Sunday, January 09, 2011
Arizona Atentat/Massacre
Atentat is Bosnian for assasinaion. Assasinations was attempted upon
an American Congresswoman, and was successful on a well regarded and
decent judge. A beautiful little nine year old girl was killed. An
older gentleman died trying to protect his wife. The Congresswoman
lost an aide, she has a big time brain injury, and a young man is in
jail. I have been glued to CNN most of the time. I have a roaring
migraine and I am mad as Hell. I was a teenager during the era of hot
and cold running assasinations which blighted the 1960's. It was not a
happy time for my country. I don't think anyone realizes how
perilously close we were to civil war. I am not ready to say that is
the case now, but it will be if something isn't done to calm things
the Hell down. I feel utterly aweful about what has happened in
Arizona. In the end it really does not matter if this young person is
truely mad, which I doubt actually, was involved in any political
agenda or not, assasination is a deadly game for any country to find
itself in.
an American Congresswoman, and was successful on a well regarded and
decent judge. A beautiful little nine year old girl was killed. An
older gentleman died trying to protect his wife. The Congresswoman
lost an aide, she has a big time brain injury, and a young man is in
jail. I have been glued to CNN most of the time. I have a roaring
migraine and I am mad as Hell. I was a teenager during the era of hot
and cold running assasinations which blighted the 1960's. It was not a
happy time for my country. I don't think anyone realizes how
perilously close we were to civil war. I am not ready to say that is
the case now, but it will be if something isn't done to calm things
the Hell down. I feel utterly aweful about what has happened in
Arizona. In the end it really does not matter if this young person is
truely mad, which I doubt actually, was involved in any political
agenda or not, assasination is a deadly game for any country to find
itself in.
# posted by Katja R. @ 6:16 PM 
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I think there was a difference. In the 1960s the whipped-up hatred that fuelled the killings of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy was seen as something illegitimate, outside the normal social discourse. The Shock Jock poison merchants, Sarah Palin, Tea Party people, appear in the media revelling in the legitimacy of their assertions and the media treat them with the respect due to people exercising the right of free hate speech.
# posted by 
: 11:18 PM
: 11:18 PM
True the majority of Americans felt that the assasinations in the 1960s were illegitimate actions, BUT I am old enough to remember the hate speech of those times. Trust me it was as poisonous as what has been going on for the last 25 years in the U.S. Mostly this poisonous speech was spread by groups like the John Birch Society, and similar groups.
It was as well on a more private and therefor more privleged level than even the press.
Dallas was a hotbed of both private and public hatefull speech.
When Rev. King was shot, there had been a lot of public denunciations of King on radio because he opposed the war in Viet-Nam. Bobby Kennedy was reviled by the California grape growers for meeting with Cesar Chavez.
Malcolm X/Shaheed Malik Shabazz was reviled on the one hand for walking away from The Nation of Islam and going Sunni, and by Whites for just being Malcolm X, so people being reviled and political views getting reviled is nothing new in America. As H. Rap Brown so famously said, 'Violence is as American as apple pie!'
the usual assasin is a male Drama Queen who has had failure in his life because neither women nor employers want to deal with whiners who feel sorrier for themselves than they ever do for another.
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It was as well on a more private and therefor more privleged level than even the press.
Dallas was a hotbed of both private and public hatefull speech.
When Rev. King was shot, there had been a lot of public denunciations of King on radio because he opposed the war in Viet-Nam. Bobby Kennedy was reviled by the California grape growers for meeting with Cesar Chavez.
Malcolm X/Shaheed Malik Shabazz was reviled on the one hand for walking away from The Nation of Islam and going Sunni, and by Whites for just being Malcolm X, so people being reviled and political views getting reviled is nothing new in America. As H. Rap Brown so famously said, 'Violence is as American as apple pie!'
the usual assasin is a male Drama Queen who has had failure in his life because neither women nor employers want to deal with whiners who feel sorrier for themselves than they ever do for another.
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