It would seem that any rational person would feel that the killing and wounding all those persons in Tucson Az. is quite abhorrent. Look at the pain and suffering for all those innocent persons. That is hugely disturbing.
i originally wrote this blog when only a little information was available about the perpetrator. Now we know he is as crazy as a loon. Initially this was not known. Now we know he is basically apolitical (excepting his currency preoccupuation and bizarrre wording of his thought process. He is assuming that we are following his thought process but it is clear that he has leaps of understanding which are not immediately apparent to most of us. Sometimes it seems that he is communicating by gestalt more than coherent expression.
The Sheriff in that area started off stating that he believed that the vitriolic nature of our current political process has stimulated this outrage. Obviously wrong as we now know that the killer didn't listen to news or talk radio and basically seems totally unmotivated by this stated causation.
This is what is so frustrating to some people, and dare i say angering in this emotional climate? First of all it is hardly mentioned that there were stimulants and mind altering chemicals involved in this man's life. We don't know whether or not he was in an altered state at the time of the attack, but we know he used alcohol and drugs. Other massacres and horrible attacks are perpetrated by people using mind altering substances. Columbine. The high school student in Kentucky supposedly. These people were taking pharmaceutical substances - in fact 60% of the planned and executed school attacks were carried out by children on some sort of psychoactive pharmaceutical substance, whether it was Paxil, Ritalin, Prozac or some other poison.
Then second thing that is frustrating and stupid is the reaction of the government officials. Despite the fact that this is not the first such tragedy and may not be the last, it is unique only in that the victims were of high government rank and her entourage along with some truly unfortunate people she was trying to communicate with. Now i accept that Gabbi was an exceptional person but does she truly deserve this instant sainthood that is being draped over her? Probably not. She is quite likely human and has her share of flaws like the rest of us. But look at the total fear the congress is displaying! Instant bills to make it illegal to carry a firearm within one thousand yards of a congress person (or senator?) under severe penalty. We have had how many congressional and senatorial members over our centuries of being a country and now we have one shot? Now the coward wants to make a law to protect his ___.
What about the citizens. Of course we don't rate anywhere near the care and maintenance that the politicians do so why should i expect that i have the same safeties and protections for me and my loved ones, my neighbors and friends. No, only the politicos get this unequal protection. Why? Because you and i can't pass legislation, silly. What were we thinking? We can't vote ourselves the legal practice of insider trading like they did. We can't vote ourselves pay raises as they continually do. We cannot give our selves lifetime health care and deny it to everybody else. No, All animals are, but pigs are more equal, and obviously the legislators are our American pigs in our American Animal Farm. (George Orwell.)
Our American society now in the early year 2011 a.d. is quite stupid, unwise, and teetering on the brink of radical change. Hopefully it will be an evolution instead of the pain and violence of a revolution but change is coming. Soon.
Now in the first news it was mentioned that the perpetrator is a homegrown terrorist like the man in Texas last year who killed himself by flying his plane into the IRS building. How can the talking heads and politicians fail to realize that many people see through their whoring of themselves to interests inimical to the american people and that some of these people are pushed to a point where they can find such violent actions to be what they perceive as their best or only option? How can congress look on this woman as a saint and not even bother to look at the pain and legitimate anger that so many of us betrayed, true Americans feel. Obviously including this man. I say true American because that implies that the congress, senate, and "leadership" of this country have sold out the American Dream, the American people, and the American country to the highest bidder therefore invalidating their claim to be members of American society.
It was briefly mentioned that this may be the mark of people who believe in conspiracy theory, but tell me what is more likely. Is it more likely that our "leaders" continue to sell their votes to corporations and consistently increase corporate power and rights (to the point that corporations now have virtually every right you as a human being have) while taking your rights away. If a corporation or it's officers harms you, you have few options for redress, and these are getting whittled away continuously. Okay, let's call it a conspiracy of people selling out my interests to corporation for their personal reimbursement and benefit. This is done by congressmen and senators for literally over sixty years of this activity.
Is it more reasonable to expect that these people continue this horrendous behavior for six plus decades or to acknowledge that we the people continually elect people who share the same behavioral expressions of stupidity.
Either they are hurting their constituents because of their stupidity (oh duh . . . I'm supposed to HELP them?) or they find it in their financial interest to continue the same behavior politician after politician, year after year, rape of the citizen by every little and large rape. While i can in NO WAY condone the actions of the young man who shot the congresswoman and the innocent surrounding her, it is not at all difficult to understand that something may have triggered massive anger at the symbol of our government - the greatest present enemy of the american people.
To sum up this post. Our government is now basically telling us we have to be repressed and calm. Be peaceful and gentle. Will this motivate our sorry legislators to stop selling us out? To stop abusing their trust? To truly be a servant of their general constituency? They have sold out. They hurt us. They cannot avoid angering intelligent people who become aware of their duplicity, greed, and dishonesty. Of course they want us all quiet. Probably sedated.
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