To: Cogito who wrote (153779 ) 1/10/2011 2:17:18 PM From: 8bits Read Replies (1) | Respond to To me, his choice of victim and the context surrounding that choice is more revealing than Loughner's writings are. His illness made him vulnerable to incendiary rhetoric. cbsnews.com msnbc.msn.com motherjones.com Loughner held a years-long grudge against Giffords and had repeatedly derided her as a "fake." Loughner's animus toward Giffords intensified after he attended one of her campaign events and she did not, in his view, sufficiently answer a question he had posed, Tierney says. He also describes Loughner as being obsessed with "lucid dreaming"—that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an alternative reality that a person can inhabit and control—and says Loughner became "more interested in this world than our reality." Tierney adds, "I saw his dream journal once. That's the golden piece of evidence. You want to know what goes on in Jared Loughner's mind, there's a dream journal that will tell you everything."
