comical ... because the shooter read "Communist Manifesto", he's a "flaming liberal"

[zbdent]

(at least, when it comes to the spin meisters).

But when there was a shooter who had nothing but books by conservatives (Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, etc.) ... it wasn't an "indication" of his political leanings ...

[AlabamaLibrul]

1. He also read Mein Kampf - SOCIALIST!

[Duer 157099]

2. His list of 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"

[derby378]

3. I've read THE TURNER DIARIES...

Does that mean I'm going to blow up a Federal building in Oklahoma?

FWIW, I read the book as part of overall research into hate groups in America.

[SidDithers]

10. Yes, it does...

please turn yourself in to the closest FBI field office.

:hi:

Sid

[EV_Ares]

4. They can't talk their way out of this one, there have been too many and they were

all from the right. Now a congresswoman has been shot and a Federal Judge, no way, DC is now looking at this different and more serious than before.

[True_Blue]

5. Mein Kampf was a favorite book also

Odd how he writes about himself in the past tense...My favorite interest was reading...I had favorite books...

Schools:I attended school: Thornydale elementary,Tortolita Middle School, Mountain View Highschool, Northwest Aztec Middle College, and Pima Community College.
Interests:My favorite interest was reading, and I studied grammar. Conscience dreams were a great study in college!
Movies:(*My idiom: I could coin the moment!*)
Music:Pass me the strings!
Books: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.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/08/jared-lee-loughner-gabrielle-giffords-shooter_n_806243.html

[Cassandra]

7. I love the Phantom Tollbooth

"Some people can swim all day through the Sea of Knowledge and never get wet". Clearly this guy was one of those.

[provis99]

8. now we know: Peter Pan made him do it.

[baldguy]

6. Just wait until he gets a hold of "Atlas Shrugged".

[Stargleamer]

9. Yeah, and ignore the Ayn Rand book "We the Living"

as if socialism and Ayn Rand's libertarianism were somehow in harmony. As if we are exactly what we read. . .

[Chan790]

11. I'd like to point out then that I must be:

• A Fascist because I read Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
• A Paleo-conservative because I read The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom.
• A Communist because I read The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engel.
• A Classical Liberal because I studied Rousseau, Hobbes and Locke extensively.
• A Theocon because I studied Edmund Burke, Robert George and Mary Ann Glendon.
• A Libertarian because I wrote an essay on the role of "self" in the political philosophy of Robert Nozick.
• An Objectivist because I wrote a book report on Anthem by Ayn Rand.
• An Anarchist because I quote Joe Hill, Emma Goldman and Emiliano Zapata.
  
  (Actually, that was all for classes. I have a degree in political theory.)

[musette_sf]

12. Textbook libertarians study The Communist Manifesto

like atheists study the Bible - Know Your Enemy

[zbdent]

13. if the investigation of a shooter turns up his room in his mommy's basement is

full of books from RWers and posters of Rush Limbaugh, "it's inconclusive". In fact, like you said, it becomes "Know your enemy."

If he had one book from Michael Moore or Al Franken, the media goes into "He was influenced by Liberal writings ..."