Stoning Jared Lee Loughner

We hate the violence he did; let's stone him!

There was a little boy

named Jared Lee Loughner. He was born 22 years ago.

When he was a baby he needed to be fed, washed, soothed; he needed his diaper changed. He was weighed and measured, shots were received, he was praised, scolded, taught to sing, color, share, take a nap.

Jared Lee Loughner started life as a baby, just like each and every person who has lived or ever will live on the planet.

People undoubtedly said, "What a cute baby!"

By first grade he could tie his shoes and dress himself.

By third grade he probably knew how to get his parents' attention, his teachers' attention, his friends attention, in whatever way he could.

By his senior year in high school he, like any other American kid, had watched over 100,000 murders on TV.

He had seen hundreds of thousands of beer commercials.

He had seen half a million scenes of happy beautiful people having fun, in the know, accepting each other.

How many murders had he committed virtually in video games?

How many times did he use drugs to medicate his pain?

How many times did he feel the close connectedness of friendship and being part of the group? Now everyone in media wants to see the last picture he took of himself, holding his gun, wearing a red thong.

How many times has the media celebrated women in red thongs,

their power in their nakedness,

their clout between the legs in symbols of sexuality?

How many times

does every little girl see

naked women getting all the good attention?

How many times

do little boys see the one

with the biggest

gun having all the fun,

winning in the end?

What you want is to see Jared Loughner in a red thong, Right Voyeur?

The Media need to SHUT UP

about who created Jared Loughner

because it is they who almost surely have the biggest piece of that Blame Pie.

A big pie with a lot of pieces.

I am so sad for his life, his family, his pain.

My heart aches, I am so sad for his victims and

 the spiral of huge pain that is now but beginning.

In washington dc, as a counselor, i lived with 45 people who suffered from schizophenia. Wonderful people who taught me a lot. (hi David) They had come from various places: the street, halfway houses, St. Elizabeth's hospital.

The life of someone who is paranoid is a HORRIBLE suffering.

Where there is no compassion let there be no judgement.
(The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley)

If we stone him we do not have to blame ourselves
for not being compassionate to the ill, the lonely, the freaked out around us.

If the MEDIA BLAME anyone, it is to cover their

own hypocritcal, hyper-violent, superficial,

disgusting red-thonged rear ends.

Fu'Cryin' Out Loud!

How much is the media scrambling, offering, for a picture of Jared Lee Loughner in the red thong? Hypocrites!

megan fox in a red thong pam anderson in a red thong Scarlett Johansson in a red thong

 http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/jared-lee-loughners-signs-of-mental.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/blaming-dailykos-sarah-palin-tv-and.html

 http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-of-jared-lee-loughner.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mental-health-and-moral-issues-raised.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-sins-everyone-pick.html

Blaming the DailyKos, Sarah Palin, TV and Radio, Rap Music, Politicians for the Arizona Killings of Jared Lee Loughner

Does angry speech or violence in metaphor provoke violence in real life? Some thoughts:
On the Dailykos, a writer who claims he had worked hard and spent his money to elect Congrsswoman Giffords was angry about her stances on issues.
Three days before the shootings, he wrote why he despised her and
typed, "She is Dead to Me, she is dead to me she is dead to me."
Is that phrase now to be banned? (it was removed from the daily kos site)
-Sarah Palin put the congresswoman's district in the (guns) "crosshairs" on her webpage--should she take blame? (has since removed from web).
Are we hatefully promoting violence with phrases and symbols? Do we ban them?

Here is one comprehensive listing of violence in politics:: Violence in Media
and HERE
and i am searching for other compilations from differing views.
like this one from daily kos,
 this and this and
huffingtonpost

Since this Jared Lee Loughner was remembered by co-students for reading poetry in class in a way which scared people-- grabbing his crotch, dancing around the room, yelling--
is that enough to finally Ban
Rap music?
Rap music causes violence?
(2 live crew lyrics HERE) sample it i Dare You
The Violence of Rap--page 84 (ciminology text)

I have serious free speech concerns.
[So does the father of the little child who was murdered,
(-speaking of the idea of taking away various freedoms to match each fairly rare violent event (his words)
 in a heart-wrenching interview: HERE]

This horrible event
in my opinioin
should be provoking a national discussion about how to assist those exhibiting mental instability or violence who do not seem to want help.

