but not this time.
Congresswoman Shot in Tucson
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beksbks
A Republican hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz literally set his sights on the Broward County Democrat at a shooting range, according to press reports.
Robert Lowry was one of the Southeast Broward Republican Club who went on a shooting spree at a gun range and fired assault rifles at targets including a man in a headdress holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Lowry’s target was a silhouette of a human figure with the initials “DWS” next to the head.
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thetrueone
WOW ...the suggestion of violence shows up at a political rallies.
I wonder if those people who showed up with those signs after witnessing and seeing what happened this weekend
would ever do so again ? Nice threatening statement for a peaceful law abiding Democracy.
The majority of people wouldn't of course but there's always that mentally off balanced Koo Koo in attendance
at these political rallies that just might..........bad idea
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BizzyBee
Interesting how it is the right who are ginned up about the call for moderation in our political discourse, while the left is saying, "yeah, let's do that!" The right knows they are the targets - because they are the ones responsible for the over-the-top hate speech and outright threats.
Everyone is afraid to say it, but I will: time for some effective gun-control and some Fairness Doctrine. And know this: it is because the far right in this country could not handle FREEDOM - freedom of speech and the freedom of weapons. Now we will all have less freedom. They've squandered their freedoms and ours.
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beksbks
January 9, 2011
It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It
Posted by George Packer
Judging from his Internet postings, Jared Lee Loughner is a delusional young man whose inner political landscape is a swamp of dystopian novels, left- and right-wing tracts, conspiracy theories, and contempt for his fellow human beings. He refers to the gold and silver standard; that doesn't make Ron Paul responsible for the shootings. He is fond of “Animal Farm”; George Orwell didn't guide the hand that pulled the automatic pistol's trigger. Marx and Hitler produced a lot of corpses, but not the ones in Tucson.
But the plate-glass window of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s office was shattered last March after the final health-care vote. Judge John Roll, who was among the dead, had received death threats and spent a month with a protection detail. Roll was apparently a bystander to Loughner’s intended target—and maybe the gunman had no idea why he was aiming for Giffords either, maybe he didn't know how she voted on health care or what her position on Arizona’s draconian immigration law was. It would be a kind of relief if Loughner operated not out of any coherent political context but just his own fevered brain.
But even so, the tragedy wouldn't change this basic fact: for the past two years, many conservative leaders, activists, and media figures have made a habit of trying to delegitimize their political opponents. Not just arguing against their opponents, but doing everything possible to turn them into enemies of the country and cast them out beyond the pale. Instead of “soft on defense,” one routinely hears the words “treason” and “traitor.” The President isn't a big-government liberal—he's a socialist who wants to impose tyranny. He's also, according to a minority of Republicans, including elected officials, an impostor. Even the reading of the Constitution on the first day of the 112th Congress was conceived as an assault on the legitimacy of the Democratic Administration and Congress.
This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right. (On the left it appears in anonymous comment threads, not congressional speeches and national T.V. programs.) And it has gone almost entirely uncriticized by Republican leaders. Partisan media encourages it, while the mainstream media finds it titillating and airs it, often without comment, so that the gradual effect is to desensitize even people to whom the rhetoric is repellent. We’ve all grown so used to it over the past couple of years that it took the shock of an assassination attempt to show us the ugliness to which our politics has sunk.
The massacre in Tucson is, in a sense, irrelevant to the important point. Whatever drove Jared Lee Loughner, America's political frequencies are full of violent static.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker#ixzz1Abj99OjU
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BizzyBee
Theadversarial and obstructionist rhetoric that has become part of our political lexicon - Obamacare, death panels and now a bill actually named, "Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act" emanates squarely from the right - not the left. We are learning that this kind of inflammatory and malignant language cannot be spewed 24/7 - from politicians and from the airwaves - without consequences.
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thetrueone
A map on Sarah Palin's website had Gabrielle Giffords's district marked with crosshairs. The map was pulled from Palin's website hours after Giffords (top right) was gravely wounded and six more killed in a deadly shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., on Saturday.
Photograph by: AFP via Getty Images
TUCSON, Ariz. - Gabrielle Giffords, the Democratic congresswoman targeted Saturday in a deadly shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that left her gravely wounded and six others dead, warned previously that heated political rhetoric had prompted violent threats against her and vandalism at her office.
FBI director Robert Mueller said the suspected gunman, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, had attended a public event held by Giffords in 2007.
In an interview last year with MSNBC, Giffords cited a map of electoral targets put out by Sarah Palin, a Republican former Alaska governor and prominent conservative, that had each marked by the cross-hairs of a rifle sight.
After the shooting, the graphic was removed from Palin's website and she offered condolences on a posting on Facebook.
A Palin aide, Rebecca Mansour, told conservative radio host Tammy Bruce of the graphic: "We never, ever, ever intended it to be gun sights. It was simply crosshairs like you'd see on maps ... a surveyor's symbol."
BULLSHIT I used to be professional Land Surveyor and I never seen or used a bullseye with a cross-hair on mapping or blue-printing.
This statement by Palin is a just a way to deliberately distance herself from the event in any connecting way.
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BizzyBee
This is going to hang around Palin's neck for the rest of her life -- Giffords will be in recovery for years -- and Palin will be associated with it the whole way. Her career will flop around like a fish for awhile, but basically Palin is history. No politician can overcome this magnitude of fail. Too bad, I was looking forward to her face-off with Obama.
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thetrueone
" Well thats how we hunt down are target opposers, we carefully set them in are sights, squeeze the trigger and BANG they're eliminated "
Well thats how we do things in Alaska at least.
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thetrueone
Not sure if this video has been posted up yet but its a video put up by the killer on YouTube.
Says alot on just how whacked in the head he was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHoaZaLbqB4&feature=player_embedded
