1 And Dipshit knew this when he blamed the murders on Palin. Creep.

2 First!

3 D'oh!

4 Revving up the bus.

5 From the Arizona Daily Star, early on in the news cycle.

http://tinyurl.com/27hamen

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik would not confirm Loughner is the suspected shooter. He said the person arrested for the shooting is uninjured and uncooperative.

The suspected shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers, but the threats weren't against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Dupnik said. The suspect is unstable, Dupnik said, but the sheriff would not say he is "insane."

6 dupnik is a baaaaaaaaad hombre

7 Yes, but he made those death threats before Palin's rise to national prominence.  Everybody knows that she pushed him over the edge to the point where he had to carry those threats out.

8 The kid is the son of a city civil servant. The local Dem flunky of a Sheriff let's him off after making death threats. Let me try to guess what kind of people this kid could have been threatening to have a Dem flunky dismiss it? I'm thinking Republicans.

9 This is really, really sad. 

Actually, though, I doubt Rep Gifford's name was on the list.  It's one thing for a Sheriff's Department official to tell some blogger or radio personality "Hey, it's being taken care of, don't worry about it," and a whole different thing to explain to a United States Representative why she shouldn't be concerned.

The fact is, it doesn't matter who was named in those death threats.  Death threats are not okay, and in most states are illegal to make.  Between that and his (presumably known) mental issues, it should have been forced to trial just to make sure he would "get help," if nothing else.

It also makes it much more likely that this sheriff is doing his best, not to investigate the crime and accumulate enough evidence to send this guy to the death chamber, but to cast as wide a net as possible to find someone, anyone, he can blame besides his own department.

10 Law Enforcement has been all over this issue. No one can say that we've neglected our duties on this matter.

11 Too bad she didn't become sheriff.

12 I heard Dupnik murdered and raped a girl in 1990. It can't be true, can it?

13 And now his parents have blocked off their porch so the FBI can't get in the house.

14 Yeah, Arizona does have reciprocal agreements with other states that their resigning governors will become Arizona county sheriffs. For some reason, Elliot Spitzer did not accept - I assume it was because our hookers refused to allow anal sex from him.

15

So, instead of trying to heal the community, he took cheap shots while trying to cover his own ass.

He really dug that hole deep.  Sheesh.

16 That sheriff admitted that Loughner first made contact with Giffords in 2007 and yet the SOB is still trying to blame Sarah Palin and conservatives for his actions. That old bastard is so blatant about his bias I can't imagine how no one has tried to rein him in

17 This is really, really sad. 

Actually, though, I doubt Rep Gifford's name was on the list.  It's one thing for a Sheriff's Department official to tell some blogger or radio personality "Hey, it's being taken care of, don't worry about it," and a whole different thing to explain to a United States Representative why she shouldn't be concerned.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 10, 2011 03:56 PM (8y9MW)

Why would you imagine that they informed anyone that was threatened that this jagoff was issuing death threats?

18

The fact is, it doesn't matter who was named in those death threats.

 

We beg to differ. We didn't act because no one important was on the hit parade.

 

(What do you mean, why did you say that out loud?)

19 8 The kid is the son of a city civil servant.

If the nepotism had come from a Republican, this would be yet another headline. 

20

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at January 10, 2011 03:56 PM (8y9MW)

 

Bravo Bravo~

21 I believe it--progressives believe "there's no such thing as a bad boy" and that we shouldn't "demonize" sick people. Blood is on your hands, Sheriff. 

Especially if somebody in their family is a government worker who could help you stay in office.

22 It's true; it's right there in the Alaska Constitution. If you resign your post as governor you immediately become sheriff of an Arizona County.


We lernt that in furst grade in Girdwood.

23 14 Yeah, Arizona does have reciprocal agreements with other states that their resigning governors will become Arizona county sheriffs. For some reason, Elliot Spitzer did not accept - I assume it was because our hookers refused to allow anal sex from him.

Posted by: 141Driver at January 10, 2011 03:58 PM (/E3ql)

My understanding is that squeakhole activity would have been okay with them but that they don't allow you to wear socks during it.

24 Posted by: Andre McLeode at January 10, 2011 04:01 PM (kb0wl)

Heh.  And "The Governor Shall Appoint a Cleavage Czar" is in there somewhere too.

25 My understanding is that squeakhole activity would have been okay with them but that they don't allow you to wear socks during it.Posted by: Mætenloch at January 10, 2011 04:03 PM (pAlYe)

I stand corrected; apparently socks with garters was the deal-breaker, not the mini-probe.

