Agreed.
(quoting wardaddy) can they all be genuine? (end of wardady quote)
I'm not sure.
I don't think they are. I read the thread through. Some sections I read twice. I think some of the comments are outlandishly out of bounds precisely to make a point: namely, if this were a conservative mob/Tea Party gathering/etc., that CBS would not be sitting on the story. Instead, they'd be shouting this story from the roof tops 24/7. Some posts state this explicitly.
Is my read correct? Who knows. Perhaps some FReepers are indulging in unbecoming behavior. If this is true, it's sad, but there it is.
While the same people might post outrage and invective against someone on the other side of the political spectrum for so much as wishing for such misery to befall a conservative, they readily jump in with the "she deserved it" crap here over an actual and horrific criminal act.
Indeed. And why might that be? I'm serious. I really want your take on this. I'm not trying to bait you.
You see, earlier in the thread I said that I believe some of the Left's filth has rubbed off on us conservatives. That we've been lied about, slandered, smeared, and spit upon so long that some of us have, rightly or wrongly, descended to the same level. I can't help wonder if some of the unpleasant comments, if they were spoken in earnest, were motivated by a tit-for-tat attitude. Unbecoming? Yes. Surprising? Not really.
Wouldn't you agree that there are some adult-aged adolescents in this world? And that such individuals might be less able than you to withstand the Leftist onslaught of Saul Alinksy tactics, without themselves succumbing to indulging in similar behaviors?
Please don't misunderstand. I am not trying to shift blame to the Left for the actions of those individuals over which you felt disgust. Each of the people in the group of whom you speak is responsible for his or her own actions. Even if the Left has rubbed them so raw as to erase "simple matters of human decency" from their hearts, it is still each of them that chose to descend to that level.
Just as I chose to refrain from reflexively chiming in with the individuals who said Ms. Logan's assault transcends politics. She works for a Leftist organization, CBS. A Leftist organization so bound to its Politically Correct ideology--and so detached from reality--that it would send a petite, attractive, blond-haired Western woman into a crowd of aggrieved, agitated Middle-Eastern men with a security detail smaller than the 101st Airborne. In my opinion, that makes it political: a prime example of Leftist political stupidity.
On a human level, I hope and pray for her recovery. But on every other level I want to scream: "What the hell were all of you thinking????!!!!!" Including her. At least Katie Couric had the good sense to bail.
If you've read this far, then I thank you. I can be terribly long-winded. (Are your eyes bleeding yet?)
Cheers.
There is a time and place where such vitriolic sentiments might well be justified for the irony of the situation, if nothing else, and almost all of us can be unsympathetically brutal in such instances (Darwin Awards, for instance).
However, there are times when even the assumption that the person was there of their own free will and knowing all of the risks does not tip the balance in favor of brutality. The events which have occurred so far outweigh any verbal trashing that to do so only makes those who do so seem cheap, as cheap as the littlest one in the gang kicking the victim the toughest have put down.
The blame belongs first and foremost with the perpetrators of the crime.
Had they not acted as they did, all else would be moot.
As for who misinformed whom or who made bad decisions, let the lady sort that out with her employers and those who may have informed her erroneously or with disregard for her safety. That is their matter to settle.
I can only offer my prayers, that, despite her politics, she heal as well and as quickly as possible from what must have been a very nasty experience.