and who had Giffords’ Congressional seat targeted with a gunsight on her website, was outraged that anyone would in any way blame her for any rhetoric that might have pushed Loughner into shooting Giffords. And now that we are know more about Loughner, it’s pretty clear that he’s schizophrenic and was not processing information clearly, whether or not he visited Palin’s website.
But we know that Byron Williams was inspired by Glenn Beck. Here Beck talks about how he wants to kill Michael Moore. And he hears a voice asking him what would Jesus do. Just a joke, right?
Before anyone sends any apologies to Palin, take a look at a news story about her outrage. “Blood libel” historically is the accusation that Jews kidnapped and killed Christian children because they used their blood in the making of matzos. In discussing this horrible incident where the first Jewish Congressional representative in Arizona is targeted for assassination and a nine year-old girl was murdered, you’d think that Palin would have steered away from the term.
But that’s not what Palin is doing. Palin traffics in outrage, and I wouldn’t be surprised that she, or her handlers or speechwriter, specifically chose that term for precisely that reason. Her supporters around the country are all outraged that the liberal media is picking on her again, or some twaddle. And it serves on another level. For the anti-Semites who follow her using the term to defend herself gives those folks a good chuckle.
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