FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records

wiredmikey writes "The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday asked the administrator of an Internet game to hand over records of communications by Jared Loughner, following a Wall Street Journal article describing disturbing messages the accused shooter wrote over a three-month period last year. In an interview, David McVittie, the administrator of the Web game Earth Empires, said he was contacted by the FBI, which requested the files, including 131 messages that Mr. Loughner wrote."

Comments

Re:This one makes some sense

[Nadaka]

I was referring to the poster I responded to, not the shooter.

Re:This one makes some sense

[Enderandrew]

I read that he quoted Marx and seemed to support Commmunism in his videos. I haven't bothered to watch his videos myself. Admittedly I could be mistaken as to whether or not he is pro-Communism. At the least, a fan of Marx and Rand is certainly not a Tea Party Palinite.

But the point remains that an immediate fiction was created that he is some tool of the Tea Party that seems to bear no semblence to reality.

Re:This one makes some sense

[modecx]

I think it's more likely that Loughner had the hornies for Giffords. Many times it has happened before, that a deranged stalker says "If I can't have you, nobody else will", before attempting (and often succeeding) to assassinate the target. He probably figured that if he was going to get in that deep, that he would shoot up anyone else that he possibly could, to pay back society for this perceived injustice, just before sealing the whole deal by putting a bullet in his own brain... But that part of the plan was upset via the bystanders.

Would vitriol and rhetoric fuel such an individual? I don't think so. Constantly seeing his love interest in the media spotlight during the recent election, on the other hand?