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‘The End of It Is Wicked Madness’

Posted on | January 17, 2011 | 15 Comments

That’s a quote from the guy that Smitty sometimes calls “Ancient Commenter Solomon,” the Book of Ecclesiastes to be exact, cited in Amanda Read’s Washington Times column about Jared Lee Loughner:

“What is government if words have no meaning?”
Such was the question that Jared Loughner asked Representative Gabrielle Giffords at an event in 2007. Unsatisfied by Giffords’ response (or warranted lack thereof), Loughner targeted her with an apparently vengeful fixation.
The budding thought processes of this anarchical philosopher-wannabe clearly had nothing to do with then-obscure Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck – nor did they have anything to do with the then-nonexistent Tea Party. . . .
?From online message boards to YouTube videos to the classroom, Loughner demonstrated himself to be a pathological riddler who was angry at the world for refusing to answer his intellectually dishonest questions. As Loughner’s incoherent ramblings and love of conspiracy spiraled downward to senseless bloodshed, King Solomon’s warning proved true – “the lips of a fool consume him; the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness” (Ecclesiastes 10:12-13). . . .

Read the whole thing.

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Category: Amanda Read, Arizona, Conspiracy Theories, Crime, Religion, Zeitgeist

Comments

  • Joe

    This whole story makes me sick. From the brutal murders without any meaning, to the spin of the left. Loughner will be dealt with by the criminal justice system. But the lying liars of the left will go on and on. I find them so contemptable.

  • Joe

    This whole story makes me sick. From the brutal murders without any meaning, to the spin of the left. Loughner will be dealt with by the criminal justice system. But the lying liars of the left will go on and on. I find them so contemptable.

  • Joe

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  • FrequentPoster

    Loughner is part of the rich tradition of killers whipped up by right-wing propaganda. He’s one of yours, just like Timmy McVeigh was one of yours. There is no terrorist like a right-wing terrorist. Watch out for the “patriots,” because they’re the ones who hate their country more than anyone else.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    And we’re everywhere you look. Sucks, doesn’t it?

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    Hey, this is my hiding place. You get under his bed or something.

  • Smitty1e

    “Ancient Commenter Solomon.” ;)

  • FrequentPoster

    The right wing loved the murders in Arizona, just like you loved the ones in Oklahoma City committed by your boy Timmy McVeigh.

  • Anonymous

    Fixed that. Is it my fault that my “copy desk” got deployed to Afghanistan?

    I’m thinking Loughner’s conspiracy theory was a near-miss. The real 9/11 conspiracy was the plan to start a war so as to deprive me of Smitty.

    FIRE CAN’T MELT STEEL!

    /sarcasm

  • Bob Belvedere

    It was them Joooz.

  • Anonymous

    That is a lie, and you are a fucking liar.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, you leave my mom’s people out of this. >:(

  • Anonymous

    gg, is that you again?

  • FrequentPoster

    What did I do, hit a wingnut nerve? What are you going to do, shoot me in the head?

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