Hung in effigy, you say?
Posted on 01/09/2011 4:09:49 PM PST by Second Amendment First
She read the First Amendment on the House floor — including the guarantee of “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” — and then flew home to Arizona to put those words into practice. But when Gabrielle Giffords tried to meet with her constituents in a Tucson parking lot on Saturday, she came face to face with an environment wholly at odds with that constitutional ideal, and she nearly paid for it with her life.
Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Ms. Giffords, killing a federal judge and five other people, and wounding 13 others, appears to be mentally ill. His paranoid Internet ravings about government mind control place him well beyond usual ideological categories.
But he is very much a part of a widespread squall of fear, anger and intolerance that has produced violent threats against scores of politicians and infected the political mainstream with violent imagery. With easy and legal access to semi-automatic weapons like the one used in the parking lot, those already teetering on the edge of sanity can turn a threat into a nightmare.
Last spring, Capitol security officials said threats against members of Congress had tripled over the previous year, almost all of them from opponents of health care reform. An effigy of Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., Democrat of Maryland, was hung on a gallows outside his district office. Ms. Giffords’s own district office door was smashed on the night of the health care vote, possibly by a bullet.
The federal judge who was killed, John Roll, had received hundreds of menacing phone calls and death threats, especially after he allowed a case to proceed against a rancher accused of assaulting 16 Mexicans as they tried to cross his land.
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You forgot BARF!!! :)
Hung in effigy, you say?
But that’s different, you see . . .
Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik knew
that JL was a a threat to Congresswoman Giffords
and to the residents of Pima county and chose to not
fulfill his obligation as Sheriff.Clarence was derelict in his duty
and complicit in mass murder.Clarence needs to be indicted as complicit
to mass murder and terrorism.
Ain’t gonna happen. Once again it wan’t the gun but the nut that had it, that did the crime.
“Giffords’s own district office door was smashed on the night of the health care vote, possibly by a bullet.”
Another magic bullet? This time it gets up, runs away and hides, and is never seen again!
Call me jaded but I think power wise the Fed judge was a more notable target...Godspeed for him
But it is starting to chap me this fixation on the Congresslady...bad enough granted...this guy had it in for her.
But this nut murdered a NINE YEAR OLD little girl* who had never done anything to anyone...bless her heart..it brings tears to my eyes to ponder it.
That is the real tragedy...and the others no one seems to care about.
*and that her folks are lefties is irrelevanrt...completely...she left that day just as a history lesson of sorts...never to be seen again alive...those of us with children understand...heartbreaking...transcends ideology
No, she returned home & encountered a deranged maniac.
Changing the environment to something wholly at odds with the 1st amendment is underway currently thanks to NYT and the democrats.
The 0bamachip (single sign on Internet ID)
0bamacare & medical record control
0bamacase + 0bamachip = ??
“assaulting 16 Mexicans as they tried to cross his land”
Bull. They were illegally entering the US and in pcs of being detained.
“According to the complaint, Barnett, who owns 22,000 acres along the border in southeastern Arizona, approached the group of illegals on an all-terrain vehicle March 7, 2004. He allegedly began yelling at them in English and broken Spanish while aiming his gun at the group. While Barnett’s dog barked at the intruders, the illegal aliens accused him of ordering the dog to attack. One of the women said the rancher kicked her because she refused to get up. The jury ruled in favor of Barnett on the battery charge as well.
Barnett detained the trespassing illegals until Border Patrol agents arrived. The lawsuit claimed that the rancher never told the illegals they were trespassing and failed to post a sign notifying them that they were on private property.
MALDEF claimed the family attacked, harassed, threatened and held the illegals against their will, because they were motivated by racial and class-based discrimination. The complaint said the Barnetts allegedly caused the group “severe emotional and mental distress,” including fear, anxiety, humiliation, stress, frustration and sadness. Each illegal alien sued for $1 million in actual damages and $1 million for punitive or exemplary damages. “
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89295
I feel exactly the same way and am terribly troubled by it
federal chages have already been filed for the congresswoman and the Judge meahnwhile nothing for the others yet I suppose in the morning. If you think about it
the Congresswoman was doing her job just as many people do day in and day ot and many people are murdered day in and day out just doing their job but most of them go unmentioned
I am really starting to feel that unless you are a movie star or someone important you are no body
Arizona has to deal with some very tough political realities - including an insecure border and a federal government that brings lawsuits against them. It doesn’t help that only one side of the debate is blamed for a tragedy that happens there.
No, she came face to face with a homicidal schizophrenic who wanted to kill her and others. Her "environment" was just fine. The nut who did the shooting was the entire problem. The only reason you raised the subject of an environment was to create a sort of Rorschach inkblot onto which you projected your liberal fantasies.
His paranoid Internet ravings about government mind control place him well beyond usual ideological categories.
And having told us that he is beyond usual ideological categories, you will next try to associate his actions with conservatism.
But he is very much a part of a widespread squall of fear, anger and intolerance that has produced violent threats against scores of politicians and infected the political mainstream with violent imagery.
Hey NYT, I have a new word for you: evidence. I have provided a handy link for you to click, so you can read the definition.
Last spring, Capitol security officials said threats against members of Congress had tripled over the previous year, almost all of them from opponents of health care reform.
You're going to have to click that link again. Is there any evidence that the shooting was related to health care reform? If not, then is no legitimate reason for you to bring the subject into this editorial, is there?
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members.
So you hope no one will notice when you do exactly that. By using the same sort of doublethink, I might say that it is facile and mistaken to attribute this post to Free Republic poster TChad.
That whirlwind has touched down most forcefully in Arizona, which Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described after the shooting as the capital of “the anger, the hatred and the bigotry that goes on in this country.”
The liberal sheriff, like the liberal editorial writers of the New York Times, fails to separate liberal fantasies about the killer's motivation from the reality of what we now know and don't know. The sheriff accused a group of people of complicity in a crime, without any evidence of their guilt. He is as ill-suited for work in law enforcement as the NYT editors are for work in journalism.
As for anger, hatred, and bigotry, I have another new word for both the sheriff and the NYT editors: projection.
By the way, NYT, did you bother to report on Loughner's flag burning video? I only ask because you did not see fit to mention it yesterday, after the alternative media had not only covered the subject, but provided links to Loughner's entire bizarre YouTube video collection. Did you finally decide to tell your readers that The Communist Manifesto was one of Loughner's favorite books, as listed on his YouTube page? Or are you still protecting the delicate sensibilities of your leftist readers from that inconvenient information, using your usual lies by omission?
Yo, NYT!
UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT!
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