An unstable individual opened fire at the premiere of a Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado. He killed twelve people, and injured at least thirty-eight others (one site says 71 were shot and injured). ABC News quickly decided the shooter was a TEA Party type, as the liberal media tries to do with every violent act that rises up in the news. They want so bad to find their smoking gun, so to speak, that the TEA Party is full of racists and violent folks.
How dare they. There is evidence the dude was a democrat, some thought he might be Muslim, others claim it was racially motivated.
The killer is a killer. He belongs to a group of people in the world we call murderers. Sure, I would expect him to be a follower of the leftist ideology, for they do tend to be an angry, unstable group of people. But first, before we try to jump to conclusions that may not be true, how about we pray for the victims, and their families, and not make any rash decisions. Let's wait until the evidence reveals the truth before trying to create a truth that politically fits an agenda.
The shooting, at this point, was not the fault of guns, conservatives, liberals, republicans or democrats. The shooting was the fault of an unstable individual that, for whatever reason, decided to open fire and extinguish the lives of a number of people.
Of course not - no more than we should ban going to the movies, ban guns, or anything else. Nothing caused this murderous rampage other than the fact that some jerk decided to carry it out.
We are a nation that is supposed to follow the rule of law, and that includes due process. We are not a mob, nor should we be. Let's not jump to conclusions as we did with Zimmerman, or Paterno. Let's let the folks tasked with investigating this do their job, and hope justice is served.
Let's not decide that the killer is a TEA Party guy, or a democrat, an occupy Wall Street type, or a Muslim. Let's simply agree he was a piece of crap that acted out upon his unstable thoughts. And then, let's pray for the victims and their families.
That is the American Way.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
James Holmes, Aurora Shooting Suspect, was Grad School Dropout and Loner, say Neighbors - NY Daily News
Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Dressed as "Dark Knight" villain The Joker - Syracuse Post-Standard
FBI, Police Say Suspect's Apartment "Booby-Trapped" - The Lookout, Yahoo! News
ABC Falsely Reports Aurora Shooter was Tea Partier - Pat Dollard
ABC News Apologizes for Wrongly Linking Suspected Dark Knight Shooter to Tea Party - Yahoo! TV
Was the Aurora Mass Murderer An Occupier? - Clash Daily with Doug Giles
Exclusive: Contra ABC News, Dark Knight Aurora, CO Shooting Suspect James Holmes Could be Registered Democrat; UPDATE: Not Registered? - Breitbart
Reports: Suspect Painted Hair Red Like Joker
- Fox News Insider
The Joker's hair is green. Let's not copy false information from other uniformed sources, mmmkay?
ReplyDeleteOkay, fine, green hair and red lips on the joker in the movie, this guy painted his hair red and called himself the joker in his own version - it is interesting that the point of the article completely misfired in your head, and you instead zeroed in on something extraneous. Are you that much of a stickler, or are you trying to distract from the main point? Hmmmmm?
ReplyDeletewas the mmmmkay by Felix an attempt to be condescending? Let's not forget that more guns in the hands of responsible gun owners results in lower crime. It is recorded that removing firearms from a society results in an increase in ocurrences of violent crime (gunfacts.info). So despite the red hair distraction, let us remember not to let this event to cloud our vision on the truth, or let the hysterics lead us to something stupid like gun control.
ReplyDeleteIt's Pavlovian with these Obamalists. The barrel of James Holmes' guns hadn't even cooled before Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos were reflexively tying him to the Tea Party.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's shameless, yeah, it's despicable. But I'm growing more and more convinced that they don't even realize their motivations for doing so anymore. The press is so submerged in the Obamunist kool-aid, so lost in the lunatic haze of their rancid, extremist, hate-mongering faux-religion, that they unconsciously take it as a given that any atrocity like this just HAS to be the result of "right-wing extremism". It isn't that they *want* to opportunistically smear and scapegoat their political opponents - they just do it because they can't conceive of the need to consider any other conclusion.
Early twenty-first century liberals have completely lost the ability to think.
Hence, the irony of James Holmes' (*not* the 52-year-old Tea Partier who now has to fear for his and his family's safety after ABC publicly defamed him) impression of Heath Ledger's Joker from "The Dark Knight". I was watching TDK last night and was reminded of the pseudo-philosophical underpinnings of Ledger's character's anarchic insanity. Particularly his murderous pitting of two boatloads of people - one of upstanding citizen commuters, the other a prison barge - against each other. Why did he do it? As a psychological experiment. The Joker believed that everybody in Gotham - EVERYBODY - was as depraved and nihilistic as he was, and it was simply self-serving conceit for non-criminals to claim otherwise. Thus, his self-perceived purpose and mission: to sew chaos and destruction in order to rip away that civilized facade and force the city's people to confront and acknowledge what, in his view, they really were. Indeed, he saw it as a public service, and himself as the only honest man in town.
I can see Heath Ledger's Joker pulling what his real-life imitator did yesterday for much the same purpose. And unlike in the movie, where the commuters and convicts *don't* turn on each other, he'd have proven his point in spades.