The issue of whether Loungner is a extreme leftist or extreme right wing has been flogged to death. The answer is no one knows.
The issue of whether Gov. Palin's campaign rhetoric was the impetus that Loungner needed to carry out his deadly plan is again at this point unknown and likely will never be known.
The current thinking is that a 22-year old
would not be influenced by Fox News, Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin as those three average demographic age, independent of each other, is 67.
The rational now says that Jared Loughner got his information from the Internet - the place where people say all sorts of crazy batpoop and don't have to back any of it up.
There is also thinking that many of Jared's screeds mimic
Souverign Citizen - a 21st century counter-culture - and the tipoff is Jared's screeds about "grammar."
Writes MNBC of Sovereign Citizen:
They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents who declare themselves above state and federal laws. Many don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses or recognize the court system.
Some peddle schemes that use fictional legal loopholes to eliminate debt and avoid foreclosures.
A few such believers are violent: Two police officers in Arkansas died in a shootout in May after stopping an Ohio sovereign citizen and his son.
As many as 300,000 people identify as sovereign citizens, the Southern Poverty Law Center found in a study to be published Thursday that was obtained by The Associated Press. Hate group monitors say their numbers have increased thanks to the recession, the foreclosure crisis, the growth of the Internet and the election of Barack Obama in 2008...
...Many sovereign citizens believe the 14th Amendment created a new class of citizens, people who had no constitutional rights but were instead slaves to the government, according to Mark Pitcavage, investigative researcher for the Anti-Defamation League.
