re: #229 changomo

That’s strange considering he was reading the communist manifesto at the time

That’s something you’re making up, see.

and listed it as one of his “favorite books

He listed Mein Kampf, an explicitly anti-communist book, as a favorite too. So saying he loved Communism is extremely stupid.

Venezuelan Communist Hugo Chavez, Che Guevara, American Socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky, and even Barack Obama.

You realize that was a hoax, right?

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You’re basing your opinion on hoaxes. The Examiner is not a trustable source, and their source— Free Republic— is batshit looneytown. Now that you know that it was a hoax, I assume your opinion will change?

But keep on deflecting, my point is not that he’s left wing or right wing, but that he’s INSANE.

I agree. He babbled insane conspiracy stories— many of which are common amongst Ron Paul style right-wing libertarians.

It’s too bad, this site as well as the left at first tried to paint him as a right wing wacko.

I think you missed most of the posts, then. He did talk about the Constitution being invalid since the civil war, about the Government using grammar, and about currency being invalid, which are all kooky conspiracy theories— but they’re kooky conspiracy theories resident in right-wing libertarians.

But even if I fully agree with you that the issue is mental health: Michelle Bachmann, Glen Beck, and Sarah Palin all talk about conspiracy theories that are also demonstrably nuts, and they continue to repeat them even after they’ve been demonstrated to be untrue. So if the lesson of these shootings is that paranoid craziness is the danger, shouldn’t we be examining those on the right wing who are exhibiting that paranoid craziness?