Here is my lengthy post about the Arizona tragedy.

It may be that this horrible event will chill out some of the mean-spirited vitriol in our speech. But our speech simply reflects what is in our hearts. What is in the hearts of those you know?

my question:
Do we allow free speech or not? How far will we go to ban humor? Is lenny bruce rolling over?

Is there really a double or triple standard in how we excuse or allow vitriolic speech or humor?
popular images from a couple years past:

"sarah palin is a milp: mom i'd like to punch"

popular 2 years ago

gun at bush's head stamps

and more politically incorrect humor at the bottom of the page HERE:

Monday, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM EST

"While Americans are grappling to understand the Arizona tragedy, the absolute vacuum of leadership on both sides is staggering.

We live in a country that has been struck by John Hinckley Jr. and Sirhan Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman. And one that’s been hit by terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, the DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad, the Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, and 19 highjackers all claiming to be freedom fighters. You’d think we’d understand the difference between madmen and terrorists.
All evidence points to the fact that the assailant from this weekend was severely mentally disturbed. His belief system was not rational by any modern political standard.
He was an atheist, believed George W. Bush was responsible for 9/11, feared a global currency, cited the Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books and thought the Mars rover landing was staged. These are not the opinions of a coherent individual.
Far too often, we have seen in our schools and in our post offices, acts of violence from misfits of society. While we can look for the warning signs, these horrific events will always be with every nation.
Though violence is a human problem,
every American citizen can make a personal choice today.
 Do you believe that Americans, from any walk of life, can convince themselves they are freedom fighters and carry out acts of violence? My answer is yes. If you agree then you must take a clear stand.
Turning these horrific events into an opportunity for a political attack is a very childish response to a very grown-up problem. This is not about winning a political blame game. Atheists are not to blame. Those who hate George W. Bush are not to blame. Those who don’t believe in space travel are not to blame. Jared Lee Loughner is to blame. Period.
This tragedy should not be used as an opportunity to try and bend reality to retroactively place a madman on the other side of the aisle. It should be a time to pray for the victims and their families, a time that we can all come together and state that violence is off limits for all sides in a Republic. It’s a time for us to state with a unified passion that we won’t accept anyone who threatens or actually carries out violence.
Denouncing violence from all sides including your own does not make your movement any less just. To quote Martin Luther King:

"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. "
I challenge all Americans,
 left or right, regardless if you’re a politician, pundit, painter, priest, parishioner, poet or porn star to agree with all of the following.
•I denounce violence, regardless of ideological motivation.

•I denounce anyone, from the Left, the Right or middle, who believes physical violence is the answer to whatever they feel is wrong with our country.

•I denounce those who wish to tear down our system and rebuild it in their own image, whatever that image may be.

•I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle, who call for riots and violence as an opportunity to bring down and reconstruct our system.

•I denounce violent threats and calls for the destruction of our system – regardless of their underlying ideology – whether they come from the Hutaree Militia or Frances Fox Piven.

•I hold those responsible for the violence, responsible for the violence. I denounce those who attempt to blame political opponents for the acts of madmen.
•I denounce those from the Left, the Right or middle that sees violence as a viable alternative to our long established system of change made within the constraints of our constitutional Republic.
I will stand with anyone willing to sign that pledge. Today I make a personal choice. I urge leaders of both sides and all walks of life to join me as all Americans joined hands on 9.12.2001.
I believe that we must change ourselves to hold on to our republic. That’s why I have been talking about e4. Enlightenment. Education. Empowerment. Entrepreneurship. It’s a personal solution for all of us to become the people we were born to be, not the people we’ve allowed ourselves to become. I have called for a personal revolution; change ourselves in order to change the world. Those who live with honor and are responsible to themselves and their families will be the key to the future of our Republic, not those playing political games.
While everyone seems to be focused on politics, I instead choose to focus on Christina Green, the nine year old victim killed Saturday. Born on 9.11.2001, she is now a victim of another case of horrific violence. I hope we can all remember Christina by acting the way we did when she was one day old: To focus on values and principles, to use common sense and stop playing politics."
from glenn beck

...We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was. She’s been the target of violence before. And for those wondering why a Blue Dog Democrat, the kind Republicans might be able to work with, might be a target, the answer is that she’s a Democrat who survived what was otherwise a GOP sweep in Arizona, precisely because the Republicans nominated a Tea Party activist. (Her father says that “the whole Tea Party” was her enemy.) And yes, she was on Sarah Palin’s infamous “crosshairs” list. [...]
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we’re going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it’s long past time for the GOP’s leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.
from Paul Krugman

The Huffington Post has a lot of articles, one about why we have so much mental illness...

