The Sheriff of Pima County would have you believe the shooter is a member of the Tea Party or is somehow anti illegal aliens (apparently that’s a bigoted position to this guy). Here’s the Sheriff spewing bile against his political opponents in his premature and, as it turns out, WRONG depiction of this shooter:
The Sheriff is hyper partisan and has been known to rant before but the Sheriff is at least claiming a side. While one friend describes the shooter as a liberal, too many other people are taking his list of favorite books and turning them into a revelation about his character. This shooter is all over the place citing Hitler, Mao, Plato and Rand as having written his favorite books. See the list after the jump:
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.”
According to Gateway Pundit here at least one friend identifies the shooter as a liberal:
The left has also claimed that Sarah Palin inspired this tortured kid to go after the Congresswoman because of her “hit” list with targets painted over the faces of her victims. That’s certainly the impression I was left with by the media until I actually looked at Sarah Palin’s “hit list.” Would this inspire you to go off on a shooting rampage? If so you need to be admitted to the psych ward of a local hospital.
Oh, and here’s what Palin said last March to incite such violence ten months later.
Come November, we’re going to print pink slips for members of Congress as fast as they’ve been printing money.
Yup, that must have been it.
To the left–especially Congressman Grihalva: stop trying to ascribe every act of violence to the right. By doing so you foment the very outrage you claim to be trying to stop. We’re the ones who believe in the rule of law and we certainly wouldn’t be burning the flag as the person in the shooter’s favorite video does (here).
