MSM makes it real, while excusing Criminal Acts

Claiming that the Arizona gunman, Jared Loughner, was motivated to kill by heated political rhetoric makes as much sense as buying into Mark David Chapman's contention that he was expected to kill by the character played by Jody Foster in “Taxi Driver.” Chapman and Keith Olbermann see a link – perhaps even Loughner sees a link – but we must consider both those sources with the evidence we are privy to, in order to make an intelligent analysis. The truth is people like Loughner kill because they are damaged as children and too mentally unbalanced and angry at society to be influenced by even normal considerations of self-preservation, no less by the tone of civil debate and the regular discourse of issues on the political table.




Candy Crowley of CNN, Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, George Stephanopolous of ABC, Brian Williams of NBC, Katie Curic of CBS, and Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Arizona and the others trying to score a few political points by blaming political rhetoric are going down a very dangerous road both because it absolves the violent killers of full responsibility for their actions and because it aims to silence the passions that are an important part of public debate. Martin Luther King and his fellow civil rights activists used passionate and heated rhetoric to rouse the nation against white segregationists. They did so with a great degree of success. But, surely, such rhetoric did not make Dr. King and his colleagues partly responsible for the violent crimes of the Black Panthers and James Earl Ray. Surely, such rhetoric on the part of John Lennon did not incite Mark David Chapman. Likewise, if the rhetoric of Gabrielle Giffords is the cause for the actions of Jared Lee Laughner, society should have seen it coming and should have taken action before this mentally deranged lunatic committed such an atrocity.



The passionate words of conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity., and others may be vindicated by history or condemned by it. But that is for the American people to decide as the debate plays out in the coming years, not for Crowley, Olbermann, Stephanopolous, Williams, Curic, and Sheriff Dupnik to decide by cutting off debate. Let the waste of human protoplasm known as Jared Lee Laughner own his actions, and pay for them in a righteous and proper manner, according to a jury of his peers. Anything less will be a complete miscarriage of justice.
 
 
God Bless,
Dan'L