Showing posts with label Jared Loughner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jared Loughner. Show all posts
Monday, January 17, 2011
Lessons from Tucson: Part I
How horrific that a gunman should kill in America at a peaceful political assembly. Unfortunately there has been a nationwide rush to blame talk radio, Sarah Palin, and political rhetoric. The fact that Loughner didn't like the news, politics, or tv, didn't stop the media from making the connection between Loughner's violence and vitriolic rhetoric. (read more...)
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Anger is a feeling, not a crime.
Although the president referred to his political opponents as enemies requiring punishment, it appears that he has turned a new leaf calling for us to remove anger from our political discourse. That begs the question, "Is there a case for political anger?"
First of all, anger is not violence. What Loughner did was horrific, but it was an action, and not a feeling. (And since when are we supposed to be legally judged on our feelings?) Anger is a feeling, which in this case means that people feel strongly about what is going on in government. Most people are fed up with the actions taken by the Obama Administration (e.g. the Food Safety Bill, Obamacare
, TARP, forced selling of Chrysler and GM, the offshore Oil drilling ban, EPA regulation of CO2 etc.)and their willing accomplices in Congress. Most people who feel like this (over half of the country) have spoken up, voted, and tried to stop the Federal government from doing similar things. Will getting rid of this "anger" help political discourse?
Probably not.
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