Posted on 01/21/2011 9:35:02 AM PST by Kaslin
I would think it was because he didn’t have a ‘D next to his name, and was not a member of a “protected class.”
The judge was a Republican.
To the Left, Republicans, especially conservative ones, are incapable of any heroic deed.
Could it be because Judge Roll was a 4th Degree Knight of Columbus who attended daily Mass?
“Judge John Roll: A life of authentic Catholic witness
In January 2008, at the invitation of Bishop Thomas Olmsted, I gave a homily at the annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges and public officials in Phoenix. The theme wasnt new; Ive said it a hundred times. So has Bishop Olmsted. So have many other bishops. But over the past weekend I dug it out and reread the homilys last few lines:
Were citizens of heaven first. Our time here is limited. This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service to the poor and afflictedincluding the unborn child, the immigrant, the homeless and the elderly. The more authentically Catholic we are in our lives, our choices, our actions and our convictions, the more truly we will contribute to the moral and political life of our nation.
Sitting in the congregation that day was a woman named Maureen, an active and very committed Catholic, and a veteran of crisis pregnancy counseling with Tucsons Catholic Charities. After the liturgy she moved on to the other tasks of her day, as I did mine. Except that Maureen apparently talked about the Red Mass with her spouse. And 10 months later, after the 2008 election, I got the first of several extraordinary letters from her husbandJohn Roll, chief judge of the federal District of Arizona; the same John Roll who died in the terrible Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson.
Its impossible to fully know a man from correspondence alone. But each of John Rolls letters had the same four clear marks: generosity; intelligence, largeness of spirit and a sincere love for his Catholic faith. Two days after Rolls murder, his law clerk, attorney Aaron Martin, described to me the kind of man he was.
Roll was devoted to St. Thomas More and kept a biography of the saint on a table near his desk. He liked mentoring young Christian attorneys because he believed their faith gave them a better moral foundation for the vocation of law. For Martin and for Judge Rolls other clerks, he was more of a father figure than a boss. He knew our families, and he always wanted to hear the news about them. He had the habit of reading a range of Catholic publications every Sunday morning before Mass to learn more about his faith. He swam nearly every morning at the local YMCA to stay in shape, and he made daily Mass as often as he could. He liked to joke about a federal marshal who was once assigned to him as round the clock security for a month when he was facing threats. The marshal said, Judge, Im a Catholic, but Ive been to Mass more in the last 30 days than in the past 10 years.
John Roll would have turned 64 on Feb. 8. He had three sons and five grandchildren. Maureen and John Roll had known each other, according to Aaron Martin, since they were 14 or 15. They were, throughout their life together, each others best friends. They would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary later this month.
John Roll was, finally, a man of unusual personal graciousness. Despite their political differences, Judge Roll and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, had a cordial relationship of mutual respect. Giffords sought more resources for the court system, and Judge Roll was grateful. Precisely because of their differences, Roll tried to greet Giffords at her local appearances whenever he could. On the morning of his death, Roll went to Mass, and at 9:55 a.m., according to Martin, left his house to just drop in on Giffords public gathering as a courtesy, to say hello. He never came home.
This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service. Maureen and John Roll shared a life of quiet, powerful, authentic Catholic witness. Please keep them both, and the entire Roll family, in your prayers.
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Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M., Cap. is the Archbishop of Denver.”
Because the leftist media was busy with their prime obsession: demonizing the right. They were much to busy slandering to actually report the news.
Thank God there are still heros left in the world. The guy that ran away and left dead and injured men, women and children on the ground (Eric Fuller) is treated like a hero (up until the point of his involuntary commitment), while the real hero is brushed aside.
May God bless Judge Roll’s family with comfort and peace that transcends all understanding. May the knowledge that their loved one died protecting another human being give them strength and courage to carry on.
-—Could it be the heroes of this story have been chosen and that Judge Roll doesnt fit the template?-—
I’d bet my bottom dollar on that.
Judge Roll died saving another man? Who cares?
Nice article on Oath Keepers:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2011/01/14/judge-john-m-roll-a-true-american-hero/
I do not even need to read the whole article....His heroism is not mentioned because he was a non illegal type conservative judge......if this info was made available to the general public ( the ones with an IQ of less than 75, which makes up almost half of the population ) then fubo appointing a flaming lib to take his place would be met with severe resistance....so, the part about the judge gets buried, and a new flaming lib judge gets appointed ( this seems like an extreme coincidence to me, and I firmly believe there is no such a thing as a coincidence ) to put this another way, why did his so called initial target survive, yet a conservative judge that had made many rulings that violated his personal beliefs die?????
Inquiring minds want to know...
Judge Roll’s heroism, like so many of the actual facts of the incident, had to be discounted in order to fit the media script of a crazy right-winger shooting valiant left-wingers. Judge Roll’s being a Republican meant he had to be left on the cutting-room floor.
It is for the same reason that John Green’s interviews have not made any front pages. He does not blame, he is not hysterical, he is reasonable and has said that he does not want this shooting used to take away more rights of citizens. Had he come out swinging about gun control he would be the media darling!
Very good article. I think we need a few more like him on the 9th circuit.
The leftist secular press and its sycophants on the 'right' love Catholics. Or rather, they love pro-abortion, socialist, heretics who call themselves Catholics. Real Catholics? They can't even admit to hating them, because then they'd have to admit that they exist.
Ron Barber, who was wounded in the Tucson massacre as he stood next to his boss, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, says hes not surprised by the heroics of the late Judge John Roll, but calls Anna Ballis the angel who helped save his life.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188722/ns/us_news-life/
Barber is more forthcoming in the interview about the part that Judge Roll had by shielding him from being killed by the shooter, but MSNBC makes it seem that Roll was a peripheral reason for Barber's survival.
The media is doing everything to promote the Giffords story. Think how quickly they buried Ft. Hood.
Next question?
The LSM is disgusting
The LSM is disgusting
Bear these questions in mind whenever watching, listening to, or reading the news — out of the billions of events occuring around the world, a handful of people with strongly liberal beliefs have decided that these few items are what constitute “the news.”
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