The anti-government lunatic who opened fire on Arizona Congress woman Gabrielle Giffords may not have been a card carrying member of the Tea Party, but he was certainly influenced by some of the extremist right-wing conspiracy theories that influence the thinking and actions of the wing nuts who circle around the fringe of the racist anti-government Tea Party movement.
The assassin, Jared Loshner, was a right-wing lunatic who believed that the government was using mind control and grammar to control people. The FBI is investigating his links to American Renaissance, a right-wing racist anti-Semitic hate group. (Rep. Giffords was Jewish.).
Perhaps he was influenced by Gifford's Tea Party Republican opponent who invited his supporters to fundraisers to shot automatic weapons to "target" Giffords, or by Tea Party leader Sarah Palin's map of the U.S with gun targets over Giffords and other Democrats for defeat in the 2010 election.
Maybe the guilt of such associations is why Sarah Palin scrubbed the targets from her websites and why the Tea Party Nation was quick to blame left-wing liberals for the violent actions of Jared Loshner.
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-Jim Maynard
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