this event is a sign and says something about america. in america we refuse to scold ourselves.
the fucking creep who went on a shooting rampage today in arizona killing christina taylor green, (among others,) blasting congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the cranium at point blank range-19 shot, six dead. fuck.
who was this killer? what group did he belong to that found gabrielle giffords so threatening or hideous as to shoot her in cold blood and indiscriminately spray bullets in a crowded area even killing a 9-year-old innocent? was it the gun people?
was it a group of small-dicked men who saw giffords as a threat to their right to bear arms? man i hate these fucks more today than ever. can you imagine how truly small they are, frightened to shivers over the idea their god-given, american, right to bear arms might somehow be in jeopardy. this is how dumb that group is; while some gun control efforts have been pushed and certainly there are people like myself who would not mind if there were no guns, there is hardly a discernible voice against guns being heard in the media or the public realm and yet, this group is easily riled and afraid. what a bunch of whiny, little, bitches.
was it the tea party?
in america we don't get together and call dumb; dumb. we never conclude. we value two or more opinions and we tend to act as if one opinion is as good as the next.
so if the murderer was a tea partier, it is high time we recognize that group for what it is. did you ever notice that the people who drank the kool-aid never admit or even know they drank the kool-aid? but they did and if we can't identify that out loud we're lost.
(you can click on the header to read the story as early facts came out...)
it has been 10 days since i wrote this angry opening to a blog post. since then funerals were held, speeches have been uttered and healing has begun, (most notably for representative giffords.) and politics went on as usual. the left, (certainly the progressive left,) sounded as i did initially. i did not think jared loughner was told to murder directly by sarah palin or glenn beck. i did not think palin or beck or any of the other right wing commentators were responsible for this shooting rampage. that said there are certainly lunatics of every political stripe. the point for those who decried palin's "targeting," of giffords and others on her website was to take the opportunity to state the obvious. it is ugly and irresponsible to use imagery such as cross hairs and verbiage such as, "don't retreat, reload."
and this is when we call a spade a spade. when national news happens we talk about it. what did the right want you to hear? don't politicize this tragedy. how convenient was that message? it wasn't keith olbermann or rachel maddow or bill press out there telling ardent gun lovers to fear so many bogeymen who would outlaw their guns or that the way to protect their second amendment rights would be to, "take aim," at progressive and liberal candidates.
nope. fuck that. on behalf of christina taylor green i say now is just the time to point out that palin and others have been irresponsible, (at least,) by using the rhetoric that would incite. there will always be unstable people and there will always be public figures of influence. it is up to us as individuals and collectively to recognize what is simply wrong.
