The Censorship Of Madmen

Human Events  "The Tea Party movement has done a fantastic job of controlling this anger, and converting its energy to constructive ends. You didn’t see angry mobs at Tea Party rallies, Sarah Palin speeches, or Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” event. They were warm, welcoming, and optimistic, not to mention neat and orderly.
...."The attempts to link resistance to violence, or discredit it through manufactured charges of racism, is nothing less than totalitarian. If the exercise of free speech makes you an accessory to murder, there is no such thing as free speech."  John Hayward  via Lucianne



Clarence Dupnik

 Tucson Sheriff Politicizes Press Conference to Blame Talk Radio Despite Refusal to Discuss Shooter’s Motive Video.  Related: Flashback: Outspoken Sheriff Was Critic of AZ Illegal Immigration Law   "A Democrat, Dupnik called the law "a national embarrassment" and wrote in the Wall Street Journal that it was "unnecessary ... a travesty, and most significantly ... unconstitutional."" Quote from the following article:


Clarence Dupnik: The Anti-Joe Arpaio Sheriff in Arizona ""When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," said Dupnik, referring to the troubled suspect, 22-year-old Jared Loughner."

Two Sicknesses On Display in Arizona

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion "Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have seen this type of reaction. The meme that opponents of Obama are crazy and dangerous has been an explicit Democratic Party campaign strategy for over two years. Here is just a partial list of events in which the left-wing and Democratic Party media operation has immediately blamed right-wing rhetoric, only to be proven wrong when the facts finally came out: Bill Sparkman, Amy Bishop, The Fort Hood Shooter, The IRS Plane Crasher, The Cabbie Stabbing, and The Pentagon Shooter.
"The facts will come out about the shooting and murder by Loughner. Until then, we'll be subjected to the sickness of people who seek to use the crime to their political advantage and who will worry about the facts later on, if ever."
"In the meantime, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the deceased and those injured."

New low in exploiting Giffords shooting  "Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse comes news that a Democrat group has used the shooting of Rep. Giffords, judge Roll, and others as a fundraising device. Warner Todd Huston reports on Big Government:"... Thomas Lifson, American Thinker  

Leftists: Have You No Sense of Decency Left?

American Thinker "I have heard terms like "ignorant" and "hateful" to describe people who have not the slightest to do with this unspeakable crime and have done nothing wrong but have simply spoken out and acted peacefully in support of Individual Rights, Freedom, and Liberty.
"What is "ignorant" and "hateful" is to spread unfounded rebuking and draw negative inferences about people you know not an iota about and who have not a thing to do with this senseless crime - as we have been inundated with these slanderous accusations all day long......"

If someone at Kos, in particular, does not like you, stories will appear there urging Kos readers to teach you a lesson in physical ways, to get you to either shut up or toe whatever line the Left is insisting on that day.
We also reject this line of reasoning, but want you to be aware of how those on the left are guilty of the demagoguery they attribute to conservatives. See below:

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Violence and politics merge in Arizona

Politico  "The references to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 echoed in other ways. That horror, which killed 168 people including many children, helped then-President Bill Clinton stigmatize extreme anti-government rhetoric and re-energize his presidency at a time when Newt Gingrich and conservative Republicans were riding high in Congress.
"One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did."
"“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.” "

Howard Kurtz Denounces Media for Blaming Giffords Shooting on Palin  "Actually, the hypocrisy on display during Olbermann's two-hour special Saturday evening was even grander than Kurtz shared with his readers for the "Countdown" host - and Kurtz as it turns out - ignored how Markos Moulitsas of the far-left website Daily Kos targeted and put a bull's eye on Giffords for being a Blue Dog Democrat back in June 2008."

The Incitement Double Standard  "It is curious that many of the same media forums, such as the New York Times, that have repeatedly refused even to report, let alone editorialize, about the links between Islamist beliefs and terror are openly seeking to blame the Arizona attack on the Tea Party or anyone else who has had the temerity to question the president, publishing stories that seek to shift the public’s attention from the murderer to Tea Party activists and Republicans, who have nothing to do with this crime. But so deeply ingrained is liberal bias within our mainstream media that no one there seems to understand that there is a double standard at play here."

Left Shamelessly Seeks to Exploit Arizona Tragedy  "Despite all this, Packer and the NJDC are determined to use the tragedy in Arizona to resurrect this failed effort to besmirch conservatives and other Obama critics as violent haters. There is, after all, a precedent for this sort of thing. In 1995, President Clinton used the Oklahoma City bombing to strike back at his critics, including radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, even though Limbaugh and others critical of Clinton had nothing to do with the lunatics who perpetrated that crime.
"Calls for civil debate are always appropriate, but those who wish to use this terrible crime to attempt to silence their opponents or to stifle legitimate public debate or activism are the ones who are crossing the bounds of decency today."

The Horror of the Day Jonah Goldberg has little to say at this time; we felt the comments section would be of interest to you for its remarks across the political spectrum.

LOUGHNER - THE LOW I.Q. LEFTIST POT HEAD - CALLED GIFFORDS "STUPID"

The Freedom Fighter's Journal   "Jared Loughner, the man accused of shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, allegedly referred to the Congresswoman as “stupid,” says one former classmate.
"According to the Phoenix Times News, Caitie Parker has written a series of posts on Twitter describing Loughner as a “pot head.” She also described him as a “left wing” substance abuser with “political radical” ideas. "

As Arizona Shooting Story Unfolds, Media Already Blaming Tea Party/Sarah Palin

Big Journalism  "Then, when this hack finally noticed that the killer’s book list included the Communist Manifesto and Hitler’s Mein Kampf, Sullivan tried to back track a bit saying that Loughner was, “Not exactly a Tea Party purist.”
"Not exactly a Tea Party purist? Not a Tea Partier at all, more like.



