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How many times did comrades remind us of Loughner's anti-abortion views, as if he had something in common with the Catholic right? This article clarifies things: After an incident in February in which Mr. Loughner blurted out during a poetry class that dynamite ought to be attached to babies, a campus police officer wrote: “I suggested they keep an eye on him and call us if anything else developed that concerned them.” Mr. Loughner explained the remark matter of factly. “He said that the class had been talking about abortion, which made him think of death, which made him think of suicide bombers, which made him think of babies as suicide bombers,” wrote Aubrey Conover, a campus administrator. I would say that anybody who thinks that Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin inspired him to go on a killing spree is as nuts as him. NY Times January 12, 2011 College Reports Detail Suspect’s Odd Acts By MARC LACEY TUCSON — Officials at Pima Community College, where Jared L. Loughner attended, believed that he might be under the influence of drugs or mentally ill after bizarre classroom disruptions in which he unnerved instructors and fellow students, including one time he insisted that the number 6 was actually the number 18, according to internal reports on the college’s interactions with Mr. Loughner. A campus officer wrote in one report last September, six days before Mr. Loughner would be suspended, that he and a fellow officer thought “there might be a mental health concern involved with Loughner.” In 51 pages of confidential police documents released by the college on Wednesday, various instructors, students and others described Mr. Loughner as “creepy,” “very hostile,” “suspicious” and someone who had a ”dark personality.” He sang to himself in the library. He spoke out of turn. And, in an act that the college finally decided merited his suspension, he made a bizarre posting on YouTube in which he linked the college to genocide and the torture of students. “This is my genocide school,” the narrator on the video said. At another point, he described the school as “one of the biggest scams in America.” “We are examining the torture of students,” the narrator said. In an apparent reference to one of the incidents in which police were called to deal with Mr. Loughner’s disruptive behavior in class, he wrote: “I haven’t forgotten the teacher who gave me a B for freedom of speech.” After an incident in February in which Mr. Loughner blurted out during a poetry class that dynamite ought to be attached to babies, a campus police officer wrote: “I suggested they keep an eye on him and call us if anything else developed that concerned them.” Mr. Loughner explained the remark matter of factly. “He said that the class had been talking about abortion, which made him think of death, which made him think of suicide bombers, which made him think of babies as suicide bombers,” wrote Aubrey Conover, a campus administrator. After a discussion, Mr. Conover said, Mr. Loughner said he would not say anything in class. After following up with the instructor, Mr. Conover said he continued to act bizarre but there had been no further interruptions. On another occasion, Mr. Loughner told a biology teacher that it did not matter what he put down on his test because the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the First Amendment enabled him to write whatever he wanted. As for his remark that he did not have to go along with his instructor’s view that the number 6 was actually the number 18, a counselor, Delisa Sidall, wrote: “I reminded him that a complaint was made that he was disruptive in class and he said, ‘I was not disruptive, I was only asking questions that related to math.’ I asked him to tell me the question he asked. He said, ‘My instructor said he called a number 6 and I said I call it 18.’ He also asked the instructor to explain, ‘How can you deny math instead of accept it?’” When campus police visited the Loughner residence on Sept. 29 to deliver a notice of suspension, his bizarre activity continued, the papers said. “While inside the garage, I spoke with Jared, who held a constant trance of staring as I narrated the past events that had transpired,” an officer wrote. After remaining silent, Mr. Loughner blurted out: “I realize now that this is all a scam.” ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