26 Someone send Sheriff Joe Arpaio over to put some knowledge to Sheriff Dipstick.

27 No need, I've already helped Dupnik out.

28 Posted by: Oldcat at January 10, 2011 03:59 PM (z1N6a)

I'm presuming the guy didn't call up the Sheriff's office and say "I'm planning to kill [x]."  Since what I read at Choll's place was that people were told that it was being handled, the reason the Sheriff's dept. knows there were other death threats were because they were reported by the objects of said threats.

Ergo, if Rep. Gifford had been one of them, she (or her office) would have already known.  Indeed, if Rep. Gifford's office knew of a death threat by someone in the county where she'd be having this appearance, I bet security would have been much tighter in the first place.

29 Gee, do you think deputy dog would tell us if Palin was on this kooks death threat list?

I really want to know who else is on his list?

30 AZ governor should appoint a prosecutor or commission to investigate the Sheriff's incompetence.

31 While this whole episode has truly saddened me, it has only increased my resolve in supporting Sarah Palin. She is good. They are not. Deep down, they know it. The amount of hatred spewed at her is without precedent. She is getting 10X the hate and lies that Reagan and Bush did and they were actual Presidents! "Art exhibits" where people pose with a gun aimed Sarah's head with her daughter right next to her in the picture. Hung by a noose. Countless violent images of rape and murder with her face bruised and bloodied. Cunt, bitch, whore, racist, homophobe, and now MURDERER. And they lecture us on "Rhetoric?" No, the left will not decide who is acceptable and electable. I am not playing that game anymore. I learned my lesson and I learned it well. PLEASE, join me.

32

On Gabrielle Giffords YouTube channel (user name giffords2), she subscribes to Jared Loughner's YouTube channel (user Classitup10).

That suggests prior contact between them.

 

 

33 In my state, and in others I would wager, a person can be involuntarily committed if he is found to be a threat to himself or others--and evidence of threats (of suicide or murder) would be strong evidence in support of such a finding.  It is reprehensible that this young man wasn't commited.  Sherriff Dipstick has some splainin to do.

34 Dupnik also is trying to deflect the fact that Pima County has been annexed by Mexico and he's just there to answer the phone

35 I once believed no Republican would ever scare the liberal-left-wing like Reagan did. They bounced off ceilings and walls when he opened his mouth. They tried several tactics to destroy him and he simply laughed at them. Talk about frothing at the mouth. It was very amusing to watch.

But I was wrong. Another Republican has come along who is on the verge of putting some of these leftoids in the hospital. Such weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth I've never, ever seen. They are looking for every possible rock they can throw at this woman.

But I also know why they hate and fear her so much. She doesn't always have a snappy comeback like Reagan but she does have "The Look" that says so much derisively in so little time. Without even saying a thing, Sarah Palin can become the center of attention in the news and emerge afterwards as good, and at times even more popular, than when she went in. I wonder when the word "Teflon" will come out (probably never since it is too dated but I'm sure there's another waiting in the wings).

Sounds to me like someone got to this sheriff (D) in Arizona even as the story broke and he happily frog-marched into the fray. Could be he's just ambitious but I suspect a little coaching from unknown quarters. Now that the facts show this murderer was a "Leftwing Pothead", the lefty blogs are scrubbing away and Fox News is making a few back step a bit. I knew the MSM was in the tank long  ago but it's a little sad they don't even pretend anymore. While idiots in Congress will use this to push one thing or another -- gun control being one -- someone should be sounding the alarm that our Fourth Estate has been essentially taken hostage.

36 This McCarthyism of the left - devoid of intellectual content, unsupported by data - is a mental tic, not an idea but a tactic for avoiding engagement with ideas. It expresses limitless contempt for the American people, who have reciprocated by reducing liberalism to its current characteristics of electoral weakness and bad sociology.

37 molon, Giffords sent him a letter in 2007 thanking him for attending a Congress on the Corner event

38 Wow- it's almost like the Sheriff , after he remembered to close off a crime scene, decided that acting like a complete moonbat might be useful in deflecting his departments criminal negligence regarding this nuts death threats that they knew about. More sunshine on these cockroaches.

39 Dupnik obviously has trouble comprehending words spoken to him and making himself understood verbally.

Would a couple of brand-new Beltones and a year's supply of batteries help?

I figure he's going to be unemployed within the week, so I'm not willing to take the risk that shipments reach him too late to help. I vote "no".

But a case of PoliGrip might be the thing that enables him to seek employment ... as a WalMart greeter.

40 Is anyone confident this Sheriff can actually, ya know, DO HIS JOB?

41 I'm getting quite annoyed by the "cross-hairs" talk, when a glock does not have cross-hairs. There's no scope on the pistol.

42 But FBI Just Convinced Them To Let Them In

What'd they do....light a bag of poop on fire and ring the doorbell?

