{"id":4764,"date":"2011-01-10T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2011-01-10T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T23:22:00","slug":"responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4764","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pushback from the right started almost immediately, and with all the acid vitriol by which they inflamed the violent passions that almost certainly led to the shooting in Arizona last Saturday in the first place. \u00a0 You could watch the bogus Jared Lee Loughner Facebook pages…the ones where he admits his loathsome liberal tendancies…being created and deleted as fast as the Facebook administrators could catch them going up. \u00a0 You can really tell they learned their lesson from the killing of Matthew Shepard. \u00a0 If now was then, they’d have been calling Shepard a meth using sex addict and McKinney and Henderson a couple of drugged out psychopaths and the killing a Tragic<\/em><\/strong> robbery gone bad long before the body had a chance to get cold, let alone buried. \u00a0 And as always, a key ingredient in the smokescreen building are the uncertainties, inevitable so close to the event itself, if not for far, far beyond it. \u00a0 What actually did motivate the killer? \u00a0 Was he a leftist or a hard core Tea Partier? \u00a0 Did he read Marx or Hitler? \u00a0 Did he surf The New Republic or Daily KOS? \u00a0 And if we can’t answer those basic questions then dare you lay blame for this horrible, horrible tragedy at the feet of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party you treasonous America hating liberals.<\/p>\n

And so on…and so forth…<\/p>\n

What does it mean to “lay the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at the feet of Palin and the Right”? \u00a0 That they gave the killer the gun and some money and sent him on his way? \u00a0 That they deliberately incited this specific killer to this specific act? \u00a0 \u00a0 That they fueled a dangerous climate of violence against their political opponents, deliberately, to intimidate their political opposition without particularly caring if any one of them actually got killed, because long ago they stopped seeing the opposition as their neighbors, their fellow Americans, but rather as an enemy to be defeated by any means necessary, and if one of them Did get killed it would teach the rest a lesson?<\/p>\n

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“Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead – RELOAD!'”
-Sarah Palin via Twitter <\/p>\n

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Angle<\/strong>: I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who’s in the military. This not for law enforcement. This is for us. And in fact when you read that Constitution and the founding fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny. This is for us when our government becomes tyrannical…<\/p>\n

Manders<\/strong>: If we needed it at any time in history, it might be right now.<\/p>\n

Angle<\/strong>: Well it’s to defend ourselves. And you know, I’m hoping that we’re not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Responsibility. \u00a0 If our fingerprints are not actually on the murder weapon itself then we are not responsible. \u00a0 It is immoral for you to use this National Tragedy for partisan political advantage. \u00a0 And if our violent eliminationist rhetoric did happen to motivate that poor psycho to pack a gun and kill an elected officeholder we’ve placed our crosshairs on, well then logically liberals are the ones who are responsible. \u00a0 Because if it wasn’t for all that ACLU liberal freedom of speech stuff he would never have heard us talking about 2nd amendment remedies for adverse election outcomes. \u00a0 Responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pushback from the right started almost immediately, and with all the acid vitriol by which they inflamed the violent passions that almost certainly led to the shooting in Arizona last Saturday in the first place. \u00a0 You could watch the bogus Jared Lee Loughner Facebook pages…the ones where he admits his loathsome liberal tendancies…being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65],"tags":[32,118,21,20,90,6],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-thumping-my-pulpit","tag-hate","tag-republican-america","tag-the-abyss","tag-the-american-gutter","tag-the-human-gutter","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}