Regardless of how logical the connections may have seemed at the time, trying to make those connections with no evidence was premature.
I would be lying if, when I saw the headline (not the subject here, I saw 'Democratic' in a headline for one of the news channels as well) I denied that my first thought was, 'I wonder if the person who did it was a right wing nut job'. But I wonder if that was the intent of putting 'Democratic' in the headline to begin with. Please note that I said, 'I wonder if'..big difference than automatically assuming he was. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > " I never claimed that Palin and her drivel did not influence this guy," > > Fair enough. > > However, logically, the connections are not far fetched given the > circumstances. > > In the recent past there has not been a continuous chanting of violent > slogans involving guns, reloading and firing again, crosshairs on > targets and that level of discourse from the Democrats. You can cherry > pick a few, but it hardly amounts to an overwhelming theme. You have > that overwhelming theme from Palin. You have the rally with those > armed to the teeth talking about taking back their country. > > In the recent past analysts and politicians have not been calling for > anyone else to tone down their speech, but the GOP, Palin and the Tea > Party. > > In the recent past the repeated warnings have not been aimed at anyone > but Palin, the Tea Party and the extremists in the GOP. The > congresswoman herself warned about Palin's statements. > No one listened... > Now she may die or be brain damaged. > > So you have repeated warnings about possible violence and death > resulting from the type of talk coming out of the GOP and their > supporters....then a congresswoman on the other side is shot at a > public political meeting. > > I mean...what do you expect people to think? > The connection between this attack on the same congresswoman by this > madman is not unreasonable. > The immediate question that would come to the mind of any rational > individual is whether it is connected to the Tea Party, Sarah Palin > and by extension the GOP's utterings. > > What I think is unreasonable is to divorce that type of speech > completely from this act of violence. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333119 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