Update: A Victim of the shooting, James Eric Fuller, a 63-year-old survivor of the Arizona shootings, was arrested and taken for psychiatric examination after threatening Tucson tea party cofounder Trent Humphries, according to ABC News. Video HERE and HERE

The good that might come

 of this senseless, wanton violence:
An exploration into
how we can better discern who is in need of our help,
how to help those who may not ask for it,

how to gently move those enduring mental torture

or instability or violent thoughts

into a peaceful place... 

Updated Video-Jared Lee Loughner's Signs of Mental Illness Before Arizona Killings; Examine Psychology before Politics or Rap Music (updated)

New data have been released
 regarding the signs of mental disturbance

 in this poor pitiful creature. 
[See most recent post HERE. ]

Saturday: An apparently mentally ill man targeted Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
 but killed several other people.
The 22-year old Loughner sprayed bullets at close range during a neighborhood's meet and greet with Congresswoman Giffords.
Below, his words and the signs of mental illness.

First, a recap of the tragedy.

Hero:

jared loughner mugshot

A woman and two men in the crowd jumped Jared Lee Loughner during his reloading, holding his magazine and gun away from him, yelling at him. (He complained that they were hurting his arm.) People making 911 calls were doing triage on victims while speaking with the 911 operator.
Witnesses stated that he seemed pleased with the killing he had wrought. One said he seemed "cold"--almost a "smirk".


 Officials state that he is NOT cooperating with police.

(His history is one of "odd" or "scary" or unbalanced" behavior. Students complained of his mental instability. College police were called to classrooms due to his disruptions 5 times. Jared Loughner lists as his favorite books at his Youtube site: "I had favorite books: Animal Farm, Brave New World, The Wizard Of OZ, Aesop Fables, The Odyssey, Alice Adventures Into Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451, Peter Pan, To Kill A Mockingbird, We The Living, Phantom Toll Booth, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Pulp,Through The Looking Glass, The Communist Manifesto, Siddhartha, The Old Man And The Sea, Gulliver's Travels, Mein Kampf, The Republic, and Meno."  This issue to be examined below.)

• It should be made perfectly clear that people with mental illnesses in general do not commit more crimes than folks who are not afflicted. Remember, there are mothers who kill their children who think they are saving them from satan, and are in a twisted way fighting to be heroic; and there are those who kill their children with no remorse or out of greed, selfishness and  bad intent.



judge JohnRoll had received
death threats himself

•  Many will focus on the politics of this event- it has already happened, almost immediately, like when certain politicians publicly assumed the times square bomber was a "tea party"  person for some reason or that the Oklahoma bombing was the result of arab terrorists...the post HERE raises the question about how a variety of people immediately ramped UP the rhetoric of political anger, while ironically or hypocritically calling for toning down political anger...
• The people who were killed seem to be extraordinary folks. Always seems to be the case. We are surrounded by really good people in our day to day lives, as the stories come out.  The judge (U.S. District Judge John Roll) who was killed was saying hello to Giffords after attending Mass.
• One older man fell on his wife, shielding her body from the bullets. He died protecting her.
• The young girl who was killed was top-notch. Interested in politics, ballet, and baseball. She was the only girl on her little league team (wanted to be the first female major leaguer), was born on 9-11, was just elected to office in her class (see video below), had just completed her first communion. Everyday events, parts of good happy family life we all relate to.
• A 20 year-old intern for the congresswoman, Daniel Hernandez, only on the job for a few days, is credited with saving her life. I beleive he was trained in some medical area, like nursing or triage.

• The congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was by all reports extraordinary, very well-liked by all and a gift to many. She was an interesting mix in her politics: a former republican, she was a democrat representing a republican district. pro-gun rights, pro-border protection, Freedom for motorcycle riders, intensely interested in health care.
• Her tagline quote was from Mother Teresa:  "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." She was shot from behind the left ear; the bullet went through her brain and exited the skull through the frontal lobe. Her speech may well be affected. But it is extraordinary that she is alive. Her surgeon describes how HERE.

