The Shooting at Tuscon
By William Finck
There are many media outlets which have been trying very hard to identify the Arizona Shooter, Jared Loughner, with the "fringe right" or "neo-nazi" groups. Among such outlets are the Daily Mail (London), www.allyourtv.com, www.conspiracy.me, www.antifascistencyclopedia.com and even quite obscure sites such as my.firedoglake.com. They are all evidently clamoring to "blame Whitey". The infowars.com website has reported that Janet Napolitano of the DHS along with certain Fox News staff and others have connected Loughner to right-wing or conservative "extremist" or even "White Supremacist" groups.
In a response to these, and the hundreds of posts in forums across the internet which make similar claims, we felt a need to act quickly and yesterday we posted a Facebook page captured by an associate which has turned out to have been a fake. We apologize for that. Yet of course we still have a need to respond to these false claims.
One thing is clear, that all of those who are claiming that Jared Loughner was a right-wing extremist, a neo-nazi, a White supremacist, or a professor of any similar ideology, are liars pushing an agenda. They have done this same thing in the wake of Columbine and many other such crimes.