Posted on 01/09/2011 7:18:50 PM PST by danielmryan
The news that Blue-Dog Democrat Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head by a deeply disturbed young man was certainly enough to shock. Add to that the death of a Republican-appointed chief judge. Further add the heart-rending death of a nine-year-old girl who was born on September 11th, 2001. Four others died along with those two. Eleven others were wounded along with Rep. Giffords.
The young man who killed and wounded them is all-but certainly a schizophrenic. He's of the age when male schizophrenics first undergo a break from reality. In Jared Lee Loughner's case, his break was both psychotic and violent. There were warning signs of his affliction, found both in the comments of his friends about him and his own writings. When seen in this light, the most dangerous book he read was not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto but One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Kesey's novel is a great one, speaking of the dark side of the therapeutic state, but it's a sad fact that a mentally disturbed young man can walk away from it believing that any attempts to help him are "the Combine" trying to crush him. In the hands of such an individual, Cuckoos's Nest may even inflame a (possibly latent) paranoiac streak. Which does not detract from the greatness of the novel.
Given Loughner's mental state, the shooting is best described as a tragedy. Schizophrenia, particularly a case of Loughner's severity, is an organic brain disease. Its roots are neurological and neurochemical. It's true that certain stressors can influence a psychotic break, but those causes are little more than proximate. Blaming the stressors –I don't know what they were either – is like blaming a driver of a car with stripped brakes for not hitting the pedal quickly enough....
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Excellant writing, excellant analysis. Brilliant, succinct, and accurate.
this is the best writing on this tragedy I have seen so far!!!!
You hit all the points and bring them all together in a mosaic of reasoned thought.
Her voting record gives good insight into how the phony “blue dog conservative Democrats” operate.
They will find two issues that your District really cares about (typically 2nd Amendment and national defense) and vote “conservative” on those issues.
BUT on other issues which are damaging to America (”Dream Act”, Obamacare, abortion, unemployment extension, etc.) they will vote in a block with the rest of the Democrat party.
This is how the Democrat Party have suckered American voters for years and one big reason they have maintained majorities when they should not have.
Unfortunately too many voters focus on their one hot-button issue and don’t look any farther. Perhaps some good will come out of this incident if more people learn the truth about the “blue dogs”.
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur52.htm
34. Words mean things.
I keep seeing this horrifying crime referred to as a tragedy, and I think its important to set the record straight.
“Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “King Lear”, “Titus Andronicus” and others are all tragedies.
Gunning down a Federal Judge, a nine year old girl, a US Congress Member and a whole bunch of other people is an atrocity.
While the deaths and severe injuries are no doubt tragic to the people involved, that does not make this event a tragedy, as that garners too much sympathy and lays the groundwork for some acceptable excuse at some future date. There are no words to justify or ameliorate this attempted assassination, or mass murder, or vicious attack by a deranged maniac; or any other way we can find to describe this horrifying act, but I believe we should avoid the temptation to buttonhole this as a mere “tragedy”.
(My comments are not aimed at you personally either...just a comment about how we all fall into these language habits so easily.)
Bump
Shooter is Insane? No doubt.
But was he used as a useful idiot? It is possible.
Current Commie Dems are capable of “anything”. Absolutely “ANYTHING”.
I don't always agree with many of the opinions at the FR- some things in the political sphere seem trite; but one thing is for certain, we are better human beings than the progressive liberals.
I don't always agree with many of the opinions at the FR- some things in the political sphere seem trite; but one thing is for certain, we are better human beings than the progressive liberals.
It shows - it does.
I fully understand that manias are always detrimental to rational thought. But, monomania is a new term to me. Now that I've gained a bit of understanding regarding the implications of the affliction, it's clear how it so comprehensively besets the left.
“Gunning down a Federal Judge, a nine year old girl, a US Congress Member and a whole bunch of other people is an atrocity.”
Bingo.
I’ve long been sickened by people calling 9/11 a “tragedy” - from the get-go, and almost 100% of the time.
It was an ATROCITY.
Katrina was a tragedy. Human-perpetrated carnage is an ATROCITY.
Ok, so he doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Fine. Strap him into the electric chair and tell him it's a ride at Disney. He won't know the difference.
I think the real point here is that the time for dialog is closing. When events can be twisted into whatever the Brown Shirt Media wants them to we are at an end of dialog.
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