Sniperchoke - 1/11/2011 2:39 PM
News Flash!!!!!! The assailant had no political affiliation. Nut job pot smoker denied entry into Millitary doesn't sound much like a right wing neo con. Democrats jumped the gun on this one. There has been no connection to any political party whatsoever!!!!! So all that crap Outcaster wrote was just that crap... The left tried to use this as an excuse to benefit themselves. Politics at its worst.
You and spur are getting like cheez....... I have to explain everything to him too. You read something and hear only what you want to hear. Not once did I mention any political party. I did call out the wacko right wing of the conservative movement for creating a dangerous political environment. I don't care that the assailant had no spoken party affiliation. He let his Glock 9mm do his talking. He clearly intended to shoot someone that works for the gov't (which btw I fail to see the logic of how we as a society allow someone to be too mentally unstable to be allowed to go to community college, and not be allowed into the military to walk in, pass a background check, buy a automatic 9mm handgun with a 30 round clip, conceal and carry it all perfectly legal).
I was using this tragedy to make a larger point about the toxic nature of our politics over the last 2-3 years. Additionally I never claimed Beck, Limbaugh, Savage, Palin or any other right wing wacko caused THIS nutjob to do these horrible things. Again you read something, and hear what you want to hear.
What has happened over the last couple of years has gotten way out of control. With "targeted" congressional districts, If we can't vote'em out use 2nd amendment solutions, take back or overthrow the gov't,and talk of revolution coming from TV, radio and the internet. People referring to someone with a differing opinion as the enemy, Hitler, Stalin, or even the Devil. The left side has been guilty some of this too. That's why it is so important for the rest of us to call it out every time we see it. The left side has done a much better job of hushing and ignoring it's radical side, while the radical side of the right seems to be taking over mainstream conservative thought. All of us don't like the gov't from time to time, especially when times are tough, and if our party is not it power. But what we can't do is allow the current toxic political environment to continue, because pretty soon smart, caring people (like Gabriele Giffords, and Judge John Roll) will not want to serve in Gov't . Then all of us will have the wacko's in charge.
Furthermore if my using this tragedy to point out such toxic, dangerous political environment, and call for it's end offends you, then too bad! I have quite frankly grown tired of hearing, on TV and Radio, and (from some of you), that a liberal/progressive point of view is evil, and straight from the gates of hell. That's all.