We have all seen the footage of the horrible scene in Tuscon this past Saturday where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and several others were wounded. 9 year old Christina Green, Giffords aid Gabe Zimmerman, and several other were senselessly gunned down. I first want to express my deepest sympathies and heartfelt prayers to the victims and their families. I don't live in Arizona and therefore I am not represented by Ms. Giffords. I imagine she and I are far apart on many issues but from both sides of the aisle she has won much affection and respect and like they, I wish her a full recovery.
I am, however, sickened by some on the left to use this for political fodder to blame Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and others in the conservative movement. There is absolutely no evidence to date linking Jared Loughner, the suspect, to anything political on either side. He was a disturbed young man who needed help. Paul Krugman of the New York Times, couldn't wait to write, I imagine with much glee, attacks on Palin and Michelle Bachmann. Palin's now infamous electoral map with crosshairs on certain districts, one of them Giffords, has been held up as the worst kind of hate speech. Rep. Bachmann made comments about a revolution and being armed and dangerous to fight against the progressive, big government policies that the left wants to enact. So, I guess you could say Palin and Bachmann are in Krugman's crosshairs. He stated there is no talk of attacking public figures on MSNBC but there is on Fox News. I hate to burst the fairy tale Krugman is living but there is clip after clip of some of the most vile rhetoric coming from the likes of Olbermann, Matthews and others at what has become the Obama News Network. Even Patricia Maisch, one of the brave people who got the rest of the ammunition away from Loughner, went on tv and blamed Republicans. The Sheriff of Pima County did the same thing. This derangment syndrome once only affecting the liberal media has now infected ordinary citizens and law enforcement. Whether it's Bush, Palin or just Right Wing Derangement Syndrome, it is now being accepted by supposedly mainstream Americans. I applaud Ms. Maisch for her bravery and in the first hours afterwards anyone can make heated statements. But I hear it in my everyday life. The truth is, the world's problems can not be laid at the feet of George Bush, Sarah Palin or conservative talk radio. No one person has that power. Many people in power have made bad decisions and what we have to decide right now, is what good decisions can be made to strengthen our country and to quote Rep. Giffords "maintain our superiority over other countries". Maybe she and I aren't too far apart after all. God Bless us all and God Bless the United States of America.
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The first story I read about this quoted his online rantings about how he hated the government and hated religion. He was also quoted as "I will not trust in God". I definitely took notice of how quickly that was swept under the rug. Now if he had claimed to be a Christian you can bet the media would have been salivating and recalling every single instance throughout history in which a Christian has wronged someone. The double standards are what sicken me. People try to say that if we eliminate religion, we would not have any war or hatred in the world. It only takes one look at the newspaper to see this is not true. Do they really think the drug cartels and all the violent crimes in our inner cities is committed by devoted church going citizens? For some people, ignorance is not only bliss, it is a way of life.
Don
Don, you are absolutely right. The media wants him to be some "right wing nut" to say "we told you so". You sure didn't see any of those people saying they were praying for the victims. They only wanted to use to attack. Thanks for responding.
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