Amazon.com

 "But Sullivan wasn’t the only left-wing media figure to immediately connect this crime to those on the right and to assign a conservative political motive to the killer’s actions."

I have been to a TEA Party rally, met TEA Partiers and fully share their concerns. These are American people who are very concerned over the direction this country is being taken by socialist influences and they are being smeared by the demagoguery of the left with the full cooperation of Hollywood and the press. This is all beginning to remind me of the Reichstag fire.

 TW utterly condemns this terrible shooting and prays for the victims of it.

Arizona Massacre Exposes: Tea Party Is Afforded Less Benefit Of The Doubt Than Radical Islam!  "To this day apologists on the left still will not bring themselves to conclude that Major Hasan was a Jihad terrorist animated by radical Islam.

"On the other hand, the blood hasn’t even been mopped up yet in Tucson, and disgusting opportunists on the Left have already declared the Arizona massacre an official act of the Tea Party:"

The earnest hope of leftisis is that the Giffords shooter will turn out to be a TEA-Partier

Watch for headlines like this: "Did the Tea Party or Sarah Palin incite Jared Loughner to shoot Gabrielle Giffords?"  "Liberal websites are quickly accusing Sarah Palin and the Tea Party of creating the environment that set off a crazed lunatic like Loughner. Even old liberal warhorse Jane Fonda has indicted Sarah Palin with absolutely no evidence to support her accusations. ....
"However, a quick look at Loughner’s YouTube channel offers no basis for such conclusions. In fact, if anything, it seems to indicate extreme left wing influences."


This remark from Democraticunderground.com:  "Jared Loughner called for a return to the gold standard, a common demand of Tea Party activists."

The Crazed Internet Rantings of Jared Loughner  "I guess you want to blame a movement or radical belief for what happened, so that there's someone to blame bigger than just one shooter or that the madness makes a little sense, but after poring over the digital remnants left behind by Jared Loughner across the Internet, the one thing I feel like I can say about the 22 year old is that he seems to be someone desperately needing mental health care."  Tucson Weekly

Top 25 Left-Wing Films: #8 – ‘Norma Rae’ (1979)

Big Hollywood "Set in the Deep South, director Martin Ritt’s “Norma Rae” is yet another Hollywood entry that gushes over the selfless virtues of Big Labor and demonizes both the corporation and the individuals who would prefer not to be forced into the Borg Collective. White collar management is naturally made up of bullies who tap phones and work an old man literally to death and the “exploited workers” themselves who oppose being community-organized are motivated primarily by racial bigotry and the ignorant belief that unions are nothing more than a New York, communist conspiracy run by the Jooooozzzz…"

Time Reporter Betrays Constitutional Ignorance in Bemoaning GOP 'Cult of the Constitution'

photo: Swampland

Newsbusters  "The latest lefty to demonstrate his constitutional ignorance, Time Magazine's Washington correspondent Alex Altman, decried the "Cult of the Constitution" in a headline yesterday.
Altman began by lamenting the decision to not read parts of the Constitution that, well, are no longer parts of the Constitution. "The bipartisan recitation omitted several critical passages," he noted, "including the three-fifths compromise."
"But the three-fifths provision and all the passages omitted from the reading are, unlike everything that remains, irrelevant to the 112th Congress. The existing Constitution governs the legislature, and provisions scrubbed from the document, obviously, do not.
"And that seems to be where the fundamental misunderstanding occurs. Altman does not seem to realize that the Constitution is not a list of suggestions. It's not a nice-sounding essay that lists our founding principles. It's not just "a remarkable document…worthy of veneration [and] study," as he dubs it. It is quite simply the law, and it dictates the limits of Congress's power."

MSNBC's Jansing Dismisses as Complicated New House Requirement to Justify Legislation's Constitutionality " Neither Jansing nor Beschloss noted the conservative counter-argument would be that children born stateside to illegal immigrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, as the 14th Amendment requires and that section five of the 14th Amendment stipulates that "Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions" of the 14th Amendment, including, logically, defining those persons who fall outside the jurisdiction of the United States ... .

Obama staff shakeup in full swing

Reuters  "The mid-term realignment could give Obama fresh thinking from his inner circle as he grapples with newly emboldened Republicans in Congress while pushing a jobs and recovery agenda seen as vital to his 2012 re-election chances."
I believe this is a move to the more pro-business center to help Obama's re-election in 2012. But never forget this man is a true leftist supported by Che Guevara groupies and former 60's radicals.

New Plastic Bag Tax Coming to a Store Near You

photo: ricketyclick.com

Heritage  "This is just the latest effort by the radical environmental left to punish their fellow citizens who are merely trying to make ends meet on a day-to-day basis. In D.C., residents and visitors have been dealing with a careless and unnecessary nickel tax on bags for two years now imposed by the City Councilman Tommy Wells (D)* and the leftist Anacostia Watershed Society.

* Emphasis added

Gates Outlines ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal Process

GlobalSecurity.org  "At a Pentagon news conference with Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gates updated reporters on the department’s plan for implementing repeal of the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, which has been in effect since 1993 and remains in effect until the process is complete.
"“Our goal here is to move as quickly, but as responsibly, as possible,” Gates said. “I see this as a three-step process. The first is to finalize changes in regulations [and] policies [and] get clearer definition on benefits.”"
One could be somewhat more comfortable with this if the movement did not have as it's main support those who "loathe the military" (to quote Bill Clinton).