Xchoboomer

Senseless. Disgusted. Heartbreaking.Anger.

Just a few thoughts that come to mind when thinking about the violence that broke out in Tuscon recently. Senseless because it troubles me that people think in a way that enacting unconscionable violence and resorting to killing people will some how “wake up” America and solve the ailments of our society, whatever they may be. We seen the same sort of senselessness in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb killing 168 and injured 450 people including many children with the intention of enacting revenge for the debacle in Waco in the hopes of sparking a revolt against a tyrannical federal government. I digress. I’m disgusted at the evil intent and viciousness. The depth at which Jared Lee Loughner [allegedly] had to descend to in order to plan, coordinate, and execute such a wicked premeditated act of assassination and mass murder. And absolutely heartbroken that same viciousness can turn on an innocent child with the same maliciousness as a blameworthy adult. For argument’s sake, I can comprehend why a politician may be targeted. I can comprehend why one may turn on the politician’s constituent’s. But the wretched audacity to turn a gun on a nine year old child that has yet to define their own political motivations. This is something that I will never  understand and can only attempt to grasp by my conception of pure evil.

No one can ever know what was churning though this man’s head and we can only connect the dots of his communications to try and decipher his motives. One of the most telling is the question he posed to Gabriel Giffords. “What is government if words have no meaning?”  This question was also the final thought in Jared Lee Loughner’s Final Thoughts video. In my opinion, one of the eeriest videos of a series of ridiculous videos.For one, just because of the music employed that someone so obsessed with conspiracy theories, mind control, and brainwash would employ in order to condition its disciples. It’s as if Jared Lee Loughner envisions himself almost Charles Manson-esque meets John Adams as he tries to recruit followers and spark a revolution by establishing his own linguistic “currency”.

He begins the video, in his own words, by mocking the reality of the attention deficit disorder of this country [and others], as hypermedia has exacerbated our sense of newsworthiness,  by accusing 95% of the population of forgoing their own dreams. This is followed by a series of logically structured statements that attempt to redefine the alphabet, words, and language. “Currency” as he calls it, inciting followers to create their own and distribute it amongst the masses. And what seems to be a preconceived defense to his current legal issues, he attempts to almost excuse himself by logically asserting that he is “unaware of his motor acts” due to his state of “conscious dreaming”. Following the logically formatted statements he attempts to falsify attempts by the government to call him a terrorist by using a logical fallacy to challenge the validity of the government’s claim against him. He discusses receiving a bible before a U.S. Military MEPS recruitment test after filling out an application where he left his beliefs blank which I interpreted as having no philosophical basis on which these attacks were based. He concludes by claiming the majority of U.S citizens have never read the Constitution and therefore do not have to accept any of its laws but encourages people to read it to uncover the treason within it, retake ownership of property and land and form new laws by way of revolution.

Wow! Now, I’m no linguist and I may not even be literate in his view but that was a little more in depth then I wanted to get into his thought process. He’s probably right about the 95% of the population forgoing their dreams and the majority of citizens never having read the constitution but so what!  That’s what we have kids and lawyers for. That’s not an admittion of me forgoing my dreams. Just a bad joke and I have read the constitution and its ratifications.   Even if his claim to the United States brainwashing and manipulating people by “controlling grammer” through ratification held up, I don’t see how he can justify his actions of cold blooded mass murder in his own mind. It’s not 1776 and the population of the entire United States is not a mere 2.5 million people (plus the local natives and slaves).  Your not going to spark revolution in this day and age with over 300 million people across a manifested destiny, even if you had a full fledged million man militia behind you. Governments will tax you. Politicians will lie to you. Police will trample your civil rights. Judges will side against you. And lawyers will empty your pockets anyway. But it is that fucked up system that is unlike any other system in the world that most of us are proud to be a part of and to spark a revolution you do it within the organizations that make this system function (or not function), and not by setting your cross hairs to the head of a congresswoman who represents tombstone and the wild west’s  ok corral and definitely not the head of a nine year old girl . This guy is no John Adams. Or Charles Manson for that matter. But, I’ll tell you what he is. He’s a fucking nut!