43

Posted by: Molon Labe at January 10, 2011 04:19 PM (Y8WIc)

I read somewhere that there was a user account at Democratic Underground named "classitup10". Can anybody confirm? Because if he's a DU'er that's all the proof we need that he's a lefty.

44 Sounds like Sherrif Dupnik went all in with a two and seven in his hand.

45 "No, the left will not decide who is acceptable and electable. I am not playing that game anymore. I learned my lesson and I learned it well. PLEASE, join me. Posted by: Dan at January 10, 2011 04:19 PM (mXBxH)" Already there, brother. Welcome aboard!

46 Seems ol' Sheriff Duped took Costanza's advice to heart:  "It's not a lie if you believe it."

47

Normally, I might be inclined to think that Dupnik probably has many files of people who have made threats in the past, dangerous people out on parole, known criminals and bad actors that have been sighted in the city, all sorts of things. Inevitably, you cannot track everyone 24/7/365, and some things are going to go wrong.

Normally, I would figure that I am not a law officer and don't know exactly what can and cannot be reasonably foreseeable or prevented, and do not like to second guess people who are trying to do their jobs. It ain't a perfect world out there, and surely none of us reach perfection in trying to deal with it.

But here, here I hope every bit of political scapegoating and bad karma Dupnik has tried to unleash comes back tenfold to make his life a sea of chaos.

48 remember Sherriff Moose in the DC shooter case?  this guy Dipstick is even worse.

49

I read the link and see that Sheriff Dupnik admits that the lunatic "made threats to kill" but gives the impression that his agency didn't have first-hand contact.  In due course we will discover which law enforcement agency didn't take multiple death threats seriously.

This Loughner character obviously should have been involuntarily commited a long time ago.  The behavior of his family makes me suspect that they fought said commitment.

50 But why did she subscribe to his channel? Was it an attempt to appease a threat he made? Wouldn't the Sherriff have been notified?

51

It will be interesting when the subscription silently disappears. Get your screen shots now.

I'd post a link but it's utterly useless trying to post a link on this site. YouTube user name is giffords2

 

52 He's 75 years old. He will double down on his idiocy for maybe 48 hours at most, and then retire.

53 He simply threatened to kill people which is protected by the 1st amendment.  Why won't the media focus on the time Sarah Palin caught those unarmed salmon in the net up yonder?

54

I'm getting quite annoyed by the "cross-hairs" talk, when a glock does not have cross-hairs

I emailed Ace about this, but youse guys n' gals can try this experiment at home:

-Flip open a box of breakfast cereal, or look at the inside flaps of pretty much any 4-color printed food box. What do you see smiling up at you? Yep, those 'crosshair gun sights' that the press and the lefty pillowbiters are soiling themselves over. They're printer registration marks, and they're there to help the printer line up the various color printing runs on the box. They're not there because Sarah Palin has a bead on Captain Crunch, although that would make a Kos-worthy headline.

55 Look this is all obvious. This kid was making death threats against Republicans. Dupnik hates Republicans. So no big deal. Dupnik uses a horrible mass murder as a chance to campaign. Nothing is too low for that scumfucker. Dupnik figured a few dead Republicans would be a plus. Remember the many on the Left are filled with hatred and wish death on the Right.

56 At a minimum, with an arrest for making death threats, that FBI check at the gun store would have failed and 6 people would be alive. Maybe a court ordered evaluation would have gotten the guy some help.

57 By the way, this whole event goes to show that physical threats from deranged Internet People are not god damned jokes. I hope that the jobsworths in wherever Meb Phrish is hanging out are taking note.

58

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 10, 2011 05:22 PM (ERJIu)

Holy crap!   They're there.   Post & Kellogg's is targeting me!   Where should I hide?

59 58 - Yep, Felony Terroristic threats gets him a denial on his Form 4473.

60

The Sheriff has blood on his hands.

 

Considering Sheriff Dipshit has made it look like he is in on it by turning it into the a campaign for democrats/ tasteless Wellstone Memorial - he may very well have blood on his hands.

 

61

Dipshit should be fired.  Removed - he's a dithering idiot who botched it and is now using a horrible tragedy to score points for his party(D). 

62 Let me see if I understand the left correctly; the TSA gets to grope the genitalia of any random person who wants to get on a plane, but there is nothing at all to be done about someone who makes explicit death threats... yeah that makes sense... in the Bizrarro world inside the Liberal mind it makes complete sense.

Notice how much that Liberal Bizarro world closely resembles the shooter's waking dream view of the world.

63 Why didn't this Barney Fife have a deputy there for crowd control if not the Congresswoman's protection?