Posted on 01/09/2011 11:42:35 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Language has an effect. Violent political encounters have an effect. The link of the use of guns with patriotism and morality has an effect. Expressions like "targeting" and "in the crosshairs" evokes images of shooting to kill. The murder of a liberal leader in Pakistan seemed far away. Now it's here days later. Given all the death threats, it was almost inevitable. Gabby Giffords was in the crosshairs.
Republicans will say it was just the work of some crazy. Hardly. Even crazies get their ideas from somewhere. Violent political encounters and the language of violence activate the idea of violence. Ideas are physically there in the brain. People act on what is in their brains.
Keith Olbermann is right. And it's not just Palin and Beck. The Republicans who benefited from violent political confrontations and cross-hair language, who did not speak out and use their influence forcefully against it, bear full responsibility. Whatever John Boehner now says, he bears responsibility.
The tea party leaders gave explicit instructions on how to angrily disrupt public political meetings. Tea party rallies not only displayed violent signs, but rally leaders did not discourage them, and hence tacitly approved them.
As conservatives like to say, you bear the responsibility for the consequences of your actions.
This was tea party murder.
We should not shrink from calling it that.
-ackoff, you have to be lying turd or you're dumber than a box of rocks to believe Laughner was influenced by the tea party, Palin, or Beck to shoot 18 people and a Congressman. You write nothing but idiotic drivel.
George Lakoff...
“We progressives are long on factual analysis, critique, suggestion — and ridicule. Rachel Maddow is one of the best, and her popularity is well-deserved. What’s more fun than ridiculing Tea Party-ers, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the like, by showing the factual errors, the flaws in their logic, and the cruelty of their positions.”
Berkeley = ugly
The other was beautiful. I draw the conclusion (truth) that the left is ugly and the right is beautiful.
They want this. This is part of their strategy.
A free people has got to be a responsible people. Freedom doesn't work if a significant percentage of the population are irresponsible.
The left has hit on this as one of their strategies: break down everything in society, every societal construct, that helps to foster responsibility, to build responsible citizens and reward responsible citizenship. This is one of the things that's behind the dumping of millions of mental cases on the streets, to make mayhem along with millions of illiterate illegal immigrants from the third world.
Break down the will of society to say "this isn't right." Make the whole concept of "right and wrong" sound anachronistic, bigoted, an artificial construct of dead white men to perpetuate a discredited system of privledge and oppression.
When one of these benighted individuals finally goes bonkers with a gun, if the pieces of the situation fall into place the right way, the left is there, with the narrative already planned out, the whole machinery of deception and propaganda is prepared for instant action.
They couldn't do it with Amy Bishop, or Fort Hood, or the Virginia Tech massacre, for a number of reasons. But they could do it here, and they have.
This guy’s a professor? He writes like a junior high schooler.
Society was this guy’s enemy, not Gabrielle Gifford. She just happened to be a prominent figure in society. His choice of targets do not bely any sophisticated thought process which would serve one political ideology or he other, only a blind rage against a system that he was ill prepared to live in.
Jakoff is from Bezerkely, so that explains a lot.
The Dems all have a favorite song: `Get Down With The Sickness’ (appropriately) by a band named `Disturbed.’
The shooter here was their soul-mate.
They can try and foist their problem off on the normal people of this country, but the problem for the Democrats can be found in their bathrooms, attached to the wall.
“I have this feeling when they search his computer, his favorite sites will be KOS, firedoglake, MoveOn etc.”
True, but you’ll never know unless you read the court transcript.
Yeah, Jon Stewart made him do it.
Perp is a twenty-something stoner, slacker, lives in mom's basement...that is the profile of the Daily Show audience.
I'll bet he's a fan of Stewart and Colbert...he's described as "arrogant" like the fake news guys.
If we dig, I'll bet we'll see a whole library of Daily Show clips on his computer.
Why do all these liberal dipsh*ts look like Gerry Garcia wannabes?
What quality in their physical appearance makes the recognition of a liberal so easy?
Is it that most of them behave like bums?
Is it the wire-framed glasses, which they all prefer to wear low on their nose?
Is it their unshaven, unwashed disheveled appearance?
Perhaps it is that they so often speak and write as pretentious, arrogant and self-absorbed fools, that the habit somehow superimposes itself on their features?
This is an outrage and we have had enough of lies from the left.
Liberal parents made him mentally ill?
I suspect his little choo-choo would have gone chugging around the bend, even if Rush Limbaugh had raised him. I don’t think mental illness has an ideology.
Well, yeah, come to think of it, liberalism does seem like a mental disorder, but I find it difficult to believe that each and every moonbat has a neurochemical imbalance, other than perhaps recreational, in his or her brain.
Democrats have done the same thing. They just want to shut conservatives up.
The "kill your parents" generation is in control of the media. We parents are dead because that is what they want. They will continue to throw tantrums and scream obscenities at us until we let them have their "Socialist Utopia." I'm really tired and about ready to die already. The fight is going to have to go to the few brave patriots who are still willing to fight for America's freedom.
I believe that the several national TEA Party organizations must pursue a class-action lawsuit for defamation.
