Thread: Alleged Gunman Similar to Grammar Conspiracy Theorist

Alleged Gunman Similar to Grammar Conspiracy Theorist

Updated: Monday, 10 Jan 2011, 11:14 AM MST
Published : Monday, 10 Jan 2011, 11:14 AM MST

(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - A nation is trying to understand the shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. that left 14 wounded, including a congresswoman in critical condition, and six others dead, including a federal judge, a congressional aide and a 9-year-old girl.

As investigators look into the life of alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner they are noticing his strange obsession with grammar and its ties to a Milwaukee man's conspiracy theory website.

In early coverage of Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, media outlets referred to various diatribes Loughner posted on Facebook and YouTube.

"The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar," the UK Guardian reported Loughner said in one of his videos. "You control your English grammar structure."

Gawker said such talk is possibly connected to theories of David Wynn Miller, who refers to himself as :David-Wynn: Miller.

He began receiving national attention this weekend after being mentioned on cable TV news channel MSNBC.

Miller is a 62-year-old former tool-and-die maker who claims that he has discovered a mathematically-derived "true" language as an alternative to the government's manipulation of grammar.

That language has enabled Miller, at least in his own world, to turn Hawaii into a verb and crown himself the state's king. He also claims that by adding specific punctuation such as "full colons" and hyphens to his name, he becomes a "prepositional phrase" that cannot be taxed.

Gawker refered to the Southern Poverty Law Center , which included Miller in its intelligence reports on possible extremist groups as it wrote about his speech at a Homeland Security Expo. He told the audience that he is a "life" because he uses punctuation in his name.

"David is an adjective, Wynn is an adjective, Miller is a pronoun," he said. "Two adjectives are a condition of modification, opinion, presumption, which modifies the pronoun, pro means no on noun. So therefore, I'm not a fact. I'm a fiction."

Miller's web site , on which he refers to himself as the "plenipotentiary judge," contains seemingly incoherent ramblings related to "quantum-language-parse-syntax." He claims his views are the result of 78,000 hours of study of the "parse-syntax-law study."

The Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel talked with Miller, who told the newspaper that he was appalled by Loughner's alleged acts.

He said it's likely Loughner visited his website as he claimed to have "1 billion students" who read what he thinks.

Miller said that, unlike Loughner, he makes his statement by putting up a website, not by violence. He said he never met the man.

That doesn't mean he disagrees with what Loughner is saying.

"The man, based on what he is saying in jail, he's saying there's no Constitution, which there isn't," Miller said to the Journal Sentinel. "But the individual is obviously disturbed. If you take somebody's life, it's a crime. You'll go to jail. We don't need a written law for that."

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I believe there is less effort to try and understand the kid and FAR MORE effort by both sides to spin the story in favor of their side of the political spectrum and play the blame game...

LMAO

That sounds like "sovereign citizen/straw man" word play. The gunman's web presence was even less coherent and does not look to me to be related.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wynn_Miller

He also claims that by adding specific punctuation such as "full colons" and hyphens to his name, he becomes a "prepositional phrase" that cannot be taxed.

Do conspiracy theorist ever realize what nuts they sound like to everyone else?

Originally Posted by PaulRevere9

I believe there is less effort to try and understand the kid and FAR MORE effort by both sides to spin the story in favor of their side of the political spectrum and play the blame game...

LMAO

I fully agree with you on that

No, Jared's mention of the English language, grammar, and mind control together sounds more like Noam Chomsky (a leftists) and his theories on psycholinguistics.

W

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