In this post (and HERE and HERE) i would like to examine the data, the facts, the evidence, and the clues as they come out as they relate to the mental health of the gunman.
This guy, Jared Lee Loughner, has a number of posts and videos on youtube which i will share with you below, along with some comments regarding any hypotheses about his mental state which might shed light on this horribly consequential act of violence.
 I will update this post as new info becomes available.

Some new info:

• A Mother Jones interview with a friend of Loughner HERE
• excerpt 1:  "...Tierney tells Mother Jones in an exclusive interview that Loughner held a years-long grudge against Giffords and had repeatedly derided her as a "fake." Loughner's animus toward Giffords intensified after he attended one of her campaign events and she did not, in his view, sufficiently answer a question he had posed, Tierney says. He also describes Loughner as being obsessed with "lucid dreaming"—that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an alternative reality that a person can inhabit and control—and says Loughner became "more interested in this world than our reality." Tierney adds, "I saw his dream journal once. That's the golden piece of evidence. You want to know what goes on in Jared Loughner's mind, there's a dream journal that will tell you everything...
• excerpt 2: "Tierney, who's also 22, recalls Loughner complaining about a Giffords event he attended during that period. He's unsure whether it was the same one mentioned in the charges—Loughner "might have gone to some other rallies," he says—but Tierney notes it was a significant moment for Loughner: "He told me that she opened up the floor for questions and he asked a question. The question was, 'What is government if words have no meaning?'"
  "He said, 'Can you believe it, they wouldn't answer my question.' Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her."Giffords' answer, whatever it was, didn't satisfy Loughner. "He said, 'Can you believe it, they wouldn't answer my question,' and I told him, 'Dude, no one's going to answer that,'" Tierney recalls. "Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her."
  Tierney says he has "no clue" why Loughner might have "shot all those other people." But, he notes, "when I heard Gabrielle Giffords has been shot, I was like 'Oh my God...' For some reason I felt like I knew...I felt like if anyone was going to shoot her, it would be Jared."
  Loughner would occasionally mention Giffords, according to Tierney: "It wasn't a day-in, day-out thing, but maybe once in a while, if Giffords did something that was ridiculous or passed some stupid law or did something stupid, he related that to people. But the thing I remember most is just that question. I don't remember him stalking her or anything." Tierney notes that Loughner did not display any specific political or ideological bent: "It wasn't like he was in a certain party or went to rallies...It's not like he'd go on political rants." — By Nick Baumann
•  PBS interviewed a neighbor who was in the house of Loughner's parents today. He reported that Jared Lee Loughner's mother was "broken down" in bed, --may have to be "hospitalized"--and that the father was unable to speak more than three words without crying.

Monday morning, TV news shows report that Jared Loughner recited his poetry in class in a scary way, loudly ranting, holding his crotch, and hopping around the room. His instructor said it scared the women.
I wonder if Rappers are going to be focused on....

Here is his youtube site.

Here is a video from Jared Lee Loughner, an Introduction to himself as he offers it to us:

He says his favorite activity is Conscience Dreaming
here is another of his videos:





Jared Lee Loughner's history:

• rejected by military (he apparently told them he'd used marijuana hundreds of times)
• what do the neighbors say? HERE
• and HERE
• and expelled from community college HERE
• More HERE

Apparently from Jared Lee Loughner's myspace page:

This is from the one favorite of his from youtube:

"If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.

There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown.
Burn every new and old flag that you see.
Burn your flag!
I bet you can imagine this in your mind with a faster speed.
Watch this protest in reverse!
Ask the local police; "What's your illegal activity on duty?".
If you protest the government then there's a new government from protesting.
There's not a new government from protesting.
Thus, you aren't protesting the government."





Will find more info, post, and ponder.

Sadness.
At the moment, the pieces of information indicate the presence of a thought disorder. I will post later in the week as more information emerges. This is a good time to look up how difficult it is to help those afflicted with thought disorders; i worked in D.C. with folks who endured paranoid schizophrenia and they did not always want assistance.



The parents of the 9 year-old girl, Christina Green, speak in these videos:

 

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

HERE is an LA times story with comments.

Questions: are you your neighbor's keeper?

More HERE




"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."
--Mother Teresa
"At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work." Mother Teresa