Individuals, such as this clown, who publish libelous screeds against the TEA Party, need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent that the law allows. This is a blood libel. This is a Tort. We do need to make an example of this fool. We need to make certain that the damages are set significantly high. If we fail to take legal action against this jerk, and any others that imitate his disgusting slander, then the defamation will never stop.
These "media" bastards have reached a new low... even for them.
From just part of 2009 and this year:
There is a lot more at This Web Site
- Summer (?) 2009: At a tea party in Milwaukee, a heckler attacked several people and rushed the stage while a speaker was talking, YouTube video shows. Police tackled and removed him
- September, 2009: The Washington DC Tea Party appears to be a big success, but it’s not for lack of trying among the movement’s more lunatic opponents. Yesterday, the DC Metro police evacuated the offices of Freedomworks after several threats, including a bomb-threat phone call that police considered credible enough to investigate.
- September 3, 2009 in Thousand Oaks , California, a nationalized health care advocate attacked and bit off the finger of a Tea Partyer who was an opponent, Associated Press.
- November 14, 2009: in Fort Lauderdale, Florida violence broke out between tea party protesters and pro-amnesty protesters who had e-mailed group members calling for “a militant confrontation” with “tea-baggers,” the Christian Science Monitor reported.
- November 14, 2009, in Phoenix, tea partyers were attacked by a group of neo-Nazis brandishing a swastika flag and a portrait of Adolf Hitler. Police intervened quickly, and no one was hurt.
2010
- March 22, 2010: Bullet shot through window of Republican Congressman Eric Cantor’s Richmond, Virginia campaign Office.
- March 24, 2010: Republican Congresswoman Jean Schmidt of Ohio receives telephoned death threats.
- March 24, 2010: Republican Congresswoman Jenny Brown of Florida receives telephoned death threats.
- March 26, 2010: Windows Broken at Albemarle County GOP (Daily Progress.com)
- March 27, 2010: Searchlight, Nevada – Andrew Breitbart, a speaker at the Tea Party rally of 20,000 in Senator Harry Reid’s hometown in Nevada, reported one Reid supporter man holding a sign directing Tea Parties in the wrong direction, several other Reid supporters throwing eggs at the Tea Party Express buses, and a number of them surrounded him, including one who declared: “I’m going to have to go to jail today if this guy [Breitbart] doesn’t leave.” (Wall Street Journal) (YouTubeVideoHere)
- March 26, 2010: Mike Malloy, (Left Wing Radio), calls for death of Linbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck (Link)
- March 28, 2010: Woman Assaulted by Obama Fanatic at Princeton, MN Tea Party Meeting (Link)
- March 29, 2010: Today, a two-count complaint and warrant was filed charging Norman Leboon with threatening to kill United States Congressman Eric Cantor and his family.(Politico)
- March 29, 2010 A brick was thrown through the window of the “Fix Michigan Center” in Genoa Township over the weekend in what they are calling “politically-motivated violence.” The brick has the words ”Long Live the USA” and “God Bless the USA” scrawled on it, according to Livingston County Sheriff’s investigators. (WHMI)
- April 11, 2010 Another GOP Office Attacked in Ohio – Window Smashed (GateWayPundit)
- April 12, 2010 Police: Molotov cocktail thrown at home (Arizona Daily Star)
- April 13, 2010 Young Republican Couple Savagely Beaten Friday night (Nicedab.Wordpress) (AmericanThinker with Pictures)
- April 18, 2010 – Erik Pidrman threatened to murder GOP Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (Gateway Pundit)
- April 26, 2010 – Refried Beans smeared on AZ Capital Windows (Immigration) (MyFox.com)
- May 13, 2010 – Repub Chair in Utah has word “Asshole” burned in his yard (DailyMail)
- June 4, 2010 – Blog recommending Killing Sarah Palin (DTOM) (Explicit Language!)
- June 10, 2010 – Republican “Punched” at Bailout Protest (Fox8)
- June 28, 2010 – Lib talker Malloy on Cheney: Hope The Miserable Bastard Dies (Link)
- August 25, 2010 – Gunshot shatters Glass Door of GOP Headquarters
- October 5, 2010 - Top Dem Official in NJ slaps GOP staffer
- October 25, 2010 – Denver GOP Headquarters vandalized
- October 28, 2010 – Man pulls knife on Republican Candidate
The signs he says were there weren't there, and every tea party "leader" condemned and kicked every nutcase that showed up at any tea party rally.
Which was very seldom that they showed up..This article looks actionable to me, but I'm not a lawyer.
Now, Syncro, see how many of these kinds of attacks can be attributed to the Tea Party or members. Should be quite a contract.
But these targets that dems use are targets to shoot at. : Daily Kos targeted Gabrielle Giffords with a "bulls eye" back in June of 2008 Democrats use "bulls eye" targets extensively in their political graphics. This map shows states Democrats want targeted. Arizona, which Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords represents, is surrounded by these targets.
UPDATE: 302pm CST Daily Kos actually put a “bulls eye” (sic) on Gabrielle Giffords back in June of 2008:
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