Posted on 01/11/2011 7:27:14 AM PST by La Lydia
...a deranged 25-year-old Jordanian named Sirhan Sirhan slithered through a crowd toward Sen. Robert Kennedy...Sirhan shot and killed Kennedy, wounding several others. The ensuing investigation showed that Sirhan was a raging anti-Semite who’d become fixated on Senator Kennedy because of the latter’s support for Israel.
Two people profoundly impressed by the assassination were the terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In 1974, they dedicated their own communist manifesto, Prairie Fire, to Sirhan, hailing him as a courageous political prisoner. In the book itself, they and the rest of the Weathermen went on to identify themselves proudly as “communist underground in the United States” who were determined to lead a violent leftist revolution...Their rhetoric, their heedless dehumanization of those they maligned as ideological “enemies,” was coupled with acts of horrific violence, including a plot to mass-murder U.S. soldiers in Fort Dix...
This history is one the modern Left, in which Ayers and Dohrn remain icons, would rather you’d forget. Today, instead, is for politicizing the wanton savagery of another deranged radical, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, who stunned the nation by slithering through a Tucson crowd and unleashing a 31-shot fusillade... Already, we have learned a great deal about the assassin. He is a deeply disturbed pot-head. In order to give meaning to the addling emptiness of his life, he turned to the anti-Semitic rants of Adolph Hitler, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, the occult, and what appears to have been an obsession with Representative Giffords...Some acquaintances and schoolmates who’d endured his tirades over the years predicted he’d come to an end just like this.
...the instantaneous reaction of the hard Left, Obama’s base, was to politicize the Tucson atrocity as a natural, an inevitable, result of conservative ideology, enthusiasm for immigration-law enforcement and gun ownership...and dissent from Obama’s policies...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
You know, at some point there really does have to be a line drawn and a battle engaged. Backing down and playing nice just convinces "the middle trying to make up their minds", that we must be wrong or we'd fight back.
Of course, your proposition that there are still "moderates" who are undecided, is ridiculous.
Always? I've seen plenty of inside baseball kinds of posts for this story and many others, replete with name-calling and attacks. That is what the left wants.
Of course, your proposition that there are still "moderates" who are undecided, is ridiculous.
I think you need to get out more. :^)
Go outside the realms of internet debate and there are millions who really don't pay close attention to every political story. They'll pay attention to this one because it's big news. And they will read the likes of Krugman and maybe some conservative commentary on the MSM website running the Krugman column. Conservatives need to present the facts and leave the spittle to the liberals.
Probably donated $50-$200 at most looking at the living conditions.
Not enough IMO to get a crazy person off.
In any case it appears the Sheriff did nothing after many altercations and he has responsibility in this matter.
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