Despite the fact that Jared Lee Loughner was a psychotic loner with left-wing beliefs according to those who knew him, the establishment has hastily exploited yesterdays tragic shooting in Tucson to demonize conservatives, libertarians and gun owners while ordering Americans to tone down the rhetoric, which is nothing more than a euphemism for stifling dissent and coercing people to roll over on Obamacare, bailouts and whatever big government is preparing to unleash next.
The nations caustic political climate has become a suspect of sorts in the rampage that left six dead and a lawmaker critically injured in Arizona. Already, appeals are being heard to tone down the rhetoric, reports the Associated Press, in doing so framing the debate and profiting from the actions of a deranged lunatic to launch a fresh assault on freedom of speech.
Make no bones about it : tone down the rhetoric means stifling dissent, it can have no other possible meaning. Because a lunatic decided to kill others in a bid to give his worthless life some meaning, Americans are being ordered to shut their mouths about Obamacare, endless bailouts, and the fact that their political representatives in Washington (with some notable exceptions) have ceased to represent their interests.
The vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business This has not become the nice United States that most of us grew up in, he said.
Dupnik then took a swipe at people opposing the growth of big government, wasting no time in blaming them for the tragedy.
When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, he said. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on this country is getting to be outrageous and unfortunately Arizona has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.
Indeed, as statists rushed to finger tea partiers as being responsible, they conveniently ignored the fact that Giffords was a pro-border control, pro-second amendment blue dog Democrat. In addition, the federal judge that was killed, John Roll, was a strong opponent of the Brady gun control bill. Giffords and Roll would make strange targets for anti-government extremists, since both of them have voting records that put them in alliance with most conservatives.
Despite this, the AP tried to use the shooting to attack second amendment rights by alluding to Giffords Republican challenger Jesse Kelly last year inviting supporters to join him at a pro-gun event.
I dont see the connection, between the fundraisers featuring weapons and Saturdays shooting, said John Ellinwood, Kellys spokesman. I dont know this person, we cannot find any records that he was associated with the campaign in any way. I just dont see the connection.
Arizona is a state where people are firearms owners this was just a deranged individual.
In addition, there was little mention of the fact that it was a responsible firearm owner who used his second amendment rights to help stop the carnage. It was reported that one member of the crowd interrupted Loughners rampage by shooting at him with his own concealed carry gun.
While the establishment continues to characterize the gunman as an anti-government extremist in a transparent ploy to chill dissent against big government, Loughners favorite You Tube video was a clip of someone burning an American flag. Forgive me if Im mistaken, but I dont recall seeing too many tea partiers burning American flags at political rallies.
When it turned out that Discovery Channel building gunman James Jay Lee was a statist zealot and a global warming alarmist, there was little call for anyone to tone down rhetoric about doomsday climate change scenarios. Isnt it interesting that the establishment only demands we tone down the rhetoric when that rhetoric manifests itself as criticism of the state?
Toning down the rhetoric, or becoming afraid to speak out against the government, will do nothing whatsoever to stop mentally ill people with no political affiliations committing crimes.
By exploiting tragedies to coerce Americans into toning down the rhetoric, the establishment hopes to suffocate criticism of the state, opposition to Obamacare (next weeks hearings on a repeal have already been cancelled), and allow the march of big government to continue unimpeded.
''I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out.''
Glenn Beck, May 17, 2005
I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country."
~Michele Backmann
"Dont retreat. Instead reload!"
~Sarah Palin
"I hope that's not where we're going, but you know if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this country around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."
~Sharon Angle
''Our nation was founded on violence. The option is on the table. I don't think that we should ever remove anything from the table as it relates to our liberties and our freedoms.''
Tea Party-backed Texas GOP congressional candidate Stephen Broden
Beck and Palin are GOP shills, nothing more or less.
The other statements are true.
Even the traitors you socialists actively support, are starting to get the hint:
"We can be shot down in our district, but we can also be shot walking over to the Capitol," Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California told the Washington news outlet. "We have a lot of people outside who appear to be fragile emotionally. So we don't know when one will walk up and shoot us down. We're vulnerable, and there's no real way to protect us."
You would find the rest of the statements offensive, because they directly challenge the authority of a corrupt government.