Pima Community College Releases Jared Loughner 'Genocide School' Video

Well, in the spirit of comprehensiveness, I might as well post this clip, which has been making the rounds today. The Los Angeles Times obtained the video, but see also the Washington Post, "College Releases Video of Loughner's Ramblings":

TUCSON - Alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner's community college released a home video on Saturday that he made as he toured the campus one night, rambling about currency and the Constitution and at one point declaring "this is my genocide school."

The video surfaced a week after the shootings here that killed six and left 13 wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). Doctors said her recovery was continuing as expected Saturday, and the grocery store in the shopping center where the shootings took place reopened.

The nearly four-minute-long video, posted on YouTube in September and first reported by the Los Angeles Times, prompted Pima Community College to suspend Loughner. In it, he walks by some of the buildings where he took classes.

"We're examining the torture of students," Loughner, 22, says in the video. ". . .The war that we are in right now is currently illegal under the Constitution. What makes it illegal is the currency. The date is also wrong. It is impossible for it to be that date. It's mind control. . . . They're controlling the grammar."

Later, he says: "If the student is unable to locate the external universe, then the student is unable to locate the internal universe. Where is all my subjects? I could say something sound right now, but I don't feel like it."

It was the latest in a series of examples of erratic behavior by Loughner, who is in federal custody and charged with murder. Also Saturday, new details emerged about his actions in the hours before the shootings.

More details at the link.

RELATED: Robert Stacy McCain's has developed an interesting theory of a possible leftist ideological orientation to Loughner's madness. It's quite well developed, but at this point it doesn't really matter. Progressive or not, the backlash against the left's "blame righty" program has become a structural feature of this news story. And as I noted earlier, the left's rush to judgment may contribute to a lasting (and already growing) repudiation of the Democrat-socialist agenda. See, "Tucson, Zeitgeist and Madness: The Obsolete Politics of Jared Loughner."