I would think it was because he didn’t have a ‘D next to his name, and was not a member of a “protected class.”
The judge was a Republican.
To the Left, Republicans, especially conservative ones, are incapable of any heroic deed.
Could it be because Judge Roll was a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus who attended daily Mass?
“Judge John Roll: A life of authentic Catholic witness
In January 2008, at the invitation of Bishop Thomas Olmsted, I gave a homily at the annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges and public officials in Phoenix. The theme wasn’t new; I’ve said it a hundred times. So has Bishop Olmsted. So have many other bishops. But over the past weekend I dug it out and reread the homily’s last few lines:
“We’re citizens of heaven first. Our time here is limited. This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service to the poor and afflicted—including the unborn child, the immigrant, the homeless and the elderly. The more authentically Catholic we are in our lives, our choices, our actions and our convictions, the more truly we will contribute to the moral and political life of our nation.”
Sitting in the congregation that day was a woman named Maureen, an active and very committed Catholic, and a veteran of crisis pregnancy counseling with Tucson’s Catholic Charities. After the liturgy she moved on to the other tasks of her day, as I did mine. Except that Maureen apparently talked about the Red Mass with her spouse. And 10 months later, after the 2008 election, I got the first of several extraordinary letters from her husband—John Roll, chief judge of the federal District of Arizona; the same John Roll who died in the terrible Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson.
It’s impossible to fully know a man from correspondence alone. But each of John Roll’s letters had the same four clear marks: generosity; intelligence, largeness of spirit and a sincere love for his Catholic faith. Two days after Roll’s murder, his law clerk, attorney Aaron Martin, described to me the kind of man he was.
Roll was devoted to St. Thomas More and kept a biography of the saint on a table near his desk. He liked mentoring young Christian attorneys because he believed their faith gave them a better moral foundation for the vocation of law. For Martin and for Judge Roll’s other clerks, “he was more of a father figure than a boss. He knew our families, and he always wanted to hear the news about them.” He had the habit of reading a range of Catholic publications every Sunday morning before Mass to learn more about his faith. He swam nearly every morning at the local YMCA to stay in shape, and he made daily Mass as often as he could. He liked to joke about a federal marshal who was once assigned to him as round the clock security for a month when he was facing threats. The marshal said, “Judge, I’m a Catholic, but I’ve been to Mass more in the last 30 days than in the past 10 years.”
John Roll would have turned 64 on Feb. 8. He had three sons and five grandchildren. Maureen and John Roll had known each other, according to Aaron Martin, since they were 14 or 15. They were, throughout their life together, each other’s best friends. They would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary later this month.
John Roll was, finally, a man of unusual personal graciousness. Despite their political differences, Judge Roll and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, had a cordial relationship of mutual respect. Giffords sought more resources for the court system, and Judge Roll was grateful. Precisely because of their differences, Roll tried to greet Giffords at her local appearances whenever he could. On the morning of his death, Roll went to Mass, and at 9:55 a.m., according to Martin, left his house to just “drop in” on Giffords’ public gathering as a courtesy, to say hello. He never came home.
This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service. Maureen and John Roll shared a life of quiet, powerful, authentic Catholic witness. Please keep them both, and the entire Roll family, in your prayers.
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Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. is the Archbishop of Denver.”
Because the leftist media was busy with their prime obsession: demonizing the right. They were much to busy slandering to actually report the news.
Thank God there are still heros left in the world. The guy that ran away and left dead and injured men, women and children on the ground (Eric Fuller) is treated like a hero (up until the point of his involuntary commitment), while the real hero is brushed aside.
May God bless Judge Roll’s family with comfort and peace that transcends all understanding. May the knowledge that their loved one died protecting another human being give them strength and courage to carry on.
-—Could it be the heroes of this story have been chosen and that Judge Roll doesn’t fit the template?-—
I’d bet my bottom dollar on that.
Judge Roll died saving another man? Who cares?
I do not even need to read the whole article....His heroism is not mentioned because he was a non illegal type conservative judge......if this info was made available to the general public ( the ones with an IQ of less than 75, which makes up almost half of the population ) then fubo appointing a flaming lib to take his place would be met with severe resistance....so, the part about the judge gets buried, and a new flaming lib judge gets appointed ( this seems like an extreme coincidence to me, and I firmly believe there is no such a thing as a coincidence ) to put this another way, why did his so called initial target survive, yet a conservative judge that had made many rulings that violated his personal beliefs die?????
Inquiring minds want to know...
Judge Roll’s heroism, like so many of the actual facts of the incident, had to be discounted in order to fit the media script of a crazy right-winger shooting valiant left-wingers. Judge Roll’s being a Republican meant he had to be left on the cutting-room floor.
Ron Barber, who was wounded in the Tucson massacre as he stood next to his boss, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, says he’s not surprised by the heroics of the late Judge John Roll, but calls Anna Ballis the “angel” who helped save his life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188722/ns/us_news-life/
Barber is more forthcoming in the interview about the part that Judge Roll had by shielding him from being killed by the shooter, but MSNBC makes it seem that Roll was a peripheral reason for Barber's survival.
The media is doing everything to promote the Giffords story. Think how quickly they buried Ft. Hood.
Next question?
Bear these questions in mind whenever watching, listening to, or reading the news — out of the billions of events occuring around the world, a handful of people with strongly liberal beliefs have decided that these few items are what constitute “the news.”
Every time you think leftists can't go lower, they sink deeper into the muck.
This whole episode is as disgusting as almost anything they've done. What could be next? How much more perverse can they get?
Remind your favorite talk show host;
To review The Wellstone II exhortations by Mr 0 when referencing the judge and Sheriff Dufus.
Obama supported the claim Dufus made that “the judge stopped by after mass to pay a vist”....
Instead of being, as earlier reported by FOX, on a panel complaining about the court case deportations overload caused by illegals....When Obama did this he usurped the Federal case of murder of a federal official... Clever eh ?
I wouldn’t quibble over this. It matters to God and that is all that matters.
Because he was a Republican judge.
Hope this helps!
I heard very little about Judge Roll and slightly more about the nine year old girl. I have heard absolutely nothing about any of the other vicitims - whether injured or deceased. Nada, nothing, zip. Are these people all worthless merely because they do not belong to the arrogant political class?
The coverage of this event has made me want to throw up.
May the souls of all those who perished rest in peace, whoever they are...
Thank you for posting this. The news is so horribly distorted.
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Judge John Roll Was a Hero: Why Didn’t We Know This?
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I intend to send a submission to the Carnegie Medal committee on
Monday to suggest Roll (and the other three that subdued the murderer).
I don’t know if Roll (and the other three) meet the criteria for
the Carnegie Medal, but they should at least be put forward for conideration.
(I’m a nobody...I hope someone with real cendentials has put this
concept forward.)
PS: I’m beyond just happy to see the good Congress-Lady sitting up
and showing a smile during transport from AZ to Houston.
Maybe I don’t agree with all her politics but I wish her
G-dSpeed. And a rapid recovery.