Arizona shooting suspect may be linked to anti-Semitic group
From: NewsCore January 10, 2011 12:41AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? THE suspect being held over Saturday's shooting of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords may have links to anti-Semitic race hate group American Renaissance.
An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo quoted by FOX News Channel revealed the gunman - named by the media as Jared Loughner, 22 - is "possibly linked" to American Renaissance.
The group subscribes to an ideology that is "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti -ZOG (Zionist Occupational Government), anti-Semitic," according to the DHS memo.
Giffords "is the first Jewish female elected to such a high position in the US government. She was also opposite this group's ideology when it came to immigration debate," the note said.
The suspect's mother works the Pima County Board of Supervisors in Arizona, the briefing added.
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This group sounds far right to me.
I took the time to look up this group.
From what I can see, American Rennaissance is completely misrepresented, apparently by local police investigating who credited themselves as part of Homeland Security.
The managing editor says the site is
"not anti semitic, not anti-government, and has never used the term ZOG [Zionist Occupation Government], and that there are 20 years of monthly issues [in print and online] to back this up." He further says that he had previously never heard of or met Jared Loughner, that Loughner is not a website member, has never registered for an American Rennaisance conference, and that there is not even any evidence that Loughner has ever even visited the American Rennaissance website.
He says Homeland Security investigators first leaked the story to CNN, and
then Fox News got the story false too, that Loughner "belonged to a right-wing organization", and then Fox News picked up the story too without verifying it (he specifically blames reporter Jennifer Griffin), and from there many liberals (including Juan Williams) reported that it's been verified that Loughner had connections to a right-wing website, when Loughner actually didn't.
