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Tom Hoefling: Who is really to blame for the Tucson Massacre?
AIPNews.com ^ | January 9, 2011 | Tom Hoefling

Posted on 01/09/2011 12:37:08 PM PST by EternalVigilance

Kick out God and respect for innocent human life, and violence is the inevitable result

A day after the brutal Tucson murders of Federal Judge John Roll and five others, an attack that also left Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a dozen others severely wounded, the leftwing media and political elites are making a sickening spectacle of themselves as they finger-point and try to shift and affix blame. My suggestion is that they stand in front of a mirror when they’re doing it.

But before I spell out why, let me say that the primary blame in this case lies with the godless young man who pulled the trigger. He made the conscious, callous, brutal choice to become a mass murderer.

However, even before we really look much at the various scraps of personal information about the shooter that are already coming in, we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt what sort of socio-political phenomenon he reflects.

First, this is an individual who doesn’t fear God.

Second, this is a person who has no regard for the innocent lives of his fellow human beings, each and every one of whom were created in God’s image.

Those two things are one hundred percent certain.

Let me ask you, what modern American ideology does such a viewpoint mirror?

To whatever extent this mass murderer’s ideology is represented by his actions, it is the ideology of the American Left.

For decades, the Left has gone to any length to try and drive God out of our national life. Everyone knows it. This is not even debatable. And young people such as Jared Lee Loughner, like the Columbine High School killers before him, are not only the main targets of that worldview, they are commonly the most susceptible.

For decades, the Left has politically empowered the daily slaughter of thousands of defenseless babes in the womb via abortion. And they have done so with an uncompromising fervor. It’s like a religion to them. Because of that ghoulish, selfish, purposeful obsession, our national hands are drenched in the blood of more than fifty million innocent little boys and girls, and countless individual consciences have been seared into apathy towards acts of unspeakable violence.

Liberals can’t face themselves concerning any of this. They won’t admit the truth about what the poison fruit of their unjust ideology is. That’s why they are simply incapable of doing anything except what they’re doing: pointing fingers at others, primarily on the Right.

But what do I see the political Right doing today, as the Left tries to pin their own ideological sins on others?

Praying for the victims and their families.

Decrying the violence.

Crying out for justice.

Look in the mirror, America. And if you don’t like what you see? Get right with the One Who made you. Recognize the incalculable eternal value of every single one of your fellow human beings, no matter how developed, or “wanted,” or whether they agree with you politically or not. Work to reestablish an American culture that acknowledges God and which passes our priceless heritage of justice based on the protection of unalienable God-given rights on to the young - instead of brainwashing them with godless liberal ideology, or killing them before they can even be born.

Return to the timeless principles Frederick Douglass long ago called "the ringbolt of our nation’s destiny":

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…”
One last note to those on the Right:

My advice would be to not get too worked up concerning the current flood of libelous nonsense from the Left. Remember what it says in the Book of Proverbs:
“As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.” – Proverbs 26:2
If you’re not pushing a merciless, godless, violent, death-loving ideology (like they are) you have nothing to worry about. Their unjust accusations won’t stick. Just keep doing the right thing. Keep praying. Keep defending life. Keep working to push back the godless, lawless, destructive delusions espoused by the Left, and God will work it all out.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial
KEYWORDS: giffords; hoefling
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1 posted on 01/09/2011 12:37:10 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

The gunman.


2 posted on 01/09/2011 12:39:09 PM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: EternalVigilance

bttt


3 posted on 01/09/2011 12:39:44 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Loughner.


4 posted on 01/09/2011 12:41:57 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: bgill
The gunman.

Yep. Which, of course, is why I wrote this in the second paragraph:

...the primary blame in this case lies with the godless young man who pulled the trigger. He made the conscious, callous, brutal choice to become a mass murderer.

5 posted on 01/09/2011 12:41:57 PM PST by EternalVigilance (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams)
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To: EternalVigilance

God has been banned from where Loughner has spent the majority of his time over the past 16 years.


6 posted on 01/09/2011 12:42:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (DNC memo - "Don't let this thing go to waste! Exploit! Exploit! Exploit!")
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To: EternalVigilance

I’m going to go out on a limb and say the guy who pulled the trigger is to blame for the shootings. I guess it’s an odd thing to think, personal responsibility and all that.


7 posted on 01/09/2011 12:42:13 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: bgill

No, he killed the dinosaurs.


8 posted on 01/09/2011 12:42:21 PM PST by sinanju
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To: FlingWingFlyer

That’s right.


9 posted on 01/09/2011 12:44:04 PM PST by EternalVigilance (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams)
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To: EternalVigilance

This guy is right.


10 posted on 01/09/2011 12:45:04 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

No, it’s not odd at all.

But, in this case, as in so many others, the Left is attempting to cast the larger societal blame on everyone except the ones who actually deserve it. Themselves.

Which was kind of the point of the article, I think.


11 posted on 01/09/2011 12:47:04 PM PST by EternalVigilance (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams)
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To: EternalVigilance

You’ll have to forgive us. We like to post first and read later. ;^)


12 posted on 01/09/2011 12:52:39 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

*grin*

I kinda noticed that.


13 posted on 01/09/2011 12:53:44 PM PST by EternalVigilance (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams)
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To: EternalVigilance

Good stuff, thanx.


14 posted on 01/09/2011 12:54:37 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
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To: GunsAndBibles

Good one.


15 posted on 01/09/2011 12:54:41 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well said!!


16 posted on 01/09/2011 1:02:55 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Liberals chickens...........Are coming home.. to....Roost.


17 posted on 01/09/2011 1:03:17 PM PST by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well done. Abortion is the key to all our ills. When those in this country became numbed to abortion, they became numbed to everything else that is evil.

The Founding Fathers knew that only a Godly people could keep the heaven sent gift of a free, peaceful, and prosperous America. How can there be peace when there is violence in the womb?


18 posted on 01/09/2011 1:04:06 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (Rep. Steve King - 5th Iowa - is my current heartthrob.)
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To: oldbrowser

Anarchists chickens.............Are coming home to roost.


19 posted on 01/09/2011 1:04:33 PM PST by oldbrowser (Blaming the prince of fools shouldn't blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that elected him)
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To: EternalVigilance
Let's noodle this out.

Conservatives believe in individual responsibility. That the environment has nothing to do with the choices the individual makes.

But libs believe in collective responsibility. The idea that this shooter is a product of his environment, and, that he and the environment are guilty of the shooting. OK. They are entitled to their opinion, as we are to ours.

The article states the well-known fact that atheism, selfish behavior, disregard for life, are all tenets of liberalism. All were of paramount importance in the AZ killings.

(I would add that political killing is a PARTICULAR plank of the liberal's manifesto, from Marx to Ayers and everyone in between.)(Likewise political killing is also a PARTICULAR no-no to conservatives and the God-fearing.)

So the obvious, inescapable conclusion, is, according to both the liberal and conservative viewpoints, that....

The blame for the AZ killings lies clearly, plainly, and indelibly on the backs of ALL LIBERALS, who nurtured and encouraged the world-view and ethos of this innocent young man.

He is blameless because he is merely a product of his environment.

The liberals did these killings, and upon them rests the blame.

20 posted on 01/09/2011 1:04:57 PM PST by caddie
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