You really want to see gruesome rhetoric watch MSNBC, read the Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, The loser newspaper NYT. The liberal Saul Alinsky tactics no longer work . By all factual accounts Loughner was far liberal and considered Guifford's to moderate for his far left psychotic mind & ideology.
********************************************************************************************************************************* On Jan 10, 9:23 pm, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > How the Right's Rhetoric Fueled the Actions of Arizona's Mass Murderer > > It's too soon to say what motivated the man apprehended for the > shooting. But the Tea Party culture of political intimidation affirmed > his violent impulses. > > January 8, 2011 | > Photo Credit: A.M. Stan LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? > Join our mailing list: > Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. > Petitions by Change.org|Get Widget|Start a Petition ? It's too > soon to say what, exactly, motivated the man apprehended for the > shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 18 others outside a > Tucson supermarket on Saturday. All we really know about Jared Lee > Loughner, the 22-year-old alleged shooter, is that he is apparently a > profoundly disturbed young man whose paranoia involves some > indecipherable notions about the U.S. Constitution. > > Some say Loughner regards himself as a leftist, others chart him on > the right. But the screen shots of his (now deleted) MySpace page and > the incomprehensible videos he posted on YouTube -- as well as another > video he named a "favorite" that shows a masked, hooded figure burning > an American flag to a soundtrack of a chant, "Let the bodies hit the > floor" -- seem short on coherent ideology and long on violent impulse. > > So to those who would like to attribute Loughner's actions to the Tea > Party, I say, hold up; take a breath. But to those on the far right, > and to the more mainstream right-wingers who fail to condemn the > poisonous claims of the far right, I say, you're hardly off the hook. > > Had the vitriolic rhetoric that today shapes Arizona's political > landscape (and, indeed, our national landscape) never come to call, > Loughner may have found a different reason to go on a killing spree. > But that vitriol does exist as a powerful prompt to the paranoid, and > those who publicly deem war on the federal government a patriot's duty > should today be doing some soul-searching. > > On April 19, 2010 -- the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred > Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City -- Bill Clinton, who > was president at the time of the attack, published an op-ed in the New > York Times, both commemorating the dead and speaking to his fears of > another such attack in the future. Note that the Oklahoma City attack > came as right-wing leaders expressed outrage at the actions of federal > law enforcement at Waco and Ruby Ridge, but also demonized federal > workers as a class. > > "As we exercise the right to advocate our views, and as we animate our > supporters," Clinton wrote, "we must all assume responsibility for our > words and actions before they enter a vast echo chamber and reach > those both serious and delirious, connected and unhinged." > > On the day that op-ed was published, Clinton joined Janet Napolitano, > the current secretary of homeland security, at a ceremony at the > memorial erected on the site of the building. > > Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., another sort of commemoration was > taking place at the foot of the Washington Monument. There, a couple > of thousand right-wing gun-rights advocates gathered to hear from a > roster of speakers, several of whom spewed pure venom, including Larry > Pratt, president of Gun Owners of America, and Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. > > From my original report on the gathering: > > Broun, a Republican, sees civil war looming on the horizon. "Fellow > patriots, we have a lot of domestic enemies of the Constitution, and > they're right down the Mall, in the Congress of the United States -- > and right down Independence Avenue in the White House that belongs to > us," Broun told the crowd. "It's not about my ability to hunt, which I > love to do. It's not about the ability for me to protect my family and > property against criminals, which we have the right to do. But it's > all about us protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government of the > United States." > Then there's Pratt: > > "I look around: it's so good to see all these terrorists out here," > Pratt said. "Janet Napolitano, she figured, as governor of Arizona, > that we didn't have a border problem, but she knows who the real enemy > is. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And Bill Clinton's been runnin' cover for her, > too. Watch out how you guys speak out there, you know, words can have > consequences. Remember Oklahoma City? Yeah, I do. And I also remember > the Waco barbecue that your attorney general gave us. Thanks a > lot...We're in a war. The other side knows they're at war, because > they started it. They're comin' for our freedom, for our money, for > our kids, for our property. They're comin' for everything because > they're a bunch of socialists." > Think words such as those don't matter? Late last week, a package > addressed to Napolitano burst into flames at a U.S. Postal Service > facility, as did packages addressed to several other public officials. > > "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol > that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. > The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is > getting to be outrageous," Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told > reporters, according to The Huffington Post. "And unfortunately, > Arizona, I think, has become the capital. We have become the mecca for > prejudice and bigotry." Dupnik is a Democrat who is opposed to > Arizona's controversial law that allows law enforcement to demand > proof of legal citizenship from anyone at any time. (The law is > currently stayed, pending a court decision on its constitutionality.) > > Saturday was not the first time that Rep. Giffords, or John M. Roll, > the federal district judge who died in today's attack, faced violence > in the course of their work. During the battle for health-care reform, > Giffords faced death threats, and after her vote for the health-care > bill, her district office was vandalized. Rolls, too, faced death > threats for his decision to let a law suit go forward brought by a > group of Mexicans against several Arizona ranchers, and spent a month > under federal protection by U.S. Marshals. > > None of these threats, nor the incendiary packages that combusted in > the postal facilities on Friday, are attributed to Loughner. In fact, > the U.S. Marshals identified four separate individuals who made death > threats against Roll in 2009, according to the Arizona Republic. > > Loughner may have severe mental health issues, but his impulses were > surely affirmed by a right-wing culture that revels in intimidating > tactics and violent rhetoric. Remember Sarah Palin's mid-term campaign > map of congressional districts marked with the cross-hairs of rifle > sights -- districts where, in Palin's view, Democrats needed to be > taken out (to borrow a term from Harry Reid's Tea Party-branded > opponent, Sharron Angle)? Gabrielle Giffords was named in the key to > the map, her district marked as a target. Glenn Beck joked about his > desire to poison then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. > > To call Jared Lee Loughner a Tea Partier is not a credible claim. But > the culture of political intimidation that surrounds Democratic > politicians is reinforced by more than a few Tea Party-identified > leaders. It is not enough for leading Republicans such as House > Speaker John Boehner and John McCain, the senior Arizona senator and > former presidential candidate, to denounce the attack on Giffords, > Roll, and 17 other Arizona citizens, six of whom died, including a > little girl. They must call on media figures like Beck, political > leaders such as Palin, and figures such as Pratt and Broun, to end the > gruesome rhetoric. After all, words do have consequences. > > More:http://www.alternet.org/story/149460/how_the_right%27s_rhetoric_fuele... > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
