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"It's clear that Jared Lee Loughner is simply insane."

Remarks like that will help Mr. Loughner get off with a plea of insanity. Is that what this author wants?.....Mr. Loughner is fairly typical of what public school education in the US turns some people with a tendency to extremes, turns them into. Keep up the vitriol about his being insane and you will have him out on the streets in a few years.

But the strange thing was the reaction of Linder's parents. A gentle-looking aging couple, they were widely interviewed in the ensuing months. In these interviews, nothing of the normal response to the death of an offspring was visible -- no grief, no regret, no longing. Instead, the smiling Linders simply sat repeating revolutionary slogans and accusing the Reagan administration of responsibility for their son's death.

I remember this. The author is right: leftists subsume everything into politics. That's how it was possible for the Communists to get family members to turn each other in, refuse to support each other, etc. If you violate the creed of Communism, no family relationship matters and can protect you. Or if your death can be perceived of as being useful to Communism, again, no family relationship matters and can protect your death from being exploited.

It was quite creepy that Gifford's father would come out and make such an idiotic statement, even allowing for what must have been his shock and horror at the moment. Why is politics always the first thing in the liberal mind?

A big slogan of the left in the 1960s was that the "personal is the political," and that is clearly embedded in the minds of modern leftists, even theoretically moderate ones.

Is it hate speech to wonder where the outraged media were, and Mr. O., when the rancher was murdered in Arizona along with his dog, for effect? There was no interest and passion
for turning over every stone to find and punish his killers by the aforementioned. Obama did not speak of going to the ends of the earth to find the ranchers killers, and as the Fort Hood shooting attests, the media lowers the volume to “mute” when they can not attribute it to “right wing whackos”. The hypocrisy is stunningly obvious and spells backfire on and against the Pivens-Clowers-Van Jones-Pelosi/Reid types.

Its not restricted to the Left. Some people on here in the wake of the tragedy were more interested in pushing a particular agenda than realizing that the affairs of the world can wait. There is nothing in life like being people being consumed by politics. We’d be happier without being obsessed with what politicians do. They don’t run our lives and this goes for Republicans as well as Democrats. You folks who think we need a health care vote THIS week, knock it off. Life will resume soon enough and we can all take the time to reflect on what it would be like if politicians were off our radar screens.

There is something to be learned from this. This incident is a reflection of our culture today in regards to our youth. The sixties counter culture has brought about children who are growing up with distorted identities. From the rampant drug use to the overexposure by our media to perversion to the shock jocks and the celebration of dsyfunctionality on television 24/7. Not to mention the issue of how children are being over medicated with psych drugs. (Was this kid on them?)

People today in our culture are spoiled for one. Kids have laptops, video games, stereos, etc… and yet so many of them walk around still miserable and depressed. It is our culture that is failing them.

The lesson to be learned here is that the liberal culture that started with the counter-culture and the sexual revolution must be defeated. This country must return to its traditional values. If not we see more of this.