Sunday, January 9, 2011

The virtual frenzy Jared Lee Loughner

The author of the shooting that left six dead and twelve wounded, a Democrat member of parliament on Saturday in Arizona, was a young man who seemed particularly excited to swim in full mental confusion, says the American press. Jared Lee Loughner, 22 years old, living in Tucson, a city in southern Arizona desert near the Mexican border, had adopted "a behavior more and more curious in recent months" and had posted videos "disturbing" on the Internet , one with a gun, reports the New York Times.

A local newspaper, the Tucson Weekly, also focuses on psychological disorders appear to demonstrate its products on the internet. A YouTube channel created in October 2010 on behalf of a certain Jared Lee Loughner capita Tucson has surfaced since the killing on Saturday. The FBI is investigating whether it is the same person as the shooter.

If these videos really belong to the shooter, it seems in the grip of paranoid delusions quite pronounced. It highlights the views sliced, but not always consistent, on topics as diverse as money, English grammar and government. It presents itself as a "conscious dreamer," and regrets that the population of "dreamers" United States "shall not exceed 5%.

In many videos, it evokes obsessively introducing a new currency. "My ambition is to inform the dreamers know about a new currency. In a few days, you know that I am a dreamer aware, "he announced." We do not distribute a deadly new currency for the people. So, it distributes a new currency that is not deadly to people, "he wrote on this video: In this same message, he wrote about the administration of Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, which he severely injured head Saturday: "Most people who live in the 8th district are illiterate - hilarious.

I do not control the grammatical structure of your English, but you control the grammatical structure of your English. "Another theme that seems to cherish: the" mind control ". On his YouTube page, you learn that among his favorite books include the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, but Animal Farm, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, Fahrenheit 451 or Gulliver's Travels.

On twitter, Caitie Parker, a resident of Arizona who said he went to school with Jared Lee Loughner, writes that the young man had met with the Democrat Gabrielle Giffords House in 2007 and concluded that meeting it was "stupid." Some hours before the drama, he had sent a message on her MySpace page, which has since been disabled, in which he said "goodbye" to his friends and asking them: "Please, do not be angry against me." Loughner had sought to join the Army, but his application was rejected, according to a spokesman for the army, which did not give details for reasons of "confidentiality".

In another particularly distressing video posted on YouTube 7 minutes, a masked man who could be the author, burning the American flag. The soundtrack to the haunting refrain ("Nothing wrong with me") is interrupted from time to time to display messages for the less cryptic such as "You do not see the rare bird that is on my shoulder?".

According to the local Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, the young man with "troubled past" had a criminal record. He has been suspended from her school last year, management requiring a permit psychiatric evidence that he was not a danger to others, an official of the school newspaper quoted the Arizona Republic.

Mental disorders, sufficient to explain the shooting? (Slate) Le Monde. uk (with)

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