No, James Holmes was not an Occupy member (that we know of)

This rumor that's going around seems to have two sources. The first is speculation from a private detective somewhere who noted that the villain of "The Dark Knight Rises" is modeled after OWS (which is false, as Nolan conceived the film before OWS), and therefore Holmes is an OWS anarchist who wanted to "stick it to the man." Don't ask me to explain the logic of that; I can't. But that's what he said, and right wingers are running with it.

The second source is a guy on Twitter who found a video praising OWS with accompanying music by one "James Willie Holmes." A bit of research showed that this James Holmes wrote his first song 13 years before the Aurora shooter was born.

People are saying we should not politicize the shooting, and we shouldn't. There's no reason to; with a gun related homicide occurring every 45 minutes in this country, we're already enduring the equivalent of 2.6 Aurora shootings per day. But that goes both ways: unless there is firm reason that Holmes was an OWS member, we need to resist that notion as forcefully as we can, just as the Tea Party is resisting the notion that Holmes was one of them.